As some architectural books are only just coffee table eye candy, this book really goes leaps and bounds past such a moniker. In it's breadth and its depth, the complete Arne Jacobsen is found within these pages. History, ideology, critical examinations of his works (everything from buildings, furniture, textiles, interiors, ceramics, cutlery, etc.). It's a great book if you are looking for information on this great Danish designer.

It CAN be found in english as well as assorted other languages.

it's so important for my investigation. But i like to Know if you can find it writen in english, (for me to comprehend it)

Superb!
This is a highly detailed account of the evolution of boats & rafts into ships - lots of detail, drawing heavily on archaeological evidence, without any wild assumptions about the supposed shape of the boats.

This is not a coffee table book, with lots of pretty pictures and large print, but a real source of up-to-the-minute detailed info for the scholar as well as the casual reader.

What is especially good, is that each chapter is written by the leading expert in that field, using the latest available data and supported with lots of photos/drawings to illustrate points.

However, this forces each chapter into a different written style and sometimes this comes across as a little 'heavy', but most are very fluidly written.

I am very impressed with the content, layout, presentation and production of this series (I have 6 of the books so far) and I would recommend this in preference to other comparable books.

Sientificly written book which covers the early tries of mankind on the water to the great travells of the Vikings. You should be familiar with the technicus termini of wooden shipbuilding while reading this fantastic book.

Sock Monkeys is a charming way to spend an hour or two. The book shows you why the authors fell in love with them. I defy anyone not to experince a covetuous pang while reading this book. The essays are as various as the pictures, elegant, sad, clapped out and the old fashioned heartbreaker. I'm sorry I didn't buy two copies. Now I'll have to spring for another shipping charge so I can have a copy on hand to give to a friend in need of a shot of delight.

The book is better than better. It's monkeylicious! Have you ever heard the tale of the monkeys? If you haven't you must buy this book. It will be the best reading experince you've ever had.
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The Pre-Socratic philosophers have made a comeback of sorts in the philosophy of quantum gravity. This book tells why they are important, still -- such as how they would view three dimensional space and relativity. Boltzmann's defense of atomism is in a chapter, anti-Parmenidean philosophy on modern physics is also present, and it's not all physics, the mind-body problem is also explored. Popper has some counter comments to the Kirk, Raven and Schofield book, The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (which I also highly recommend). All in all the book is easy to read because it is set in very small chapters, each complete unto themselves -- some chapters have 80 notations and 50 references.

Still, the best part is how this era of thought fits into modern science.

Popper's philosophical view is captured in his summary of Aristotle. Popper credits Aristotle with the invention of logic, and for being a great biologist and scholar. But, "Aristotle was the first dogmatist..." "...[W]ith Aristotle's theory, that science is...certain knowledge, it may be said that the great enterprise of Greek critical rationalism came to an end." (5) And so Popper lovingly examines the great Pre-Socratic philosophers, Xenophanes, Heraclitus and Parmenides, as exemplars of critical rationalism, and makes them relevant to the 21st century.

"Beyond the Search for Invariants" is the centerpiece of this book, an absolutely brilliant 65-page essay tracing the influence of Parmenides on modern science. You may have heard the quote from Alfred North Whitehead -- "The medieval world was an age of faith based on reason, while the modern world is an age of reason based on faith." (Science and the Modern World, 1925) Popper makes a convincing case that the metaphysical assumption underpinning modern science is much older than Christianity. Heraclitus said "you can never step in the same river twice." His was a metaphysics of constant flux. Parmenides, on the other hand, logically deduced that the world is a motionless block! A motionless block universe. It sounds absurd, but what Popper shows is that this metaphysical assumption has influenced great minds ever since, giving rise to the view that the universe is closed, and entirely deterministic. Only recently, with Darwin and Einstein, has Laplacean determinism given way to an open, indeterministic universe. Popper summarizes the essay like this in his 1993 preface -- "It tries to show that Heraclitus (everything changes) and Parmenides (nothing changes) have been reconciled and combined in modern science, which looks for Parmenidean invariance within Heraclitean flux." (viii)

You might conclude that Popper is harshly judging Parmenides. On the contrary, he praises him as a great rationalist -- he simply disagrees with a powerful idea of Parmenides. There are 9 other essays here, and they are not all equally compelling, but the best are among the best of anything I've read in the philosophy of science!

It is not simply a coffee table book. It is really a book meant to be read ... The book is very well edited and the texts are extremely interesting. I alraedy bought a second copy to give away...

This is a pathbreaking new study on the Sino-Soviet relationship, based on new evidence from the former East-bloc archives and written by a team of younger scholars affiliated with the Cold War International History Project. It should serve as a model for future scholarship on the history of the Cold War.

this book is so amazing it is about a little boy who was given a fluffy pillow at birth. He cherished it forever and one day he lost it and spent his entire life searching for it in the most unusual places. He never gave up his search and when he found the pillow he realized that he was not alone. Other people his age also had cherished childhood possessions and he joined there group of people. This book made me cry which is hard to do because i dont even cry at funerals or after a breakup with a girl. I am only 15 and i have a teddybear from when i was a baby and if i ever lost him (or it,whatever) or he was destroyed it would break me and i would probably commit suicide im not joking. Even though he is in bad shape and i am allergic to the material he is made from i will not let anyone take him away. Charlie shows that if u love something u should never give up on it and that is cool.

What is Computable Economics? I have found the first exhaustive answer in this compact and well-written volume. The appendix presents the basic results in computability theory in the form of a "child's guide" making the book readable even by absolute beginners. The corpus offers a series of applications of this approach to economic theory which ranges from microeconomics, to game theory, to macroeconomics and development economics. A fascinating endevour.

I got this little book when I was in college studying economics and kept it throughout grad school in econ. It's been surprisingly useful, mostly because it contains formulas and no extraneous text. A pocket version would be even better.

This book is great. It provides an outstanding reference tool for graduate, but also undergraduate students. Even if you're not entirely into studying economics, and only come up against it occasionally, you can get your money's worth with this title. I purchased this as a reference while finishing undergraduate work and I'm sure it will serve me well in graduate school as well. Don't miss this, and buy a copy while it's available.

Sydsaeter et al. have compiled what must be the most condensed reference book in the field, given its amazingly broad scope but small number of pages. Just a few of the multitude of topics covered in this book are set theory, dynamic optimization, vector spaces, convexity, determinants, risk aversion theory, and probability distributions. The presentational format is essentially that of an extensive list, with copious notes in the margins.

The brevity of Economists' Mathematical Manual is simultaneously its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The strength obviously lies in its diverse scope. Few books could claim to be authoritative over such a wide spectrum of subfields of economics.

Yet the lack of exposition can also be perceived as a weakness. This book is extremely useful as a reference, but first-year Ph.D. students should be warned that it should be considered supplemental only. A textbook such as Simon and Blume's Mathematics for Economists or Chiang's Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics should be the reference of first recourse for anyone encountering mathematical economics for the first time.

While most wavelets books are terribly difficult from a mathematical viewpoint, this book introduces the reader to wavelets from the practical viewpoint. It introduces the procedure to compute the wavelet coefficients without speaking about mathematical functions. If you don't care about functional spaces, then go to this one. I really think this book is the most friendly introduction to wavelets for people who don't care about maths.

The users of wavelets include engineers who design filters. The wavelet lifting technique is a powerful tool, and extraordinarily practical. The authors present it very nicely, and the book is an attractive source where anyone can pick up the essentials.

This is one of the books that shows you how to implement wavelets, it does so in a good way. Some of the sentences, although, could have been written better. It is not a book for 'dummies'. It does require you to think hard. Lifting is very well explained, as are the implementation issues that prop up when you try to work with finite data sets.

Example codes in Matlab, given at the end helped me to understand a lot. Wonderful book for implementation, provided that you work hard and think hard. This book does require you to be familiar with Z transform to understand how lifting is linked to Filter Banks. So be warned..