The English translation can be improved, as the Chinese version is much better.

My entire life has been transformed as a result of reading this book. Had I not read this book my life would have no meaning and I would always be searching for answers. Grand Master explains Buddhism in a way anyone can understand. He has turned my life around by answering questions like: "What is the meaning of life? Is life really fair? Where will I go when I die? What is cause and effect?" Even if you are not buddhist I recommend it to people of all walks of life and faiths. There is a saying that to hear the word 'buddha' just once is not without merit or virtue. After reading this book I have taken refuge in Grand Master and it was the most meaningful thing I've ever done in my life.

Although significantly older than this text, I would suggest that readers look for a copy of 'The Aerodynamic Design of Aircraft' by Dietrich Kuchemann (Pergamon, 1976). Although not particularly up to date in terms of the advent of complex CFD methods, Kuchemann's text is an essential summary of the progress of analytical aerodynamics, and it's experimental underpinnings, from Gottingen in the Ludwig Prandtl era, through to the technology of the mid 1970s.

A well written introductory book on aerodynamics . Advanced printing technology also adds to the book`s qualities .However , this is not the book for someone who wants to excel at aerodynamics .Like other more recent books ,It aims for medicore level.For example, there are no expansions of advanced topics for the curious student.Also a subject of practical and historical importance like complex potential & conformal mapping is omitted. Summary : If you are new to Fluid Dynamics ,buy it .If you intend to be a real scientist ,you should look for Karamcheti for the incompressible part ,and Shapiro for the compressible part.

The English translation of this book can be improved.

an inspiring book from an amazing master. anyone who reads this is truly blessed. it will transform your life.

After reading this book, I realized I need to study basic Win32API functions. Hmm.. so I can say I learned at least one thing. I didn't expect I could be a Visual C++ expert by this book, but this book barley touches how you can use Wizards... nothing more.

This book is nice in that everything is very simply laid out step by step. However, it doesn't explain the how or why part very well. After reading this book, you'll know how to do many things, but you won't really understand why. Most of the text is just a list of step by step instructions on how to accomplish a task. If that's all you want to do, then that's fine, but after reading 21 chapters, my feeling was that I didn't really learn how to apply visual c++ to my situation, but simply learned how to use the various Visual C++ features like Classwizards, etc.

If you've never seen the Visual C++ environment before, this is the book that can get you going the quickest. It's simple and shallow, so you'll need a dozen other books handy to look things up, but if you're teaching yourself how to write Windows applications, that's exactly how you are going to be doing it anyway. This book will give you tons of things to look up in other books, but in a structured, well communicated, and accurate way.

Most of the Overseas Chinese who control business empires attended village schools and were not well-versed with classical Chinese strategies. Most Chinese strategies (those emanating from the old world) despised business and persecuted it. This book is a tenuous attempt to apply stuff "Chinese" to modern business situations. I thought we (I am of Chinese descent myself) were beyond that at this point. There is absoutely no evidence that the Chinese have better strategies -- and some evidence that business is difficult to conduct there. This book is little help and lot of hype.

It is not that Chinese strategize better; it is the fact that Chinese put down these wisdoms in text so that we can learn.

How do you know those Chinese business people are not using strategy? And do you know how much tried and failed badly. Only a few lucky ones managed to do it.

In the past, caveman age, all they need is to be strong and they can win. Later stage of the conflicts in Zhou and others, they knew that strength doesn't means all, strategies give them an edge to win.

In today, Many business people are capable of winning was due to the large vacuumed in the business world and not to forget their dedication in their work.

Now the market is saturated, Dedication is not the only factor to win. Strategies give you a better edge if you have it.

This book gave numerous examples and it can be remembered so that if one day we meet similar situations we can counter it effectively

If you are looking for a book to care for Chows- this is certainly not the one. Only two pages are devoted to any kind of care at all- that being only to show one how to properly brush a Chow for a show. The rest of this huge book is black and white photos of "Best of Breed". Who cares? I have been looking for a chow book for a long time- this book was recommended by more than one person as the "best". I assume the rest of the Chow books out there are First Grade line drawings of Chows. Very diappointing. NOT RECOMMENDED.

I've owned this book for 15 years and refer to it often. This is a wonderful book for the person who wants to understand where our breed came from. It's great for the person who is interested in breeding and showing Chows. It helps us to understand the history of todays champions.It clearly explains what the standard for our breed is.This is a must have book for the serious Chow Chow fancier !!

This book, and the conference organised by the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research on which it is based, asks a question which is fundamental to Asia's future: how did Taiwan ride out the 1997 financial storm when Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia were almost capsized by the wave?
Several essays in the book note that small and mid-sized firms make up nine-tenths of Taiwan's economy, with equity financing being the norm rather than debt financing. This meant that there was far less opportunity for speculative funds to sweep into and out of the economy, and also meant that the business sector was much more stable than in some of Taiwan's neighbours.
The capital sector was also strong, with a minimum of exchange rate controls and most financial institutions in private rather than government hands. When the crash came, non-performing loans accounted for less than five per cent of credits, compared to 16 per cent in Malaysia and 19 per cent in Thailand. Taiwan's financial institutions had also been markedly more successful at mobilising private capital and channelling it into productive investments than its neighbours.
At the macroeconomic level, Taiwan's performance had been solid, with growth at over five per cent and a current account surplus of about 4.5 per cent of GDP. Not spectacular, but the point is that Taiwan had been turning in good results for a substantial period, rather than looking like an overheated economy heading for a fall.
In spite of Taiwan's sturdy foundations, the meltdown still had a punch. There was a 15 per cent currency depreciation in 1997-98 and a steep drop in the stock market. But this did not translate into an economic free-fall, mainly due to decisive action by the Central Bank. It stabilised the exchange rate with sales of foreign reserves and then, crucially, let the domestic currency float. In 1999, the Central Bank buttressed its success by promoting growth with low interest rates and new investments. Credibility was a key asset, with the Central Bank being widely seen as prudent and competent, run by technocrats rather than political cronies.
In some ways, the retreat of government may have gone a little too far: several contributors to the book note that Taiwan might have fared even better if the Central Bank had had a wider range of monetary instruments to use. But the bottom line for Taiwan remains: a solid base and a swift response meant that the '97 storm was mostly distant thunder.

Weathering the Storm sets its points with admirable clarity, but there are subjects which are not covered. The underlying issues of macroeconomic/currency policy are hardly touched, and there are comparisons (such as with South Korea) on which there is insufficient depth. Perhaps these issues were discussed in the conference, but they are not in the book.

As with many conference volumes, the quality of papers collected in this book varies. Some (Frank Flatters on Thailand, for example) are informative, some less so. None of the papers considers the financial crisis as a regional or systemic crisis -- instead the focus is on country by country analyses. Oddly enough, none of the papers on Taiwan deal with its decision in the fall of 1997 to devalue its currency, the New Taiwan dollar, which arguably intensified the crisis, at least with respect to Hong Kong and South Korea. One can find some interesting material in these essays, but one will have to look elsewhere for an in depth analysis of the Asian financial crisis, even with respect to Taiwan.

The book was outdated, which I was made aware of before purchasing. But for less than [$$$] (shipping incl.) I can't complain. Condition of the book was very good and the service I received was excellent. I will certainly buy from Amazon.com again. Although it was perhaps more for the history of famous individual dogs from the 50's, I did pick up some good info on the breed. I expected more info on Chow Chows in general and didn't realize that most of the pics were black & white. All-in-all, I'm happy with the book!

This book has very interesting points, owever lacks the importance of why this movement began in the first case. It has historical facts and roles it had in China, but lacks of how it ties in with Communism, one of the most important events that lead to communism in China

This book is probably useful only at the University of Florida, since it follows the course lectures exactly - and that, because the first author is the instructor.

The book reads like a series of lecture notes, nothing more, nothing less. Several ideas that a student of operating systems may need to take note of, when making the transition from single-machine systems to multi-machine, are listed here. You can think of this book as a listing of a few basic ideas, with small expansions of each - as in a slideshow presentation. The merit of the book ends there.

The topics covered - in other words, the expansions of the listed ideas - are treated in a confused, sketchy manner. The material is insubstantial and hardly thought provoking. Motivation is absent, and pedagogical methods seem a distant concept. There is a near-total isolation of concepts and practice, and reading the book gives the feeling of being isolated in a dreamy sphere that belongs only to the author.

One could go on about such demerits, but to summarize, you don't need to buy this book unless it's required for your class. It's a slideshow in hardcover format.

I bought this book expecting that I can learn some fundamentals on distributed systems and algos. The author touched many areas - but even stuff that I know pretty well ( security ) wasn't explained in an easy-to-understand manner, sometimes too much prose to no avail. Even worse, sometimes I was a bit confused. I can only guess that the rest follows this way. If you are looking for GOOD book, better look for something else.

This is a not so good book, but our school uses it. I suggest the author to update some of the contents of the book.