The Chinese Book of Animal Powers contains beautiful artwork. The brush strokes are full of energy and intelligence. Each of the twelve animals which correspond to the energy of a given year or month are represented. The influence of the energy is represented by animals to aid the imagination. Children love this book and it is a great entry for them into understanding and playing with their imagination. Use it as a meditation and see if you encounter yourself in a new way!

This is a good book that I have never seen before.

An excellent must have reference!If you're a practitioner of TCM you will encounter a need for this excellent work. Order and read yours today.

This book is very helpful for those who want to know more about the earlier years of the Chinese Communist party. More than half the book covers the period before the 1960s. The author has synthesized a lot of information from the the available documents and interviews with old Communist leaders. He does a good job of pointing out the inconsistencies of currently available knowledge (for personal testimony is often self-serving, not least in a Communist country), while also supplying solid educated guesses at what really happened. The writing is clear, though because of the nature of the material, one might get lost at times with the many, many names if close attention isn't paid. This is probably a better book for a person already acquainted with recent Chinese history than an absolute beginner.

Easy-to-follow recipes. DELICIOUS and not "out-of-the-ordinary" ingredients (except the noodles for chap-chae). I just visit my local Oriental Foods Korean store and pick up the needed things. I find the recipes simple and not too time-consuming, either. I have tried many Korean cookbooks, and like this one THE BEST. (Actually, the Lerner cookbook series from other ethnicities are excellent, too.)

Try the Chap-chae, the bulgogi (or pulgogi) and the fish patties. Excellent!

Chow has done an excellent job of collecting articles from the leading researchers in the pharmaceutical and biologics industry including FDA employees. The terms are specialized but important to those industries. The articles are scholarly and informative. The quality is similar to those in the Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Most of the terms are also of interest to statisticians like myself who work in the medical device industry. A sample of the items are "Adjustment for Covariates", "Bayesian Statistics", "Boassay", "Clinical Trials", "Equivalence Trials", "Food and Drug Administration", "Intention-to-Treat Analyses", "International Conference on Harmonization", "Multiple Comparisons", "Postmarketing Surveillance", "Sample Size Determination", and "Surrogate Endpoint".

This is a particularly good reference for statisticians who work on clinical trials regulated by the FDA. However keep in mind that it is very specialized and is rather expensive.

What is incredible about this book is not that there are over one hundred pages of unsolved problems posed all or in part by Paul Erdos. The amazing thing is that the word graphs could be replaced by several other mathematical words or phrases and a similar book could be written. Erdos was an expert in so many areas of mathematics and perhaps his greatest ability was in putting forward just the right questions to just the right people. There is very little explanation of the problem proposals, the authors rely on a great deal of the listing of references to fill in the details. Therefore, anyone interested in exploring the problems in greater detail should be prepared to spend some time and effort in tracking down the relevant articles. Fortunately, the authors themselves did a great deal of that, as there are complete references for every problem that appears.
The range of problems is a demonstration of the depth of his understanding of graph theory, and also a demonstration of how little is still unresolved. I put forward no pretense to understanding any more than a few of the problems in this book. However, that did not alter my interest in the problems, as I was able to understand the fundamentals of almost all of them. Reading this book is one of the most educational experiences that I have had in the past year and I encourage all mathematicians at the level of slightest interest in graph theory and above to read it.

Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.

I already own this insightful work and I was quite surprised to see that no one had yet reviewed this book! This work is by no means an economics textbook, rather it focuses on discussions of economic theory and analytical procedures in the area of food demand and consumption behaviors. Offering a review of current contributions to demand analysis, this work also addresses some of the problems and issues associated with demand analysis. Overall, Raunikar and Huang's piece represents a nice integrated work providing basic information on economic theory and data, recent applications and interpretations of both complete and partial demand systems, as well as key insights into the nutritional adequacy of foods relevant to food purchasing behaviors and how public policy impacts nutrition in the US.

Another excelent selection from Jhon Rhee's series of forms. The moves are all excelently shown, depicted from many angles. Steping diagrams help students learn how to transition between moves. It is present at all the classes I teach for reference.

This book provides a very easy to read account of the development of the stochastic integral. While concentrating on integrators which are continuous local martingales, and thus lacking the full generality of treatment to be found in, for example Dellacherie
and Meyer, the basic constructions are all performed in a fashion which is readily extensible to the more general case. From a teaching point of view this is beneficial if the more general case is to be studied subsequently. Although the arguments can be considerably simplified for specific special cases (e.g. integration with respect to Brownian Motion only), it is useful to understand how the construction fits into the more general case, which also makes less of a discontinuity for the reader who is subsequently to study the general discontinuous theory!

The arguments are presented carefuly, for example all of the necesary conditions being checked explicitly in places where important theorems are to be applied, and there are none of the annoying statements which plague books on Stochastic Calculus along the lines "the reader can readily check", or "see problem 21.2.43" in the middle of proofs. Additionally very few lines are "skipped" in the proofs; while this does mean that they are lacking in brevity, it is strongly to be encouraged when a complex subject is presented to the novice. When the concepts are understood sufficiently well the reader can easily compile "brief" proofs on his own (as a form of revision), but working the other way round frequently, in my experience of supervising a similar course, leads to misapprehensions about the conditions for applying essential theorems.