Month: August 2014

Book Review: The Real Benghazi Story – What the White House and Hillary Clinton Don’t Want You to Know

Author: Aaron Klein Publisher: WND Books Book Review by: Kharch Pani On the night of September 11, 2012, United States Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other American members of the U.S. “Special Mission” in Benghazi, Libya were killed in a terrorist attack that involved mortar and rocket fire. The attackers later set the mission and a vehicle ablaze. More than 30 staff of the mission were evacuated the next day and taken to Tripoli. In the early hours of the next morning, the attackers launched an assault on another U.S. facility in Benghazi wherein two former U.S....

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Book Review: Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Musculoskeletal Disorders, Pain, and Rehabilitation, 3rd edition

Editors: Walter R. Frontera, MD; Julie K. Silver, MD; and Thomas D. Rizzo, Jr., MD Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 919 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a comprehensive and authoritative book on musculoskeletal disorders, physical injuries and their diagnosis and treatment, from pain relief to surgery, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and anything in between. Its coverage is extensive, and this brief outline of the book’s contents gives you an overview of what you will find in it: Musculoskeletal Disorders (nine sections with 94 chapters) Head, Neck and Upper Back Shoulder Elbow and Forearm Hand and Wrist Mid Back...

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Book Review: Gray’s Atlas of Anatomy, 2nd edition

Authors: Richard L. Drake, PhD; A Wayne Vogl, PhD; and Adam W.M. Mitchell, MBBS Illustrators: Richard M. Tibbits and Paul E. Richardson Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 626 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a companion resource to the popular Gray’s Anatomy for Students. It in you will find accurate and clear depictions of the anatomy of eight regions of our bodies, as presented in the outline of contents of this book: The Body Back Thorax Abdomen Pelvis and Perineum Lower Limb Upper Limb Head and Neck To get the most from this book, get the online resources...

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Book Review: Inside the Presidency of George H.W. Bush

Editors: Michael Nelson and Barbara A. Perry Publisher: Cornell University Press – 254 pages (Published in association with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center) Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram George H.W. Bush, or the “senior” Bush as he was called after his son George W. Bush became president, will be best remembered I believe, for his accomplishments overseas, although his successful, effective dealings with Congress on the budget in all four years also contributed to his outstanding record as president. Some of the conflicts Bush engaged the U.S. military in, were: Invasion in December 1989, of Panama to defend...

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Book Review: Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works

Editors: Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux Publisher: Cornell University Press – 270 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram We start the review of this book, published in 2010, by giving you a brief background about globalization.  Globalization essentially, is global competition for economic benefits among countries. The benefits are multi-fold. Some of the benefits that countries get are: More capital to create new companies and expand existing ones More means of innovation to create new products, new companies, new jobs More jobs for its people to bring about higher standards of living More income for company owners,...

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