Month: July 2014

Author: Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, PhD Publisher: Pearson – www.pearsonhighered.com – 540 pages, plus appendices Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This is essentially and emphatically a student-focused textbook. I may sound contrite as I say this, but the author, who has been teaching educational psychology since 1974 and has “loved every minute of it,” shows here genuine concern for students to benefit from this book by stating frankly that teaching is a challenging profession as much as it has been a rewarding one for her. In relating her experiences, she admits: “Students don’t always come to us ready or eager...

Authors: Frederic H. Martini, PhD; William C. Ober, MD; Judi L. Nath, PhD; Claire E. Ober, RN; Edwin F. Bartholomew, MS; Kathleen Welch, MD; Kevin P. Petti, PhD; and Ralph T. Hutchings Publisher: Pearson – www.pearsonhighered.com – 1063 pages, plus appendices Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The materials found in this book go beyond just presenting contents, which is typical of most anatomy and physiology textbooks. Each chapter provides you Learning Objectives which indicate in detail what you should be able to know and do after completing the study of each module in each section in each chapter. For...

Editors: Charles B. Higgins, MD; and Albert de Roos, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins – 676 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book is about effectively and thoroughly using two relatively recent scanning and imaging technologies in diagnosing cardiovascular conditions and taking the necessary further steps in treating patients. The authors point out that these technologies covered in this book are relatively new, but their effectiveness in diagnosing heart disease has advanced rapidly in recent years. Computed tomography or CT produced the first images of the beating heart in the late 1970s, and the...

Editors: W. Michael Scheld, MD, Richard J. Whitley, MD, and Christina M. Marra, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 907 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This one of the most authoritative, comprehensive, insightful, and most recently updated texts available on the subject of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). This is because the content in it has been provided by some of the top experts in this field in the world. Ninety specialists, most of them physicians, in the areas of – epidemiology, infectious (including bacterial) diseases, neurology, neurointensive care, and neurosurgery, as...

Editor: James D. Luketich, MD. Associate Editors: Rodney J. Landreneau, MD and Arjun Pennathur, MD Series Editor: Josef E. Fischer, MD. This book is part of the Master Techniques in Surgery Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 438 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Surgery involving the esophagus is complex, write the editors – Drs. Luketich, Landrenau, and Pennathur – of this rare type of book. This book is unique in that it focuses on the technical aspects of esophageal surgery, and the material for it has been written by world-renowned surgeons who have expertise in...