Wallace Books

book was in newe condition, cover entact, pages clear of any markings was in better condition than expected.

I was very surprised at the incredible condition of this book. I was hopeful, but it surpassed my expectations. Seller was on time and I am ready for classes. Thanks.

This is probably the best book in this subject, and contains a wealth of information useful to the practicing reliability engineer, fleet risk manager and any software professional tasked with writing code to do warranty analysis. It assumes that the reader has a decent background in mathematical statistics, and is familiar with the basic ideas of stochastic processes, renewal equations, distributional analysis, etc. It's extremely expensive, but worth the price if you are serious about developing warranty models in a rigorous manner.

From a practical perspective, you need other statistical textbooks like Meeker's "Statistical Methods of Reliability Data" and Wayne Nelsons books to develop good reliability models from field data, and some books on imputation methods, Bayesian methods etc to help clean up missing data (which happens more often than you realise). Purchasing this book makes sense after you have a good reliability / field data collection and analysis program in place.

Overall, the book deserves a full five stars for being the best book out there in this important field

And so goes the American food supply.
You've probably seen those bumper stickers "Fed Your Kid Today? Hug A Farmer", but no one would probably let their kid hug a suspicious looking guy covered in dirt, alone in a field, busy probing and measuring soil quality. Critical field work that allows those huggable corporate 'growers' to keep their rice yields up for those Cocoa Krispies hyping up your child in the morning.

This book pays homage to those in-the-scene workers who've mapped and maintain the National soil data base we depend on for food, forests and fun (recreation, for example, on BLM lands, however improperly managed by current conservative crats).

As someone who likes to explore the history of the discipline he's reading, I honed in on chapter 9 "Soil Survey and Soil-Geomorphology" authored by some of our best soil geomorphologists.

Note that one of the authors of this chapter, Holliday, covers just about the same ground in FOOTPRINTS IN THE SOIL (see section 2, "Soil as A Natural Body"), which is also highly recommended for an international perspective.

It was about time (plus parent material, climate, relief, and organisms) that someone wrote a history of the Survey. Soil scientists, agronomists, geographers, geologists and historians will benefit from the long view of those who've faithfully studied one of our most important resources.

I received this little set of books as a gift, and my children just loved them. The books went to church with us and were very effective at keeping the kids quiet during the long meeting. The artwork is folksy and fun, the stories simple and accurate, and the whole feeling of the series is one of gentle reverence. We loved them.

Irving Wallace, makes this story so thrilling and interesting that
it'd b worth to make a movie out of it. Perfectly written, with Wallace's unique style that always leaves you wanting to get deeper and further into the novel, the author tells us a story about a scientist that discovers a formula to make people live twice as long as the normal average. The story takes place in "Venecia" (italy)and is a battle between good an evil, the militia is aware of the discovery of the scientist and tries to get hold of the formula, but the people that have the formula (written on paper), try to hide anywhere in the little and beautiful city of Venice.
The whole books is about the main characters trying to get away while debating if it would be good to reveal the secret formula or not, thinking about how good it would bring or how much damage it can cause. Irving Wallace leaves you eager for more, every time you close the book, and you would not be satisfied until you finish it

I use this book each morning as part of my reading and devotions. It is clearly written and practical. The meditations speak to our daily lives.

Before Robert Kenneth Jones(THE SHUDDER PULPS),Ron Goulart(CHEAP THRILLS),Peter Haining(THE FANTASTIC PULPS and THE CLASSIC ERA OF AMERICAN PULP MAGAZINES),Lee Server(DANGER IS MY BUSINESS),Frank M. Robinson&Lawrence Davidson(PULP CULTURE),there was TONY GOODSTONE."THE PULPS(Fifty years of American Pop Culture,Compiled and edited by Tony Goodstone)"is a hell of a book.It's the first important survey and anthology of pulp art and pulp literature from the period 1896 to 1953.A large cofee&table volume,contains 100 full-color reproductions of rare original cover art and more than 50 stories,poems,features,and articles.They are presented with their original b&w illustrations and aids and are integrated into their social context by an illuminating commentary by the Editor Goodstone.
Famous writers are represented in the book:EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS("The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw"),MAX BRAND("The Ghost"),LUKE SHORT("Tough Enough"),DASHIELL HAMMETT("One Hour"),ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM("Death's Passport"),RAY BRADBURY("Wake for the Living"),ROBERT E. HOWARD("The Purple Heart of Erlik"),H.P.LOVECRAFT("Continuity" and "The Gardens of Yin"),STANLEY WEINBAUM("Parasite Planet").A surprise:"The Vengeance of Nitocris"(Weird Tales,1928)by Pulitzer Prize winner TENNESSEE WILIAMS.
Artists represented(with color reproductions):CLINTON PETEE,ARNOLD KOHN,MARGARET BRUNDAGE,FREDERICK BLAKESLEE,RUDOLPH BELARSKI,JOHN NEWTON HOWETT,EARLE K. BERGEY,H.J.WARD,HANNES BOK,WESSO(Hans Waldemar Wessolovski),J.ALLEN St.JOHN,FRANK R.PAUL,HOWARD V. BROWN,WALTER M.BAUMHOFER,H.W.SCOTT,HUBERT ROGERS,JEROME ROSEN.
TONY GOODSTONE(The Bronx,NY,1934-Los Angeles,CA,2002),was an actor,producer,and writer,who assembled a noted collection of American memorabilia.In this book he was helped by the late SAM MOSKOWITZ,the famous Science Fiction connoisseur.

As I read this to my 3-year-old, I thought about how great it would be for a homeschooler. Not only is the art superb, but it includes so much about the history of the pumpkin, how they grow, the fact that they are berries, etc... And it does so without feeling textbookish. Heck, I learned a lot. LOL!

I love this book -- it's full of wisdom and literary snippets on walking, makes me think even more than I usually do on my hikes. Makes me feel the profundity of such a simple act, setting one foot in front of the other, over the earth. I like to read it before I set out and after I come back. It's a real treasure.