E. E. Cummings Books

This was a required text for my college nutrtion course. It was very useful and helpful for me when I wanted to learn how to combine foods for the most nutrient rich diet for my family. I have a young child and wanted to learn the best foods to optimize his health. There was a chapter specific to his age group, as well as chapters on nutrient needs for the pregnant and lacting mother. I was fascinated by the wealth of information this text provides. The authors need to review some of their end of chapter tests and be certain that they have answered correctly.

It's really a excellent book on operating system

A very good selection, made by the poet himself from 11 books of poems. Its purpose is to be an introduction, though it has no preface or a note on the poet's life. Just the poems and an index of first lines. The flaw, at least for me, is that my favorite poem and one of the most known from e. e. cummings is lacking: "somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond", that one with the end line "no one, not even the rain, has such small hands". Maybe it is post 1958, but I don't know. Overall, a good book.

Despite all of the people we encounter during the day, most of us are fundamentally lonely. Few of the people we encounter are little more than serious acquaintances and after our conversations, we all go our separate ways. Many houses now have privacy fences so that we don't even have to see each other at our leisure in our back yards. This book is a collection of verse and songs about that fundamental loneliness. There are songs by Lennon and McCartney, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Joe South. Some of the verse is by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickenson and Ezra Pound. All entries capture part of the essence of being human and a part of a community without being a fundamental cog. It is a sad reminder that even though we encounter more and more people each day, it is quality and not quantity that really has meaning in our lives.

What a magnificent poet. To hear his voice is just like traveling back in time. The wisdom is astounding.

The author knows a lot about the accounting principles mentioned in the book, but he has forgotton that he is writing a textbook, not a novel. He has written too much and has failed to make good use of diagrams or tables to illustrate some concepts which are too difficult to grasp when expressed only in words.

This is he quintisential goto book for all you accounting needs. Quite well written and an excellent refernce.

This book is a learning book for accounting principles but it isn't for the novice student. This book looks at the settings for reports that all accountants need to learn and looks at them closely. In going through this book you see the various items that need to be reported in financial statements, how certain calculations are made in the accounting principles and provides a good base for any accounting student.

the book was in perfect condition just like the seller said so.

Wow, the examples are absolutely putrid. I am so disgusted with this book, universities are probably given some seriously cut rate deals on this book to use it. One simple example of the poor quality of this book is the following:

page 513

"...diagonal matrices, which are square matrices with only zero (0) entries off the main diagonal (that is, a(ij)=0 if i does not equal j); and column vectors, which are nx1 matrices. For example:

A=
(3,4,1
2,6,5
0,1,4)
B=
(3,0,0
0,0,0
0,0,7)...

Then A is a square matrix, B is a diagonal maxtrix....."

WAIT BACK UP! I thought if you were a diagonal matrix then you had zeros for all numbers except for the diagonal....remember if you have i rows and j columns in a square matrix then the only time i=j is along the diagonal and didn't the book already says that a(ij)=0 if i doesn't equal j? So why does B(2,2) have a 0? Is it because not all values in the diagonal can be 0 or is it because there is a typo? I don't know but if I pull out my linear algebra book or perhaps surf the web I can find out...but isn't that a waste of my time trying to make sure these people are just using poor notation or pressed the wrong key? I think so. I certainly would never use this book again nor would I ever use it as a reference. I actually went and picked up another book for diff eq that I use along side this terrible book, and the only reason I keep this diff eq book by nagle is so I can refer back to the table of contents for topics when my teacher says which chapters the test are on.

I just finished a class that used this textbook, and I had no real problems with it. I've seen some really poor reviews on this book which I think are unwarranted. This may not be the best book around, but it is certainly not the worst. Put simply, this is an average textbook. It is neither outstanding, nor terrible. I did find the wording awkward in places. For example, Theorem 1 regarding existence and uniqueness is stated as,


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"Given the initial value problem,

dy/dx = f(x,y), y(xo) = yo,

assume that f and the partial derivative of f with respect to y are continuous functions in a rectangle

R = { (x,y): a < x < b, c < y
that contains the point (xo, yo). Then the initial value problem has a unique solution phi(x) in some interval x0-delta < x < x0 + delta, where delta is a positive number."
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Using the phrase "assume that..." seems to completely de-emphasize the salient point which is that,


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IF f and the partial derivative of f with respect to y are continuous functions in a rectangle...

THEN the initial value problem has a unique solution phi(x) in some interval....
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But this is a fairly minor complaint, and mostly just a matter of personal taste. I am grateful that I had a good instructor though, as he was able to pull out the important points that were not obvious from the text.


On the plus side, the book has an excellent Student's Solutions Manual by Victor Maymeskul. For the most part, all the odd numbered problems were thoroughly worked and explained. I would highly recommend getting the solutions manual.


Bottom line, if this is a textbook for a class, don't worry about it. The book will be just fine, and a good instructor will be able to use it effectively. If you want a book for self study, this may not be the best at clearly explaining concepts, but at least with the solution manual you will have lots of practice problems you can work and check. For self-study, you might check out "Ordinary Differential Equations" by Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard. I have not used it extensively, but it seems to be quite clearly written, and has generally received good reviews.

As an instructor at a small college, I am called upon to teach nearly every course in the mathematics curriculum. Therefore, I spend a great deal of time trolling for textbooks, as I never know from one year to the next what I will be teaching. I examined this book for possible adoption as a text for a single semester course in differential equations. My conclusion was that it is acceptable, but since it contains enough material for a two semester sequence, it must be assigned a rank lower than those that cover only a single semester.
However, I do strongly approve of the pedagogical approach taken by the authors. Their use of blue highlighting for the important formulas is eye-catching and effective. As I scanned through the book it was sometimes easier to determine the topic of a section by looking for the equations that were in blue. The exposition made the material easy to follow and the many worked and varied examples make the coverage complete.
I was also pleased to see the occasional theorem with proof. While courses in differential equations are largely, "give the technique(s), here is how to use it", it is still an upper division math course and an occasional proof is certainly reasonable and effective. The authors also include a short set of technical writing exercises at the end of the chapters and there are plenty of exercises with answers to the odd-numbered ones included in an appendix. While I don't think that I would ever make use of the technical writing exercises, I am sure that there are others who would take advantage of the opportunity.
In conclusion, even though I was impressed with this book, I doubt that I would adopt it. The differences between differential equation texts tend to be rather small, so the fact that this book is suitable for a two-semester sequence is enough for me to continue to look elsewhere.

I used the fifth edition of this textbook for my differential equations class, and since then I have continued to use it. The examples do a thorough job of explaining new concepts, as long as the reader is comfortable with working along and filling in the extra steps (Actually, in my opinion, this should be the standard method for learning from a textbook).

Since my first differential equations class, I have encountered some difficulty understanding partial differential equations, particularly heat equations and vibrations of a spring. The textbook I use for my intermediate engineering math course that I am covering this material for does a sloppy and incoherent job. However, using this book as a reference I was able to break down the process to "discovering" partial differential equations and am on my way to understanding at least heat equations and vibrating strings rather well. This book also clearly facilitates the reasoning behind fourier series and transforms.

I highly recommend this book. Although I didn't have much choice in selecting it for my courses, its use after the end of the intended course certainly exemplifies its value.

This is a really great climax to the original movie "Sniper" This is a must have for real collectors.

For those who still remember the terrific acting of Tom Berenger in Oliver Stone's 'Platoon,' it is painful to watch him in 'Sniper 3' (which is also set in Vietnam). Not that the film is a complete failure. Actually, Tom Berenger's performace as the veteran sniper Thomas Beckett is fairly good, if not his best. But the film's lazy direction (from the director of 'From the Dusk till Dawn: 3' ... no wonder) is too conspicous, killing the potential that some of the actions and characters might have.

Not much can be called original about the script of 'Sniper 3.' Thomas Beckett is sent to Vietnam, where he fought his war with his buddy during the war 30 years ago. But Beckett is informed that the friend who is supposed to be dead is now ruling the underground community as druglord (the idea inspired by 'Apocalypse Now'). And Beckett's assignment is to kill him.

Byron Mann appears as Sgt. Beckett's partner from Vietnam, and Thailand provides the convincing locations for the backdrop. Both actors did good acting, and the film tries to show the deeper characterization about Beckett, who talks about his old days, and even attends a wedding party (not drunk for that matter). The results of the efforts are not bad.

But the actions are so-so at best, with shoddy editing that often makes me wonder what is going on. For example, after Beckett's first 'hit,' a shoot-out scene at the rooftop begins, but as the film fails to show who is shooting (at) who, the sequence only shows alternately the confusing images of men shooting guns and men who got shot. And I still do not fully understand what happened in the last chapter, the terribly hurried and awfully incoherent wrap-up that comes with bamboo impalement. Excuse me, but I thought this is about a sniper's story...right?

Though the film is watchable thanks to the actors and locale, 'Sniper 3' reminds us of the fact that we really need somebody who can save Tom Berenger from this Grade B straight-to-video hell.

First off - the crass language. [Were they trying to make this movie trashy?] Certainly not intensely masculine!

Beckett is back - [not with the honed body we would have like to see] but still a strong masculine charisma.

Yup! being done dirt to by his superiors? They want him dead too! That would eliminate all their loose ends.

I was waiting to hear that he had gone back and eliminated them.
I did get what I was waiting for though. A shot that seems impossible to make. Doing what seems impossible is what we look for in our Super Heroes and especially our Snipers.

Come on you guys. What is with you that you cheapen our good movies [almost good] with barnyard language.
I really get disgusted with woman [and men for that matter] with vulgar mouths. I blame this on the writers and directors who seem to have illiterate minds.
Vulgarity is not a sign of masculine charisma - just low-bred mongrels.

I enjoyed Beckett - I ignored the crass language - and I love the shot! For Mature audiences only.

This is a long way off from Sniper I & Sniper II. It is geared towards MOUT environments and nothing is very tactical in this movie. Keep the Sniper films in the bush and out of urban environments.

I think that sniper 3 could of had potential but it was bad. unlike sniper 1 and 2 this film was so unrealistic and wasn't even good as the first two films, this time seargent Thomas Beckett goes to vietnam to assassinate a friend of his that he thought was dead many years ago it seems that hes become a suspected terrorist and Beckett has become a drunk and insufficeant person that it becomes unlikely that hes choosen for this mission. It seems that the film suffers from alot of faults like Tom Berenger gaining alot of weight and he doesn't look good for his role as a sniper, maybe hes geting old and this time the story just wasn't good enough for another film to be made so I hope that this one becomes the last in the series.

The layout of this book make it very easy to use as a textbook or reference source. The clinical examples are very useful to those with a medical interest. The author offers a comprehensive, no nonsense aproach that gets the job done.

I was forced to buy this book for a mixed undergrad and graduate endo course. While this book is long on info, it really doesn't work for the course I am taking.... I often reference my biochem and cell bio texts in order to get the full picture. Hadley is also overly wordy, to the point that it can get cumbersome and confusing.

This textbook would be valuable if you were looking for the most recent developments in endocrinology, but if you are trying to learn understandable details about the subject, this is an awful book. The layout was terrible and it skipped around so much that is was basically incomprehensible. I have no idea why my professor picked it.

This is a very good book with a lot of state of the art information. It will need some understanding of endocrinology or a good basic course in physiology to get the benefits. It would improve, probably, with an approach to the study of the hormones based on the physiological process being under regulation.

One thing's for sure. You read this book from cover to cover and you'll be one knowledgable student. It's loaded with information about endocrinology. Unfortunately, it's also loaded with extraneous information, some of which is most likely irrelevant to what your endocrinology professor is trying to teach, i.e. human endocrinology. Moreover, this excess info makes you have to search long and hard to get to the information you're looking for! But in general, it's a good book. I give it two snaps up and a circle.

Some people will pretend to altruism toward their human man, but always with the condition that their names are on the "gift." We have a few in this town who bequeath large money contributions only if they receive publicity and get their pictures in the local newspaper. One over-the-hill educator who thinks she is the only educated person in an apartment complex puts some of her "reference" (only in her opinion) books in the library with her name in large block letters. She has no humility or respect for the rights and opinions of others.

This book traces the interconnection of both within and across our species. Family are the biggest hindrance for certain people, like those highly sensitive. The brutes of society set out to hurt these special individuals with anger and guilt as their instigators. These aversive episodes are the opposite of kindness and empathy by others, and cognitive attributes suggest new paths for making sensitivity a blessing, and not a handicap. You learn about prosocial and antisocial behaviors such as selfishness ans separation distress among the young. Social play such as dreams have a part in overcoming other's aggression.

"I rose before dawn. The dream awakened me and I could not fall into sleep again. In the first passing freshness of the day, I scattered grain for the geese... The sun came up saffron, rose, and scarlet from the eastern hills, promising heat." The brighter side of human nature is Altruism and Empathy. There is a vast difference between aggressive and assertive actions to discipline confrontations. Many years ago, I sat in on a few sessions of a class on teaching Southern women to become aggressive by a Chicago male. When I wouldn't participate, he asked why. I told him I can be assertive when necessary, but never aggressive. Lately, I've changed my mind about that. Denying your emotions any longer will only delay the inevitable. After three years of being harassed and stalked by another being (not exactly human), I have decided it is time to take the aggressive, combative reaction. There is only so much a victim of such abuse can take. The function of emotions is to protect one's safety, physical and mental. Sometimes, it behooves the non-violent to take up for themselves when she has no one else to do it for her.

Aggression is not always bad. Sometimes it is needed for protection. It all depends on the individuals involved and the harshness and depth of a dangerous situation. I've been able to bluff my way out of a hostage situation which would have ended in death had I shown fear. But it left a scar, and now I warn the officials that a part of town is dangerous for bus riders and even ordinary women in particular. There is such a thing as taking this altruism thing a bit too far and endanger innocent people.