Equipment Books

An excellent introduction to the study of astronomy - beautifully presented, like all DK books, and reasonably priced.

This book is appropriately named as a companion book,...the kind that is small enough to take with you, and it will give you ideas of potential sky objects to view or photograph that night. Nice reading, and good photographs to aid you. Excellent for beginners and intermediates alike.

My 3 y/o son loves big trucks and this has been the best book (and we've read a lot) that teach the different construction machines. Great book!

we are a family with 2 truck loving boys- our house is full of heavy machinery type books- this one is probably the boys' and our favourite because the illustrations are very nice and very realistic- but any book can have a great picture of a truck right?- what distinguishes this book from all the rest is that the descriptions of the machinery is really interesting and intelligent- there are no silly little sentence like: "a bulldozer is big!"- rather, the paragraph for each picture really holds everyone's attention- i'm just sorry he hasn't written any other truck-type books!

Thoroughly recommend! The book show the deep insight of the authors/editors into the technologies, as well as the business implications of reliability engineering.

A excellent overview of the field of electronics reliability, coupled with insight into how the AT&T (now Lucent) team developed their revolutionary model of electronics reliability ( i.e. if an electronic component doesn't fail early during its service life, it probably never will) that changed the nature of warranties in telecommunications equipment, make this a must have book for anyone in electronics engineering. Failure Rate (or Hazard Function) Data, and accelerated life models are useful for today's practitioners

Eugene Atget is a wonderful photographer and you can find many important images in this book. The book included 3 languages (English, French and German)Enjoy...

This is one of the more unusual books on my shelves, in that physically it is designed to bear a resemblence on its exterior to some travel guides. The photograph above doesn't do it justice. The material is kivar-like, and his famous photograph of the entrance to the Moulin Rouge is tinted in red and yellow. Inside, the photographs are arranged thematically, according such topics as Salesman and Traders on the Streets of Paris, or Trades, Shops, and Window Displays, or interiors of Parisian homes, or, my favorite, Old Paris.

As the introduction of the book points out, Atget was the great photographic recorder of Old Paris. It is to Paris of the turn of the 19th to the 20th century what Weegee was to lower Manhattan. The pictures in this book are nothing short of remarkable, and to look at them for any length of time helps transport one, to the extent that that is possible, to a world that no longer exists. This is not beautiful, genteel Paris. It isn't the Paris of Proust. It is more the Paris of Baudelaire fifty years down the road, the Paris of Toulouse-Latrec.

This without any question the finest inexpensive edition of Atget's photographs currently available, and since Atget is the predominant photographer of the Paris of a hundred years ago, the best inexpensive book of photographs of Old Paris.

Because the author presents photographs of significant objects in the context of the night sky that realistically reflects how the amateur will actually perceive them is what makes this volume so valuable. Images from powerful observatory telescopes, as marvelous and instructive as they are, tend to raise our expectations about what we are likely to encounter with our relatively small telescopes. Instead the author opts for the subtle drama inherent within an "honest" representation of the proportions of our night sky. The b&w photographs by the author are surprisingly effective given this 'age of color'--indeed, when viewing the night sky through our modest telescopes, the overall effect is one that most resembles the b&w sphere. Again, this is consistent with the author's philosophy: color-sensitive film reveals a spectrum that our eyes themselves are not sensitive to viewing the sky through a scope. I am especially impressed by books that reflect an author's earnestness for the subject matter and approach itself, but this book ranks even high among this select group.

This book by Hans Vehrenberg is a compilation of a lot of very nice pictures of deep-sky objects taken with more or less modest photographic equipment before the digital processing era. It includes full explanations about each object.

This books shows what can be achieved by a good amateur astrophotographer.

This is an imformative, facinating,and sometime sad video of the men who fought in WWII and flew the B-17's. It is hard to belive that they were so young and faced the dangers so bravely. I bought this as a present after watching it myself. It gave me an understanding of what my father faced. I especially liked the inclusion of where the remaining planes are now.

"B-17 Flying Fortress" is a great book for anyone who loves this majestic airplane and the men who flew her. It is a fitting companion on anyone's Eighth Airforce bookshelf next to Harry Crosby's "A Wing and a Prayer", Steven Edward Rustad's "The Triumph and the Glory", and Bert Stile's "Serenade to the Big Bird".

I found this book and its counterpart to be great reads. Full of rich stories and great photographs, there is not much else you can expect. I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in aviation history and to anyone interested in World War II aviation history specifically. The book marks the heroism and courage of th bomber crews over the Third Reich. Well worth the money spent.

This excellent book by Osprey Aviation details the beginnings of the B-17 units of the U. S. Eighth Air Force in England during World War 2 until the war's end. Liberally illustrated with photos, line drawings, and paintings, it also provides a partial Bomb Group Assignment chart, numerous personal anecdotes, and follows the careers of many celebrated fortresses.

A nice section on nose art examples rounds out a worthy tribute to this fine aircraft and the men that flew in it.

This book is a very good source of information if you are building a model of this aircraft and want to have it look like the actual aircraft. It also tells a brief history of this aircraft and the other programs that this aircraft was involved in, as well as what it was designed to do. The book also briefly talks about the three other aircraft that this aircraft inspired, but were never built past the prototype stage.

My name is Michael L. Oaks, of Grants Pass, Oregon. If you were ever associated in any way, with the B-36 aircraft as I was, this book is a "must have" for your library. It tells the story of the greatest "Cold War" aircraft made. It covers all of the various models of the B-36 to even the variations developed from it such as the C-199 Cargo type etc. The book is in 8 1/2x 11 landscape, glossy format,with lots of photo's of everything from crashes, tail markings (in color). In fact, its 50 pages cover just about every detail about this magnificant aircraft, from the flight deck, to the various manned stations through-out the "Peacemaker". It gives a brief history of the various Bomb wings, as well as the serial numbers of all of the B-36's. A must for the aircraft enthusiast. My own personal experience with the B-36 was as an engine mechanic from 1951 through 1954. Great book! Great store! and have a Great day!

Starting back up in the dark room after 12 years I needed some refreshing and bought this book. It is great for beginners or those to need to refresh their memories. Easy to understand, going through the process step-by-step.

i was curious about developing my own pictures so i purchased this book to see how hard it was i read the book and the next weekend i purchased the equipment for a dark room [in my bathroom] and the chemicals and try'd it and my pictures turned out great. this book made it very simple to understand. read this book,do it,and you will be very impressed i was. dan.

Basic Electrocardiology by Steven Scheidt very clearly and methodically illustrates which progression of electrical activity through the heart's anatomy correlates to the segments of the EKG. The time-lapse color sequences through all the leads really helped me gather the basic tools to interpret EKGs. Concepts like Q-waves and bundle block I think are very well presented. Overall, this is an outstanding first book to acquire the foundation needed for EKG analysis.

This is an outstanding overview of electrocardiography showing the relationship of the underlying electrophysiologic anatomy (with drawings by the famous medical artist, the late Frank Netter) and the resultant surface ECG. "A picture says a thousand words" and this ECG book really ties it all together. Outstanding for health care provider students, residents, and faculty.