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This best-selling non-technical, reader-friendly introduction to GIS makes the complexity of this rapidly growing high-tech field accessible to beginners. It uses a “learn-by-seeing” approach that features clear, simple explanations, an abundance of illustrations and photos, and generic practice labs for use with any GIS software. What Is a GIS? GIS's Roots in Cartography. Maps as Numbers. Getting the Map into the Computer. What Is Where? Why Is It There? Making Maps with GIS. How to Pick a GIS. GIS in Action. The Future of GIS. For anyone interested in a hands-on introduction to Geographic Information Systems.

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Horribly out of date.......2006-03-14

As a part time community college GIS instructor, I selected this book as the text for an "Introduction to GIS" course. I should have dug a little deeper and found something better because this book is completely inadequate. My two biggest complaints are: 1) the text is out of date and badly in need of revision. 2) the "free" copy of ArcView that comes with the book is obsolete and worthless.

Part of my reason for selecting this book was the trial version of ArcView that you get with it. I thought my students would benefit from having access to their own copy of the software without having to travel to campus to use it. When I tried to install the application, I immediately ran into problems. I called ESRI technical support and when I told them about the problems I was having, it was all they could do to keep themselves from laughing out loud at me. The version of ArcView that is included is AT LEAST SIX YEARS out of date. ESRI no longer supports that version. I might as well have been teaching my students how to drive a chariot for all the good it would have done them.

When I contacted the publisher with my concerns, the two best suggestions they came up with were: 1) call ESRI for help and 2) the author is working on the 6th edition and it should be ready some time next year. Neither idea was particularly helpful.

As for the text itself, it is rather lean on practical and useful information on the current state of the geographic infomation systems. (WARNING: Sarcasm alert!) My favorite part is the book's discussion of data sources that mentions the World Wide Web as if it is some recently developed phenomena. The book was originally published in 1997 and gives the feeling that it has been on coasting on autopilot ever since. If you are interested in getting started with Geographic Infomation Systems, find somewhere else to start.

messy.......2005-03-22

As an "introduction" to GIS this book is muddled. It will begin an explanation very simply and then jump off the deep end, going into complicated, erratic explanations.

Good technology book. Limited theory.......2004-09-19

As an instructor, I appreciated the readable style of this book, and would recommend it as a primer for ArcView 3.x; however, I did have concerns. As I read, I could only agree with many statements if I replaced "GIS" in the text with "ArcView 3.x." Readers should be aware that other products (current and potential) approach the technology differently than it is presented in this book.

Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems (3rd Edition)

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Limited and poor graphics
lots of good information on the subject
Very informative and interesting
Good for nighttime reading.
Great new book for introductory level GIS courses

Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems (3rd Edition)
Keith C. Clarke
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Limited and poor graphics.......1999-08-10

I felt this book misses much of what can be taught to undergraduates about GIS.

lots of good information on the subject.......1999-07-13

I re-read the book now that i know more about the subject of GIS. The book told me lots more than some of the others I have recently read. I really enjoyed the interviews with people actually involved in GIS.

Very informative and interesting.......1999-07-04

A first class introduction to the world of GIS. Clarke uses clear diagrams and simple language to get the point across. New material mixed with old makes this textbook a must have for all classrooms in the United States.

Good for nighttime reading........1999-06-09

This book is drier than burnt toast. It is full of good information but I kept falling asleep.

Great new book for introductory level GIS courses.......1996-11-18

This book is an excellent introductory text for courses at the community college or university level. Also useful for people who just want to know what this new field of GIS is all about. Or for high school teachers would like to integrate GIS into their classroom and need a greater under- standing of the basics of geographic information systems. You can see a complete description of the chapters at the Prentice Hall homepage.

Getting Started with ArcGIS: ArcGIS 9 (Arcgis 9)

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Getting Started with ArcGIS: ArcGIS 9 (Arcgis 9)

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ASIN: 1589480910
Release Date: 2004-09-01

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This self-study workbook is a hands-on introduction to geographic information system (GIS) software using the ESRI® ArcGIS™ Desktop products— ArcInfo™, ArcEditor™, and ArcView®. A GIS is a computer-based system for collecting, storing, managing, analyzing, and presenting geographic information. In this book you will plan and conduct a GIS analysis project with the applications found in ArcGIS Desktop. Those applications are the following:

ArcMap™ is used for editing, displaying, querying, and analyzing map data as well as performing map layout tasks.
ArcCatalog™ locates, browses, and manages spatial data.
ArcToolbox™ is a simple application containing many GIS tools used for geoprocessing.

You will learn:
Some of the many ways GIS is used today.
The structure and use of different GIS data models.
How to plan a GIS project and assemble a project database.
How to conduct a GIS analysis project.
How to present analysis results using maps, reports, and charts.

The book’s two parts, “Getting to Know ArcGIS” and “Conducting a GIS Project,” include tutorials. The first tutorial will help you quickly learn the basics of browsing GIS data and making maps. The second tutorial will show you how to use the ArcGIS Desktop applications together in the context of planning and conducting a GIS analysis project. Most important, you will learn a framework for structuring your own GIS analysis projects.

Getting Started with ArcGIS is the first step with ArcGIS, whether you are an experienced ArcGIS user or a new user just getting started with the world’s most advanced GIS software.

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Getting Started with ArcIMS

Getting Started with ArcIMS: ArcGIS 9

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Release Date: 2004-09-01

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This book gets you started with ESRI® ArcIMS®, a scalable, extendable, standards-based software application for distributing maps and geographic information system (GIS) data on
the Internet.

The design of ArcIMS makes it easy for those new to the Internet to create and deploy GIS Web sites for use by any Web browser but avoids impeding those experienced in Web development who want to build highly customized, functionally rich GIS Internet applications.

Using this same design, Getting Started With ArcIMS offers tips for beginners and advanced users as it introduces ArcIMS and steps you through getting all the necessary components installed, configured, and running for your particular environment.

In addition to the overview of ArcIMS and its installation and configuration, this book includes
A quick-start tutorial for complete Web site creation and deployment.
A quick reference that provides illustrations and descriptions of each major component of ArcIMS (Author, Designer, Administrator, Service Administrator, and viewers) and the component’s user interface items such as its toolbars.
A listing of all guides in the ArcIMS documentation set, a description of each, and instructions for how to access them.

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Don't waste your money or time.......2006-01-26

I read the previous review and ordered the book anyway. What a mistake. I returned the book as soon as I opened it. If you have the software you probably have this book on your CDs. I repeat, don't waste your time or money.

Getting Started with ArcIMS .......2005-11-10

Save your money. You can find better information for free on the internet. As soon as I opened the package I decided to return the book.

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Great Book but could have gone a little more in depth

Getting Started With Arcinfo: Arcinfo 8
Bob Booth
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ASIN: 1879102617

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Version 8 of the popular ArcInfo GIS software has been completely reengineered-including the user interface, the developer tools, and the introduction of object-oriented data models. This book guides experienced users who are making the switch to version 8 and ArcInfo beginners through the new features of this software, and gets them doing real work. The sample data that comes with ArcInfo 8 is used in the explanations and exercises that illustrate how to use the new desktop interface, organize project data, prepare data for analysis, and present the results of analysis.

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Great Book but could have gone a little more in depth.......2000-10-04

Not a bad book at all, but they don't go into the power user functions. I would recommend another book by ESRI for the more advanced ARCInfo user, and save your money, but if you're a beginner, it's not a bad book at all.

Getting Started With Geographic Information Systems and Getting to Know Arcview Gis

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Getting Started With Geographic Information Systems and Getting to Know Arcview Gis
Keith C. Clarke
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ASIN: 0137803540

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With its comprehensive review of the current knowledge and the future requirements in the field, this book presents all the features of bulk high temperature superconducting materials. Starting from physical and chemical fundamentals, the authors move on to portray methods and problems of materials processing, thoroughly working out the characteristic properties of bulk superconductors in contrast to long conductors and films. They provide a wide range of specific materials characteristics with respect to the latest developments and future applications guiding from fundamentals to practical engineering examples.
The authors are all leading international specialists involved in the field of high TC superconductor bulk materials since the beginning. Of utmost interest to engineers, scientists, and PhD students working in this field.

High-Tc Superconductors and Related Materials: Materials Science, Fundamental Properties, and Some Future Electronic Applications (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

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High-Tc Superconductors and Related Materials: Materials Science, Fundamental Properties, and Some Future Electronic Applications (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

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A broad introduction to high T _c superconductors, their parent compounds and related novel materials, covering both fundamental questions of modern solid state physics (such as correlation effects, fluctuations, unconventional symmetry of superconducting order parameter) and applied problems related to short coherence length, grain boundaries and thin films. The information that can be derived from electron spectroscopy and optical measurements is illustrated and explained in detail. Descriptions widely employ the clear, relatively simple, phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau model of complex phenomena, such as vortex physics, vortex charge determination, plasmons in superconductors, Cooper pair mass, and wetting of surfaces. The first comprehensive reviews of several novel classes of materials are presented, including borocarbides and chain cuprates.

The Physics of Superconductors: Introduction to Fundamentals and Applications

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The Physics of Superconductors: Introduction to Fundamentals and Applications
V.V. Schmidt
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This modern introduction to the physics of superconductors was edited by Paul Müller, (Walter Schottky Award for Solid-state Research) and Alexey V. Ustinov, both at the University of Erlangen. The revised and enlarged text is based on a lecture course given by V.V. Schmidt at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. It provides a modern treatment of the physics of superconductors with special attention paid to the physical interpretation of the phenomena. This English edition has been enlarged by the inclusion of such new developments as high-temperature superconductivity, and, as such, is the most up-to-date textbook available on the subject. Numerous problems with solutions help the student to become familiar with this field.

Super-conductivity: Fundamentals and applications

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Super-conductivity: Fundamentals and applications
Werner Buckel
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Superconductivity: Fundamentals and Applications
Werner Buckel
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Comprehensive and easy to understand, this introductory text on superconductivity was especially written for the non-specialist. The author, an active researcher in the field for more than forty years, presents the fundamental considerations (without too much mathematics), describes the various phenomena connected with the superconducting state, provides experimental facts and discusses numerous examples for modern applications. The new high-temperature superconductors are also dealt with in detail.

For almost two decades now, the German version of this book - currently in its fifth edition - has been one of the bestselling standard works on superconductivity.

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A Small Masterpiece on a Large and Dispiriting Reality

Poor servant girl

great psychological description of the young girl

an intricate tale of the explosion of a "perfect" maid

Anna Edes (A Revived Modern Classic)
Dezso Kosztolanyi
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Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes. Cruelty and emptiness of Bourgeois life permeate this novel.

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A Small Masterpiece on a Large and Dispiriting Reality.......2007-07-08

"Anna Edes" is a gem - its language is simple and precise, giving its facets sharp edges; it is not a "bright and sparkling" gem but one whose interior is dark and cloudy, since it deals with the murky minds of antagonists in a very concentrated form of class conflict, the struggle between masters and their servants. With the exception of one character (the old and sympathetic workhorse, Doctor Moviszter, who in a sense has created an inner life that puts him "beyond class") neither side in this battle comes off well, and yet neither side has its desires and reasons wholly disowned or tarnished by the author, who sees that it is man, regardless of which philosophy he chooses to be his vehicle, who is both tarnished and worthy of respect at the same time.

It is a story that will remind American readers of the grim fate of working class women portrayed in Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy", but its compass in time and space is smaller and tighter. The story commences on the day when Bela Kun's Soviet-style government ("The Republic of Councils") collapses; preceding the onset of the story is a one-page "urban legend" concerning Kun, which gives the reader an emblematic taste of the hysterical flavor of those days. On the following day a marauding Romanian army occupies and garrisons Budapest, to the astonishment of all parties involved, including the Romanians.

These events form the ominous background of the story of one couple, Kornel and Angela Vizy, and their servants. The old one, Katica, is dismissed, tainted by an indifference to her masters which flourished during the Kun regime, which the Vizys feel licensed her to misbehave. Vizy himself is no hero in this respect, hanging onto credentials certifying him as a "working member of the middle class" until the last minute. For Mrs. Vizy the desperate problems of post-World-War-I Hungary are reduced to very cozy dimensions - where and how shall she find an appropriate servant (i.e., humble, hard-working, and respectful)? The supporting characters of this household drama are the other tenants of the building owned by the Vizys: Druma, an opportunistic attorney with an eye on the future, the Movisters (the doctor's wife is a self-involved patron of the arts and flamboyant man-chaser), and the former communist and now eagerly nationalistic caretaker of the building, Fricsor, and his wife. Etel and Steffi, two other household servants in the building, and the Vizy's transient nephew Jancsi complete the cast.

Anna Edes, a country girl from a small town on Lake Balaton, is the answer to the Vizy's prayers, a literal service machine who seems to have no flaws (and an opaque inner identity - although she has her own standards, she is incapable of articulating them) that might disturb their busy attempt to reconstruct a pre-war gentry style of life. In the course of half a year she organizes the apartment into a shining model of bourgeois propriety. There is an interlude where she is ravished and rapidly abandoned by Jansci; he is an empty-headed fop uncertain of his own wants and needs and he plunges ahead recklessly into one melodrama after another, each contrived to convince himself and others that he is a man of the world (or a talented actor at the center of everyone else's stage). What is going on in Anna's head as these events unfold and she virtually becomes a pincushion of the Vizy's ambitions? That is unknown.

Events move toward a shocking end. Vizy becomes a government under-secretary (although not stated, his bureaucratic job appears to be within the Ministry of the Interior or its equivalent). The big party celebrating his appointment and showing off the restored apartment culminates in a double murder after the guests have gone home. Anna is guilty but appears to be as mystified by her butchery as the police, prosecutor and her defense attorney are; a satisfactory and legally sanctioned "motive" is never established. Only Dr. Movister offers a sane opinion of what has happened and in what light the crime, its perpetrator and its victims should be viewed (and in this, he is the author's fictional alter ego).

This is an extremely well-wrought novel, compact and classical in its language. The talented translator, George Szirtes, provides the English-language reader with a brief introduction in which he describes Kosztolanyi as the most elegant among a generation of elegant Hungarian writers (with elegance referring to his handling of the language, not his selection of themes). There is a little paradox here - Kosztolanyi was a self-declared aesthete (a position condemned in the post-World-War-II era as "bourgeois formalism"), yet he and his fellow writers had to work hard at daily journalism and other functional writing chores in order to keep body and soul together sufficiently to write fiction of a high order. But from the pen of this aesthete, who understood the hierarchies, the bitter internal divisions, and the persistent feudal legacy of Hungary all too well, came this novel, aptly characterized by one of his admirers, the talented S. Marai, as "the only Hungarian social novel that registered class warfare as it should be, without 'social realism', in all its disastrous human reality."

And what about the ending, a postscript note on the story of Anna? In the final two pages Kosztolanyi creates a surprisingly (even disorienting) "post-modernist" commentary on the preceding tale and its author, himself. His mouthpieces here are the opinionated Druma and his companions, who spy briefly upon "the writer Kosztolanyi" in his small glassed-in verandah. They debate just what kind of man he is, and most importantly in the current context (1926), what are his "real" political opinions, unable to understand that he is a man capable of entertaining more than one thought at a time, as they switch between contradictory opinions with absolute self-certainty about the correctness of their judgments. Their final remarks are drowned out by the equally informative barking of a dog. This finishing touch is, I should say, marvelous.

Poor servant girl.......2002-04-25

Other reviews here summarize the plot, so I'll go with personal reaction here. Kosztolanyi is one of my favorite authors from anywhere in the world. This novel doesn't get highest marks, though. My chief objection is that the climactic murder doesn't seem sufficiently motivated (I have the same problem with the regicide in Macbeth). Mrs. Vizy is picky and cruel and frankly just a bit weird, but there's never a sense that Anna is in a situation she can't escape from, and the lack of tension kills the climax. Mrs. Vizy isn't intentionally malicious, I don't think. It seems Anna's willingness to serve is as much the problem as the Vizy's demands. Her affair with Jancsi goes much the same way: she has ample opportunity to avoid it. But she seems to go along, simplemindedly. I ended up with less sympathy for her than I might have. I may be missing the point; if you understand this better than I do I'd like to hear from you.
That aside, I'm sure this book will get you thinking about the intricacies of the master-servant relation, sort of like the recent movie Gosford Park did, actually. It also got me thinking about control issues in theology. There's no doubt if you can convince a couple of friends to read it you'll have plenty to talk about. The prose is great as always (Kosztolanyi should be called the Hungarian Hemmingway) and it's a neat peek into recent history, too.
On a textual note, Anna isn't the same as Anya, but it's close enough to have connotations, and the author makes it explicit by having young Bandi mispronounce her name as Anya.
Among Kosztolanyi novels I like Pacsirta (Skylark) better than this one; the short stories are absolutely the best, though.

great psychological description of the young girl.......1999-10-01

Anna Edes "Sweet Anna" and not "Sweet Mother" as someone has translated is a shocking story of a young maid. She is shy, quiet and hard-working and nobody seems to realize that she has feelings just like everyone else in the house or probably more feelings than the family she is surrounded by. As she is continously hurt emotionally by several people and taken advantage of physically she commits a horrible deed. She can not deal with it all in any other way. It is a shocking story. Kosztolanyi provides us with a psychological case study in just a short story. He does a wonderful job at it.

an intricate tale of the explosion of a "perfect" maid.......1999-02-20

The main character Anna Edes, or "Sweet Mother" (anya edes) is the perfect maid. she expresses restraint of all of her desires, eating, stealing, and sex, but what will come of this suppression? Something that will blow your mind! It is a must read! Kosztalany is brilliant!

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Anna Edes
Dezso Kosztolansyi
Manufacturer: Corvina
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Edes Anna
Dezso Kosztolanyi
Manufacturer: Szepirodalmi Konyvkiado
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Nero, a veres kolto ; Pacsirta ; Aranysarkany ; Edes Anna (Magyar remekirok)

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Dezso Kosztolanyi
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