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This work is a practical guide for university supervisors that examines the supervisory process, the preparation necessary for supervision, the responsibilities of the university supervisor, the historical assumption underlying the supervisory role, and what research tells us about effective supervision. It provides background information on topics such as discipline in the schools and curricular concerns, and summarizes research about what the supervisor needs to know on the philosophical, psychological, and sociological foundations of education. ... Read more

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Written by a multidisciplinary team of leaders in the field of arts medicine--many of whom are directors of clinics for performing artists--this volume is the first comprehensive text and reference on the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of performance-related physical ailments in instrumentalists, professional voice users, and dancers. Coverage includes musculoskeletal, dental, embouchure, and temporomandibular joint disorders of musicians; evaluation and surgical treatment of the hand; care of professional voice users; neurological and ophthalmic problems of performing artists; hearing loss in musicians; foot and ankle problems in dancers; and reproductive disorders in female dancers. Full consideration is also given to the psychiatric problems of performing artists and the psychological development of young prodigies. An additional chapter by an attorney discusses crucial legal aspects of the medical treatment of performing artists. ... Read more

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This is the first volume to treat exclusively an ubiquitous feature of ocean circulation - the poleward currents and undercurrents that occur along eastern boundaries of all major ocean basins. By comparing coastal current data from different regions the authors show that poleward transport along eastern boundaries is an important part of the basinwide budgets of heat, salt, and freshwater. In essence, the book documents that the success of upcoming global ocean circulation experiments must account for these poleword transports. Specifically, by defining of global-scale kinematic and dynamic characteristics of these flows, the book supplies the parameters for the design of field experiments in eastern ocean sectors. ... Read more

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Delivers the hard information the reader needs to assess network options for the 1990s. It describes how networks are configured, what your options are in the multivendor environment, and how you can get the most efficient and effective network solutions with limited communications budgets. ... Read more

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The fifth edition includes problems and notes on some of the proposed revisions of Article 2 now under study. This edition also takes account of developments under Article 9, including recent cases and the new definition of security interest in section 1-201(37). There are also entirely new materials on Article 2A on leases of goods. ... Read more

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In many ways America is in worse shape than before the first Watts riots occurred over 25 years ago. Intolerance is still abundant; greed is very much alive; and hope held by many at the bottom has been dimmed, if not extinguished. For our country to become everything it is capable of becoming and everything our ancestors dreamed, education cannot continue as usual. Ours is a great country, but when even one of its citizens is made to feel less than human or is robbed of their dignity, something is wrong. Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachers encourages teachers to question the status quo and to reexamine their power to influence the direction our country takes into the 21st century. It also encourages teachers to acknowledge the realities that exist, teach the rejection of violence, and promote an awareness and understanding of people as individuals. ... Read more

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The main emphasis in this text is to introduce basic graphics material to engineers who will later use various CAD systems. The book includes: Tools and Techniques of Manual Graphics, Representation of the Three-Dimensional World, Clarification of Shapes and Sizes, Spatial Analysis, and Visual Techniques to Communicate and Analyze Data. The workbook that accompanies this main text is a problems book that contains exercises and drawing problems for the first course in graphics leading up to CAD. The set includes the main text along with the workbook prepared by Hugh Rogers. The pair can be shrinkwrapped with the user's choice of separate users manuals on either CADKEY or AUTOCAD systems. ... Read more

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This handy pocket reference provides differential diagnoses for disease of the chest. Based on the authoritative Fraser et al; Diagnosis of diseases of the chest, 4th edition, this concise yet complete text covers virtually every chest problem likely to present in practice. Easily portable, and organized in tabular form to provide quick access to information keyed to the large Fraser. ... Read more

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Moving beyond the debate over whether and to what degree mild head injury has lasting neuropsychological sequelae, this book is predicated on the assumption that it does cause some problems in some circumstances for some people. It focuses on the practical questions of who is injured, how injuries manifest themselves, and what evaluation and treatment strategies are optimal, for families as well as patients. The distinguished authors bring to their task not only scientific expertise but extensive day-to-day clinical experience. This book will be widely welcomed as the first comprehensive overview of what we have learned from research and clinical experience about these difficult cases.
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A view of head injury from the fringe
This book presents a rather slanted view of mild head impact, and presupposes many things as fact that are not supported by the scientific literature.This is particularly borne out by thechapter on scientific issues that firmly refutes the unusual thinking presented in the otherchapters.

A Who's Who in neuropsychology discusses mild TBI.
The reader may be taken by surprise that so many of the chapter authors are "elite" clinical neuropsychologists who have not previously been known to "believe in" mild TBI. They offer a wealth ofinformation, questions and referencs. The text in most chapters isrefreshingly free of test bound restrictions on inference or the usual lamerationales for discarding all mild TBI because the majority are OK. Thebook is a must for working clinicians in neuropsychology, neurology andpsychiatry.

Well done and comprehensive review of many topics on MTBI
This work covers mild TBI as though it were real (which it probably is) in an informative and clinically hepful manner. The 23 chapters cover a very wide range of topics and are consistently excellent (if occasioallyquirky). There is nothing else available at all on this topic, so it iseasy to say it is the best. It is excellent in design and content. ... Read more

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This volume, the first to specifically address the function of psychologists as practitioners and scientists in medical settings, presents a range of approaches to assessment and diagnostic practice rather than a litany of specific tools, diseases, or diagnostic problems. The comprehensive discussion, augmented by 41 case studies, addresses the psychological assessment of patients and their families using traditional neuropsychological and psychological diagnostic tools in various topic areas and settings. The application of assessment to issues such as ethics and law, professional self-assessment and credentialling, and the communication of diagnostic findings is also discussed. ... Read more

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A Good Book
This book makes using Texinfo painless. It explains the terms that first time layout designers may be unaware of.Each chapter focuses on a separate task; that and the index makes it easy to find what you need right now. It also provides sample code and reference tables.

I just skimmed through the first several chapters, and then looked up what I needed to find in the index. The only down side is the book assumes you are probably using the Emacs editor.This can be confusing in the first chapter or two.But those parts can be skipped over. ... Read more

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Useful scientific findings for better executive appointments
This is very interesting book or rather a research report. More than 300 appointments are analysed scientifically for success. Such factors as, internal versus external appointments, the use of a committee to make the selection versus a single person , the selection steps, what candidatequalities are most important for success, and much more have been examinedusing statistical methods. The book is not an easy read but fortunately itis short, 77 pages. Even when it may in some cases hard to understand, thefindings are thought provoking, and the list of questions asked isexcellent. ... Read more

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From forts and battlefields to mansions and monuments, here's a full-color illustrated guide to 500 of America's most fascinating historic places. The book divides the country into 5 regions and includes 6 detailed maps pinpointing the locations of the historic sites. ... Read more

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A+++
I give this book an A+++ just for the photography alone and not to mention all of the historical information that this book covers.A great item for the history buff.

America's Historic Places
This is another travel guide from Reader's Digest that shows several historic places within eachg state.It is along the same line as "Off the Beaten Path" and in fact was published around the same time.This book offers unique places to visit, each with historical significance.The book is helpful when planning either short or long driving trips and offers brief insight into the locations described. ... Read more

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For Completists Only
It took me a full 3/4 of the way through this book before I found a decent story. Most of the stories suffered from one or more of the following: 1) could have been set anywhere remote. The particulars of the Severn Valley locale played no role in the story. Have these authors even read anything by Ramsey Campbell? 2) bizarre or disjointed writing styles that only detracted from the plot 3) non-endings or endings that did not follow from the story. In several of the stories it seemed as though the author decided it was time to go to the pub and just wrote anything to end the story (or came back from the pub and finished drunk).

I liked Szymanski's "Random Access" as a nice expansion of "The Insects from Shaggai" with a computer program saving the day. Robert Price has a decent piece, if you can ignore a gaping hole or 2 in the story line. Campbell's own contribution is fine, and is perhaps the only story to actually USE the Severn Vally mythos and expand upon it in any significant way. C.J. Henderson's piece is also good and happily can be found in the fine anthology "The Occult Detectives of C.J. Henderson" so you don't need to buy this book to read it.

I'd recommend this book only to folks like me who just have to buy all of the "Call of Cthulhu" books for their collection. Feel free to buy it and put it on your shelf unread, you will be missing very little. Then go read some Campbell and Henderson elsewhere.

A mixed bag
Like most Chaosium books, this collection seems intended more as background material for Chaosium's line of fantasy role-playing games than as a stand-alone collection of short fiction. The quality of the contents varies from accomplished journeyman to fan fiction. The exception would be Kevin A. Ross' "The Music of the Spheres". Enschewing the usual compendium of obscure references and self-consciously purple prose employed by other would-be mythos authors, this story evokes truly Lovecraftian cosmic horror. For me this story is one of the best examples of modern mythos fiction and deserving of a place in one of the canonical Arkham House collections.

Not what I hoped for
The principal problem with MADE IN GOATSWOOD is poor writing. The author does not get his point across, or the characters are formulaic or the stories have no internal consistency, etc. I can forgive a lot in writing; I just want an interesting twist on a borrowed idea or a common story with a different perspective. Throughout most of this collection, I felt as if I were reading rough drafts of stories.

The highlights:

"Cross my heart, hope to die": The story of a young boy's attempt to escape from a cult. This was well written and motivated empathy with the characters. The real horror in this story is what people do to their own.

"The Queen": The narrative device and perspective alone make this story interesting.

"Free the Old Ones": a fascinating protrayal of the descent into madness. This was well fleshed out and believable; usually, the insanity part of a story is where I have to suspend disbelief, but in "Free the Old Ones" it is the story itself. Also, the cult collaborators are hilarious as parodies of student activists (even if you are a student activist, surely you know some people who actually would demonstrate for Cthulhu rights?).

Many of the other stories fell flat and seemed incomplete or amateurish. If you really want stories on Goatswood or the Severn Valley, try COLD PRINT by Ramsey Campbell.

Still seeking stories which will make Goatswood come alive
I wasn't impressed with this collection, though I had looked forward to reading it.I think the Goatswood mythos has possibilities, but these stories didn't light me up and slap my emotions and imagination around the way most of the Chaosium fiction series collections do.Chick says you can miss it.

uninspirational celebration
scymanski has an ok story here. price has a good one about the gorgon. that one was very enjoyable, and had some lovely details. otherwise, this was dreary read. so many of these stories were not only badly invented, but seemed so uninspired to. i almost felt sorry for the writers, for making so bad stories. i think this is chaosium's worst. ... Read more

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Since 1970 a medical sciences curriculum has been taught jointly by Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1978, a doctoral program was founded to prepare physical scientists and engineers to address research at the interface of technology and clinical medicine. This volume describes, analyzes, and evaluates those first 25 years of the largest lasting collaborative educational and research program between two neighboring research universities. Containing introductory comments by the presidents of both institutions at the time of the inauguration of the program, this volume presents historiographic and autobiographical chapters by senior officials and faculty of both universities who helped to guide it through its first quarter century. Evaluation of the program and follow-up data on the first graduates are included as well. Courses are listed in the appendices, as are curricula, faculty, theses topics, and major research projects.

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Including some of today's leading historians and philosophers of science, this collection demonstrates that not all is precisely as it is too often assumed. Thus, the contributors to this volume suggest that Darwin's true roots lie in Germany, not his native England, that Russian evolutionism is more significant than many are prepared to allow, and that the true influence on twentieth century evolutionary biology was not Charles Darwin at all, but his often-despised contemporary, Herbert Spencer. ... Read more