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War With the Evil Power Master
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (1985)
Author: Raymond A. Montgomery
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War With The Evil Power Master
I really like this book because there's lots of fighting and action. I like that one robot--I forget his name. Space battles are really exciting. Especially the ones in this book. I really really enjoyed this book!


Response Surface Methodology : Process and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (2002)
Authors: Raymond H. Myers and Douglas C. Montgomery
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Montgomery misses the point
Montgomery and Myers omit major points in the analyis of responses surfaces. No where do they mention the concept of expected mean squares, or nested factorial designs. This book may be adequate for an engineer, but for a serious mathematician, it is not at a sufficient level. If you found this book lacking, try Skillings and Webber's book: Experimental Designs.

even better second edition
I took my first short course in response surface designs from Ray Myers at an IPE course. He was a great teacher and taught out of his first book. That book was self-published after he had disagreements with his original publisher. Many years later he and Doug Montgomery joined forces and published the first edition of this book with Wiley. I have reviewed that book previously for amazon.

This second edition is ideal. When I took the course I understood the material so well that I was able to apply the methodology right away in my work. The clarity of these authors is outstanding and they provide a wealth of well illustrated examples. It also is greatly expanded and has many student exercises at the end of each chapter. In addition to the standard response surface designs the book does a good job of coevring experimental design concepts in general and even covers Taguchi designs and robust parameter design. In addition topics such as mixture experiments and evolutionary operation are covered. Advanced topics include the generalized linear models and the general estimating equations approach to mixed effects models and repeated measures ANOVA.

Very authoritative with an extensive list of references and appendices to aid understanding.

Very well written
Myers & Montgomery have woven an invaluable resource that combines theory and application for a large variety of problems that can be investigated using RSM. This is one of those texts that should be on the shelf of a researcher and modeler.


House of Danger (Choose Your Own Adventure Ser., No. 15)
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (1986)
Authors: Ray Montgomery and Raymond A. Montgomery
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great innovative idea
This was the first of the Choose Your Own Adventure books that I ever read, and I loved it. That was about fifteen years ago. I am currently trying to hunt all of them down and add them to my collection, because I loved them so much growing up.

These books are perfect for a younger reader. They are not straight novels. They are not 300-400 pages long. In fact, some adventures can last about 3 or 4 pages! They are not filled with big words, and they are not boring. In fact, they're aimed at pure action and adventure, yet they're not violent at all. There's little plot and character building, which is something that might turn a younger reader off.

Plus, as small as each book is, they contain numerous different stories. It is up to the reader to decide how the story ends. It is Nintendo in book form!

In this particular book, you are investigating a mysterious house. Who owns the house? What kind of strange things or people will you encounter?

If you are looking for material to encourage a child to read for any reason, these books are perfect!


Secret of the Ninja
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Bantam Books (1987)
Author: Raymond A. Montgomery
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I must say it was pretty good
Yeah. I just checked this out at my local library and i must say it was exciting and action packed. I think i remember you vist you friend or the other way around and ninjas try to kidnap u and all that good stuff.


Terror on the Titanic (Choose Your Own Adventure, No 169)
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (1996)
Authors: Jim Wallace, Frank Bolle, and Raymond A. Montgomery
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Not very good
This book was terrible! Choose your own adventure books are hard to keep up with where the choces are. It's better to read a book with a set plot. Also, it has hardly anything on everyday life on the ship. It's okay if you like Choose your own adventures, though

I love the book
This book is great,I am a Titanic lover and also I wanted to know what it was like on the Titanic and it gave a chance to what happen on the titanic.So your not a titanic lover like me,Its ok if you don't have to read this book,but I think its.So give this book a try.

A book that was good enough
This book was good enough to grab my attention, especially because there weren't choices at every page, like some books which I don't like. This book was also exciting enough so that I was tempted to read on and on. I am also liking the fact that there is a VHS tape, and I can't wait to get that!

So if you're looking for a good Choose Your Own Adventure story, you've come to the right one.


Journey Under the Sea
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Bantam Books (1979)
Author: Raymond A. Montgomery
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Montgomery's best
R.A. Montogmery could never equal the mastery of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre that Edward Packard did. Too often his books were preachy and overly arbitrary. This book may be his best effort, however, telling a fairly gripping series of adventures of your search for the lost city of Atlantis. The series was new and fresh at this point, and many of its best books were among its first nine.

This book was fun and adventure packed!
In my opinion I would like to recommend this book to anyone who hates reading.

This book takes place in the deep Atlantic in the lost city of Atlantis. In this book you are the character. What happens in the book is that you are an underwater explorer. This is your biggest mission. You must find the lost city of Atlantis.

A fascinating and unique adventure
Journey Under the Sea is one of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books, and among the best ever written. Combining the elements of the unknown with that of high-adventure, the book involves the reader from the start and, depending on your "fate-altering" decisions, will end with a wallop. Find the Lost City of Atlantis, or explore the other mysterious locales of the ocean. But no matter where you turn, danger awaites you in this exciting multi-path quest of never-ending suprise and suspense.


Abominable Snowman
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (1982)
Authors: Raymond A. Montogomery and Raymond A. Montgomery
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Good idea, bad execution
Back in its heyday, the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series was one of the best, most exciting series for kids there was. Especially good were the ones by Edward Packard. His colleague R.A. Montgomery wrote less successful efforts. This one displays his fondness for negative and often arbitrary endings, as well as for a sort of new agey bizarreness. Ace illustrator Grainger is always good, though I wonder to think that anyone would ever pay for a hardcover of this light text, when a paperback would do.

Will you find the Abominable Snowman?
The Abominable Snowman is a great book.You have to find a yeti to proove that he really exists.On your way you'll find a friend to come along.But you never know what will happen next.You have to choose your own advenure.You could find the yeti and become rich and famous, or you find a city you will live in.Or you get scared before you even find the yeti and return back home.


Tattoo of Death (Choose Your Own Adventure, No 159)
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (1995)
Authors: Frank Bolle and Raymond A. Montgomery
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What the wha-hoozits?
This book is awful! No matter how many times I read through it I couldnt understand it. It kept jumping from one thing to the other and made utterly no sense. I used all 138 pages to wipe my butt! Eat that R. A. Montgomery!!

who knew the flower could be so deadly
The flower tattoo was a symbol of evil;when you read into action you want out of this gang of thugs almost immediately.
That's when the action really begins,there are myriad decisions that will be made,nothing is better than nailing the hoodlum gang members,there's a whole host of ways in taking them down.
"GOOD LUCK FRIENDS"


Space and Beyond (Choose Your Own Adventure)
Published in Hardcover by Grey Castle Pr (1988)
Authors: Paul Granger and Raymond A. Montgomery
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Not the best of the series
The "Choose Your Own Adventure" series was a great invention for kids, and the first 14 or so were very interesting. However, simply put, R.A. Montgomery is not very good at writing them, unlike his colleague Edward Packard. Arbitrary, preachy, and sometimes practically incoherent, his books are only for rabid fans of the genre.


Almost Lost (Trio: Rebels in the New World, Book No 3)
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (1990)
Author: Raymond A. Montgomery
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