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Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy is the seminal textbook on the subject. It is really strong on the epidemiology of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. It is a little weak on the basic science side, with chapters written by investigators highlighting their own research, not a broad enough scope of the field in my opinion. That being said, it is the best that is out there, and a "must have" for clinicians and researchers interested in hypertension in pregnancy in all of its forms.

As a cardiologist that has been involved recently in dealing with hypertension and pregnacy I found this book very useful, but with surprise I notice that in Chapter 19, Chronic Hypertension and Pregnacy by P. August and M. Lindheimer there isn't any mention about the interference that can produce methyldopa in the laboratory diagnostic of pheocromocytoma.

IT'S ESENCIAL FO GYNAECOLOGIST TO HAVE THE CONTROL IN THE MANAGE OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE DURIG PREGNANCY, AND THIS BOOK WILL PROVIDE YOU ALL THE INFORMATION YOU'LL NEED TO DO IT

Too simplistic. Perhaps good for newbies. But anyway there
are better books on FFT, e.g. Brigham. This one is not for
professionals! You've been warned. For beginners I would recommend books by Zonst. They are much more to the point.
And cheaper! Thanks god I didn't buy it myself!

This book is a great way to realize that theoretical murmurings can mature into intuitive processes that can be used as guides to self-check new ideas. While FFT theory is necessary, if you like that kind of thing, a good grasp of what may be accomplished is often left out or buried. This book provides a great way to get perspective on rigorous frequency domain textbook theory and make the necessary textbook search for detail much more meaningful. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has to deal with signal processing.

Of the half-shelf of books in my library related to signal processing, this one by Ramirez is part of a highly valued subset. The author achieves an artful balance of the theoretical with the practical. Given that my emphasis is on applying the principles of FFT processing in a manufacturing environment, his approach proved quite helpful.

Throughout the book, basic concepts are initially presented within a mathematical context. Subsequently, they are reinforced with examples. Often, hardcopies of traces from a signal processor's monitor are provided--these are effective in driving home key points.

After reading this book over two days' time, I was left wishing to see a companion volume that adds more on real-life problem solving, plus material on advanced techniques (e.g., cepstrum). This thirst for more knowledge says a lot for the way in which Ramirez motivates.

This is great for its explanations and exercises. Are you selling the 1994 edition? Why not give us the year of publication?

The reviewd book has been in use for over 20 years. Does time make it useless, old fashion? Not at all. As a grammar support book, combined with texts and other material provides the ESL student with the necessary grammatical topics for him/her achieve grammatical proficiency.

This book has become an indispensible resource for me. One of the huge challenges of being an ESL teacher is to figure out how to explain more or less logically what native speakers know intuitively. I am often stymied by grammar exercises in workbooks that are not properly explained, have too few examples, or the vocabulary in the examples is too difficult. Dixson avoids all these problems. This book is also great when you feel a quick review of a basic point is needed, or just for a quick quiz. What ESL student doesn't need to periodically review irregular verbs? You'll use it over and over once you buy it, guaranteed!

Hegel was immensely popular in his time but I do not think his ideas hold up well today. I believe that his greatness lies in his influence to be found in the even greater philosophers who followed him. I'd be lying if I said that some of the ideas he brings up in this work aren't interesting, but I wouldn't be if I said that the prose itself isn't.

This brief work may be the single best introduction to the philosophy of Hegel in my experience with my college students. The introduction by the translator/editor is a nice synopsis of this area of Hegel's thinking also. Central concepts are the notions of logic in history, the development of the state, and concept of world history. The work is brief and should only be used as introduction.

Hegel is considered a notoriously difficult author to understand, and justly so. But his thorny prose is as much a creation of his as his philosophy itself; it was not because he could not write well that he wrote as he did, but because he wrote in such a way as to communicate ideas that did not come easily to language. That said, it is best to start reading Hegel with something like this, rather than the Phenomenology, so as to get an idea of what's at stake in his writings; Hegel's philosophy is essentially recursive, and so the patterns that emerge in one area of his thought are often applicable to others (his ideas on history cross over with his ideas on art which cross over with his ideas on religion, and so on). Thus learning one part of his system helps you to understand other parts. Contrary to one popular prejudice, Hegel's vision isn't just an a priori framework laid down upon empirical facts - although perhaps this does occur at times. Hegel's vision of history was essentially based upon the actual history of the world as he knew it, based upon the wealth of historical sources he had studied (many of which we must now admit to be outdated, particularly his sources for non-Western history). For this reason I recommend this work for two groups in particular: (1) those looking for an entry into the citadel of Hegel and (2) those looking for an interesting interpretation of history. I won't vouch for Hegel's project, but I will vouch for the richness of the ideas expressed here, particularly when Hegel is in his element, writing about Greek and Roman history. The other sections are uneven but those two fascinate.

A text/anthology with a difference. Literature and Society, 2nd Edition, provides an extensive, varied, and innovative introduction to four literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fictional prose. It offers a broad spectrum of selections, traditional as well as contemporary, and organizes the selection around socially relevant themes that students can relate to easily. In addition, it provides pedagogical support for understanding literary form and writing about it.

Literature and Society demonstrates how literary techniques serve larger purposes - and how these larger purposes shape literary form.

Among its many unique features, the Second Edition:
* Organizes the literature around five socially relevant themes
- Growing up and Growing older
- Women and Men
- Money and Work
- Peace and War
- Varieties of Protest

* Offers a variety of works by women, African American, ethnic, working class, and other writers traditionally under-represented.

* Includes an introduction to each literary genre, a process-oriented chapter on how to write about literature, and author biographies, discussion questions, and writing exercises for all stories, plays, works of non-fiction, and key poems.

This will remain a trusted resource and reference long after subsequent revisions are released. - 5 Stars.

I respectfully disagree with reviewer Jeffrey Leeper; this is a solid text for a college-level introductory course in literature. The selections assume an intelligent reader, which covers most of my students.

I specifically chose this text because I wanted to approach the course from a societal perspective, and I was impressed by the editors'/authors' arrangement: "Growing Up and Growing Older," "Women and Men," "Money and Work," "Peace and War," and "Varieties of Protest." Sometimes, I switch works into other categories, for example, Sylvia Plath's poetry and play THREE WOMEN from "Growing Up and Growing Older" to "Varieties of Protest." But that's a matter of personal preference.

Mr. Leeper is probably correct that a professor may not want to use this particular text for an introductory literature course emphasizing a standard approach or for a writing about literature course. But, certainly, for a higher-level thematic course, such as Literature and Society, this text would no doubt offer an excellent choice.

I like the variety of works; this text could easily cover one or even two semesters of literature, covering not only fiction and poetry thoroughly, but also drama, including known and lesser known playwrights: William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Susan Glaspell and Alice Childress, among others. I would like to see more in-depth creative nonfiction, but, for now, I supplement the text with an inexpensive trade edition of HIROSHIMA. In later editions, the editors might consider adding some longer current and classic creative nonfiction selections, such as memoirs, journalistic features, and biography.

I have only one quibble: cost. I teach at a medium-sized, four-year college in Pennsylvania; most of our students come from blue collar families who struggle to pay for books and supplies, and I like to assign inexpensive books that won't break their budgets.

In this case, however, quality wins out over price, and I can only hope that my students feel that they're getting their money's worth.

If you are looking for a literature textbook for a survey course, then this book is not for you. It is designed for students, but it is also designed to illustrate literature's place in our society.

The beginning goes into the writing process and writing about literature. There is an example of writing on poetry, but it is only two paragraph's worth. Most students would like to see the whole essay.

The bulk of the book is arranged in topics, which have subtopics of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. The topics, "Growing up and Growing Older," "Women and Men," "Money and Work," "Peace and War," and "Varieties of Protest," give you a wide variety of selections to illustrate the idea. Unless you plan on structuring your course this way, this isn't the easiest text to navigate a class through.

The end of the book has a section devoted to each of the subtopics: fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Here, strategies and elements of each of these subtopics are illustrated here. The examples used here refer to selections from the text, which allows the student to refer back. This is a good touch.

I would not recommend this book as long as you are teaching a survey course.

The book was as i thought it would be, informative and the infotrac helped me to prepare for tests very effeciently!

This book was one of the worst psychology books I've read. It has a very...Ameri-centric view of psychology, and the author tells horrible anecdotes and even has his baby pictures in the book. Have fun with this one in class, kids.

This textbook is a broad introduction to the various lines of research and theory comprising the modern field of psychology. Besides being readable, the novel approach to study exercises, such as "Interactivities," (Exercises relating to the Internet) make the text a valuable resource.

I am a lecturer of semiconductors.my students found this book very suitable. in iran this book is translated in farsi by Dr.Moravej Farshi.

I really enjoyed reading the book and found it very well written and easy to understand.

I've used the first 6 volumes of this series to give a
course in semiconductor device physics, and found the text
really well done, I could allmost give the material verbatim
to the students (except for some calculations where some
more additional steps needed to enlighten some of them).
Most of the basic aspects of semiconductor physics, having
an impact on the practical characteristics of real devices
are treated and follow logically from the theory that is
exposed in the volumes.
The only thing that I found strange is: why so many small
modules, which are anyway interdependent ? Wouldn't one
decent book have been a better idea ?

This book provides a very comprehensive review of all aspects associated with map background knowledge necessary to create visually compelling maps, either on screen displays or plot layouts.

It is not for novices and math background is required to fully exploit all the chapters devoted to data clustering for proper map layer design.

Definitely worth reading.

Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization, Second Edition

This book is the required text for a Cartography course I am taking as part of a degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The text is well written, and very well organized. The chapters are short enough and deliver the right amount of theory to be read and absorbed in one sitting. The book addresses classical cartographic issues as well as modern digital mapping and GIS.

Where the book fails miserably is in its layout. I expect that a book that costs as much as this one did, and which relies on colour plates will be printed in full colour from cover to cover. However, all the colour plates have been collected near the back of the book. This wouldn't be a big deal but for the constant references in the text inviting one to make comparisons between the black and white figures which are inset, and colour plates at the back: lot's of flipping back and forth, breaking the flow.

Like I said, the contents is very good, but for $121, you can keep the hard cover, but give me a full colour textbook with inset colour figures and diagrams.

I teach beginning and advanced cartography, and this is the textbook I use. It features up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of cartographic theory and practice.

It is not tied to any particular software (such as ArcGIS). This could be a minus if you are trying to teach yourself. It is also quite expensive. However, it can be used in multiple courses.

This book was a disappointment to me because I think I expected more info about the stars. Honestly for whatever reason, I expected something like Hollywood Babylon. However, if you are a person who enjoys the intricacies behind Film Making---this is a book for you. But if you lean towards the more personal human side of film making, look further.

Sklar's book is an excellent overview of the history of world cinema, from its development (at least in prototype form) in the late 19th century until about ten years ago. I assigned it as a text for my "International Cinema" course, and was on the whole quite satisfied with what my students learned from it. While there are a wealth of details, and you could get lost if you didn't have at least some familiarity with films he mentions, the book is fairly accessible to the novice and is certainly readable.

Sklar is an excellent writer, who is able to sum things up in ways that are clear, accurate and precise. Each chapter covers a period in the history of cinema in such a way that even without knowing all the films he mentions you can still get a rough idea of what the trends were, that would form a space for subsequent learning. You'd get even more details, say, in the Oxford History of World Cinema, but what I like about Sklar's book is that it feels a bit more like a coherent and continuous narrative.

He does a great job moving back and forth between various national cinemas and the dominant Hollywood tradition, showing how Hollywood (and American cinema generally) put its stamp on world cinema while at the same time identifying the ways in which national cinemas developed their own identity in distinction from and sometimes in reaction to the influence of Hollywood. There is much to recommmend Sklar's approach, and if you want a manageable tome that gives enough detail for a basic grasp without being overwhelming, I can't think of a better text.

I bought this book for my sister-in-law and after looking through it almost decided to keep it for myself! (But it's a Christmas present.) Very informative without being boring. Great movie stills. Non-threatening to the cinema novice. Can't wait for the sequel!

This undergraduate psychology book is a valuable reference tool for a university student or anyone interested in learning more about this most intriguing field. Abnormal Psychology is a well-written university level text that affords the reader easy to understand expositional overviews of some pretty complicated theoretical constructs.

The book covers personality disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorders, sexual identity disorders, Schizophrenic disorders, Dementia, Delirium, and Amnestic Disorders which are conditions that cause memory loss.

Abnormal Psychology also covers Mental Retardation, Pervasive Developmental disorders, Psychological disorders of childhood, adjustment disorders, and life cycle transitions.

In their book, Authors Thomas F Oltmanns & Robert E. Emery provides easy to read examples and definitions of abnormal behavior, discuss the etiology or causes of abnormal behavior and the treatment of psychological disorders. Very important is their coverage of Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Acute and Posttraumatic stress disorders, Dissociative, Somatoform Disorders, and Suicide, This book will add value to any student or family reference library.

This text provides interesting descriptions of mental disorders. However, it often gives only a fleeting consideration of etiological factors, focusing instead on the regurgitation of the DSM criteria of such disorders. In other words, the text is oriented towards diagnostic criteria rather than theory and etiology. The authors attempt to justify this approach by repeatedly claiming that "little is known about the causes many of the disorders categorized by the DSM". Epistemological limitations aside, however, it seems that the authors would have done well to spend more time addressing hypotheses and theories of etiology, rather than repeatedly elaborating upon the self-explanatory DSM criteria.