There is no such thing as doing too many calculus problems. This is the book you need to get ready for calculus exams. It's quick, easy to use, portable (a rare thing in calculus books). The only thing I would suggest is to include some harder problems. If you are able to do all of the problems in the book flawlessly, but no more, I doubt if you would get above a C in our calculus program. It's good only through Calculus I. If you're in Calculus II, it would be appropriate to review what you should know.

If you just want to make arrows and you want only this title, you can buy this booklet, but if you bought (like I did) "making indian bows and arrows the old way", then that one already contains in extenso the arrow booklet... Amazon.com pushed me to get the same text twice.

Rebecca is one of seven children. She is sent to live with her aunts. She instantly wins the heart of Aunt Janet, but has less luck with Aunt Miranda. By the end of the book Rebecca does manage to win Miranda's heart. In many ways this book reminds me of Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery. Aunt Janet is similar to Aunt Laura while Aunt Miranda is similar to Aunt Elizabeth. Rebecca herself is like a mixture of Emily and Anne from Anne of Green Gables

This is a story of the pursuit of a murderer in what is now eastern Oklahome just before it became a state. The pursuit is carried out jointly by a U.S. Marshall and the law officers of the Indian nation involved, probably the Cherokee.
In addition to a good story by an excellent writer of historical fiction, Douglas C. Jones, ("The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer"; "Elkhorn Tavern"), it describes the relatively unfamiliar operation of an Indian nation in the "Indian Territory" a few years before Oklahama statehood in 1907.

You get this book when you buy Veribest software and since we teach several hundred students with Veribest tools we looked seriously at this book. In the end we rejected it. Its good points are there are lots of examples and it uniquely teaches both VHDL and Verilog concurrently (although we only intend to teach one). Its weak points are really that it teaches nothing other than how to write fragments of VHDL code. No understanding is given of how and why synthesis tools work, what the effect is on complexity or performance of different coding styles nor of overall design methodologies for constructing systems (as opposed to sub components) also there is no future look into developments or issues in synthesis and IC/FPGA design. So we didn't feel that using this book gave our students any long term knowledge or deep understanding of the subject. If all you want to do is write VHDL/Verilog fragments, the book is OK. Otherwise it demonstrates too much and educates too little.

This book is a great source of information and examples for modeling in both Verilog and VHDL. If you want a career in digital VLSI design using one of these languages, you must definitely buy this book-the contents are nothing like the trivial, nonsense examples contained in other mainstream books. Even after mastering the languages, you will probably want the book on your desk, within easy reaching distance. Even at $65, the book is a great buy-people in my university started to refer to it as "THE BOOK" already!

This book is filled with working examples of both Verilog and VHDL. In my opinion it is one of the best books on the subject of HDL design on the market. Not only do you learn, but since the book uses VHDL and Verilog, you can decide which one you prefer to work with.

While looking through the list of books on mythology, I couldn't help but notice a number of books containing "Arabian Nights" in the title. I hate to burst the bubble of anyone who plans to read this book, but I can tell you immediately that these are not the tales of the Arabian Nights. Aladdin was a character added completely from the mind of a French "translator," and Ali Baba and Sinbad are not included in the orignal Arabian Nights. If you want a decent copy of the stories, look for Haddaway's translation. If you want a version of the story appropriate for children, tone down the sex and violence, but please stay true to the story!

I purchased this book wanting an inexpensive edition of the Arabian Nights. When I saw this edition was illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, I knew this would be a good one. Unfortunately, I can't shake the feeling that I am missing something in this edition.

I know that this is not the full collection of tales. I was disappointed that the editors didn't give us much of the framework that the original was set. There are only ten stories here, and they are not really linked together at all. It is more like reading an anthology than reading a coherent piece of literary work.

I also felt that something was missing in the translations. Although Allah is mentioned, they typically refer to God. Whether this is what the originals stated or if this is how it was translated by western scholars, I don't know.

When I saw this was illustrated by Parrish, I had images of his work throughout the book. Unfortunately, they are grouped together in a couple places with a small quote from the story they represent. Some of the pictures seem like they were created for something else, but looked close enough to work. Although the art is good, it doesn't fit into the book very well.

The flights of fancy are fun and this would be appropriate for children. I don't think adult readers would want this one.

This version of "The Arabian Nights" is a compilation of ten of the most popular of the stories contained in the original"Tales of a Thousand and One Nights". The original contains two hundred and sixty-four stories. A lovely touch to the Barnes and Noble edition is that they include eight illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. While these stories have been the subject of movies for children, the vocabulary is not exactly for children in the language in the book. The original stories were translated from Arabic into French by M. Galland, a Professor of Arabic in Paris, and then from French into English in several editions. The first manuscript is from 1450 or earlier and the French translation in 1704 became instantly popular. The flights of fantasy are absolutely spectacular and cannot be reproduced in movies as well as the words can do in the readers own brain. Castles, jewels, strange beasts, cannibals, powerful kings and queens and lovely men and women fill the stories that take place in China, India, Persia, Arabia, and on various islands nearby. The Barnes and Noble edition from 1993 contains the following tales: The Talking Bird, The Fisherman and the Genie, The Young King of the Black Isles, Gulnare of the Sea, Aladdin, Prince Agib, The City of Brass, Ali Baba, Codadad, and Sinbad. They are wild exotic stories, that are fun for adults to read also.

You've got to hand it to Ian Smith, he doesn't give up. Unfortunately, with Robert Mugabe massacring people left, right and centre people sometimes start to give Smith's arguments and rewriting of history credit they do not deserve.

In the world of Ian Smith as he would have you look at it, hearty Rhodesian farmers held the land in trust for grateful, happy blacks, while putting in place a slow and gentle programme of steady reform which would gradually empower a black population who were clearly not in any position to responsibly govern a great country. Meanwhile, he was brutally sold down the river by the mother country (Britain) who got foolhardy liberal ideas about self-determination and black empoerment.

The reality is somewhat different. Smith's regime has the dubious honour of outdoing Apartheid South Africa in the unpleasantness stakes. Smith's [associates] lived the high life while disenfranchised blacks were used for ... labour and segregated from white society. The failure of post-colonial governments such as Robert Mugabe's has aroused a new debate about the merits of a "benevolent colonialism." Whatever the merits of this argument, it's pretty academic because Smith's government was in no way "benevolent" and could never be held up as one of the better examples of colonial management. In fact, it could be a case study in ... abuse of power. What reforms the Smith regime implemented were hollow and deliberately rigged to make no real difference. Herculean efforts were made to stall the emergence of a well educated, politically aware black middle class which might ultimately challenge white rule. And if any of the "kaffirs" got too uppity they could always be dragged off to a cell to have electrodes attached to their privates until they changed their minds. Of course, this all came back to bite the Smith government in the backside because when it came to a shooting war, even moderate blacks had no real stake in preserving the status quo and little incentive to fall in behind the government.

During the run-up to the negotiations which resulted in the handover to black rule, Smith (who was acknowledged by everyone who dealt with him as a foul mouthed thug) toured London lecturing parties of the hard right faithful on the importance of teching the blacks to "know their place". Willie Whitelaw, not an ungenerous judge of character, described him as possibly the most unpleasant man he'd ever met. Don't be lured by the revisionist nonsense about a paternalistic, essentially benevolent regime. It was nothing of the sort.

Ian Smith was a man ahead of his times. His view of the inept leadership that Africans have offered their continent is correct.

It's too bad that inevitably down the road the so called "rich countries" will have to bail that country, with or without Magabe.

We shouldn't help. Let them lie in the bed they have made.

First published in 1909, this version of these magical tales suffers a bit from the moralism of the times. For example, in place of the original theme that fatalism, in which all things are the will of Allah, Wiggins has put stern lessons about the perils of laziness and lack of constant virtue. Of course the erotic elements are missing, which may be quite appropriate for an edition intended for children.

Otherwise, I would have to say that almost all the magic, wonder, and adventure that are associated with the 1,001 Nights are to be found herein. The Maxfield Parish paintings are wonderful.

One of the most dissapointing elements is the decision to not include the "frame story" about Sheherizade telling these tales over the fabled 1,001 nights. Also much reduced is the constant use of tales-within-tales, a hallmark of the Arabian Nights collection. Both these changes tend to simplify the book, perhaps in a way that will make it more accessible and less confusing to young readers. But, then, this is hardly the book for young readers who do not like a challenge, especially since writing relies upon a lot of outdated words and word usage.

The book shown an information concerning the process occurs in coal combustion and coal gasification. The stage consists of the ignition of coal particle and its devolatilization, volatile combustion and heterogeneous char reaction. The book also describe the modelling of coal process in various way i.e. fixed bed, fluidized bed and in the practical flames of pulverized coal. The book also concerns with the pollutant formation in turbulent coal systems.

The idea is right, compose a book to assist undergraduate math majors in their transition from basic calculus or linear algebra into the more abstract fields of mathematics. But that is where it all ends. First off, the majority of the problems in the later half of the first chapter presupposes the student has had some introduction to basic number theory. But this contradicts the very nature of the book. Secondly, the authors have a tendency to take the simplist of mathematical concepts and make it more difficult than it needs to be. For example, the authors two part definition of the union and intersection of an indexed family of sets. This is about as basic a concept as there is in mathematics, yet the authors manage to make it utterly confusing. Remember who your target audience is.
Personally if one cannot write proofs(The basis of the book) don't bother with this book, buy just about any mathematics book titled "How to read/write proofs".

All the examples are difficult to follow, most of the important proves are left for excercises and many of the topics are not fully covered. It is hard to read for a student and this book is one of the worst mathmatic books that I have read.

The heart of the book is exercises in grading proofs. These are very useful - especially to future teachers.

There is a lot of overlap between the first four chapters of this book and what is often taught in discrete math but the book is more thorough and rigorous. In addition, there is a chapter on cardinality, and introductions to abstract algebra and real analysis.

Teachers may not get a chance to take many upper level undergraduate courses that are oriented to math majors. This book is a transition to math for mathematicians (rather than engineers and science students) and covers the fundamentals in a very accessible manner.