This is THE BOOK for anyone -not exclusively urban planners- who wants to understand not only the physical form of the city, but how its citizens interact with the urban landscape. Through his experience and observation, Lynch reminds us that the most important component of a city -the reason why they are built- are its inhabitants.

Michael Southworth and Tridib Banerjee, former students of Kevin Lynch at MIT's School of Urban Studies and Planning, have organized a brilliant collection of most of Lynch's works. Here we can find his seminal ideas pointed out trough his researches in the field of environmental perception, as well as his urban design projects. The book still presents a good biography of Lynch and serves as a very interesting complement to the books that this fundamental author wrote. It is an extremely important work both to architectural and urban design students as well as to professionals and researches.

...an impressive collection of articles spanning numerous theoretical provinces. Lynch gives a successful tour of an oft-vexed and aporetic topic, introducing traditional views and contemporary criticisms for the novice and tenured professor alike.

If you are interested in the comtemporary discussion about truth, this book is a must buy. Lynch introduces each individual section with comments that lucidly outline the debate while providing insight into it. Only the top authors are anthologized here. It makes a terrific text book and a profound read for anyone interested in truth in philosophy.

In TRUTH IN CONTEXT, Lynch does something rare, he offers a genuinely new theory of truth. At the same time he gives us a new way to think about pluralism and relativism in philosophy. Especially good are the discussions of Conceptual Schemes and the two level account of truth as a functional property.

Michael Lynch has done a great service by clearly laying out the consequences of pluralism. this is the best account of truth and pluralism currently available.

If you rely on computer numerical control in your manufacturing facility or school, you can't afford to miss this key concepts(*) approach to learning the safe and effective use of CNC technology. Computer Numerical Control for Machining utilizes this unique approach to introduce you to method of programming and operation that can be applied to any kind of CNC machine tool. This essential reference offers step-by-step coverage of CNC methodology in three sections: manual programming ... conversational programming ... and machine operations. You'll not only learn the best ways of maximizing equipment use with safe and proven techniques, but also get a solid grasp of how CNC actually functions. Truly a complete learning tool that can be applied to a wide variety of CNC machine tools, this indispensable guide includes many detailed examples of CNC controls applied to different machine tools, such as milling machines, machining centers, turning centers, turret punch presses, and wire EDM machines. Whether you work in a small job shop or a major manufacturing plant, Computer Numerical Control for Machining will give you the skills you need to ensure safe, smooth operation of any CNC machine tool. __________________________________________________ (*) There are ten key concepts to CNC. The first six are programming-related and the last four are operation-related. If the student can master but ten basic concepts, they are well on their way to becoming proficient with CNC.

Mike Lynch is a a formidable scholar in the social studies of the sciences. His former book, ART AND ARTEFACT IN LABORATORY SCIENCE, broke new ground in its detailed and precise analysis of exactly how natural scientists (in this case, neuroscientists) go about their business. In this early text, Lynch explored just exactly HOW neurobiologists distinguish between facts and artefacts in Golgi staining operations. But the book went far beyond this technical focus to explore how natural scientists create the domains of intelleigibility which they inhabit. In his subsequent work, SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE AND ORDINARY ACTION, Lynch developed much further his intense analysis of how it is that the 'scientific' is connected to, and dependent upon, 'commonsensical' modes of reasoning and inquiring. A truly original work, with much to recommend it, especially vis-a-vis his critique of pretentious philosophical treatments of similar themes. Controversial, but well worth your attention...

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As a farm kid and a veterinary student, I found this book to be extremely realistic and funny. I enjoyed his stories recalling veterinary school and farm calls. Dr. Lucas tells it how it is. It is a good eye opener for people interested in large animal veterinary medicine and the life one has because of it. If you come from a farm you will certainly enjoy this book.

James Lucas is a seasoned veterinarian playing his trade in southern Iowa for more than 36 years. He kept notes of his experiences with the people and animals he encountered throughout his career. In Birth In A Chicken House, Lucas draws upon those personal reminiscences to spin out his humorous true-life tales that will engage the reader's rapt attention from first page to last. Highly recommended reading for anyone who loves a good yarn well told, Birth In A Chicken House provides perceptive and very funny descriptions of the animals and culture, the beauty and history of a rural farming community, and the dedicated veterinarian that served their needs.

Birth in a Chicken House is a great read for anyone who has experienced life in a rural setting, and it's a must read for anyone in the 50s' plus era. As you read the stories, it's as if Dr. Lucas is sitting across the table from you telling a story. He writes it just like it happened. I found myself laughing out loud many, many times as he related his personal accounts of people and animals...I think almost everyone can identify with his experiences. The short story format makes it a great book for busy people to pick up for a few minutes and read a story. However, once you start reading it, you'll probably not want to put it down.

If your idea of love is limited to visions of puppies and balloons, The Thing About Love Is... probably not for you. In Polyphony Press' first effort, the heavy topic of love is tackled in gritty, gutsy pieces that cut to core of this complex emotion. Sometimes it's bliss, sometimes it's bizarre, and quite often it hurts, but regardless of its form, love is always intriguing. This anthology is in keeping with that notion. With a variety of styles and voices, the works featured here are unanimous in their ability to draw the reader in and keep him hooked. It is truly a great read that may challenge one's personal definition of love. Call it an enjoyable experiment in mind expansion!

It's difficult to find an anthology that has as much stopping power as this one. Reading it, I was impressed not only by the diversity of the authorial voices, but also by their veracity. Each story, poem and play seems to have come straight from the gut. What's more, the contributing writers help to remove our blinders; particularly when it comes to matters of the heart. Love, they argue, is nothing less than a battlefield on which each of us daily chances victory or defeat.Those seeking to enter the contest fully armed would do well to buy this book.

Anthologies are not my usual choice of reading material, but as this was recommended to me, I decided to give it a try. I was pleasantly surprised. While I could not relate to some of the pieces here, I enjoyed the underlying topic immensely. The poetry, drama, and short stories were a good blend. The Thing About Love Is... an enjoyable and fast read, but has a peculiar lingering effect that required that I return to it for further exploration. It's a perfect book to read from the relative comfort and safety of your best chair, where you know that you can dip into the joy and angst of love and for once, walk away unscathed.

I read this book with the expectation that it would give me an idea of the extent to which organism traits or phenotypes are determined optimally. Discussions on evolution frequently regard the functioning and attributes of an organism as being optimal at the particular time in its evolutionary history. A successful theory of evolution as a theory of mathematical optimization would entail a thorough understanding of the evidence for this hypothesis of optimality of phenotypes.

Another interesting question as to what effect a certain mixing of genetic factors, each one of these factors determining a phenotype separately (and optimally), would determine an optimal phenotype. An answer to this question would be important from the standpoint of transgenic strategies.

But this book is not about optimization theory in genetics, but one that introduces the reader to an analysis, in the authors view, of how evolution happens, and not a predictive tool of what ought to evolve. And, as the authors correctly point out, the time scales needed to evolve an optimal phenotype are not usually dealt with in discussion on optimization strategies. The authors also argue that optimization theories do not consider the expected phenotypic variance or the influence of random drift or mutation. Quantitative genetics does this, they state, and they define it as a mechanistic theory of the evolutionary process.

What is also interesting about quantitative genetics is that it was responsible directly or indirectly for a large body of statistical theory, many of these results being standard material in modern classes in statistics. It is also beginning to find an intersection with the theory of molecular genetics. The authors remark that eventually both quantitative and molecular genetics will have to answer to each other, and they give a taste of this in the chapter on marked-based analysis and QTLs.

There is no question that the reading of this book will give the reader a comprehensive overview of quantitative genetics. But, it takes an very long time to get through, and there are no exercises to test the understanding. Readers will need a fair knowledge of statistics to read the book, but there are three chapters and appendices in the back of the book outlining some of the necessary statistical concepts. The level of mathematics is the most sophisticated in the last chapter, which uses techniques such as maximum likelihood, expectation maximization, and restricted maximum likelihood. Readers with a background in bioinformatics will be very familiar with these techniques. Newton-Rhapson methods and Fisher's scoring method are discusses as derivative-based methods for solving the ML/REML equations and compared with the EM methods for doing the same. The authors are very convincing in informing the reader of the difficulty in estimating genetic variance components in real populations. Also, and most importantly, there are myriads or real-world examples given to illustrate the theory.

For molecular geneticists, and for those very curious about the connection between molecular biology and quantitative genetics, chapter 14, covering the principles of marker-based analysis, would probably be the most interesting in the book. The treatment is both historical, discussing the effects of entire chromosomes, and modern, discussing topics such as using markers or the construction of nearly isogenic lines and cloning individual QTLs. In the 'classical' approach to marker-based methods the authors discuss chromosomal assays, wherein a chromosome from one line is substituted into a standard genetic background chosen to have minimum variance. Since a chromosomal segment may contain a large position of the total genome, the authors take what could be called a 'coarse-grained' approach that utilizes genetic factors rather than a 'microscopic' one emphasizing individual genes. Such a strategy requires large sample sizes if one is to detect factors that result in extremely small effects. Examples of this approach are given, and the authors discuss its weaknesses, one being that a large chromosomal section can have QTLs that have effects in opposite directions, resulting in a net effect close to zero. Thoday's method is also discussed in order to point out the limitations of using flanking-marker mapping methods. The genetics of Drosophila bristle number is also briefly treated, but many references are given.

Recoginizing that direct sequencing of DNA gives a measure of genetic variation, the authors point out though that restriction fragment length polymorphisms are suitable for most purposes, assuming that these are detectable. The advantages and disadvantages of other techniques, such as randomly amplified polymorphic DNAs, are also discussed. The arithmetic involved in genetic mapping is treated in fair detail, the authors overviewing what is involved mathematically in map distances, recombination frequencies, and in the estimation of how many randomly distributed markers are needed to gaurantee that a portion of the genome is within a given number of map units of a marker. The strategies for mapping and cloning of QTLs are the main emphasis in the rest of the chapter. Some of the more interesting discussions here include: 1. The phenomena of 'linkage drag', wherein linked undesirable geness can be dragged along with the marker; 2. Candidate loci and their use in the study of genetic disorders. The authors outline in great detail the problems with this approach, such as linkage disequilibrium; 3. Gene cloning and its use in the study of QTLs. The authors discuss two different cloning strategies, namely that of transposon tagging and positional cloning. The authors emphasize the need for inbred lines for the detection of QTLs by transposon tagging to reduce variance from segregation at other loci. Because of this need, they seem skeptical of the general use of this technique, but give a brief argument as to its possible success using homologies in sequence data between species. The authors also emphasize the complexity involved in the use of positional cloning and comparative mapping and then outline an algorithm as to how to use NILs to do positional cloning of a QTL.

An amazing book that really tells you all you need to know about designing and analyzing quantitative genetic experiments.

An awesome book. Everything you ever wanted to know about quantitative genetics and more. A must for every evolutionary biologist.

This is a charming collection of stories perfect for reading aloud at the end of the school day. A must for teachers up to grade 2. The stories are charming, humorous and captivating and will have the children begging for more!

These stories tucked me and my younger sister into bed on many a night! How grateful we were a few years ago when we re-discovered our father's manuscripts in our Mom's home. It is a joy to us that they are available now to delight and enrich children, generation after generation. If you are like Mike Lynch's daughters, you will never forget these charming stories. Ages 9-11 can enjoy reading Three Wishes by themselves. Ages 4-8 will be very grateful if you read Three Wishes to them. 50% of our royalties are being donated to children's charities. We're sure you'll enjoy Three Wishes as much as we do. May all your wishes come true.

'Three Wishes' is a wonderful children's book. It keeps the children away from the madness in the world, and shows them a more loving and mystical place for their imaginations to run wild. I particularly fell in love with the loveable Leprechaun, 'Magee.' He is the type of character that children will remember, and the kind of character a parent wants them to remember. These stories have been putting children to bed over the years, and your children would probably enjoy falling asleep with thoughts of The Twilight Twins and Magee dancing in their heads. If you have children, or you have children you are close to, you should pick up this book today, and make sure you read a story to them each night before they go to bed. You will definitely thank yourself for it.