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This set draws together the illustrative manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments and the essential dictionary of pigment names and synonyms, providing the reader with a thorough guide to historical pigments.
The manual is illustrated throughout with over 250 full colour images reproduced to the highest quality. Based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments, this book is an invaluable reference for conservators and conservation scientists.
The dictionary covers the field worldwide from pre-history to the present day, from rock art to interior decoration, from ethnography to contemporary art. Drawing on hundreds of hard-to-obtain documentary sources as well as modern scientific data each term is discussed in detail, giving both its context and composition.
* Both books provide an invaluable reference for conservators and conservation scientists.
* Comprehensive list of pigment names and synonyms in the dictionary
* Over 250 full colour images for pigment identification in the atlas of optical microscopy
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The Pigment Compendium Dictionary is a comprehensive information source for scientists, art historians, conservators and forensic specialists.
Drawn together from extensive analystical research into the physical and chemical properties of pigments, this essential reference to pigment names and synonyms describes the inter-relationship of different names and terms.
The Dictionary covers the field worldwide from pre-history to the present day, from rock art to interior decoration, from ethnography to contemporary art. Drawing on hundreds of hard-to-obtain documentary sources as well as modern scientific data each term is discussed in detail, giving both its context and composition.
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major reference for art historians, curators, collectors..........2005-01-26
The authors' note right at the start of this encyclopedic work for art historians, conservators, and forensic specialists cites historic complaints that the names artists have recorded for the pigments they used in their paintings, frescoes, etc., are notoriously unreliable. Hence, the hundreds of cross-references to help researchers get to the pigment an artist used in a work despite what he or she may have called it. The reference also works from the standpoint of wishing to confirm a particular pigment by describing in detail its physical and chemical properties. This incomparable art reference for determining important matters of works of art goes beyond such scientific information to include as well historical notes on many of the pigments. The entry "Burnt Ochre" is an example of most of the thousands of entries: It begins with the general comment that the "phenomena that yellow ochre when heated converts to red ochre" has been known since pre-historic times. This is followed by a note that the fourth-century B. C. philosopher Theophrastus wrote a detailed description of the process of "producing burnt ochres." Then comes the physical and chemical information--"The process in action is the thermal transformation of goethite...to iron(III) oxide, whereby the goethite begins to dehydrate...," and so on for about 20 more lines. (The chemical equations in the quote are omitted in this review.) After this comes a few short paragraphs on comments later writers have made on burnt ochre, with the entry ending with remarks on the term for this pigment and related terms. The "Pigment Compendium" is an exhaustive, reliable guide to resolving important matters about works of art using pigments--matters which may involve accurate dating, and in some cases also involve large sums of money for museums or private collectors. Every museum, art library, and serious art collector should have a copy.
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This effective and practical new edition continues to focus on differential equations as a powerful tool in constructing mathematical models for the physical world. It emphasizes modeling and visualization of solutions throughout. Each chapter introduces a model and then goes on to look at solutions of the differential equations involved using an integrated analytical, numerical, and qualitative approach. The authors present the material in a way that's clear and understandable to students at all levels. Throughout the text the authors convey their enthusiasm and excitement for the study of ODEs.
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Confusing, Disorganized, Too Little Examples.......2006-05-08
A terrible book to learn DEs from. Just finished a course using it, they expect you to know how to solve problems with poor examples or any examples at all. This book expects you to figure everything out on your own. Also, it is useless to study from, as there are only 1 or 2 questions that actually have answers in the back of the book. It is simply cryptic, and one has to waste more time than is really neccesary to be able to figure it out. Buy another book.
absolutely ridiculous book, a disgrace, a humiliation.......2005-12-22
I can't believe that this book hasn't been banned yet from every respectable UNIVERSITY. I would think that after a few people have made the huge mistake to buy this book, no others would follow. This review serves this very purpose, for buying this book is a complete waste of your money and time.
Everything in this book suggests that the writers have deliberately tried to put as much NONSENSE in it, just to fill the 736 pages and 'justify' the price. For example the cartoons (this book is supposed to be used by undergraduates, who should not need the 'stimulation' of a ridiculous cartoon), fake proofs, fake theorems, cookie-cutter steps to follow (as mentioned by others), graphs of ALMOST EVERY EQUATION (serving no useful purpose) and they are repeating the same thing on and on and on... Reading this book is a huge humiliation for every young aspiring scientist.
The writers avoid the most important proofs, and do give 'proofs' of such trivial things. And if in the extremely rare case they do prove an important theorem, then the proof is only valid in special cases, making it a 'proof'.
The only good thing is that I paid 'only' 90 dollars for it, so I had more then enough money left to buy Paul Waltman's 'A Second Course in Elementary Differential Equations (Dover Books on Mathematics), ISBN 0486434788'. This book treats much more then this disgusting 'modeling perspective'-book. So if you are going to follow a course that requires 'Differential Equations : A Modeling Perspective' I suggest you buy Paul Waltman's book INSTEAD, for it treats the same subjects in a respectful manner and it is about TEN times cheaper. Believe me, you won't be missing anything, on the contrary. If you don't believe me, PLEASE go to the library BEFORE you buy this book to verify my observations. I wish someone had warned me...
Don't Bother.......2005-08-02
I can't come up with anyone who should bother reading this book. First, the authors don't really state who their audience is. The closest they come is on the first page of the Preface where they say:
"...with the powerful and inexpensive computing tools currently available, we think that now is the right time to reconnect differential equations to its roots via an introductory course from a modeling perspective. That is the goal of this text."
Then, on page ix, they give a Chapter Dependency Chart which includes breakouts for Engineering students, Math/Physics students, Biology/Pre-Med students, and "A Course Emphasizing Systems." Regardless of the "Math/Physics" entry, above, the preponderance of evidence from the text itself leads to me believe that the intended audience is those who will apply differential equations (DEQs) in their jobs (i.e., non-Math-types) using computer models. Of course, the fact that I have to synthesize (i.e., guess) the intended audience from various parts of the book instead of the authors just telling me is a strike against the book right there.
My guess as to the audience is supported, to some extent, by the way this book is written. It seems to assume knowledge of various areas of physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology. The point of the book doesn't seem to be to teach the understanding of the math underlying how to work with and solve DEQs. Instead, it seems to be to teach some cookie-cutter steps to follow, perhaps using the "Lucky Guess Approach to Finding a Particular Solution" (I'm not kidding), or if that fails, how to get the problem to a point where it can be entered into a "solver" and graphed. I guess that's the "modeling perspective." The bigger problem is that the book doesn't even do a very good job of that. First, the book seems to assume a pretty detailed knowledge of DEQs themselves. Second, the authors skip huge swaths of how they solve their examples (I won't even talk about missing steps in the few "proofs" they give). One particular case keeps popping into my mind. The authors spend a couple of lines translating the verbal problem into the DEQ, wave their hands and says "after some algebra," and present a very-non-obvious solution equation which stretches across the entire page. My guess is that the "some algebra" they skipped would take several pages of calculus and algebraic manipulation. If non-math-types are the audience, I don't see how skipping ALL the math in examples will help them get to the answers. And, finally, the authors also skip steps in telling the reader how to translate situations into the DEQs themselves. For instance, when they introduce the Predator-Prey model, they give verbal descriptions of the "Laws" involved and present the reader with the DEQs. After the fact, they generically talk about why the equations look this way, but they don't try to walk the readers through the process they used to come up with the DEQs.
So, in a nutshell, math-types should stay away from this book since it doesn't really seem to be a math book, and non-math-types should stay away from it because it skips too many steps and assumes too much. I really can't even see the point of this book. Perhaps if it were used as a companion to a manual in some kind of course in DEQ modeling (solver) SOFTWARE. But, as is, I rate this book as just 1 star out of 5: useless.
Perfect flow, I finally understand Diff Eq!!!.......2005-07-12
This elegantly written text broke down some barriers that I had while taking Differential Equations in college. Finally someone understands the way that I learn things. A modelling perspective is what I needed to understand these previously confusing concepts. My thanks to the authors!
On second thought.......2005-05-22
I wrote a first review, and the author hunted down my email address and emailed my differential equations teacher. In the email, he said, I should wait until I finished the course until I reviewed his book. I realized how wrong I was to shoot my mouth off. I should have been more sagacious and patient in order to tell the truth.
First the good: I only spent 40 bucks on this book and should be able to get my money back. And the author spent tons of time designing little computer cartoons because there's nothing I like better than being distracted by a funny cartoon.
The bad: If you don't have ADD before you pick up this book, you will after. Printed on wonderfully shiny paper, with multicolored graphs, headers, footers, pictures, and once in awhile even something haveing to do with differential equations, this book is next to impossible focus on. That's part of the reason some students like this book. They don't have to read. They can just look at the pictures then ask someone else for help.
Do you want to learn about differential equations? Well, if you buy this book, you might. If you pair this book up with another book that explains why this stuff makes sense. And then read only that book. Good understanding of the more difficult problems come from a good foundation. This book spends 2 chapters on the basics. But boy, you want to graph stuff, here's your chance. (You can even have an assignment to graph a kitten out of differential equations, i mean man, that's worth a star right there.) The author succumbs to greedius maximus, wherein he crams as much crap into a book to sell as many copies as possible, instead of focusing on one thing and doing it well. Because no one really needs more than 20 pages to describe all of second order differential equations. The computer can do all that for you.
Oh, and if you want to learn how to solve differential equations for something like physics class, good luck. You have two choices in this book, you can either guess and make up your own way of doing things, or you can use the cookbook approach. You won't really know why you want to take the exponential, but that doesn't matter because you just need a grade. So you follow the clever boxed text that says do this, this, than this. And voila, you have an answer. And to anyone who says, well, we have to graph most differential equations because we can't solve them, i say, wonderful? So, I can just move onto stuff no one understands and expect to make sense of it by not understanding the equations we do know how to solve.
And since I need to plug Dover to make my 20 dollar commission, buy Morris Tenenbaum's Ordinary Differential Equations book. It's not fancy, but it's well written and 800 pages long. Which is funny, because Borrelli's book is 790 pages long and tries to cover ODE's, PDE's and Linear Algebra. Telling detail? I think so. ( I bet you could even buy a couple of awesome Dover books on PDE's and Linear Algebra and still undercut the 115 dollar selling price by about 3/4. )
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This effective and practical new edition continues to focus on differential equations as a powerful tool in constructing mathematical models for the physical world. It emphasizes modeling and visualization of solutions throughout. Each chapter introduces a model and then goes on to look at solutions of the differential equations involved using an integrated analytical, numerical, and qualitative approach. The authors present the material in a way that's clear and understandable to students at all levels. Throughout the text the authors convey their enthusiasm and excitement for the study of ODEs.
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Differential Equations, Mathematica Technology Resource Manual: A Modeling Perspective
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This effective and practical new edition continues to focus on differential equations as a powerful tool in constructing mathematical models for the physical world. It emphasizes modeling and visualization of solutions throughout. Each chapter introduces a model and then goes on to look at solutions of the differential equations involved using an integrated analytical, numerical, and qualitative approach. The authors present the material in a way that's clear and understandable to students at all levels. Throughout the text the authors convey their enthusiasm and excitement for the study of ODEs.
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Differential Equations, Matlab Technology Resource Manual: A Modeling Perspective (Matlab Technology Resource Manual)
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This effective and practical new edition continues to focus on differential equations as a powerful tool in constructing mathematical models for the physical world. It emphasizes modeling and visualization of solutions throughout. Each chapter introduces a model and then goes on to look at solutions of the differential equations involved using an integrated analytical, numerical, and qualitative approach. The authors present the material in a way that's clear and understandable to students at all levels. Throughout the text the authors convey their enthusiasm and excitement for the study of ODEs.
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The Authors' goal is to communicate an exciting new approach to Differential Equations - through Modeling, Visualization and Dynamical Systems. This new way of looking at ODEs blends the tried and true analytical methods with mathematical modeling, applications to engineering and the sciences, and geometric visualization via numerical solvers. The resulting rich insight and highly motivated learning offers students a powerful, stimulating, yet accessible experience that brings them to a deep understanding of ODEs!
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Differential Equations - A Modeling Perspective + Student Resource Manual Set
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Differential Equations - A Modeling Perspective Preliminary Edition - Teachers Manual
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Differential Equations, Textbook and Laboratory Manual: A Modeling Perspective
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The Authors' goal is to communicate an exciting new approach to Differential Equations - through Modeling, Visualization and Dynamical Systems. This new way of looking at ODEs blends the tried and true analytical methods with mathematical modeling, applications to engineering and the sciences, and geometric visualization via numerical solvers. The resulting rich insight and highly motivated learning offers students a powerful, stimulating, yet accessible experience that brings them to a deep understanding of ODEs!
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They had it! Put any name on it that suits---courage, faith, ingenuity, desperation, whatever---Naomi called it gumption. In 1930, the markets had crashed, banks were CLOSED, 40 million people lived in poverty and civil strife loomed.
Naomi, with her husband and two friends also searching for survival, invented a new product, Spic and Span, The perfect Cleaner for all Painted and Varnished Surfaces, and brought it to market. An amazing feat for four amateurs in a small midwestern city. Still more amazing---fifteen years later they sold it to Procter & Gamble!
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It's 1930, stock market has crashed, banks are closed, 40 million people live in poverty. Two couples in a small Midwest city decide they are responsible for their own wellbeing. They invent a cleaner that fills an urgent need for household cleaning. Where three operations had been required to wash walls, their new Spic and Span did it in one operation.
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A total of two hundred and eight American soldiers served with the 400th USASA SOD (Abn) between 1962 and 1975. The US Army Security Agency assigned the men of this unit both Top Secret classified and covert missions. Their operations were conducted under surreptitious conditions for security reasons. All of the 400th ASA SOD members were three time volunteers: first of all, they volunteered for their U.S. Army assignments; secondly, each had to volunteer and successfully complete the US Army Airborne Training School; and thirdly, each had to volunteer to serve with the new ASA Special Operations Detachments. A majority of the enlisted men selected for assignment to the 400th ASA SOD were from the top five percent of all U.S. Army enlisted soldiers. Also, each man had to pass a comprehensive personal security clearance investigation conducted by government agents prior to attending any of the classified ASA training programs.
The members were physically conditioned from preparing and completing the arduous airborne training and the physical testing required of all special operations units each year. The first Commanding Officer of the 400th ASA SOD (Abn) unit was 1LT Lewis "DEAN" Kirk. One of his first actions was to initiate a tough training program for the first two-dozen 400th SOD troops assigned to the new unit. He started with long forced marches with full rucksacks in the hot and muggy Okinawa spring and summer months up in the northern training area. The unit performed morning runs of up to three miles too. He encouraged his soldiers to participate in a variety of specialized training programs such as the following: the 1st Special Forces Group (Abn) SCUBA course; the Cold Weather and Ski Training Course up in Hokkaido, Japan; the Jump Master training course; the advanced HALO parachute course; difficult infiltration and extraction training from an USN submarine; extensive weapons training with a variety of American and foreign weapons; and serving as Cadre for the 1st SFGA Airborne Course on Okinawa.
Extensive participation in volunteer academic training was also encouraged for all of the enlisted troops. Some examples are cross training as Special Forces radio operations specialist; training in various foreign languages such as French and Vietnamese; enrollment in the Special Forces Qualification Training Program; and classified ASA extension courses (off-duty) were taken to enhance their professional military knowledge, skill and efficiency. Their participation in these extensive training programs assisted the enlisted soldiers of the 400th ASA SOD (Abn) in getting promoted ahead of many of their peers. This was especially true in the enlisted ranks up to Staff Sergeant E-6 rank.
So these extraordinary soldiers progressed to rate among the most highly trained and proficient enlisted men not only in the U.S. Army, but soldiers in foreign armies. One pertinent fact that stands out about the 400th SOD soldiers is over seventy of the one hundred eighty-eight enlisted troops served with two or more of the four ASA Special Operations Detachments during their careers. Another impressive fact is the large number (over 60 per cent) of 400th ASA SOD soldiers who served six years or more on active duty. Many of these 400th soldiers transferred to the regular Special Forces Groups after their ASA SOD tours were completed. Some took assignments with other airborne units like the 101st Airborne Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade and served in Viet Nam with those units. These enlisted soldiers were proud American warriors and served their country with distinction and honor. A review of their Meritorious Service Profiles included in this book will demonstrate their exemplary service to America. The ASA SOD units suffered only five Killed-in-Action (KIA) deaths from the many hundreds who served in Viet Nam during 1963 through 1975.
This book was written to preserve the Legacy of these unique and brave soldiers and to identify their many contributions during the Viet Nam era. A total of 107 out of the 208 membership served America in Viet Nam during the war. Their impressive collection of quality Service Awards and Badges demonstrates the exceptional performance of duties and accomplishments of assigned missions by this group of US Army soldiers.
400th USASA SOD (Abn) THEME QUOTE: "Here is to us, there are damn few like us, and they won't forget us."
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From the authors of the bestselling "In the Company of Heroes" come the thrilling, never-before-heard stories of the Army's elite aviation unit, the most daring and professional helicopter crews in the world.
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Eye Opener!!.......2007-09-06
This book is a great read! What these soldiers can do is amazing. I had to read this because my son is a new Night Stalker. I can't help but well up with pride and fear because I now have an idea of what the Night Stalkers can do.
Execellent.......2007-03-23
This is the kind of book that get you reading for hours.
Already among my favourites.
I think this is one of the most descriptive accounts about what the Night Stalkers do and a very detailled description of the few missions that can be talked about.
An excellent book.
GREAT BOOK ON GREAT MEN.......2007-03-02
AWESOME READ ... TRUE HEROES AND THIS IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG FOR WHAT THESE MEN DO ... NSDQ
More biographical than operational.......2007-02-05
I'm only about 80 pages into the book but find it difficult to continue. The book reads more like a biography of the men and women in the 160th SOAR rather than an operational history of the unit. The book cover flap says "never-before-heard stories" and "Top-Secret Missions of the US Army's SOAR" but so far, the book hasn't lived up to the claims.
A big annoyance is how the authors include a one to ten page biographical background of every person introduced. These biographical "flashbacks" throw off the pace of the book. The book starts in Grenada, jumps back to Iran in 1980, rewinds again to JFK, then Grenada in 1979, then back to Grenada in the 1980s. There is no continuity of thought.
Another minor annoyance is some of the conversations reported. They sound like something from a B movie or a bad "blood and guts" novel. "The United States coming in is gonna scare the (expletive) out of those militia amateurs" or "cool as ice water at a helo's controls, and loose as a goose at the officers' bar".
Admittedly, covering the people who fly Special Ops troops into battle might be a challenge, but so far, the authors have come up short. Instead of hearing about more Vietnam stories, I was expecting -- or hoping -- for more stories about how the SOAR was formed, the equipment used, the tactics, and so on.
There are little nuggets of gold in the book thus far. Learning about the OH and AH-6 choppers -- and seeing them in action (pictures included) -- was interesting. Seeing operators perched on the side of those choppers, which little or nothing to restrain them, was eye-opening.
Will revise review when/if I finish the book.
Great Book - Great American Soldiers.......2007-01-22
I have just finished this book in a great 4 night read. I found the book to be well written, exciting and a great tribute to the men and families of the Night Stalkers. I served at Fort Campbell as an Army Surgeon during the creation of this unit (1980-81) and saw the first "Little Bird" conversions. One of the authors (LtCol Bob Johnson) was my guide on that day. Until then, I had never seen a helicopter with seats on the OUTSIDE! My thanks to the authors for providing insight into a very secret and special military unit and some of its famous operations.
My family and I are glad that we have the men and the will to create, deploy and support a unit such as this. I hope that we can all learn what it means to be an American from this book and the Night Stalkers.
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