Reviews for Hewer's textbook of histology for medical students

The average rating for Hewer's textbook of histology for medical students based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-11-25 00:00:00 Corey Slyford An oldie but a goodie; this non-fiction book was popular a few years ago (2005). I read it then and took notes. By “flat” he means super-interconnected through technology, communications, trade, etc. Some notes: Ten forces that flattened the world: Removal of the Berlin Wall, 1989 The world wide web starting with Netscape Work flow software The ability to upload (local goes global) Outsourcing – you can run a million dollar business without a single employee Offshoring – tech guys overseas Supply chaining – aka “just-in-time delivery” so you don’t have to have money tied up in warehousing In-sourcing – UPS buys its own fleet of planes In-forming: Yahoo and Google search engines We’ve gone digital, mobile, personal and virtual The Triple Convergence that brought about the flat world: First, interconnecting of machines and techniques that had been around earlier leading to the fax, scanner and Xerox. (Of course invention is always like that – multiple people were working on the telephone with so many pieces lying around.) Second, the gradually increasing impact of computers; for years they did not actually reduce staff. Third, the gradual bringing of everyone worldwide into the game. Countries that want to benefit from flatness have to get three things right: Technological infrastructure to interact with the rest of the flat world Education and training Legal structure, taxation, intellectual property rights, etc. A good book and very readable. A bit long (almost 600 pages). photo from wallpaper-gallery.net

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-08 00:00:00 Christian Mack No longer using this website, but I'm leaving up old reviews. Fuck Jeff Bezos. Find me on LibraryThing: I tried to plow through this book, but Thomas Friedman is the most brain-dead parrot of the ruling class I have ever known, so I couldn't finish it. His view of globalization is that now, thanks to the paternalistic global order constructed by US multinational corporations, there is cultural and monetary things of worth out there in the vast unexplored jungles of savagery called "not the United States." As an ahistorical text that ignores the fact that elites have been trading from Occident to and from Orient for hundreds of years, the book ignores entirely the poor. How wonderful it is to be ruling class in this new era, where poor people from all over the world can service the rich like Friedman. What an asshole.