I like this book! Robert Newton Peck has written alot of books but this one caught my attention. At first I got this book because it would be easy to read due to length but I never thought I could read a book in five days with only a half-hour each day. This book is about halloween but it would be great to read all year round. The seven Strikers gave thi book a twist. I wish there was one more page with the Strikers being themselves. With the Strikers and all the action, this is at least a four-star book. I'm looking forward to reading more of Robert Newton pecks books.

I like this book. Robert Newton Peck wrote alot of books but this one really caught my attention. At first I got this book because it would be easy to read due to length but I never thought I could read a book in five days with only a half-hour each day. This book is about halloween but it would be great to read all year round. The seven Strikers gave this book a twist. I wish there was one more page with the Stikers being themselves. With the Strikers and all the action, this book is at least a four-star book. I'm looking forward to reading another one of Robert Newton Pecks books.

This book was assigned reading for an advanced course in engineering physics. It is more of a history book, cartoon style, than a serious book on the physics of motion and gravity as observed by Galileo and Newton. I found the presentations on important topics to be painfully vague. You may get a few soundbites from this book, but thats about it.

The treatment of Galileo could have been more accurate and less crude, but I really like this book. Excellent presentation of both history and ideas in the context of history. I gave a copy to my wife, and also require my students to read it when I teach both elementary and modern physics (relativity).

Dobbs and Jacob provide a very good introduction to the history of science at a high school level. This is a rare thing in an academic discipline that, like many others, increasingly limits its audience to other specialists in the field. The chapters are well written and the book avoids being an excessively laudatory biography, despite its focus on one of the "Great Men" of science. If the book has one shortcoming it is that the chapters do not fit together well to form a coherent whole. It shows some of the roughness indicative of a cooperative work.

What a terrific introduction to the origins of modern science! The authors have provided a balanced, lucid and engaging treatment of a pivotal topic in modern science and culture. The book falls into two parts. The first section provides a thumbnail sketch of Newton's life and scientific achievements, written with a talent for abbreviated grace. The second section shifts to the multifaceted impact of Newton's achievement and surveys the origins of both the Enlightenment and the First Industrial Revolution with panache. The authors, top scholars in their fields, have written an excellent, short book on a big subject for students and the general reader. It's just what we need but rarely get.

I read up to Prop 6 and could not quite carry on. His language is not easy to understand. I hope someone will publish a Dictionary of it. Anyway, his proof of Kepler's 2nd theorem is clever, and he is very rigorous mathematically for his time. ...

I bought this book not for the purpose of learning Classical Mechanics from it, but for the scientific curiosity of learning how the great Isaac Newton presented his revolutionary scientific ideas to the world. Of course, it is difficult to read. This is an old translation of a book written in Latin more than 300 years ago!

This book is a jewel. Just like the original works of Einstein, Maxwell, Heisenberg, Schroedinger and all those giants. The person buying this book should not expect to find a clear didactic textbook when originally it was not written for the layman, but for the expert scientific community of its time. Buy this book, sit back, scan through it, and enjoy a true piece of history.

This is a very comprehensive text. However, make no bones about it; the prose reflects a highly technical style of writing. If you have limited knowledge about differential equations, logic, and statistics, you will struggle to stay engrossed past the first few chapters. Hard reading is an understatment. I was hoping that this would be the book that could boil down what real options are and give me a straightforward approach to their applications. Reading this I feel like I am back in an astrophysics class at MIT.

This is an excellent book. I had been initially surprised by the critical reviews for Copeland et al. and Kulatilaka et al. (Copeland, especially, has strong credentials,) but now, having looked at those books, sadly I have to agree. Then I bought this book and found a gem. The approach is fresh and we are not just presented with the same familiar textbook routes; the best part of which is that real problems are not hammered into available but inappropriate analytical solutions. The structure of the book is unusual too: 4 chapters with the foundations (including some maths but fully accessible to managers - good diagrams and plenty of intuition), 6 chapters of case studies (one, "Dixpin" by Stark, written to link with Dixit & Pindyck, the others new and based on consulting/research - nice to see non-standard cases and also more than one underlying variable!), 4 more chapters (the title of the last, "Summary for executives", speaks volumes about the authors' helpful approach, even if you're not an executive!), and 5 appendices + glossary, etc. The appendices and cases are written in the same style as the chapters of main text and the result is a very flexible resource which, I think, will be helpful for beginners, thro' 2nd year MBA and up to quite advanced practitioners.

Even when standard techniques are shown they are given innovative explanations. For example, see pages 266-269 in Newton's Appendix 4, on numerical solution, which I believe is a genuinely new way of taking the well-known mathematical relationship between the Black-Scholes partial differential equation and the heat conduction equation but explaining it using common sense appreciation of heat and temperature (amazingly, he manages to obtain the combined call option payoff and stock price diagrams using a thought experiment in heat/temperature which I could actually understand!). In this single appendix are both the intuition for understanding the evolution of option prices and the details of finite difference calculations which any reader can readily reproduce. His explanation of the random walk for beginners (Appendix 5) is the best I have ever seen (I even liked the very British story about a drunken sailor taking a random walk near Her Majesty's Royal Naval Dockyard - fortunately, the book does not often digress with funny stories, but this one helped).

I am always wary of books with many co-authors (this one has seven) but here you could believe that one author wrote the whole book. Howell is the editor and presumably the author of the chapters which are not attributed; other parts are by different combinations of the seven. All are in the Real Options Group at Manchester Business School, England (Patel is at Cambridge) and that may explain the cohesion of the text.

In many ways this book is technically ahead of the game but you can tell that these guys are at a business school rather than a conventional university department - they know how to communicate with managers as well as students.

"Retreat from Leningrad" is an excellent compilation of recollections from German Army staffers associated with Army Group North during the latter stages of the Eastern Front defensive operations. The footnotes and editor's comments provide useful springboards for additional research for readers interested in more information. The only things that mar this book include sometimes wooden translations from the original German into the book's English text, no photographs, and crude, computer generated maps. Overall, it is still worth buying for anyone who wants details not found elsewhere on this part of the Russian/German epic struggle in WWII.

Retreat from Leningrad focuses on Army Group North's operations post 1943. Most books geared towards the activities of Army Group North deal with the siege of Leningrad and not the savage battles in Army Group North's withdrawl. This book focuses on these battles. The majority of information obtained comes from staffers and Officers assigned to the Army Group. The book is filled with general information on every battle in this Army Groups sector 44-45. It provides the eastern front "nut" with new information and opens some fertile territory for additional research. Recomended for any armchair general with a strong intrest in the eastern front.

(OK, I haven't read this book yet but Amazon makes you pick a rating do I picked three stars.) Now -- if you are interested in the deep meaning of how we know what we know in science, try New York Times science writer George Johnson's "Fire in the Mind." (It's reviewed on Amazon.) It is a marvelous book, and a page-turning read.

I have read The Truth of Science, and will now discuss this book. It is so refreshing to find an articulate and well-written philosophy of science book with an author who is not afraid to say that science is a good thing. Better than that, even, it is an enormously useful, intellectually satisfying endeavor. Science works! (This phrase is actually discussed.)

What Roger Newton has done is to claim, and defend, a thesis that science is indeed a tremendously valuable means by which to understand the physical universe. Even if you've seen the scientific method before, if you have any interest at all in how science is done by people, in what the philosophical underpinnings are, particularly in physics, then this is the right book for you. The title is no accident. Both at the beginning and again at the end, Newton takes strong aim at various naysayers, particularly the sociologist types (and especially the feminist ones) who try to argue to the public that science is nothing more than a social activity, possessing no more truth than any other belief system. Do you think science would be different if only women studied it? Would the charge to mass ratio of an electron be different? If you say yes, read this book and learn something. If you say no, there's still plenty here for you. The bulk of the work is devoted to some of the philosophical underpinnings of science, again, particularly hard science (I think Newton is a particle physicist, my copy doesn't contain an about the author section). What is valid evidence? How do we know? What is a theory? Why is math so important? Do you want to know about some of the controversies in modern quantum mechanics? The Truth of Science is a good place to look.

If I sound overly excited it's because I'm thrilled to finally read an intelligent scientist who can also discuss the underpinnings of the field, who can write well, and who isn't afraid to stand up and say 'Science is Good'. 'Science Works'. 'Our methods work, and here's why'. Not, 'We are infallible'; science is not, after all, theology. And lest you think I am just cheerleading, I am a professional optical physicist myself, with university coursework in science history, and I learned a few things here too. The Truth of Science is truly a breath of fresh air.

James Poling, both a practical theologian teaching in a seminary and a pastoral counselor who works with survivors of sexual abuse and perpetrators, has made an important pastoral theological contribution with his book The Abuse of Power. Drawing together process theology, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist and African-American sociology and theology Poling brings forward and interprets personal (often silenced) experiences of sexual violence. Through his own pastoral counseling experiences and his subsequent research, his consciousness has been raised about the influences of gender, race, and class on the perpetration of sexual violence, and this is the driving force of The Abuse of Power. He seeks to shed light on the reality of sexual violence in its most common occurrence in the lives of women and children, particularly in the home or with trusted adults. He examines theories of self, community, and God through the lenses of feminist and African-American theorists to expose oppressive gendered and raced biases, tentatively suggesting reasons for the predominance of male sexual violence against women vis-a-vis each of these areas. He is a practical theologian, and his theorizing is penultimately in the service of better ministry and God-talk (ultimately seeking a more just and humane world, visualized as a web of inter-related beings). Consequently, he makes liberatory suggestions of change in visions of self, community, and God that would work toward relational selves, loving communities, and images of a loving and just God -- suggestions that emerge from the experiences of survivors of sexual violence. Poling's book exemplifies his own definition of practical theology, which involves a "rhythm of practice and reflection," or theological reflection that emerges from actual ministry practices or experiences in the church -- in this case, survivors of sexual violence -- and is done in their service. Poling includes in the book a discussion of his own social location (white, male, privileged, with power), his own kind of conversion on these issues through his work with survivors and perpetrators, and ways he seeks to be accountable in terms of gender, race, and power. Moreover, he writes clearly about how this research influenced him to change the way he thinks about and does theology, yielding a new definition of practical theology that privileges "the unheard voices of personal and community life for the purpose of continual transformation of faith in the true God of love and power." This is an important book particularly for ministers, teachers, and pastoral counselors who seek to understand the prevalence of sexual violence, its influence, and new ways to think critically about it.

Still in college but deciding dorm life and food wasn't for me, this cookbook was the first and only one I had in my first real apartment in my first real kitchen with my first real boyfriend. This book kept us in healthy meals and I'm pretty sure it helped keep us together (my boyfriend and I) since our main activity as a couple was to come home from school or work and have dinner. The proportions designed for two people made shopping and preparation a cinch for a beginner like me. There is also a great variety in styles and tastes throughout so it is useful when I want to get creative. Simple and economical dishes as well as imaginative and unusual cuisine. A great all around cookbook!

The book is a little out of date and so does not cover the latest features such as the visual designer. However, if you simply want to know how the language works, it is ideal. The books has plenty of examples and source code is provided on a disk.