Intelligently organized, competently written, and comprehensive advice on hair loss.
A health care book offers a voluminous exploration of hair loss.
This scrupulously researched second edition by Gomez, a medical/business book author and former health care executive, may well be regarded by the medical community as a definitive resource on hair loss. Reviewed by two medical professionals and with extensive references, the book offers 19 chapters that cover the topic in detail. The first nine chapters concern hair growth, male and female hair loss, and the effects of heredity, hormones, aging, and scalp conditions on hair loss. In addition, there are two chapters providing historical overviews of hair-loss treatments and surgical restoration methods. This first half of the book is clearly intended for medical professionals. The remainder of the volume concentrates largely on methods of treating hair loss, which include hair restoration and transplantation, various types of surgery, nonsurgical replacement/restoration, and topical treatments. Also included are chapters about the physician-patient relationship, hair care, nutrition, gray hair, and “future trends in hair restoration solutions.” While the book’s second half retains its medical terminology and is therefore most appropriate for health care professionals, it could just as easily be informative to anyone who suffers from hair loss. For example, there is an excellent, if technical, comparison of the three primary hair restoration/transplantation methods that includes helpful illustrations from various sources and a table. Information about topical treatments should be relevant to consumers as well, particularly the thorough section regarding minoxidil (Rogaine). Both the hair care and hair nutrition chapters contain tips that could be very useful to any reader. A discussion of the initial consultation between physician and patient provides insights into potential hair-loss treatment concerns. The author even includes hair transplant/graft cost estimates. At various times, Gomez urges caution in proceeding with hair-loss treatments. For instance, in discussing methods to improve scalp circulation, he writes: “The objective of all these treatment modalities is to separate the consumer from their hard-earned money.” A concluding chapter that explores advances in biosciences, such as hair cloning and multiplication, should fascinate medical professionals and interested readers alike.
Intelligently organized, competently written, and comprehensive advice on hair loss.Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781637652886
Page Count: 436
Publisher: Halo Publishing International
Review Posted Online: Nov. 29, 2022
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2023
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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A virtuoso performance and an ode to an undervalued medium created by two talented artists.
The veteran actor, comedian, and banjo player teams up with the acclaimed illustrator to create a unique book of cartoons that communicates their personalities.
Martin, also a prolific author, has always been intrigued by the cartoons strewn throughout the pages of the New Yorker. So when he was presented with the opportunity to work with Bliss, who has been a staff cartoonist at the magazine since 1997, he seized the moment. “The idea of a one-panel image with or without a caption mystified me,” he writes. “I felt like, yeah, sometimes I’m funny, but there are these other weird freaks who are actually funny.” Once the duo agreed to work together, they established their creative process, which consisted of working forward and backward: “Forwards was me conceiving of several cartoon images and captions, and Harry would select his favorites; backwards was Harry sending me sketched or fully drawn cartoons for dialogue or banners.” Sometimes, he writes, “the perfect joke occurs two seconds before deadline.” There are several cartoons depicting this method, including a humorous multipanel piece highlighting their first meeting called “They Meet,” in which Martin thinks to himself, “He’ll never be able to translate my delicate and finely honed droll notions.” In the next panel, Bliss thinks, “I’m sure he won’t understand that the comic art form is way more subtle than his blunt-force humor.” The team collaborated for a year and created 150 cartoons featuring an array of topics, “from dogs and cats to outer space and art museums.” A witty creation of a bovine family sitting down to a gourmet meal and one of Dumbo getting his comeuppance highlight the duo’s comedic talent. What also makes this project successful is the team’s keen understanding of human behavior as viewed through their unconventional comedic minds.
A virtuoso performance and an ode to an undervalued medium created by two talented artists.Pub Date: Nov. 17, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-250-26289-9
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Celadon Books
Review Posted Online: Aug. 30, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2020
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Lg. Prt. 0-375-70288-1 This first nonfiction outing from singer/songwriter Buffett (Where Is Joe Merchant?, 1992, etc.) is more food for his Parrothead fans, but there is some fine writing along with the self-revelation. Half autobiography and half travelogue, this volume recounts a trip by Buffett and his family to the Caribbean over one Christmas holiday to celebrate the writer’s 50th birthday. Buffett is a licensed pilot, and his personal weakness is for seaplanes, so it’s primarily in this sort of craft that the family’s journey takes place. While giving beautiful descriptions of the locales to which he travels (including a very attractive portrait of Key West, from which he sets out), Buffett intersperses recollections of his first, short-lived marriage, his experiences in college and avoiding the Vietnam draft, and his brief employment at Billboard magazine’s Nashville bureau before becoming a professional musician. In the meantime, he carries his reader seamlessly through the Cayman Island, Costa Rica, Colombia, the Amazon basin, and Trinidad and Tobago. Buffett shows that he is a keen observer of Latin American culture and also that he can “pass” in these surroundings when he needs to. It’s perhaps on this latter point that this book finds its principal weakness. Buffett tends toward preachiness in addressing his mostly landlubber readers, as when he decries the seeming American inability to learn a second language while most Caribbeans can speak English; elsewhere he attacks “ugly Americans out there making it harder for us more-connected-to-the-local-culture types.” On the other hand, he seems right on the money when he observes that the drug war of the 1980s did little to stop trafficking in the area and that turning wetlands into helicopter pads for drug agents isn’t going to offer any additional help. Both Parrotheads and those with a taste for the Caribbean find something for their palates here. (Author tour)
Pub Date: July 1, 1998
ISBN: 0-679-43527-1
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Random House
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1998
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