Emmanuel's review below is glowing, but states that this book's flaw is that it has no CD. That is one of it's strengths! It *does* have supplementary files for the tutorials, but they are available online for free download (look on the back cover for the URL). One of the biggest complaints about Inside Softimage (and computer books in general) was that parts of the CD didn't function. Well, if anything on the file download doesn't work, just email Mesmer and they can fix it!

well this book is great ... but be careful this is the new release of inside softimage 3d . So i love this book the author work on the information not on beautiful color photo like in softimage 3d design guide . i love the présentation in black and white it's look like a scientifik book or a classroom book ... everithing has good information and the guy that write this book is a boss of softimage :Rossano work for mesmer one of the leader of the education of high end 3d software ... So if you want to learn softimage this book is the bible ... BUT , BUT there is a very big probleme (nothing is perfect ...) there is no CD rom, and this book would have been perfect ( i am french sorry for the ortograf ...)if there was a CD rom inside . If i take the best book for maya : "Maya 4 Fundamentals" there is great video that show you all . You learn to use the soft quick as light ... so this is a very dark point of this book no tutorial and no video explication ... but this book is a five Star manual without any hesitation !!! if you had to buy one buy this ...

This book covers not just the concepts of reliability modeling but also how to do it in the practical real-world.

As with any book that shows the real-world approach, this one has sadly become dated, but the principles are the same. For instance, they recommend SMERFS ...what you really want is SMERFS^3, which does more only better. However, the models and math are equally applicable today as they were when the book was first written.

While you can read any of the raving reviews for the contents, I'd like to provide some special kudos for the Appendix. This is bar far one of the best introductions to practical statistics. It skips a lot of the how-we-got-the-formula and instead demonstrates what the formulas are doing and why using pictures and text.

There're list of formulas and conversions, a well-written glossary of terms, and my personal favorite: the glossary of notation.

See, a big part of the problem in reading texts that deal with mathematics is that you see some strange symbol in the page and your brain has no idea what it is. You have no name for that symbol, you don't know whether it's an operation, a function, or a value. This explains all that, making it easier to digest other books of similar kind.

The book is presented much like a college text book, so there are excercises (with explainatory answers in the back) so you can validate you're on the right track as you go.

This book is classified as a seminal work in that it was the first mainstream book to address software reliability. The author is considered to be one of the founders of the discipline. Although the body of knowledge has grown significantly since this book was first published it remains a valid text because unlike technology, the underlying math and modeling are nearly timeless. The book serves as an introduction to software reliability as a discipline, and gives a solid foundation of the basics. Be aware that this is a math-intensive text and requires both statistics and probability skills. You also need a background in software development to fully benefit from this book (although the author provides appendices to fill in knowledge and experience gaps if your background isn't strong or recent).

Software and hardware reliability concepts, common reliability models and how the concepts and models apply to systems engineering and project management are provided to set context. The next part of the book goes into the practical application of reliability models and techniques. This part of the book is complete and covers all of the key elements of software reliability from design, development and implementation perspectives.

This book is more suited to college-level courses on software reliability. The author's later work, "Software Reliability Engineered Testing", is better suited for real world application because it approaches reliability from process and methodology perspectives and is more focused on practice than theory. However, this is still useful as a primer for practicing professionals.

This book focuses on the grief associated with loss. While it is written for children, the principles apply to young and old alike. The book is a beautifully written and illustrated story that provides a way for us all to celebrate the special people in our lives even after they are gone

As a parent, where do you turn to explain the fears of grief to a child? Here is a book to answer that dilemma. Told with simplicity and warmth, it addresses a child's largest fear, that of forgetting the one who has died. With gentleness and understanding of the child's world in both text and pictures, the reader is offered ways to remember. The characters who offer these ways, as well as the methods themselves are tangibe tools for us all. Running through this story is the haunting children's lullaby, "All Through The Night". This book, like a lullaby, will gently guide and soothe a child across the darkness of grief

This is a wonderful book for anyone who is interested in both the U.S. and Soviet space programs. It has many tid-bits of obscure information that will suprise almost anyone.
Anyone interested in the history of two countries' space program will not be disappointed with this book.

The Space Almanac should be rated a 100,000 star book. It has info on everything space and astronomy related.

This book was extremely helpful when I was taking a class on special relativity. The author introduces new concepts and rules in a very logical order, and the examples clearly illustrate the material. The book is written very clearly, especially for such a complicated subject. The problems in the back of every chapter allow you to test yourself and make sure you have grasped the material, since some of them have answers in the back of the book. Overall, a great book to either teach special relativity to yourself, or as a companion for a special relativity class.

The beauty of this book is the simplicity of the math used and the excellent use of language to communicate the ideas. One of the clearest written science books I've ever read. The book is out of print, but I inherited a copy from my Dad who was a Physics teacher.

this book and the other 15 stories are scary, exiting and they dont drag. It's fun to read because it's not only a book but a game too!!

This book is explained as a "which way book", which means the story starts the same, but at the end of the page you get to pick one of two options which allows you to bring the story where you want. So every time you read it, it's like reading a different book. It's well written and each story is interesting. My kids can't stop reading it!

This is a great book in which the authors very tactfully unfold the story of the Spindletop Oil Field. With modern techniques of oil exploration one may never have the 'Spindletop Experience' ever again. This book would interest anyone who is even remotely related with the petroleum industry. It should make one appreciate the early days of oil industry on whose experiences the modern peroleum industry is based on. The last chapters may not interest some people as the book goes into the legal suits fought over the oilfield. Overall, I strongly recommend the modern 'oilmen' to read this book.

A fascinating account of the events and people who brought in the birth of the modern oil business. The book brings to life the time period, the cast of characters that were involved and the obstacles and naysayers which had to be overcome. See how hard work and dogged persistence by these men was rewarded not just once (as in the initial discovery of the field) but several times. The book is well written and moves along at a good pace. As a person involved in the oil business for 20 years, this book reminded my of why the oil business is so special.

"The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius" is one of the literary treasures of Christendom. Written by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, in the 16th Century, it presents St. Ignatius' formula for the pursuit of spiritual perfection.

The book itself provides a "guidebook", if you will, for a 30 day Ignatian retreat. St. Ignatius presents meditations for each day of the retreat. The meditations are very brief, leaving broad latitude for the retreat master to direct the retreat along the path most likely to be helpful to the retreatants.

While this book certainly is not a "do it yourself" retreat book, it does provide the reader with an accurate insight into the essence of Ignatian Spirituality. The story of the conversion of St. Ignatius is told in the introductory sections of the book. St. Ignatius was an ambitious young Basque nobleman in the service of the King of Spain when he suffered a severe leg wound at the battle of Pampeluna. While recuperating in Loyola Castle, he read the lives of the saints, a book witch redirected his service from that of the King of Spain to the service of the King of Heaven. As he gradually discerned his calling he unsuccessfully attempted a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, among other pious exercises. He used the method of his discernment process as a guideline for others, whether to discern their proper state in life or to more perfectly orient their lives toward God. The essence of Ignatian spiritually is that all creation is good. It was created by God to lead all people to Him. The duty of every Christian is to use all of creation to give honor and glory of God, and to use it to lead all men to their creator. Just as all creation if fulfilled in God, so to are all people. The Spiritual Exercises encourage us to always view every potential action in light of how it can give the greatest honor and glory to God. In so doing it provides us with a standard by which to live our lives.

In addition to this general spiritual direction, I found a specific, practical value in this book. Throughout the book, St. Ignatius, in keeping with his view of all creation as reflecting the glory of God, repeatedly encourages us to use our mind's eye to paint the picture of the scenes depicted in the Scripture which we are reading. We should imagine the sights, the sounds, the smells, the inflections in the voices, every detail which will bring us into the world of Scripture. This has been very helpful to me in my roll as Lector at my church. I think of St. Ignatius' admonitions every time I try to bring the sacred readings alive to the congregation.

Perhaps each of you would be touched in ways differently than I, but I feel confident that this book will touch and improve the lives of all who read it and meditate upon it.

The classical approach to finding yourself and your God and understanding your relationship with him. For anyone struggling to make major life changing decisions, this is a MUST.

This book sets the standard for sport marketing literature. Sport Marketing provides a good overview of marketing concepts and how they are applied to the sport product. Dr. Sutton is THE guru of sports marketing and delivers a quality instructional and practical guide for the serious sport manager.

If your job is to sell sports, you MUST own this book. Otherwise, you're just a sports wannabe who is constantly guessing about what works and what doesn't. It is the only book that shows you guaranteed ways to build sustainable attendance figures. It shows how factors such as your facility, your promotion efforts, location, pricing, and product relate with each other to provide an overall experience for your customers.

Get this book, use it, and change your career for the better!

To start off with, this is one of the least friendly looking textbooks I've ever had. Appearances are deceiving, though, as this has become one of the very few textbooks I've read cover to cover. Schork and Remington have a dry sense of humor, and as close to a light, flowing style as can be expected from a statistics textbook.

Excellent book for the biological or health related researcher with a touch of humor scattered throughout making it quite easy to read. It is comprehensive, touching on the most useful statistical techniques with excellent, concise examples and easy to understand explanations. The text is appropriate for those with little previous knowledge of statistics while refreshing and informative for those with a bit more experience. You can not go wrong with this book!