Machines Books

This is my great great Grandfather's Marble Company! I had no idea folks were collecting his marbles.
And a book with price guide, I am in total amazement.

All illustrations are exceptional and discriptions perfect. A must have for marble collectors.

It is a good book to read and understand. I would strongly recommend that a prospective reader read Muchnick's book before this if he/she is new to optimising compilers. Readers with some basic understanding of the structure of optimising compilers can read this book and get a good deal out of it. These books would complement each other well. I have read only a few chapters and I felt that it is also fairly deep in content (atleast to me as a novice compiler writer).

Excellent. This book, despite the usual red flags--multiple authors, huge breadth of coverage--is precisely organized, and the prose itself is consistently economical and clear. In fact, the only obstacle to absorbing the material is inherent to the field itself: compilers for modern silicon tend to be tremendously sophisticated systems.

In my case especially (I only write compilers once in a while), it is immensely valuable to have a publication that attempts to cover recent developments, such as handling deeply pipelined architectures, while still covering the fundamentals, such as register selection techniques.

Working programmers are the book's primary audience. As an illustration of that, this is the only compiler book that I've seen that actually mentions which techniques are still covered by software patents (Chaitin's original application of graph coloring to register selection is one such case, unfortunately for the state of the art).

This is deja vu again. We talked about AI and robotics in the same vein. Definitely ground breaking and recommend it. Not sure novices can handle it...

The book is one of the best I have seen in Neural and computer intelligence. Highly recommend if you are a student, academia, computer R&D or hobbyist.

Wish somebody published this before I started following Neural networks or computer intelligence

A very informative book on a era in which either you weren't alive at the time, too young, or couldn't believe that you went through all of what happened during the 1960's to early 1970's.

Nothing inspires so much enduring controversy and strongly held opinions as the subject of active draft resistance during the Vietnam War. The draft resisters were composed of a relatively small segment of the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of young American men of draft age who avoided serving in the Army in one fashion or another. While most avoided active service in one or another fashion by enrolling in colleges or graduate schools, getting married and quickly having children, or by crossing the border into Canada, the draft resisters stood their ground and actively (and often quite dramatically) confronted the system by openly opposing the draft, burning their draft cards publicly, and serving themselves up for the legal and social consequences of refusing to serve in the military.

The author's approach is both appealing and effective; he uses a plethora of anecdotes and then places them in context by providing an overall history of the movement as well as an effective analysis of the effect of the movement both for the individuals choosing to participate in it as well as for the society at large. Author Michael Foley is a history professor at the City University of New York College of Staten Island, and he obviously has some personal experience informing his awareness of the phenomenon, which was in his estimation one of the most important and most progressively attempted efforts at defanging the war machine, a technique which comprising the cutting edge of young Americans opposition to the war in Southeast Asia. It found its inspiration in the Gandhi-like examples of the civil rights movement, and found widespread philosophical and legal support for a method that eventually forced the formal apparatus of government to sit up and take notice.

What I found especially fascinating about Foley's approach is his concentration on events transpiring in the greater Boston area, where I had many personal experiences, both with the active resistance against the war as well as the other related anti-war activities. So the author's cogent analysis and colorful anecdotes often churn up memories of people and the times from my own reservoir of such experiences some thirty-five years ago. What was so intriguing about the movement was the way it transformed what was initially a massive loathing for what was considered an unmanly and suspect strategy into one that was much more widely supported and endorsed by mainstream Americans. Thus, by placing themselves and their futures on the line (many resisters eventually served time in prison rather than serve in the military), the resisters did change public opinion and popular perception of the war itself and on the ways in which honorable young men could behave in response to it.

Eventually, such efforts actually helped to end the draft, as President Nixon foisted a lottery system as an interim approach to the patently unfair policies of the draft, and soon thereafter created an all-volunteer service in response to the public outcry over 'selective service'. The actions of the war resisters sparked a wide-spread recognition among their peers of the obviously unfair nature of the draft itself, and helped to legitimize the mass-protests against the war involving millions of Americans outraged by the racist and social class distinctions made in draft policies. Finally, Foley shows how greater civic awareness is required to ensure a more enlightened and informed understanding of one's patriotic duties to the country during time of war. Enjoy!

Especially given that this book is in fact a doctoral dissertation, it's extremely easy to read. This is not to say that it is written for children, but rather, the author has used language well to convey concepts rather than to confuse and sound stuffy.

The book states the limitations of the traditional Von Neumann computer architecture (which by and large we are still stuck with today) and then goes on to explain how an entirely different approach with many processors could work.

This reference describes a computer architecture containing thousands of processor/memory cells that can be connected together by software, and the rational behind this architecture. It is easy to read, and is useful in providing the general reader with a feel for large multiple processor computation, in particular an architecture well suited for semantic network marker propagation.

A lot of work has gone in developing ITIL v3 's Life cycle management - and it shows. This title is one of 5 in the core set and the one that delivers on the promise of total quality management and service improvements for IT organizations.

I've met George Spalding and he is the type of man that you don't forget in a hurry.

He has a passion for life and a passion for his work. His contribution to the Continual Service Improvement volume of ITIL v3 was not only wise, it was essential.

Add this to the bookshelf as it will become one of your most referenced texts.

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I'm an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Drives Chair of National Technical University of Ukraine, and my courses are "Control Of Electrical Drives","Automatic Control Systems" etc. If this significant book was in my disposal, or in our library, it would be a good help to students in this course studying. Very good material with fine logic construction.

My grandson now has all of the books in this series and has had his mommy read them so many times that he has them memorized. Although he is only three, he sits and "reads" the books word for word. Amazing Machines is an amazing series with bright colors and lots of kid friendly information.
The rhyming phrases are easy for little ones to say and understand.

My boys love all of Tony Mitton's books... and this one is no exception. The illustrations are colorful and fun. The rhyming text is up-beat, as well as informative.

This book explains how simple it truly is to pull data from an industrial PLC on the factory floor. In additon to teaching you how to display your data using graphs, the book shows you how easy it is to make a recipe management application.

The book proves there's an economical alternive to the big buck solutions. It's a good place for any novice to start.

I'd easly recommend this book!

This is an outstanding book, that lets you make an industrial application (HMI), with the use of Microsoft Access. This is for the person that does not have much money, but wants to be an Industrial Programmer for HMI development.

I highly recommend this book!

My wife is a professional-level heirloom seamstress. She's sold dresses in excess of $300 multiple times, and has taught classes at a university summer sewing seminar. And she learned from the book. There are a number of things that are useful to her, and enabled her to go beyond what she was already capable of. It's not a book for someone at a basic to intermediate level of skill, but high intermediate to advanced people should find it very useful.

This book details some stunning embroidery and embellishment techniques that even a beginner can accomplish. Each section includes a project with very clear instructions and diagrams. A complete supply list (including thread weight, needle type/size, what kind of stabilizer to use, which presser foot, how to adjust the bobbin/machine tension, etc.) is provided with each project. I higly recommend this book to anyone who has always wanted an embroidery machine but can't afford it.