This book is excellent. If you like to know about the history of the United States and the people who shaped it. You should read this book. It really opens your eyes to what happened in WWII. "If we don't learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it."

This book is a winner. Never before have I encountered a book on Cancer from the doctor's point of view. Dr. Berger reveals not only his knowledge but his intense range of emotions on the subject. I recommend this book to anyone whose life has been touched by this disease.

This book is a good starting point for anyone who needs to create a compiler, parser or scanner, but didn't read anything about compiler design theory yet. This book is completely self-contained and assumes only the familiarity with programming languages and the mathematical sophistication commonly found in juniors or seniors.

The material in this book has been taught for several years in one-semester first-year graduate courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., the State University of New York at Albany, and many other institutions. The bewildered looks of students in these institutions have motivated the authors to do several rewrites of the materials. That's why the book is pleasant to read and easy to understand.

The book contains a good introduction to state machines and all modern grammars, including, but not limited to, LALR(1).

Since the book doesn't cover code generation, but only lexical and syntax part, it is still actual since published 1976. For example, the most popular nowadays LALR(1) grammar, supported by Yacc and Bison, is a core of the GNU compiler and many other commercial compilers. But the book itself is tool-free, it explains the background that never expires, rather than bothering the reader with the tools which may exist today and vanish tomorrow. The example of such book with a mess of theory and tools is "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by by Alfred V. Aho.

The book "Compiler Design Theory" is embracing, neat and actual.

From a marketing manager who is usually too busy working on writing effective sales collateral (and who NEVER does book reviews)... I had to take the time to say this-- GET THIS BOOK!... or ANY of his books for that matter! A constant source of reference for my department.

This book is my all time favorite book! In the beginning it's a little hard to follow, but keep reading and you're hooked! I love how the childern are the stars of the book. The way Bruno talks is soo cute! This book touches on very natural things, but it presents them in a wonderfully different view. It has a feel to it that no other book has. The plot is there, but it's very vague so that the book is very relaxed and open-minded. If you like Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded is a must! My favorite part of the book is how wonderfully it concludes and leaves you perfectly content, yet a little bit of wonder still lingers. From all angles, this book is one of a kind!

This might very well be the finest piece of literature I have seen

Mumford endeavors to trace the development of civilization in this book, and will astound with well-rounded, informative summations of the construction of culture dating back to the 6th century BC. Anyone curious about parallels between the fall of the Greek and Roman empires and the fall of our own culture should read this book.

This classic by Lewis Mumford is a poignant, perceptive and polemical critique of modern society in the age of "democratic-capitalism". Mumford's premise is that modern civilization based on democratic-capitalism creates only a "mass man": incapable of choice, incapable of spontaneous, self-directed activities; at best impatient, docile, disciplined to monotonous work to an almost pathetic degree, but increasingly irresponsible as his choices become fewer and fewer; finally modern man is a creature governed mainly by... modern business, the propaganda office and the planing bureaus of totalitarian and quasi-totalitarian governments (which, by definition, include both Marxist-Leninist governments and democratic-capitalist governments). Written years ago, "The Conduct of Life" remains a rational, conclusive and veracious analysis of humanity's place in a capitalist society.

Writer Ann Lewis tells of her Southern heritage as she draws links to the plants she adored as a child and the people in her life. Ms. Lewis collects specimens of these plants and places them in small collages. This physically beautiful book is also verbally lush in the author's humorous and touching prose. Grab a glass of ice tea on a warm afternoon and indulge yourself in this treasure.

This is a great book. Good research & good writing about a very little-known front of the War. By the way, the review has a misspelling -- it's Matthew Fontaine Maury, not Murray.