This is an excellent source that is broad in nature but concise in presentation covering major CAD/CAM themes up to about 1994 technologies. Very good reading for many levels of expertise.

This book is a good compliment to "Fixing Broken Windows" by George Kelling and Catherine Coles. The latter book is essential reading for anyone interested in improving a declining neighborhood. This book, while useful in many respects, serves better as a supplement to some of the other work that's out there.

The book certainly addresses an important subject and provides common sense, sometimes seemingly obvious, but often ignored directions on how to make our neighborhoods safer and more stable places to live.

This book will hurt to read. The Eliot Porter photos show what has been lost to our generation by the grossly irresponsible act of damning Glen Canyon. However the book also shows what has been saved in pictures of the Grand Canyon. May we know by our failure at Glen Canyon what to protect, and why, in the future.

Powell's own narrative, of course, forms the main written portion of the book, and its direct, yet eloquent, writings should remain a strong part of the story of what it is to be an American. Equal parts dry text and awed wonder, it is a must read.

A spiffy book, in the same vein as the acclaimed Sierra Club format series, of which I suspect this book may have been intended to be part. Enjoy this essential part of any Western library.

this is the requierd text for my microeconomics class. varry dry stuff but thurough and well organised

"Andromache," set in the aftermath of the Trojan War and focusing on the widow of Hector, is one of the weakest of the extant plays of Euripides. In truth, the work is better considered as anti-Spartan propaganda, written circa 426 B.C. near the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, although it present a tragedy. However, the scenes are much more episodic than we usually find in Euripides; the first part of the tragedy is essentially a supplicant play, but then it changes dramatically. The play has one of Euripides' strongest beginnings, with its strong attacks on Sparta, represented by Menelaus. But even as propaganda Euripides elevates his subject for what he sees is not merely a war between two cities, but rather a clash between two completely different ways of life.

Once again, Euripides uses the Trojan War as a context for his political argument. Andromache, the widow of Hector, is the slave of Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, who is married to Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. The setting is the Temple of Thetis, the mother of Achilles, somewhere between Pithia and Pharasalia in Thessaly. Andromache has born Neoptolemus a son, and the barren Hermione accuses the Trojan woman of having used witchcraft and seeks her death. Andromache has taken refuge as this temple where Hermione and Menelaus try to get her to come out by threatening to kill her son. However, the title character disappears from the play and everybody from Peleus, the father of Achilles, to Orestes, the cousin of Hermione, shows up, mainly to talk about Neoptolemus, who is at Delphi. Thetis shows up as the deus-ex-machina and the play ends rather abruptly.

The interest in "Andromache" is clearly for the anti-Spartan propaganda. As a tragedy there is little her beyond a progression of characters who all talk about doing something they end up not doing. If there is supposed to be a series of object lessons offered by each of these characters, then that idea is pretty much lost on contemporary audiences. Jean Racine wrote his own version of the myth of Andromache, as did William Congreve, Gilbert Murray, and Gabriele D'Annunzio. Racine's play "Andromache" is certainly superior to that of Euripides, which is probably the only time you can say that about the French neo-classical playwright. "Andromache" is clearly the least of the extant plays of Euripides.

An excellent coverage of the causes and treatments of orofacial pain. Each chapter covers a single cause, e.g. trigeminal neuralgia, or a related group of causes, e.g. fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and multiple sclerosis. Dr. Shankland clearly explains the symptoms of each disorder, in some cases mentioning a specific one that can help distinguish that disorder from another. While the author can wax technical at times, the reader should still be able to finish easily. The book is well-organized and easy to scan if one is looking for particular information. Closing chapters on medications and alternative medicines provide information on a wide range of treatment options; so the reader should be able to find help she is comfortable with, regardless of one's personal health and medicine philosophy. I found the book extremely helpful in my own search for answers about my pain.

Salmon's book traces the major debates about scientific explanation in the philosophy of science for the timespan of (roughy) 1948 to 1988. It's a great little guide for graduate students (or rusty faculty) interested in P of S. It does assume some familiarity with formal logic and philosophic vocabulary, so it may not be for the beginner... but Salmon's writing is clear and understandble, with a good amount of sign-posting. And, it has a very useful chronological bibliography at the back.

This book covers a lot of areas in great detail, but nevertheless is surprisingly easy to read. Its coverage of some of the subjects like the different types of inverters is significantly more detailed compared to most introductory text books. It also discusses various circuit design techniques, not just the standard static CMOS design. However the book has one terrible section covering the body bias effect. The author shows a 2 terminal capacitor and says that if Vb is applied to the bulk instead of zero volts, then the Vth will change from Vto by the well known body effect. This is completely FALSE!!! Body effect is a 3 terminal device effect and doesn't exist for a 2 terminal capacitor. If you raise the voltage applied to the body by a certain amount, the Vgate has to change by the same amount in a 2 terminal capacitor. ( Not by the well known Sqrt (Vbs,..) relationship.) Not only that, but it can't be just Vb, it has to be Vbs--applied between substrate and the third terminal.AMAZING slip by a professor, and all who reviewed the book. (Tsividis' book will never have a sloppy discussion like this.) Overall this book covered many areas and was very useful. Of course it might be getting outdated in such a fast changing technology, but any desinger can benefit from this book.

It seems that most texts on fuzzy and nnets are in very basic form. Given the (fact) substantial use of both types of controllers at the most advanced levels of technology and finance it seems somewhat strange (trade secrets). If you already have Matlab's Fuzzy or NNets the material is somewhat redundant, given that the M-files are easier to work with in Matlab than using the Microsoft Word connection (more later). The manual allows the basic concepts to be easily transported to MathCad and for this reader is worth the book. It is for the begginer without Matlab that this text really shines. It has the Microsoft Words ability to work with the Matlab (although it is not installed) interface to show the reader how the two,fuzzy and nnets, work together. At the very least it allows someone to determine if they wish to proceed with topic (this is the future of control systems). I found that building a sub program in MathCad using set theory operators, to call the sub-routines of fuzzy and nnets worked best. This was a just for fun. Both Matlabs Fuzzy and nnet toolboxes work far better. This text adds fill in material for both Matlabs fuzzy and nnet toolbox texts.

The history of such a "new" state is intrinsically colorful, and the stages of growth and development make for the rise and fall of towns and small cities for a wide variety of reasons. The white man mostly ignored Oklahoma prior to the 1840s, giving said growth and development a dynamic unique among the states.

The author has collected several dozen stories of such locales, and in addition a vast collection of historical photos and plats, gives regional maps, dates, names, commerce info, populations, etc. His monographs on each "ghost town" (a few of which still exist but are seemingly at the end stage of their existence) are well written, informative, and suitably colorful.

Oklahoma has towns that were relocated en toto for the building of reservoirs, towns that were founded as socialist experiments, towns that served primarily as Indian trading posts and withered with the relocation of tribes, etc. Each story is intriguing in its own right, history buff or not. The only reason I rate it less than five stars is its publication date of 1978; an update with rewrites and newly mined information would be wonderful.