I've been a Test Engineer for 13 years and take it from me, this book is so close to real life situation. It obviously written by people who practice the art of Test Engineering. I wish that I had this book in my very 1st year. This is the bible for every TE.

Most texts on testing seem to be written for the design engineer. They talk a lot about the fault model, the doping process, how the pattern generation algorithms are not perfect...It's like teaching Chemistry at a cooking class.
But don't get me wrong, this is not a cookbook. It does teach a fair amount of "Chemistry". But it's able to show the reader why the theories are relevant and how to apply them. The solutions are presented in the context of the problems, not the other way around, like most text books.

I looked for a book which covers all the important issues for
mixed signal test. This book delivers all the nesessery information for a mixed signal test Eng. It explains all
issues very simple and because of so many example it is
very useful even for not-experienced people.

Alma Cogan was a real-life British singing star in the 50's, a friend of the Beatles and most of the other stars of the time, she died in 1966 aged only 34. Here Gordon Burn has written a what-if novel where Alma plays out her twilight years living off the generosity of others and remembering the past. She seems happy to remain in the shadows but there are those who haven't forgotten her.

The story recounts Almas rootless life and her showbusiness memories which are particulary evocative of a lost age, but just when you think you are holding the pieces of the plot in Gordon Burns extraordinary book, it moves away from you in a sinewy sinister dance. The effect is unsettling, even disturbing.

The pace of the book is perfect, a slow descent into the darkness where you know something unspeakable awaits and that thing is the final terrible indictment of fame where the edges are blurred between celebrity and murderous evil.

This is a book you will find yourself pondering over long long after you have completed the journey through it.

To his family in the small town of Bingley near Bradford in the north of England, he was known as "our Pete." To the police, who had hunted him for more than six years through the tiwns and cities of Yorkshire, he was known as the Yorkshire Ripper, the sadistic killer of thirteen women. In this study of Peter Sutcliffe, the man they finally charged, Gordon Burn has given us one of the most incisive and revelatory books ever written about the life and times, the family and social milieu of a mass murderer.

Peter Sutcliffe was tried and convicted in a sensational trial at the Old Bailey in 1981, but journalist Burn was struck by the fact that almost nothing had been brought out about the killer's background. Curious, he went north and found himself staying in Bingley lodgings for two years, getting to know Peter Sutcliffe's father, brother, sisters and close friends. We see Sutcliffe as a child literally clinging to his mother's skirts and refusing his boisterous father's attempts to make him play football, as an adolescent loner, a gravedigger, and a truck driver, courting his wife for seven years, bragging about women despite a prostitute's rebuff, and spending hours at a horrifying wax museum display. In all of this and so much more, Gordon Burn allows us to piece together the character and motivation of one of the most savage and mystifying murderers ever known.

In telling Peter Sutcliffe's story, Burn also reveals a whole way of life -- as fascinating to outsiders as any ever reported by Margaret Meadm as rich in sharply drawn individuals as a novel by Dickens. It is a society of northern men in which aggression toward women is commonplace -- a world of drinking clubs, fast driving, millhands, petty criminals, pimps, and prostitutes, through which Sutcliffewas able to move undetected while the police -- failing to coordinate their mass of information -- struggled in vain to track him down.

Rarely has a writer drawn so close to the inner truth about a killer and his crimes or, without sensationalism, told his story with such chilling and compulsive power.

Two-dimensional shapes with human characteristics tell this story. A triangle who enjoys being a musical instrument, and catching the wind for sailboats shares his stories with his friends. Eventually, he began to feel dissatisfied and asked the shape-shifter to give him an extra side and an extra angle. After working for a while as a quadrilateral and sharing his new stories with his friends he once again becomes dissatisfied with his role and returns to the shape-shifter to have more sides added. The reader sees where the shape lives his life with his different amounts of sides and angles. With continued dissatisfaction, he adds sides and angles until he is nearly round and rolls down a hill. This is when he asks the shape-shifter to return to his former self.

Because the back of this book includes tips for teachers and parents to incorporate this book, it can be very useful as an educational tool. Taking a walk and searching for a particular shape in the world, or even spotting several makes students think about how they are seen. One pitfall that should be combated is children's tendency to recognize shapes only when they are in their most familiar form. That is, they should have some practice with flipped, turned and rotated shapes. Asking students to view a shape and then incorporate it into a drawing of a real-world illustration will help them as well.

Why 4 stars?:
Marilyn Burns has changed the way that many teachers approach the subject of math in the elementary school. This book is a wonderful accompaniment to her teaching philosophy and methods. The tips and strategies included at the end for teachers, parents and anyone else who may want to use this book just help to reinforce her teaching. I did have to take a point off for reusing the concept and becoming a little sparse with examples of shapes - the illustrations were also somewhat lacking. But in the end, this is a wonderful addition to the library of anyone who teaches about shapes.

As a high school math teacher, I place an emphasis on shape recognition and attributes with my 5 year old. For example, how many sides/angles does a triangle/square/circle(!) have. The Greedy Triangle fits in very nicely with her knowledge level, and she very much enjoyed it from beginning to end. I should note that I edit some of the content to be age appropriate, changing quadrilateral to square, and skipping some of the later, many-sided, polygons. In any case, she laughed her way through the book, which is a great thing for a 5 year old!!

I have been reading this to my classes for the past two years. They absolutely love it. I use it to introduce shapes. The book also teaches a lesson about character. This book is a must have!

ON THE WAY TO WORK is not a book of interviews so much as a collection of Damien Hirst's angry rants on everything from art school to art dealers, Kurt Schwitters to Francis Bacon, drink, drugs, decay . . . and art. "I feel I've opened a can of worms in my own head," the artist states at one point. True enough.

Hirst is at his best playing enfant-terrible/raconteur, spitting out stories of a hardscrabble childhood and grand-guignol adolescence, rejecting the polite aesthetics of art school, and raging against the vapidity of an art world that would use his creative rage for its own amusement. At their best, Hirst's rants can be of a piece with his art: visceral, gut-wrenching, profoundly disturbing. Yet at times he simply prattles on ad nauseum.

Rather than rein the artist in, interviewer Gordon Burn lets Hirst flail wildly, challenging him only when directly taunted; and Hirst seems to desire nothing so much as a loud pub brawl with a worthy adversary. Burn's polite questioning proves no match for his subject's wry vitriol and relentless bombast.

What both Hirst and Burn understand quite clearly is the infuriating, mind-numbing business of celebrity, and its potential for warping an artist's work. In this respect, the book's first interview, dating from 1992, is heartbreaking: it's a talk with a precocious, cocky, smart Damien Hirst, just before he tumbled into the voracious maw of the international art scene. The subsequent interviews are often meandering and unfocused -- but not without some cynically brilliant bits.

This portrait of an artist careening into jaded middle age is wildly entertaining at times, but it will certainly disappoint any readers hoping for profound insights on contemporary British art. At one point during an interview tirade, the artist opines: "You're either angry or you're boring." With ON THE WAY TO WORK, Damien Hirst manages to have it both ways.

I would recommend this book for only the deepest of Damien Hirst fans. It is mostly dialogue and photographs of him in his normal settings. The text is very interesting...I become so inspired I put it down immediately, and begin working on something. The book shows a realistic view into a truly remarkable artists mind.

Norman Miller, a burnt-out middle-aged reporter now working for a sleazy tabloid, is the man caught in the centre of this bizarre Kafkaesque tableu. Descending into a maze of sordidness and futility, he begins to question whether he is a spectator of the events before him, or whether he is actually an actual participant by virtue of some unfathomable chain of cause and effect. Burn's literate, topical prose, a collage of jargon, brand names and colloquiallisms, manages also to hint at the inner world of the distraught narrator, presenting a believable picture of middle-aged disaffection and loss. The fragmentary, digressive plot manages to evoke effects that are at times expressionistic, at times cinematic, almost phenomenological, as a barrage of images and situations come hurling at the reader, in the manner of experiences received in raw perception. This confidently-handled contemporary character study will appeal to all those who take an interest in the more sordid and scuzzier aspects of life today.