Out of all the books I have read, I feel that this is one of those books that can not be overlooked. I would never have run across this book normally, and now I feel that it is, by far, one of the most cleverly written, and philisophical books I have ever read. It is a book of 127 chapters, and aproxamately 250 pages. It makes for an interesting read. And I feel it is one that is the best for those with short attention span. It deals mainly with life, death, and love. Contained there in are all the comments that you always thought about saying, but never did, with the twist of the Minnesota WICHFA. It is a twisting between Vonnegut and Hugo, with real-life humor. Knowing the author personally, it is a master work of mind challenging humor. So,If you like a little subtle, obscure humor about the trials and tribulations, this is the book for you.

Capably edited by China expert Dimitri Cavalli as part of the outstanding H. W. Wilson Company "Reference Shelf 2002" series, China is a straightforward reference for readers of all ages and backgrounds to a variety of trends and conditions of the modern-day nation of China. Individual chapters excerpt articles from magazines such as Business Week, National Post, Washington Times and many more to offer a broad based picture of China's political and economic trends, human rights issues, and relations with other states. China is recommended as being an excellent resource and informative educational read.

This book follows the psychic disintigration of a middle-aged, working class haus frau of the WWII generation, and the machinations of her insidiously evil, alcoholic neighbor Betty. Both characters are wildly funny and instantly believable. At times while reading this book I felt like I was a six years old, sitting in the kitchen listening to my Mom and one of her friends gabbing away. At other times I saw an all too clear reflection of myself and people I know. Never has existential rage been so much fun while still retaining all its pathos. If you loved Mr. Galas' play "Mona Rogers" you'll love this too.

This book does a very good job presenting both deterministic and stochastic optimal control. The author does a particularly good job in presenting the derivation of the Bellman equation and its relation to variational formulations for deterministic optimal control. There are also many very good problems with which the reader can test her understanding, and the author has made many solutions available on his web page. Problems range from testing theoretical understanding to determinig optimal policies for various control problems. There are even some exercises which ask the reader to develop parallel codes to solve some problems, so I think there is something in this book for everybody. Richard Bellman once said that there is considerably more to optimal control than just locating the eigenvalues of some matrix in the complex plane. I believe that Bertsekas has remained faithful to Bellman's view with the broad range of problems which he attacks through dynamic programming. I am currently doing a PhD thesis in mathematics studying Bellman equations, and I cannot think of a better source for intuition about control problems than Bertsekas' book. He even does a nice job in pointing out where he has omitted technicalities in the mathematical treatment for those who wish a very rigorous approach to control. If there is a better book out there, I am not aware of it.

The abriged version as available in India gives a brief insight on the coverage given by the author.I have done studies in the same field and would like to share my thoghts with the author who I would be obliged if his contact address be sent accross.Full review will sent to the author in due course.

This book is simply amazing, and it is all thanks to the British "Wonder Professor," Dr. Debbage. I've read this book again and again, and I love it even more with every read! Dr. Debbage is the single greatest thing to come along in the Geography world since the map.

It is always a pleasure to read a well written book in a leading edge arena and that's exactly what this book provides. With the potential for myself to be involved with Test and Evaluation (T&E) in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) I was looking for a book that captured the latest thinking for Enterprise Architecture (EA) and had the vision of what the future held in this fast paced area of business. Chorafas, one of the most prolific writers and orchestrators of future thought, provides numerous real world examples to document the complex integration problems and a response to evolutionary trends. Being on Temporary Duty (TDY) in the Austin, TX area it was somewhat serendipity to see a front page story in the local newspaper about Dell Computers vision of the future. Dell uses EA extensively. Any senior decision-maker in private industry or government that's not familiar with most of the concepts captured in this book is doing a disservice to himself and the organization he/she leads. Nanotechnology, optics, and biological frontiers are all covered with the latest information and then linked to the most advanced applications, tools and methods available to maximize return on investment (ROI) for as Chorafas notes several times..."cost matters". One of the highlights is the numerous graphs and models to capture complex thoughts with relative simplicity.

This is an excellent book with hundreds of strips to look at. Each strip is reviewed and explained. This really is truly the best book to use to learn electronic fetal monitoring.

I have been a fan of Blair Drawson's work for many years. "Flying Dimitri" is particularly interesting to me because it is so imaginative and fanciful, and it makes me wonder what happened to Dimitri's mother. I'll bet she looked a lot like the queen of Mars! The paintings in this book are at the same time very pretty and very strange. Highly recommended!

This work is by far the most outstanding text in the field. It's completeness and attention to detail make it a "must have" for students of radiation hydrodynamics as well as for experts in the field. The republication of this book by Dover has done the field a great service second only to the service provided by the authors in writing it!