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I have been using Corbin books in my wellness / fitness practice since the early 80's. In 1981 I moved to Houston, Texas and started to manage the Tenneco fitness center. We saw over 1,000 employees using the facility a day and faced a huge challenge of moving past the 20% of the population that already kept in shape daily.

Corbin books were "real", about real efforts in real environments. I could sit down and read a little of Corbin and not only pick up tips for my coach counseling, but also ideas for group challenges or behavior change efforts.

I have had plenty of mentors along my 30 years of worksite programming and many of them I have become good friends, but Corbin is one I have never met, but highly respect for his work and what he has given the fitness and wellness field.

I have a spot on my book shelf that is "Corbin" books and I bet after you have bought this one and used it, you will go back and start like me a little Corbin library. I can't imagine a wellness practitioner without Corbin on their book shelf.

This book is completely up to date and has useful information for both the student and the non-academic consumer. The labs are easy to accomplish and give a relatively accurate profile.

Even though this books was a required textbook for college, I am glad I had to pick it up. There has been some really good information in this book. We are moving through it quickly in class, but I have already flagged some sections that I know I want to go back and read again.

I am super impressed with this book. It is packed full of great information. I'm reading it for a class and wish I had more time to thoroughly read it but what I have read so far is fantastic. I have learned a lot.

I bought this used book for $10 saving $90. The book is absolutely new, no written pages whatsoever. Thank you!

This product is a wonderful supplement for the textbook and the workbook. Even if you don't have a teacher directly guiding you, you will learn. Product came in excellent condition. Too bad not all ship to PR since it is the same postal system.

There are a total of 19, yes, 19 CDs.

Many of the vendors will only sell you a few of the 19 because they come in 3 sets.

You may not need all of them. You may not need any of them.

If you are only taking French 1, the first set of CDs will work for you. If you are taking French 1 - 4, then you may want to have all 19.

The CDs correspond to the workbook (Cahiers de activities). The Cds will not help you unless you have the workbook.

You must have the textbook, workbook, and CDs all of the same edition or the supplements (workbook and CDs) are useless.

Your instructor will likely require that you have the workbook. You language lab may already have the CD and educational program loaded in its system. You may want to check before blowing fifty bucks for CDs you don't need (especially when you may be required to do hard time in the lab for a set number of hours anyways).

Get the CDs if:

1.) your language lab does not have the corresponding program for the workbook (another words, if they dont already have the CDs loaded on their system) AND/OR your professor TELLS you to get it. Call or email him/her to find out for sure!

2.) you want additional practice at home AND you have the corresponding workbook "Cahiers de Activities". (If you do not have the workbook, the correct edition of the workbook and textbook, then the CDs WILL NOT help you.)

Good Luck! Au Revoir!

I was very excited to find this 7th edition, 2001 of Contacts. It is a perfect level for adults and/or college students. It includes nuances of modern life in France and has a great section on internet vocabulary. The dialogues are modern and relevant. The cassettes have beautiful French speakers. The workbook fits well with each chapter. I would suggest it for French I or for an adult teaching themselves at home. I shall use this book for a long time.

I loved the way our teacher taught french. He immersed us into this world with videos of professionals performing at Cirque du Soleil, and he told us amazing yet simple stories of his journeys through Paris. I still remember the first day when we saw the colours, clothing, abecedary, et cetera. We the students were supposed to colour the pages in our minds, imagine, and fly. We were also planning to go to an Auberge in Québéc, Canada but eventually we couldn't due to newly arrived economic hardships, and then the plan was officially cancelled. I got de la nostalgie and decided to write my review because I am about to begin studying at l'Alliance Française and I couldn't resist going back through time to 1994. I am glad our french teacher placed that little seed in our hearts.

If you want to learn French from scratch, in the proper way, then this is the book for you. The book was produced around the time of World War II specifically for foreigners needing to learn the language. The whole of the book is written in French and starts with the very basics.

If you have some knowledge of the language you can follow the text easily with the help of a dictionary. Personally, I have engaged a tutor to help me through and to monitor my pronounciation - a must for anyone learning French.Cours De Langue Et De Civilisation Francaise (Vol. 1)

We, at Secundaria Iberoamericana, used this course and i must say i did learn french with it because i wanted to, even though i was fifteen. i don't want to get way too opinionated about this book, but let's say it's not that colourful, nor interesting for teenagers although its story [which is continued through the whole book] keeps you into learning. After it all, i give it a four-star rating since it brings me lovely memories from those french classes i attended to, back in 1994 through 1996 at junior high.

My schools used Mauger's series in the 1960s. Quaint b&w drawings, "outdated" photos... but that's part of Mauger's charm. It's packed with logically-ordered grammar lessons and appropriate exercises. Keep the more "up to date" texts! I'm glad I stuck with Mauger all the way. When reviewing my results on the placement exam for transfer into another university's adv. French classes, the tough-as-nails French dept. head couldn't fathom my good score until he asked me what text we'd used in high school. He practically purred in contentment when I declared, "Mauger." Although I own a classic French grammar text, I still refer often to Mauger's texts for help. I especially appreciate the excellent pronunciation/liaison helps scattered throughout the books. A classic.

Its a very well written book describing in much detail how an executioner family works, lives through generations in France. It provides a great detail to the mind of the executioner for 8 generations of turmoil in France. Its exciting and remantic at times all in mystery and dark side of the bloody trade. I loved it , time went by reading it, and I have to thank this book for couple of unslept nights.

I've read this book, and it's quite interesting.It kept me reading for so long that I didn't know the time was passing so fast. It's highly detailed in almost every aspect of the story: The founding of a town, the circumstances of the heroe,the traditions of a dinasty, etc.It's fabulous!

I bought this book without knowing what I was geting and guess what? Jackpot!!! Weird title, a writer i had never heard about, soon became one of the best books i ever read. Its a pity that its not easy to find more of Folco's works tranlated in Portuguese -wich is my language- or even English. If you are a book lover, don't miss the chance to get this masterpiece; I'm sure you wont regret the money!

A true piece of literature. French style. Try it!

Any college-level veterinary medicine library and any practicing vet working with farm animals must have DISEASES OF POULTRY. The 12th updated edition represents an extensive update and overhaul and packs in over 1300 pages of facts, from articles on various types of infections and their treatment to diagnosis, management, and flock health. It's the most extensive reference on the market and will easily prove a vet's 'bible' of information for poultry management many a farmer with a flock will need it, as well.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Excellent reference book. My previuos edition was from 1978. I am happy to have this new edition with lots of new items and updates.Very useful

I am a veterinarian, doing my residency in poultry medicine. This is by far the best book ever written about diseases of poultry. I have the enormous pleasure of working with one of the co-editors, and the work done in this book is exceptional. A must for anybody interested in the subject.

I cannot say that I have a book 'cause I don't have it. But working in a Centre for Poultry I had a chance to read and learn from this book. I was so impressed with the way that author of this book aproach to diseases of poultry and acctually made so easily understanding and comprehensing this important matter. I acctually started to learn the whole subject from the beginning 'cause it was the best way to get the whole picture. I attend to buy a book for myself as soon as possible so that I can read it again and again. And I know that every time I will certanly learn something more. My best regards to the author where ever he can be. Yours,

Marijana Sokolovic.

I looked at the book Draw 50 Aliens. I thought it was a good book because it has easy steps for drawing the aliens and UFOs. I think kids in 4th and 5th grade who are good drawers would like this book I recommend this book to people who love to draw.

This really helped my drawing talent. It taught me How to draw in a different way then i am used to. i rate this book five stars 'cause that is pretty much what it deserves.

Ric Estrada, who illustrated this book, has come up with some wonderfully imaginative characters that show the younger reader the basics of drawing a cartoon character. Mr. Estrada, a forty year veteran of comic books and animation, shows how the building blocks of solid design are formed from the simplest of shapes. Not only is this a great learning tool, but the names and commentary inside are quite entertaining as well. I highly recommend this book.

I bought this book for a younger friend who likes to drawstange creatures. I used to teach art to children and used a number ofthe Lee Ames books in my classes which were always a big hit. I noticed that not all children can follow the visual step-by-step instructions but those that did usually had a great time and good results. This books seems to be of the same quality as the other Lee Ames books I've purchased.

Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures are efficient because they replace costly and power-consuming consuming hardware for detecting and scheduling Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP); with that functionality supplied by a smart compiler. Furthermore, such smart VLIW compilers and architectures can achieve levels of ILP and power efficiency many times that from hardware schedulers alone. Fisher, Faraboschi and Young's book explains -- skillfully covering software, hardware, theory, application, and business factors -- how such architectures can enable enormous increases in the capabilities of embedded systems.

It's a fabulous read, engagingly styled, with generous research and practical perspective, authoritative with Fisher being responsible for this paradigm of simultaneously engineering the compiler and processor.

Practicing engineers -- both chip architects and embedded system designers -- will find the techniques they will need to use and develop VLIW-based systems. Instructors will value the rare juxtaposition of advanced technology with practical deployment examples, and students will enjoy the unusually engaging and mind-expanding chapter exercises.

That reader has a pretty strong idea, already, of how computers and compilers work, and is ready for a different kind of view. There are a few valuable differences here, compared to most discussions. The first is its emphasis on embedded systems. Loosely speaking, that's any computer that doesn't look like a computer: anti-lock brakes, iPods, microwave ovens, or the processor[s] internal to disk drives. Ignoring the tiny fraction with keyboards and screens, that's pretty much all of computing. The second distinctive feature of this book's viewpoint is it emphasis on the computer as a whole, including cooperating SoC components, operating systems and such, power management, and the instruction set processor itself. Programmers from the Windows/Unix world may be startled by the idea that the instruction set and processor data paths are variables, adjustable to the task at hand. The book's emphasis on close system integration follows the consequences of custom instruction sets out through the simulators, linkers, and compilers that put the processor to work. The authors offer wide-ranging and hard-won insight into optimization techniques, giving glimpses at the scars these project-hardened veterans have picked up along the way.

The book's most distinctive feature, however, is its emphasis on Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. These come in many flavors. One classic structure comes from TI's DSPs with 8 ALUs controlled in every cycle; standard superscalar and Intel's EPIC are also noted, for contrast and variety. The book is thick (over 600pp) and dense, so no summary can do it justice and still fit here.

The book's personal note is part of its charm. The authors aren't afraid to take on widespread opinoins in their "Flame" sidebars. One in particular struck home for me: the polite diatribe against "smart" assemblers that hide the machine from the people who really need to see it. Amen, brother! My worst experience of that sort was in the 90s-era TI C5x family. It had delayed branches, with two words in the delay slot. You could put either two one-word instructions or one two-word instruction into that slot. After annoyance that you can imagine, I discovered that the compiler was putting a one-word instruction in the branch shadow followed by a two-word instruction. It was executing one and a half instructions in the branch delay, with un-helpful effect. That second instruction was the one the assembler was "helping" with. If the immediate operand had been smaller, it would have been a one-word instruction and would have been fine. The immediate value was too big, though, so the assembler converted that same opcode into a different two-word machine instruction with a larger immediate field - kaboom!

It's a good survey and a good introduction for people who want a wider view of what computing is about. Given the rise of reconfigurable computing, it's also helpful in putting readers in the frame of mind needed for defining their own computers as a matter of course. The breadth of coverage means that, despite the book's mass, its coverage of some topics lacks depth. I can't really fault the authors, though, since there's so much to say and since different readers have such different needs. The depth is there, but it's in the exercises and copious references so readers have to dig into it on their own. This isn't a book for every reader, but it's a helpful compendium for people with many kinds of needs a bit away from what computer science usually offers.

//wiredweird

This is the first technical book that inspired me to read it cover-to-cover in many years. It was well-written, and covered a lot of material. I really liked the breadth of material, and enjoyed reading the lessons from personal experiences. Also, the choice of material validates one of the lessons I learned from my graduate advisor, many years ago, that architecture, software, and applications should all be studied together.

There are two ways to learn more about your country: you can study it directly by travelling around in it, or you can study it indirectly by leaving it. The first method yields facts and insights directly in-context, and the second by contrast.

Our tradition in computer engineering has been to seldom leave our neighborhood. If you want to learn about operating systems, you read an OS book; for multiprocessor systems, you get a book that maps out the MP space.

The book you are holding in your hands can serve admirably in that direct sense. If the technology you are working on is associated with VLIWs or "embedded computing", then clearly it is imperative that you read this book.

But what pleasantly surprised me was how useful this book is, even if one's work is not VLIW-related or has no obvious relationship to embedded computing. I had long felt it was time for Josh Fisher to write his magnum opus on VLIWs, so when I first heard he and his co-authors were working on a book with VLIw in the title, I naturally and enthusiastically assumed this was it. Then I heard the words "embedded computing" were also in the title, and felt considerable uncertainty, having spent most of my professional career in the general-purpose computing arena. I thought embedded computing was interesting, but mostly in the same sense that studying cosmology was interesting: intellectually challenging, but what does it have to do with me?

I should have known better. I don't think Josh Fisher can write boring text. He doesn't know how. (I still consider his "Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and the ELI-512" paper from ISCA-10 to be the finest conference publication I have ever read.) And he seems to have either found like-minded co-authors in Faraboschi and Young, or he taught them well, because Embedded Computing: A VLIW Approach is enthralling in its clarity and exhilarating in its scope. If you are involved in computer system design or programming, you must still read this book, because it will take you to places where the views are spectacular, including those looking over to where you usually live. You don't necessarily have to agree with every point the authors make, but you WILL understand what they are trying to say, and they WILL make you think.

One of the best legacies of the classic Hennessy and Patterson computer architecture textbooks is that the success of their format and style has encouraged more books like theirs. In Embedded Computing: A VLIW Approach, you will find the Pitfalls, Controversies, and occasional Opinion sidebars that made H&P such a joy to read. This kind of technical exposition is like vulcanology done while standing on an active volcano. Look over there, and see molten lava running under a new fissure in the rocks. Feel the heat; it commands your full attention. It's immersive, it's interesting, and it's immediate. If your Vibram soles start melting, it's still worth it. You probably needed new shoes anyway.

I first met Josh when I was a grad student at Carnegie-Mellon in 1982. He spent an hour earnestly describing to me how a sufficiently talented compiler could, in principle, find enough parallelism via a technique he called Trace Scheduling, to keep a really wild looking hardware engine busy. The compiler would speculatively move code all over the place, and then invent more code to fix up what it got wrong. I thought to myself "so THIS is what a lunatic looks like up close. I hope he's not dangerous." Two years later I joined him at Multiflow and learned more in the next five years than I ever have, before or since.

It was an honor to review an early draft of this book, and I was thrilled to be asked to contribute this foreword. As the book makes clear, general-purpose computing has traditionally gotten the glory, while embedded computing quietly keeps our infrastructure running. This is probably just a sign of the immaturity of the general-purpose computing environment (even though we non-embedded types don't like to admit that). With general-purpose computers, people "use the computer" to do something. But with embedded computers, people accomplish some task, blithely and happily unaware that there's a computer involved. Indeed, if they had to be conscious of the computer, their embedded computers would have already failed: antilock brakes and engine controllers, for instance. General-purpose CPUs have a few microarchitecture performance tricks to show their embedded brethren, but the embedded space has much more to teach the general computing folks about the bigger picture: total cost of ownership, who lives in the adjacent neighborhoods, and what they need for all to live harmoniously. This book is a wonderful contribution towards that evolution.

My goodness, I see here that you can buy this complete set in hard cover for about $30. If you have a serious interest in Philosophy, this is for FREE man! I have the 8 volume set combined into 6 books. I use it constantly. I always go to it first. I considered it the educated, authoritative, professional opinion on whatever. Then I go searching for critics and reactionaries.
I would think that this set would be selling for hundreds of dollars not tens of dollars. Snatch this one up!

Books written by Richard Noble - The Hobo Philosopher:
"Hobo-ing America: A Workingman's Tour of the U.S.A.."
"A Summer with Charlie"
"A Little Something: Poetry and Prose"
"Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother"

My gift recipient was so, so happy to receive this! He shipped them to Italy to avoid carrying them while travelling. Used books in good condition!

This is the highest achievement of 20th century philosophy: Over 4,200 pages, over 1500 contributors. Originally published in 8 volumes in 1967, it was later issued in a 1972 reprint edition, complete but in a reduced format. The 8 volumes of the original were reduced to 4 books (2 vols in each), slightly smaller format, smaller print, on thinner but durable paper.
CAUTION: Take care in ordering. Sellers sometimes offer one or two volumes of the multi-volume set.

Originally published in 8 volumes in 1967, this is the highest achievement of 20th century philosophy: Over 4,200 pages, over 1500 contributors. It was later issued in a 1972 reprint edition, complete but in a reduced format. The 8 volumes of the original were reduced to 4 books (2 vols in each), slightly smaller format, smaller print, on thinner but durable paper.
CAUTION: Take care in ordering. Sellers sometimes offer one or two volumes of the multi-volume set.

I recently consulted this book - Chapter 2 - and found it helpful to me in interpreting ornamentation/embellishment in flute music written during the early Classical period (after 1750).

In this context, embellishment is defined as a note or notes written around a main note which ornaments a melody, rhythm or harmony. In the words of C.P.E., a musical ornament/embellishment "joins notes . . . enlivens them . . . gives them emphasis and accentuation, and . . . brings out their expression."

This an historically significant work worthwhile for a number of reasons--of course--, but I am particularly interested in its treatment of figured bass. Why? Although it was composed after Rameau published his revolutionary theory of root progression, C.P.E. Bach repudiated Rameau's theory, and this work remains untouched by it. Consequently, reading this is the easist way to get a feel for how things stood before Rameau and (ironically for C.P.E. Bach) to appreciate truly Rameau's achievement.

Also recommended: PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.

Interesting to see how J.S. Bach's perhaps most important composer son, who had a large influence on Mozart, viewed the art of figured bass and counterpoint. Apparently the Bachs were aware of Rameau's theory of harmony and root progressions, but preferred the contrapuntal approach to harmonization. This book bears serious study by those interested in music theory and composition.

The previous reviewer is referring to "part two" of this text, the portion which deals with counterpoint, etc. However, players of J. S. Bach will especially appreciate the first part of the text, which has a large chapter explaining the various embellishments which one finds in J. S. Bach's works; it is a fine reference for anyone playing music with Baroque markings for trills, turns, mordents, etc.

Thanks for the seamless transaction. The Ethnologue will be a tremendous help for my studies in Spanish.

An absolute must for any lover of languages. Thousands of languages reviewed. Langauages by country and continent. Amazing country maps with languages (and dialects) spoken throughout different regions, shown along with details of language family. This really is a must-buy for linguists.

This book is the best language overview yet made. All languages and dialect spoken are shown here, including the number of speakers, area in which the language is spoken etcetera.

From A Fala de Xálima, which is spoken in Portugal, to Zyudin, a dialect of Komi-Permynk spoken in the Urals, Ethnologue has distinguished itself as the best single source of information about all the known languages of the world. Richard Pittman produced the first "edition" in 1951, a mimeographed version that identified 46 languages. This 15th edition raises the bar to 7,299 known languages, and supercedes the 14th edition of 2000 with over 50,000 updates and corrections, including 103 previously unidentified languages.

The purpose of the Ethnologue comes closer to a catalog than an encyclopedia: "to provide a comprehensive listing of the known living languages of the world." That is no small task given the controversial issues surrounding the nature of language. How does one define a language? What criteria differentiate a dialect from a distinct language? How to track the 497 languages that are classified as "nearly extinct" and that face "language death" because they have fewer than 50 speakers? The Ethnologue tackles all these issues and more in its introduction, including such matters as deaf sign language for 119 languages.

After its introduction and overview (pp. 7-13), Ethnologue contains six major sections. An initial section presents general statistical summaries in a table format (pp. 15-36). We learn, for example, that although there are some 94 "language families," six "major" language families encompass two-thirds of all known languages and five-sixths of the world's population. Or again, Papua New Guinea is the most "linguistically diverse" country in the world with 820 languages among its 3.67 million people. Nor do these languages constitute mere sterile statistics. In one of the most volatile and war-torn regions of the world, two of the smallest and least linguistically diverse countries, Rwanda (fifth least diverse) and Burundi (seventh least diverse), are sandwiched between two of the largest and most linguistically diverse countries, Democratic Republic of Congo (seventh most diverse) and Tanzania (fourth most diverse). The second section is the largest in the book, listing all known living languages by geographical area and country (pp. 39-672), including brief comments about the language based upon 31 different variables--for example, the ethnicity or religion of its speaker population, the related dialects, bilingualism, age groups, and so on. I especially enjoyed looking at the language maps of the world in the third section (pp. 673-887), where a dot represents a language, giving one a sense of what you might think of as "linguistic diversity density." Some parts of the world map are crammed and crowded with overlapping dots, while other parts have large sections where a single language or two dominates. The fourth section grocery lists the 7,299 languages alphabetically (pp. 891-1229). A language code index (pp. 1231-1270) assigns each language a three-letter code, which is now used by the ISO (ISO 639-3) as the international standard for language identification. A final index lists the countries of the world alphabetically by name (pp. 1271-1272).