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Good power electronics textbook. I use it for my power electronics course at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It covers a lot of material well, including switching power converters, thermal and magnetics design. It's a bit thin in some important subjects, such as current mode control.

Marc T. Thompson, Ph.D.

ACCORDING TO MY EXPERIENCE AS A STUDENT I THINK THE BOOK GIVES US THE STUDENTS A GOOD AND COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION IN THE SUBJECT OF VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES AND THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF POWER CONVERTERS THAT EVERY STUDENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SHOULD HAVE A GOOD GRASP OF.

If you know absolutely nothing about psychic abilities - or you're sceptical about them - this little book could serve as a solid introduction. It deals with the power of positive thinking, self-hypnosis and other topics in Hewitt's trademark no-nonsense, "everyone can do it" manner.
However, the book's level is VERY basic and, regardless of its price, it's not worth the money if you are interested in learning a lot about mind power. Get Psychic Development For Beginners instead: it's way more about the same thing and it even has the same examples that are in this book (My guess is that Truth About Mind Power is a "demo version" of PDFB).

I am always surprized at the lack of information about the metal heat treating field. This book is definitely included in this. Although many of the processing techniques are good, some make me cringe and want to run for cover. The metallurgical information is remaniscent of Biringuccio or Agricola, both written in the 1500's. If you have enough metallurgical knowledge to know what is correct and what processing techniques are good, then you don't need this book. If you don't have enough knowledge to decipher this, then it is unreliable. On a lighter note, the other sections, not dealing with heat treating, seem good.

If you are looking for all the books Bryson has written, look up his official web site or at random house publication's web site.

I agree with Julian, while this particular book may be a bit more technical than his others, it is certainly worth the money and belongs on every Bryson fan's shelf. The insights into metal are as plentiful as the humor - especially when the author dives into the always hilarious topics of carburization and TTT diagrams. Side splitting! I never knew that working with metals could be so entertaining but I guess I should expect that from Bryson. He can make any topic a joy.

While the book provides a wide range of knowledge - I'm sure this will become the standard for manuals on grinding which I think is the books strongest section. It is also the section the allows Bryson to really exercise his comedic genuis even if some of the humor may be lost on the casual fan.

My only complaint is that this gem isn't available on audio-cassette but I'm sure that Random House will fix that soon. I would love to hear these words from Bill's own mouth especially when he talks about getting the most out of a furnace!

Also make sure to look for Bill's book "Cryogenics" which I think he was working on while still living in England - it, too, is a joy to read - especially the highly entertaining section on liquid nitrogen! The section on Stress in Materials was also top notch - almost as humorous as his observations about the women of Iowa in earlier books. Keep up the good work Bill!

This is one of the worst book I've ever read in my life ! The author fails to explain the details of the algorithm, spends too much time on irrelevant issues. Apparetly, he doesn't really care to teach anything to anybody or he doesn't know the subject well. If you want to waste your money, this is the book to get it !

I have never read this book I just wanted to be the first one to review it. Now I am. Ha Ha Ha!

There are very few books on programming with IBMs Open Class Library (OCL), but this one is absolutely superb. It cover every major class in detail and how to use it along with excellent examples. It also covers cross-platform issues (OS/2 and Win32) which the OCL was designed to solve.

If you do any programming at all with the OCL, especially GUI programming, then this book must be at your side at all times. The OCL docs are shallow and sometimes flat out wrong. This book shines a light into an otherwise dark area.

The one drawback of this book is that it is a bit dated now as it covers VisualAge for C++ 3.0 (0S/2) and 3.5 (Win32) instead of the more recent 4.0 (maybe a new edition is in the future? Hint, hint to the authors!) Also, this book was written before most of the fixpaks were released, so some of the information in it is now wrong (e.g. OS/2 now supports the four template handler classes as of fixpak 7).

Although I usually read Michael Williams DragonLance novels I bought this book as it seemed the only intresting one in the quite understocked shop.Knowing Michael Williams for his poetry in the dragonlance novels and his own novels in the series such as weasels luck I was expecting even a partially decent novel, and although the prologue was good the book rapidly fell downhill, becoming confusing with a boring plot, unoriginal characters and some actual gaping holes in the plot as far as I can see, such as basing the novel in a fantasy land and then refering to places in the real world. The book was a struggle to finish reading and must be one of the only books I can remember not having enjoyed. After reading such poor material I almost feel I could do better myself and am warning you if you enjoy michael williams work stay away from this book as it will only be a dissapointment.

Very factual and a good concept overall. BUT the problem to me was that it was too factual, and not a good read. It was like reading a text book. On the other hand, if you are wanting to do a research paper on how the Nazis came to power, it has great information.

This is an attempt to understand the psychology of the late 18th century Virginia gentry by exploring the writings of some of its more prominent male menbers. Lockridge culls his evidence from the commonplace books of Thomas Jefferson and William Byrd, in which the subjects collected jokes, quotations, and parables that they found to be particularly illuminative. While Lockridge acknowledges that the perspectives of two men cannot be wholly transferable to their entire class, he hopes that his subjects are representational enough that some insight into the general beliefs of the gentry can be found in their writings. However, by focusing on narrow periods in the authors' lives in a strictly constructed context, while adding a heavy dose of his own (questionable) psychoanalysis, Lockridge excludes much evidence that could provide a more balanced assesment of gentry values.

Lockridge rests his case on the belief that the personality failings of Jefferson and Byrd were somehow representational of a broad misogynistic conviction among upper-class Virginia men. While continuously undermining his own argument by admitting that among the scores of commonplaces he has read, he found nothing similar to the "misogynistic rage" uncovered in the writings of these two men, he is nonetheless certain that these aberrations were somehow deeply reflective of true patriarchal hatred for women. Despite the fact that his own sources make clear that these expressions of misogyny appeared in response to personal failures with women (Byrd was spurned in romance, and Jefferson was unhappily controlled by his mother during his rebellious teenage years) Lockridge argues that it is not enough to agree that these outbursts were reflective of bad personal experiences with women, but that we need to "understand what mental categories are invoked on such an occasion." Understanding what Lockridge means by this would be far more enlightening, however. He goes on to insist that because entries concerning women appear in the same time frame as those about power and rebellion, they must be indisputably connected in the authors' minds, despite the fact that the two men had much to say about these themes in other contexts.

Despite the problems in the work, the conclusions Lockridge ultimately draws about patriarchy are rather convincing, though more concrete evidence than he has presented would be required to prove them. He argues that rather than fearing women for their sexual or political power, it was economic control that most consternated gentrymen, as widows had the ability to control their own property (though Jefferson's attempts to change the legal code so that females could inherit property from their parents would seem to contradict the idea that he personally felt this way.)

Lockridge claims that the point of his study was simply to show that males were under pressure from women because female economic power had the potential to undermine male hegemony in controlling the structure of their newly created world. This is certainly a valid and interesting point; it is thus all the more unfortunate that the body of his essay does little to reinforce it.