Month: October 2014

Book Review: Digital Politics in Western Democracies – A Comparative Study

Author: Cristian Vaccari Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar How do the actors (e.g. candidates for elective office) in a political system communicate with their constituents (e.g. voters)? This book studies how such interaction occurs in today’s rapid pace of interpersonal and mass communication. This book can be very useful to students, practitioners, and scholars of political communication, party competition and organization, and the current media landscape The book is essentially a discussion of the production-presentation, on the one hand, and consumption on the other hand, of online content in seven countries – Australia, France,...

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Blimpie, with 500+ Locations, Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Franchise Offers Low-Investment, Low-Cost Opportunity By Steve Zwerling, Franchise Development Director 1964 was a year of revolutionary change in America. The Beatles came to the United States in that year and changed American music forever. It was a year defined by cultural shockwaves. Major milestones were reached in science and medicine in 1964. Among the notable ones were: IBM announced release of its System 360, the first computer with a 32-bit architecture The first heart transplantation on a human (with a chimpanzee heart) was performed The Smithsonian opened its Museum of History and Technology in Washington D.C. Ranger 7...

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Book Review: Articular Injury of the Wrist – FESSH 2014 Instructional Course Book

Editors: Marc Garcia-Elias, and Christophe L. Mathoulin Publisher: Thieme – 167 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This unique book – with a lot of images and well-organized materials including brief introductions, summaries, conclusions, and references in its chapters – is focused on complex intra-articular wrist injuries that are not extensively covered in other texts.  It provides a reasonably good picture of their clinical, radiographic and therapeutic features. It is an important one for all physicians and surgeons who encounter these challenging cases. Forty-eight physicians and surgeons, including a variety of specialists in orthopedics and plastic surgery, authored or...

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Book Review: Lateral Skull Base Surgery – The House Clinic Atlas

Editor-in-Chief: Rick A. Friedman, MD Associate Editors: William H. Slattery III, MD, Derald E. Brackmann, MD, Jose N. Fayad, MD, and Marc S. Schwartz, MD Illustrator: Mark M. Miller Publisher: Thieme – 201 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani A lot of the material for this outstanding book with excellent sketches, would not have been discovered, evolved, developed, and made available today were it not for the work of three medical-surgical pioneers. The House Clinic of Los Angeles, founded by Drs. Howard and William House and William Hitselberger in the 1930s is one of the richest sources of knowledge...

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Book Review: Measurements and Classifications in Musculoskeletal Radiology

Authors: Simone Waldt, MD, and Klaus Woertler, MD. With contributions by Matthias Eiber Publisher: Thieme – 214 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Orthopedics is a medical specialty that requires of practitioners to remember a bewildering number and variety of measurement techniques, classification systems, scoring methods, and reference values, the editors write in their Preface. The techniques of measurement, the systems of classification, the methods of scoring, and the myriad values are so numerous that radiologists, orthopedists, and trauma surgeons just cannot commit all that information and knowledge into their memories The problem these physicians had faced was that...

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