College Campus in the Sky
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  • College Campus in the Sky
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College Campus in the Sky
Richard Launder
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What it was like to come out of the classroom and jump into the cockpit of a combat aircraft.

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What it was like to come out of the classroom and jump into the cockpit of a combat aircraft.

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5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book.......2006-07-04

College Campus in the Sky is a wonderul read about the young years of Richard Launder's life when World War II thrust him into the most challenging and dangerous experiences of flying attack bombers in the Southwest Pacific against the Japanese. His writing is elegant and he allows you to fly with him as his co-pilot through the Battle of the Bismark Sea and many other important raids throughout New Guinea and other Japanese controlled positions. This is an up close education of life.

5 out of 5 stars College Campus in the Sky.......2002-03-15

I already gave my review but I must make an alteration - I wrote World War 1 - it was War World 2 - please alter this Thanks Val Luttrell

5 out of 5 stars Should be read by everyone especially new generation.......2002-03-10

This is a terrific book written by one of the great fighter pilots during World War 1 - mentioned in subject above - can this young generation picture what it was like to try to even start fighting without the necessary planes etc.Also so important for the 50 year old or older people to read the traumatic times when their father - or friends' fathers - were out inanother part of the world trying to save this great country of ours.

Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists
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Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists
Istvan Hargittai
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This invaluable book contains 36 interviews, including 26 with Nobel laureates. It presents a cross-section of biomedical science, a field that has been dominant in science for the past half century. The in-depth conversations cover important research areas and discoveries, as well as the roads to these discoveries, including aspects of the scientists' work that never saw publication. They also bring out the humanness of the famous scientists - the reader learns about their backgrounds, aspirations, failings, and triumphs. The book is illustrated with snapshots of the conversations and photos provided by the interviewees. It is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists, by the same author.

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4 out of 5 stars More conversations---Chemical Heritage magazine.......2003-03-13

During his six-year tenure as Editor-in-Chief of The Chemical Intelligencer, István Hargittai, sometimes with his wife Magdi, interviewed more than 120 eminent scientists, more than half of whom were Nobel laureates....
Hargittai seeks to elicit the stories behind the most important achievements in twentieth-century biomedicine directly from some of their most eminent participants. They tell us about their backgrounds, families and lives, both personal and professional, childhoods (Like me or others of my generation, some had chemistry sets or were inspired by Paul de Kruif¡¦s Microbe Hunters or Sinclair Lewis¡¦ Arrowsmith), influences and career choices, motivations, aspirations, heroes (scientific or otherwise), mentors, hardships and triumphs, philosophies, hobbies and nonscientific interests (several are accomplished musicians), and their seminal discoveries.
Nobel laureates describe how the prize affected their lives, research, and careers. Most are modest and admit the role of luck in their good fortune (Kary B. Mullis is the sole exception). In reply to Hargittai¡¦s serious questions a number of the conversations are laced with humor.
Each interview is prefaced with a biographical sketch and includes one or more portraits of the interviewee, many photographed by Hargittai or his wife. The volume contains 176 illustrations of apparatus, formal and informal group portraits, notebooks, letters, models, commemorative postage stamps, plaques, and drawings. Three of the interviewees are now deceased, underscoring the importance of such oral histories. Several scientists discuss their differences with other scientists and competitors.
On the whole, however, most of the scientists are well acquainted with each other and are mutually supportive, and their names crop up frequently in each other¡¦s interviews. Some offer suggestions as to Nobel-caliber scientists whose candidacy was overlooked.ýnAn unusually high proportion of the interviewees (at least 22) are Jewish, so the issues of Judaism, the Holocaust, and anti-Semitism are discussed by many of them.
In his preface Hargittai states, ¡§The science of the second half of the 20th century was dominated by the biomedical fields and this is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. The present selection of interviews gives a cross section covering a broad range of topics, personalities, and circumstances of recording.¡¨ I agree with Hargittai¡¦s assessment and heartily recommend his book, suitable for both complete reading or browsing, to biomedical scientists, biochemists, chemists, historians of chemistry and or science, and general readers interested in the ¡§inside story¡¨ of the workings of 20th century science.

Saving Lives & Saving Money
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  • Failure to see the root causes of the crisis saves nothing
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Saving Lives & Saving Money
Newt Gingrich with Dana Pavey & Anne Woodbury
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ASIN: 0970548540
Release Date: 2006-09-22

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Saving Lives & Saving Money is a transforming approach to the challenge of creating a better system of health and healthcare for the twenty-first century. Learn more about designing a twenty-first century health and healthcare system at Newt.org.

If you wish to order more than 100 copies or if you are a non-profit organization, please e-mail John Barker for special discount rates.

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1 out of 5 stars Failure to see the root causes of the crisis saves nothing.......2005-03-10

Newt Gingrich may be viewed by many as being a visionary, but when it comes to a keen understanding of the American disease care system and what it would take to transform it, Mr. Gingrich is quite blind. Here are a few of the things that Newt has failed to see at all, based on the contents of this book:
 That "market forces" cannot solve the crisis because no market exists. If patients knew the difference between a colonoscopy and a colposcopy, they would certainly not know the fair market value of either procedure. When negotiating to buy a new car, the dealer knows you can walk off at any moment. A patient cannot walk off, cannot negotiate price, and cannot determine the kind or quantity of services they need.
 That the dominance of the commercial viewpoint in conventional medicine has become the most corrosive single force in medical practice, explaining the majority of its too often hideous aberrations. Abraham Flexner's cogent warnings about the dangers here have been ignored, at our peril.
 That the current physician workforce is poorly aligned professionally with the actual needs of the entire society for medical care.
 That there is today a complete absence of general medical management, with generalist physicians being at best marginally trained to fulfill this essential role.
 That the prevalent approach to the selection and the training of physicians is fundamentally flawed.
 That the suppliers of medical services are the principal regulators of the demand for those services, a complete perversion of normal market forces.
 That conventional medicine has confused technology with real science, with the result that, as A.M. Taylor has put it, "the inventions of the craftsman are mistaken for the discoveries of the savant."
 That Hippocratic tradition has been trashed by conventional medicine, along with any detectable signs of reverence on the part of physicians for the complexities and idiosyncrasies of human organisms - the subject and object of medical practice. In conventional American medicine, the Assumption of Simplicity has virtually trumped the hard realities of complexity.
 That American medicine is controlled by a guild built on the feudal model. The AMA rules as an absolute dictatorship, employing fear as a primary means of maintaining dominance and control, and functioning with structures and patterns that can be found in the contemporary period among the Taliban of Afghanistan.

Given these stubborn realities, there is simply no way in which "consumers" of disease care services will ever be able to overcome the preferences held by a treating physician as to the kind and quantity of such services that a specific "consumer" requires. It is naïve in the extreme to believe otherwise. Physicians who are coherently and effectively trained to be general managers of clinical medicine starting at the point of first contact - the primary care setting - are the only actors who can bring about the radical transformations that will be necessary to prevent the total collapse of American disease care, an eventuality that Newt Gingrich rightly judges to be now evident on the horizon. Mr. Gingrich's book does not, however, even slightly scratch the surface of how to practically change any aspect of the disease care system in ways that would do more good than harm.

5 out of 5 stars 21st Century Health Care.......2005-01-19

Saving Lives & Saving Money is a significant work by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, founder of the Center for Health Transformation; Dana Pavey, Gingrich's director of research at the American Enterprise Institute; and Anne Woodbury, vice president for health at the Gingrich Group. Together they have identified the principles of the transformation necessary to create a twenty-first century health care system that will save both lives and money.

"There is an enormous gap between the quality of health care you and your family should have and what you are most likely receiving from the current system," Gingrich has said on several different occasions, including in this book. "We have demonstrated that Americans could have a dramatically better system, which would save thousands of lives and billions of dollars every year."

Written as a citizen's guide, Saving Lives & Saving Money applies the lessons Gingrich learned from two decades of work in the national defense transformation, his experience in public health policy as a member of Congress, years of research as a senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, and consulting work for health-related businesses at his firm, the Gingrich Group.


Wake-Up Call

Filled with real-life examples of transforming solutions and specific ways for people to get involved in the health care debate, Saving Lives is a wake-up call for radical-left reform advocates and a call to action for the rest of us. It helps the reader understand the problems of the current system while offering a vision for the future.

Gingrich proposes a system where the individual, not the employer or government, is at the center of financing and care decisions. He argues that saving lives and saving money are both moral imperatives and practical needs.

Chapter eight, which outlines a new model for the care and management of diabetes, is especially relevant when one looks at the explosion of obesity-related diabetes. And since we are an aging population, chapter ten, on healthy aging, addresses what will continue to be a prominent topic in health care as the baby-boomers reach retirement age. As Mickey Mantle once said, "If I knew I would live so long, I would have taken better care of myself."


Action Items

Some companies in America are currently developing some of the solutions Gingrich suggests in this book. He lists these innovators in an appendix, for those who would like to follow up on these issues or use their services. These organizations range from start-ups to some of the larger medical teaching universities. In looking at the Web sites and emailing a few, I found them to be quite ready and willing to share their information.

Another appendix, titled "Biothreat: Transform or Risk Mass Death," contains important information about the threat of bioterrorism and the nation's readiness to meet that challenge. It is sobering to think about potential bioterrorism attacks by hostile forces, but as 9/11 demonstrated, it is better to be prepared than to suffer the consequences.

This appendix ends with a plan of action for the federal government, written with the general reader in mind. It emphasizes vision and design and outlines a process that might be used in dealing with a bioterror attack and its aftermath.

The book bears enthusiastic recommendations from Business Week, National Interest editor John O'Sullivan, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, AARP Executive Director and CEO William D. Novelli, and Dean Ornish, M.D., founder and president of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute and clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

The release of Saving Lives & Saving Money coincided with the launch of the Center for Health Transformation at http://www.healthtransformation.net. Its mission, according to Woodbury, is to identify currently available health care procedures that provide better outcomes at lower cost, and to foster their implementation by sharing those solutions with the widest range of individuals, purchasers, providers, and government decision makers.

Saving Lives & Saving Money was published by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution and is available for purchase at http://www.healthtransformation.net as well as Amazon.com.

Conrad F. Meier is senior fellow in health policy at The Heartand Institute and Editor Emeritus of Health Care News.

4 out of 5 stars Worthwhile Ideas and References That Need Editing.......2003-11-22

This book was written by former Speaker Gingrich and his associates for several reasons. First, to lay out the case in Chapter 2 "why reforming healthcare is doomed to fail and only a process of [completely] transforming health and healthcare can succeed". Second, to provoke a national debate and evolve a strategy for the solution one of the greatest potential political and budget crises of the early part of this century as the baby boomers reach retirement age and Medicare's unfunded liabilities skyrocket. And last, to provide examples of "transforming methodologies" that are actually being successfully utilized today and references to other information sources (including many web sites). He firmly believes that is possible to achieve the twin goals summarized in the book's title and have better health care while spending less at the same time.

This book posits that the single greatest problem (but by no means the only one) with our current healthcare system is the third party payor system that has arisen from the perverse incentives introduced into the tax code that have made employer provided healthcare the dominant organizational methodology in our country today. The effects of these incentives are exacerbated by the increasing share of medical spending being reimbursed through the government Medicare and Medicaid programs. Consumers of healthcare are frustrated because their choices are limited; providers are frustrated by the bureaucracy, paperwork and interference with their medical judgment as well as the lack of tort reform; and the funders (taxpayers and employers) are horrified by the rate of increase in their costs. One of the unintended consequences of these incentives is that the system treats illness much more effectively than it promotes health and personal responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

The book contains many interesting insights on the role of technology, not only in the administration and provision of more responsive service by providers and in recordkeeping that minimizes duplication of effort and decreases the prevalence of errors but also in the furthering of scientific advances themselves. The frontier of medical and scientific discovery today is at the intersection of chemistry, physics and biotechnology, and chapter nine provides some observations in this regard. The overall tone of the book is both urgent and hopeful, as the author clearly understands the huge political difficulties in changing such a complex system with so many different constituencies.

This book definitely a worthwhile read for anyone interested in a broadbrush approach by a serious student of the subject with the perspective that the author brings to the topic. However, the book suffers from some flaws. First, it is a collection of loosely connected chapters. They are somewhat sequential but can stand on their own. The disadvantage of this approach is that there is an incredible amount of repetitive material if one reads the whole book. While the emphasis of some of the points is appropriate, this is a mix of anecdotes, exhortation, well thought out proposals, interesting information, and moral outrage at the consequences of the perverse incentives of our current system (unnecessary death and suffering). Second, the former Speaker lapses into his habit of occasionally getting so excited about the potential impact of something that he believes it is necessary to mandate it at the federal level (e.g. an immediately accessible computerized database of all medical information for each individual) despite all the evidence that this will stifle creativity and curb further beneficial evolutionary developments. In addition to the very negative implications for our liberty.) Third and most discouraging, he proposes very large increases in federal spending in several areas, indicating his belief in market failure and his lack of faith that individuals and private industry will make the appropriate choices with regard to such areas as funding basic research, preventive treatment for diabetes, etc. Such suggestions seem at odds with the basic premise of this book, i.e, that informed consumers with the appropriate knowledge deserve the maximum amount of flexibility in their healthcare choices and need to accept as much personal responsibility in their consumption of healthcare as in other areas of their lives. Thus, while I want to encourage widespread readership of this book and discussion of its ideas, it does not deserve five stars.

Disclaimer: the author is a personal friend of mine, but he never requested that I review it and my copy was purchased at this site, not provided free to me. I serve on the Board of Directors of an organization which he once headed, and healthcare reform is one area that we both agree is crucial to our country's future, although we disagree on many aspects of various proposed reforms. We agree in the areas of public policy where my libertarian ideals intersect with his conservative principles, while strongly disagreeing in such areas as the decriminalization of many currently illegal substances. I believe that my review is objective with regard to this book but wanted the readers of this review to have all relevant information that might have influenced my recommendation.

Tucker Andersen

5 out of 5 stars Tremendous Thinking From a Top Thinker.......2003-10-29

No matter your political persuasion, Gingrich employs years of critical thinking to outline (and detail) a potent perscription for our national healthcare industry. Interested citizens should take note!

5 out of 5 stars Powerful book that could change our country.......2003-06-30

Our health care system would improve and the cost would go down
if the people of our country would read this book. It is powerful and could really change our country for the better.
5 Steps to Successful Money Management: How to Live Wisely and Worry Less
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5 Steps to Successful Money Management: How to Live Wisely and Worry Less
Lee E. Davis
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3 out of 5 stars simplistic.......2000-06-23

pretty good book but I've read better, fairly simplistic for the proffesional but good overall background info
How to live with inflation;: A guide to saving money when buying (U.S. news & world report. Money management library)
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    How to live with inflation;: A guide to saving money when buying (U.S. news & world report. Money management library)
    Joseph] [Newman
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    How to live with inflation;: A guide to saving money when buying (U.S. news & world report. Money management library)
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      Joseph] [Newman
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      The Open Prison: Saving Their Lives and Our Money.
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        Sol. Chaneles
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        Rebel peddler : (saving lives and making money): By Lee Edwards
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          Lee Edwards
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            The robotic effect: saving time, money and lives.(TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY): An article from: Law Enforcement Technology
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              The robotic effect: saving time, money and lives.(TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY): An article from: Law Enforcement Technology
              Jonathan Kozlowski
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              This digital document is an article from Law Enforcement Technology, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1257 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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              Title: The robotic effect: saving time, money and lives.(TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY)
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              Date: May 1, 2007
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              Saving lives and money: safe staffing in health care saves lives and money--this is the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) message next month to mark ... article from: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
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                Saving lives and money: safe staffing in health care saves lives and money--this is the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) message next month to mark ... article from: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
                Anne Manchester
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                Release Date: 2006-05-10

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                This digital document is an article from Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1000 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                Title: Saving lives and money: safe staffing in health care saves lives and money--this is the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) message next month to mark International Nurses' Day (IND) on May 12.
                Author: Anne Manchester
                Publication: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Magazine/Journal)
                Date: April 1, 2006
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                Saving Money, Saving Lives
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                  Saving Money, Saving Lives
                  Jon Meliones
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                  In 1996, Duke Children's Hospital was in serious trouble. Its $11 million annual operating loss had forced administrators to make cutbacks. As a result, some caregivers felt that the quality of care had deteriorated. Parents' complaints were on the rise. Frustrated staff members were quitting. In this article, Jon Meliones, DCH's chief medical director, candidly describes how his debt-ridden hospital transformed itself into a vibrant and profitable one. The problem, he realized, was that each group in DCH was focusing only on its individual mission. Doctors and nurses wanted to restore their patients to health; they didn't want to have to think about costs. Hospital administrators, for their part, were focused only on controlling wildly escalating health care costs. To keep DCH afloat, clinicians and administrators needed to work together. By listening to staff concerns, turning reams of confusing data into useful information, taking a fresh approach to teamwork, and using the balanced scorecard method, Meliones and his colleagues brought DCH back to life. This first-person account is required reading for any executive seeking to revitalize a sagging organization. Meliones shares the operating principles DCH followed to become a thriving business.

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                  In 1996, Duke Children's Hospital was in serious trouble. Its $11 million annual operating loss had forced administrators to make cutbacks. As a result, some caregivers felt that the quality of care had deteriorated. Parents' complaints were on the rise. Frustrated staff members were quitting. In this article, Jon Meliones, DCH's chief medical director, candidly describes how his debt-ridden hospital transformed itself into a vibrant and profitable one. The problem, he realized, was that each group in DCH was focusing only on its individual mission. Doctors and nurses wanted to restore their patients to health; they didn't want to have to think about costs. Hospital administrators, for their part, were focused only on controlling wildly escalating health care costs. To keep DCH afloat, clinicians and administrators needed to work together. By listening to staff concerns, turning reams of confusing data into useful information, taking a fresh approach to teamwork, and using the balanced scorecard method, Meliones and his colleagues brought DCH back to life. This first-person account is required reading for any executive seeking to revitalize a sagging organization. Meliones shares the operating principles DCH followed to become a thriving business.

                  The Pizza Book: Everything There Is To Know About the World's Greatest Pie
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                  • A GOOD READ: BRAVO EVELYNE
                  • the last word on pizza making for me
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                  • Best manual on homemade pizza making
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                  The Pizza Book: Everything There Is To Know About the World's Greatest Pie
                  Evelyne Slomon
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                  This young chef makes pizza making easy and fun. More than 200 easy-to-follow recipes. Supplementing the recipes is advice about ingredients, equipment and technique.

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                  5 out of 5 stars A GOOD READ: BRAVO EVELYNE.......2007-02-10

                  A great pizzaiolo doesn't become a "great pizzaiolo" because s/he reads a book; it requires hands on experience under the guidance of a master. There is a big difference between good pizza and great pizza, and the same can be said about any bread product. However, I take issue with the reviewer who made an issue about flour types; one uses what s/he has available. Those who want to get overly technical about flour should recommend Caputo Flour (farina di grano tenero tipo 00) and Evelyne knows this, but not everybody reading her book has ready access to it. She's not writing for the professional Italian pizzaiolo; she's writing for the American home-baker who probably shops at an American supermarket. Evelyne's pizza book preceeds most and is, in my opinion, still the standard. Other good pizza books available through Amazon include: Pizza Napoletana (Johns); Pizza (Morgan & Gemignani); and Peter Reinhart's book. Remember: it takes more than reading a book to become a great baker, but a good book helps. BRAVO EVELYNE!

                  5 out of 5 stars the last word on pizza making for me.......2003-07-28

                  i first saw this book in the library years ago and checked it out so much i had to have a copy for myself. since then i have made most of the recipes in it, and loaned it to many friends to get in on the secret of my great pizza. i am sure you will love the recipes and just reading the book.

                  3 out of 5 stars Why?.......2002-05-30

                  I cannot imagine why people rave about this book. Any "expert" on pizzas that says to use "bread flour or all purpose" for the dough--as if they are interchangeable and it does not matter which you use...well, they must not know what they're talking about! This isn't a terrible book, it's just not, in my opinion, the great book that people claim it is.

                  5 out of 5 stars Best manual on homemade pizza making.......2001-11-07

                  I was surprised to see that this little gem is out of print. Shame! As a pizza freak, I've toiled for ~20 years in search of the perfect homemade thin-crust pizza. The closest thing to a perfect guide is this book. A great pie is only as good as the dough/crust it sits on, and it's this emphasis that convinced me Ms. Slomon knows her stuff. Knowing where to look (NYC's finest pizzerias) for clues doesn't hurt, either. A great variety of pizzas are covered here, from thin-crust or deep-dish to calzones, strombolis, and more. What's appealing about his book is the passion the author exudes about her subject, something that genuinely comes through.

                  Always remember: If you must add oil to the dough for thin-crust pizzas, NEVER add it at the start; instead, make a sponge with the full amount of water, half the amount of flour, and yeast. Add salt, oil (if you must!), and the remaining flour later. This way, the dough stays elastic while developing a more tender crumb than if you were to avoid using oil altogether (as in the classic Neapolitan recipe). Adding oil at the start will give you a short, crumbly dough. Sadly, most pizza recipes insist on this CRIMINAL shortcut!

                  Long live the world's most perfect pie!

                  5 out of 5 stars Very Good - Worthy of even the "Chicago Stamp of Approval".......2000-08-11

                  This book is only one of two books that I would recommend for making pizza at home (the other is "The Great Chicago Style Pizza Cookbook"). I'm a Chicagoan, relocated to NY state, and I like pizza! My apologies to the rest of the county, but Chicago is STILL THE PLACE for pizza. Ask any Chicagoan (ha ha).

                  This book has wonderful recipes. I cannot wait to try some of the author's very inventive and tasty suggestions. She has interested me in branching out from my stand-by Chicago styles to sample the early NY pizzas, traditional Italian pizzas, herbed breads, special sauces and spreads, and interesting pizza fillings and toppings.

                  Evelyne is obviously no weekend warrior-chef like most of us. She did not develop her skills in a vacuum, cooking alone in her kitchen like authors of other pizza books. She knows what she's talking about and does a great job of assembling her information. The book is well researched and gives equal time to many regional styles of pizza that were available throughout the country in 1984. As soon as my loan from the library expires for this book, I'll be buying it from Amazon.

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