This book gives an excellent overview of the problems and solutions to level-of-detail rendering. Few books in the computer graphics field are this well written.

A few things to note:

- Though there's plenty of material on simplification of polygonal meshes, there doesn't seem to be much on volume (tetrahedral) simplification. My impression is that volume simplification is kind of hairy, though, and might require its own textbook.

- If you wish to do your own level of detail rendering, you may end up reading the papers referred to in the book. Most of those papers are available online (try google).

- The terrain chapter is great, and even deals with real-world issues (geospatial file formats, terrain data on the web, what a geoid is, etc) in addition to an overview of different approaches to terrain simplification.

If you're doing level-of-detail stuff, it is basically your duty to buy this book. I only wish I'd bought it eariler.

This is clearly one of the most outstanding Level-of-Detail-for-3D-Graphics-algorithm-survey books currently in print. However I find Luebke, et al.'s choice of a subtitle puzzling. Clearly it should be "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Theory and Application", rather than "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application and Theory". If Luebke, et. al. wanted to emphasize the applied nature of their work, it would've been more appropriate to title it "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application, then Theory, and finally some more Application".

Frankly this oversight ruined the whole experience for me.

This 119-page book honors the memory of 149 men and women and 19 children murdered in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was attacked.

It was the first major terrorist attack on U.S. shores, but unfortunately not the last.

Some observers wonder whether this devastating 1995 attack was in any way connected to the Sept. 11, 2002 attacks in New York and Washington. They may be right to wonder.

Unsettling questions are raised in Final Report on the Bombing of The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building April 19, 1995--conducted by the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, and funded by private citizens. I strongly recommend both volumes. Alyssa A. Lappen

I was there and saw the destruction.
This book illustrates the event well and brought
tears to my eyes.

Dalton's poetry is intense, and exudes revolution in every verse. Knowing a history of the poet's life and struggle, you get a greater feel and appreciation for all his work. His pain, love, and hate all mixed together delivers the most powerful poetry I've ever read. I enjoyed this book immensely, and recommend it to all of those that are a rebel at heart.

In Dalton's words you can hear his pain, loss and anger; but it's his love and romantic vision that you take away. I tresure this book and it stands as my most read book.

There are only two sad aspects about The World Series: Complete play-by-play of every game 1903-1989. First, it does not include pitch-by-pitch accounts of every game, and second, it has not been updated since the 1989 World Series. But, for its time, it is a masterful work. Even before interest in play-by-play accounts of games made their way to the internet, Neft & Cohen go into great detail of each individual Series game. Want to know who the first batter and pitcher to appear in a series were? (Pitcher: Cy Young, Boston; batter: Ginger Beaumont, Pittsburgh)? Need to know how many pitches Don Larsen threw in his 1956 no-no in game five (97) and who was the last man retired (Dale Mitchell, struck out looking)? Wondering who was on base when Carlton Fisk homer hit the foul pole in game six of the 1975 series (no one, he led off the bottom of the 12th)? Have a bet with a friend on who scored the winning run on Bill Buckner's error in the 10th inning of game six of the 1986 series (Ray Knight)? It's all here, with recaps, box scores and composite statistics from every series. The only thing better than this book for tracking the series would be an update. Hopefully, one will be on the way within my lifetime.

Play by play of each World Series game; including pitch by pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956. A must if you can find this book!

I have had this book since 1990. In the last 7 years, I have been able to visually recreate almost any series game. This is a valuable tool in my baseball library. If you are lucky enough to find one, buy it!

First published following the brilliant Reds-Red Sox Series of 1975, this book gives the play-by-play for every game of every World Series it covers. By elevating these games to such minute study, serious baseball fans can deconstruct strategies and performances for observations useful in many other contexts.

The Neft-Cohen team also puts together "Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball," which (with the Macmillan and Total Baseball series) is a cornerstone of baseball analysis. The only improvements that could be made: -- More pitch counts, for the recent Series for which these are available. -- Play-by-play for old League tie-breaking playoffs (NL 46, 59 and 62; AL 48; AL East 78; NL West 80).

For anyone who enjoys APBA and its recreating of old World Series, this is a must.

I was in 7th grade in Aptos, CA when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit Northern California. I didn't remember a whole lot about that time, so I bought this book to refresh my memory.

This is a wonderful book that can be helpful in many class levels of American History. I personally am using this book in my AP US History class. I find that all facts in the text are completely relavent to the topic being discussed. Bailey also has a way of putting in many little important tidbits and anecdotes that are very humorous and pertain to the subject matter. The book's layout is very well organized. This makes it easy to find any information. In the margins Bailey has put in may quotes from famous historical figures. These quotes always pertain the the subject being discussed and are very helpful when writing essays. The book also does a good job of including the inportance of different ethnic groups in the formation of America.

This is a book of spectacular and inspiring images captured by one of our premier adventure photographers. The text is fairly minimal--just enough to give the reader a fair sense of the lengths to which the photographer has gone to bring us to some of the most remote and precious places on our planet. This book makes an excellent gift for anyone who likes to meditate upon sights and adventures far from our workaday world.

Well, what can I say. As a novice in relation to finance this book was indispensible in giving me tips that has turned a $2000 investment in March this year into over $6000. This man is a genius.

This is a beautiful book. Albert Cohen writes a long love letter to his late mother. Like in his other books, death is an obsession or rather the discontinuity between life that is everything and death that is nothing. It is a moving masterpiece.