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An important new book by the author of the bestselling text Defending Evolution: A Guide to the Creation/Evolution Controversy, Teaching Biological Evolution in Higher Education examines the controversial issues surrounding this central concept of life science; explores students' common scientific misconceptions; describes approaches for teaching topics and principles of evolution, and offers strategies for handling the various problems some students have with the idea of evolution due to religious influences. This book is an indispensable resource for all instructors who teach aspects of biological evolution in their college courses.
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Outstanding text treats numerical analysis with mathematical rigor, but relatively few theorems and proofs. Oriented toward computer solutions of problems, it stresses errors in methods and computational efficiency. Problems — some strictly mathematical, others requiring a computer — appear at the end of each chapter.
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5 Stars for undergrads .......2005-09-13
If you are looking in to 3d Nurbs buy this book. If you are looking to build a robot from scratch buy this book. It may mean taking calculus and linear algebra but the algorithms are very advanced and quick. This is the math that every corporation would like you to have if you are an engineer. Plus it helps you understand many of the mathematicians. After reading this book you have excellent under pinning for your name.
P.S. This may be good for white hatter as well but I don't know since I am not into cryptography.
P.P.S. Did you always think that Sin() was a magical function? Well you will learn more than you every thought possible with this book. The optimization on you code can go through the roof. Plus this seems to be (but I still have not confirmed) a good way of understanding O notation and not to mention NP complete algorithms (Such what classifies a NP Complete problem).
Archaic First Course in Numerical Analysis.......2005-02-11
A constant in numerical analysis for years the second edition has not kept pace with the way mathematics is contemporarily taught to engineers and scientists. The book appears to assume an older format of learning mathematics was used by the reader. The reader will soon be seeking additional texts to make this one understandable.
A classic and a bargain at that.......2001-07-10
I lost my original copy during my last move. Therefore, I was overjoyed that an inexpensive paperback version had been printed. A must for the numerical analyst's library.
good intermediate text on numerical analysis.......2001-06-07
This is a good intermediate text on numerical analysis. The development of the underlying real variable theory is much more rigorous than the closely related and more recent text "Numerical Recipes in C". Also, there is more attention paid to function theoretic considerations such as notions of continuity and compactness. This is basically an introductory numerical functional analysis textbook. There are numerous good examples sprinkled throughout the text. To get the most out of this book, you need a working knowledge of advanced calculus, real analysis and linear algebra.
Simply the best you can get (at this price).......2001-06-01
This is the republication of the 2nd edition published by McGraw-Hill, 1978, with minor corrections. This Dover edition also includes 50 pages of Hints and Answers to Problems, which is very helpful. It is one of the 14 reference books listed in the Numerical Recipe in C: The Art of Scientific Computing, and the authors of the Recipe book says, of the 14 books, "These are the books that we like to have within easy reach." A. Ralston, of SUNY Buffalo, also co-wrote a book, Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics(DAM), which is easy and fun to read. But I am puzzled by the words - "Well-known and highly regarded even by those who have never used it." - on the back cover of the A K Peters edition of DAM. What do they mean?
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Numerical Analysis: A Second Course (Classics in Applied Mathematics)
James M. Ortega
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Addresses some of the basic questions in numerical analysis: convergence theorems for iterative methods for both linear and nonlinear equations; discretization error, especially for ordinary differential equations; rounding error analysis; sensitivity of eigenvalues; and solutions of linear equations with respect to changes in the data.
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Pot luck
Roland Clark
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Easy, Creative and Quick.......2001-08-03
The Everyday cookbook series have helped to make my dinners delicious but none more than Thursday is Pot-Luck. This book is jam packed with tons of creative one pot meal ideas in numerous ethnic backgrounds. The recipies are really wasy to follow and the ingredients needed are so common they can be made with little preparation (those frantic rushes to the supermarket when you don't have a specific ingredient) but the final product is anything but common!
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This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.
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Not a Melodrama.......2004-08-07
This novel is not melodramatic, because it does not fit the definition. In a melodrama there is a polarization of good and evil; both are shown with an exaggerated acuteness and feelings that go along are overdramatized. In "Pot-Bouille/Pot Lock" the characters are very real and down-to-earth. The novel features sex, adulteries, self-seeking, self-advancement, hypocrisy, religion, greed, fight over inheritance, jealousy, show-boating, children born out of wedlock, etc. All of that happens among the inhabitants of the same building. The last utterance in the novel (delivered by one of the servants) shows the typical nature of the late XIXth century Parisian building, which is splendidly beautiful on the outside (referring to the beginning of chapter I). A fine-looking housekeeper, who stands on guard of morals, is an embodiment of sanctimony.
The novel is somewhat loosely tied with the sequel story about Octave Mouret "Au Bonheur des Dames/the Ladies' Delight". Both are masterpieces in their own rights and can be enjoyed independently of one another.
*Smile, Laugh and Cry With Your Neighbors*.......2003-03-13
"Pot Bouille" is indeed a piece of treasure. Even now, I can still find myself holding on to each word since the very first page. Each page will keep you wanting for more. It tells a story of an apartment building and its occupants. One might imagine the type of brownstone mansions in New York City or Beacon Hill in Boston divided to apartment units to be rented out. Except that in Zola's pot, neighborly interactions take place regularly and make up the heart of the story.
Although many stories about bourgeoisie lives have been written, I've never come across characters as vivid, comical, harsh, evolving and disgusting as those portrayed in this book. Gossips, money, sex, adulteries, self advancement and selfishness are so well mashed in the pot, they'll warm up to readers' hearts. I can really feel for the characters cause they seem very much alive, it almost seem that I'm living next door to them. Although Monsieur Octave Mouret is described as the hero in this book, I feel that the true hero is Monsieur Josserand. "Pot Bouille" is a story about temptations and human feelings. It has every power to make me cringe, laugh, smile and cry.
"Pot Bouille" is a truly wonderful piece that will spark readers' imaginations. I've enjoyed reading the copy by Oxford World's Classics. Professor Brian Nelson has done a terrific job in translating it from its original French. Read it and have fun!!!!
Interesting, very interesting.......2002-03-29
An entertaining read but you can't help learn something about Parisian bourgeois class homelife in the process. Plenty of intrigues and double dealings. I like how zola lets us eavesdrop on the gossip sessions of the servants in the back courtyard in order to move the plot along. The ending leaves the reader hanging somewhat. He was obiously already planning to write the next installment in the Rougon Macquart series (and this book's sequel) The ladies paradise.
What they don't teach you in business school.......1999-09-03
A good jolly soap opera of a book. Young man comes from the provinces to the capital. Gets a room in an apartment block. Learns about life in general and the opposite sex in particular. Nothing new so far. Other authors had already trod the same path. Here, the whole process is meticulously described with Zola's usual skill (he is now on the tenth novel in his cycle). One cannot help thinking, though, that the apartment block must have been a pox doctor's paradise. But the book's real interest is in how the hero uses his acquired knowledge - which is revealed when he becomes the great retailing tycoon in the next book "Au Bonheur des Dames". So, this book is really the first part of a two-part series and it does its job of whetting the appetite for part two. It shows that the university of life is better than a business studies course any day.
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- Many recipes to try. Easy to make.
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Pot Luck
Mable Hoffman
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Beloved cooking authority Mable Hoffman brings a whole new collection of original one-pot dishes to the cook on the go. These all-in-one-dish entrees include delicious salads, hearty soups, filling sandwiches and meatless main dishes. Pot Luck also revamps many of the casseroles of yesterday using contemporary flavors and ingredients. And whether they're cooked on the stovetop, in the oven, or in small appliances like the slow cooker or electric skillet, Mable Hoffman's recipes make delicious meals easier to cook-and clean up-than ever before. Among Pot Luck's tempting recipes are:
Fresh Tomato Chili with Beans
Asparagus Cheese Pie
Taste-of-the-Orient Omelet
Italian Pasta Shell Salad
Mango-Mustard Chicken
Thai-style salmon
Turkey, Fennel, and Pasta toss
and more.
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Many recipes to try. Easy to make........2003-10-05
Nothing complicated here but lots of good flavors and easy to make. Most of these are adaptable to prepare ahead and freeze using the once a month cook method. Lots of flavors from different ethnic cooking made a bit milder for the American family. Kids will love many of the recipes in this book. My kids love the Greek Pastitsio, the Chicken Tortilla Casserole and the Argentine Stuffed Steak Spirals. I usually only find a couple of recipes in a book to use regularly with my family I use 7 or 8 out of this book.
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- Pots - bones of civilization - and the lucky finders
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Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeology
Florence C. Lister
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Husband and wife archaeologists Florence C. and Robert H. Lister and their two children traveled the archaeological world from 1940 to 1990. They produced numerous respected studies in the field of Southwestern archaeology and ceramics. Pot Luck, however, takes the Lister bibliography in a new a direction. Written in the years following Robert Lister's death in 1990, Pot Luck describes professional archaeology in personal terms, offering lively portraits of premier archaeologists and archaeological expeditions alongside vignettes of the Lister children at play and the Lister marriage at work.
Pot Luck follows the Listers on expeditions in Mexico, the Middle East, Spain, and the Southwest. Lister offers a happy mix of expert knowledge, professional experience, personal reflection, and wonderful writing.
A lighthearted account of fifty years of archaeological fieldwork, and a serious look at the worldwide role of ceramics in cultural understanding.
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Pots - bones of civilization - and the lucky finders.......2002-08-26
Potsherds, it seems, are as important to archeologists as bones to anthropologists. They both last. They both tell part of the human story. Somewhat in the tradition of Osa Johnson's famous chronicle, *I Married Adventure* of the previous generation, Florence Lister takes the reader along with her family through five continents and many years in search of ceramics, ancient and colonial.
Florence and her husband Bob, both archeologists, with their two young sons in tow, pursued pothunting in such diverse places as Glen Canyon in the American Southwest before it was inundated by Lake Powell and the Aswan High Dam area in Africa before it also went underwater. From the 1940s to the 1990s, they did a great deal of contract archeology, i.e. investigating areas such as dams, highways, pipelines and the like that contain historical debris such as potsherds, bones, tools and tiles before they are swept away by modern civilization. The Listers contributed considerably to the body of knowledge about connections between pueblo Indians of the American Southwest and those of Mexico and Mesoamerica as well as trade routes that brought colonial pottery from Spain and Italy to the Americas. The hard science is made more lively and interesting by the personal details.
For example, the JFK assassination occurred when the family was in Wadi Halfa in Africa. Their Nubian servants insisted on sending a cable of condolences to Mrs. Kennedy, who had played an active role in the "Save the Monuments of Nubia" campaign. Near Escalante in Utah, they uncovered more evidence about the disappearance of Everett Ruess. They discovered dishes Cortez used and roofing erected by Columbus' party. They found Genoese pots in Spanish ports, investigated porcelain in Japan (at the "climbing kilns"), T'ang pottery in China, amphorae in Greece and, like detectives, discovered old paintings depicting pottery that had found its way from Seville in Spain to the Americas.
This book sort of grows on you. At the beginning, the language is a bit stilted and self-conscious, but after the author gets into the groove and finds her zone, you begin to participate in the exciting life the family led (not without some danger; they got mugged in Jamaica and got into another tight spot in Morocco).
If you're at all interested in archeology (incidentally, the American spelling is "archeology" and the British is "archaeology") you'll relish this account and remember both scientific conclusions and personal anecdotes. If you're not at all interested in the subject, you won't even be reading this review anyway. But for the former group of people, it's a good, informative, and exciting read.
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Pot Luck: Potato Recipes from Ireland
Nell Donnelly
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Recipes contributed by the members of Mtn. View Community Church
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Nearly 250 easy, tasty casserole recipes from a James Beard Award-winning author
Perfect for family dinners, potluck suppers, and parties, casseroles are the ultimate comfort food. Now renowned food scholar and cookbook author Clifford Wright has written the definitive casserole cookbook. This hefty paperback features more than 200 great recipes, including deliciously updated versions of all-American classics, famous international casseroles, Italian-American favorites, and even breakfast and dessert casseroles. Wright has formulated the recipes with today's cooks in mind, using easy-to-find fresh ingredients and clear, simple steps. It's truly the ultimate cookbook for everyone who loves casseroles!
Clifford A. Wright (Santa Monica, CA) is the author of nine cookbooks, including A Mediterranean Feast (978-0-688-15305-2), which won the 2000 James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year Award as well as the James Beard Award for Best Writing on Food.
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In "The Bank at Gila City," when the town promotes a stock subscription to found a bank, two men are excluded as undesirables - but that was before the new bank was robbed, and they need one of them to recover the stolen funds. In "Jerico Takes the Rough String," Jerico Jones has his horse string stolen and local law enforcement follows the trail left by Jerico's horses, whereas Jerico heads in the opposite direction: the way from which the thieves came. In "$teers" a young boy is shot in front of witnesses, including Jerico Jones. John Sturgis, owner of the Bar S, claims he owns the Macklin Ranch, and the deputy sheriff in Niroba is the former Bar S wagon boss. Jerico is not at all sure how much help Deputy Sheriff Lance Touhy is going to be, either in finding the murderer or preventing Sturgis from taking over the Macklin Ranch. In "Nine Coffins for Bellaire," Jerico Jones is injured in a train wreck in which he loses the string of horses he was shipping. The railroad is more than willing to reimburse Jerico for his loss, but the amount of the requisition is for twice the sum of his claim.
Bennett Foster knew the terrain and the people of the West first-hand from a lifetime of living there.
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- The Anatomical Exercises: De Motu Cordis and De Circulatione Sanguinis in English Translation
- The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses
- The Book of GENESIS: Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation System
- The Clock of Ages: Why We Age, How We Age, Winding Back the Clock
- The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire
- The Pneumococcus
- The Stuff of Life: Profiles of the Molecules That Make Us Tick
- The Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell: Molecular and Biological Responses to the Extracellular Matrix (Biology of Extracellular Matrix)
- Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology: Understanding Element Cycles
- Transmission Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry in Materials Science and the EELS Atlas
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