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There is still some debate in the scientific community as to whther there are indeed secondary effects to the use of depleted uranium shells on the battlefield. One recent study claims that the levels of radiation in DU projectiles cannot be differentiated from that of the natural background. Some have claimed that the vaporization of DU makes the particles more likely to be inhaled, though this is also a matter of debate.

None of this scientific debate is of importance to Caldicott, who blames DU projectiles for every possible illness found on and off the battlefield, including the famous Gulf War Syndrome. Gulf War Syndrome has in fact been widely studied, and is generally believed to be a group of illnesses related to chemical weapons, oil fires and possibly innoculations; this is apparantly not important to Caldicott and her coauthors, who would rather use questionable inferences in order to find the US armed forces guilty of heinous crimes.

I try to have an open mind about this debate, and others like it, but I do admit to having a certain amount of bias when it comes to Helen Caldicott. She was always there to attack the US for its tactics and policies during the Cold War and thereafter, but was never heard to speak ill of the Soviet biological warfare program, Saddam's aggression or that of a dozen other tyrants and mass murderers.

One fact that Caldicott does not consider is this: Modern DU weapons and the systems that use them have greatly increased the range, accuracy and leathality of antitank weapons, which translates into far fewer casulties for those using them, and fewer civilian deaths from indiscriminate bombing. War is and will always be an ugly thing, but modern war is at least more sparing of non-combatants than it has been in centuries.

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Metal of Dishonor is mandatory reading for anyone interested in learning the truth about the lengths the government will go to dominate the world. This is part of the so-called New World Order, under which the gap between rich and poor has spread even wider.

Iraq was just one victim of this global aggression cloaked in phony platitudes about preserving democracy and human rights.

U.S. troops, as always, are just cannon fodder. The people or Iraq, who were also victimized by the use of depleted uranium are viewed as being less than human in order to justify attacking them.

Reminds you of how racism was used to justify the trade in African people who were enslaved.

I had high hopes for this book. 1200 paint effects!!! Holy schmokes!! No. The first 20 pages are nice. They give you the run-down on materials and preparation. However, there is only one small paragraph for each technique and then the next 150 pgs is the same effect over and over in different colors. The last 18 pgs are for special effects. Now, the book may be a good companion book, because it does show you what the effect looks like in different colors; however, you don't see it in a room, just a color swatch. I recommend getting this if you're curious about the swatches. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

The book was great! I painted well after just a few pages... I could have used more pictures but all and all it was an excellent book... highly reccomended..

This is a great book for you if you plan to decorate your home yourself. I found something that I could use for every room in my house and the techniques are explained well and easy to follow. There are many pictures that helped in following the directions that insured that the effect I wanted was achieved. You will love all the various painting techniques

well, to any of those who already have read any good max book, can realize of the poor kind of information that is in this one. I agree there's no many good books of 3d animation in spanish, and those from anaya multimedia are also very bad books, but, well.. I could tell learn some english and have some good books like the inside series from new riders.

Pues sí, al comprar este libro puedo asegurarte que con un poco de dedicación y de interés por descubrir los "secretos" del 3dsmax (incluyendo la versión 4), podrás dominar todo lo necesario para hacer lo que el programa te promete.
Y lo mejor de todo es que te puedes ir a tu propio ritmo, en un fin de semana te lo lees completo, u en varios momentos que tengas libres. Definitivamente lo recomiendo.
SI ENCUENTRAS UNA COPIA, ¡CÓMPRALA ANTES DE QUE TE LA GANEN!

I already knew enough about 3D Studio as to make my own models. I wanted to know more, and I found this book. I think it's great, even for someone like me that already used 3D Studio a lot. It was also between the cheapest ones, so I didn't doubt when I bought it. Really nice, it does a deep coverage of each command, and I prefer Spanish (my original language) to English any day.

Bray has obviously done a lot or research for this book. He knows his diseases and his history; unfortunately, he has a bit of trouble writing. The grammar is at times appalling. Here is one of many examples:
"During the Thirty Years War Germany lost half of its population mostly to typhus and the consequent demographic collapse of Central Europe in the seventeenth-century delayed any substantial recovery from the decline already caused by the Black Death and postponed the recovery of Germany until the rise of Prussia." No, I did not leave out any punctuation; it is a 50 word sentence with zero commas or semicolons. I'm normally not very anal about things like this, but it happens so often as to detract from the message.

His reliance on primarily secondary sources is troublesome. I would prefer to hear why a certain author is wrong based on the primary source evidence. He has a tendency to list statistics, which are no doubt important but need to be introduced in a manner that is readable and understandable.

I would not recommend this book to someone looking for an introduction to disease history; however, if you are well-versed in general history and already know a bit about diseases, you will find it worth a read.

I will admit that I have not yet finished this book, so my analysis is a bit incomplete. So far I have found that the book is very informative, but very hard to read (and this is coming from an english/history major!). Bray obviously knows his stuff, but instead of stating his own theses and hyptheses, he just overquotes other authors. He does say at the beginning of the book that he used mostly secondary sources, but he cites so many other authors that you start to lose what it is HE is saying. I would have liked for him to take all his sources and come up with an independent analysis based on them (a basic research paper writing rule). Also, he operates under the assumption that there are certain historical events that the reader should know (Roman battles, etc.) - I would have liked him to have spent some time "setting the scene". Bray also alludes to things without explaining them - in the first chapter he states that Hale (one of the many quoted authors) based one of his theories on "a cuneiform tablet". But Bray doesn't say any more about it. Does this tablet still exist? What does it say on it? Does the tablet require interpretation or is it straightforward? These are the things I like to know. I will say that the book is a good starting point - but if you want to really learn more about this subject, you are either going to have to do a LOT of independent research (which is what I am doing) or take a look at another book written on the topic.

This book is a blend of three great things: Dr Bray's expert knowledge of diseases, his love of history and his razor-sharp analysis. He explains which diseases were responsible for the Athens pandemic, the Plague of Justinian, the Black Death and the decimation of the New World. Each of the culprits - bubonic plague, malaria, influenza, cholera and a host of others - is described and then followed through history. We end up with a far greater appreciation of the impact of disease on history: as Bray points out, the causal impact of disease is almost always underestimated (and that of war overestimated). A rare soul indeed who can seamlessly marry science and the humanities, and write well too.

A lot of the misinformation on global warming has involved the use of three or four greenhouse skeptics like Dr. Balling. These are people who take a different position from the more than two-thousand scientists reporting to the United Nations, and they have been given access to the media by money being spent by the petroleum industry. This book is no more than a paid advertisement by big oil.

"The Heated Debate," is a very balanced discussion of theory and data related to the greenhouse effect. The author, Dr. Robert Balling, Jr., is Director of the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. He's published some seventy technical articles.

Dr. Balling is a climate consultant to the United Nations, the World Meteorological Organization, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe he is a pure researcher, "untainted" by connections to any political agenda. His writing is scholarly, well foot-noted and documented, and he offers a history and critique of greenhouse theory and empirical data.

His general conclusion is that more than a little skepticism is warranted, and that we should wait ten years or so before investing TRILLIONS of $ on carbon withdrawal, and DRASTICALLY changing all of our lives, until a MUCH better understanding is established. The theory, measurements, and understanding of the greenhouse effect are advancing rapidly, and drastically changing the original predictions from only a few decades ago. Measured warming has been nowhere near the earlier predictions, and the mathematical models are being constantly revised.

For anyone interested in global warming this book is a very interesting and different perspective than that propounded by politicians and the media!!

What is the latest global religion? Environmentalism. Finally a book that sheds the light of skepticism and science on the environmental hype and scaremongering.

When I first got this book, I looked through all the pages, and there was a colour picture at least once every few pages - and many came from famous ILM films such as Jurrasic Park. I looked forward to reading about how these images were lit or rendered or composited -- but (sadly) the text had very little if anything to say about the specific shots, the images often were a tangent to the main topic of the text, where it seemed as if it were a stretch to work in a mention of the image. I don't blaim the companies for wanting to keep everything about their work a secret, but without any specifics the general discussions in this book were essentially unillustrated and not very useful. I wish they would publish a more technical and specific book about lighting and rendering and compositing for visual-effects film-making!

This book is not tutorial based, and although many may say that it goes over the basics, its actually more of a personal enrichment process. Don't buy this book if you're a newbie and are just looking for tutorials to carry out. This book serves to make you wiser in the CG career and understand how things work, great reading material.
My only crit is that I don't like the horizontal style of the book, when you're sitting down to read it, its a pain because its so wide! I would have very much preffered a vertical book as this one being horizontal makes it easy for the covers to bend permanently, which is not pretty if you like to take good care of your books like I do.

I've now read through a small pile of CG books and I found that my self-studies would not have been complete without Parrish's excellent book. I wish I discovered it earlier when I first started struggling with 3D modeling and rendering software. I would recommend this as the first book a beginner in computer graphics should read; but also worth reading if you are a bit farther down the road.

As an attending/assistant professor of anesthesiology I frequently recommend books for residents to read. I still recommend this book, but with the caveat that much of the information is outdated and some of it is no longer even held to be fact. The underlying theme of the book - that comorbid states influence anesthesia and vice versa - is still true. I tell residents to get a used copy or wait until a new edition comes out.

Eight years is a long time in the field of anesthesiology. This book would be an invaluable resource IF it wasn't so outdated, but as it is, it talks about too many drugs that are no longer used, and has nothing about many drugs that are commonly used today. IMHO, a current edition of a major anesthesiology text (most of the big name texts have a new edition in the last 1-2 years) is a more useful reference. FWIW, this review is from the perspective of a first-year anesthesiology resident. YMMV.

The previous 3 reviews were written before the release of this new edition. Still the best single book to read for the oral Boards. All clinicians should own a copy and refer to it often.

Melatonin is not a miracle. It is a hormone whose secretion governs your circadian rythm. In other words, it makes you sleepy at night, when your body naturally generates it.

Taking melatonin to improve your skin tone, and use it as an all around fountain of youth miracle drug is nonsense. The more melatonin you take, the more you screw up your internal hormonal secretion of melatonin.

Also, the dosage recommended are far higher than what is prudent to take.

Whenever someone touts something as a miracle it is always too good to be true. This book is certainly no exception.

"The Melatonin Miracle" is such a fantastic book that I read it in one night only. Despite my fatigue I just couldn't stop reading until I reached the last page. The discovery of our aging clock and how melatonine can influence it, is undoubtedly a breakthrough, which will lead to many more. An uncle of mine, who is 65, started to take Melatonin and his skin became smoother and softer that I was flabbergasted, his sleep was more profound and relaxed and he stopped going to the toilet during the night. I can only say that this book was worth its money !

I read this work, the original medical research on which it was based (much of it available on links through the National Library of Medicine and Medline), and other works on this topic. The authors are clearly informed advocates who believe passionately in their work--work supported by research significant in its depth and scope. Please do not let "tone" issues deter you from reading a substantive and highly accessible medical work.

While I found his concepts very interesting and many of his stories beautiful in and of thesmelves, Nabhan fails to bring his book into a cohesive argument. He vaguely alludes to his concepts of the importance of biodiversity to cultures, and how a diversity of cultures promotes biodiversity, I felt as if I were drowning in nostalgia as he told this and that tale without making their significance clear and... significant.

There were interesting thoughts and stories, but as an entire book, it disappointed me.

Gary Nabhan's book has images in it that are complex and, judging by some of the reader's reviews, too fine-grained for some people's tastes. Like all great written works, Gary has taken the time not to oversimplify or over-generalize, but the resulting ambiguities and lack of forcing these essays into a pre-ordained thread has left me with images that will stick with me for a long time. They, like the ecosystems and cultures that he describes, point to a complexity which reveals itself slowly and over time--lifetimes, in some cases. It is this complexity that he celebrates and mourns the loss of as the cultures and languages that have evolved close to the land become increasingly diluted and discarded in the rush of assimilation that has overtaken so many cultures,languages and landscapes. His case for breathing life back into our landscapes THROUGH our culture and language is compelling, and a challenge to us all, wherever we live.

So few nature writers (Barry Lopez being one notable exception) are concerned with dissolving the artificial wall between humanity and nature. Nabhan takes this objective one step further by showing that biodiversity actually depends on the survival of human communities. In specific, human communities that have adapted to and depended upon natural systems for their own survival. For those who are interested in conservation, environmental science, human cultures, Native American societies, ethnobotany, archaeology, and anthropology, this book is a must-read.

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Deep and interesting scientific bio-analysi

I've really appreciate the contents of this book,coming from an high profile scientific research degree and am easy comprehension of the book subject