Month: August 2015

Editor: Nina Bascia Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 220 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Membership in labor unions in the United States has been steadily declining over the last four decades, according to a January 23, 2015 article by Melanie Trottman in the Wall Street Journal. In 1973, among employed workers all over the country, about 25 percent were union members. By 2014 that number had dropped to just around 11 percent. In the private sector in the U.S. the situation is very different, with much fewer workers belonging to labor unions. Union membership declined from 37 percent of...

Editors and Authors: Jorge L. Alio, MD; and Dimitri T. Azar, MD Associate Editors and Authors: Alessandro Abbouda, MD; and Amr El Aswad, MD Publisher: Springer International Publishing – 479 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Refractive surgery cases affected by complications are the focus of this book, and in it, four editors show in practical terms how such complications can be managed. They provide the important knowledge and essential details necessary to achieve successful outcomes. They make mention of a book published in 2007 entitled Complicated Cases in Refractive Surgery. This was well received and translated into many...

Authors: Viktor Hraska, MD; and Peter Murlin, MD Publisher: Springer International Publishing – 303 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is an amazing book, with real-life, full-color photos of a large number of actual surgical procedures performed on the heart and other parts of the cardiovascular system of patients, particularly children.  I believe one of the best ways of learning is seeing, and this book provides you the visuals. This book has been written for pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons, anesthetists, intensivists. perfusionists, and of course, pediatricians. It is also for medical students, residents, nurses, and others interested...

Authors and Editors: Heleen M. Oudemans-van Straaten, Lui G. Forni, A.B. Johan Groeneveld, Sean M. Bagshaw, and Michael Joannidis Publisher: Springer International Publishing – 286 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Acute kidney-related problems as encountered by the critical care physician usually in the intensive care unit (ICU), and sometimes as part of multi-organ failure in the patient, are often quite challenging cases. This book provides you an overview of those problems and how to handle them well. Some of the causes or attendant conditions of failure of multiple organs are the following: Cardiogenic or septic shock Systemic inflammation...

A Volume in the Oxford Library of Psychology Series Editors: Christina A. Shalley, PhD; Michael A. Hitt, PhD; and Jing Zhou, PhD Publisher: Oxford University Press – 540 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Research has been going on around the world separately on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Many subjects, topics, ideas and other aspects of these three research areas intersect. This book points out to the critical need to, and shows ways to integrate the literature in these three interrelated areas. Sixty-five scholars of business, economics, management, psychology, sociology and related fields from the United States and 11other...