Month: December 2014

Editor: Michael J. Englesbe, MD Editor-in-Chief (of Series in Operative Techniques): Michael W. Mulholland, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 342 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This volume focused on the detailed technical aspects of transplantation surgery, is part of the series Operative Techniques in Surgery.  The series editor Dr. Mulholland points out that operative therapy is complex, technically demanding, and rapidly evolving. Besides this volume, other books cover other forms of surgery such as open operations, laparoscopy, and surgery using robots. This unique book has been designed and developed for use by anyone...

Authors: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Publisher: Harvard Business Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram We read about, see, and listen to in the mass media, many positive remarks about China, such as its high level of economic growth, its status as a manufacturing colossus, its global leadership position as the world’s largest exporter of goods, its rapid construction of entire cities and the remarkable development of its infrastructure such as bridges, highways and railways; its accumulation of overseas land, cash, gold, silver, other metals, as well as other important commodities. All these have...

Authors: Paul Zane Pilzer and Rick Lindquist Publisher: Wiley – 264 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Did you know that the United States government will be spending trillions of dollars subsidizing individual health insurance plans between now and the year 2025? Yours is not to worry what will happen to you as your government gets deeper and deeper into more debt as a result of these additional massive expenditures. Today U.S. government debt is a bit above $18 trillion (go to www.USDebtClock.org for updates). What will the debt level be in 2015, about 10 years from now? As...

This is part of the Series on Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law Series Editors: Gary L. Francione and Gary Steiner Author: Cynthia Willett Publisher: Columbia University Press – 219 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar There are few books out there on the relationship between human beings and animals in the contexts of ethics and ethical behavior. This is one of them, along with six other such books in this series listed at beginning of this book. We begin this review by quoting the comments on this book by Mark Bekoff, author of Rewilding Our...