Month: April 2015

Editors: Vas Taras and Maria Alejandra Gonzales-Perez Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 900 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The core thesis of this book is that the basis of all learning is experience. If you read, you are essentially learning from the experience of the writer, of some event. If you watch a movie or a television program, the author has put his experiences down on paper and the script writer has adapted the writing to enable it for easier use in the electronic media. It is generally agreed that there is no better way to learn than through...

Author: R. Evan Ellis Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan- 320 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Books on China and Latin America are rare, especially on economic relations between that emergent superpower and that diverse continent, a neighbor of the largest economy in the world, the United States, with different cultures, languages, and races. It may surprise most readers to know that China’s nominal gross domestic product was, according to the International Monetary Fund in 2013, larger than the total GDP of the 12 countries that comprise the South American continent. China’s GDP was $9.181 trillion, compared to South America’s total...

Authors: James Henderson and Alastair Ferguson Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 327 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book is a must read for energy economists, senior executives at oil and gas companies with exposure to Russia and other countries where local knowledge is vital for success, as well as for finance practitioners working in energy markets. This work, which took a decade to complete, is very important for the types of people we mention above.  This is because, in the words of James Henderson and Alastair Ferguson, the two authors with extensive and intensive experience in the oil...

Editors: T.S. Chan and Geng Cui Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 227 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram In the three decades between 1982 and 2012, the average person in China increased his or her income from a measly $279 a year to $6,767 a year, a phenomenal multiple of almost 25 times. But the country’s gross domestic product per capita grew much higher in 2013: $11,868, (89th in the world) according to the International Monetary Fund. The reason? China. known as “the world’s factory,” exported hundreds of billions of dollars of products to overseas markets, particularly to North America...

Book Review: Microneurosurgery,  IVA – Central Nervous System Tumors: Surgical Anatomy, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology, Neurophysiology, Clinical Considerations, Operability, Treatment Options Editor: M.G. Yasargil, MD Collaborators: T.E. Adamson,  G.F. Cravens, R.J. Johnson, J.D. Reeves, P.J. Teddy, A. Valavanis,  W. Wichmann, A.M. Wild, and P.H. Young. Anatomical Preparations by A. Lang, U. Ture Illustrated by P. Roth Publisher: Thieme – 396 pages. 1126 illustrations, 58 tables Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This text is part of Volume 4 of a four-volume set. Volume I is on microsurgical anatomy of the basal cistern and vessels of the brain, diagnostic studies, and general operative...