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Henry Gleitman is a true humanist in the traditional sense. He writes with a deep sense of humanity. Within the field of psychology, he is rekowned for his teaching of intro psychology courses at Univ of Pennsylvania. When you read Gleitman's text, you get a great introduction to psychology from a true scholar who has stood at the forefront of his field for decades. His survey is taken from close personal acquaintence with many of the history-makers whose research is discussed in his book.
If you are assigning an intro psych text, this is the one. If you are taking an intro psych class, with this text, bother to do the reading.
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The book is divided into 25 chapters. Just some of the important topics covered are: dimensioning, line choices, views and representations of objects, partial views, and many other standard drawing conventions, just to name a few.
Although this book does address both CAD and mechanical drawing techniques, its CAD coverage is (by necessity) very limited.
My background is in chemistry, and I had taught myself AutoCAD, but until I bought this book, my drawings were poor by proper standards. After using this book every day for about two weeks, my drawing skills improved immensely, and I was able to produce high quality drawings in a very short time.
If you are new to technical drawing and wish to learn proper conventions in an easy to follow format, then you will be very glad you bought this book. Additionally, if you are wishing to create your drawings with AutoCAD, then an excellent companion to this book is "Applying AutoCAD-A Step by Step Approach" by Terry Wohlers. A word of advice: learn proper drawing techniques before trying to learn CAD.
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The papers dealt with important issues such as alternative fuel resources, environmental remediation with microorganism, biosensors, biodegradable detergents, marine biotechnology, chemical processes with catalytic antibodies, optics, unique problems of biotech in space, etc. The only down-side of the symposium was BioSphere II, which was more fad than science.
While many of the attendees were involved in defense related work, the symposium more or less focused on a wider industry applications. Having attended this symposium, I found this book a good presentation of the discussions held.
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