not gonna do back flips for a math book

I am a college student and the math book that was at the bookstore was $100.00. I went onto amazon.com and found the same book in new condition (looked like)for $56.00. I was kind of weary about ordering on-line for the first time but was pleasently surprised. This was a great first experience and plan on ording all my books through amazon.com.

"Ideas" is the key here as we have calculators, computers, and what not to do any real number crunching or comparing. This book carries you from zero to the edges of most any mathematical discipline. The information in the margins ties the theories back to reality. At the appropriate locations in the margin are postage stamps from around the works are shown commemorating the individual mathematicians and scientists relating to the subject being studied. There is a section in the book with the answers to all the odd questions.

The book has a really good discussion on menu pricing that I was looking for. A shorter section than in than Miller's other book, but easier to get the important information. Worth the price of the book.

Alot easier to understand than most books on the same topic. Made it fun to read.

This book was recommended by the National Restaurant Association for their cost control course. I thought it was easy to read and clear. I would recommend it. The author, Jack Miller, was from St. Louis, where he was Head of the restaurant program at St. Louis Community College...

This abominable piece of filth is nothing more than a bunch of poorly worded general business concepts. There is nothing in this book that is specific to the IT manager, or at least nothing useful. Most of the content is in the form of bulleted lists, as if the author just wrote down some ideas and didn't bother to expand on them.

I hope the felolow who wrote this substandard slop has a good job, because I don't think he has a future in writing. I'm glad I only purchased the E-book, so at least I saved some tree from the disgrace of having this immature drivel printed upon it.

I think this book is fantastic. Its usefulness lies in it simplicity and comprehensiveness, which means you can apply it to most managerial tasks you might encounter. I am not an IT manager, but I have used many of the general sections of the book such as the Staff Management and the Project Planning chapters. What it is able to do is give a comprehensive list of questions to ask in each of the specific topics, which enables you to be confident in knowing that nothing has been forgotten. It is the kind of book that all managers should have to hand during their whole career, to dip in and out of as new challenges (and old ones) arise. It definitely helped me to implement good procedures in my work place. I also think it would be incredibly useful for any trainee manager in any industry and a tool to help them learn & understand the challenges they will face.

The beauty of this manual lies in its simplicity. On every subject the author seeks to simplify good practise to a set of checklists. In so doing he seeks to steer a business away from the obvious pitfalls. I fully reccommend this informative guide - it'll save you a lot of time and money in the long run.

I would have prefered a few more recipes for the staples such as chicken, beef etc. Most of the recipes seemed a little esoteric to me and unlikely to be included in my every day cooking. Perhaps thats the intention of the book but I think they could have found a better balance.

Wonderful, expertly written, and extremely helpful in pin pointing exactly what you are looking for in dining in every neighborhood in S.F. Thanks..

This book is fabulous. Even for people who don't cook, the book is a great restaurant guide to San Francisco. I love the historical backgrounds of the neighborhoods. Very well written, with a sense of style, opinion, and irreverence. Very SF! I also find the layout, type treatments, and color very pleasing and easy to navigate. The beautiful black & white photographs give a great sense of the neighborhoods without being clichéd.

Ron Rifkin, Oakland, CA

Excellent graphics. Great quality in the physical aspect of the book and the colored graphics contianed in it. But, it definitely does not help the beginner much. It jumps steps and the photographs do not help to decipher what the author is trying to explain. Not for the NOVICE

This book has 22 step-by-step demonstrations of all the basic-level aurbrush techniques! It says what type of airbrushes are used for what type of airbrushing! Picking an air source, airbrsuh, paint, painting surfaces and things you need to get started in both Illustration and T-shirt airbrushing! This is a book I have read 3 or 4 times and every time I read it I find out something new! This is a must for any airbrush artist or artist to be!

In recent years there has been an extended debate about Enlightenment thought. Though many scholars have concluded that there were several "Enlightenments," some continue to make generalizations about the Enlightenment and some speak about "the Enlightenment agenda." After discussing the cult of the deathbed scene in eighteenth?century Britain and France, the author looks at three currents of Enlightenment thought implicit in the deathbed "projects" of David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and Jean Paul Marat. Although Hume and Johnson hold profoundly different views of religion, their political thinking has much in common. Their reformist thought differs radically from what might be called the transformist thought of Marat, who hoped the French would become disinterested citizens whose civil religion was patriotism.
The book also looks at the response of James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon to the deathbed projects of Hume and Johnson, and it discusses how their political thought differs from Johnson's and Hume's. It also considers the complex relations between reformist and transformist thought in Britain during the last three decades of the century, showing how the views of the two reformist groups and of such transformist writers as Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, and Thomas Paine were affected by a number of political events, from the Wilkes crisis to the French Revolution. Though the book focuses on AngloScottish Enlightenment thought, it often refers to the French Enlightenment, and the chapter on Marat looks at the connection between transformist thought in Britain and France.
The author argues that Enlightenment thought was more varied and?in its reformist currents?less hostile to tradition than many observers have allowed. Enlightenment thought was less a cluster of ideas than a debate about a number of questions, especially the following: how to contain religious and secular fanaticism (or what was called enthusiasm); what are the effects of luxury; and what is the nature of the passions. There was, as J. G. A. Pocock says, "a family of Enlightenments," and "there is room for the recognition of family quarrels..."
Why look at deathbed scenes to chart the currents of Enlightenment thought? Because an interest in deathbed scenes was widespread in eighteenth?century Britain and France. The final days of Hume stirred up a controversy that lasted for at least a decade and the final days of Johnson also attracted a great deal of attention, but Marat's death had the greatest impact of the three. His assassination gave impetus to the Jacobins' attempt to eliminate the influence of the church and greatly expand the influence of the state. Marat's project to transform France failed, but so did the projects of Hume and Johnson. Hume argued that religious belief was based on the foolish fear of death, yet religion remained a strong force in Britain. Johnson hoped for a return to God-fearing religion, yet the educated classes continued to prefer a more benign brand of Christianity in which God's benevolence was stressed far more than his judgment.

Though The Title is a bit stodgy, the read is excellent. It is filled with precise history ,concise observation, and thoughtful analysis.The subject of the "heroic" deathbed scene,on canvas,on stage,in poetry and literature is both enthralling and thought provoking. The treatment of the Age of Enlightenment, when viewed through the prism of the deaths/ deathbed scenes of Hume , Johnson and Marat, is wonderful. Brain Candy!

Calculus with Applications is a great textbook for college students from which to learn calculus. It's difficult to write a review on a textbook, especially one that covers mathematics, but as textbooks go, this one is damn good. As a college student pursuing a degree in Business, I have been exposed to materiel covering numerous disciplines. In each instance, I either grasped the subject matter immediately or struggled greatly through the rest of the semester. When taking my calculus class last Fall, I had no qualms once I bought and read through this book.

I found this textbook to be a nice approach to a sterile subject I once learned in high school. The strength of this textbook lies in its presentation of "real-life" examples, such as how calculus is used to compute both periodic and continuous compound interest. When most people hear of calculus, it might conjure up images of long algebraic computations only scientists use to find the meaning of the universe or what engineers require to build the latest nuclear reactor. What this book does is to allay those misconceptions and presents a practical approach to "real world" calculus applications. One does not need to understand astrophysics or financial reports to learn calculus. This book covers calculus theory, and as the title suggests, its application. When covering topics such as differentiation, this book will not ask dull questions such as "find the slope of the tangent at the given point on the curve...." Every math textbook is prone to these types of questions, but this text presents those types of examples only when necessary. This book is not going to make you enjoy math or make you want to run to college's Registrar's office to change your major. It will demonstrate where and how calculus is used outside of the heavy sciences. It presents material clearly, provides an applicable scenario, solves the problem, and explains the answer. And like any other math textbook, follow-up questions are included to reaffirm concepts and odd-numbered answers are provided in the back of the book to solidify understanding.

I want to stress these points: this book is focused in its approach, practical in its application, and geared toward the average college student. This text is ideal for college students who need to learn college-level mathematics and don't want to be bored by finding the volume of a cube or the area under a curve. This is not to say these subjects aren't approached and outlined, however the nature of this book is teach calculus theory without driving students into an intellectual stupor. Calculus with Applications is not a coloring book either. It requires a fundamental understanding of linear algebra, graphing theory, and logarithmic computation, to name a few. My point is: one does not need be Einstein, a Math major, or an engineer to grasp and use the concepts presented in this text or a regular basis. Whether its how to calculate mortgage costs, earnings on a savings account, the percentage of sales increase in a given year, or dare I say it, the growth rate of bacteria, any college student will find this textbook and its concepts helpful in either their academic pursuits or real-life trials.

Let's face it, most people won't be buying this volume by choice--they'll buy it for a class. Still, it's good to know what you're getting into. This is a pretty good anthology of American literature, starting all the way back with Native American myths and Columbus's journals and continuing through Puritan, Enlightenment, Transcendentalist, Romantic, and modern periods of literature in America.

The introductions to the pieces are good--as good or better than Norton's--and the selections themselves are generally good. Still, though, there are a few notable things missing, but that is to be expected in any compendium, I suppose.

One of the highlights of this volume is the full reprints of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. If you have to buy this book, it should be useful and may even be worth keeping around after the class is over. I know I'm going to keep mine.

In many churches, worship wars over music have created family fights. In a surprisingly brief book, Dave Miller urges the wars to become worship feasts, with lots of choices of worship tastes for the family. He takes on the naysayers, the curious and the advocates offering thoughtful questions, strategies and best of all, successful examples of churches who have tried and welcomed a generation of God-seekers while retaining the God-followers. Since no one solution works, Miller creates lots of room for discussion, experimenting, and leading people into worship that attracts, fulfills and energizes people and church leaders who are hungry for genuine encounters with God. Miller won't answer every question you have, indeed, some will have to reinterpret his Presbyterian bias for their own church bias---if you have one. If you can do that, or you are in a church where worship is stale, routine and "boring, boring", Miller's insights will actually make you hopeful and even find yourself attracted to new ways to do worship. Get the book and then graciously hand a few to your church or small group leaders. Now, we can await others to birth the Baptist, Methodist and Lutheran versions of such helpful directive insights.

I am not at all impressed with this book. very uptight and the information is written for the extreme paranoid. I have been unable to read passed the first chapter.

With 40 books on beer and homebrewing to compare this one rates almost as low as that rating guide by that Englishman (not Micheal Jackson). I learned more from the first few pages of Papazian the new complete joy of homebrewing.

For good and to the point informaion read Papazian. It reads like a novel and is fun to booth. It came highly recommended and now I see why.

Other goods books: Beer: Tap into the art and science of Brewing, Charles Bamforth The Classic beerstyle series is not bad either. And on a more advanced level Principles of brewing science is also very good and very readable.

This book was given to me as a gift, and it helped me to get started in homebrewing. A good introduction to the mechanics of homebrewing. But as the first reviewer suggested above, the author is a bit paranoid. For a first-timer, I'd probably reccommend Papazian's guides as a better place to start. It's a little more easygoing and makes for a more interesting read.

... is this book. I began homebrewing in 1993, and was immediately able to create basic and very good beers using only this book as my guide. It walks you into the process, providing the fundamentals, and then allowing you to learn more at your own pace (from full wort boils, to yeast cultures, to full grain). I quickly gained the confidence to not only progress, but to experiment with variations on the recipes to suit my own tastes, and as a result I have enjoyed this casual hobby for 8 years running.