Jeff Daniels Books

I've always been fascinated by THE Silicon Valley, CA and interested in understanding the factors that continue to shape it.
This book brings to light the "other" Silicon Valleys around the world and what shaped them. Several chapters are written by country experts who understand their regions very well.
I thoroughly ENJOYED reading this book and have recommended it to others.

I found this to be an important work given our increasingly global business environment. The international collaboration of the authors, coupled with the book's focus, provide an important basis upon which we can begin to understand how the international business environment operates today.

For people who want to get an overview of global clusters, what they are, what they can do to a nation's innovation system and its economy, what they have in common and how they differ in these global regions.

It is easy reading and gives a good global perspective. It highlights the local traits and permits comparisons with other geographical clusters, although it does not go as indepth one may hope for further academic research. Given the interview based research style, however, it keeps it lively and is not as "dry" as many other academics books.

The book makes clear that Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 are no longer the only innovation clusters.

Dr. Martin Haemmig / Switzerland
Adj. Professor for Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship
in Europe and USA

This book may have been useful back when the sock pocket was a big celebrity. In today's marketplace, this book just doesn't add any significant value. I have respect for the authors since I have heard them speak in San Francisco. It's too bad the hype doesn't live up to my expectations. The Internet Economy of the late 90s deserves better.

When I first bought this book, I could not wait to read it. Unfortunately the book is more hype than anything else. At times I felt like I should spend a day in the library reading articles on microfiche and saved the money I spent.

It is sad since I have heard the authors in Paris many, many times and now I feel like I was cheated. It is a shame.

The idea of a solutions manual is fantastic. It's a quick, convenient way to see how to solve problems.

Unfortunately, this book falls short in several ways.

First, only EVERY OTHER ODD problem is covered. That means, in a typical chapter, only 5-10 problems are covered. For a course as difficult as Multivariable Calculus, this is woefully inadequate.

Second, many of the "solutions" are NOT solutions. They are answers. You will frequently find just the answer given with no explanation of how the solution was derived. In the back of the actual textbook is the answer to EVERY odd numbered problem. So to reprint just the answer in a new book is a waste of paper. Why spend $34 on a solutions manual that gives the same info that the back of the text has?

Third, for the solutions that are explained, they aren't explained very well. You will frequently find a sequence of algebraic operations, but nothing saying how they went from one step to the next. The authors apparently expect you to know, but if you did, why would you need a solutions manual?

This solutions manual CAN be helpful, but just be aware that your $34 isn't going to get you very much help.

As you browse books in Amazon, you might think: "oh, yet another Calculus book."
First, let me begin by putting this book in its proper context: it is a Calculus 2 book, but not an Advanced Calculus book.
But this book has some qualities that set it apart from the heap of Calculus books. First of all, it is the fruition of a Harvard-based consortium with a grant from the National Science Foundation to write a "new" Calculus book. What's new about it? Well, it is based on an "old" philosophy, that I'll paraphrase from the Preface: Calculus was invented to solve problems! So, using Calculus, you can reduce complicated problems to simple ones. Central to this unified, application-oriented approach, every topic is presented numerically, geometrically, and algebraically. Every time, every topic: numerically, geometrically, and algebraically. Now, all contemporary authors of Calculus text would claim to be doing the same. But this way of approaching the subjects is here by design, as a very core characteristic of the text. The result is that you begin to look at the problems as something more than nuisances to be solved by rote learning (gone are the days students got to read Apostol at their first iteration through Calculus...really learning, instead of having dumbed down explanations that, in fact, make learning *harder* - I wasn't one of the lucky ones...) Somehow the authors were very precise and sensitive in identifying "gotchas" in the student's first iteration through multivariable calculus.
I discovered this book a bit too late in my Calculus 2 class. But this is a cheaper book than the ones that cost over $100. You should buy it, even as a supplement. Again, keep in mind this is not Advanced Calculus and neither was it meant to be.
And insofar as "mathematical rigor" is concerned _at this level_ it is the same - and IMHO even a little better - than some other very popular books.

This book and the service surrounding it is absolute garbage. The positive reviews it has received are highly dubious. The book is very unclear with terminology, and the lack of answer keys to check your progress makes this worse. If you're buying this used be prepared to wade through red tape to get access to an answer key. 70 bucks for a single semester of access, and you won't have access as soon as you pay, you will also need a url from your instructor to access the site. I understand why this is needed for your class specific information but to simply access the sites tools, like an answer sheet, should not require anything more than your subscription...actually it should have come with the book.

I have taken two other classes with website support material and I did not have to go through near the trouble. I am likely to take my complaint to my colleges administration as this book would only be tolerable to someone strong in this field, which defeats its purpose.

This is an excellent book. Each chapter starts with a real life example of the learning objectives that will be covered in the chapter. The concepts are explained in terms that are easy to understand and grasp. There are a variety of problems at the end of each chapter to reinforce the learning objectives. I would recommend this book to anybody who has little knowledge of accounting or someone who needs a refresher in the accounting principles.

the book arrived a little later than i expected; but, it's a very helpful book if you want to go for accounting. the book's website is extremely useful.

The authors have put together a text that is long on examples. It might seem redundant to some, but I think this is the right way to teach a process discipline like accounting.

Much of the book is problem sets, in fact.

Let's see, the chapters begin with study objectives. Then there are highlighted "key points." Then at the end of each lesson, there are demonstration problems, self-study questions, questions, a set of brief exercises, exercises, then problem sets A and B.

I bought the 3rd edition, although the 4th is now available. The fourth edition has different problems in the first two chapters. In many instances, only the names of the company and an occasional number are different. It would matter if you are taking this for a class where the homework is graded. If your purpose is to learn the principles that underly financial accounting, though, you are as well served by the 3rd edition.

Potential Buyers,

If you are a student who is taking an accounting course and your instructor requires you to use the accompanying Wiley Plus website, do not expect to get a Wiley Plus, registration code with this product.

I purchased the text "new" directly from Amazon for an accounting class I am taking and I assumed that I would recieve the registration code I needed; I assumed wrong as there was no registration code included with my book.

If you do need the code for class and you do choose to buy this book from Amazon, you'll be best off buying the cheapest, used edition and going to the Wiley Plus site directly to get a standard registration code for around $60 dollars. Of Course keep in mind shipping costs may eat up any savings you'd get buying from Amazon in the first place!

The 1 star review actually reflects my dissatisfaction with the description of this product on Amazon's site, and not the quality of the text.

Happy Shopping!

There were some problems I couldn't solve by just looking at the solution pages of my textbook, so I bought this solution guide. I hoped it could help me because it has completed and detailed solution. However, the numbers on the guide are odds, in other words, it was formatted as "1,5,9,13" instead of "1,3,5,7". All the important problems that I had trouble with were omitted.
If you have trouble with the problems in your textbook, please don't waste $40 on this solution guide. Just go to math tutors for help.

Excellent seller. It arrived much faster than I expected.
Thanks a lot

This book is addressed for understanding of the Calculus and not for the traditional teaching that sins for the excess of formalism. It is an excellent book for who wants to understand and to learn Calculus through the application of problems of the Real World. The book also motivates the use of graphic calculators to have a better vision of the problem.

... The layout of the book was confusing and so where theexamples and explanations. If it where not for a great math teacher Iwould have been lost in the class if I was just left to the book alone. I would recommend students and teachers (if your considering this book for your class) to stay away from it... END

This book was written to make the teachers job easier by providing large sets of problems and lots of questions. The real issue is that most schools, or students for that matter, do not have the time or resources to ask or answer the number of questions, mostly in the form of grey areas, which this book introduces.

So back to what everyone else is saying about this book. It's missing patient examples with fine grain explanations of how to apply sometimes convoluted steps in solving a problem. I don't feel the material sticks as well when my own theory of the material is the only supporting detail. I am sure the author thinks it's the teacher's sole responsibility to provide the details where they are not given in the book but this is back to paragraph A) of my review. I have learned many programming languages and material by reading books and apply what I learned in those books to real world problems or inferring a solution to a problem from what I learned out of the book. Learning and understanding key concepts is the first step, then throw us into the water.

My best advice for students that are required to use this book is to find the tutor's solutions in PDF form, if you can. The tutor's solutions have the full solutions to ALL of the problems in the book (even odd) and the solutions are very well written. The solutions PDF has been the most valuable tool in cracking the enigma.

This book is more focused on applications than the two other calculus books I have used. However, it omits the trigonemetric functions secant, cosecant, and cotangent.

This book is not for learning, it does not have a single example how to solve problem, all it have is problems and answers, and that all

If I had to learn solely from this book, I would not know anything about calculus. This book is a great tool for professors to supplement their teachings, but not very good as a stand alone if you are trying to learn on your own. There are lots of examples throughout many of the chapters that skip crucial steps and of course the even problems are much harder than the odds which have answers in the back. I'm mostly glad that this book covers three semesters of math credit at my community college.

If you want to learn integration techniques and become a whiz at basic computational calculus, you need another book. If you want a book that gives you a lot of proofs and tons of examples, you also probably need another book.

So why do I give the book 4 stars? The answer is _the problems_. I used this book for 3 semesters of calculus, and I felt like I actually discovered a lot of the machinery of calculus just by doing the problems. It's a great feeling to discover rather than be taught. That's what this book helps you do.

Of course, this means you will probably have to do a few more problems than the teacher assigns (unless the teacher is very in tune with the book and knows exactly which problems are related). Also, when you get to techniques of integration, you'll probably need to refer to other books for examples.

Another downside is the cost. But, unfortunately, that's a problem with all American text books.

Oh and about the book and solution manual not giving many solutions... Don't worry about it. When you solve most of these problems, you _know_ when you get the answer because everything will click and make sense. This is a fun book for problem solvers.

I've taught out of this book for several years. Students learn to understand the concepts through some very useful and interesting problems. Extremely well-written.

I should start out by saying that I haven't seen this newest edition, but if it's similar to the older ones which also got unfair reviews, I can safely say that this book deserves at least a 3. It is certainly not a one star book, and I suspect that those reviewers are just taking their frustrations out on the easiest target (because as we all know, doing poorly in calculus is NEVER the student's fault).

I don't think this is the book to use if you're a math major, but other than that it's good. I taught myself calculus with an older edition when I was in 11th grade and I felt that I had an intuitive understanding of the subject even if I couldn't do a proof. I think that intuitive understanding should be the goal of a calculus book that isn't necessarily designed for math majors (this book seems more suited for biology majors or something similar).

Probably my biggest complaint is that the book, like so many others, isn't clear about what is an acceptable proof and what is just a convincing(hopefully) argument. Students may believe that such arguments are valid proofs, and I think the authors should make it clear what the case may be. This is the main reason I wouldn't recommend the book to math majors, but just about anyone else should gain a good understanding of calculus from this book.

I was pleasantly surprised with this book, the previous book from the same publisher, "Functions Modeling Change" I found to be confusing. BUT "Single Variable" is a great book. Of course lecture is the best way to learn a math class, especially anything more difficult than algrebra. But when I missed a class I was able to pick up where we left off from the instruction in the book. The problems were not as abstract as calculus problem can be. Overall I am glad this was my textbook, but I am also a math major so I may be bias.

This book is terrible. Learning Calculus with the "aid" of this textbook was painful and unproductive. Examples are short, lack explanation, and are too specific to be applied to any other exercises. Simply awful. Fortunately my college is switching back to Steward's calculus book, which is like heaven compared to this book. The only acceptable use for this book is toilet paper, and even then it is horrible.

Little explanation or background is provided to orient the student; the book assumes the reader has been using trigonometry and algebra on a daily basis for the better part of adulthood. An example of this is the section on rates and related rates (4.6). There are two paragraphs given in the way of explanation:

"Derivatives represent rates of change. In this section, we see how to calculate rates in a variety of situations."

And...

"In Example 1, the radius of the snowball decreased at a constant rate. A more realistic scenario is for the radius to decrease at different rates at different times. Then, we may not be able to write a formula for V as a function of t. However, we may still be able to calculate dV/dt, as in the following example."

No mention of how the process of working related rates problems is similar to implicit differentiation. No step-by-step outline of a general way to go about working this category of problem. Just examples outside of any framework.

Better for a refresher in Calculus for graduate students than a freshman-level course. I used Stewart's "Calculus: Concepts and Contexts" to learn how to do the assigned work from this text.

Don't think the solutions manual will help--only a subset of the odd problems in the text are described and the explanations are often wanting.

Simon Lincoln has got to be the wickedest villain/manipulator I've read about in a long time. Rather scary that I was drawn to his every next move. Even though the story contains many political complexities, I thought the plots were fast-paced, interesting and easy to follow. A fast "escape" read.

The president is going to be impeached. When his opposition learns that the president is going to get away scott free, the president, his enemies and every head of state get blown up. And it only gets less believeable as it goes along. Don't waste your time.

Other than the bloated first chapter, a Floyd free history of the album and concept album, there's nothing here you cannot get from Nick Schaffner's "A Saucerful of Secrets." Despite the pedigree of the authors, there is no interpretation, no insight offered here on the album, show or film. Again, get the better and more comprehensive Schaffner for history, and if you want criticism, get Phil Rosen's "Which One's Pink."

With 2004 looking like providing the Pink Floyd fan with a full diet of readable material, first served is Jeff Bench's and Daniel O'Brien's book, Pink Floyd's The Wall - In the Studio, On Stage and On Screen. The ambitions set out by the authors was to focus on all aspects of Pink Floyd's masterpiece, 'The Wall. The book has been released as a soft back and is a handy 9" x 7" size with a total of 142 pages. Jeff Bench is a media historian, journalist and magazine editor. He has also taught at several of London's art colleges. Daniel O'Brien's recent books include Cameron Diaz, The Hannibal Files and Spooky Encounters. The book describes the making of 'The Wall - both album and the film - and place it within the context of the changes in music and society which the album reflects.

The book is broken into five sections, the first being the preface: The Wall in context, here the authors offer up a guide to Pink Floyd's history and their ability to straddle such diverse times as 'Swinging London to Punk. "Pink Floyd were there for the whole trip, from Carnaby Street to the Brixton riots." We are also advised that, "Pink Floyd's music is a barometer of Britain's deteriorating mental health in the Seventies, but there music is also a classic illustration of the constantly expanding musical horizons of that decade." Reading the preface you realise that the authors are taking the subject very seriously and it is well thought out.

Next we enter chapter 1: From LP to Concept Album. This chapter takes you on a journey through recorded music. Pink Floyd as a topic, is dropped for the 25 odd pages as we are reminded of the impact both Bob Dylan and The Beatles had on the youth culture. Only on the last page of this chapter are we reintroduced to Pink Floyd, as they come out of underground and achieve commercial success with 'Dark Side of the Moon. The chapter does achieve its goal of explaining, just where the idea of a concept album came from but for me was far too long winded.

With almost relief, chapter 2, boasts a 2 page spread of the band circa 1973, this image re-concentrates the mind and reminds us just why we are reading the book. Chapter 2: Building the Wall. "The Wall was the next step towards what could be considered the third, and last, significant phase in the group's career." We are then taking back in time to the Syd years which are describes sensibly enough as phase 1. Dave Gilmour's entrance in early 1968 is acknowledged as being the start of phase 2 and the chapter takes great strides to get us to the recording of 'The Wall. I thought the writing was very well formulated and it read as pretty much accurate, although relying on the band members statements via interviews has proved over the years, unreliable to say the least. The authors had well researched the recording periods of 'The Wall and as the chapter progressed I found myself intrigued by the message. Some recent books have either sub consciously or by political stance sided with Roger Waters or David Gilmour. This book avoids this pitfall and perhaps Bob Ezrin's wisdom captures the mood, "So, Comfortably Numb, is a true collaboration - it's David's music, Roger's lyric and my orchestral chart."

Chapter 3: The Wall On Screen. Pink Floyd had provided film scores earlier in their career, but Roger felt, 'The Wall could work as a feature film. The first part of this chapter looks at the films Pink Floyd had worked on from, 'Tonight Let's Make Love in London (1967) to the concert (albeit without an audience) 'Live at Pompeii. Depending on how much you've read before, some of the stories surrounding the film may sound repetitive. But, this book is about, 'The Wall and it collates the stories well and pretty accurately. At times I felt some main players could have been approached to update their story but this doesn't happen. The chapter does feel up-to-date with commentary on 'The Wall DVD and the recent. 'Series 1 collection of Wall models. The chapter closes with a reflective Alan Parker quote, " At the heart of it, it's Roger's primal scream. It's Roger's piece and it's Roger's madness." Indeed!

The book closes with the epilogue: The Wall Outside. Here the book looks at events post, 'The Wall, Pink Floyd albums not featuring Roger Waters and Roger's live event The Wall - Berlin '90. Even Roger's recent, 'In the Flesh tours and his invitation for Nick Mason to play at the London concerts in 2002 are highlighted. The book closes with the sentence, "The Wall that once separated Roger Waters from his audiences has, it seems, finally been demolished."

The book proves one thing Roger Waters/Pink Floyd 'The Wall is an endearing piece of recorded art. Still some 25 years after it's release, the work demands attention and finds new fans year on year. This book, didn't set out to understand the phenomenon it simply traces the work back and tells the story. Personally I enjoyed it and its price (only £12.99 R.R.P.) makes it an affordable entry to the album's past. While avoiding taking sides through out, no one can take way the fact that, 'The Wall was Roger's vision nailed into reality by the band Pink Floyd. The fact that this won't be the last book ever written on the album 'The Wall, shows that interest will continue long into the future with each successive generation trying to understand the albums complex issues.

If you want to learn integration techniques and become a whiz at basic computational calculus, you need another book. If you want a book that gives you a lot of proofs and tons of examples, you also probably need another book.

So why do I give the book 4 stars? The answer is _the problems_. I used this book for 3 semesters of calculus, and I felt like _I_ actually discovered a lot of the machinery of calculus just by doing the problems. It's a great feeling to discover rather than be taught. That's what this book helps you do.

Of course, this means you will probably have to do a few more problems than the teacher assigns (unless the teacher is very in tune with the book and knows exactly which problems are related). Also, when you get to techniques of integration, you'll probably need to refer to other books for examples. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it is always better to learn from multiple sources.

One big downside is the cost. But, unfortunately, that's a problem with all American text books. Try to get a used copy.

Oh and about the book and solution manual not giving many solutions... Don't worry about it. When you solve most of these problems, you _know_ when you get the answer because everything will click and make sense. As for integration problems, just plug 'em into your TI-89, Maple, or the free Wolfram Online Integrator to check your answers!

In summary, this is a genuinely enjoyable book for problem solvers. Don't be scared by the other reviews. They are actually correct, in a way, but are simply coming from a somewhat narrowed perspective.

I don't know why so many people dislike this book...I probably learn in a different manner than they do. I've had to learn most of my calculus through Stewart's Early Transcendentals book, which I found very dry and mostly uninteresting. Luckily, I bought this book while I was taking a year off and taught myself calculus, having never even heard of a limit or a derivative before.

If you like thinking about the ideas behind things, and then learning about the formalism and mathematics of it, then this book is for you. If you prefer proofs, analysis, and "learn these steps and solve these problems" examples, you'll probably want to find a different text.

I can remember, though, the JOY of actually deriving things for myself, like how to calculate the volume of a solid rotated about some line or some such nonsense, because I could understand exactly what was needed. That is how I would describe this book: It's not a book about proving theorems and making you memorize a bunch of rules. Instead, it makes you really understand the subject matter, so that you can use the ideas of calculus to solve a variety of problems, even if they're problems you have no idea how to solve when you first read through them!

That is one thing that this book taught me that I found indespensible. You don't have to know how to do something, because you might be able to figure it out yourself instead of having some professor or text book or internet article tell you how to! Perhaps this approach is a little too ambitious, and I'll admit I spent a lot of time going through this text trying to reason things out, but it was time well spent.

So I suppose my advice would be not to buy this book unless you have to (for a course), or you're really willing to go through those problems spending a lot of time thinking about how to apply the IDEAS presented in the examples and text to the problem at hand. In the latter case, I think you'll find that the time you invest in this book will give you unexpected rewards.

I am using this text to teach myself Calculus. Explanations are skimpy, and offer very few practice problems with each of the steps worked out. Only odd answers are printed in the back (and some odd answers are not printed). I'm using the Schaum's OutLine Series, and it's MUCH MUCH better. I bought this book used, and for what I paid for it, I could have gotten the Schaums Calculus and Pre-Cal, and still had enough left over for dinner and a movie. Sad.

This is the worst calculus book out there.

One reviewer says "This book is for good students." I disagree. I am a good student at a tough university and I hated this book. Out of 35 students who took my calc class only 2 got an A. I was one of the two. So you can take my word because I worked my ass off to get that A. THIS IS THE WORST BOOK ON THE MARKET. Why?

1. Not enough examples
2. The examples are either super easy or super hard
3. Poorly explained concepts
4. Questions on things hardly explained
5. Tons of ambiguous questions
6. Poorly designed text

I could go on and on... Just skip this book. Please. It will make me feel better.

Ok this textbook does not teach at all. It basically just provide examples that is it. IT doesn't say why you do it or explain the calculus at all. The way the book explain calculus does not help at all when it comes to doing the problems. The answers in the back of the book does not match the problems throughout the chapters.

As an undergrad, this book is not student friendly at all. I basically did not use the textbook and depended on the professor and math tutoring. I love math and I understand it, but this book does not help. I am unable to learn from this textbook.

When I took Multivariable Calculus, we used "Multivariable Calculus" by James Steward in class. I personal like Steward's book very much because it made me understand without the help of my professor. With a supplement of this book, I found I understand Multivariable Calculus in a more comprehensive way. All in all, I like this book a lot.

The book is a disaster. I had to suffer with it for 2 semesters. None of the other students in my Calc I and Calc II courses got anything from it either, as far as I can tell. I had to scramble and seek information from other calc books in order to understand what differentiation and integration was all about. The text in no way prepares one for the exercises. There's no connection between the text and the exercises. In the exercises there appear some inane, open-ended questions that seem to be trying to make some unfathomable point. This is not a book anyone can learn from. I would strongly advise any student who must use this book as their course textbook to CHANGE COLLEGES. There are many great calculus books out there, on all levels. For those who prefer a 'calculus reform' approach, I would recommend Calculus Lite, by Frank Morgan. For the more traditional approach, I got a lot out of Anton's classic.

Teaching with this text - which I've been doing for the past two semesters - is an uphill battle, to say the least. It's a text designed for non-majors; I teach business and social science students. Instructors of these sorts of students need to convince their pupils that they DO need to know how to reason mathematically, and that math IS relevant to their life plans - they can't just rely on their calculators to do all their work for them. When the textbook seems to disagree, our job is all the more difficult.

The authors of _Calculus_ don't seem to have made up their minds regarding whether or not it is necessary to introduce the notion of mathematical justification in this book. On the one hand, the examples feature sound arguments for why a curve looks the way it does, or why a critical point is a maximum or minimum - but on the other hand, alongside Newton's Method and the Bisection Method for estimating roots, is a "Using the Zoom Function on Your Calculator" primer on how to estimate the zeroes of functions. Offhand remarks about "and you can use your graphing calculator for this and that" serve to seriously undermine any attempt to explain to first-year students the concept of mathematical argument - which is unfamiliar to many.

The organization of the chapters is also somewhat questionable. Differentiation is broken up into two sections: one dealing with the concept of a derivative (complete with pictures), and the other pertaining to computing them. While the idea of introducing differentiation through a concrete example - measuring instantaneous velocity given a displacement function - is a good one, by the time students actually get to work with derivatives, they're no longer focused on what they actually represent. Curve sketching is introduced vaguely at the end of the second chapter - before the shortcuts to differentiation are mentioned - and then revisited only in chapter 4.

The section on integration is even worse: again, it's introduced in a concrete manner - this time, by asking how displacement can be computed from a velocity function. But for some bizarre reason, the authors don't take this opportunity to explain that the area under a velocity curve - the integral - is that same displacement function whose derivative was the velocity. It's a perfect opportunity to do so, as it's an interesting and surprising (to the beginner) result, and one that's accessible at this point in the course. But instead, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is relegated to a later section, long after the "integral as an area" idea has been abandoned and students are just working with integrals as antiderivatives. (Even more curiously, there's a section entitled "The Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus", but none called "The First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus".)

I'd highly recommend James Stewart's _Calculus_ instead of this text for a first-year calc course: the material is far better explained, and there's even a section on the inadequacies of graphing calculators (which are expensive, and which most first year students don't have the mathematical background to use properly).

I bought this book to brush up, that's all. I found the examples confusing and the explanations poor, even for someone with experience.

I agree with the earlier comment regarding this text which points out its confusing explanations and lack of examples. Even in the case of someone looking to review calculus this text is not at all useful and a very expensive waste of money.