Offers an introduction to the Buddhist faith and its practice worldwide, in over 300 artworks and photographs. This guide looks at the different schools of Buddhism around the world and how they have evolved. It focuses on Buddhist art, symbolism and architecture, as well as Buddhist Holy days, festivals and rituals.

For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practicing orthopedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling argument particularly compelling. Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee...