Excellent comprehensive book about nuclear spectroscopy. A must for anybody serious about having a career in nuclear engineering.

This is one of the two best books I've found. Has lots of Information. The other book I recommend is U.S. Navy Aircraft 1921-1941/U.S. Marine Corps Aircraft 1941-1959 by William T. Larkins which is given credit in this book. These are the only two books I'd have if I could afford only two books.

I have always loved the meaningful prose in King James Version of the Lord's Prayer. I felt really inspired after I read Pastor Pritchard's delightful commentary on a prayer that has been repeated as much as any other piece of English literature.

What makes this book great is is Pastor Pritchard's down-home style. And When You Pray is not a deep, theological treatise. It is a delightful exposition, filled with relevant anecdotes and personal illustrations.

I would recommend this book to help jumpstart your prayer life and also as an encouragment in tough times. It is an easy read. Pick it up and put it on your nightstand.

I've not given much thought to angels so I found the messages in this little book that had been channeled to this artist, surprising, calming & thought-provoking. Johanna explains: The Angels of the Rays have come to guide us, to help us have the energy to start new projects, clear emotional blocks & experience joy while manifesting our dreams into form. There are removable cards for meditational tools & gentle, illuminating Invocations to murmur during tough times. This one is for all the lovers of Angels, a small book with big wings so that we not walk alone through this life. As always Johanna's visions are ethereal & expressive. For my full review please go to [my website].

I am very impressed! For a new author she has a lot of potential. It is refreshing to read something that is different for a change. Too many things done over and over, and this one is different. Thanks for doing something unique!!

Upon reading the book to my 3rd grade class my students were mesmerized. They loved the pictures, the writing was easy to understand, and the story line came alive. Ray does an excellent job with the illustrations - they complement the author's beautiful words. Benoit Slawson's writing is absolutely wonderful - my students could not get enough of this book. In fact, we continued our storytime by following the book up with a trip to the local apple orchard (insisted upon by my 8 year olds!). I just wish Benoit Slawson would come out with her next book; although, it will be hard to follow the perfection of "Apple Picking Time". I will be the first one to buy her next book, and I am positive my students will love it as much as their beloved "Apple Picking Time". The book is both poetic and informative - such a wonderful combination for this brand-new, highly talented author!!

This book is just very good. It is a top-quality, superbly on target solution for end users of mathematics. I had selected and subsequently used it as a textbook for a freshman calculus course aimed at prospective economics majors at an Ivy League college. My goal was to present a broad scope of the fundamental concepts of applied mathematics relevant to the social sciences, while keeping the exposition at the basic level of mathematical sophistication. Given the objective, one needs a textbook that would replace most proofs with carefully chosen exemplifications, rely on technically undemanding exercises, but enable the teacher to introduce concepts at a lively pace and tie them to interesting applications. This textbook meets all the requirements.

Our course used essentially only the more advanced parts of the book. The selection of topics was systematized by the idea of staying focused on some of the basic mathematical methods designed for solving broadly understood problems of optimization, extrapolation, and prediction. Formally, students were required to learn algorithmic skills, like finding extrema of functions of one and several variables, linear programming, basic routines for ordinary differential equations and Markov chains. Primary emphasis was put on understanding the differences and similarities between continuous and discrete, deterministic and random. The book served us well and we felt truly rewarded by its amazing collection of well selected, well thought-through real-life applications. I am enthusiastic about this book and so were very many of my students.

I have read a pre-release version of this book and it is great. Anyone intersted in the aquaria of sharks or rays really needs to get a copy of this book! It is the 1st book ever to deal with the selection and maintaining of sharks and rays in home aquarium. Not only that but the book is very well priced.

Sergio Aragones is an amazing cartoonist and this is an other book that show his great humor talent. The book is very funny and have something more... is in 3D. If you like cartoons you should buy it.

This book is really terrific. I think that for many of us, "wonder," and a sense of personal contact with grand mysteries, are best experienced through either astronomy or archaeology. What I mean by that is that both of these topics necessitate a personal confrontation with the unknown. The origin of the universe; the fate of ancient peoples; the mythic architecture of dreams uponst which olden folk drew, to explain their place in the cosmos... if these topics don't give you at least a slight frisson of wonder, then, face it, you're hopeless.

This book provides a concatenated sense of wonder by drawing upon both archaeology and astronomy, and distilling many of the most provocative questions explored in each topic. Added to these topics is a tincture of anthropology, which in my mind solidifies the claim that this book has to true neato-hood.

The focus is on the Western Hemisphere, as the title states. The book starts out with a collection of essays by respected, authentic scholars who study this kind of thing. Essay topics include "Archaeoastronomy Today," "Archaeoastronomy and Education," "The Role of Architecture and Planning in Archaeoastronomy," and various and sundry allied topics. If you have a longstanding interest in this kind of thing, you might expect the book to spend a lot of time on the Mayans, because of all the work done on Mayan calendrics, etc. Well, true, there's a lot about the Mayans, but there's also plentiful material about peoples without written records, such as the Chumash, the Apache, some Algonquin tribes, etc.

Let me just point out that the people who contributed to this volume are all respected scholars -- there are no von Danikens, no Velikovskies, no Stichins to call the whole book into question with wild claims about pre-historic extraterrestrial contact, or the like. This book is for real.

The body of the book, like the introduction, is divided into essays by academics with backgrounds in the appropriate fields. The essays are broken up into geographical regions -- North America, Mesoamerica, and South America. Essays delve into all kinds of fascinating subtopics about many archaeoastronomical questions. There is a little essay at the end, about prospects for teaching archaeoastronomy in the classroom. This essay is over twenty years old now, but it still has much of relevance to say.

If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may wish to know about the "Journal of Archaeoastronomy," which you can find either online or in "Magazines for Libraries." Also, you can't go wrong reading anything at all by Anthony Aveni. Anyway, this book is a lot of fun. I would recommend it to anyone.