I've read the book many years back and still from time to time, its a good relaxation to open and re-read again this book written by a woman who deserves to be known as the "perfect" American Look.

For Jaclyn Smith's fans, this is truly a collectible item. The photos are great and you will not get disappointed. I've read other books written by Victoria Principal, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Evans, etc..but this book is truly the best among the best! Her beauty and exercise tips are on target and real. Plus the big factor is the style of writing--there's life, art and heart when she discussed things. It's not just selling you the goods but sharing you her passion and love of what she does.

Excellent !!!

If you liked the CD, then you will love this book. It has some of the best music that I have ever played. I really enjoyed it!

Emphasizing geometric topology, the authors have written an excellent introduction that is suitable for students of topology at the beginning graduate level. It would take two semesters to cover all of the material in the book, and there are lots of exercises and problems to challenge the reader's understanding. The main virtue of the book is that the authors do not hesitate to use pictures and diagrams to illustrate the concepts in topology.

The first two chapters are an overview of elementary set theory and beginning notions in topology, such as metric spaces, the product topology, etc. The authors assume that the reader has encountered these ideas before, and so they do not spend a lot of time explaining them. Calling one section a "potpourri of fundamental concepts" the authors define accumulation points, closure, etc. There are some interesting insights though that the authors give the reader, particularly in the discussion on homeomorphisms. They caution the reader, giving a pictorial example, that thinking of a homeomorphism as a stretching or deformation is a somewhat limited view. The example shows two objects that are homeomorphic but that cannot be deformed into each other in Euclidean 3-dimensional space.

The next two chapters cover connectedness, compactness, and metric spaces. The authors show what pathologies can arise in the consideration of connectedness, challenging the reader to find an example of a space with an explosion point. They also define the notion of a chain, a concept that proves to be very useful in geometric topology. The authors motivate its eventual application very well, their construction beginning with an arbitrary "entangled" collection of open sets, out of which the chain is systematically selected. The famous Knaster-Kuratowski example is discussed. For readers interested in moving on to dimension theory, this example is important, in that it is a one dimensional set that is not totally disconnected. Separation properties are discussed in Chapter 4, and again reflecting their prejudice for geometric topology, the authors define and discuss absolute retracts and absolute neighborhood retracts.

Things get very geometric in chapter 5, wherein topology of the Euclidean plane is discussed. The Jordan curve theorem is proved in detail, along with the Schoenflies theorem. The latter has to rank as one of the more amusing results in geometric topology, and its proof is a joy to construct. Then, in chapter 6, the authors return to the consideration of product spaces, and they also define and discuss inverse systems. An understanding of inverse systems is a must for readers intending to move on to algebraic topology. The dyadic solenoid, an important construction in the field of dynamical systems, is discussed geometrically and then shown to arise as an inverse limit.

Considerations of a more analytic nature appear in chapter 7, which deals with function spaces, weak topologies, and Hilbert spaces. The compact-open topology, important in many area of application, is discussed as a topology that guarantees that a sequence of continuous functions converges to a continuous limit. The weak topology is introduced as a generalization of the free union topology, and its importance in the study of cell complexes is pointed out.

The glueing and identification operations, so familiar from popular or more elementary expositions of topology, are discussed in chapter 8. These are the quotient spaces, and the authors discuss the cone and suspension of a space as examples. CW-complexes are then introduced and discussed in detail. This is followed in chapter 9 by a discussion of one of the most important of all topological spaces: continua. The Peano continua in the light of the Hahn-Mazurkiewicz are overviewed.

If the reader has studied differential geometry, then chapter 10 will be somewhat familiar, as it deals with paracompactness and partitions of unity, the later of which are used extensively to perform some very standard constructions in the theory of differentiable manifolds. Metrizability is also discussed, and the authors give an example of a Moore space that is not metrizable.

Chapter 11 gives an alternative view of convergence, wherein the authors discuss nets and filters. The pathologies that can arise for sequences in non-metric spaces are emphasized. Filters may be familiar for the reader who has studied mathematical logic, where they are used extensively.

Things heat up in chapter 12, wherein readers get to indulge in the intricacies of algebraic topology, a topic that has been hinted at in a few places in the first eleven chapters. Homotopy theory and the fundamental group make their appearance, as well as the notion of a direct limit. The higher homotopy groups are introduced in the problem sets. The reader versed in algebra will certainly appreciate this chapter, as well as the next one, which deals with covering spaces, which the authors mention is a topological analog of Galois coverings. Covering spaces allow the computation of the fundamental group, as well as being useful in many other applications.

Simplicial topology is introduced in chapter 14 as objects that have a local linear structure, and can thus be studied much more easily than more general types of spaces. Most readers will catch on very quickly to this category of spaces, due to its connection with notions from plane and solid geometry, and linear algebra. The simplicial approximation of maps is emphasized, with an elementary example of a continuous map that cannot be simplicially approximated given. A hint of the field of simple homotopy theory is given in the problem section, with the famous Bing's house with two rooms discussed.

The last 3 chapters of the book discuss applications of homotopy theory, a brief introduction to knot theory, wild sets, the classification theorem for 2-manifolds (which is proven in detail), and a brief introduction to n-dimensional manifolds. The authors discuss briefly the attempts to generalize the 2-D classification to 3-D, one being finding a proper generalization of the normal form, another being the removal of a maximal open 3-cell from the 3-manifold to obtain the "spine". The famous Poincare conjecture is related to these issues.

Easily understood material covering dc circuits. A good book for the beginner.I used the book as a supplemental study guide.

I have found this book very useful both in the field and in the museum. It represents an excellent feat of practical scholarship by Bonaccorso, with good keys, locality information (with maps), reference to specific museum specimens, and external measurements for all species from PNG, including the provinces in the Bismarcks and northern Solomons. It is not only a terrific synthesis of what is known of bat biology in the country, but also offers a large store of new information. Also extremely handy are the comprehensive gazetteer at the end with lat/long coordinates and the good bibliography. Fiona Reid's excellent color illustrations round out the guide.

Every story in this collection is a gem that has been embedded in the pegmatite ledges of Maine until the publication of this book. Some of the stories are American classics, some are classics only here in Maine, and some have emerged from obscurity to grace the pages of this amazing book. No matter which way the story came to be in "The Best Maine Stories" they will be loved by all (not just those from Maine)! My favorite story: The Viking's Daughter.

My thanks to Gordon Padwick. Integrated Office Application lifted the veil from my eyes and I finally understood how to control one MS Office application from another. It has great, practical examples of how to control Excel from Access, Access from Excel, Excel from Word, etc. Learning about CopyFromRecordset (an Excel Range method) was enough to justify purchase of this book! I grok it now.

This is an excellent collection of poems by one of the often overlooked members of the the Inklings. Mr. Dodds' useful introduction and organization of these vibrant poems is very helpful, and it's too bad that this book will be read primarily by academics.

Charles W. Williams is, in many ways, the "forgotten" member of the Inklings, a literary group that more famously included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien, among others. His most well-known works are the seven "Theological Thrillers", i.e, "All Hallows Eve", "The Place of the Lion", "Shadows of Ecstasy", "The Greater Trumps", "War in Heaven", "Descent into Hell", and "Many Dimensions". There are few, if any, novels like them in modern English literature, and they truly are "thrilling" - frightening (Stephen King is a piker by comparison), uplifting, amazing, and simply glorious. Williams' literary output was considerably larger, and included poetry, literary criticism, and especially philosophy and theology. This volume is a dense but in the end highly satisfying taste of his theology and spirituality, which is rich and unique, to say the least, and includes a discussion of his unique constructions of "Co-inherence" and "Substitution". While a knowledge of his seven novels is useful, a new reader will find this collection to be a fascinating reflection of a towering thinker who has been much overlooked, but hopefully will find a new audience in our time. Highly recommended. One can only hope that more of his works will soon be back in print.

Brown and Bolton's edited book on Clinical Electromyography remains a classic for electromyographers. The chapter on Diabetic Neuropathies by Asa Wilbourn is a logical and concise guide through the maze of manifestations of diabetic neuropathies. The chapter on Autonomic Nervous System by Zochodne and Kihara provides hard to find information on Autonomic testing. Each chapter of this book is packed with clinically useful information. A must read for the serious electomyographer.