Month: March 2013

Author: Duane E. Haines, PhD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins – 332 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This latest edition of Neuroanatomy – An Atlas of Structures, Sections and Systems, while continuing to present detailed knowledge on the anatomy and functions, in the form of text and images on the human neurosystem, also introduces new information through computer tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance images (MRIs) and other visual means such as illustrations and actual black-and-white, single-color and full-color photos. Put together and updated by Dr. Duane E. Haines – professor of neurology and neurosurgery at...

Editors: Senior Editor: Barbara Bushman, PhD; Associate Editors: Rebecca Battista, PhD; Lynda Ransdell, PhD, FACSM; Pamela Swan, PhD,  FACSM; and Walter R. Thompson, PhD, FACSM Publisher: Wolters Kluwers | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins – 627 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This product – the fourth edition of The American College of Sports Medicine’s Resources for the Personal Trainer – is an excellent one both from an editorial standpoint as well as in terms of production quality standards. This latest edition is based on ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. It contains significant updates on material from the...

Author: Francesca Gino Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 260 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Sometimes I read the conclusion section of a book first before I begin to browse it. That is what I did with this one, and I will shortly share with you the nine basic principles the author outlines for you if you want to sick to your plan and stop getting derailed. It happens quite often to most people, including most likely, you. My guess is that you are more likely than not, one of those people who makes a decision and comes...

Author: A. Azfar Moin Publisher: Columbia University Press – 343 pages Book Review by: Deekay Daulat A study of ‘sacred kingship’ (a term the author uses that is new to me) and sainthood in Islam during the Mughal (aka Mogul) period in India (1526-1857) and the Safavid era in Central Asia (1501-1722) is the focus of this one-of-a-kind book. Why one-of-a-kind? It takes a combined look into kingship (the king as a messiah of God was considered sacred in those millennia) and sainthood, something I have not found in any other book. It offers a new perspective on the...

Author: Ishikawa Yoshihiro. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel Publisher: Columbia University Press – 503 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Recently-released documents in Chinese, Japanese and Russian languages, and the author’s exhaustive survey of journals, newspapers and other intellectual and popular publications, form the basis of this newly-published (2013) book by the Columbia University Press. What was hardly known before this work was released was about the international associations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which the party leaders tended to minimize, and possibly suppress. Ishikawa Yoshihiro begins his story in 1919 – two years before the official founding...