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Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology
David J. Spalton , and Roger A. Hitchings Manufacturer: C.V. Mosby ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0397446322 |
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excellent textbook.......2007-02-13
Outstanding atlas in a cheap binding.......2006-10-05
Would have been 5 stars if it had been edited well and on non-glossy paper.......2006-06-12
The caption drawings make the atlas.......2002-08-08
This atlas fixes the problem rather ingeniously: most pictures have an accompanying drawing that highlights and delineates each important finding and detail seen in the picture. Using these drawings, the reader can learn to identify these subtle but important features.
The use of such drawing makes so much sense that one wonders why more atlases do not employ the method.
I love the atlas for the great pictures, accompanying drawings, and good explanations.
Essential for Students.......2000-06-08
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Last Minute Optics: A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction and Contact Lenses
David G. Hunter , and Constance E. West Manufacturer: Slack Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 1556423179 |
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This unique new guide allows you to test your knowledge while increasing your understanding of optics. It is a handy, clinically relevant manual that presents the optics facts and concepts you need the most. The clear and concise question-and-answer format allows self-assessment while studying. Easy-to-understand explanations of complicated concepts make the topic manageable. Numerous practical tips will enhance your efficiency and effectiveness in the clinic. Many simple illustrations help make sense of difficult concepts.Customer Reviews:
Great review for Ophthalmologists.......2006-02-08
Aimed at the exam taker.......2000-06-13
As alearning tool it is also lacking, with little detail or helpfuldiagrams.
However, as a study tool, this review should serve the student well if he/she had a real reference from which to learn. That is, in fact, what it markets itself to be -- a last minute study review -- so no false advertising here.
Kirk Carver, Patient Advocate,...
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/Reflections in a Golden Eye/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe/The Member of the Wedding/The Clock Without Hands (Library of America)
Carson McCullers Manufacturer: Library of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1931082030 Release Date: 2001-09-27 |
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When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.Customer Reviews:
The American Jane Austen?.......2003-12-24
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is the longest of Carson McCullers' novels, and the first. She wrote it in the late `30s, and published it in 1940, when she was 23. It's an incredible first novel, and amazingly prescient and wise for someone of her age, era, and upbringing. The story revolves around a deaf mute, John Singer, who works engraving silverware in a small city in the South somewhere. He has only one friend in the world, another deaf mute who works for his cousin, making candy. As the story begins the candymaker (named Antanopolous) is committed to an asylum, and Singer moves from the home they shared, and slowly begins to acquire a circle of other friends. Principle in this circle are four people: Mick, the daughter of his landlords at the rooming house he lives in; Biff, who runs the diner where he takes his meals; Blount, another denizen of the diner, who wishes to unionize the local mill-workers; and Dr.Copeland, a black man who rages against the injustice of white society towards him and his race. The heart of the story is a character study of these five people, with alternating chapters following the one and then the other. Each is intelligent, in his or her own way, and each has special insights into the world around them. How these characters interact, and the relationships between them and the rest of the world, make the heart of the story and most of the book.
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a shorter story, one of McCullers' novels that is really more of a novella. The plot revolves around a love triangle that develops between two officers on an Army base, and the wife of one of them. There's also a strange, solitary, enigmatic private who tends the horses on the base, and he interacts with the other characters. Frankly, I didn't enjoy this story as much as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. The characters weren't anywhere near as believable, and their motivations weren't as transparent or understandable. The ending was also somewhat predictable.
The Ballad of the Sad Café is the shortest of McCullers' novels or novellas, weighing in at 60 pages. It's the story of a strange, unpredictable relationship between the standoffish businesswoman who dominates the culture of a small town, and a dwarf hunchback who shows up one day claiming to be her long-lost nephew. How the two of them interact in the story is strange, to say the least, and not wholly explained in the story. This creates an enigmatic atmosphere, and as the story progresses and it becomes obvious we're not going to receive an explanation of things, you find yourself re-reading passages looking for clues as to motivations. I enjoyed this story much more than Reflections in a Golden Eye, perhaps almost as much as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
The Member of the Wedding is perhaps McCullers' most strange work. The heart of the book is built around the fantastic intentions and beliefs of a twelve-year-old girl. In the first portion of the book, she's known as Frankie. Later, when she gets the idea she's going to leave with her older brother on his honeymoon, she changes her name to F. Jasmine, and the book follows that convention. Once it develops that she can't go with the brother and his new bride (you knew this was going to happen) she becomes Frances. There isn't much of a plot other than this girl fantasizing about all of the things she's going to be or do, and looking down her nose at all the common people who surround her, who she thinks are beneath her.
Clock Without Hands is the best of McCullers' books other than The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I now wonder if the length of the books had something to do with whether I liked them or not. She seems to have been able, in the longer books, to build her characters more, and have more plot twists. Clock Without Hands is about a dying pharmacist in a small Georgia town, and the events surrounding his death, but it really turns out to be more about one of his acquaintances, a senile old judge who imagines himself a great leader of the opposition to the desegregation movement. The episodes of the Civil Rights movement, as McCullers recreates them, become at times farcical and silly, and the resistance to the movement altogether silly and irrational.
Library of America volumes are wonderful to hold and read, and this is no exception. The type is clear, the book handy to hold or slip into a pocket. Given McCullers' stature as a writer, I think I'm going to value this book for a good long while.
Magnificent McCullers.......2002-03-11
The unique lady of the "South".......2001-10-20
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This important military document presents the Department of Defense's roadmap for developing and employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs) over the next 25 years (2002 to 2027). DoD's operational UAV systems include Predator, Hunter, Shadow, and Pioneer which have demonstrated tremendous capability in recent military operations. Developmental systems such as Global Hawk and many small UAV systems have also been put to the test in recent combat and combat support operations. Taken as a whole, this technology area offers profound opportunities to transform the manner in which this country conducts a wide array of military and military support operations. As with any new technology, there is naturally some reluctance to transition to a radically new capability. The need to fully demonstrate UAVs in combat and realistic training environments is critical to the migration of this technology. The overarching goal of this roadmap, in concert with the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), is to define clear direction to the Services and Departments for a logical, systematic migration of mission capabilities to a new class of military tools. The goal is to address the most urgent mission needs that are supported both technologically and operationally by various UAV systems. Some missions can be supported by the current state of the art in unmanned technology where the capabilities of current or near-term DoD assets are sufficient and the risk to DoD members is relative low. Other mission areas, however, are in desperate need of additional capability and present high risk to aircraft crews. These mission areas, highlighted in this roadmap, will receive significant near-term effort by the Department. This Roadmap describes the Services' ongoing UAV efforts (Section 2) and identifies the capabilities needed by theater commanders to which UAVs could be applied (Section 3), then couples them to emerging technologies (Section 4) and operational concepts (Section 5) that could enable these capabilities within the Services' programs. The resulting Roadmap (Section 6) links capability-enhancing technologies to the life cycles of current and projected UAV programs. It is a map of opportunities, not point designs - a description of the future potential of UAVs. This Roadmap also provides a current snapshot of the status of the Department's numerous unmanned aviation efforts. There are over 100 detailed illustrations, charts, graphs, photographs, and tables; the document was issued in December 2002.
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The Eye of the Hunter (Mithgar)
Dennis L. McKiernan Manufacturer: Roc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0451452682 |
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Not as good as I remember..........2007-06-03
I can't believe anyone would give this 5 stars........2005-05-19
The only book I have recommended to EVERYONE I know.......2003-11-23
An Amazing, Unforgettable Story.......2003-08-22
McKiernan is an extraordinary storyteller. I will be thinking about the ending for months. The villain, Baron Stoke, is the absolute best, worst villain I've ever encountered in movie or novel. He makes that evil, child-murdering British captain in the Patriot movie look like Richard Simmons.
If I simply like a book, I give it 3 stars. If I thought it was a great book, I give it 4, but if the power of the story continues to haunt me long after I've shelved the book, it gets 5. Get in your most comfortable reading chair and enjoy Eye of the Hunter.
An Amazing, Unforgettable Story.......2003-08-22
McKiernan is an extraordinary storyteller. I will be thinking about the ending for months. The villain, Baron Stoke, is the absolute best, worst villain I've ever encountered in movie or novel. He makes that evil, child-murdering British captain in the Patriot movie look like Richard Simmons.
This is the first time I've felt strongly enough about a book to give it a review. It deserves the highest rating. Get in your most comfortable reading chair and enjoy Eye of the Hunter.
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The flying eyes: A science fiction novel
J. Hunter Holly Manufacturer: Monarch Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B0007EOS02 |
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2005 Complete Guide to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): DOD, NASA, Research Aircraft, Current and Future Vehicles, ARM-UAV, Predator, Hunter, Shadow, Pioneer, ... Shadow Tactical UAV (TUAV), Dragon Eye
U.S. Government Manufacturer: Progressive Management ProductGroup: Book Binding: DVD-ROM Similar Items:
ASIN: 1592481612 |
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This comprehensive and authoritative DVD-ROM provides a guide to all types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - including military craft, NASA projects, and research vehicles. This incredible collection of official documents and photographs contains over two gigabytes of material - equivalent to about four CD-ROMs of information!Projects and topics covered include:
DOD UAV RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS - including current use in Afghanistan and other locations, research plans, technical reports and papers. UAV's are defined as powered aerial vehicles sustained in flight by aerodynamic lift over most of their flight path and guided without an onboard crew. They may be expendable or recoverable and can fly autonomously or piloted remotely. UAVs are a key element within the concept of information dominance. Historically the greatest use of UAVs have been in the areas of intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT - UNMANNED AEROSPACE VEHICLE (ARM-UAV) PROGRAM - which resulted in the requirement for a long endurance UAV capable of carrying an instrumented payload to altitudes above 60,000 feet, conducted with General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems "GNAT" and "Altus" UAVs. Extensive and well-illustrated coverage of the nine major field measurement campaigns conducted since 1993 is included. Accomplishments include the first science flights using a UAV in 1994.
MILITARY UAV ROADMAP - This important military document presents the Department of Defense's roadmap for developing and employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs) over the next 25 years. Operational UAV systems include Predator, Hunter, Shadow, and Pioneer. Developmental systems such as Global Hawk and many small UAV systems have also been put to the test in recent combat and combat support operations. There are over 100 detailed illustrations, charts, graphs, photographs, and tables.
NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY listings of UAV suppliers, capabilities, and tests of Exdrone.
This DVD-ROM has over 15,000 pages - many reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software and Reader software is included. Other files are provided in their native format. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable!
Our discs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work and educational tool.
This DVD-ROM disc is for use in a computer DVD drive. The files can be accessed from the File Explorer in the same way that you open files from a CD-ROM disc; the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM formats are functionally the same. Of course, this disc cannot be "played" in a DVD player connected to a television set. It contains computer-formatted data, not video.
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Dont buy this!.......2005-07-04
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Treasure Hunter Picture Book (Wiggle Eyes)
William Boniface Manufacturer: Accord, a division of Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0939251973 |
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Take a spin with The Treasure Hunter on an adventure that propels you down below the ocean, out West where things are wild and into outer space where cleaning is almost fun. Imaginations whirl as the Treasure Hunter flies, drives and dives from one adventure to the next.A propeller built into this beautiful picture book spins from page to page as the Treasure Hunter seeks fortunes big and small to share with all. A glossary of all the exciting people, places and things encountered follows this magical adventure.
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An excellent book, fun, factual and a refreshing style........1999-07-18
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Eye Of A Hunter (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
Sylvie Kurtz Manufacturer: Harlequin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 037322866X |
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Ballad of the Sad Cafe Including Also the Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, the Member of the Wedding and New Short Stories
Carson McCullers Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KYTY80 |
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