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examples.......2005-10-10
This book does cover all the important topics clearly. Unfortunately, the examples used in the book are 'corny' and distract from the important concepts leading to unneeded text and dreadful thoughts of 'The clip joint' and 'the solar powered cookie oven'. The grammar used in this book is a bit strange; don't, won't, etc appear frequently. This is somewhat odd as bernake was a former Fed governor and abel is also distinguised. I think that, perhaps, the authors attempted to 'dumb down' the book and in the process managed to merely make it corny. I also am a bit appalled at the amount of space given to math - it seems the authors wanted it to be more 'accessible'.
I will agree that the 'real world' examples are both pertinent and informative. They were chosen very well. The footnotes are also welcome as the authors frequently simplify models.
This book could use some trimming and perhaps less talk about dog groomers and the like. If that were to happen this would be one of the best macro books out there.
Anyone want to bet on Dr B becoming Fed Chair? Actually he had no input due to his Fed Governor position.
Excellent textbook.......2005-09-21
This is an excellent textbook as a forerunner to more difficult books such as Branson.It deals with each of the major issues clearly and competently. The text boxes are excellent case studies.
the best.......2004-11-30
the best economics book i've had so far. IT's easy to understand but filled with TONS of great information. IT all makes sense with the historical examples and also has insight on the future. A must read!
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Great textbook.......2006-04-02
I am an engineer/scientist and I used this book for my first course in World Economy/Macro. Although the course used Mankiw Macroeconomics 5th Ed as the textbook (which is a good intermediate-level book), this book provided a great introductory foundation for the various concepts.
The color illustrations/tables in this book are by far the best that I have seen (for example the book uses real units on x and y axes and actual data wherever possible in figures which makes them less abstract than the figures found in other books). Economics by Hall is also a reasonably good book but not as versatile as this one.
Plain bad.......2005-11-02
The concepts might be spot-on, but the presentation is not. The book adopts the narrative, rambling styles so common in college textbooks these days. It doesn't define its terms well or link its terms with its graphs.
Manages to make introductory Macroeconomics more difficult than it should be.
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A good book.......2007-06-29
I just bought the Latin American version of this book , and it was good . The main issue here is the lack of certain formulas and graphing techniques required to do some of the exercises in my MBA class...
Clear and Concise.......2006-03-05
I think Parkin's explanations are clear and concise. There were no blah-blah-blah's about weird econ stuff that a beginner would get confused about. The pictures really helped you understand the concept too. Finally (and this might just be me), I thought the segments about famous economists and current-affairs articles relating to econ were fun to read.
Best buy!!!!.......2005-08-22
This book is the best introductory economics textbook that I have ever read. There are other good books and in different languages, however this is the most comprehensive summary of most of the topics that a Bachelor in economics will cover. It is especially useful and accessible to everyone since it helps you develop the necessary intuition for more advanced and profound courses. Basically, nothing more that basic math is required to read this book, and no statistics, much less econometrics or anything advanced. For advanced students, it is still helpful since it can be used as a reference for concepts. It is conveniently divided into two parts, macroeconomics and microeconomics. The macro part for example starts by outlining the very basis of the macro models, and from then it proceeds to add different variables that make the model more complex. Its explanations are very tractable and are accompanied by numerical examples in tables that help you develop notions such as what a marginal increment is and so on. All that, without the necessity of derivatives. I would undoubtedly buy this book if I were to start studying economics even in countries where economics is not a major but an entire undergraduate program with many econ classes.
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KEY MESSAGE: When asked to describe this text, most Lipsey readers use the same word:
precise. The authors do not gloss over subjects when presenting economic ideas; rather, they offer a patient explanation of the concept and back it up with the latest research and data. Taken separately, neither theory nor data alone can give readers a true understanding of the idea, but when combined these elements give students a complete view of economics in the real world.
What is Economics?: Economic Issues and Concepts; How Economists Work.
An Introduction to Demand and Supply: Demand, Supply, and Price; Elasticity.
An Introduction to Macroeconomics: What Macroeconomics Is All About; The Measurement of National Income.
The Economy in the Short Run: The Simplest Short-Run Macro Model; Adding Government and Trade to the Simple Macro Model; Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand in the Short Run.
The Economy in the Long Run: From the Short Run to the Long Run: The Adjustment of Factor Prices; The Difference Between Short-Run and Long-Run Macroeconomics; Long-Run Economic Growth.
Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy: Money and Banking; Money, Interest Rates, and Economic Activity; Monetary Policy.
Macroeconomic Problems and Policies: Inflation and Disinflation; Unemployment Fluctuations and the NAIRU; Government Debt and Deficits.
The United States in the Global Economy: The Gains from International Trade; Trade Policy; Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments.
For all readers interested in macroeconomics.
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KEY MESSAGE:
Macroeconomics provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline by introducing the main ideas and then developing those ideas with the latest research, policy, and data. The result is that readers learn to apply economics the way real economists do, by evaluating the decisions in their personal and professional lives.
Introduction: What Is Economics?; The Economic Problem.
How Markets Work: Demand and Supply; Elasticity.
Macroeconomic Overview: A First Look at Macroeconomics; Measuring GDP and Economic Growth; Monitoring Jobs and the Price Level.
The Economy in the Long Run: At Full Employment: The Classical Model; Economic Growth; Money, the Price Level, and Inflation; The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments.
The Economy in the Short Run: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand; Expenditure Multipliers: The Keynesian Model; U.S. Inflation, Unemployment, and Business Cycle.
Macroeconomic Policy: Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy.
The Global Economy: Trading with the World.
For all readers interested in macroeconomics.
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KEY MESSAGE:
Microeconomics provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline by introducing the main ideas and then developing those ideas with the latest research, policy, and data. The result is that readers learn to apply economics the way real economists do, by evaluating the decisions in their personal and professional lives.
Introduction: What Is Economics?; The Economic Problem.
How Markets Work: Demand and Supply; Elasticity; Efficiency and Equity; Markets in Action.
Households' Choices: Utility and Demand; Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices.
Firms and Markets: Organizing Production; Output and Costs;Perfect Competition; Monopoly; Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
Market Failure and Government: Regulation and Antitrust Law; Externalities; Public Goods and Common Resources.
Factor Markets, Inequality, and Uncertainty: Demand and Supply in Factor Markets; Economic Inequality; Uncertainty and Information.
The Global Economy: Trading with the World.
For all readers interested in microeconomics.
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A master describes how he works -- this book changed my life.......1998-06-20
Argris, a professor of industrial psychology, has published some of the most practical and insighful works of psychology I know of. In the influential book "The Fifth Discipline" Senge devotes an entire chapter specifically to Argryis's ideas and Argyris's ideas show up all over that work. In attempting to apply Argyris's ideas in business I discovered (as have others) that it applies to many areas of my life. In the process I am becoming much more self-aware of my own feelings, objectives, and values and how they color my interactions with others -- on the job and in my personal life.
Argyris life work has focused on the role (or plight) of the individual in organizations. More than another of his other books, in "Reasoning, Learning, and Action" Argyris describes what he does in his seminars and with clients. The book is full of selections from transcripts of actual conversations along with an expert commentary in which the author shares with us thinking process. If I had to choose one and only one of Argyris's several books to recommend this is the one I would choose. In the preface to this book the author writes "I believe that social science should question the status quo and offer people alternatives that have been rare or not available but are highly valued (for example, systems with high trust, risk taking, and high internal commitment amoung the participants)." Argyris delivers on his intention.
- Cortlandt Wilson, Software Consultant, Cortlandt Software
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Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food. Can this trend continue over the next thirty years when the world population is projected to exceed eight billion? This book takes a critical look at the immediate challenges for feeding the population just a generation from now. Based on the 10th International Symposium sponsored by the Nutrition Committee and the Trustees of the Rank Prize Funds, the volume examines the full range of related issues, from food economics to resource allocation and crop yields. Beginning with an analysis of future food needs, the articles cover basic resources and constraints, applications of science to increase yield, the role of animal products in feeding eight billion people, and diverse social issues. The book provides insights into some of the most important questions we will be faced with in the coming years, making it an invaluable resource for a wide range of researchers in agriculture, the environment, and public policy.
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Another defining moment in the evolution of operating systems
Small footprint operating systems, such as those driving the handheld devices that the baby dinosaurs are using on the cover, are just one of the cutting-edge applications you'll find in Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne's Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition.
By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, this market-leading text has continued to define the operating systems course. This Seventh Edition not only presents the latest and most relevant systems, it also digs deeper to uncover those fundamental concepts that have remained constant throughout the evolution of today's operation systems. With this strong conceptual foundation in place, students can more easily understand the details related to specific systems.
New Adaptations
* Increased coverage of user perspective in Chapter 1.
* Increased coverage of OS design throughout.
* A new chapter on real-time and embedded systems (Chapter 19).
* A new chapter on multimedia (Chapter 20).
* Additional coverage of security and protection.
* Additional coverage of distributed programming.
* New exercises at the end of each chapter.
* New programming exercises and projects at the end of each chapter.
* New student-focused pedagogy and a new two-color design to enhance the learning process.
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Informative, but very, very dry.............2007-09-16
This book is very informative if your interested in learning how operating systems work. Unfortunately, Im not really interested in it, I just have to read it for a required class. The material is very dry so its hard to focus on what your reading.
Not a very good one.......2007-03-11
I had to buy it for the course, but I really prefer Tanenbaum books, you can find more science. Pages reflect light so you should have indirect lighting, I had difficulties reading it.
Good as a Textbook.......2007-01-13
This was a required text for a college class. As a beginner in understanding how operating systems are created the first few chapters were easy to read and understand, but after that I needed the professor to be able to understand the concepts.
Excellent!.......2006-10-21
We had to buy this book as part of our undergraduate Computer Engineering curriculum at The University of Akron. The book is very well written; I taught myself a lot by studying it.
This book was so good that I actually ended up telling one of my friends in Computer Engineering at Case about it, only to find out that 1) they use it there, too, and that 2) he thinks just as highly of the text.
Try reading 3 pages without falling asleep.......2006-03-05
While "Operating Systems" is not exactly the sexiest subject in Computer Science, it ought to be possible to make it interesting, for example by taking a historical or problem solving approach.
Sadly, Silverschatz does none of this; in fact, often his book reads more like a tome on tax-law. Take this sentence, for example:
"If no process is executing in its critical section and some processes wish to enter their critical sections, then only those processes that are not executing in their remainder sections can participate in the decision on which will enter its critical section next, and this selection cannot be postponed indefinitely." (p.194, 7th ed.)
Silberschatz also has a tendency to make sweeping statements without giving examples, like what I am doing here. Admittedly, online chapters for different operating systems are available, but I think more examples within the main text itself would have helped to explain the concepts better.
The book also contains errors. For example it says that, "For instance, suppose that the queue usually has just one outstanding request. Then, all scheduling algorithms behave the same, because they have only one choice for where to move the disk head: They all behave like FCFS scheduling." (p.461, 7th ed.) While this is true for shortest-seek-time-first, LOOK and C-LOOK algorithms, it is wrong for SCAN and C-SCAN. They would continue moving the HD head from cylinder 0 to cylinder max, with worse performance than SSTF.
Since I do not have wide experience with other O/S books, I will not give a categorically "don't buy it!" recommendation. After all, Silberschatz is quite comprehensive and could be okay as a reference book. However, if you require a book to teach you O/S concepts, I would strongly recommend looking elsewhere. Perhaps try a book by Tanenbaum? His prose is more readable.
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This text is intended for a one-quarter or one-semester introductory course on dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs: The Textbook is a monument to our present understanding of these wonderful creatures. It is a book that will take the student on a journey through nearly every aspect of dinosaur biology, geology, and the history of their discovery. It is a text that presents facts together with current ideas, notions, and controversies. Dr. Lucas presents dinosaurs as successful, living creatures that were merely different in appearance from animals living today.
Dr. Lucas has written a comprehensive book that is easily read and understood by students with little scientific background - a book that teaches students not only how to use scientific methods, but how to synthesize data to create their own ideas. In contrast with many dinosaur books from the past, Dr. Lucas, although indicating his own views, allows students the opportunity to think for themselves.
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Dinosaurs the textbook.......2001-08-23
I have used two editions of this book as one of the texts for a general vertebrate paleontology course. The class, organismic biology majors, with some secondary science, PE., elementary education and geography majors, liked the clear writing, statement of objectives, and reviews of each chapter. Diagrams were also clear. It perhaps needs more background on plate tectonics, stratigraphy/sedimentation and extinction/bird origins.
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school supplies.......2006-07-14
Order arrived 2 days later than expected, but I was very pleased with the price I paid and the book was in excellent condition
Good In Some Ways; Weak In Others.......2006-07-07
Our school uses this book for all Geometry classes. The book is quite thorough, but serves the teacher more than the students. The students for the most part don't read it; just use it to find the assigned homework problems.
One glaring weakness is on page 306 where Postulate 7 is proven from Postulate 5 in problem 24. After hammering into my students that postulates cannot be proven, there goes the book proving a postulate!
Weak Explanations and Fails to Challenge Even the Average High School Student.......2006-05-14
As a long time mathematics tutor and teacher I know this book very well. I don't think the material is presented or explained in a way that is especially helpful for young people. As a tutor I have to constantly reintroduce the topic and/or try to stay ahead of the student's class. Beyond that, the students are asked to do only the simplest of proofs. Additionally, a new topic will be introduced and then no problems appear in the exercise portion of the section to help the student test and practice his or her understanding of the newly introduced topic (and of course, those problems invariably will show up on the chapter exam and the final).
Moreover, I think the book just fails the kids. It seems to omit certain standard concepts by being "accessible" and undemanding of even the most minor critical thinking skills. I believe that both of these shortcomings will leave the student unprepared for the challenging problems on standardized tests and on college entrance exams. Not to mention any sort of subsequent advanced work in high school and college. Another thing about the Larson book is that the answers to many of the problems are so arithmetically peculiar that the student has no feeling that maybe they actually got the right answer. Good problems reassure the student that they are on the right track. Also, once a new concept or definition is introduced it is never repeated.
Overall, I think that the more capable students will be shortchanged and misled into thinking that they know more than they actually do and the less capable student might pass geometry but will perform poorly on college entrance exams and be unable to successfully progress in mathematics if they need to do so.
Must have when you get text book.......2005-10-23
This is a must have for students that purchased the text book, gives them an opportunity to practice what they learn in the theory.
Poor parsing of concepts and confusing diagrams.......2005-10-20
This textbook is more useful for the flashy (and admittedly very good) teacher's ancillaries. But this review is not for the ancillaries. It is for the text itself.
The text's treatment of proofs is very cursory and not rigorous enough. The diagrams for the algebraic problems are too confusing, compiling numerous different concepts into one problem. While I agree that students must learn to differentiate one property/theorem/rule/postulate from another, it doesn't make sense that most, instead of some, diagrams are over-complicated. Personally, I don't like the format with the examples, mainly because it downplays the necessity for students to become LITERATE in math, not just a good "example comparer." The text has little actual TEXT to speak of.
I have not been teaching HS for very long, but I do not like this book. I am not a textbook dependent teacher, but I do (woefully) recognize that students have poor study skills and don't reference notes all the time. I do not teach out of the textbook and I spend many hours planning lessons, lecture notes, my own examples, etc. I had many complaints that the problems were confusing, included too many ideas at the same time, etc. Some may be successful in "teaching themselves" from the examples, but I am very disappointed that textbooks no longer have TEXT. I may be a math teacher, but I understand the importance of reading and how it helps a person to process the material.
On the other hand, the teacher resources is a great set of worksheets, study masters, note taking guides, etc. Perhaps the authors spent more time on those resources instead of the text.
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