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Editors: Berthold Block MD, Guido Schachschal MD, and Hartmut Schmidt MD Publisher: Thieme – 194 pages + 774 illustrations + 56 tables Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book was published in 2004, and today 14 years later in 2018, perhaps there are endoscopes that have greater capabilities than the ones described in this book. Regardless, the examination of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract has come a long way since more than two centuries ago in 1806 when the German scientist Philip Bozzini introduced the Lichtleiter which translated into English means ‘light conductor’. Bozzini’s scope was also used by urologists...

Editor: Mick J. Perez-Cruet MD Co-Editors: Rudolf W. Beisse MD, Luiz Pimenta MD, and Daniel H. Kim MD. Publisher: Thyme – 774 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani On spine surgery, the editor Dr. Mick J. Perez-Cruet begins this book by writing in the Preface: Much like the cables on a suspension bridge, the paraspinal muscles and ligaments play a key role in the long-term health of the spine. The complex interactive physiology and biomechanics of the vertebrae, discs, muscles and ligaments makes preserving these structures a vital part of treating spine pathology. Disrupting one of these elements can...

Editors: Volume I (600-1550) – 648 pages – Brendan Smith Volume II (1550-1730) –787 pages – Jane Ohlmeyer Volume III (1730-1880) – 851 pages – James Kelly Volume IV (1880 – 2016) – 969 pages – Thomas Bartlett Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 3,255 total pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This is truly a monumental undertaking by four accomplished editors named above and 107 authors (including the editors) who wrote the 97 chapters within 18 Parts of this four-volume book of extensive and intensive coverage of the more than 14 centuries (1,416 years) of the history of Ireland...

Editors: Afif Osseiran, Jose F. Monserrat, and Patrick Marsch Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 406 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram In this book published (probably early) in 2016, the Foreword writers Mischa Dohler and Takehiro Nakamura state that information communications technology (ICT) has settled into the fourth round or 4G because of the success of 2G and 3G, and “are leading to the consensus on the fifth-generation (5G) mobile systems. These successes started off as a movement of telephony to the mobile environment, and have, by 2015, already brought the Internet into the end user’s hand.” Professor Dohler,...