出版社周刊评论
In this ruminative collection, Gopnik offers five essays on winter-exploring it as season and idea, elemental force and cultural influence. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon composed these pieces for the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures. He acknowledges that "chapters are meant to sound vocal" and rough edges have been left in place. Readers will find pleasures of the serendipitous variety, including introductions to Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the underground architect Vincent Ponte, and the engineers who helped developed central heating. Gopnik's round-the-world tour of "romantic winter" covers more than 200 years in art, music, poetry, literature, and theology. In "Radical Winter," he describes the absurd courage of the men who raced for glory at the North and South Poles; in "Recreational Winter," he untangles the motley origins of ice hockey. Though the prose moves slowly at times, Gopnik leavens dense material with humor, and makes unwieldy concepts accessible through modern-day comparisons (consider Dickens the Francis Ford Coppola of his day). In the end, the lectures serve as Gopnik's equivalent to a Playmate's "turn-ons and turn-offs." That being the case, we'd call him a worthy Mr. December. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Doody 图书评论
This is a coding book for reporting diagnoses and conditions by healthcare providers on insurance claims and for other required disease reporting. It is intended for the physician office and other nonacute care settings that use only Volume 1 and 2 for disease coding. The codes in this book were effective October 1, 2008. According to the publisher, the single goal of the book is "to deliver a manual that is easy to use." There are a number of ICD-9-CM coding manuals on the market today. I believe HCPro is a late entry into the marketplace so they wanted their book to stand out as a viable option for coders to purchase. The audience includes coders, business managers, physicians and any other user of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in the physician office or nonacute care setting that is only required to report the Volume 1 and 2 diagnosis and condition codes. This is the publisher's concept of the Alphabetic Index and Tabular List of the current edition of ICD-9-CM that is released by the federal government each year. As many publishers do, this publisher has added its own notations to the text with symbols for new codes, revised codes, and revised text for the codes, which are nice additions. Otherwise, publishers cannot be too creative as the consistent use of ICD-9-CM codes is mandatory. The book includes the ICD-9-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, which is important for coders to have access for review. This version of the ICD-9-CM Manual, Volumes 1 & 2 is viable version of the ICD-9-CM code book for the reporting of disease codes by physician offices and nonacute care settings. It is reasonably priced and easy to use. LouAnn Schraffenberger, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P(Univ of Illinois at Chicago School of Biomed & Health Info Mgmt). Copyright 2009, Doody Enterprises, Inc.