...but a coherent and organized text on diffusion.

This is a complete text on the subject of diffusion. Similar to Shewmon's original "Diffusion in Solids", but Glicksman is more complete and modern. Glicksman is worth purchasing even if you already own Shewmon.

I have found that mathematically intensive books frequently leave out many of the steps that are critical to a complete understanding of the fundamental equations. Diffusion in Solids does a wonderful job of taking you from start to finish in each problem presented. It is a complete tome worth every dollar spent. Thanks Marty!

En este Libro podras ver la genialidad y la manera jocosa con la cual Scott Adams, nos brinda muchas de las situaciones que se presentan de manera cotidiana en las diferentes empresas. Cabe mencionar el Sindrome de Cubiculo). Aparte de esto se podra observar la incompetencia de los jefes y la vagancia de los compañeros de trabajo( especialmente Wally)todo esto presentado con una genialidad, sencillez y gran comicidad.
Si leyo El Reducido del Reino de los pinguinos de Barbara Hateley este te va a gustar.

En este libro podra leer de una manera comica muchas de las situaciones vividas de manera cotidiana en su oficina; las cuales van desde la incompetencia de su jefe hasta la vagancia de algunos de sus compañeros( especialmente me refiero a Wally). Este libro deberia ser considerado como tema de discucion en algunas universidades ya que de manera jocosa podremos medir la incompetencia y la discordia en los distintos departamentos que forman a un empresa u organizacion.
Si leyo El Pavo Real en el Reino de los Pinguinos y El Reducido al Reino de los Pinguinos de Barbara Hateley disfrutara mucho las caricaturas de Scott Adams; autor de este libro el cual presenta mucha similitud con el Principio de Peter(Padre).
Lo recomiendo porque se que lo van a disfrutar.

"Annette Martin has compiled her psychic teachings into her newest book, Discovering Your Psychic World, which is clear and deceptively simple. I highly recommend it for those interested in further developing their own intuitive perceptions of themselves and their world."

Discovering Your Psychic World is a well-planned workbook that addresses both psi functioning itself and some human faculties necessary for improving psi.

Focusing on the extended perception abilities (ESP), Annette Martin's workbook takes the reader step-by-step through exercises designed to help them understand the conscious and subconscious mind, improve creativity, and aid in decision making. These things are extremely important if one is to sort psychic information from normal perception and improve upon what one recognizes as psi.

This is truly a working workbook. It will help readers understand past experiences, and maybe even help them recognize new psi experiences when they happen spontaneously. Unless the exercises are practiced, however, improvement may be minimal. Martin provides exercises to improve telepathic connections with others, to pick up information from objects, locations, and even people, and to do remote viewing. In my experience with a wide range of development techniques, as well as in looking at spontaneous psi experiences and laboratory studies, Annette Martin really has a handle on things.

Seriously. Markus Weisbeck is one of those obsessed guys who just gets so deep into a topic that if he claims something is the way it is, you better trust him. If you are looking for a super comprehensive source of excellent design then trust Mr. Weisbeck. This book contains all the good stuff... from Eike to Stardax, Karl Kliem and meso's "involving systems'. And if you ever wondered how certain styles of club electronic house and techno electro are interconnected, Weisbeck and Pesch provide you with a very exact two page family tree of music styles. This 12inch softcover is technically a volume two to Pesch and Weisbeck's "Techno Style",... Well, and one more thing. This book contains some of the work of the master himself. Markus Weisbeck likes to include his own design in his books. He is the creator and the critic in one person. Everydesigner should have his books in their collection. Learn from Markus Weisbeck. He is a good designer and he is good for design. This book is fresh. Get it.

I found this book at the Virgin Megastore in NYC and I have yet to see it elsewhere, but it should be picked up wherever it is found. For those who find the graphic design of 'electronic' music a style of its own, Discstyle provides the best in book thats a example piece itself. The CD covers, vinyl sleeves, flyers, and fine art pieces of many different designers all contain the same concept of big-time visual impact with their simplicity. The layouts may contain nothing but a few words and a picture, but it reflects the music- for those who love the infectious beat, you know what I mean. With a guide in the beginning that traces the short history of today's house, trance, breakbeat, jungle, etc. the book shows where it's contents came from- getting down all night long.

Agree with the 1st review. Very well written and clear. Good photos and easy to read layout. A must have for anyone who wants to dive Curacao.

An accurate portrait of the dive sites, with clear descriptions for both the beginner and advanced diver. I highly recommend this book to anyone who plans to scuba dive Curacao.

...and Sean Martin's Doc and Raider comics are no exception. I have never anyone with the ability to convey emotion through simply drawn, single panel cartoons with the deftness Mr. Martin displays.

Within a few pages Doc and Raider develop their very unique personalities and by the end of the book they feel like your best friends. You will run a gamut of emotions while discovering these two characters' (pun intended) strengths and frailties. Amid the humor and often hilarious situations are moments of seriousness and even crisis. The ending isn't necessarily happy (it actually had me rather choked up), but you discover that love wins out in the end, even for two gay leathermen.

This is easily on a par with Tim Barela's Leonard and Larry. You won't regret reading this.

Doc & Raider is one of the best gay comics available to read today! Tackling everything from the honest libido and physicality of a male to male relationship to HIV and Gay marriage, Sean Martin can find a way to make even the most normal daytoday stuff eye opening and remarkable. If you are gay, or have someone close to you that is, you HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK! It's adorable and a must have for any gay coffee table around.

Doc Jones is a wonderfully written account of colorful people and an insightful peak into human nature. I couldn't put it down. Loved it!

A touching, funny, insightful account of the human condition played out against the practice of a small doctor and his patients. A way of life that's passing from the American landscape kept alive by Dr. Jones with colorful, witty writing and a real compassionate touch.

OK all i have to say is that Croyd Crenson is the coolest tough guy on the planet. i mean he totally rampages in this book, Demise, The Gangs, other Aces, and even the general public arent safe from Croyd. The only person who he helps is himself (and snotman by accident) he is a bad dude and makes this book the best of the bunch!!

The wild series is awesome (for the most part) a few of the book are "not good" but this one ROCKS!

In fact the first 8 books rock, and so does number 11, (and anything in between with Croyd Crenson aka "The Sleeper") but the other ones kind of drag on....as a rule avoid The one written by Snodgrass like the Plauge...no scrap that...avoid it like the Wild Card Virus...

Buy this book, The Sleeper rules (when he's awake)

Down and Dirty is, in my humble opinion and only so far, the best WILD CARDS book. To start with, it has the most impressive cast list: Pat Cadigan, Stephen Leigh, Melinda Snodgras, Walter Williams, the acclaimed Roger Zelazny AND my personal favorite, George R. R. Martin.

Mind you, not all is swell. We get an undesired cameback from Leanne Harper and edward Bryant. Any reasonable person who has read the series must learn to dread those two. Atleast we got rid of Lewis Shiner for this one, although I far prefer his Fortunato to the dreadful Bagabond and to Rosemarry and her straight out of a bad movie mobster friends.

So what did they have in plan for us? Well, the bad stories include newcomer's Cover tale of Leo Barnett or whatever his name is, the priest whose name in ACES ABROAD raised as many cries of outrage as McDonalds would in a French restaurant. The story is quite bad, and Barnett is an annoying type who is not the material of great villians. Harper's story isn't quite as bad as some of her other stuff, and Bryant resorrects Buddy Holly - yeah, that one. I'm a moderate Holly fun, and a big Rock fun, so I survived that story.

OK, now for the good stuff. A quarter of the book takes place between the end of Wild Cards 3: Jokers Wild, and the end of WC4: Aces High. While Tachy and company are abroad, the main plot line is of the gang war between Kien's bunch and Rosemary's mobsters.

One of the reasons this is such a great story is that it completely devided to stories: no less then 5 authors(Martin, Snodgras, Miller, Harper, and even, to my great surprise, Zelazny) - half of the contributers - devide their stories into sections.

The first quarter sees Rosemary's secret revealed (who cares?), and gives us great new insight to Croyd, the Sleeper. If the first Croyd story was tragic, and the second, Ashes to Ashes, comic - then this is about the dangerous side of Croyd Cressen, or as the the Aces Jingle( isn't that a cool idea?) goes: "sleeper waking, food taking/ sleeper speeding, people bleeding" We also see cameo appearences by Demise, Bludgeon( I thought he was dead), and later Golden boy( I wish he was dead).

In the second quarter, the aces return from their around the world trip, and we get some cute stories. Cadigan and Leigh follow stories from Aces Abraod. Cadigan tells us another tale fo Water Lily, focusing on Hiram Worchester, while Leigh continues the adventures of Kahina and puppetman. Leigh is one of my favorite WILD CARD authors, and if his piece here isn't as good as his previous one, its because he can't really push too much. The story involves Chrysalis discovering Puppetman's true identity, while he's running for presidancy.

In the last half, occuring all during one month, we see new plot line, introduced briefly earlier: a new version of the Wild Card virus. This allows for some of Snodgras's best story telling, as she writes her best story since Degredation Rites. Some plotlines I though were drearly, namely Tachyon's grandchild - seem to flurish under her capeable hand.

I still miss the enigma of Tachyon when he has been first introduced. I fear he has become too well known, lost his mystery. I would have liked some of the excitment back.

The two plotlines ar resolved in a rather nice, subdued fashion, that tells us that there will be consequences.

But let us not forget George R. R. Martin's All The Kings Horses. We have a return to the Great and Powerful Turtle - a return of sorts, at least, as Tuds goes through somewhat of a mid life crises. The turtle is an enormously difficult character to write for ( which is probably why Martin only wrote three stories abouthim so far) and Martin uses him to exploar realities of life - as well as the question 'What is it really like to be a superhero?'

I agree with Peter's review - This one is Millar's best book and the hero Elfish is the best character he's ever created (if she is real, he won't tell me where she lives so I can marry her).

Possibly not enough fairys for a Millar book, but hey, you can't have everything and they would possibly distract a bit from the plot. If you read this one, you'll read all of his others and definately not be dissapointed.

Oh yea, buy more than one copy! I always end up giving my Millar books away to people to try and get them reading him and I can't really give more praise than that.

Imagine, if you can, a crazy cross between Irvine Welsh and P G Wodehouse. A storyline of repulsive, compulsive sex and knock-down farce. Martin Millar inhabits a South London landscape where old magic comes up from the gutter and deep artistic longings are shipwrecked on the everyday struggles of downbeat life. I can't believe Martin Millar is not more widely known and loved. Over the last ten years, he has honed his craft, through "Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation", and "Lux the Poet", to a new high point in "Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving". Don't be deceived by the surface of nihilism, farce and hard humour. There is a deep thread of optimism here, which steers clear of whimsy. There is even a moral - and a whole new way to view some of Shakespeare's best lines.

Nowadays, when the East is mentioned, and more specifically, the traditional East, immediately rise almost insurmountable barriers, such the differences of mental physiognomy that characterizes the modern westerners and the orientals. Few know that, only six centuries ago, the Occident had much more points in common that divergences, in relation to the East, because both had ther respective civilizations developed from similar priciples, that is, both respected the natural hierarchy that orders everything, from the highest, that is, the spiritual, until the lowest, the material. René Guénon, in this exemplary book, written with extreme clarity, provides us a "radiography" of the modern Occident and its roots, as no other contemporary author had ever accomplished. In the first part of the work, Guénon, shows the modern western civilization as truly monstrous, because it is the only one that grew exclusively in a material sense; he brings to the light the philosophical deformations, from Renascence, that constituted the roots of this type of "development and progress", words so in fashion and at the same time, so insignificant. The author approaches the limits of the modern science and the most spread prejudices against the East. In the second part are examined the frustrated attempts of approach between the East and the West, as well as how such an objective could be reached through an agreement on certain principles. Guénon approaches the role that the constitution of an elite would carry out in such agreement. The reading of this work provides us with a vision of the whole roots of the modern world, whith a span and a depth rarely found in any other author in any time, turning possible a rigorous evaluation of what represents, in catastrophic terms, the growing global hegemony of the modern western mentality par excellence, that is, the North American mentality. The Institute René Guénon of Traditional Studies (www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9638) since many years gives a basic course "The Oriental Sight" entirely based in René Guénon's masterly work, whose entrance door can be "East and West". It is also recommended, as a complementation the this reading, "The Crisis of the Modern World", of the same author. Luiz Pontual IRGET.

Hoje em dia, quando se fala de Oriente, e mais especificamente, do Oriente tradicional, imediatamente se erguem barreiras quase intransponíveis, tal a diferença da 'fisionomia mental' que caracteriza os ocidentais modernos e os orientais. Poucos sabem que, há apenas seis séculos, o Ocidente tinha muito mais pontos em comum que divergentes, em relação ao Oriente, pois um e outro tinham suas respectivas civilizações desenvolvidas a partir de princípios semelhantes, isto é, ambos respeitavam a hierarquia natural que ordena todas as coisas, desde o mais elevado, isto é, o espiritual , até o mais baixo, o material. René Guénon, neste livro magistral, escrito com extrema clareza, nos proporciona uma 'radiografia' do Ocidente moderno e suas raízes, como jamais qualquer outro autor contemporâneo havia realizado. Na primeira parte da obra, Guénon , mostra a civilização ocidental moderna como verdadeiramente monstruosa, pois é a única que se desenvolveu num sentido exclusivamente material ; traz à luz as deformações filosóficas, desde a Renascença, que constituíram as raízes deste tipo de "desenvolvimento e progresso", termos tão em moda e ao mesmo tempo, tão insignificantes. O autor aborda os limites da ciência moderna e os preconceitos mais difundidos contra o Oriente. Na segunda parte, são examinadas as tentativas frustradas de aproximação entre o Oriente e Ocidente assim como em que termos tal objetivo poderia ser alcançado, isto é, através de um acordo sobre determinados princípios. Guénon aborda o papel que a constituição de uma elite desempenharia em tal hipótese. A leitura desta obra nos proporciona uma visão de conjunto das raízes do mundo moderno cuja envergadura e profundidade raramente se encontra em qualquer outro autor em qualquer tempo, tornando possível uma avaliação rigorosa do que representa, em termos catastróficos, a crescente hegemonia mundial da mentalidade ocidental moderna por excelência, isto é, a mentalidade norte-americana. O Instituto René Guénon de Estudos Tradicionais ( www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9638 ) há vários anos vem lecionando seu curso básico "Olhar Oriental" inteiramente fundamentado na obra magistral de René Guénon, cuja porta de entrada pode muito bem ser "Oriente e Ocidente". É recomendada também, como complementação a esta leitura, "A Crise do Mundo Moderno", do mesmo autor.

Luiz Pontual IRGET.