Another success for the "for Dummies" series. Concise and entertaining explanation of OLE and the surrounding technologies. Especially valuable was the review of OLE problems and tradeoffs as well as what the future might hold for OLE. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody getting started with OLE.

Paper joss are woodblock printed images of Chinese deities, immortals, and spirits. These prints are pasted in Chinese homes for good luck, protection, good fortune, long life, etc. Wang Shucun's book describes 200 of these prints.

A brief note on the author, Wang Shucun. Wang is considered a leading authority on Chinese folk art. He was born in Yangliuqing, one of the major print production centers in China. During WWII and the Cultural Revolution, Wang hid over 10000 examples of folk art from destruction by the Japanese and then the Communists. In the last two decades Wang has begun to display his collection to the public. This book is one of the few works in English by Wang.

Paper Joss includes an introduction to the history of Chinese folk prints: the origins of folk prins, classifications of the prints, printing techniques, and a brief summary of past studies. Each print is reproduced in full color on glossy paper. Every print lists its place of production, size, and includes a description of the print itself and the sybolism of the print. One does not need to be a China expert to understand or appreciate the beauty of Chinese religious folk art.

The reader will be amazed at the artistic skill required for woodblock printing and at the variety of deities in Chinese popular religion. Some of the more interesting prints are the God of Hailstones (#8), Goddess of Silkworms (#20), God of Water Sellers (#46), God of Literature (#64), One of the Ten Kings Ruling Hell (#122), Tiger Suppressing the Five Poisonous Creatures (#150), or the Magic Figures Eliminating Calamities (#180).

Wang's book is an excellent addition to anyone's library. The only fault I can find with the work is that there are no Chinese characters in the book and none of the prints are dated. However, these are only minor faults and do not detract from the overall value of the book. The prints are beautifully reproduced and the descriptions are well written. It is an appropriate addition to an academic library or to one's personal collection. The popularity of this one work is attested to by its translation into English, French, and Japanese!

although i am a newly graduated architect i found this book very useful in the field of arch. presentation and drawing as it learns you how to draw plans and section in an effective and easy way , it concentrates on pencil drawing more than colors as it is the baisc drawing machine in addition to some colored examples , Very recommended for new arch. students ....

Wang (Yale) and Hu (Chinese Academy of Science) present a comprehensive account of the standard factor attributed to present-day regional economic inequality in China. Their effort is unusual in that it examines a broader set of factors than typically found in most economic texts (e.g. political factors), which gives the work somewhat of an institutionalist flavor.

This book's rather provocative title belies the careful research that underlies it. And while thoroughly researched, the book tells an exciting history and is fascinating to read.

Since Christianity is built on Judaism, I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that Christian occultism itself is built on the Jewish Kabbalistic tradition. But Wang has done more than simply show the links between these traditions. He has gone to the heart of the matter and documented how various Christian officials were motivated to study these traditions as a means of attempting to convert Jews to Christianity.

Rape is the right word to describe how following this, the descendants of these original evangelists then argued that these Jewish traditions could not have been Jewish, but were instead Christian.

Perhaps that is not news to Jews. It was to me and I am indebted to Dr. Wang for so thoroughly and meticulously exploring this history. He makes no assertions that are not backed by considerable documentation.

To me, Wang's book stands with Thomas Cahill's Gifts of the Jews and in fact, stands above it because it is so well written and the points Wang makes are so clearly articulated.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the history of Western civilization, the history of religion, or the occult. But perhaps more importantly, Dr. Wang's book goes to the very heart of anti-Semitism. The outrage of stealing an important tradition from a people and then declaring that it could not be their tradition, redefines the notion of chutzpah.

This is the kind of book that you don't just read. You buy copies for your friends.

Read Chinese Book One is a great place to begin to learn Chinese characters. You must have a basic understanding of the Yale style of romanization and pronounciation of Chinese prior to beginning, but you can learn the grammar and the sentence structure from the introduction. I enjoyed using Read Chinese Book One the first time I read it over fifteen years ago, and I still use it as a refresher course when I want to brush up on my ability to read the Chinese Language.

It has rich topics to disscuss the family problem. I think that It is good to see the family function from resilience and contexts.

In this book he uses a character by the name of Bergeron and says he`s related to the Bergeron family from Flint,Michigan, That is not a common name in this area, I was just wondering if any one knows how he came about relating it a family in Flint, Michigan.

For anyone interested in Chinese art, where the provenance of a painting can matter more than who painted it, this book is a must. If you can, get the later edition (1966), which includes additional seals from American collections.

~This is a comprehensive and self-contained book for serious readers with certain mathematical maturity, or at least with persistence and patience, as well as the willingness to go "deep" into the whole theory.

In my opinion, Semimartingale Theory and Stochasitc Calculus is a textbook version of the "bible" on stochastic calculus, Probabilities and Potential A and B, by Dellacherie and Meyer.
Unfortuanately, the latter is kind of unreadable, containging some mistakes/typos and assuming too much on the readers, esp. volume 1. Compared with this unreadable "bible", He-Wang-Yan's book has the following merits:
1. It contains the essence of Dellacherie/Meyer, but debugs/simplifies many proofs.
2. It gives a concise and clear presentation of Dellacherie's capacity theory, which is essential in recognizing the measurability of sets in product space and when a positive r.v. becomes a stopping time.
3. It presents carefuly the formidable general theory of stochastic processes, which is hard to find in English books, except in Dellacherie/Meyer.
4. This book is supplemented and further developed in the form of problems. Some of the problems are useful results and some of them are difficult.
5. Finally, this book is not limited to Dellacherie/Meyer. The last six chapters also report on some recent development of the theory, up to the time the book was published. In particular, the last two chapters can be seen as a short presentation of some materials contained the classic book, Limit Theorems for Stochastic Processes, by Jacod/Shiryaev.

Although this book is little known in US, European mathematicians
think highly of it. In a restrospection book on stochastic calculus, LNM 1771, Séminaire de Probabilités 1967-1980--A Selection in Martingale Theory, Yor and Emery commented: "...To the best of our knowledge, only two books in that language (English) provide a self-contained account of stochastic calculus, with a complete proof of the optional and previsible
section theorem: Dellacherie-Meyer, Probabilities and Potential A and B, North-Holland 1978 and 1982; He-Wang-Yan, Semimartingale Theory and Stochastic Calculus, CRC Press 1992."

However, I want to warn future readers that the approach of this book is "traditional". So you may have to go a long way to see the definition of stochastic integration. In this regard, I would recommend Protter's book, Stochastic Integration and Differential Equations: A New Approach. But be cautious, Protter's book is not easier. It'd be really beneficial looking at these two books simutaneously--in Protter's book, you'll see some of the deepest results of the theory, treated so neatly that you'll really be grateful.