My husband and I lived through Hugo also. We stayed in our home, mainly because the news crews chose our little town, 15 miles from the coast, to hole up in. None of us realized the magnitude of this storm until it was too late. We were the lucky ones, we managed to get through that horrible night basically unscathed. Others were not so lucky. I like the focus of the book being on surviving the storm and helping your fellow man, of which we saw a lot of. People would drive by, giving out food and ice and clean water. It made me realize there is still good in the world after all. Of course, a year after the storm we hightailed it up to Canada! I swore never again to go through such an experience. At least up here all we have to deal with is lots of snow!

My wife of 6 months and myself left N.Y. to live in Charleston S.C on June 11th 1989. We never in our young lives ever wish to see a storm of such magnitude.It was a living nightmare , your book was excellent . This storm generated more tornadoes than any other, the air force had clocked speeds of 240mph sustained gust.God bless the ones who were not so fortunate as we were.It was hell for months afterwards. Your book was realistic

My husband and I visited the virgin islands in 1989. After arriving on Saturday morning, a very strong wind and rain storm arrived, called Hurricane Hugo. The trama followed with hollowing winds, trees falling, people scrambling, loss of communication, and lots of confusion. We will never forget this week long vacation at this beatiful island. Your book does not do the storm and damage to visitors, people who reside on the island, people who have businesses on the island, and of course, those who own boats and planes in this island.

This book is, in many ways, a good companion volume to the other standard text in sugar cane engineering (Hugot, Handbook of Cane Sugar Engineering). Chen and Chou's book is oriented to the sugar processing aspect of sugar manufacture. The book is more about how to make sugar than how to make machines that make sugar.

The Cane Sugar Handbook covers raw sugar manufacture, refining, process controls, and analytical procedures.

The text is illustrated well with many line drawings, charts and graphs, and a few black and white photographs.

There are many useful data tables in the appendix. The text is fully referenced to papers and articles .

All in all a useful reference work to keep in your desk's top drawer (right next to Hugot).

Not exactly light reading, but great reference book, just look at the contents:

Part One Raw Sugar Manufacture

1. Sugarcane, James E. Irvine

2. Sugars and Non-sugars in Sugarcane, Margaret A. Clarke

3. Methods of Cane Purchase, James C. P. Chen

4. Outline of Raw Sugar Process and Extraction of Juice, James C. P. Chen

5. Purification of the Juice, James C. P. Chen

6. Heating and Evaporation, James C. P. Chen

7. The Crystallization of Sugar, James C. P. Chen

8. Purging, packing and Warehousing of Raw Sugar, Len K. Kirby

9. Raw Sugar Quality Criteria, James C. P. Chen

10. By-Products of Cane Sugar Processing, James C. P. Chen

Part Two Cane Sugar Refining

11. Raw Sugar Purchase, Marketing and Receiving, Fred R. Hill

12. Affination and Clarification, Richard Riffer

13. Decolorization, Richard Riffer

14. Evaporation and Pan Boiling, Thomas N. Pearson

15. Centrifugation, C. Frank Stowe

16. Sugar Drying and Conditioning, Chung Chi Chou

17. Packaging, Warehousing and Shipping of Refined Products, Jeffery C. Robinson

18. Refined Sugar Products, Chung Chi Chou

19. Specialty Sugars, Andy C. Chen and Amhed Awad

20. Plant Maintenance Program, George Fawcett

Part Three Production and Process Controls 21. Definitions and Terms in Sugar Factory and Refinery Controls, James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou

22. Chemicals Used as Sugar Processing Aids, James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou

23. Sugar House and Refinery Calculations, James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou

24. Chemical and Process Control (Raw House), James C. P. Chen

25. Technical and Sucrose Loss Control (Refinery), Joseph F. Dowling

26. Microbiological Control in Sugar Manufacturing and Refining, James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou

27. Energy Conservation, Keith Sinclair

28. Total Quality Management System, Leon A. Anhasier

29. Computerized Sugar Manufacturing,

Part (A) Conceptualized Computer Control, Michael R. T. Low

Part (B) Process Control and Integration, Shyam Ambardar

30. Automation of a Sugar Refinery, Naotsugu Mera

31. Environmental Quality Assurance, James C. P. Chen and John Green

Part Four Analytical Procedures

32. Sampling and Averaging, James C. P. Chen

33. Special Laboratory Reagents, James C. P. Chen

34. Polarimetry in Sugar Analysis, James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou

35. Instrumental Analysis for the Sugar Industry, Chung Chi Chou

36. Determination of Density and Total Solids, James C. P. Chen

37. Determination of Ash, James C. P. Chen

38. Determination of pH, James C. P. Chen

39. Determination of Color and Turbidity in Sugar Products, Chung Chi Chou

40. Determination of Dextran and Starch, Walter Altenburg

41. Analysis of Sugarcane, James C. P. Chen

42. Analysis of Juice, James C. P. Chen

43. Analysis of the Syrup, Massecuites and Molasses, James C. P. Chen

44. Analysis of Raw Sugars, James C. P. Chen

45. Analysis of Refined Sugar Products, Thomas Wilson and Stanley Bichsel

46. Analysis of Bagasses and Filtercake, James C. P. Chen

Taken from PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly, Winter 2000-01, Vol. XXX, No. 4

Three New Looks at China © by Larry M. Wortzel

In China and the People's Liberation Army, Solomon M. Karmel expands the thesis of an earlier writer from the United Kingdom, Gerald Segal, arguing that China is a weak power, not a superpower or great power. Karmel starts out by quoting a Chinese text, The Chinese People's Liberation Army (Deng Liqun, et al., Beijing, 1994), which argues that to be a superpower, a nation must possess four qualities: a large, diversified national economy; a major conventional military force; a nuclear weapons capability (and the means to deliver the weapons); and a strategic geographical location. He then systematically argues throughout the book that "in China's case, the dilemmas of development are simply too great for the state to exert the type of great power influence over East Asia that the Soviet Union exerted over Eastern Europe and its many satellite states throughout the world." He believes that "China's security and freedom from occupation threats in the postwar period have done little to enhance its power over other states." It is Karmel's thesis that those who argue that China is a great power are misinformed, and those who believe China is a military threat are crying wolf. Having defined his terms carefully in the initial chapter of the book, Karmel goes on to justify his thesis in subsequent chapters relying on extensive primary-source research in Chinese-language publications and Western secondary sources.

In six well-argued chapters, Karmel systematically dismantles China's military force structure, which he views as weak and poorly integrated; its military-industrial complex, which he characterizes as anemic and plagued by inefficiencies and corruption; the defense budget, which he believes is wasting a lot of money on the wrong priorities; and the role of China in Asia, which he defines as increasing in power but still inadequate to qualify China for great-power status. This is a readable book. Its weakness is that it is supported by research that is full of glaring inaccuracies which seem to reflect a lack of familiarity with the military in general and with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in particular.

The author is simply wrong when he explains the force structure of the PLA, saying that the seven regional military commands, analogous to the unified commands of the United States, are subordinate to the army. They are not. The military regional commands of the PLA are subordinate to the General Staff Department and the Central Military Commission. They are joint, and although the ground forces dominate them, they are jointly commanded and structured. The author is also wrong in his characterization of the development of the General Armaments Department from the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). Karmel argues that COSTIND turned into a structure of state-owned military-civilian defense industries under a State Science and Technology Commission. In fact, when the General Armaments Department was created, it took over much of the military production, research, and development. However, some production did stay under the old COSTIND, but was more centrally controlled by the state. Harlan Jencks, whom Karmel quotes extensively, has called the new organization SCOSTIND, for "State COSTIND."

In other areas, Karmel's careful culling of sources to prove his thesis has missed such PLA authors as Li Qingshan and Li Jijun, who have published extensively on joint warfare, military production, and strategy. Karmel also fails to credit the PLA for its earlier successes in doctrinal and force structure modernization based on the PLA's study of US Army Field Manual 100-5, on warfighting doctrine, and a thorough review of the US lessons learned from the 1991 Gulf War.

To respond to some of Karmel's arguments suggesting China is a weak power, one needs only to remember that at the mere suggestion that "relations with China would be difficult," the Clinton Administration refused to approve badly needed air and cruise missile defenses for Taiwan. When China suggested that "it would not be good for relations," the Republic of Korea opted not to participate in research on theater missile defenses in Asia with the United States. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional forum (ARF) was formed primarily to respond to China. Vietnam is seeking a new form of security relationship as a balance against China. With regard to Karmel's claim that China's military industry is poor in general, although it does have its problems it managed to supply Pakistan with a nuclear and ballistic missile capability, it managed to build a force of approximately 400 ballistic missiles for use against Taiwan in a relatively short period, and it has managed to produce a strategic nuclear force capable of hitting the United States. The threat of force from China has deterred elected leaders of Taiwan from scheduling a referendum on national sovereignty and self-determination. And in the United Nations, China has a veto in the Security Council as a permanent member. This reviewer has not accomplished the extensive literature search of Solomon Karmel to define "great power status" versus "superpower status," but all of this evidence suggests that China's power seems great.

If one is going to read Karmel's work, it should at least be read in conjunction with other texts by authors far more familiar with militaries in general and the PLA in particular.

Solomon M. Karmel, a former tenured lecturer at the London School of Economics and now an adjunct professor at the Naval War College, asks in his book on Chinese power and the Chinese army: '[I]s China a great power, on a path that may soon challenge... Asian... and perhaps even US national security interests? Or does China more resemble a struggling developing state, consumed by security problems on the home front and enervated even by half-hearted power-projection efforts beyond its poorly defined borders?' Karmel criticizes many who would argue for the great power thesis and shows in four supporting chapters focused on the People's Liberation Army (PLA) how China's weaknesses dictate a limited role for the army outside of domestic politics.

'Great power' militaries rarely have to worry about stability in their capitals and government power centers, but China's largest post-Mao military action was the suppression of students on Tiananmen Square. Great powers have well-defined borders, unlike China, which is still consumed with the Taiwan question, the Tibet question, and instability in its Muslim northwest. Great powers further can concern themselves with 'power projection' and alliances with friends or proxy states, but China has no allies and participates in international military actions far less than regional players such as India and Australia. Karmel defines 'military professionalism' for the purpose of the study, and suggests that the PLA's organizational structure, clarity of mission, and levels of corruption all help to ensure that an army originally designed to 'liberate' Chinese is still focused on debilitating and parochial interventions in Chinese politics. Finally, China's strategies are rapidly moving away from outdated Maoist 'People's War' conceptions but are still not as innovative as one might expect from a rising power. Primarily, China's military leadership is said to benchmark 'more advanced' Western doctrines and to measure itself as forever falling short due to pre-existing handicaps and limited, misdirected funds.

Karmel's conclusion is particularly interesting in light of the allied war in neighboring Afghanistan in 2001-2002. Afghanistan was threatening as a result of the Taliban's inability to achieve any measure of rational-legal legitimacy in a capitalist world, and the weaknesses of the regime created a fertile ground for Al Qaida's terrorism. So the threat to the immense power of the US was weakness rather than strength or any Afghani claims to 'great power'. Similarly, Karmel cautions, while China is not a great power, 'China's weaknesses, for decades, may be far more threatening than its strengths.' So, for example, Chinese worker unrest might be more likely to spark the next 'Asia crisis' than a Mainland effort to retake Taiwan. Karmel even welcomes further advances in Chinese governance that might further Chinese power, suggesting that these advances are likely only in a context of further domestic political and economic liberalization. It is also interesting that while China fears US intervention in the affairs of developing countries, it welcomed the US intervention in Afghanistan and was, as usual during the reform period, a passive player in a nearby conflict.

Karmel's supporting chapters on Chinese military strategy, force structure, military-industrial complex, and defense spending are loaded with hundreds of footnotes from Chinese government sources, including 'internal circulation only' documents. The information on defense spending is likely to be most quickly dated, and on force structure most lasting. Generally, the book is recommended to students of international and Asian security, civil-military relations in developing countries, and Chinese politics.

The authors have done fine job in highlighting the chinese aviation industry.This book details chinese advances to cover the large technological gap vis a vis the west and the U.S but also points out the inherent weaknesses in the present day avaiation industry. The strategic concept of Chinese AirForce is also well researched.Overall a good book for milatary enthusiast!

As you can always expect from RAND, the research work is excellent.

One cannot analyze an Air Force's current state and future without understanding its past. "China's Air Force Enters The 21st Century" gives valuable insights about PLAAF's history, structure, and past trends. The fact that detail study on PLAAF in English is relatively rare, makes this book even more valuable.

The book is divided into nine chapters.
Ch 1- Introduction
Ch 2- Discussion of PLAAF's Strategy from a historical perspective.
Ch 3- This chapter is about PLAAF's various operations from beginning till the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis.
Ch 4- History from 1960 to Vietnam War.
Ch 5- The period 1970s to 1981.
Ch 6- Everything after the 80s.
Ch 7- PLAAF's training.
Ch 8- Structure and programs.
Ch 9- Conclusions.

Of course, a lot of things had happened since the publication of this book in 1995. On military equipment alone, we saw the confirmation of the Su-27SK's local production, the acquisition of Su-30MKK, introduction of the JH-7A, more information leaks on J-10, depolyment of S-300... so on. Hence, further in-depth assessments must be made about PLAAF. However, this isn't the book's fault, as military analysis books and articles often become outdated as soon as they come out. "China's Air Force Enters The 21st Century" still serves as a good starting point, I recommand it to anyone who is interested in PLAAF.

This text by Chung was one of the texts that I used when I was taking a graduate course in probability at Stanford in 1975. It is carefully written but challenging. It provides good coverage of the central limit theorem, the law of large numbers and the law of the iterated logarithm. It also covers stable laws very well. The style is one of rigorous mathematics with theorems, and lemmas given with their mathematical proofs.

The book was recently revised. The revised text does not change much but new material on measure and integration that is now commonly included in the first graduate course in probability has been added. In the 1970s at Stanford a course in measure theory was a prerequisite for the course in advanced probability although some student took it concurrently.

If you plan to get this text, the revised edition is probably worth it. If you already have this edition and know your measure theory, it may not be worth it to get the new edition.

"A course in probability theory", written by Kai Lai Chung, has been referred by not only mathematicians but also mathematical economists.This book is written very rigorously, but almost all of the theorems have easy-to-understand proofs. So it is not difficult to follow. Moreover, there are lots of exercises in this book. So I do recommend this book.

I wanted to know whether there is any officially published solution book for the above book? As its certainly not possible to solve each n every problem which one(actually each n everyone) would find time consuming. So let me know about it. That's the only reason i rated the book 4 stars.Its worth 5 stars otherwise.

Can u tell me if this text book has a detail answer book to its exercis ?? I need to know... Please mail me about my question... Thank you so much

Al Huang's book is an exposition of the method and philosophy of tai chi that entices the reader with a joyful, effusive, spontaneous discussion. This is not a text listing the basic postures and steps in methodical order. Rather, it is a book that provides a glimpse of the poetry and art of tai chi.

Sifu Huang's book affords the reader insight into the real meaning of T'ai Chi... the playful, energetic spirit which is fundamental to Taoist philosophy. I recently had the pleasure of taking a T'ai Chi workshop with Sifu Huang at Esalen, many years after I first read this seminal work on the subject. I'm happy to say that the workshop was every bit as much a pleasure as I had expected from reading about it. I recommend this book for anyone interested in T'ai Chi or the Tao, from beginner to expert

Lily has accomplished something that no one has done. She brought the 1500 year old Chinese divination methodology to the twentieth century English World. This methodology is well known in many parts of China. But it has never had a holding anywhere else. It is amazing and in some senses freightening to realize how much of a person's life can be learned just by knowing the date of birth. I have known people with great wealth, fabulous fame and who have died a premature death. In one way or the other, they showed up in Meng by using Lily's methodology. The book is very well done. However, it will help if a kit can be included that all the diagrams and charts can be together. I copied them with my scanner and assembled them into a kit. But it would nicer if it was a part of the book. I recommend this book highly to those who wish to have a better understand of life and human nature.

I purchased a copy of "The Path to Good Fortune" a couple of months ago. I read it avidly, found it engaging, interesting and intensly practical. Lily Chung teaches the reader an essential concept to understanding Chinese metaphysics: To understand complex data as a whole unit, in this case, very much like a biome. What this gives to the reader is mental picture of the dynamics of any life situation that is a complete, interactive, and living entity. Although this is a metaphor, converting life's dynamics in this way makes them very clearly understood. If the book had only assisted me in this way, it was more than worth the investment.

I bought this tape expecting that there would be children singing these songs (I don't know what prompted me to think that); instead it's an adult woman with a rather high voice. My 3 year old son has only listened to the tape once because I found the music and singing a little grating the first time we heard it. Also, I think that the songs are sung a little too fast for beginners, even though I am a Chinese speaker and can understand what's being said. I may just need to play it hundreds of times, as I do most of my son's music tapes, for him to learn the words.

these song are great, my daughters not only learn the chinese language but also the english version of these songs. This item is used at our play group and the children love this tape. the tape is music and words are clear each word can be understood it is a must.

I use this book with my kindergarten students. It gives the Chinese words for several popular children's songs including London Bridge is Falling Down, Mary Had a Little Lamb, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The kids learn the song in both English and Chinese, making it easy to understand the Chinese. It also has some "classic" Chinese children's songs, including Liang Zhi Laohu and Mi Feng Gong Zuo. The tape is clear and easy to understand, so that even teachers who don't speak Chinese can learn the songs. I recommend it highly for children from preschool through fifth grade!

This book was for a while the classic text in model theory, and it still is a good resource for a student in the area. This was the first model theory text I read, and I've always found the proofs to be clear, straightforward, and easy to read. I came with some background in logic, but Chapter 1 covers all the basic logic you need for this book. Chapters 2, 3, 4.1, and 5.1 are still proably as good a place as any to learn the essential core material of the subject.

My biggest reservation about recommending this book is that it was first written in 1973, and it shows. Although this is the third edition of the book, its original structure is still largely the same. The field of model theory has changed a lot since the early 70's. For instance, in 1978 Shelah wrote a famous book that simultaneously answered many open questions in model theory and changed the direction of the whole subject, and the 1990's have seen many new applications to algebra and other areas of pure math. However, these important developments aren't reflected much in this book. The new sections added to this edition aren't exactly on the cutting edge: "Lindstrom's charaterization of first-order logic" was known at least since the early 1980's, and represents a line of research that doesn't seem to have much to do with model theory today; model completeness and nonstandard universes were studied a lot by Abraham Robinson and his colleages -- in the 1950's and 1960's.

Why is it so important to have an up-to-date textbook, since the theorems in this book are surely no less true now than 30 years ago? A really good book should give the student an idea of the current state of the subject, and this book does not. If you only read this book you might think that model theorists were still preoccupied with proving two-cardinal theorems. (Though if for some reason you really like two-cardinal theorems, then this is the book for you!) Here's some other introductory model theory books written from a modern point of view:

Hodges, _A Shorter Model Theory_
Poizat, _A Course in Model Theory_
Marker, _Model Theory: An Introduction_

I've looked at the first two, and they both seem like they would be good books for a beginner. All three of the books cover essentially all the material in Chang and Keisler, except some advanced topics on ultraproducts -- but for almost all applications you don't need ultraproducts anyway, just compactness. All three books also have more emphasis on applications to other areas of math. The last two books contain some more advanced material on stability theory as well.

One final word on the exercises in Chang and Keisler: in response to other reviewers' comments, I think they are comparable in difficulty to the exercises in most other advanced undergrad or beginning grad level math books I've seen. There are a lot of routine exercises, and also a decent number of slightly tricky exercises. And a few are really hard -- some of the double-starred problems are the topics of research papers! But you can just skip these ones.

No, I didn't buy the book and then find it too advanced for me. I read some of a library copy found it to be not terrifically understandable. I give the book 5 stars because I understand (from someone who is a researcher in the field and articles written by researchers in the field) that it is an excellent resource for researchers in the field. However, I found it a bit unmotivated, and some of the arguments were hard to follow. As another reviewer noted, many of the excersizes were hard. This is certainly not a bad thing, as it never hurts to stretch the mind.

I've found Poizat's book to be much more understandable, and it presents the material in an excellent way. It has been published in an English translation by Springer.

Poizat's book also has the advantage of being only $[money], which is quite a bargain compared to Chang and Keisler!

This is the best book on Model Theory I have seen. It's an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in the subject. I found the "historical notes" section in the back of the book especially insightfull.