Month: October 2014

Editors: Robert F. Heary, MD, and Todd J. Albert, MD Publisher: Thieme – 241 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This well-illustrated book, written by leading experts in spine surgery, presents to you an overview of present-day key foundational principles on this subject, and the practices followed in diagnosing and treating patients with deformities of the spine. It has been written for orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, residents, and fellows in this medical specialty. You will find in each chapter a numbered list that provides you the topics that are covered in the chapter. This serves as a quick overview of...

Author: W. Henry Lambright Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press – 320 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar News came out recently, to everyone’s surprise, that an Indian spacecraft recently reached Mars. On September 24, 2014, the Mangalyaan began orbiting around that planet. It had been  launched on November 5, 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Thus India became the fourth country to begin exploring Mars after Russia, the United States and the European Union. What is remarkable is that India succeeded on its first...

Author: Noah Horowitz Publisher: Princeton University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar If you listen to television news these days about the prices some paintings are being bought for at auctions – in the millions of dollars – you wonder most of the time how the sellers come up with the such high starting prices to begin with. And it also makes you wonder how art collectors who bid at these auctions arrive at a value for any painting they want to buy, especially when the bid price is in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars....

Author: Ipek Yosmaglou Publisher: Cornell University Press – 320 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar The Ottoman Empire – which is now part of the Middle East centering around Turkey, existed for more than six centuries, from 1300 to 1923. We provide you below a link to a very short (just over a minute) video of the rise and fall of this empire. You will see which territories were acquired and then lost, as the years progressed. Just click o this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuwanQyGKHw The empire of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) included the Ottoman territories, and was much larger:...