Robert Prentice Books

This book covers the aspects of Humanities through the ages very well. The chapters are too long are easy enough reading that it is good for the learning aspect rather than just straight text book reading.

I personally felt the best thing about this text book was its beautiful images--the pieces of art are from all over the world, with varied mediums, differing meanings, and from differing time periods. The book is detailed and lengthy--it is not only ideal for those who thrive in artistry, but also for those who are studying the given topic.

This is the sort of book that a student buys for a Humanities class and keeps the rest of their life. Children growing up with this in the home will immediately identify the worlds greatest art and buildings having already seen it here in this book. This book represents an investment in a cultured home and is one the whole family will appreciate for a lifetime. The pictures are beautiful. The organization is state of the art.

...is to do! Kudos to the author and publisher of this book for having the insight to challenge learners in the best, most effective way possible. Not only does this book provide a slew of sample Exam questions, but it will have you deep into the guts of your system -- in the very first lab!!! your understanding of each concept is locked because you're physically following along with each step. There's no other book like this, and no better way to prepare for the exam then to gain the experience this book provides.

People learn in different ways. Some individuals can simply read a book and pick up the concepts. Others learn best by doing -- they need to get their hands dirty before they can absorb and retain new skills. This book gives you the best of both worlds: it's a source of knowledge for those who like to read and learn abstractly, but it also is rich in hands-on exercises and labs. The interactive nature of this book makes it very different from others I've seen in the market. You can call me biased since I did editing work on this book, but I think its format would work very well for anyone new to the A+ certification, as well as serve as a great reference for someone who needed a refresher. Another difference I've seen is that the exercises and labs are meant to be "real world" examples -- so there aren't these prettied-up cases you'd never be so lucky to find at your client's site. Hopefully, this book will prepare readers for the exam, but will also make them better technicians overall.

When you think of A+ you think of motherboards, sound cards, modems, memory, hard drives, installation and configuration, Windows 95, repair and troubleshooting. You next think of the exam, well Prentice Hall has made learning a little easier with this book.

Follow along the 12 chapters and the 90 plus labs; along with reviews questions that will test your thinking and you have a real chance at passing the A+ Certification exam. This book gives you "real life" hands on exercises that cover each and every A+ Objective.

Well written and well organized, this book will make learning a whole lot easier. From removing add on cards and memory to setting up a network printer, you'll be hard pressed to find a better or more complete set of labs. As a computer instructor, this workbook is a definite asset to the learning process.

This is really helpful for my 3rd grade classroom, where my readers range from pre-emergent up to 6th grade level. There are two leveled passages for each grade level, fiction and nonfiction. The only downside is not having a little more leeway to see mid-year growth (nothing more specific than at grade level. The DRA and STAR give you a little more within grade detail.) Anyway, it takes 3 minutes, and assesses comprehension AND fluency (take that, Dibels!)

Book was in great condition. Great delivery time. Brand new out of the box.

This is an excellent resource for teachers to help identify the needs of all the readers in your classroom.

I was satisfied with my book. It was cheap , in good condition as mentioned by the seller and the delivery was fast.

The book was informational, was thought provoking and gave good tips on test taking. One of the topics enlists you to find your personality and test taking styles then how to build on that in the classroom (and outside) to your advantage. Very life applicational.

Cornerstone is great material for my Strategies for Success class. I like the stories of real people that they list in the book, it has worked as a better illustration for me then most pictures. Greatly recommend this book even if you don't have a class you need this book for, but just a read as well.

This text is easy to read and understand. The book makes difficult material manageable.

this book is one of the best books to help you to pass the national registry emergency medical technician exam. I self had lessons with the 8/e and that was good but when i saw this book,it is the best thats wy i wnat to buy this book with his work book.

thanks to let me share my review from this book

sencerly yours Steve Croes

This workbook is precisely what you think it is, a multiple choice review of the chapters in the book. I would imagine it would be very helpful for the students that do not read the book. I did not find it very helpful. I used it for about the first ten chapters and then realized it was a waste of time. Read the book and you will be fine without it.

Of the 5 books I own that explain Seismic Refraction principles, Professor Burger is the only one who took the time to walk you thru step-by-step on interpreting a Seismogram. That is the sign of a true teacher and an Author who's not afraid of a little extra effort to help his students practically apply the knowlege. I only wish I lived closer to attend his classes!
I do agree with the others in that an IBM PC version of the diskettes is long overdue, but this book still gets my 5 star rating!

Excellent book for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in shallow geophysics. My only wish is that the disks could also be in IBM format and not only Mac format.

The book is very detailed. Seismic theory and practice is quite cogent and is the strongest area (about half the book). Strong descriptions are given on; Electrical Resistivity, Gravity, and Magnetics. IP, Spontaineous Potential, Magnetotelluric and Telluric and EM Surveying are barely mentioned. Not mentioned are; VLF, Ground Penetrating Radar, Remote Sensing and Radiometrics. I agree with the previous reviewer that it would be nice to have the Xcel spread sheets in both Mac & PC formats.

Since the class book I have seems to make you search for the formulas, I needed a book that was a quick reference. This book is easy to read. It's more of a reference book than a teaching book. I like having it to review over what the class book doesn't explain to well.

As a new grad student, this book, and the others of the series, provide a wonderful working basis for making and analyzing semiconductor devices devices. I highly recommend this series of books for any researcher in the semiconductor field.

I needed a quick reference to my Solid States class. This books puts the information I need right at my fingertips. While my class book is more detailed, this book gets to the point and is a great refresher for those needing to remember the points of semiconductors.

An easy to understand text that establishes the fundamentals of financial derivatives such as futures, options, and swaps with an emphasis on risk management. Great for business students.

Just entering the business from a EE background so I am reading this book to get down terminology and concepts before reading John C. Hull. At first "selling short" sounded like something shady.

This book is written in a friendly, interesting style.

Requires some math background (high school algebra) and basic knowledge of statistics (Gaussian distribution).
I have been verifying all calculations. For the asking, I have written some programs to automate interest rate calculations and Black-Scholes (...).

Next I'll write a program to do the work of 100000 stockbrokers in finding and executing arbitrage/reverse arbitrage opportunities.

This is a quick and easy guide to understanding derivatives. Excellent as a brief reference quide. Would recommend to professionals working with these products.

Not only this is the best DSP book I have used , but also the
best written engineering book I have experienced in my career. Subjects are presented clearly and the author prepares you well for the next lesson. I have been able to acquire the DSP knowledge I wanted in a few weeks and without any professors.
Strum and Kirk are both great educators.

I came across this in a "signals & systems" course that was intentionally being kept gentle. This book worked well enough, for students who didn't need real analog analysis.

Despite its title, this is a more of a "First Course" in discrete signals and systems. It does not, in fact, derive much at all from first principles. The Nyquist sampling theorem, for example, not proven but taken as a premise.

If you want a quick view (or review) of digital signals and filter design without having to plod through proofs knee-deep, this might work for you - it works for me. It is not a title for the most serious student, though.

This is one of the best DSP books on the market today. As the title "First principles of ..." indicates the focus of the book is on fundamentals, it is designed for the beginning student and the authors provide many, many clear examples and illustrations to guide the student through the material from discrete systems to more advanced signal processing algorithms.

If you are the unfortunate victim of a course being taught with Oppenheim and Schafer's muddled text do yourself a favor and get this book as a supplement. It is complete with solved problems, questions with answers (to selected problems), it provides a necessary degree of mathematical rigor without becoming tedious and presents general numerical algorithms for solving major signal processing problems.

I took a DSP course from the principal author while he was compiling the notes for this text (and eagerly awaited the publication of his book) and I must say the result is excellent (so was his course) and very highly recommended.

One unfortunate attribute is the poor quality of this book's construction and the reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I purchased the book 10 years ago and the pages have yellowed very badly and the binding broke almost immediately. Although Addison-Wesley generally produces a superior quality book this one's binding is more like a typical Prentice Hall cheapo.

My students translate basic program to C program.
But C program is not faster than basic program.
The reason is that string operation in basic is simple, but the student describe string operation much complicated than basic.

This book is very good for such a student.

This book is usually difficult to find and expensive as a result. I had high hopes of what it promised to do, providing the unique perspective of learning C Programming for programmers versed in the BASIC language. While it is true that Mr. Traister does provide a great deal of "here it is in BASIC, now here it is in C" examples, in my opinion he wastes time in explaining in great detail exactly what the just-a-few-lines little BASIC program is doing - yet, any BASIC programmer would already know exactly that. At most, a very brief summation of what the BASIC program is doing would more than suffice.

The above is minor quibbling, though, which would be easily forgiven in light of admittedly subjective interpretations of "how much detail is enough detail" in reiterating items one's already supposed to know as a prerequisite for the book, and for the unique benefit of this BASIC - C tutorial.

The *problem* (and it's a big one) is the author's wrecklessly bad programming examples of C in at least some cases I've spotted, and I'm barely into the book. For example, his example of how to properly code a small C program to utilize the strcat (string concatenation library function) results in incorrect, unpredictable execution. At first, I wondered if it was my compiler. After trying it with several, they all had the same problem, although some compilers might be more foregiving - but is that how you want to be taught how to code - so that it only works in some limited instances? I showed the example to an experienced C coder, who explained how bad the example(s) were. Sure enough, I went and checked a couple of other books, which had error-free, correct examples for strcat, etc.

I'm not saying his other examples are necessarily as bad. I'll even give him the benefit of the doubt that probably most are not, at least those not dealing with memory-related issues and just instead simple loops, etc.

But even seeing such bad examples is not the way I wish to learn, so I've filed his book away only to refer to if needed, and will instead try the much-touted "Joy of C" book instead and K & R's famous reference-style book. Also, the pub. date of Traister's book calls into question whether this is pre-ANSI C.

As of this review's writing, you have one all-star review by one reader, and my own at best "be very careful" review in cross-checking his C examples, or at worst, unfortunately, consider other programming books for more "official" and proper examples, and only skim through this for a very high-level intro.

This book shows side by side basic to C code. Luckily basic and C are so similar that you do not have to change paradigms to take advantage of the power of C. If you were going from COBOL to C, a side by side reference would get you in trouble; you would end up with a COBOL program written in C. This program would be bulkier after compiling and run slower than the original COBOL. Basic on the other has is not so restricted in coding form and also can take advantage of PEEK and POKE to do addressing and take advantage of VECTORS. This book is not comprehensive of either language. It is a practical starting point. There are ten chapters and a summation. There are no appendixes.