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Fingerprint Detection with Lasers, Second Edition,
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Offers up-to-date treatment of fingerprint detection with lasers, including basic principles and equipment, established photoluminescence-based detection techniques and a range of emerging techniques. This second edition summarizes information on time-resolved fingerprint detection, transition selection rules, image intensifiers and CCD cameras, uses of photoluminescence in criminalistics, and scientific principles underlying figerprint detection.
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A science classic, but..........2006-02-03
I'm specifically reviewing the first edition here, published 1980. If this site drags it to a later edition, then please just ignore most of the following -- but at least read the last paragraph BEFORE you buy!!
Basically, as a work in the development of science in the latter part of the 20th century, & specifically as a groundbreaking work in modern forensic detection, this book is remarkable, & deserves no less than 5 stars.
However, think of how far technology has come since then, & don't shell out more than a few dollars unless it's the CURRENT EDITION.
Look, it's a mere 104 pages. And it almost entirely tells you all you'll never need to know about argon lasers -- you know, the big honkers that plug into a 200-volt outlet & require a hookup to the faucet to keep the tube cool.
It's a lot like finding a manual for the Apple IIe: how many of you really need it, & why would you pay $100???
Nowadays, for what an Ar laser (& accesories) used to cost, you could buy a spiffy unit like a Polilight & set up your own lab, & never get around to most of what Menzel says in the first edition.
Aside from that, if you can get this classic for a few bucks, & are into forensic science, you'll enjoy pages 45 through 77 -- which, appropriately enough, is the chapter called "Laser Detection of Latent Fingerprints." So, don't lay out a lot of cash for what amounts to 33 pages!
I can see why Menzel is hailed as a genius: he took primitive (by today's standards) equipment, pulled together a bunch of fragments, & established a solid grounding for crime-scene evaluation that is still being mined.
But do his work justice, & get the most recent edition. Unless you can get the Marketplace seller to ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE which edition they're selling, DO NOT BUY FROM THEM -- save yourself some trouble, & pay Amazon the $100 for a nice fresh copy.
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A Decent Reference Work.......2007-06-21
I bought this because it was the required text book for one of my college classes, and I probably wouldn't have bought it otherwise. That being said, this has excerpts from many famous works from around the world and I liked it enough to keep it instead of selling back at the end of the semester. I wish that some of the works were more complete, some of them are so common that they didn't need to be included at all, and some of the translations of foreign works are questionable, in my opinion. Nitpicking aside, this is a pretty decent reference work for world literature.
Wrong Book.......2005-09-24
I wanted the volume 1 of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. I ended up getting the book that put volume one and two together. I got this book because I needed it for English, well it took out about half the stories I need to read for this particular class. It makes it a lot harder to get the stories from other places, when I payed 60 dollars and got a different book then I was expecting. It was a faulty listing
A Real Masterpiece.......2002-05-13
Great reading on those quiet Sunday evenings. The historical perspectives and timelines are the best part; really helps you understand the progression of lieterature as we know it. The Norton series was used often in highschool for me, but I had quite narrow historical perspectives back then; this book has helped change that. The book is quite heavy, hard to lug around and seems to get damaged easily (paperback), but the content is well worth it. I think they should have removed the Odyssey and included the Illiad. I would also recommend Glimpes of World History by J. Nehru. Though it can be at times tedious, it is good accompaniment to this Norton anthology.
A Real Masterpiece.......2002-05-13
Great reading on those quiet Sunday evenings. The historical perspectives and timelines are the best part; really helps you understand the progression of literature as we know it. The Norton series (western literature) was used often in highschool for me, but I had quite narrow historical perspectives back then; this book has helped change that. I would also recommend Glimpes of World History by J. Nehru. Though it can be at times tedious, it is good accompaniment to this Norton anthology.
World Literarture!.......2000-06-06
This book is very fascinating to read if you're insterested in early Greek and Roman culture. The many stories and translations make the reading easy and fun. I would recommend this book to anyone!
Book Description
Offering a splendid collection of literary masterpieces in the best available translations, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is a literal library of Western literature in two portable volumes. Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval lyrics and tales, Romantic poetry in translation, and Dada-Surrealist poetry. Informative period introductions and author headnotes guide readers through the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the literature.
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'salright.......2005-10-03
exactly what to be expected from an anthology. good introductions to the pieces, authors, etc. 'salright.
Worldly, well made and well written.......2005-09-05
Overall, this book provides an excellent survey of world literature from the Age of Reason to Post-Modernism.
The translations were very well done for all languages. I especially enjoyed the German works written by Goethe, Freud, Rilke, and Kafka. The footnotes served as a great tool in explaining that certain words chosen may not have been the exact equivalent, and definitions and examples are sometimes included to give the reader a better understanding of the messages conveyed by authors.
Unfortunately, I see some overlap in this book and in Norton's American Literature II and British Literature II. Also, the pronunciation guides in the beginning some stories such as Achebe's Things Fall Apart are quite limited.
The durability of the pages and covers of Norton's books have greatly improved. The type, font, kerning and spacing is fairly easy to read without too much eye strain, especially since the character size is so small.
Worldly, well made and well written.......2005-05-11
Overall, this book provides an excellent survey of world literature from the Age of Reason to Post-Modernism.
The translations were very well done for all languages. I especially enjoyed the German works written by Goethe, Freud, Rilke, and Kafka. The footnotes served as a great tool in explaining that certain words chosen may not have been the exact equivalent, and definitions and examples are sometimes included to give the reader a better understanding of the messages conveyed by authors.
Unfortunately, I see some overlap in this book and in Norton's American Literature II and British Literature II. Also, the pronunciation guides in the beginning some stories such as Achebe's Things Fall Apart are quite limited.
The durability of the pages and covers of Norton's books have greatly improved. The type, font, kerning and spacing is fairly easy to read without too much eye strain, especially since the character size is so small.
Avoid the Introductions.......2000-09-07
As its name describes, this book contains many known works of famous writers from Europe, Asia, and a few from Latin America. I was to read Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and I found in the introduction that the editors of this book gave away the ending in an attempt to summarize the plot. Thus I read over 200 pages knowing exactly what was the destiny of the main character!!! I do understand that many people do know the story, from beginning to end, but I also know that there are many others like me that have never read Madame Bovary. From now on I will avoid the introductions completely. It was cruel that editors from well known universities commit such atrocities. It clearly shows their lack of common sense and that even in the best universities people don't learn the basics.
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Offering a splendid collection of literary masterpieces in the best available translations, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is a literal library of Western literature in two portable volumes. Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval lyrics and tales, Romantic poetry in translation, and Dada-Surrealist poetry. Informative period introductions and author headnotes guide readers through the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the literature.
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Norton's Anthology of World Masterpieces, a review.......2005-09-12
This seventh edition has left out the poetry of John Donne, the great metaphysical poet. Big mistake. I was disappointed in the translation of Gilgamesh, considering Stephen Mitchell's version to be superior. I was also disappointed in the Bible excerpts - particularly Genesis, where there is no indication that the redactor of the selections picked and chose between J, E and P texts, with no indication of the lacunae, making it seem as if there were only one version, for instance, of the Creation or the Flood, while any biblical scholar knows that there are at least two. My overall impression, however, is that this offers a fair introduction to Western world literature to the mid-seventeenth century.
Not the best, but not THAT bad..........2005-04-26
A couple of reviewers have complained about the quality of this book, and there are a few problems with it, but overall, it is a fairly good book. Most of the translations are solid (except for the translation of Lysistrata, which should be avoided like the plague), and there is a fairly good selection of works. The editors have also tried to help anyone reading the works by providing extensive footnotes for anything that is unclear (which are a bit cluttered at times, but are mostly good). The only complaints I have concern the translation of Lysistra, which I already discussed, and the style and size of the book. The pages are extremely thin and are thus hard to turn, making it hard to read any work from page to page continuously; this anthology is also the size of a Bible (literally!), so don't expect it to be portable. Otherwise, for a book I had to have for a college class, it's pretty good.
Strange Choices.......2003-11-24
My own education was in the Great Books and I am familiar with both the literature and how to teach it. I used this book for the first time in the current semester because it is virtually standard where I teach.
I was puzzled by the many obscure selections in this anthology such as Thorstein the Staff-Struck and Marguerite de Navarre. I was frustrated by the selection of relatively unreadable translations like the Jowett "Socrates' Apology" and the apparently untranslated "Morte Darthur." This book is intended for contemporary college students who have had little experience reading classical experience and these choices were simply inappropriate to them.
Shakespeare is represented only by "Othello." Why not also one of the comedies or histories? Why not any other example of Elizabethan drama?
The editors left out important works such as More's "Utopia," anything by Aquinas, any of Aristotle except for a brief excerpt from "The Poetics," and anything by Martin Luther. The selections from the New Testament were also deficient.
They chose, correctly I believe, to include some Jewish and Muslim literature but did not choose well. Aside from the Old Testament the Jewish literature was limited to a few Medieval verses and not the best of them. Aside from a few selections from the Koran, they saw fit to include a tiny selection of verse and a little of "The Thousand and One Nights." The lack of possible choices that either affected or were affected by Western literature (Philo, Maimonides, Al-Gazzali, Ibn-Khaldoun) are an indication of timidity or ignorance on the part of the editors.
I detect an attempt at the kind of political correctness that wants to include authors aside from "dead, white, European males." That is not an unworthy aim, but they did it badly.
Finally the introductions, which were in almost unreadably small print, were filled with inaccurate information. These were not carefully written.
It's a shame that this anthology dominates the search engines at Amazon and at other online services. The reason would seem to be a matter of economics rather than quality. I'm already searching for a better anthology to use next semester.
World Masterpiece.......2000-06-06
Wide collection of works and translations. I really enjoyed the translation of Homer in the Iliad. Norton's Anthology has help transform literature from being boring to being fun.
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In 1995, Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition. Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in 2 slipcased sets (this set, Package 1, contains three volumes covering from the beginnings of world lit to 1650), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays. More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research trends, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, and teachable anthology for the world literature survey.
Included in this set are:
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: Beginnings to A.D. 100 (ISBN 0393977552)
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume B: 100 to 1500 (ISBN 0393977560)
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume C: 1500 to 1650 (ISBN 0393977579)
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Edited by scholars, translators and teachers of the literary traditions represented, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition, offers nearly 3,000 pages per volume of the world's greatest literary landmarks, from early Egyptian love poetry to Chinua Achebe's stunning Things Fall Apart. Prized by teachers and students throughout the U.S. and Canada, this anthology is also the perfect introduction to the splendor of world literature for the lay reader.
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Edited by scholars, translators and teachers of the literary traditions represented, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition, offers nearly 3,000 pages per volume of the world's greatest literary landmarks, from early Egyptian love poetry to Chinua Achebe's stunning Things Fall Apart. Prized by teachers and students throughout the U.S. and Canada, this anthology is also the perfect introduction to the splendor of world literature for the lay reader.
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False advertising.......2006-01-06
I needed the expanded edition that collected the two books and was shown that edition after clicking on the image. When I received the book, however, it was the wrong edition. The description lists the same editor and publishing date as well as the photo. Since I need this for a English course, this is extremely inconvenient.
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W.W.Norton- 1992
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