I was first introduced to Newton's TeleCom Dictionary while serving as a MARS Operator aboard U.S.S. England (CG-22) in the early to mid-80's. This book is exactly what it purports to be - a dictionary for modern day Telecom professionals. It is not designed to fully explain concepts of Telecommunications - rather it is designed to serve as a basic reference for those times when you quickly need to know the meaning of an acronym. From the definition contained in Newton's you can then move on to more in-depth sources of information. A neat feature are the updates via Internet. This book covers a vast and broad area and does it extremely well. It should be a standard reference for all CT and IT professionals. Well worth the price.

I have the 15th edition and 17th edition of this book and they are both great. I also own the McGraw-Hill telecom dictionary - Here is a quick comparison of my most prized books that I hope shoppers find useful-

Newtons version covers LOTS of terms, with quick simple, sometimes too simple definitions. For acronyms it rules, if it is not here you probably wont find it anywhere. It is very simple, and 99.99% text.

The mcGraw version 3rd edition also has LOTS of terms, but does not include the funny terminology or interest items that Newtons does. What it does have are TONS of pictures-diagrams that help the definitions. The CD included with the book makes it more complete. The only bad thing about the McGraw Hill book is there are some typos....

I dont think I could live without either one of these books. They are very different in style and hard to compare, but both are great. Simply stated, the Newton dictionary is more QUANTITY oriented and has more terms, the McGraw-Hill dictionary is extremely QUALITY oriented. I would rate them both a 5..... but since the Newtons does not come with a reference CD I had to give it a 4.

This is a Must have book for anyone that works with or wants to know more about Voice and Data. Anyone serious about having a handy reference collection will probably own both this book and the McGraw Hill dictionary.

Being that telecom expands with new telephony techniques and bandwith growth every year, the need for a new Dictionary is very much needed. BUT........ terms, phrases and meanings haven't changed just pretty much how these terms relate to each other. Circuit-to-circuit switching in a DMS or 5E has been updated in the past 2 years to circuit-to-packet and now for this year it's packet-to-packet switching (voice over I.P. switching by Sonus) to add even more capabilties over the same circuit. Same old phrases just more confusion for the non-engineer and technician. If you have the 16th edition, check with someone who has this 17. There isn't that much more added, but if this is your 1st purchase of this series of Dictionarys, then of course get the 17th.

Not at all, am I downing this book. Just trying to save money for those who have the 16th.

oNe

This is an excelent book for anyone who wants to understand what causes the regular boom and bust cycles. Rothbard uses mountains of economic data to convince the reader that it was economic intervention by the government, and the central bank, which caused and prolonged the Great Depression. The book starts off slowly given that it is laden with economic tables, and explanations. The second half is more interesting since it describes Hoover's interventionism, and wraps up everything delineated in the first part. A great book for anyone interested in economics, and politics, and of course anyone who enjoys Rothbard's clear writing style.

The myth is the free market caused the Great Depression. The reality is the government not only caused it, but deepened and continued it by terrible economic policies. Rothbard is not by any means the first to notice this, but until his death he was one of the leading economists in the U.S. (and one of the least noticed by the "professional" pseudo-economists dominant in our universities.) This book should be read by anyone who is interested in economics.

This book is so good that I read it twice.

Rothbard shows us clearly that the real causes of Economic Depressions is GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION in the economy. Of course this is understood widely nowadays (at least among those who think). But 40 years ago it was popular to believe in other causes like "overexpansion of productive capacity" or other fallacies. Rothbard convincingly flushes these other theories down where they belong.

I believe the most lasting contribution of this book is to clearly show the basics of economics, in language that anybody can understand (Ludwig von Mises is considered the greatest ecnomist of the Austrian School of Economics, but have YOU ever tried to read his "Theory of Money and Credit?". I couldn't wade through it even with a dictionary in hand. Trust me, Rothbard is a better spokesman for free-market economics, in my opinion).

This splendid book aims to develop calculus from within its rich historical context and to demonstrate its power across a range of disciplines. The author succeeds admirably. Two hundred pages devoted to key ideas in the history of mathematics and science lead smoothly into calculus as we know it today. The remaining three hundred plus pages cover the usual topics, but with attention given to an extraordinary spread of interesting problems in science and business. The explanations of concepts and notation are as lucid as any I have encountered in a basic calculus book.

Because one of the distinguishing features of Basic Calculus from Archimedes to Newton to its Role in Science is its historical dimension, something should be said about the criticism of one reviewer that the book oversimplifies the history by using modern notation. Yes, Hahn does tidy things up. (Very nicely, I might add.) But what else can anyone really do? As Hahn notes, Leibniz's cryptic first work on calculus - Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis, itemque tangentibus...calculi genus - bewildered even his friends, the brothers Bernoulli. These famous mathematicians found Leibniz's article "an enigma rather than an explication." Hahn could try to unriddle the Nova methodus for us, explaining in detail all the fuzzy concepts and strange notation that baffled the Bernoullis. But that hardly seems the thing to do in a basic calculus book. Better to do just what Hahn does - seize on the essential ideas and use everything now at a mathematician's command to bring them into a clear light. Hahn has an excellent sense of just how far to go. The result is a truly extraordinary book that will amply reward readers looking for something special.

If you are deeply curious about the amazing ability of mathematics to define, describe and predict the physical world and its behavior (incl. the solar system) you will be thrilled with this book. It concentrates on the essence of the matter, basic calculus, and includes real-world applications set within the context of some of history's most important scientific questions.

The author clearly demonstrates that he not only possesses a great curiosity, fluency, and appreciation for the subject but also thrives on imparting these things to others. He has provided a great deal of supplementary information on his web site including a detailed description of the contents, scope and focus of the book.

The Solution Manuals ARE available from the author simply by e-mailing him at: hahn.1@nd.edu

Most calculus books make some compromise in presenting the material. In the case of a thoroughly rigorous text, that compromise most often means sacrificing historical context, intuitive understanding, and real-world application (even though the book may be "exercise-rich" with contrived examples). Basic Calculus successfully navigates a difficult (and different) course, focusing on these commonly sacrificed areas and effectively presenting the pearls of calculus knowledge without delving too deeply into eye-glazing minutiae. In lucid and interesting style, it accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do - it imparts the essence of the matter, in context.

What this book is not is a traditional calculus text. It covers a lot of traditional topics, but not in a familiar way. It is not terribly rigorous, nor does it need to be. It is designed to fill the first two semesters of calculus. There are a LOT of books that do this in the traditional way, that is they scare the life out of the student :-). It is my belief that this book will take a lot of the mystery out of calculus, since it develops the subject in the context of applications. I also think that most students will find the approach engaging. There are plenty of practice problems at the ends of the chapters, and some are quite challenging.

The focus of this book is not to present calculus as a theory, a thing which most students are simply not prepared for at this level. Rather it is to present calculus as the pragmatic development of methods to solve certain classes of problems. In this regard it does a fantastic job. Along the way the students's algebraic, geometric, and trigonometric skills are all tested and firmed up.

The notion of the limit, such a mystery to most freshmen (and, truth-be-told, to many upper-level undergrads) is given a strong intuitive thrust right from the beginning.

If you want more problems, get the Schaum's outline book and read them side-by-side.

This is the first novel by Philip Kerr that I have read. I was attracted to this book by the subtitle: "The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton." As a teacher of math and physics, how could I resist a book that uses one of my heroes as a main character? Of course, I should have remembered the old adage about the disappointment in meeting your heroes.

In this novel we find Isaac Newton as the Warden of the Royal Mint. The story is told through the eyes of Christopher Ellis, Newton's assistant. The two men are investigating illegeal coining which leads them to a plot to overthrow the government. Needless to say, they save the day.

The storyline of this novel is filled with murders and intrigue--interesting enough for an easy-to-read thriller. And Kerr does a good enough job giving us a sense of London at the close of the seventeenth century. What was missing, for me, was Newton.

In many ways, despite the subtitle, Newton is a secondary character in this novel after Ellis. This is fine, on one level, but when Newton does appear he comes off as more of a poor man's Sherlock Holmes than a unique character. Perhaps I have studied histories of Newton too much to be an objective reader, but the Newton Kerr brings forth in his novel is difficult for me to reconcile with what I have always imagined Newton was like. Not that Kerr gets facts wrong, he doesn't. It just feels wrong to me. And so it was difficult for me to enjoy this novel.

I have only read this book in German, where it is called Newton's Schatten (Newton's Shadow) and can't answer for the English edition, but I really enjoyed this novel very much. It is a mystery very much in the same tradition as The Name of the Rose, only a little more accessible. I also read An Instanz of the Fingerpost and did not like that nearly as much as this one. I loved Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy - possibly the hardboiled best detective stories written since Chandler - and I would say that this is his best book in a long time. Kerr seems to be suggesting almost that Newton was a model for Sherlock Holmes: after all, he invented the same scientific method beloved of Holmes; and in this he is most persuasive. If I have a criticism it is that the style seems occasionally too authentically 17th century. But that may be the German of course. (Generally speaking it is a most elegantly written story.) Otherwise it is a first class novel, really, and I shall be giving the book to many friends this Christmas. Wunderbar.

Kerr works very hard to write really authentic historical thrillers and this one is certainly no exception. DM reeks of period flavor, and biographical detail and is probably the best, most evocative mystery novel I have read since Eco's Name of the Rose. The portrait of Newton as a kind of early Sherlock Holmes is very persuasive; I learned more history from reading this book than anything I read in school. But it is with Newton's Watson-like assistant, Ellis, where the novel really satisfies. I can't recommend this book too highly.

This book may look like a good starting point on serial killers but that's it. I haven't read the book yet and I've already found many mistakes: out of date information, exclusion of remarkable cases (Daniel Camargo, Charles Whitman), Factual errors (Colombia has no death penalty), etc. The book is not that bad, but it's not completely trustable. You can use this book to get acquaintance with the general subject and then research on specific cases of your choice, at least that's what I'm doing.

This book is the best resource for broad information on the subject of serial killers I have yet read.

If you are looking for a wide variety of fact on the subject but don't want to put the effort into a lot of research this is the book.

This book is not as indepth or as comprehensive as some of the single subject serial killer books I have read, but it does provide a wealth of information for starting out.

Serial murder is my area of expertise. I have spent 16 years studying and writing about this field and Michael Newton's works have been along side me for all those years. Newton is an excellent researcher. His work is of the highest quality. His books are a steal. The Encyclopedia is an excellent resource for anyone who needs a thumbnail sketch of serial killers from around the world. Newton has contributed to the growing body of serial killer research by helping to track down and document these killers. Newton was one of the first authors to document the imfamous Dr. Swango, years before any other noticed him.
I highly recommend this book to students, researchers and the just curious. But beware, you may learn more than you ever wanted to know

This is a cookbook rarity in that every recipe in here is delicious. I got this book when I was starting out trying to add soy to my diet for better health. I only knew about tofu and I wasn't very creative with it either. This book showed me how to make delicious, healthy versions of foods I really love like Potatoes au Gratin, Soy Milk Pancakes, Soy Cheese Corn Bread, Pizzas and Focaccia, Cream of Asparagus Soup, chowders, chilis, desserts, stews, Kung Pao Tempeh, Tofu Lasagne, manicotti,Cajun dishes and even Tiramisu, just to name a few. This book teaches how to use all the different soy products with easy to follow recipes that will give your menu fresh delights based on foods you already know and love. Each recipe has complete nutritional information. There are addresses and phone numbers for soy product sources and places to write for detailed soy information of a general nature. The author's information about the various soy products is a very understandable and helpful introduction to this often overlooked and misunderstood group of foods. Her personal notes about each recipe help make the dishes seem like they came from a trusted friend's kitchen. The best way to make a change in your diet is to make the change as subtle as you can so that your old habits will not be so tempting. These recipes will make you glad you added soy to your diet and your body and the environment will thank you.

I just picked this title up and since I was a tempeh producer in Michigan I have earmarked many of the delicious tempeh and tofu recipes in this book. I like it since many of the recipes are easy to read and the ingredients are available in most any supermarket. I would enjoy writing to the author of this book and perhaps when I am in the Los Angeles area, we could get together. At our Lansing potluck I will be taking along a recipe from this cookbook and will let others know about it. I wish I had more people to cook with but now I'll just enjoy this alone. However, next week I'll be going to several vegetarian cooking classes and this title will be on my list to share with the class. Thank you for yet another wonderful book about the world of soy. Betsy Shipley

I love this cookbook. My husband is a vegetarian so I try to find recipes that include protein without a lot of fat. The recipes in here are perfect for that. We love tofu and tempeh - as opposed to the heavy cheese and cream dishes many other vegetarian books might have.

The cookbook is easy to follow with all the nutritional info at the end of each recipe. It even tells you regular protein plus soy protein content. Most meals are quick to make. I am able to find most ingredients at my local grocery store without a special trip to the health food store.

My favorie dishes are the Near Eastern Curried Tempeh, Corn Chowder, and the Soy Sloppy Joes.

I recommend this cookbook to anyone, vegetarian or not.

This book has been around for 10 years, though maybe not in the U.S. The author openly summarises (well, re-writes) Jean Liedhoff's The Continuum Concept, just putting it in a contemporary British context. Most useful sections are on touching (eg. on why swaddling is always a poor substitute for a mother's skin), breast-feeding "failures" (women having lost so much confidence in their ability to feed their baby, a peculiarly western condition) and practical advice on how to avoid cracked nipples, engorgemnt etc - i.e. constant feeding, most importantly, night feeding. All chapters point to one given, that you must have your baby in bed with you at night. She even changes her doctor's mind on the subject, so beware, she'll probably change yours if you are a sceptic or have never tried it!

If you are afraid that "wearing" your baby will give you a bad back and will make you a martyr, read this book. The author states that her baby felt lighter at 8 months than at 8 days!!

The best sections are at the end, Practically Speaking (common questions answered) and Yes, but... (common accusaitons of co-sleeping rebutted).

Really good present for any new parent who is not getting a decent night's sleep.

As a childbirth educator in training, I want this book available for all of my students/ all parents-to-be as a counter to all of the "sleep through the night" books out there. Almost every mother I've spoken with "admits" to the "bad habit" of sometimes giving in" and keeping her baby in bed with her. Now there is strong evidence demonstrating that not only that this is safe, but also beneficial for both infant and parents alike.

I particularly like the chapter on quick responses to typical objections. We never used the crib or smaller cradle give to us as gifts by extended family members. What is amazing to me is the response I get when another mother asks for advice for solving sleep deprivation and wakeful baby problems and I explain why we can't commiserate. They inevitably try to convince me that we should get our child out of our bed! So we CAN commiserate, I suppose?

My daughter was maybe a day old when I brought her to bed with me in the hospital because she wouldn't stop crying. The nurse came in and said, "they learn that 'trick' right away." I can't tell you how many health care professionals told me that my several-day-old infant was manipulating me or playing tricks on me and how I was the parent and had to take control before it got out of hand. How rediculous was that?

I wish I'd read this book when I was pregnant. May daughter is 19 months old now and when she was an infant, I made sure she didn't get into the "bad habit" of sleeping with us. I even got her out of our bedroom and into her own by the time she was two months old so as not to get her too used to being even in the same room with us. I was very proud of myself for doing the "right thing." While I read this book I couldn't help but feel guilty because I'd given into to advice from well-meaning doctors, family members and friends even though it went against my own instincts. I even cried.

My toddler now sleeps on a mattress on the floor in our room and climbs into bed with us whenever she wishes. No more spending and hour and a half in the middle of the night trying to get her back to sleep after a nightmare and no more being frightened and alone in the dark for her. I'm selling the cradle and crib and the next child will sleep with us from the start. I'm going to buy one of these books for every expecting parent I know!

The life-changing message for me was to trust my instincts and do what feels right. Nevermind what everyone else says you should do.

Newton Arvin was a distinguished literary critic, scholar, and college professor whose influence on the early days of American literary studies is still felt today. In 1960, as the age of McCarthy's witch-hunt mentality drew to a close, Arvin and his friends were targets of a police raid, where relatively mild homoerotic materials were seized. The men were arrested and accused of having a "smut ring", leading to their felony convictions, as well as the loss of their jobs and the shame of being revealed as homosexual in 1960. Werth's biography is not only about Arvin's personal and literary life, but is also about America at this time, the puritanical crusades it supported, but which proved their own undoing. Werth's writing is a bit dull during the first half, but as it progresses, and Werth explores Arvin's life in relation to his friends (including his once-lover Truman Capote) and to the world, it becomes a fascinating story of a man who fell from grace, but who didn't let it destroy him. Not only is this a compelling sliver of gay history, but it also showcases the lives of intellectuals in a country where intelligence is progessively devalued.

"The Scarlet Professor" is the story of a rat. A man who betrayed his closest friends and thereby destroyed their careers and changed the course of their lives. Prof. Newton Arvin, when charged with the possession of homoerotic pictures and magazines, "sang like a canary," as they used to say in ganster movies. This puzzled many of his closest friends, veterans of the McCarthy era who managed NOT to name names during the Communist witchhunts of the '50s. And Arvin had many famous friends. One lover was Truman Capote, who was less than half his age. But the flaw in "The Scarlet Professor" might be that Newton comes across as a rat on every page. He was a whining hypochondriac; he was not attractive physically (at least in photos); he was not magnetic in conversation. So what lure did he have? Barry Werth does not address this. "The Scarlet Letter" is a wonderful book to read right now as a reminder of how poorly pre-1960 America treated homosexuals, communists and the mentally ill. It is also a good argument against those who would broaden police searches and seizures. It presents a nice snapshot of life in a women's college as it used to be lived.

For years ths 1960 scandal involving Smith College faculty and others has been whispered and gossiped about, rarely accurately. Finally, Barry Werth has taken the time and trouble to put all the pieces together, the ruthless behavior of corrupt police, the virtual "reign of terror" the incident engendered, the utter devastation wrought upon the lives and careers of several teachers, most notably the distinguished American literary scholar and critic Newton Arvin. Werth is a skilled researcher, a fine narrator, and above all an honorable and just writer. He makes no judgments, leaving the reader to make his own. It is hard to believe, in this relatively liberated day, that the merest suggestion, the slightest hint of homosexuality, was sufficient to destroy lives, careers, reputations. Even honorable academic institutions like Smith College did not behave admirably in this woeful tale of a monumental miscarriage of justice. Above all, set in the context of his biography, the whole incident ruined the life of a brilliant scholar, teacher, and critic whose fragility rendered him incapable of coping with the barbarism of a biased and inept judicial system. I was there and lived through it: it is, alas, all too true. This is an important book and ought to be on the MUST READ list of every American interested in the preservation of civil liberties.

yes, many people would say this is a wonderfully erotic book to bring out your sensual side, but it's nothing new, just big. Every foreign bookstore in Japan has it hanging on every wall and table trying to grab your attention (which is not hard to do considering the book is what, 4 feet square and has a giantic picture of a naked lady on the cover)? Upon investigating the inside the book you will find nothing different from your typical run of the mill "artsy" advertisement. Best spending the ...bucks elsewhere.

I've read several disparaging reviews about SUMO on this site and am surprised by this. SUMO is one-of-a-kind. It's as much a tribute to Taschen as to Newton - and both are originals. Each page is beautifully printed and the book represents a serious overview of Newton's work.

Having just received my copy of Helmut Newton's SUMO all I can say is AMAZING. This is not just a book, but a work of art. As a bibliophile I felt I had to have what I believe is the most important book published this century...and I was not let down. The reproduction in the book is as good as I've seen and the book and stand make a beautiful addition to my apartment...a coffee table book with it's own coffee table....fabulous.

This book is about a puzzle: how our souls are connected to our bodies. The book's answer is called nonreductive physicalism.

Chapters 2 and 3, about evolution and genetics, can be skipped. They're too detailed and technical to be thumbnail introductions on those topics, but too philosophically naive to provide useful bridges to the rest of the book.

The authors of the later chapters (especially Murphy) at least appreciate the key issues. Ultimately, however, the book suffers from two major flaws. One is that its message doesn't hang together. The book repeatedly rejects the idea that people are "nothing but their bodies," but it also repeatedly declares that people consist of bodies and nothing else. And the book denies that one can explain people's spiritual lives neurobiologically, but it endorses a research program to do exactly that.

Second, the book is theologically precarious. It shuns the idea of an immaterial soul as incompatible with modern scientific ideas about how the physical world works. But exactly the same considerations will lead one to disbelieve in Biblical miracles, in divine healing from illness, and in the work of the Holy Ghost. The book in fact acknowledges this problem, without offering a solution (pp. 147-148).

Note for philosophy students: A key early mistake in the book (or perhaps a deliberate tactic) is to lump together two rival views, namely reductive and eliminative materialism. From there on, the book constantly declares that it is not reductive about the soul, when what it really means is that it is not eliminative about the soul.

Quite simply, this is an extremely useful book.

It is a decidely Christian rejection of substance dualism, something that has been wanting in a popular yet still academic format for some time now. This book argues persuasively that a dualistic mindset is not only unnecessary, but a real hindrance to Christian thought.

As to the accusations of heresy given by some earlier reviewers - it seems that the reactions were a little ill-reasoned. In particular I would like to respond to Bruno D. Granger. Granger attacks the book because:

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But even much more important, I think that Christian anthropology is fundamental for one of the most basic Christian dogma: the double nature of Christ, both human and divine. Traditionally it was thought that Christ had a human physical body and the third person of the Trinity as soul. But if humans are only physical beings without a (spiritual) soul then Jesus of Nazareth could not have been been both human and divine.

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I don't doubt that many modern Christian dualists also think this way - that Jesus' BODY could not have been the divine "part," it was His SOUL that was the divine nature. However, this is heretical as far as historical Christian Orthodoxy is concerned. it is the christological herey called "nestorianism," splitting the divine and human natures up into two distinct substances. This, naturally, makes the body of Jesus nothing more than human (i.e. not divine at all), and renders the atoning work on the cross totally useless. But the obvious reason to reject this dualistic heresy present by Mr Granger is that it basically denies the incarnation altogether. If the "divine" and "human" parts remained so separate, did God really become man at all? Did the word really become flesh?

Glenn Peoples

People who have actually studied philosophy and are tired of hearing people rave on and on about saving "souls" can read this for direction and sound arguments. It is a good collection of experts in theological, scientific, and philosophical fields that are not trying to push materialism onto you and call it Christianity. These are seminary professors and Christian scholars who have done their homework and are trying to make the corrections necessary to share the faith in today's world. It accentuates religion's key characteristic of a new life in Christ. Makes a great partner to William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience." Theological Anthropology is much overlooked today, and Christians are taking flack. You do not have to believe in evolution, but you cannot deny modern neuroscience and psychology. This book delineates how that can be done.