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Editor: Botros R.M.B. Rizk, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 321 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book is for students and practitioners in gynecology, infertility, radiology, ultrasonography, and urology. It was published nine years ago in 2010, and even by then, the image clarity and quality in ultrasonography had greatly improved compared to what was previously possible many years earlier This is according to Ronald Franks who wrote the Foreword for this book. The multiple uses of this type of imaging was also a factor for choice by practitioners in infertility and reproductive medicine, he writes. He...

Editors: Laurent Bernhard, Flavia Fossati, Regula Hanggli, and Hanspeter Kriesi Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 340 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The Great Recession of 2007-2009 that began in the United States eventually spread to many countries of the world, although not all. It first spread to the Eurozone, and affected the countries on that region in varying lengths of time and degrees of severity. A recession has been defined in many ways, but it has generally become accepted that a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth of the gross domestic product, or GDP. So we...

Author: Chris Brooks Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 696 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Now in its newest (fourth) edition released in 2019, this book was first published 17 years ago in 2002, with its second and third editions appearing in 2008 and 2014 respectively. Typically, newer editions of books signify that the book has been received well by readers and users. Most of the time, unless important new research and discoveries warrants a new edition, such events signify commercial success for publishing houses and authors. A quick browsing of the content, organization and layout of material, and...

Editors: Mark Everist and Thomas Forrest Kelly Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 1,248 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram In general, few books on music are available on the market today than on other broad areas of knowledge. Leaving the ‘Subject’ tab open, we typed in ‘music’ as a keyword in a search on Amazon.com of books published by Cambridge University Press, and the result was a listing of 915 books relating to music. Typing in ‘religion’ yielded over 2,000 books, and the keyword ‘language’ took us to a list of over 3,000 books. For other knowledge areas, we...

Editors: Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Yorke M. Rowan Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 643 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The Levant is a large geographic area in the eastern Mediterranean (some writers call it ‘southwestern Asia’) that includes: Cyprus, Cyrenaica (eastern coastal region of Libya), Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey. The total population of this region is presently over 44 million people. The term Levant is a French one that means ‘rising’ as in the rising of the sun in the east. This part of the world has been described as...