I used this book to help me study for the non-western portion of the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. It provided me with a lot of information and interesting knowledge on the subject. However, I also used the following which is on amazon.com:
The Ultimate Study Guide for the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork: Key Review Questions and Answers Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3
Author: Patrick Leonardi
The last three books was so on target with the type of questions asked on the National certification examination. I passed the first time with the help of these four books.

I loved this read because it contains a very comprehensive picture of chinese medicine theory. It covers in a simple and easy to understand manner the Law of the Five Elements, the Five Devils, and The Five Destructive Emotions. After establishing the theory it teaches you how to make an assesment of a person's particular condition and which techniques can be used to help him/her. The photos are great and the diagrams are very useful.

A very concise and practical textbook. Unlike other new textbooks which are much bigger and heavier and with excessive data, you can actually finish reading a chapter in this book in an hour with a good understanding of the disease. Each chapter is written by a well-known expert of the field, and not by residents or some unknown people.

It is concise and practical. It also has well-drawn diagrams and simulation illustrations for all the head and neck sites. Good description of radiation techniques as well.

I recently purchased the book as a gift for my aunt, who is a chef. I was amazed and awestruck at what I saw. The carvings were beautiful, and in some cases, even more beautiful than the real flowers. Worth every single penny! The only problem I had with it was that the instructions came in four different languages on each page, and it was a tad disorienting locating the English portions. Other than that, I have no complaints!

I have read this book, and have found it to be very informative. The illustrations greatly enhance the instructions. I say this from experience working in garde-manger for many years, and being a caterer.This book greatly assists the novice and the experienced. It is in great comfort I can recommend this book to anyone with an artistic flare.

This book that my son is reading for his school curriculum caught my eye, and when I picked it up I couldn't put it down. How terrific to be able to understand AND enjoy a lesson of stories on the constellations. I highly recommend this book for amatuer and avid star gazers.

This is the best book I've ever seen for teaching kids or adults how to find stars and identify constellations in the night sky. It's apparently geared to kids of about age 12, but I haven't been twelve for over thirty years and I enjoyed and learned from this book. The writing is clear and precise with neat little sidebars that give additional scientific information to the text. Refreshingly, the quality of the illustrations, paper and layout is tremendous. No cutting corners here. This is a first-class book! If this new release doesn't get picked up for classroom use, our educators are asleep.

The video series comes with one of the easier follow along books that I have seen. The book can be used by itself but I strongly recommend to watch the tape. I have shown the video and book to my native speaking Mandarin teacher and she was very impressed as well. The main thing is that I have also shown the video to people who considered Chinese too difficult to learn. After viewing the video they had a totally different viewpoint. Really is very possible to learn to converse in Mandarin in a relatively short period of time. To me Mandarin is one of the most beautiful languages there is. That alone is reason enough to learn it and reason enough for any school to teach it. I think any school that teaches Mandarin should recommend and expose their students to this wonderful supplementary video learning material. I really can't imagine that anyone would be disappointed with these tapes. They really make learning fun!!

The course made spoken Chinese fun and easy. My student uses it as an independent study tool and it works. It's like a video tutor. I showed 1 minute of the tape to a group of students in my university, they all learned how to say two basic sentences --- Ni Hao (Hello) and Qing Wen (Excuse me).

A very practical approach for system identification techniques Using Laguerre Models with an appropriated mathematical support

This book is really good make me understand the process of identification in a really easy language, a lot of practical examples with the proper mathematical support, excellent for process control and identification courses can be a good complement of the ljung's matlab toolbox.

This book is very good for people who would be interested in solving this tough math problem.

Now Goldbach conjecture is a $1Million question. This book is the best possible book to learn about the subject with the available progresses. The author himself has proved towards the final goal. Highly recommended.

When I first began to learn Mandarin, Fred Fang-yu Wang's books got me going quicker than I would have ever expected. They weren't the newest materials, but they were by far the most effective.

One of the last major hurdles for me was learning the Chinese cursive script. It's an essential skill, but I simply couldn't find any materials on it. I had checked with many teachers, and none could even suggest to me how to get started.

So when I stumbled across Mr. Wang's book on exactly this topic, I bought it immediately. It's every bit as effective as his other works, and is material that I simply have not seen anywhere else.

As far as I know, this is the only book that teaches English-speaking students to read cursive Chinese writing. I found it extremely effective when I first studied it back in 1965, and was very happy to find it still available here. (And I did buy a new copy.)

Unlike calligraphy manuals, it concentrates on basic principles and shows many alternative examples. It is very well organized, and most students will also be able to use it to learn to write cursive Chinese characters. The examples are practical, rather than arty, focussing mostly on pen styles.

Although it is based on the 300 characters of F. Wang's _Read Chinese_, which is no longer commonly used, these are likely to be among the first characters taught in any beginning Chinese course, and all of them are essential characters.

I believe that students of Japanese will also find this text useful, since the principles are the same as those used by Japanese writers. (I know of no equivalent text for teaching cursive Japanese writing to English speakers.)

This book is a concise introduction to one of the most influential tarot decks of our time, namely the Golden Dawn deck drawn by the Mathers.

The book begins with an invaluable 50 pages introduction by Robert Wang, who is an expert on the subject, and a black and white reproduction of his Golden Dawn deck (which can be bought seperately).

It includes Book T (which describes the minor arcana in detail), "The Complete Symbol of the Tarot", Mrs. Felkin's paper "The Tarot Trumps" (the closest thing there is to a public description of Mather's original major arcana), Waite's explanation from the Pictorial Key to the Tarot to the Celtic Cross spread, and an explanation of a 15 cards spread.

I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in tarot, and especially to those who are interested in decks influenced by the Golden Dawn (Waite's Rider, Crowley's Thoth, the Ciceros', etc).

The only downside of this book is that, beside Wang's excellent introduction, the material is available elsewhere, though it would take some effort and time to get all of it collected to one place.

Far more than acting merely as the companion book for Wang's own tarot deck (based on an actual Golden Dawn tarot deck), this little book reprints most of the relevant Golden Dawn tarot material that appears elsewhere at a much higher price. If you are just starting to explore the Golden Dawn teachings in respect to Tarot, this is the place to start. After working with this, you may want to branch out and read Wang's excellent but very advanced "The Qabalistic Tarot."

Please note, however, that if you already have Israel Regardie's big "Golden Dawn" book, you already have most of the information reprinted here.

The best thing about this book is that it combines financial time series analysis with "real-life" examples that are either reproducible or easily adaptable. Being that it is also the user manual for the S+FinMetrics module for the SPLUS stats. package it also reads like a software manual (some people like that). This book provides a good sample of many time series techniques that can be applied out of the box.
Note: This book comes with the S+FinMetrics module.

This is an excellent book on financial econometrics, very practical yet rigorous. I wish all econometrics/statistics textbook could like this. Basic theory followed by practical examples - real life examples, not simplified ones like in other books. The authors gave detailed instructions on how to implement various econometric models, i.e. multi-factor models, GARCH, MGARCH, long memory models, state-space, etc. Most econometrics textbooks are at two extremes, they are either too theoretical (you still don't know how to put those models in real life), or too simple (lack of mathematical rigor and without advanced applications). This book is a combination of both worlds, computer codes/math models, and real life examples (some really good ones). A lot of cutting-edge techniques and advanced topics are also covered.