Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics or Memory of a Large Christmas

Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Author: H Richard Adams

Primarily intended for veterinary medical students, Veterinary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 8th edition provides a comprehensive resource for students learning basic and applied principles of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics.
Including expanded coverage of pharmacology and considerable revision of existing materials, the eighth edition is THE DESKTOP REFERENCE for veterinary practitioners to review details about drugs, drug mechanisms, and their clinical applications. Because of the ever-growing breadth and complexity of drug usage in animals, this text has considerable new information on basic pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, as well as their clinical applications.

Ted Whittem

This new edition conforms to a traditional layout by organ systems. The contents encompass a thorough overview of the discipline of veterinary pharmacology. This seventh edition is a needed replacement for the aging 1988 sixth edition. The authors have attempted to provide a substantially new text and reference suitable for professional veterinary students, residents, graduate students, and practitioners. It has proven difficult to satisfy ideally the disparate requirements of these worthy aims. The editor's intention to provide a desk top reference has been achieved with excellence; the book is an excellent resource for graduate student and resident training and for review and revision by students and practitioners. Professional veterinary students may be overwhelmed by the quantity of material presented in each chapter. As a textbook, therefore, this tome will be most useful with the support and detailed direction of skilled teachers. The detail presented in this work is primarily a reflection of the interest, exemplary qualifications, and enthusiasm for the discipline of the authors, all of whom are respected in their areas of expertise. The text content is generally well edited, allowing readability to vary little between authors and thereby ensuring continuity of style throughout. In contrast, there is no uniformity between figures and illustrations, these apparently being the individual author's unedited originals. These illustrations are less than ideal in number and quality for a student textbook, detracting from the teaching usefulness of an otherwise excellent book. This seventh edition returns this title to the pinnacle of veterinary pharmacology reference books. Itought to be a standard reference for all library shelves; it ought to be seriously considered as a necessary purchase by all graduate students in veterinary medicine and related fields.

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Reviewer: Kent Davis, DVM, B.S. (University of Illinois Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital)
Description: This is the 8th edition of a pharmacology and therapeutics book that has been a gold standard in veterinary medicine for many years. The previous edition was published in 1995.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a comprehensive resource for students to learn basic and applied principles of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics. These are very worthy objectives, which the authors have met once again. This text has been updated since 1954 and has stood the test of time.
Audience: This book is written for professional veterinary students, but it is also useful for graduate students and graduate veterinarians. The authors are credible and authoritative in their fields.
Features: Principles, drugs, and nutritional pharmacology are thoroughly covered. Specialty areas of pharmacology are especially useful. The oncology section is up to date and understandable.
Assessment: With this edition, the editor has ensured the book will continue to keep its status as the gold standard. This is a must for any student or graduate veterinarian's library.

Booknews

This is the new edition of a textbook for veterinary students that aims to be a comprehensive resource for basic and applied principles of pharmacology. Fifty-eight chapters are organized into sections discussing principles of pharmacology, drugs acting on the autonomic and somatic nervous systems, drugs acting on the central nervous system, autacoids and anti-inflammatory drugs, drugs acting on the cardiovascular system, drugs affecting renal function and fluid- electrolyte balance, drugs acting on blood and blood elements, endocrine pharmacology, nutritional pharmacology, chemotherapy of microbial diseases, chemotherapy of parasitic diseases, specialty areas of pharmacology, and regulatory considerations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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4 Stars! from Doody

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Memory of a Large Christmas

Author: Lillian Eugenia Smith

As a young child in the early 1900s, writer and civil rights crusader Lillian Smith lived an idyllic, small-town life. Of the many customs by which her and her eight brothers' and sisters's days were ordered, none are so fondly remembered by Smith as those of the Christmas season. With a lighthearted touch, she recalls such times as when the family hosted forty-eight chain-gang convicts, along with their guards, to a holiday feast and the time her older brothers almost bought an elegant coffin for their parents's gift. Of far greater meaning to Smith, however, are the remembered rituals, the year-after-year sights, sounds, smells, and tastes: first the hog killings and the shaking of the pecan trees just around the time Big Granny, Little Granny, and a cousin or two began to arrive; then making gifts and hanging stockings; and finally the big day, filled with presents, shooting firecrackers, and too much homemade candy, six-layered coconut cake, and "sweet potato pone, fancied up."

Publishers Weekly

In Memory of a Large Christmas, writer and civil rights crusader Lillian Smith (1897-1966) remembered fondly the Christmases of her youth. They were certainly big: lots of people ate lots of food in a house with lots of room. It's all recalled here, from the preface of Thanksgiving through the hog-killing, gift-buying, theatricals-staging, stocking-hanging and finally, the main event. It's packaged in a small volume with illustrations and even a few recipes.

Contemporary U S Tax Policy or True Stories

Contemporary U. S. Tax Policy

Author: C Eugene Steuerl

C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working with officials of all political stripes. Steuerle outlines the principles of taxation and the early postwar period before proceeding to the tax policy battles that began with the Reagan revolution and continue today. Those expecting a simple story of triumph and defeat may be surprised. Rather than moving toward consensus and progress, tax policy history has been messy, repetitive, and often rancorous. Yet evolution-and even revolution-do occur. The second edition has been updated with a look at tax policy during the George W. Bush presidency.

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True Stories

Author: Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon

Lev Razgon became famous overnight when his memoirs first appeared in Russia in 1988. They were a sensation both due to his angle of vision - Razgon was living among the Party elites as the Stalinist terror of 1937 began - as well as to his sophisticated understanding of both his country and his century. His remarkably long life took him from the shtetl and a family which had been unlucky with the authorities for many generations, to Moscow where he was a Communist journalist and writer, to 17 years in labor camps (a fate shared by both his wives). When he finally returned to Moscow for good, he went back to writing books for young adults and worked in secret on these memoirs. The last man alive to have actually attended and survived the Communist Party Congress of 1934 - most of those attending were dead within three years - Razgon brilliantly conveys the everyday atmosphere of a Soviet world of privilege about to be destroyed. Stalin had given secret orders that the families and friends of the powerful be decimated as a lesson in terror, a preemptive strike against any thoughts of a coup. In this book the personalities and stories which shaped Razgon's existence before and after his seventeen years in the camps are emphasized. Razgon's journalistic curiosity and interest in history as well as individuals led him in unusual directions. Much here is new: the characters and fates of the jailers; the camp lives of the wives of the Soviet elite, imprisoned as hostages to control their powerful husbands; and the frustration of formerly high-ranking military men, forgotten prisoners of the gulag as they see that World War II is approaching.

Publishers Weekly

This remarkable book is a testament to the epochal transformation of the former Soviet Union and the obligation to remember its Stalinist past. Razgon (b. 1908), a journalist married to the daughter of a high-ranking Soviet official, was arrested during the Stalinist terror in 1938 and lived in labor camps or internal exile until 1956, when he was rehabilitated. With the onset of perestroika, he began to publish the memoirs he had been secretly writing for two decades. If Razgon's work lacks the sweep of Solzhenitsyn's gulag accounts, it is full of wisdom and vivid character sketches of victims and perpetrators alike, such as camp boss Tarasyuk, who "resembled in some ways the slaveowners of classical times." In relating these episodes, Razgon reminds us of the insanity of Stalinist legality, which imprisoned the wives of top officials such as President Kalinin and Foreign Minister Molotov while their husbands kept their posts. A one-time Communist Party member, Razgon ultimately resigned and became a founder of Memorial, a group that reexamines the country's history. A wrenching epilogue describes his encounter with his own recently opened KGB file. Crowfoot's translation makes this substantial set of stories accessible. Photos not seen by PW. (June)

Kirkus Reviews

An unforgettable memoir of a journalist who survived two incarcerations in the Gulag, filled with his memories of the victims, the executioners, and those who connived with Stalin's genocidal plans.

Razgon, born in 1908, a writer and editor connected by marriage to top Stalinist officials, was a Communist who was caught up in the purges of the late 1930s and was finally released only after the Khrushchev reforms of the 1950s. He records the life of the elite both before the purges—he is the last person alive to have attended the Congress of the Communist Party in 1934—and what happened to them afterwards. Most memorable are his vivid portraits of those with whom he came into contact: Roshchakovsky, an aristocratic émigré who had returned to serve the Soviet navy and "would eat the prison soup with the wooden spoons so beautifully that it was impossible to tear your eyes away"; Boris and Gleb, ages 16 and 18 respectively, who returned from Czechoslovakia to help the Soviet Union, only to find themselves transported to the Gulag; Zaliva, a bluff and honest camp commandant who killed 1,500 people in the course of a single winter by insisting on following his instructions to the letter; and Colonel Tarasyuk, with the profile of a Roman senator, who calmly gave instructions on one occasion that ensured that everyone in his hospital would be dead within a month. Razgon notes that, according to a Ministry of State Security report in 1956, between 1935 and 1941 alone seven million people were shot—a million a year. During Alexander II's reign, by contrast, just over 60 political prisoners were hanged in Russia. But the author's thoughts ultimately turn not just to the victims or their families, but to the tens of thousands who participated in the process of execution and are now living quiet lives somewhere in Russia.

A brilliant memoir, by turns harrowing, inspiring, sardonic, and devastating.