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Macrologistics Management is an outstanding work and can help your organization identify breakthrough strategies that have the potential for significant impact on the overall organizational performance and competitive success. The benefits of such a strategy -- speed, stretch, and boundarylessness--are within the potential of the breakthrough change strategies outlined in this book. The objective of the change is to have a major impact upon corporate performance. Logistics is like plumbing: nobody pays any attention to it until it breaks down. And most organizations do not have deployment systems that adequately support the logistics process, so they are unable to effectively manage it.

I am a newcomer to this field and this text provided a thorough and intriguing analysis of this new approach to logistical management. The case studies were excellent and insightful. I would recommend this book to anyone involved with logistics.

I highly recommend this book for all those students who wishes to learn maple programming. The material is very well presented and organized and it has plenty of examples and exercises.

Maple is a powerful analytical calculation software which is one of the most popular among scientists and engineers. This book explains all important Maple programming techniques in the most lucid, dedactic, and at the same time concise manner with carefully chosen example codes. This book also covers some techniques which readers are assumed to know already and are omitted in other similar Maple texts. This book benefits both beginner and experts of Maple programming. This is the easiest way to master Maple.

The big players in the laboratory supplies and instruments markets have been successfully marketing to Europe for years and years, but small biotech companies looking to expand overseas will probably find this book to be very helpful--as I did. The chapter on contracts is especially illuminating and serves as a useful reminder that, once abroad, Americans have to play by the home court's rules. Well written and clearly presented.

This book has proven very useful in helping our biotech company reach new markets. A well-written, well-reasoned work showing the authors' depth of experience.

Maybe you like the idea of this book but you are wondering, does it live up to the promise, will you actually read much of it, is it just too big? The answers are yes, probably yes, and no.

I've browsed maybe half of the chapters. Each one is clear, easy to skim through, with a lot to dig into if you want. So far I've found not one "book report" just summarizing recent work. I've found fascinating helpful interpretations of subjects I don't know -- and challenging positions on subjects that I have my own view of.

Of course you can find fault. The book leans more to applied math than I'd like. And what about functional analysis?

Overall, I am stunned to think I wavered on buying this. I almost passed it up. It would have been a big mistake.

This book is a look to the future of mathematics based on the trends in mathematical thinking at the present time. I did not read all the articles in the book, so my review will be limited to those I did. The article "Experimental Mathematics" by D. Bailey and J. Borwein is an overview of a somewhat controversial activity in mathematics. This activity, characterized as "experimental" mathematics, has, the authors argue, enabled very interesting mathematical problems to be eventually solved. They outline in the article the recent discovery of how to calculate the the nth digit of Pi without computing any of the first n-1 digits without multiple-precision arithmetic and needing only low memory. The calculation scheme was based on a formula that was discovered by a computer, the first time this has happened.according to the authors. Experimental mathematics can be viewed as "real-time" discovery of mathematics, as well as letting us visualize the mathematical structures involved using computer graphics. Mathematicians interested in network modeling will appreciate the article by F. Kelly entitled "Mathematical Modeling of the Internet". Interestingly, his approach makes use of dynamical systems, with the goal of studying the behavior and stability of the TCP/IP protocol. The most interesting section of the article is the section on packet marking strategies. One can find surprising connections between strategies for packet marking, packet shaping, and network QoS, with techniques in option pricing from financial engineering. This is particularly true for frame relay networks. This connection was not discussed in Kelly's article, but I have found these connections in developing my own network models. Kelly gives good insight on how to apply techniques from optimization theory and dynamical systems to study the behavior of modern networks. The network modeling of the 21st century will have to contend with wireless, DWDM, and other more exotic technologies. By far the most interesting articles in the book were the two articles "Geometric Aspects of Mirror Symmetry" by D. Morrison and "A Chapter in Physical Mathematics" by K. Marathe. The constructions that take place in the areas discussed in these two articles have to rank as the most fascinating in all of mathematics. And most interestingly, the ideas had a powerful influence from theoretical physics. One can say without question that physical ideas coming from quantum field theory/high energy physics justify a rephrasing of the words of the famous physicist Eugene Wigner. One could now speak of "the reasonable influence of physics in mathematics". Physical ideas have permeated many different areas of mathematics and will continue to do so. Some mathematicians have classified this influence as "physical mathematics" because some of the mathematical constructions have not been justified rigorously. Several brilliant mathematical developments have occurred in the last two decades resulting from ideas from high energy physics, such as quantum invariants of knots and three-dimensional manifolds, Seiberg-Witten theory, mirror symmetry in algebraic geometry, and supersymmetry and index theorems. These exciting results could be described best as kind of a "quantization of mathematics", and the future will hold more of the this line of thinking. Every construction in mathematics will have a quantum analog, with a correspondence between mappings/structures in "ordinary" or "classical" mathematics and unitary transformations/noncommutative structures in the "quantized" version. An example of this kind of development is occurring today in the field of non-commutative geometry. "Mathematics Unlimited-2001 And Beyond" is a brief glimpse of what will be an exciting century for mathematics. Quantum computation will no doubt become a reality soon, and its computational power, coupled with the needs of the information age, will push mathematics to new dizzying heights. What was called experimental and physical mathematics in the book will continue to have their niches; but "pure" mathematics will also hold its ground and continue to solidify and advance. The mathematical adventure is just beginning......

I almost finished to read this guide. I am practising doctor in psychiatry and I am already using the guidelines so having reached several goals in the patients care. But it is also worth noting that you have to know the exact mechanism by wich each drug works before correctly use this book, that's why you need to study something else before "the maudsley prescribing guidelines" such as "stahl - essential psychopharmacology" by wich you can really understand the exact mechanism I have mentioned you about above.

This is the best book for detailed, practible guidance on prescription of psychiatric drugs. It is not introductory book but nothing in it is irrelevent. It is more about chosing a drug and monitoring its use than information about a particular drug. The book synthesises conclusions from research and yet has relevent lists of referneces.

The text is beautifully well written. Somehow, the authors make the book dense with accessible information and written with a warm tone.

Compared to what, then, you ask? Stahl's books are dull and fluffy by comparison, even though they are in colour. Stahl's books tell you about the drugs but the Maudsley Guidelines summarise information about what drug to use and how. For example, it summarises the information from the Star D trial.

Sadock and Sadock full of stuff that-had-to-be-put-in-because-it-had-to-be-put-in. Oxford handbook of psychiatry has too little drug information. Australian Therapeutic guidelines is an introductory book only.

I give this book six stars.

Buy this book if you want your certification. Buy this book if you want to know massive amounts of knowledge about Microsoft security. Buy this book if you have a MS network to secure.

Roberta knows her stuff and gives it to you in a readable, flawless manner that takes my breath away.

When I took the 70-214 exam in January there was only one book on the market to use. I had to scour the internet for information pertaining to the exam and I was lucky enough to pass the exam.

What is had hoped for when taking the exam was a tool to use for the final preparation of the exam objectives to be able to give myself the best chance of passing the exam on first try. This book provides such an exam tool and this is a good tool for those looking to put the finishing touches on their studies.

The Exam Cram series has been a source of information that that the finer points of the exam material and condenses it into a book that if used as an aide to passing can and will help those in pursuit of the certification. This book covers every objective and outlines the exam in an easy to follow manner.

Make no mistake about this, the 70-214 exam is one of the toughest and most in depth exams I have ever taken. I found the author to have a deep and detailed knowledge of the subject matter and his style makes reading the technical material a little easier.

You are also given a cd with the Prep Logic exam software, I found the questions to be comparable to the actual exam, but I think for the money the entire set of questions should have been included. Overall the book is a tool that will help with the exam and beyond.

MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS appears in its fourth edition to provide an entire course to engineering students: a tutorial of measurement uncertainty methods categorized and ready to go. The new uncertainty technologies in US and international standards are included here, serving as both a desk reference to practicing engineers and as a basic text for college-level students in engineering and industry. An excellent survey recommended for specialty college-level Science & Technology collections, and for supplemental curriculum classroom text assignment.

This book was written by an expert in the areaa of Measurement Uncertainty with over 30 years in the field. It is based on consensus work done with multiple international standards groups. An excellent introduction AND detailed text for all engineers and scientists interested in the subject.

This is the deeper and best book I have of physical organic chemistry. It's a classic.

the first advanced organic chemistry book concerned with the basic concepts that lead the reader to an deep approach to this subject.

This book helps me remember all of the right things to do when I admit a patient. Drugs, labs, vital signs, everything. It makes sure I don't forget any important admitting orders. Don't start residency or a clerkship without it.

This is THE book for residents. It's great for writing admit orders. The concept of all of their books (pocket-sized, brief and clear) is great for putting in a lab coat.

Methods And Styles In The Development Of Chemistry by Joseph S. Fruton (Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Senior Research Scholar in the History of Medicine at Yale University) is an informed and informative study of how human beings have conceptualized and evolved the science and art of chemistry, from Alchemy and the ancient wisdom of Greek philosophers to Antoine Lavoisier's immortal contribution to more recent revolutions in discovering the composition of elements, atoms, molecular structure, forces, and much more. An impeccable work of scholarship, Methods And Style In The Development Of Chemistry is commended as a thoroughly engaging journey through both the complex history and evolving science of chemistry.

We are already indebted to Joseph Fruton, the distinguished Yale University biochemist, for several excellent monographic works on the history of chemistry, including outstanding studies of the research schools of Justus Liebig and others. Here he offers us a lively interpretive summary of the entire history of chemistry, with a particular focus on a theme that he has explored in the past, namely research styles.
In truth, his subject is essentially nineteenth-century European chemistry. Just 33 pages at the beginning of the book take us from Pythagoras to Lavoisier; another 40 pages at the end summarize twentieth-century developments to about 1960. In addition to the chronological emphasis on the nineteenth century, Fruton also understandably pays particular attention to his previous concentrations, the history of organic and biochemistry. After Lavoisier, he treats "Atoms, Equivalents, and Elements," "Radicals and Types," "Valence and Molecular Structure," "Stereochemistry and Organic Synthesis," "Forces, Equilibria, and Rates," and "Electrons, Reaction Mechanisms, and Organic Synthesis."
Professor Fruton has had a long and varied career, and intensive acquaintance with the history of chemistry. His reading of both the primary and secondary literature is wide-ranging and conscientious, and he has written voluminously and attractively on many subjects in the field. It would therefore be most interesting to read in this summary work his considered opinions and generalizations regarding research methods and styles in chemistry. However, he draws back from such a general analysis. Impressed with the great diversity of personalities and styles in the history of chemistry, he suggests that "[b]road generalizations drawn from the careers of the chemists considered in this book are therefore likely to be wrong ..." (pp. 241-42). But his reticence does not extend to judgments of individual matters, on which he is exceedingly frank. He is doubtful, for example, of the reputation "of Lavoisier as the revolutionary founder of modern chemistry, [and] of Liebig as the greatest chemist of the nineteenth century." In terms of overall scientific merit he elevates Wöhler above Liebig, Laurent above Gerhardt, and Wurtz above Dumas (p. 242). Such candor is refreshing, even if historians might disagree with his judgments.
What we might have hoped for is a fuller justification of these judgments. Fruton provides just six pages of prefatory and other preliminary matter before plunging into ancient history, and just five pages of concluding observations after dispensing with the twentieth century. Moreover, both Foreword and Conclusion end disconcertingly abruptly. Some chapters also have occasional jumpy transitions, suggesting that the book might have benefited from one final revision before going to press.
The strength of the book is in its appealing engagement with the history of chemistry. It would certainly be an attractive choice as a first introduction to the field, from one of the finest living scientist-historians.