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Author: Karen Dieleman Publisher: Ohio University Press Book Review by: Artha Hemrajani This book studies three female Christian poets from the Victorian era in terms of their liturgy or public worship as compared to their poetry, and how they viewed the world and their place in it. The book answers the question: how did their particular beliefs influence their poetry, particularly religious poems? And how much did those denominational beliefs help form their poetry? The poets are Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Adelaide Procter. With a total of six chapters in this book of 314 pages, two chapters...

Author: Deidre Helen Crumbley Publisher: University Press of Florida Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This book is part of a series on the history of African-American religions. Those familiar with the history of the United States know about the migration of millions of African Americans from the southern part of the country – where racial violence had become rampant – to its north in the first half of the nineteenth century. Per Wikipedia, from 1940 to 1970 the South lost about five million Blacks. They moved not only to the North but also to the West. The main reasons...

Editors: Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP (UK), MB,  Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1109 pages Book Review by Nano Khilnani This book is the first edition of the Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine from Harvard Medical School. It has been prepared for medical students and doctors-in-training to obtain certification for practicing medicine, and recertification by previously-certified physicians. By successfully reviewing for and passing the American Board in Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam with the aid of this review guide, students officially become doctors and doctors ‘revalidate’ their practice. This highly valuable book has many good features,...

Editor-in-Chief: Amit K. Ghosh Associate Editors: Drs. Deborah J. Rhodes, Thomas J. Beckman, Christopher M. Wittich, Randall S. Edson and Dennis K. McCallum Publisher: Oxford University Press, 994 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This important guide to helping doctors-in-training prepare for the commonly-termed ‘board exams’ and pass them, to enter the exalted profession of medicine, was first published in 1994. This ninth edition, published in 2010, is a 994-page guide, with 26 chapters, to preparing for and passing the certifying (and maintenance of certification) exam of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). It has been put together...

Authors: Jason Smith, Ian Greaves and Keith M. Porter Publisher: Oxford University Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This 581-page reference work on major trauma provides general guidance and specific advice by trauma specialists (who have countless years of highly valuable practical experience handling many types of trauma cases) that the beginning or intermediate physician in emergency medicine needs, to do his or her job better. This book in short, provides the ‘missing ink between basic trauma management and advanced specialist care’ as described in its description provided by the publisher. It fills the need for evidence-based guidance and...