Month: April 2014

Author: William Krist Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press – 283 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar If you study the history of economic growth of countries large and small, you will find that trade was an important, if not essential, factor in their growth. Without the manufacture and sales of goods overseas, and the purchase of other goods that a country does not have or cannot produce, a country’s economic advancement is limited. As an example, if the countries in the Middle East had not been selling their oil, of which they have plenty, they would not have progressed...

Author: Andrew Quintman, PhD Publisher: Columbia University Press – 314 pages Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi In this book, Andrew Quintman tells the story of the great Buddhist poet and saint Jetsun Milarepa (the eleventh-century ‘Lord of Yogins’) who lived between 1040 and 1123. One of his biographers Tsangnyon Heruka (1452-1507), the “Madman of Western Tibet,” wrote of Milarepa as a model of virtuosity in the Himalayan region. This book grew out of the author’s fascination – about 20 years ago – with the many aspects of the life of Milarepa, who was widely revered and written about in...

Editors: John E. Wanebo, MD, FACS; Nadia Khan, MD; Joseph M. Zabramski, MD; and Robert F. Spetzler, MD Publisher: Thieme – 199 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Moyamoya disease is a relatively recently-discovered disease (in Japan in 1969 by Jiro Suzuki and Akira Takaku) and a rare one, wherein the blood vessels in the brain, particularly in the base of the skull, gradually get occluded, create complications for patients, and can lead to death. This book, along with the animations and videos of surgical techniques provided for you online at www.MediaCenter.thieme.com can equip you with the specific information...

Editors: David W. Kennedy, MD, and Peter H. Hwang, MD. Medical Illustrator: Christine Gralapp, MA, CMI Foreword by: Heinz R. Stammberger, MD, Hon. FRCS (Ed.), Hon, FRCS (Eng.), Hon, FACS – is Professor and Head of the Department of General ENT – Head and Neck Surgery – at Medical University Graz in Graz, Austria Publisher: Thieme – 776 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This textbook and its accompanying digital video disc has been developed to provide a comprehensive resource for head and neck surgeons, neurosurgeons, otololaryngologists,  medical residents and students. This book contains 54 chapters grouped around four...

Editors: Mario Sanna, MD; Hiroshi Sunose, MD; Fernando Mancini, MD; Alessandra Russo, MD; Abdelkader Taibah, MD; and Maurizio Falcioni, MD. Publisher: Thieme – 601 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a large book on surgeries relating to the middle ear and the temporal bone behind the ear, and it has earned recognition as one of the best textbooks in this specialty in the course of the eight years since the first edition appeared. The editors point out that more than a thousand operations performed per year during that period have enabled them to improve their techniques and...