September 2012 | Saw Wiki

The Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am in a unique position to write a review of this book as I am emergency/flight nurse, but also a non-pierced, non-tattooed medical consultant for the Association of Professional Piercers. Starting several years ago when I first began researching the medical myths vs. research realities regarding body...

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a new preface Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Finally Dr. Farmer couples his lucid historical, political and economic analyses of the conditions that put the poor at risk for bad health outcomes, with a plainly indignant calling out of healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations to make honest efforts to understand and remedy conditions...

NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed this book. Mr. Humes is a wonderful writing who has the skills to draw the reader in in such a way as to "experience" the things he is writing about. Readers, though, ought to be aware that this is a book about a very specific system-the California Juvenile...

A Summer to Remember (Get Connected Romances) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'd rather not review this book but, instead, "share my thoughts" as we are invited to do by amazon. Mary Balogh is so talented that she rarely fails to please and those who may have been disappointed by this story perhaps prefer stories which are not quite so introspective as this one.One aspect of...

The Book of Luke Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Readers of Jenny O'Connell's first book for teens, Plan B, will have high expectations for THE BOOK OF LUKE--and they won't be disappointed! When nice girl Emily Abbot's family moves from Chicago back to Boston in the middle of her senior year, Emily and her two best friends come up with a plan that...

Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love this book, this story perhaps more than any other that I own. It is that moving! All my life I have had a deep heartache about the destruction of our Mother Earth at the hands of industrial humans in general, and the destruction of this land we call America at the hands of the European invaders...

Motel of the Mysteries Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book was actually a gift from my Mother who knows I enjoy things archaeological and historical. Since she`s more than a trifle eccentric and has a marvelous sense of the absurd, I've a sneaking suspicion she was poking a little fun at me--which is something I probably need once in a while for my...

Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Salvadori clearly explains, with the invaluable aid of lots of little pictures, how and why buildings stand up. There are chapters on cathedrals, the Eiffel Tower, the Hagia Sophia, bridges, domes, and so forth. The chapter on wind is particularly fascinating--I found out a lot of things I'd had no idea...

Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a software developer and mathematician presently in my early 60's, ever since I can remember I have always been long on technology and short on "people" knowledge Yet from my early adolescence I remember my dad telling me how important it is to know oneself. While I always agreed with this good advice,...

Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"I never got the chance to meet the inventors of `Notes', but these guys were true visionaries." This is the first sentence in a 748 pages book about XPages that was recently published by IBM Press.The book is written by Martin Donnelly, Mark Wallace and Tony McGuckin with a foreword by Philippe Riand....

Cracked Up to Be Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have no idea how to express my feelings about this book. It's powerful, emotional, important, and really spoke to me.The book takes place a good time after some sort of upsetting event has occurred. Everyone has gotten over it to the best they could except for Parker and that's because she finds herself...

Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)William Powers' memoir "Twelve by Twelve: A One-room Cabin Off the American Grid and Beyond the American Dream" is an intimate account of his journey to find answers to the questions: "Why would a successful physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity...

The Tenth Good Thing About Barney Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The little boy who is the narrator of this book has just had his pet cat Barney die. He can only think of nine good things about Barney, until the day after the funeral, when he spends the day in the garden with his father. The plot is extremely simple and spare, but the book depicts grief very well,...

The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book's concepts for strategic marketing management are so widely accepted that the popular Balanced Scorecard concept of Kaplan and Norton in 2001 decided to adopt the ideas for the "customer perspective".The authors manage to take Michael Porter's two generic competitive strategies - Differentiation...

The Running Dream Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)You know how it is when you wake up in the morning and sigh...you have to go to work at a place that makes you ill, or you have to face down a bill collector, or spend hours in your home trying to work and take care of your child while outside your next door neighbors are playing music so loud it could...

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the first review I've ever been compelled to write. I also bought "Radioactive" after reading the New York Times' glowing praise. I couldn't put it down. After I read it, I couldn't go to sleep. I promptly ordered a dozen copies for friends, and wished I had the means to buy this book for everyone...

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Who says that nobody's perfect? Certainly not Dr. K Pinkerton Silverfish, the clown-nosed, messy-hotdog-eating author of the book "Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days!" that mysteriously falls on our hero's head!Meet Milo. He's your average kid, flawed like the rest of us, and just trying to find...