by Kap Ryou ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A
A detailed look at blood morphology that may have difficulty finding an audience.
A medical technician provides vivid explanations of blood morphology.
Ryou tackles a complicated subject in his first book, aiming to demonstrate and explain the amazing variety in blood morphology, or the systems and structures that can exist in human blood cells. Analyzing blood cells is useful for clinically diagnosing a wide range of diseases. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to basic cellular ultrastructure (which can be observed using electron microscopes) and then dives into the many potential variations of the blood cell, using a combination of images and careful descriptions. It also includes depictions of various blood disorders as well as an in-depth exploration of the structure of stem cells. Ryou’s firsthand experience with these blood-cell variations is apparent throughout. However, the quality of the book’s images varies widely; some are fascinating, full-color, high-resolution photographs, but others are simple sketches, apparently done using Magic Markers. Although the handmade drawings are instructive, they’re also indicative of the book’s largest problem: Its intended audience appears to be laypeople. The book is full of simple explanations and historical details, but nonprofessionals may not be interested in a fairly dense work about cell structures. Medical professionals, meanwhile, likely won’t put up with the book’s typographical errors, inconsistent graphics and simple surveys, and other texts may be more helpful as instructional tools or quick-reference works. The author’s commitment to his subject is admirable and his passion is clear, but this book may have extremely limited utility for most readers. With some edits and a shift in focus, it might have been a valuable book for diagnostic professionals; as it is, however, it may prove frustrating to readers who are genuinely interested in its subject.
A detailed look at blood morphology that may have difficulty finding an audience.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: 978-1475240108
Page Count: -
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: Feb. 15, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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