Modeling

This book looks very good for someone building plastic model airplanes. It is worthless for a scratch builder of balsa models (which I am).

Mr. Ashey seems to know what he's talking about. This book covers a wide range of topics centered around altering and adding detail to your models. Lots of techniques for begginers to advanced modelers with simple tips to create the effects you want. He sometimes uses tools that most of us don't have, and doesn't always explain their uses, (i.e. working w/ resin and superglue) but on the whole a Very informative book. I would suggest it for anyone who wants to get more out of their model than what comes in the box.

I only make 1/72 scaled mordern airplane model. I've refered this book much although it devoed to 1/48 scale.

Even you don't like aircraft modeling, It can help you to get an interest in the model aircraft.

I will order other modeling books written by Mr.Ashey.

I read part of this book and it is not the best there is available. It was a little difficult to understand and I wish there were more useful examples. Also, the printing looks kinda small to me.

I found Dr. Navabi's book "VHDL: Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems" to be a very comprehensive study of all language aspects of VHDL.

Thorough explanations supported by detailed examples covering structural, behavioral, and dataflow styles can be found in every chapter.

After studying the book, I feel comfortable to design most any digital component or sub-system, including design of flip flops, adders, subtractors, multipliers, state machines, controllers, comparators, registers, memories, etc.

Dr. Navabi discusses many subtle aspects of the language that are not found in most other VHDL references such as delta timing and sequential placement of transactions on signal drivers.

As a professional engineer I find the book to be an invaluable reference in my digital systems design work.

Background info:
I have been an ASIC engineer since 1986. I have designed many ASICs in Verilog and VHDL. I have 7 books on VHDL including Dr. Navabi's text.

Some of the VHDL books out there are more like cookbooks: too many code examples and not enough explanation. Navabi's book is NOT a cookbook.

Further, it is hard to do a direct comparison to other VHDL texts. In a way it would be like comparing apples and oranges. While some VHDL texts try to explain everything about VHDL, other books like Dr. Navabi's explain the more useful parts of VHDL as being used by a digital systems or ASIC designers. While other books are mostly for RTL coders with very little testbench and system level modeling info. In my opinion, test is extremely important as well as modeling at the system level. Many books out there do not do a good job on those aspects. Most books provide very brief explanations of test benches and/or system level modeling.

This book is highly useful for a digital systems design engineer or architect. This book is not only covers coding for RTL synthesis but doing the testbenches, and sytem level modeling as well. This book has a very good balance between all the main uses of the VHDL modeling langauage.

Here is my overview of the chapters :
The first two chapters provides you with a history of modeling languages and the reason VHDL was created. I recommend that you read these chapters, especially if this is your first modeling language. The chapters are not long, but it provides a very good high level overview to modeling, synthesis, and test.

Chapter three gets you up and running quickly by providing simple examples to give you a good introduction to behavioral and structural VHDL.

Chapters 4 though 9 are heart of the VHDL aspect of the book.

Chapter 4 is very important. It describes VHDL inertial and concurrent timing in great detail. In fact, I believe Dr. Navabi's book is the best available in this aspect! It is important to understand for modeling and especially testing purposes. Chapter 5 is on structural VHDL. it is a good place to start since it is the easiest to understand. Chapter 6 introduces procedures, functions, packages, generics, and configurations. I like the way this chapter is written. Other books are not as easy to read as this one. Great examples and its clearly written as is the entire book actually. Chapter 7 digs into the VHDL types, operators, and attributes. Chapter 8 covers guarding and signal resolution. It also provides a good state machine example. Once you get through Chapter 8, pat yourself on the back because you got through the hard parts of VHDL! VHDL is a harder language to learn than Verilog. But for good reason, VHDL is much more powerful and structured than Verilog in my opinion. You can code faster in Verilog, but the code is not typically as readable as VHDL. Most of the VHDL codes I have seen are much more readable. Some of the Verilog code I have seen are downright nasty looking and time consuming to interpret. Chapter 9 starts to put it (chapters 6-8) all together by more thorough examples behavioral modeling: testbenches/harnesses, arbitration/handshaking, etc.

Chapters 10-11 puts it all together with some system examples : cpu, dma, system bus modeling/timing/interfacing, etc. even memory caches! These are not complicated examples but they are real world examples. All of the techniques are still begin used today. If they were more complicated examples the book would need to be much bigger. However, these are great examples that ties everything up. Once you complete chapter 11, you are well on your way! You will have accomplished something!

Don't overlook Chapters 12 (advanced modeling) and the appendices (esp. App. B, the synthesis subset). This additional information puts Navabi's book above other VHDL books in my opinion.

Conclusion:
It is difficult to create a VHDL book to be 'the' book for all types and levels of designers and engineers (architectural, RTL coders, testbench and verification, etc.) But, in my opinion this book comes closest. I highly recommend this book! I have many books on VHDL. This book is valuable to me as a reference and has helped me tremendously - it's a keeper! All the codes work and I only found one insignificant typo. I can not say that about any of my other VHDL books. In fact, I will probably soon be getting rid of some of my VHDL books to make space on my shelves for new books. I'll be keeping Navabi's VHDL book as a permanent reference- for sure! I recommend this book for beginners because I like the way it progresses and delivers the material: in the right order and in the right amount. I recommend this book for moer advanced people as well, I am sure that it has material that is not covered in other VHDL books. And it makes a great reference as well.

P.S.
There are recent additions to VHDL that are not discussed in this book..namely VHDL-AMS, which adds analog extentions. However, it is still very young and most simulators do not support the analog extentions yet.

This book is more of an introduction to ship modeling than a comprehensive volume. It might be appropriate as (one of) the first book(s) one reads on the subject, but is not sufficiently detailed to live up to its highly ambitious title. The chapter on gunnery fittings is the most detailed, but still can't impart the detail and volume of information available from other sources. The author communicates his palpable enthusiasm for the hobby. This, combined with the broad but somewhat thin material he offers, will stimulate readers to further and more detailed exploration of ship modeling. This book is a good choice as a gift for someone (early teen or older) who may be interested in the field.

I'm all new in the modeling wooden ships game, though I have been fascinated since my early childhood and grew up working plastic aircraft models. I always saw wooden modeling as the Holy Grail and finally decided to get on with it. I was captivated at age 7 watching the Cpt from the "Ghost and Mrs Muir", seizing lines and tending to his ratlins whilst educating the youngest boy about the moral to-do's and don'ts.

Having recently purchased my first model, the Scottish Maid, from Artesania Latina, I decided after looking the plans over that I was going to need more in depth help and assistance. After researching online I have discovered that there is quite a decent literary safety net regarding the subject, but as usual it's a case of where to start?

Well after leafing through this book in relative depth I have found a brilliant place for the Ship Modeling neophyte to make their start. The work gives a great overview of the many complex areas involved in the longtime craft of Ship Modeling as well as gently leading the enthusiast into the greater intracacies involved therein. I was delighted among other chapters to find a section on Ships in Bottles, one of my fascinations, as well as informative tips and tricks regarding all manner of applications from planking to seizing lines and rigging.

I found the sections on Running Rigging, Proportions of Rigging, Making Masts and Sails for Sailing Ships a revelation, which has totally whet my appetite for exploring singular works dedicated to these subjects alone. Roth does a great job of keeping the language simple and with a little observation of the diagrams, which are easy and clear, most questions left wanting in the text are answered. I only wish this work had more colour plates of ships in the building and completion stages, which is why I have witheld the final star.

Apart from this small omission I can wholeheartedly recommend this work to the novice and enthusiast alike as it has enlightened and informed me as well as fueling my passion for this noble craft more than ever! So if you want to know where your mizzen is and how to rig your gaffs; if you care to know how to set the rake of your masts or find out what box off is all about, then get 'Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern' and quit your blatherin land lubbers!

I found this to be a very informative collection of hints, tips and reference information for any modeller.
Unlike a previous reviewer, I only found one photo that might be classified as upside-down; the rest of the photos and diagrams are clear concise and very helpful.
Excellent sections on tools and adhesives plus 'why didn't I think of that...' tips; there are some nice tables not seen in other books and some excellent line drawings of rigging and sail tackle.

This is not intended to be a guide to building an 'Admiralty' model, or a faithful built-up model; what it does do is fire one's enthusiasm for building a reasonably accurate scale model - other books cover the finer points of fidelity.

I would recommend this to anyone starting to build model ships, it is not too detailed to put one off, nor is it dumbed-down.

As I was reviewing this book for a class I was teaching on the subject, I could'nt help but think the author's effort was rushed. This book would be good for someone with a strong data modeling background who wants a new perspective. It is a poor choice for novices to the field. Explanations are lacking in clarity. Book is poorly organized. Check out Inside Relational Databases, Whithorn.

I was given this book by a colleague and at first I did not think I needed any relearning about how to data model. But this book really helped me to refocus on the important aspects of data modeling. I highly recommend this to new data modelers and existing data modelers alike.

I am the sort of guy who hated working with data and databases until I laid my hands on this book. I always believed that Data Modeling is something that "the database guys" do. My role as a programmer restricts my view of Data. This book, I must say has been an eye opener. Not only did I understand the processes of data modeling better, but it made me appreciate the need for it.
Data is indeed what makes the world go around.

This book takes the reader through the various stages of modeling data in the enterprise in a step-by-step manner. It lays the foundation by introducing various models, with a bit of theory, that you may safely skip (if you are an old hand), proceeds to buliding a logical model from a conceptual model and finally transforming the logical model to a physical model in terms of tables and relations.

The topics have been covered quite comprehensively (for a book of its size) and I may say that this book could very well be used as supplementary material for a course on Data and Data modeling.

With its timeless appeal, I can assure you that this book will adorn my bookshelf for decades.

I read this book for training as a senior DBA consultant and enjoyed CJ Date's excellent treatise on databases. This is the ultimate book on database theory. Like another reader commented its not how to get OCP/MCDBA whatever certifications but actually will make life better in the long run as a serious DBA pro. I now actually understand the basis of complex database topics such as cursors, data models, and concurrency/locking topics that previously are skimmed over in other books and training guides. Best book for a beginner and yeah its a bit dry and academic but CJ Date writes clearly. A MUST FOR SERIOUS COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS!

Date's seminal work is critical to understanding databases - a step mostly forgotten by those who believe every concept can be taught using commercial products with brain-dead examples in under 24 hours. Date teaches the logic and theory that underlie all successful practice. You can probably buy a different book and create a mock database faster, but you will neither understand nor be able to use it well. Do yourself a favor and read this first to understand what a database is; only then can you judge the value of other books.

This is not a how-to, it is a how-to-understand. I own multiple editions of this book starting with the 3rd, when many of the examples referred to RBase. It won't tell you, with simple color diagrams and cut-and-paste examples, how to optimize your Oracle SQL queries or tune your DB/2 engine, but it will teach you the underlying principles of relational databases, from which the serious professional will be able to extrapolate. If you have the intelligence and stomach for it and you actually read it, it will serve you much better than the SQL in 24 hours picture books that some reviewers seem to be looking for -- it is a timeless and effective conceptual work on the subject that spans the evolution of commercial product implementations. Dilitantes and desperadoes, head for the Dummies aisle -- this one's not for you.

This book really stunk. Most of the content was unusable. I read the book in one day and was really frustrated with the lack of detailed information. I perfer the following book "Windows 2000 Server : Planning and Migration" by Sean Deuby. It was better organized with more tips from someone who has faced real life Windows 2000 issues.

The title of the book is Planning for Windows 2000 and that's partially true, except it mostly talks about the domain structures and DNS. Not too much info about Windows 2000 Server and Workstation and what you'll have to do differently than NT.

This book is a must-have for anyone in a position requiring them to plan for a migration to Windows 2000 products. It contains detailed notes on the best way to prepare for and plan a Windows 2000 deployment. Topics such as maintaining standards, designing the Active Directory, hardware considerations, designing a security plan, and how to simplify administration are addressed.

I read this book in 2 days. It was easy to read, informative,thorough, and well written. The final chapter, "Putting it all together" was an awesome way to end the book. In this chapter there were checklists for all of the topics listed above,as well as worksheets for estimating hardware needs and designing the network. I would recommend this book as a must-read for administrators and the first book on the agenda prior to planning a migration.

The book is for those with a Phd or strong math background - the writer does not attempt to cater to anyone else. Don't bother trying to understand the models discussed if you don't have this knowledge - get your Phd first! A waste of money unless you know mathematical concepts such as MLE, Fast Fourier etc.

This is by far the best book in the area. It brings in details all the current technical discussions allowing even the reader with minimal math background to understand and even try the techniques stated in the book. Every risk manager must have it at least as a reference. The author carefully describes several techniques as:
1) Loss distribution approaches;
2) Scorecard approach;
3) Extreme value theory;
4) OpRisk management models;
5) Modeling and developing hedging programs.

Excellent value for the money!

This is the best book in operational risk by far. It shows, on a very clear way, how to implement complex algorithms that can be used in the measurement and management of oprisk. The most interesting part of the book is the one on oprisk management and oprisk stress tests and scenario analysis. Superb! Every risk manager should have it at least as a reference.

He attempts to state, that the Quran is perfect. Then he makes the claim that there should be certain adjustments made. There are no versions of the Quran, it has remained as one book for around 1500 years! He makes adjustments in order for his mathematical calculations to work out, and so that he can prove that he is a messenger from GOD! Although I am a Muslim, I think he makes no sense what so ever, and he is only doing this to spread the incorrect notion that he is some sort of messenger from God.

Anyone that has an non-baise non-driscriminitve open mind before rejecting the irrefutable proof of the discovery is LIAR, and only wishes that him or herself was the discoverer. The only way I could have ever become a convinced reader and am convinced, was by the use of the only known EXACT science Mathamatics. The people that are trying to disscredit the findings are iether illiterate and cant add or as said before are LIARS. THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH THE MATH SPEAKS FOR ITS SELF!

Mr. Halifa found that quran is the word of god. When I read this book, I totally impressed. Nobody especially almost 1400 years ago could write the quran with these mathematical miracles and the others. My family hadn't pushed me to choose the religion whom they believe. I remember my father didn't push me to choose his religion, but I tried to find the best one. This book enhanced my belief to the fastest growing religion and in my opinion, the best religion in the world.

This book is not very good. The numerous authors attempt to cover too much in this book and as a result don't cover anything worthwhile. The book isn't well focused and has lots of mistakes.

Having read over two-thirds of this huge volume, I am now of the opinion that it probably is not the best place to begin exploring Java database development. The word "Beginning" in the title is a bit misleading: you shouldn't approach this book without a solid grounding in Java and databases in general. True, the introductory chapters cover essential SQL and other database concepts, but there is a steady ramping-up in the difficulty level as the book progresses, and it doesn't ever really level off. For example, Lauinger's treatment of his own Java Layered Frameworks open-source project in Chapter 16 is long-winded and daunting. And the later chapters assume complete familiarity with XML, JavaBeans, Servlets, and other more "advanced" topics. So, all in all, for the JDBC beginner I think that this is not the best book to begin your explorations of JDBC.

On the other hand, this is an exceptionally thorough book, very well written and with few typos. The authors are likeable, the price is affordable, the presentation and the coding are laid out well, the printing and binding excellent. So it may be just the book for you if you have the patience to plod through its 900 pages. Certainly, the book makes an excellent reference. However, it only covers the business logic of Java database applications. Most of the examples in the book are console-based programs for testing the business logic. There is no coverage of GUI-related topics, for example how to present data in a grid. As one of the authors remarks somewhere, their purpose in writing the book was not to present "pretty GUI's" but rather to concentrate on the internals, the business logic. While I can understand the importance of business logic, I also would have liked these experts to have given me some good pointers on how to present data in various data-aware controls in a GUI. After 600+ pages, I'm still waiting....

I thought that this book was quite good at explaining Java programming of databases. Many of the examples in the book, though, use the Oracle personal edition database. This is a 600MB file that you download from Oracle. Or, you can pay them [money] to send it to you on CD-ROM. Alternatively, you can use another database - like SQL Server - and modify the examples to work with that database.

The book is very weak for learning how to use data structures. I found the sample code to be buggy, but you can find updates and most of the code in the book on his website. However, there was a unique and easy to understand approach to explaining the code, but there's very few examples of situations on how and where to use, If data structures is a new concept to you, then look elsewhere. Yes this was my first experience with data structures, and I stayed lost or confussed most of the time.

I have read several books on data structures (3). And in my opinion this is the worst of the lot. I have run into bugs, and if you buy this book you should go to the authors website so he can point them out for you. I had a great deal of trouble with this author's sample code, this is the main reason I did not like this book. Remember to include all his damn packages, when trying to compile his code, of course you have to get them from his website. buy a data structures book by Wiess or standish. Warning: the sample code in this book is overly confusing, and is clearer in other books.

So far this is the most clearly written and easily understood Computer Science text book that I have come across and used in a class. With most of the attention paid toward ADT's, our class not only learned them, but also the Java programming language on top of it! I highly recommend this book. Little if any bugs too!