Modeling

This book is great. If you love chocolate, and you love to be creative this book is a must. It describes in step by step detail how to make chocolate treats for any occasion. I really love to use this book while making chocolate treats with my children. It gets the family involved, and chocolate will keep any childs interest. It captures the holiday spirit!

NOT HAVING MADE CHOCOLATE CRAFTS BEFORE, I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE ENLIGHTENING.I LEARNED VALUABLE INFORMATION THAT ALLOWED ME TO MAKE CHOCOLATE WITHOUT UNNECESSARY MISTAKES AND THEREFORE THROWING OUT THE MELTED CHOCOLATE. I CAN'T WAIT FOR ANOTHER BOOK! I CAN NOW MAKE IN-EXPENSIVE GIFTS FOR MY ENTIRE FAMILY.

The publication of this book is very timely since it appears right before the happening of the first "International Conference on Multiscale Materials Model(l)ing", which has been held in June 2002 at the Queen Mary University of London. But it is the subtitle (Modeling Across Scales), not the title, that conveys you what the book's content is about. In other words, the author engages himself in the (difficult) task of showing you how real materials can be modeled (or thought of) by mean of a multiscale approach bridging the atomistic to the macroscopic structure & behavior. As you can well imagine, this is an outstanding task!

The book is organized in four parts and it contains 13 chapters:

Part I: Thinking about the Material World
1. Idealizing Material Response
2. Continuum Mechanics Revisited
3. Quantum and Statistical Mechanics Revisited

Part II: Energetics of Crystalline Solids
4. Energetic Description of Crystalline Solids
5. Thermal and Elastic Properties of Crystals
6. Structural Energies and Phase Diagrams

Part III: Geometric Structures in Solids: Defects and Microstructures
7. Point Defects in Solids
8. Line Defects in Solids
9. Wall Defects in Solids
10. Microstructure and its Evolution

Part IV: Facing the Multiscale Challenge in Real Material Behavior
11. Points, Lines and Walls: Defect Interactions and Material Response
12. Bridging Scales: Effective Theory Construction
13. Universality and Specificity in Materials

Considering the difficulty of the subject and how it has been presented throughout the book, the clarity of language and the good quality of both graphs and figures, this book deserves five stars.

This is the absolutely best book I have seen in the general materials science field--the writing is clear, the explanations excellent, and detail sufficient. The books title is correct, but I think a bit unfair--the book really shines as a general, graduate level introduction to all of materials science, if you take the quite reasonable view that the ability to better model crystals, defects, and microstructures forms the core of the field.

As the author staes in the introduction, this books teaches you habits of the mind and modes of thought that help link up the disparate fields that make up materials, mechanics, and condensed matter physics.

There is no book in my (admittedly limited) library I got more out of during the course of my studies.

Final note: the book has excellent references, and is typset beautifully.

This book is the clearest, most practical book on data profiling and data quality that I have seen. Jack breaks down data quality issues into specific categories, and leaves you with a vision of what to do if you are building a data warehouse. His practical experience shows through very clearly and he talks to the IT developer (the reader) very effectively.

This book is on my very short list of essential reading for data warehouse professionals.

Ralph Kimball
Data Warehouse Author

This book is the clearest, most practical book on data profiling and data quality that I have seen. Jack breaks down data quality issues into specific categories, and leaves you with a vision of what to do if you are building a data warehouse. His practical experience shows through very clearly and he talks to the IT developer (the reader) very effectively.

This book is on my very short list of essential reading for data warehouse professionals.

This book has a good balance between experimental and computational methods. It provides a description of DNA microarray technologies, experimental protocols, and the multiple sources of noise and variability. The book contains an insightful overview of the computational issues and available algorithms for data analysis from differential expression, to dimensionality reduction and visualization (e.g. PCA), to clustering (e.g. hierarchical). New methods are described to gether with a good overview of available software, data bases, web sites, and other resources, as well as several "walk through" examples. I particularly enjoyed the last chapter on Systems Biology.

"Very complete : covers both the experimental and the computational methods with specific examples. Written by two top scientists who have worked hard at complementing each other's strengths. I particularly enjoyed the last chapter on Systems Biology which provides a masterful overview of current resaerch trends."

Excellent! Even if you fear probability and statistics, you can learn so much from this book. Dr. Serrano provides a crawl, walk, run approach to probability, statistics, and uncertainty. Any academic discipline could gain from this book, but the examples used tend toward engineering and its applications. Not only will the reader gain a firm foundation on the subject matter, the latter chapters take you to the upper level of stats, probability, and modeling of the unknown. As a bonus, Dr. Serrano inserts helpful hints and example programs to use in the very powerful C based Maple mathmatics software.

Excellent! I knew nothing of statistics or probability until this book. It takes you through a crawl, walk, run of these needlessly feared subjects. The practical applications are uncanny. Although focused on engineering applications, any academic discipline would gain from this book. Serrano also teaches you the basic ins and outs of the powerful C based Maple mathmatics software.

reading this book, i think very interesting neural network modeling hippocampus. so GOOD

To those students, mostly at the undergraduate level, that are not applied mathematic specialists and have looked for an easy to understand, well written, introduction to Neural Networks in learning processes; this is a must-have book. "Gateway..." is an excellent read, targeted to readers from a wide scope of backgrounds, from Biologists to Computer Science Majors through Medical Sciences.

Although leaning a bit too heavily on the conceptual view of the subject, the book introduces the reader gradually to what a Neural Network is, what a computer model is and how it works.

Two basic tools are of special interest to the reader. First, the beginning half of the book gives a general, yet very complete, introduction of the concepts, history and theory to be used. Second, for those with a little more interest in the mathematics there's a good number of "Math Boxes" delving into the details of the subject(s).

The effect of these tools is that, by the time you reach into the core matter of how neural networks models are constructed and worked in the field of Hippocampal memory, the reader suddenly finds his/herself well-familiarized with the theory. A comfortable, gradual, learning process has taken place without any discomfort (and in less time than you would think!).

This book was a great help in understanding the business of commercial acting and modeling. It gives you a well rounded understanding of what to do in any given situation in this industry.

I truley enjoyed the book, " How to Enter the business of Commercial Modeling & Acting...Without Getting Ripped Off!"! I have learned how to act in college, but never how to make great money acting in the business! I never realized how simple it was for someone to get started in commercial modeling and acting! This book is great because it holds your hand throughout the book and makes it so simple to get started. I have already loaned it to a few freinds and a stage mom or two! It was also great to read the interviews from actors, models and the folks who hire talent. The book covered the entire spectrum of the business. I would advise that not only "new" talent read this but experienced as well. I think it is awesome that the author took the time to write this book because anyone reading it CAN NOT GET SCAMMED IN THE INDUSTRY! Like Morgan Creek Productions quoted on the back of the book, "Shark repellent for the sertious actor" it couldn't have been said better! So many people think that they have to be beautiful to model...WRONG! The Author made a great point..He said that "real" people target the"real" consumer. As a matter of fact, when I watched TV after reading the book, it was about 80% real people in the tv commercials. Even radio commercials lately have the everyday type of voice as opposed to the radio announcer type of voice. I never realized there was such a demand for people like me in the commercial industry.

This is a wonderful book. It is GREAT! And not only for kids. It has inspired me even though I'm WAY past the kid stage :o) I've done countless craft programs with various ages of children in the past 10 years, so I know what it takes to work with children. This book is wonderful for kids to use on their own or for adults to follow. The directions are clear & everything is easy to understand. I LOVE the kids in the book. Lark did a great job with the photos. They look like they are having fun :o) My favorites ideas are the"Makin' Faces Face Plates" (what a riot!), "Pushpinzzzzzzzz", "Fine Feathered Friends", and "Spirit Dolls". I'm planning to give a copy of the book to a friend's 9 year-old daughter for Christmas.

I was so happy to participate in making some of the projects in this book and with Irene Dean writing it, I knew the book was naturally going to be good.

But, when I received it, I was totally floored at the quality - hardcover, great paper, clear pictures, well-written instructions. It was so much better than I'd even anticipated.

This book was written for someone much younger than I am, but I found it completely entertaining, throughout. Very thorough "basics" section, including a look at making simple canes, then on to the projects. Lively and colorful from cover to cover.

Jazzy, upbeat writing, hip kids in artful demonstration, wonderful photography, lots of humor and cool fonts surround each of the thirty projects. There are beginner items to advanced - critters, jewelry, things to make for gifts, from simple to sophisticated - kids are going to absolutely love this book! And just in time to give to a young person before the appearance of "summer doldrums," too. :)

But, I don't think its appeal is limited to the 8-14 years-old age bracket because IMO, most adults would find it fun, too. I'd recommend this one to beginning clayers of any age.

Congratulations to Irene and her terrific editor for a fabulous, fun book!

zig

Complete examples make this little book an excellent buy. I use the author's listings to guide conversion of device driver modules from Linux 2.0 to Linux 2.2. There are a few typos in the text, but fortunately the listings appear to have been prepared directly from machine-readable sources.

There don't seem to be many books out that cover this subject. This book bridges that gap for those of us who have only a moderate amount of user-level programming experience but want to get into the sometimes hairy world of kernel level programming. I was apprehensive about messing around at the kernel level for fear of wrecking things, but this book provided the necessary guidance to avert such disasters.

I had a chance to compare this book, side by side with another at the same level. This was the winner, almost before I read the content.

First, it is easy to follow the flow of each page. MMOW offers a clear organization of its content. The other - which shall remain nameless - bounces the eye from one brightly colored distraction to another. The [dis]organization of each page reflects the [dis]organization of each book as a whole.

The book's strengths stand on their own, though. MMOW treats the teen reader as an intelligent, capable individual - not a child to be amused with colored toys. MMOW develops truly creative thinking, by picking a problem and working on just that for weeks at a time. Students attack each problem from many angles, using every different mathematical tool at their disposal. I really wish I knew more adults who could look at one problem in two ways, or more.

Most importantly, MMOW develops a healthy faculty of self-criticism. Any of a student's solutions will have strengths and weaknesses. MMOW encourages students to weigh a solution's merits against the merits of other solutions. MMOW also encourages students to explore the weaknesses in their own solutions, and to create stronger solutions in response. The student's eventual math may end at the checkbook or fly to Mars; either way, checking and correction are critical for success.

MMOW actually adresses both kinds of students, those who need to solidify basic skills, and those who leap ahead. The other book treats struggling students deplorably. They are thrown a few watered-down problems and an "everybody wins" grading plan. MMOW tries to make sure that all students master the basics.

Having seen just that one other book at the pre-algebra level, I give COMAP my strongest approval.

I am using this book with a group of high school sophomores who are preparing to transition to college credit math classes at the community college that sponsors our charter school program. The overall quality of the chapters is excellent: the applications-based lessons are engaging for most students, but the mathematics does not get 'lost in the shuffle' as can easily happen. There is a nice mix of problems and good ancillary material for teachers. The book is not flawless, but what is? Most of the errors seem to be of the typo/glitch kind, rather than major substantive ones. Overall, an excellent book if you want students to see mathematics as part of the real world, not simply as an academic exercise or complete abstraction.