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I bought this book a number of years ago. I am presently teaching photography and find the content to be well organized and understandable as a source of technical information. I wish it was more readily available to use as a text book for my students.

Detailed, precise and easy to understand information about: professional view-cameras, (medium and 35mm cameras are not the focus of attention of this book, but you'll find some information about them); pro equipment; films; lighting techniques; portraits (very good lighting guide - all kinds of lightings!!!); still-lifes; copy work; special effects... EVERYTHING... Doesn't have lots of information about developing and printing. Above all things it's a very creative book, from a very talented and creative photographer. It's a book for those who have some knowledge of photography and want to know more about studio and professional work.

This is truly a beautiful book for anyone wanting to 'create' with their camera. It is also a wonderful book if you want something thoughtful and inspiring to look at. You will want to go back to it over and over again.

This book on photography is timeless. I loved the beautiful, creative pictures and short discussions that were included.

The product was just as I had expected and it arrived ahead of time. I appreciate it. Thanks

This book has almost everything ( except specific details on therapeutic techniques) that a pediatric PT working with CP needs to know. After reading the first chapter, I got hooked on reading the rest of the book. The chapters on assistive device and gait were so intensively written. The best part, I believe, is the CD companion, with tons of case studies, pictures, and videos, that augments learning.

The item was very helpful. It is only the first part of the whole edition: The electricity part, so if you are looking only for a part of the whole, this version will be the best option for you. Includes everything from practice problems and equations to answers on the back.

This book includes eight wonderful reprints from the Scientific American. I find the topics fascinating. I read all these articles when they first appeared, and they are surprisingly relevant even 25 to 50 years later.

The first article, by Basil Mason, is from 1961, on snowflakes. He shows what kinds of snow crystals exist and describes his experiments to grow artificial snowflakes on filaments. Of course, plenty of work has been done on this topic since then.

The next article is from 1965, by Syun-Ichi Akasofu, on the Aurora. This is the article that first got me interested in the Aurora, and I learned much more about it since then. Akasofu, in a superb article, tells us about auroral substorms and the related polar electrojets and much more. This is a very challenging field to do research in!

James McDonald has an article, from 1954, on the shape of raindrops. What do you suppose they look like? Are they tapered? Spherical? Um, no. They look more like small hamburger buns, nearly hemispherical.

After that comes an article from 1966 by Luna Leopold and W. B. Langden, on river meanders. That's a fun topic to think about; even Einstein wrote about river meanders once. The authors show that the pattern of river meanders is consistent with the fact that in the absence of any other constraints, a "sine-generated curve is the most probable path of fixed length between two fixed points."

As someone with a college degree in acoustics, I especially liked the next article, from 1975, by Arthur Few. It is about thunder! Thunder is the result of shock waves generated by lightning, of course. Less than a percent of the shock wave goes into an acoustic wave, but that's still enough to make thunder really loud.

Ferren MacIntyre has an article from 1970, explaining why the sea is so salty. He gives us a fine description of the geochemical cycle that is involved here.

There is an article from 1959, by Willard Bascom, on ocean waves. Of course, this is also an interesting topic for someone learning about acoustics, since fluid mechanics is a fundamental part of the subject. The author includes a discussion of tsunamis. Bascom said in the article that "within the next century we can expect that somewhere a wave will at least equal the one that swept the shores of the Bay of Bengal in 1876, leaving 200,000 dead."

The final article, by Joel Myers, is from 1968 and is about fog. Fog is of course, simply a cloud on the ground. Myers explains how fog can persist as long as it does. He points out that smog is often misnamed, as it is generally simply a haze of pollutants that are trapped by an inversion layer of dry air rather than fog.

I recommend this fine collection of articles about natural and familiar phenomena.

This is the book I learned Piaget from in college, and I found it the clearest and easiest to read of the books and articles we worked with.

Title: The Planets : readings from Scientific American / selected and introduced by Bruce Murray ; foreword by Carl Sagan ; sponsored by the Planetary Society.
Publisher: San Francisco : Freeman, c1983.
Edition Date: 1983
Language: English
Notes: Includes index.
Physical Details: viii, 132 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Other Authors: Murray, Bruce C.
Planetary Society.
Other Titles: Scientific American.
Subjects: Planets.