Applications Books

Ronald Shone provides numerical examples for phase diagrams and quantitative dynamics systems using MS-Excel, Mathematica, and Maple V. Is and excelent book for applied macroeconomic.

Ronald Shone provides numerical examples for phase diagrams and quantitative dynamics systems using MS-Excel, Mahtematica, and Maple V. Is and excelent book for applied macroeconomic.

This is an excellent resource for new and experienced engineers. A very handy resource for those of us in the consulting or plant engineering business. Highly recommended.

A significant contribution to the technical literature of our profession. A must-read for younger people coming into the field and an insightful refresher for those people who have been in it for a while.

a very good book for all the begineers in ebooks industry, it explain all the details in a very clear and easy-to-understand method.

I bought this book because I wanted to understand what electronic publishing is about and what the future might hold. I also wanted to understand if I could publish my own novel and how I could go about using tools like Microsoft Word or Framemaker to do so. I found the book was a good read and the history of electronic publishing was pretty interesting, I didn't know the first printed books were printed to look like handwritten books. My questions about how to publish my own books were mostly answered and the information on tools and fonts was helpful. The CD that comes with the book was very handy as it had the entire book in PDF format and I could do a full text search on the book, so when I wanted to search on something like fonts, I could find every hit in the book. Also some sample ebook chapters on the CD showed me how I could publish multiple ebooks from Word. The section where experts from companies like Microsoft talked about the future of epublishing was also good.

Designed for students who have no previous background in circuit theory or electronics, this text provides a sufficiently broad and thorough exposure to practical electronics to permit the immediate application of electronic circuits and instruments to laboratory and research work. Because these applications involve increasingly sophisticated concepts in signal processing, this book includes practical introductions to network theory, linear system theory, modulation and detection, noise, guarding and shielding, and analog and digital instrumentation. Thus, this book can be used as a textbook for an introductory first course in electrical engineering, as a textbook for one-semester "Electronics for Scientists and Engineers" survey course, or as a self-study primer for the professional scientist or engineer who needs additional background in the theory and practice of electronics.

The book is written for M.I.T. physicists and other scientists who need to design their own test equipment. Thus it is not a cookbook, but it is very practical and goal-oriented. It discusses many standard circuits and describes exactly how and why they work, jumping right into methods used to analyze them (KVL, KCL, Norton and Thevenin equivalences).

As an example of the clear approach to circuit analysis, it starts with circuits that use op-amps because they are easy to understand (i.e., as black boxes). (It also includes their real-world limitations and manufacturer's specifications.) Only later does it describe (and analyze) transistor circuits. Of course, many more circuits (e.g., CMOS, digital) are described (and analyzed), but the important point is it gives you the tools to analyze correctly the circuits for yourself.

If you like being able to understand precisely what is going on, and don't want to be babied, THIS IS THE BOOK.

This book is easy to read and provides plenty of examples. I used it as one of my reference books to study for the NCC "added certification in fetal monitoring" exam just a few months ago. Also, in my role as a Staff Developer / Unit Educator for a high volume hospital (6000+ deliveries a year), I recently used the book as a reference when I updated our new Labor & Delivery RN course.
Kim M., RNC, BSN

A well written concise reference. Current, informative and a must have for those of us working in obstetrics. Electronic Fetal Monitoring covers all aspects of this very important part of prenatal care. The expertise of the authors comes through every page.

This book is totally an excellent book!! A lot of basic information can be found in this book. Try out this book.
I very appreciate of your book, Schuler.

This is a great college textbook for the student who wishes to become a great motors and circuits gyro. This book helps us learn about the different electronics involved to accomplish our goals in which ever career field we wish.. whether its.. Heating and Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, Residential Wiring, and Industrial electrician.. a pipe fitter, or a sheet metal worker.. this book helps you understand circuts to the fullest potential. In which ever career field you wish to go into the Industrial Maintenance Technology career field

I recommend it for all College and University students taking number theory classes.
The book is concise, well documented, easily understandable, up to date with the last developments in the field, and with very nice examples and attractive proposed problems.
I read this textbook without letting if off my hands - like a detective novel or an exciting story.

This book is ideal for an undergraduate course in number theory. The combination of theory, problems and biographical sketches of the principals who made it what it is today is an excellent pedagogical technique. It allows an instructor to show how number theory began very early in mathematical history and how it has progressed over the centuries. Number theory holds the distinction as being the reservoir of most of the easily stated yet difficult problems. As Paul Erdös said, "If it is a simply stated problem that has remained unsolved for centuries, it is almost certainly one in number theory." In this book, you learn the reasons for this situation.
It is also well-suited for anyone with an interest in number theory who wishes to learn more about it. The explanations are well-written and a large number of exercises are included. Solutions to the odd numbered problems are given at the end. Review, supplementary and computer exercises are also included at the end of each chapter. The bulk of the explanatory text consists of examples worked out in complete detail.
This is the book that I would use if I were teaching a course in beginning number theory. It is a complete package, not only demonstrating what is known and unknown, but the path to how it got that way.

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Pour le présenter dans ces grandes lignes, ce livre est l'aboutissement des notes de cours d'un professeur qui est maintenant à la retraite. Il a été conçu pour un cours de probabilité pour sciences humaines. Il est constitué à peu près de 5% de théorie, 45% d'exemples et 50% d'exercices. L'approche y est fondamentalement appliquée. Les exemples ne sont pas de simples exercices résolus, on y explique le pourquoi et le comment. Cela en fait des guides d'utilisation. Dans la préface, l'auteur explique que, disons sur 5 sections d'un chapitre, il y en aura 4 qui couvrent la matière traditionnelle des probabilités et le 5ème aura de la matière plus avancée. On retrouve par exemple dans le premier chapitre (qui parle de définitions de base) une section sur les simulations Monte-Carlo.

En passant à travers les exemples, je n'avais pas l'impression que les situations étaient artificielles. Les sujets traités étaient fort nombreux et variés. L'auteur cherchait à faire comprendre l'importance du langage dans les problèmes de probabilité. Par exemple, après avoir résolu une variante du problème classique des 2 personnes quelconque dans une même salle ayant le même anniversaire, il s'attarde à la compréhension et aux conclusions valables que l'on peut en tirer. Après quoi, il répond à un autre problème similairement posé (quelle est la probabilité que quelqu'un d'autre a le même anniversaire que « toi » ?) et fait remarquer que la réponse est tout autre.

Bon livre, bon achat

To make a rough sketch of this book, this book is the end product of class notes of a now retired teacher. It was created for a course in probability for human sciences. The book has about 5% theory, 45% examples and 50% exercices. It's fundamentally an applied book. A teacher can use it in 2 ways : either "as is" or he can give his theory "without competition. The examples are not simple solved exercises, they explain the how and the why of things. That makes them user guides. In the foreword, the author explains that in a typical 5 section chapter, the first four will have the normal course matter, but the fifth will include extra "advanced" material. For example, in the first chapter (basic definitions), you'll find a section on monte-carlo simulations.

Reading through the examples, I never had the impression they were artificial. The subjects were many and varied. The author tries hard to make the reader understand the importance of language in probability. For example, after having solved a variation of the identical birthday for 2 persons in a same room, he goes on the make sure that the reader sees what you can learn and what you cannot from such an example. He then goes on to solve another similar problem, namely that someone else has the same birthday that you do. We see that the answer is not the same...

good read, good buy

This book is substantially revised from the previous edition in 1983, some 17 years ago. Consequently, new topics are added, particularly on GIS and digital photogrammetry. The appendixes on least squares adjustment, co-ordinate transformations, collinearity equations and digital resampling are particularly useful.

This book is clearly one of the best ones around in the area of photogrammetry. The chapters are properly organised and the concepts are explained clearly.

Of course, every book has to focus on its intent and target audience. The authors did this with flying colors. If there is anything missing in the current photogrammetric literature, it surely must be a book that reorganises the chapters into an operational book of case studies on photogrammetric practice.

I strongly recommend the book to you.

Dr Willie Tan bdgtanw@nus.edu.sg

This book is an excellent resource and covers all topics in a sufficient and easy to read manner and definitely covers all the "elements". Anyone that is interested in Photogrammetry will find this book quite useful.

Potential energy surfaces are instrumental in all aspects of nanoscale phenomena and they are well suited to be treated as a unifying theme for the study of chemical physics. In this respect, this book is unique... The topics it tackles, while interest to many researchers in manifold fields, have never been distilled into a single volume. And this first effort deserves kudos.

Each chapter(there are 10 chapters in the whole book)is supported with an exhaustive list of references and is reasonably self contained. Moreover, there is an immediate sense of coherence and the topical flow is rather well laid out. However, it is not a textbook with all that it implies. Wales provides a updated (as of the time of his writing (2003)) account of various topics, but none of them are treated assuming a classroom style. However, the reader is referred to the pertinent literature with valuable remarks as to what is to be found in which particular reference. The proofs to the equations are largely avoided but their origin and the physical implications are given a fair treatment. The required
mathematical background to follow the text is rather modest, while the wide spectrum of topics covered curbs its potential as a real page turner for the novice.

The illustrations are abound and in color which is a definitive plus. The binding and the paper quality is first class. The typeface is Donald Knuth`s Computer Modern with 11/14pt letter size, and this genuinely alleviates the reading process. My only quibble is the uneven quality of the images permeating the text as some of them have been culled from different sources.

I think the book serves its purpose very well and it is a good introductory exposition to a subject with utmost importance in nanoscience. I highly recommend it to anyone whose work involves materials science, chemisty or physics.

Wales must have cloned himself multiple times in order to have found time to have written such a comprehensive book. I'll leave the science for people smarter than I to judge, but I'm giving it 5 stars based on its visual impact alone. I just can't get enough of his beautifully created graphics of undulating potential energy surfaces and cluster rearangement pathways (to name but two examples). Wales is showing us the elegance of his chosen field- and in a way that's simple enough for us dullards to appreciate. I wonder if he's considered a second career in designing topologically interesting furniture, upholstered in only the finest convex polyhedra. This book will no doubt become required reading for those in the molecular simulation community and will be especially ideal for those starting out on their phd's.

Minor points: A cursory read has shown a few typographical errors, which should be corrected in future editions. I also found the references at the end of chapters a little unwieldy. It would also have been nice for Wales to have included a bibliography of recommended texts that could be used to take some of the ideas further.