A must own for every laser shop. Excellent source of information on a varaiety of different materials. It give the layman an understanding of the operations of a laser, what occurs when cutting, and knowledge to make suitable changes in conditions. When in doubt, this is one of the first places I turn.

I was born in Coaldale, Carbon County. I grew up in Slatington, only a few miles from the Carbon County line, and spent some of the best hours of my boyhood tramping along the Appalachian Trail through the Lehigh Gap. That explains my personal interest in "Smokestacks and Black Diamonds: A History of Carbon County, Pennsylvania."
It doesn't explain how much I enjoyed the well-chosen photos and well-written essays in the book. The volume also reminded me of how much I didn't know about the county of my birth.
Author-editor Joan Campion does an excellent job of combining her own writing and that of contributors like Lance Metz and Rita Plotnicki to tell the story of Carbon County's industrial, agricultural and cultural heritage. I can't say too much about the selection of photos by George Harvan, who dedicated his professional life to capturing coal-mining on film.
If you like local history, you will enjoy this book. If you have had the good fortune to have lived or worked in the area, your enjoyment will be doubled.

This book was very helpful in eliminating my exercise induced asthma. The principles and theory are very valid. I have been suffering from insomnia and mild asthma for many years and I do not like to take drugs if I can avoid it. I was also diagnosed as having sleep apnea and treated for that condition though without lasting results. This book shows why asthma develops in people and how you can control it and then cure it without any drugs. The only reason I gave the book four stars was the fact that this book does not spell out the actual 5-day treatment so I went and bought the book 'Breathing Free' by Teresa Hale. With the help of that book, I could administer the treatment to myself at home and saw some remarkable improvements in my sleep and a complete disappearance of my wheezing during running!! I also lost some weight! I highly recommend both books. I am actually consulting with the the author for a fee to continue my application of the treatment program for maximum and long-lasting results. I start to wonder why our medical establishment seem to prefer expensive drug therapies for everything when there are so many simple and non-invasive treatments out there. Could the drug companies be involved in this attitude ? I wonder.

I picked up this book for a dollar on the sale table at Barnes & Noble. I've had asthma since I was 3. I've been on inhalers for 25 years. I've been hospitalized twice, have had heart palpitations and other nasty side effects of asthma and inhalers. Sure, I want to be free from asthma!

The ideas in this book sounded crazy when I first read them. Asthma is the result of too MUCH breathing? Carbon dioxide is important, and too little of it causes asthma and other diseases? I think I actually laughed out loud when I read the first few chapters. Then I kept reading. And the ideas started making sense.

This book doesn't give you a lot of practical exercises to work with; it seems to be more an overview of what's taught in the Breathing Connection seminars. That's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. But the book does give you enough practical information to improve your own breathing. Breathe less--less deeply and less often. Breathe through your nose. Be consistent with just those two principles and you will see improvement. Although they're counterintuitive, relax and practice them when you feel your asthma kicking in and don't be surprised if oncoming symptoms go away. In 3 days I've cut my bronchodilator use in half, I sleep through the night and my heart rate has dropped from 120 to 60. "Freedom from Asthma" also covers diet, exercise, and a number of other areas where you can improve your health by improving your breathing. Nothing too deep, but helpful nonetheless.

I just finished this book today and tomorrow I'm getting Teresa Hale's book. I'm new to this but hopeful. "Freedom from Asthma" is far from thorough, but it's a good start. If you've been looking for freedom from asthma, you may find it in the principles described here.

I have to disagree with the reader from "near Boston" on this book. The Buteyko Method is not "pseudoscience" at all, although it does contradict a lot of conventional American medical understandings about asthma and breathing disorders. The Method works if you work at it, and if you are willing to go through the occasional discomfort of working at it . This approach is not a quick fix, and many people will simply have to take the $500 seminar to properly apply the Method to their individual circumstances. Sometimes a book alone won't do it, which is something both Stalmatski and Hale state only too clearly in both of their books. Contrary to the reader from "near Boston's" assertion, there is some clear discussion of how to use the Method in connection with exercise. It has been used quite extensively with the Australian rugby teams to very good success. I myself have modified my own exercise routines quite a bit, and I also had exercised-induced asthma attacks in my past history. Now if I exercise very heavily without proper warmup I might experience some mild hyperventilation which I usually can bring under control in 5 to 10 minutes. The straight skinny is that I recommend all of you out there with breathing disorders to buy this book and try the Method out for yourself. Make up your own mind. Consider taking the seminar. It will be worth it.

This book disappointed me - I read the online docs that became "Learning Cocoa", and liked them quite a bit, so I expected a similar book in "Learning Carbon". I was wrong.

I bought both as hard copies because the Cocoa one was such a great little reference, but this book contains a number of errors in the samples, doesn't cover a lot of very relevant details, and doesn't give you a good "feel" for the Carbon API. I learned more reading through the headers for a few hours than I did from reading this book.

Learning Carbon is a gentle introduction to the very basics of Carbon programming. It carries the reader over the foothills of Carbon development to give them a solid grounding in the fundamental concepts of the API. This book will also be of some value to application developers who are already familiar with the classic Mac OS programming APIs but who need to know about the nuances and special flavors that the Carbon application framework adds to the Mac OS.

As other reviewers have pointed out, this document covers many of the same areas as Apple's on-line developer documentation, but the value of the text is that it collects that documentation into one place and ties it together into a cohesive tutorial. The text is also able to go into a little more depth on some topics than the on-line documentation.

If you're looking for a comprehensive reference text, this book is not going to help you, but if you need to know about the fundamentals of developing applications with the Carbon framework then this book can teach them to you.

If your a beginner who wants to learn just enough about Carbon to get by this might be the right book for you, so long as you use it along with Apples excellent Inside Mac OS X documentation and Project Builder. However if you are looking for a more detailed book which covers pretty much everything you need to know but were afraid to ask I would recommend Carbon Programming by Kevin Bricknell which is about 10 times longer. Learning Carbon is not a bad book, it will give you a good grasp of the "feel" of Carbon and is an excellent guide to Apples Developer Tools but it is neither an extensive tutorial nor a particularly good reference.

Material Unit Rate of Carbon Steel Pipe from Diameter 2" until 32"

This book is highly technical and not for the layman. I was looking for simple answers and got PHD type answers. A lot of money for a book you can't understand.

I also thought the book was a little "deep" but it's very comprehensive. I like what David is doing....

It was scientifically inacurate and, quite frankly, sucked. I have done studies about, both, Carbon and Graphite Fiber at Stanford University and I found that this book was technologically erroneous.

Good and bad - some useful info - some not so useful - OK as library reference book - although age of title (1987) in this rapidly developing field (see books on nanotubes, buckyballs, etc.) makes info not up to date anymore.

A listing of commercially available fibers, fabrics and prepregs from the advanced composites industry. Also some thermoplastic products. The directory provides an alphabetical list of most the manufacturers and suppliers, including phone and fax numbers, and addresses. But no websites nor e-mail info. Main focus is rightly on carbon or graphite fibers, but aramid (Kevlar, Twaron), UHMWPE (Spectra), High strength glasses (S-2 glass) and ceramic fibers are included. Useful features include glossary of terms, with translation table showing English, French, German and Italian. And also an index of trade names. Proof reading OK, but could be better, e.g. a table comparing 21 high performance fibers incorerectly showed data for R-glass listed as S-glass, and for Hercules IM7 as IM8. The other 19 were accurate. Potentially very useful, but to be 6 years old in a rapidly changing industry is not acceptable, especially at this price!

i would like to know medicinal use of carbon fiber composits & its manufacturing process.