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The International Encyclopedia of Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts
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THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUTUAL FUNDS, CLOSED-END FUNDS, AND REITS Funds and REITs are among the fastest-growing and most important investment vehicles used by huge numbers of investors who wish to capitalize on the stock and real estate booms of the 1990s. This timely book provides the high-quality information, both historical and conceptual, which will help to ensure the right investment choices. The International Encyclopedia of Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds, and REITS is truly a publishing landmark, designed specifically for the savvy investor of the late 1990s. Every conceivable concept, term, fund type, and strategy as well as a huge array of individual funds and REITs are described, explained, and illustrated in this remarkable book. Complete with glossary terms, extensive appendices, and clear and concise definitions, this on-the-money book promises to become the standard by which all other books on mutual funds and REITs will be judged.
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Nice Christmas (1998) Gift.......2001-11-20
The major part of this book is made up of two page wide, single line entries for each fund. Entries consist of the usual stats available for free on-line. It would be worth the price to have this information neatly bound in a book - if the data was current, but it isn't. November 1998 mutual fund data is not much use in November 2001 (will this bull market ever end?). No fault of the authors - but not a good buy now.
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- One of my top 10 favorite business books
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What to Say to Get What You Want: Strong Words for 44 Challenging Types of Bosses, Employees, Co-Workers, and Customers
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One of my top 10 favorite business books.......2005-03-16
Almost all business communication guides give us the "how" of speaking and writing. This book gives us the "what," by portraying forty-four types of bosses, employees, coworkers, and customers, and advising us on what to say to each. It's on the short list of recommended resources in my book The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication.
Just spent [price]to be told to "play nice.".......2001-07-26
I have read (and re-read) this book and only find more contradictions the more I read. For example, the authors say that behaviors come from our attitudes and that while attitudes look like "the best target" to alter they aren't because it's really the offensive behavior that you are out to alter. They go on to say on the next page that "we identify people rather than behavior as the problem" - "there are no problem performers only problem performances." Hmmmm. Didn't we just say on the last page that our behavior (hence our performance) is based on our attitudes? I guess the performance > behaviors > attitudes thing is not a two-way street! This book is really about changing YOUR behaviors around the "44" challenging types. I walked away from this book feeling like I had been given a huge laundry list of things not to do or say to these 44 types (as it might offend them or stress them out) and only a short list of weak options, at best, that had any impact on really changing their behavior. The sum of this book: be considerate of others and play nice -eventually they will treat you like a human being....
Very helpful IF you can face your own quirks too.......2001-06-02
I needed a book to help me with my supervisor, whom after 11 years working together successfully, was not responding to any communication attempts by me. (She is an Ostrich...according to the book)
I did not like the title of the book since it sounded manipulative, however, I was very glad I picked it up to see the contents. I used the "plan" on her and finally felt I had control. You can't change another person, but you can change your approach with that person. The outlines are easy to read and quickly tell you what won't work, what to try, and what to do if that doesn't work. It is not exhaustive, however, it offers a excellent starting point...which was all I really needed.
Suggestion: Buy the book, Scan through the second half of the book first to find the most relevant personality/traits. Read about that personality and go back to the front of the book to continue reading about that personality. (footnote type numbers lead you to the proper place in the front of the book)
I finally read the entire book and had some flattering and not so flattering realizations of myself which I have been addressing.
I think this book helped me get a promotion (away from that supervisor). My director saw the way I handled a no-win situation successfully. (I never told him or anyone else about the book.)
ljs
Helpful for anyone in a corporate setting.......1999-09-16
Although the title is somewhat misleading, this is a pretty good book for anyone working in a corporate environment. A more accurate title for this book would have been "How to communicate effectively with different types of people in your organization", because that's exactly what this book may help you to do. Anyone experiencing "communication problems" in their organization could benefit from the examples and suggestions provided by Deep and Sussman. I especially recommend this book for anyone working in the Human Resource department and anyone else with coaching or counseling responsibilities. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me - adamleft@webspan.net.
What a disappointment!.......1999-07-23
I really wanted to like this book and tried chapter after chapter to offer the benefit of the doubt. But, as pages turned, I found more contradictory statements and words of advice than anything else. For example, the authors teach that managers should not use the word "you" when confronting fellow workers. Then, on page 85, the authors suggest handling "snake" personalities by saying: "I know what YOU did." Similarly, the authors state that managers should shift their verbage from "what do you want" to "why do you want it?" However, on page 84, the authors suggest asking difficult colleagues the question of "what is it you would like me to do?" To end positively, I will say that the book offers very good examples of well-recognized office behaviors. The text would be so much more effective if the authors had consisently reinforced their positions on subjects, which they suggest in chapter five as a professional behavior we all should practice religiously.
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David E. And Hughes, J. Kenrick Bowker
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In 1967, Lunar Orbiter Mission 4 sent back to Earth a superb series of photographs of the surface of the Moon, despite severe degradation caused by scanning artifacts and the reconstruction processes involved in transmission from lunar orbit. Using 21st century techniques, Charles Byrne – previously System Engineer of the Apollo Program for Lunar Orbiter Photography – has removed the artifacts and imperfections to produce the most comprehensive and beautifully detailed set of images of the lunar surface. The book has been organized to make it easy for astronomers to use, enabling ground-based images and views to be compared with the Orbiter photographs. The photographs are striking for their consistent Sun angles (for uniform appearance). All features have been identified with their current IAU-approved names, and each photograph has been located in terms of latitude and longitude. To help practical astronomers, all the photographs are systematically related to an Earth-based view. A CD is included with the book, providing the enhanced and cleaned photographs for screen viewing, lectures, etc..
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Like drifting above the Moon in a spacecraft!.......2006-03-16
The good news is this is extremely well done. The (to many) annoying frame boundaries and scan lines have been removed to the greatest extent possible without removing essential information. I particularly like the contrast enhancement and other software tricks that have been applied to present each photo in its best light.
To see what I mean, take a look at "The Process used to clean up scanning artifacts" on the accompanying CD.
The coverage is very thorough, though there are a few irksome "misses" that were unavoidable due to the nature of the orbiter's path.
Any "lunartic" is going to enjoy this reference book. From the visual standpoint it is a superb job and one wonders why it was not done years ago. Likewise, there were other missions whose results would benefit from this treatment, although their coverage was different and less complete. In any case, I find this an extremely interesting and valuable resource.
The bad news is that the index is bad. To find a named feature, it's not always possible to use the index (many important and common ones are missing: e.g., Aristarchus, Eratosthenes ...).
To wander through the photos in a predetermined path (without reference to a specific feature) is also a chore at times as the organization is according to the original photo numbers and not to an overlaid organizational scheme such as a high-level map. It is easy to get lost and it is sometimes hard to find your way out again. Since the processing is so well done, this is less disheartening than it would otherwise be ... I find myself staying "lost" on purpose sometimes, discovering vistas I didn't know were there before losing my way. But to a technical writer it's discouraging to see such potential missed for lack of a truly good index.
Producing an IAU Nomenclature-based index would be a great project for someone with the time!
The book comes with a CD which I haven't found to improve on the printed index: the indexes that are on the CD are PDF files that are NOT linked to the actual photos, so to use them you need multiple windows open on-screen simultaneously. It would have been far more convenient to provide the indexes in html form with links to the proper photographs.
On the plus side -- and it is a HUGE plus, in my opinion -- both medium- and high-resolution images of each photo are on the CD and they are gorgeous images, especially given the technology used to produce the original photos.
All in all, this is an extremely valuable reference, and one I am using almost daily. So perhaps I am being a bit nit-pickety here. It's only the indexing bit that prevents this getting my 5-star rating: If I could award it 4.75, I would.
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The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron and other SCT Telescopes
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SCT and Maksutov telescopes - which of course includes the best-selling models from Meade, Celestron, and other important manufacturers - reverse the visual image left for right. It is extremely difficult to identify lunar features at the eyepiece of one of these instruments using a conventional atlas. The human brain just doesn’t cope well with trying to compare the real thing with a map that is a mirror-image of it. This new SCT version of Hatfield’s famous lunar atlas solves the problem. Photographs and key maps in The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas are mirror-images, to show the Moon exactly as it appears through the eyepiece of an SCT or Maksutov telescope. Identification of lunar features is made quick and easy. The Moon’s surface is shown for various sun angles, and there are inset keys that show the effects of optical libration - all mirror-imaged for SCT users. Smaller IAU-standard reference images are included, to make it simple to compare the mirrored SCT photographs and maps with those that appear in other atlases. This edition still uses the superb original photographs taken by Commander Henry Hatfield using his 12-inch reflector. The key maps, on which lunar features can be readily identified, have been reversed and updated, but retain the style and clarity that made the original justly famous.
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The Photographic Atlas of the Moon is a daily photographic guide to observing the features of the Moon through a 40cm telescope and high-resolution, low-speed film. Whole Moon images are provided for each day of the 29-day lunar cycle, with labelled features and descriptive text. Selected lunar features are shown at high magnification to highlight and clearly illustrate certain regions. All lunar features are labelled using current IAU terminology. A comprehensive set of appendices detail the phases of the Moon, give a chronology of its lunar selenography and index all lunar features named in the text.
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The Photographic Atlas of the Moon is a daily photographic guide to observing the features of the Moon through a 40cm telescope and high-resolution, low-speed film. Whole Moon images are provided for each day of the 29-day lunar cycle, with labelled features and descriptive text. Selected lunar features are shown at high magnification to highlight and clearly illustrate certain regions. All lunar features are labelled using current IAU terminology. A comprehensive set of appendices detail the phases of the Moon, give a chronology of its lunar selenography and index all lunar features named in the text.
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Quality and Ease of Use - My Indispensable Tool.......2006-01-04
This book is one of my most reliable tools when I'm out observing the Moon. I'm currently working on earning two Observing Certificates from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, which means I spend a lot of time drawing and documenting Moon features, and this book is always by my side. The "upside-down" images make it easy to find features while observing at the telescope, since my Dobsonian telescope (like many others) also inverts the image. Lunar features are easy to find - just flip to the right day of lunation, and you'll have an accurate representation of what you can expect to see through your eyepiece. The size of the images is large enough to find even small craters, scarps, mountains etc. And since this book was made using "old fashioned" film photography, it doesn't suffer from the pixelation I've seen in many other lunar guide books which use CCD imagery. Finally, if you're interested in observing more than just the obvious lunar features, the texts that accompany each day's lunar image provide the more experienced observer with suggestions of additional features the search for.
All in all, I love this book and have been using it steadily during my observing sessions.
What!.......2005-05-11
Before you review a book it is always a good idea to read it.
Then you can make informed comments. Page 2 would have been enough to discern the authors intent about binocular vs. telescope viewing.
Now, that would have been smart.
avoid.......2003-07-27
This atlas should be called "An atlas of the moon for inverted telescopes" because all the images in this atlas are upside-down.
Planetary geologist Charles A. Wood (author of the book "the modern moon" and the editor of www.lpod.org/) writes the following about this book:
" Because this recent book (2002) is mostly images of the entire Moon for each day of the lunation it is of more use to binocular observers than telescopic ones. Some photos are good, others are over exposed."
This is exactly the point, the atlas is intended for binocular observers but the images are inverted. How smart is that?
An easy to use moon atlas!.......2003-04-26
I am not an astronomer, amateur or otherwise. I simply like to look at the moon when I have some free time. The reason I like this atlas is that it shows high resolution photographs through a 40 cm Cassegrain telescope of the terminator day by day through a whole lunar cycle. Now when I have some time to look at the moon I go to the proper page showing the present day's terminator and I see a beautiful photograph with all the main features identified on the photo and a short description/ discussion of these features on the opposing page, no page flipping required. This book is great for beginners although there is a lot of other information for those more experienced. The only drawback is the price which is expensive for 146 pages but then half of this book is high quality photographic reproductions, no blurred out features here.
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The far side of the Moon, also called the "dark side of the Moon" was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth.
Even since then, its nature has puzzled researchers. Now we know that a giant impact struck the near side with such force that it created the “near side megabasin”, opening the way for floods of mare and sending vast amounts of ejecta to the far side. The Far Side of the Moon explains this event and also documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter.
As in the previous volume, The Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon, the author has taken the original images and cleaned them of system artefacts using modern digital image processing. The best photographic coverage of the far side of the Moon has been the 150 photos taken by the Lunar Orbiter series. The other sources are pictures taken by the Apollo Command Module, which were limited to the equatorial regions, and the Clementine mission, which took pictures at a high sun angle that washed out the topography of the features. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artefacts.
Also, this is the first book to explain in detail how the far side was deeply covered by ejecta from the Near Side Megabasin and modified by later impacts.
A CD-R accompanies the book, and contains all the enhanced and cleaned photographs for use by the reader in screen viewing, lectures, etc..
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Long regarded as the finest photographic lunar atlas available,
The Hatfield Lunar Atlas is a model of accuracy and clarity. This new version updates some of the maps, names and technical data, but uses Commander Henry Hatfield's original - and unexcelled - photographic plates, taken with a purpose-built 30 cm reflector. The Atlas is divided into sixteen sections, each of which is made up of five or more photographic plates together with a map. Each map is based primarily of the facing plate. Where detail is lacking on this primary plate (particularly near the Moon's limb) supplementary detail is provided by one or more of the other plates in a particular section.
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It is what it is: A revised version of a 1960's classic.......2004-06-23
THE HATFIELD PHOTOGRAPHIC LUNAR ATLAS is a modern, updated and slightly revised version of the classic (~1968) AMATEUR ASTRONOMER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC LUNAR ATLAS by Sir Henry Hatfield. The original work was published just before man landed on the moon - and thus moon observation was a "craze".
This "new" version, bearing Hatfield's name, uses Hatfield's original Lunar photographs that were taken, obviously, in the 1960's.
I've read other people's reviews, most of whom complain about the quality of the photographs. These photograph's were truly remarkable in the 60's ... and 70's ... and even for the 80's into the early 90's. Are these the best photograph's for today's standards? No. But part of the beauty of this book are the remarkable vintage photographs (just as many of us marvel at the sight of vintage cars or vintage motorcycles).
Specifically, this book is a "nice" (not great) photographic atlas of the moon. The sketches are "very good" (maybe not perfect). And the book's format/layout is STILL very useful for the casual and amateur astronomer.
Yes, the RUKL MOON ATLAS is THE STANDARD. But this atlas has been out of print for several years. A copy of Rukl's was recently listed for $579 on eBay! And I've seen Rukl's sell for $100-$175 on other Internet sites.
In summary, is Hatfield's the best? No. Is it very nice? Yes. Though I'd also agree that the price for this book is a bit too high ($25 is more reasonable), when compared to Rukl's, is THE HATFIELD PHOTOGRAPHIC LUNAR ATLAS worth $35? Yes.
It is what it is: an updated reproduction of a classic. It doesn't have all of the bells & whistles a 2004 Corvette has, yet isn't it still a joy to drive a vintage Corvette? You bet it is!
Disappointing Atlas - Low Resolution Photographs.......2003-08-01
I regularly observe the moon through moderate aperture telescopes and find these low resolution images of little use. Even a three-inch refractor will show far more detail. There are better sets of photographs, covering most of the visible surface, available on the web.
However, the atlas will probably be useful to observers who are starting to find their way around the mooon's surface, as they will not be overwhelmed by fine detail.
If you want to see good quality images of the moon do not buy this book; look on the web.
Questionable Quality for the Millenium.......2002-01-08
This book of elderly, sometimes fuzzy photos and rough drawings is outrageously overpriced, even with the small Amazon discount.
Try to find a copy of the far better Rukl Moon Atlas, or write lots of letters to Kalmback to get them to reprint Rukl.
The only virtue of this book is the paucity of any Moon Atlas - a juicy opportunity for someone - Hello Msrs. Tirion, Dickinson, Ottewell, Crossen, Kepple or O'Meara?
Help, help!
Old pictures.......2001-03-18
Old pictures and quite badly drawn maps of the moon makes this book feel to expensive no matter what it costs.
Although, it gives you (as a matter of facts) very much information of the lunar surfice when it come to manmade names of the different places. Still some names misses, like the crater named after Neil Armstrong - where is it?
I also wish a book that says it is an Atlas of the moon, sold year 2001, would contain fresh photos of better quality (The Hubble Sky Telescope could maybe do something for us moonfans!) and better drawings. And why not more information about how and where the names of the places came to real and, what I really miss - pictures of parts of the earth placed on the lunar surfice to give me a view of how big the craters and the moon as a whole actually is. And why not a part in the book with pictures from the Apollo missions?! More could be done.
The one and only........2001-02-10
The importance of a good reference is incalculable for those who do any serious lunar observing, or for those who need to know exactly what they're looking at (or at least what they should be seeing). The Hatfield Atlas is by far the best lunar reference available. But rather than subject you to further ramblings-on about the merits of this book, I'll just state some straightforward points in simple fact:
The membership of our club includes about 140 dedicated amateur and professional astronomers. Many of us gather at our dark site facility to attend monthly star parties. If there is even the slightest moon that evening there may be a dozen or so telescopes trained on it well before dark. And those of us who do any serious lunar observing may already be consulting a single particular book which is kept on a desk in the observatory. Care to guess which book that is? "Yo, who's got the Hatfield's?".
The Hatfield Atlas is our 'official' lunar reference. Other references have been left out for the membership to browse and sample. Two of them drew favorable comments about their indices and cross references (and which are explicit advantages over Hatfield's). But as expected, we always go back to the Hatfield Atlas, and there are reasons. Plain and simple, you won't find better or more accurate renderings anywhere. If you want an exact reference, or if you need to match detail and gradations with what you see in the eyepiece, this is the book to have.
The first time one examines a reference of this quality, there is generally some astonishment at the high level of detail involved. My first inclination was to 'read' it from cover-to-cover, as one would regard a centennial issue of National Geographic. You will likely find the renderings here to be of equal or better quality and possibly more fascinating.
I highly recommend the Hatfield Atlas for both amateur and professional astronomers who have a need for the finest lunar reference available.
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The moon;: A summary of the existing knowledge of our satellite, with a complete photographic atlas,
William H Pickering
Manufacturer: Doubleday, Page & company
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A NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE MOON.
Kopal. Zdenek: Introduction By Harold C. Urey
Manufacturer: Taplinger Publishing Co,
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Binding: Hardcover
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A New Photographic Atlas of the Moon
Zdenek Kopal
Manufacturer: Taplinger
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Moon Atlas a Gem.......2003-05-14
This is probably one of the best Moon atlases ever published. It contains detailed pictures of both the visible and far side of the Moon along with descriptions of every plate. Many of the pictures were taken during the boom of lunar exploration during the 1960s and have not been surpassed in the three decades since. Most of them, including those of the near side, are from spacecraft and surpass anything that can be taken from Earth. In addition to 200+ fine pictures, you also receive several chapters about the physical properties of the Moon. This is not just simple facts, but a detailed scientific description of our natural satellite as we understood it in 1971. Much of the information has not changed since then. I fell in love with this book after finding it in my high school library 25 years ago. I searched in vain for a number of years for another atlas that could match its high quality. There were none. If you come across a copy and are interested in this subject matter, it is well worth the money.
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