Harland Williams Books

A good follow up on Tompkins "A user's guide to Ellipsometry". This book deals with Spectroscopic Ellipsometry, but also covers the basics of single-wavelength ellipsometry. The book covers analysis of Thermal Oxide, PECVD SiO, SiO2, SiN, a-Si, etc. It also covers the mathematics behind the Lorentz oscillator, used in SE layer modelling.

Most useful book on this subject I have ever read.

A nice book featuring the detailed account from human zygote formation to the full term foetus. It also gives concise and clear to understand descriptions on the possibilities of malformations due to various conditions.

My son is a precocious five year-old boy and this book is right up his alley. It is full of vividly colored pictures, exciting events, exotic animals, and a cleverly written tale about a pet-loving boy who gets into some unique trouble. My son giggles each time we read it. You can't go wrong with this book if you hope to encourage your child to love reading and add new words to his or her vocabulary.

This reprint of "The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholemew Plan for the Los Angeles Region" is more exactly a low-quality copy. The maps are so dark they are very difficult to read, and the way they are bound into the book, much of the details are lost into the seams. The original maps were color, so any references to colors in the legends are lost, and the gray scales blended together make the maps even less articulate. It's important that a document such as this is reprinted for all to see, but it seems as if this volume has missed an opportunity of becoming a library keepsake.

It's true that the maps are often too small and would be better in color, as the originals are. However, the reprints are far from illegible, and the text of the Olmsted-Bartholomew proposal is captivating in and of itself.

I was fascinated to read the astute predictions of these men of vision, and their thoughtful proposals for increasing the quality of life for Angelenos. I remarked at the urgency of their recommendations; they seem to genuinely fear the social consequences of allowing a city to grow with inadequate space reserved for recreation and natural beauty.

If only we could know what L.A. would have been if the plan had been adopted!