Review:This is must read for any one who has experienced life and still has questions about the physiology that surrounds death. This book take different disease processes and places them into the actual true life event that has happened, but make you understand the disease and what is does to the body. It is written well and a good fast read, understandable in a language that is not so medical and more lay man terms. I highly encourage this book to the new Nursing Grads that I have worked with, been r... Read more

Review:The first few chapters had me choosing something else to read as a brain sweep so that I'd be able to sleep! Later chapters were less frightening, or I had toughened up, and I could read as I wanted to - voraciously. It's well-written, brilliantly titled, accessible to the layman and puts the human back into doctor/surgeon. Read more

Review:I appreciated the practicality of the information. Anyone can use it for their personal schedule but the information can be used in a much broader context, on the company or even societal level, to help us to be happier and more productive people. Read more

Review:Almost perfect! This book is amazing though it does seem intended for younger audiences because of the drawings. It is still very enjoyable and have learned a lot about fantastic women scientists I did not know about. The only thing that would make it perfect would be to have an actual portrait or picture of each woman, even a small one. I recommend to everyone reading this book to look up pictures while reading it, it definitely improves the experience to put a real face to the story. Read more

Review:When you consider that most films are derived from books, and this book is the opposite. The book was written after the screenplay for the movie was done. (Any true SCI-FI buff knows that.) This book may be one of Arthur Clarke's best books. It does a great job of fleshing out the characters of the movie, and gives some really great understanding of motivations of the civilization that left the monoliths,

I am proud to have my first edition hard back in my personal library, and I recom... Read more

Review:Despite the introduction of new material and mind-boggling imaginings there is no way this sequel can top the original. Once the idea, the plot, the germ of the story has been let out of the bag, it is extremely difficult to capture that initial excitement and even euphoria.
The ideas of our "new" sun, the further adventures of Bowman, the exploration of life elsewhere in the Solar System - all of these are developed well. Of course, as in all Clarke books, it is the lack of character devel... Read more

Review:The economics of supply and demand, had Mt. Zeus been successfully repositioned to the proximity of Earth, would have effectively lowered its intrinsic value to little more than that of purified water. Read more

Review:This is Douglas Adams' best book. He even said so himself in an interview. It was not his most successful, economically speaking, but the most worthwhile of them. And although it covers real-life tragedies, it is dead funny. Especially if you are a traveller. Read more

Review:Love this book. Can't find a single page that's not interesting. This is a resource book so easy to read & author describes things simply so reader follows along without a glitch. Love this book & his "How to Read Water" book also. Hope to buy more over time for each grandson. My son who is 26 and an outdoorsman type says he never wants to lose this book, it's a keeper. Thank you also for the price being affordable. Read more

Review:I have been a fly tyer and fly fisherman for 60 years.One book that I could relate too.Fly tying can become an addiction. For me,it helped to pay tuition for an undergraduate degree in Biology ,as well as ,a graduate degree in Medical Microbiology.I was from the old school,where you tied flies that were used to catch fish,either fresh or saltwater.I tried tying Salmon flies,but lacked skill and patience.I cranked out 12 dozen at one sitting,not 1 fly in 3 months.The book let me see the seedy sid... Read more