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On the advice of my PA, I read the book before going on the pump in October 2001 (22 years after my diagnosis with Type I diabetes). The book is written extremely well and provides clear and concise coverage of the almost every aspect of pump therapy. The authors highlight considerations to make before going on the pump, as well as circumstances you will encounter after beginning pump therapy. The book offers explanations and calculations to figure total daily dosages and advice on how to change dosages for exercise, patterns of high and low bg's, etc. The material included in the book is really valuable when you begin working with your doctor, PA, etc, to help you know what questions to ask. I felt like I had more confidence and knowledge in the transition to pump therapy. "Pumping Insulin" helped me to better manage the pump and my diabetes as soon as I walked into the doctor's office for my initial pump appointment. And for those that have already started pumping, the book's a great reference tool to have on hand.

We got this book in late March, 2001, shortly after our then-6 year old son who has Type 1 diabetes started pumping insulin. This reference explains so well how short-acting insulin is used in the body, how to calculate for it during exercise, how to make adjustments to the basal rates....it save our pump trainer many late night calls. It was a lifesaver in helping us get through the insulin pump learning curve faster. Only thing it doesn't handle in-depth enough is "surprise" infusion set changeouts & sensitivity to Humalog. This book helped us understand how to take better care of our son.

This book is the best I have read on pumping, having taken us(my son aged 10 and I) from very little knowledge on the subject, to convincing us it was for him, and to using it as an essential handbook and support tool now he is on the pump. Umlike some other books, it is so easy to read and understand, without having to read and re read it to get the meaning. The tables in it are so useful and much of the information is not easy to find altogether in one place in any other books. As in car repair books, this one is a 'dirty finger' book - you use it as you go along, and can never know more than the book or outgrow it. I have bought several copies for other people now, and everyone has been pleased with it.A must if you have a pump or are thinking about getting one.

This is one of two books written by Margolies which I have just re-read. (The other is Ticket to Paradise.) Regrettably, copies of both are now difficult to obtain but well-worth the effort. Each focuses on what may seem to be a highly specialized subject. In fact, both offer a wealth of information and commentary concerning a basic component within the development of U.S. culture. This volume focuses on the "glory days of the gas station." At least some readers of this review recall traveling across the country decades ago and pulling over where they could fill up their vehicle's gas tank. For many summers, I drove from Chicago to Los Angeles along Route 66 and stopped at several of the locations featured in this book. I have forgotten when but, at some point, the filling station became a service station. Upon arrival, an eager stranger appeared to fill up the tank, check the oil and tire pressure, wash the windows, and encourage me to purchase a canvas bag filled with water in the event the summer heat depleted the water in the radiator. One attendant who resembled Gabby Hayes noted that I might also need extra water "if this thing of yours breaks down in the middle of nowhere."

Margolies organizes his material within five chapters: Pump and Circumstance (signage); Pioneer Days (road maps); Golden Age: 1920-1940 (Pop Architecture, Aircraft, Razzmatazz: Kid Stuff, Believe it or Not!, Razzmatazz: That's Entertainment!, and Deco Moderne); "Going, Going...: 1940-1965 (Razzmatazz: Postwar Frolics, Porcelain Enamel, restrooms, and Razzmatazz: The Best of the Best; and Back to the Future: 1965-1990. The book is filled with superb illustrations (the best of which being archival photographs) and the text is based on a wealth of primary sources. Chapter 3 was especially interesting to me because it examines (with some of the best graphics in the book) various gas station architectures which include the Gulf Lighthouse Service Station (Miami Beach, FL), windmill-shaped buildings (Saint Cloud, MN), shell-shaped Shell gas stations (Winston-Salem, NC), the B-17 "Bomber Gas Station" (the plane installed above the pumps in Milwaukee, WI), "Bob's Airmail Service Station" built around a 32-passenger Fokker plane (Los Angeles, CA), and a zepplin-shaped building grounded beside the Pennzoil pumps (near Pittsburgh, PA). Photographs of most of these facilities are included, accompanied by brief but informative commentaries.

I highly recommend this book (as well as Ticket to Paradise) to those who share my interest in icons such as the gas station. Its evolution has been inextricably involved in the cultural history of the United States.

Margolies has done his homework. In addition to a good written history of the "filling station," he has come up with photos and postcards depicting all aspects of delivering gasoline to your hungry tank. Following are just a few:

A station shaped like a red and white teapot, complete with pouring spout, in Zillah, Washington, built in 1922.

A 50 foot high tepee shaped gas station from Lawrence, Kansas, built in 1930

A station with a roof shaped like a red cowboy hat with a 50 foot wide brim, and restrooms in a structure shaped like a pair of cowboy boots, in Seattle, Washington, built just after World War II.

A station utilizing an actual B-17 Bomber overhanging the gas pumps from Milwaukie (sic), Oregon, again built just after World War II.

A flying saucer service station from Ashtabula, Ohio, built in 1966.

There are lighthouses, windmills, giant soda bottles, icebergs, and a myriad of other shapes and styles including art-deco, ceramic tile, cape cod, and just plain wooden sheds and concrete blocks.

The book includes a written history of filling stations from tanks atop horse-drawn carts to today's stations. Every kind of pump from hand cranked to coin operated to visible level to today's 24 hour automated pump are displayed and discussed. There are men's and women's uniforms, and there are advertising slogans, signs, very artistic give-away road maps, and even a discussion of the evolution of "the clean restroom" as an advertising feature.

We live in the era of the automobile, and PUMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE is, in addition to being brainfood for the nostalgia buff in all of us, a history of that still unfolding era.

This is the kind of coffee table book that any over 30 guest in your home will be drawn to and, pointing at some illustration, say, "Hey, I remember those."

This handsome book arouses my nostalgia for the good old days of motoring both visually and educationally. Besides tracing the evolution of gas-station architecture, gas pumps themselves, and petrol merchandising, the book displays top-quality photo reproduction. This is especially to be appreciated for the way it shows the details in the older pictures, which were made in the days of slow, fine-grain films. And the book's generous page size helps the photos stand out, too. There's a good bibliography to further stoke the nostalgia.

finally, someone had to courage to write an easy to understand book for us, regular folks. The book is easy to follow and I could actually understand what I needed to do next to help improve my quality of life. Kudos to the author.

Gabrielle brings both a professional and a personal perspective to demystifyiing the insulin pump. This is a resource for every physician's book shelf to share with patients. All parents of children diagnosed with Juvenile diabetes need to own this book. The options for a fuller life that the pump gives to people with diabetes is highlighted in this book. The book, by demystifying the pump, greatly reduces the fear often associated with use of the pump. A book of this sort is long overdue. Kudos to Gabrielle and Gary!

An overall excellent text on the psychology of bodybuilding for those lifting weights at any level from novice to competitor. The book will help you synchronize mind and body and achieve significant, consistent and more effective training results. The chapters are clear and concise and include self-assessments and applications to practice and which facilitate learning the concepts and using them during your workout routine.

Excellent chapters on concentration, relaxation, motivation and visualizations and for the hard core lifters, a chapter on psychological aspects and factors of competing.

I read this book about 8 years ago The book is inspirational and allows people to push their physical limits.

Superlatives do not begin to describe how much this book means to me. I thought I knew everything anyone needed to know about pumps, but boy was I wrong! This book has caused me to rethink everything I know about pumps. It has literally changed my life.

Mike Volk

An excellent reference book which should be in any engineers library. Author has put together a well thought out book which is easy to read and which covers a tremendous amount of material. This book could serve as a "text book" allowing a person to gain a familiarity with pumps in an organized manner.

Although I bought and read nearly all of Motorbooks on modern fire apparatus, I didn't read this book completely for reasons the previous review stated.

It IS a five-star book in terms of research, photos, details, and information. As the below post stated, it's all very technical with a lot of abbreviations that made it pretty slow reading at times. It makes a great reference guide.

The book describes most of the American fire pumper makers past and present and the models of each. Great exterior color photos accompany many company entries. Another section describes the major parts of the pumper: cab, pump panel, body and cab. Great information and some detail photos. Other sections talk about how pumpers are used at fires (hose hookup/ pump panel procedures, tools, placement, medical response, etc.).

The last section talks about a few future designs of fire pumpers.

Although probably not very politically-correct, one aspect I wished the book talked about was what made one manufacturer preferred over another. For example, why does a city buy just Emergency-One and another just Spartan? I also wished there were some opinions from firefighters about the pumpers they ride to working fires. How this 1990s brand compared to that different 1980s brand? What they saw as improvements made over the years? Missing is the human element in the book from the users of such vehicles so this book is mostly facts and specs on pumpers but no way to know if the users like the equipment they're using.

Recommended for the major fire pumper buff who wants photos and to learn the intricate details of the pumper. Great for someone who wants to build a model of a scale fire pumper. This book will be 5-stars to them.

This is the book for the true fire engine/pumper enthusiast. It provides a level of detail that far exceeds other books on the subject. Shapiro looks at each make/model of pumper and explains all the variations. The photos are execellent. The "uncommitted" might be turned off by all the information packed into this book.

This 315-page trade paperback has a table of contents, an index, footnotes, a list of references, and a glossary. It is written in such an engaging and accessible style, it is an entertaining read for someone who enjoys reading about science. Because it is written by a noted scholar with plenty of documentation, it would also be an excellent textbook for a physiology or other biology class in secondary schools or for introductory science classes at colleges or universities.

The author, Steven Vogel, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Duke University in Durham, NC. Dr. Vogel has won the Irving and Jean Stone Prize for Science Writing for Public Understanding, and I can understand why. He makes very complicated biological processes clear and understandable to a lay audience. Though this book was written in 1992, it is not outdated since Vogel covers a great deal of information about the structure and mechanics of the human circulatory system (and of all living beings) that has been known to scientists for some time, in some cases for hundreds of years.

I sought out this book due to a personal fascination with the function of muscles in the body as part of a larger research project of mine into chronic health conditions, such as fibromyalgia and entrapped nerves, chronic fatigue syndrome, and the effects of the stress (AKA "fight-flight-freeze" response) on the muscles of the body (which in many cases leads to chronic pain). In the process, I became interested in the function all muscles throughout the body, including in the circulatory system, which is the subject of this book. I read this book after reading Vogel's other book dedicated completely to the subject of muscles, Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle. (Another great book that I highly recommend.)

I consider this book an outstanding permanent addition to my scientific reference library and recommend it unreservedly for that purpose to anyone interested in this topic.

Kate McMurry

This book is an excellent text on the physiology of the body, told in a very approachable style. The book is readable by non-scientists, and can be read like a pleasure book. It is complete enough to use in a real physiology course (at the med school level) while still being readable. I would reccomend this book for anyone interested in the cardiovascular system, biology or physics. One note, is that the footnotes are integral to the story, and should be read along with the text; I thought they were references, until I discovered they contained important information.

I had only 15 minutes time to have a short glimpse on this book ,in a general library in Austin. As I am a chemical engineer and familiar to refrigeration systems , the reason why I was absorbed by this book was colletion of so many details for such a relative small range of engineering . Esmaeil Poornorooz

Motivational, inspirational, heart warming and career building are just a few words to express this and all of Zig Ziglars books. I first read this book 15 years ago and it changed my life. I have numerous times purchased this book for business associates down on their luck or in need of Zig's guidance. Thank you Zig for your continued devotion to give people a "Check up from the Neck up" and keeping them from contracting that "dreaded" disease, "hardening of the attitudes".

Buy this book, it will truly change your life and Zig and I will "See you at the TOP".

Thanks again Zig...!!!

This book is the bible of motivational books. Without a doubt, a must for anyone. This book can help you have a positive mindset regardless of the negative's that you face in everyday life. The Zig Ziglar Corporation used this book to design a program taught in elementary schools, called "I Can." If you haven't had the opportunity to read this book, DO IT NOW!! John P. Delaney (jdelaney@gte.net

You don't have to be in sales and marketing to benefit from this life changing book. Zig gives you step by step details on how to change your thinking, your habits and your future. You can improve your self esteem, family relationships - including parent-child, and definitely your outlook! This book definitely "feeds your brain" with vital nourishment to enable you to achieve your potential - if you put it into practice. Everyone should have this book!

As an owner of the second edition, I looked forward to the revised update. The quality of the information is high. However, I was disappointed in the quality of the publication. Some of the graphs and charts seemed "muddy" with hard to read notations. Also, the binding and paper quality seemed to have slipped a little. This seems to be a trend. I own a number of texts from the 1950's. Their binding and paper quality is much better than that used today.

Handbook is a term which implies comprehensive coverage of a given subject, so often a term which is misapplied. Not so in this case however, this book is without a doubt one of the best sources of information on pumps and related system components currently in print. For anyone requiring a comprehensive pump resource, this is it. I would definitely recommend this one for the engineering library.

I am one of the four editors of this handbook. Please note the correct number of pages is 1765. The 2nd edition has the 1280 pages presently described. After the name Charles Heald add that he is an editor also. The 2nd and 3rd reviewers are referring to the 2nd edition of the handbook as they are dated before the 3rd edition was printed.