We are always looking for textbook references which we feel could benefit our optometric audiences. These two 2010 copyright texts are excellent, and we highly recommend them for your libraries.They can be ordered via the website www.slackbooks.com at a 10% discount from published prices. Please enter promotional code: 6D2197 at check-out to receive the 10% discount.

Cornea Handbook is your comprehensive, reference for accessing the fundamentals of corneal conditions, surgeries, and imaging technologies. Incorporating relevant information and color images, with an easy-to-understand style, this handbook is an indispensable resource for all eye care practitioners.

Drs. William B. Trattler, Parag A. Majmudar, Jodi I. Luchs, and Tracy S. Swartz have written Cornea Handbook with both the novice and advanced clinician in mind. Packed with essential information on everything from basic anatomy to surgical complications, readers will find this handbook full of valuable knowledge and helpful images.
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Curbside Consultation in Cornea and External Disease: 49 Clinical Questions provides information basic enough for residents while also incorporating expert pearls that even high-volume ophthalmologists will appreciate. Refractive surgeons, general ophthalmologists, and residents alike will enjoy the user-friendly and casual format.

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This extraordinary book is written by two Canadian optometrists who have diligently researched the various foods which can positively impact ocular health. We have found this book to be very enlightening, and wholeheartedly recommend it to any optometrist who has an interest in nutrition and human health. We refer you to www.eyefoods.com for further information.

Atlas of Primary Eyecare Procedures Atlas of Primary Eye care Procedures (second edition, 1997, Appleton & Lange) by Linda Casser, O.D.; Murray Fingeret, O.D.; H. Ted Woodcome, O.D.

This 480-page hardcover is nicely illustrated and establishes a new gold standard in the area of clinical eye procedures. This collaborative text is comprehensive in scope. Examples of topics range from advanced biomicroscopic techniques, to corneal procedures, to retinal and optic nerve evaluation pearls, to laser procedures-and everything in between. Every practicing optometrist would be able to provide enhanced patient care with knowledge gleaned from this awesome work.

Clinical Ocular Pharmacology (fifth edition, 2008, Butterworth-Heinemann) by Jimmy D. Bartlett, O.D., and Siret D. Jannus Ph.D.

We continue to be amazed at the energy and commitment Drs. Bartlett and Jaanus expend on behalf of optometric education. This wonderful fifth edition of Clinical ocular Pharmacology is a world-class masterpiece. Any physician having an interest in staying current in ocular pharmacology would find this text a necessity. We are proud to have this state-of-the-art text in our personal libraries and we hope you would feel the same. Thank you, Jimmy and Siret, for all you do to enhance our knowledge in clinical ocular pharmacology.

Primary Care of the Posterior Segment

Dr. Larry Alexander's latest (third) edition of his textbook, Primary Care of the Posterior Segment, is a masterpiece, written by and for the primary care optometrist. It can be ordered at any school or college of optometry bookstore or purchased online at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. If you want to have a comprehensive, contemporary reference text for posterior segment disorders, you will treasure this text.