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LINPAR for Windows: Matrix Parameters for Multiconductor Transmission Lines, Software and User's Manual, Version 2.0
Published in Software by Artech House (July, 1999)
Authors: Antonije R. Djordjevic, Miodrag B. Bazdar, Tapan K. Sarkar, and Roger F. Harrington
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Identification of Parametric Models: From Experimental Data (Communications and Control Engineering)
Published in Hardcover by Springer Verlag (15 January, 1997)
Authors: Eric Walter, Luc Pronzato, and John Norton
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Photoshop Web Magic
Published in Textbook Binding by Hayden (December, 1996)
Authors: Ted Schulman, Renee Lewinter, and Tom Emmanuelides
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Photoshop Web Magic is a four-color book with instructions on how to use Photoshop to create numerous effects. The authors show you how to create backgrounds, titles, icons, rules, buttons, and bullets using such elements as photos; patterns; clip art; custom brushes; decorative fonts; gradients; and 3D, neon, beveled, and glass effects. The authors also demonstrate how to design menu bars with tabs and gradients, how to create rotating and twirling animations, and how to produce many other sample effects.

This book has a direct style and an attractive design, which is handy because you need to have a clear visual understanding of what effects you're trying to produce when creating Web graphics. The book claims to be for both beginners and experts, but solid experience with Photoshop is helpful for tackling some of the tasks. What sets this book apart from others is that you see not only what the effects look like, but also how good-looking the effects are. A CD includes practice files, clip art, photos, fonts, Web utilities, and trial versions of filter plug-ins.

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Thin piece....
This book might be good for complete beginners, but even though im not an experienced web-designer myself, I had read the book in less than an hour. A thin piece that i will not recommend unless you are a complete beginner.

mediocre web graphics book
Photoshop Web Magic is OK for individual graphics, but does not relate to designing an entire page easily. I used this book in teaching a class on web graphics and it was not very useful. It appears to be a rush job, so that the publisher could get something out with the word "web" in the title. It is OK for reference, but the exercises tend to be too gaudy or tacky for most professional web pages.

Step by step understanding of Photoshop
I enjoyed the easy to follow recipe style of this book. After following the exercises in this book Photoshop revealed itself to me.


Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction
Published in Hardcover by Blackwell Publishers (April, 1996)
Authors: Mark Newson and Vivian Cook
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badly written
this book contains a few gems, mostly from Chomsky, but the authors write very bad english!

A Transition Help from GB to MP
The Government and Binding Theory (GB), though Chomsky prefers it to be called the Principle and Parameter Theory, is the most popular version of Chomsky's grammar in 1980s'. This book is an easy reading to cover every important part of GB. All significant terms are highlighted in a shaded block, which is very convenient for the reader to check up. In particular, the last chapter of the book provides a brief but clear explanation for the current version of Chomsky's theory, i.e., the Minimalist Program (MP). The chapter is a good help for the reader who want to transit from GB to MP, though he would be quite surprising to see that almost all key concepts in GB, such as D-structure, S-structure, Government, disappear in MP. This is a good introductory book both about the GB and MP framework.

excellent intro to GB for non-linguists
Although I am not a Chomskyan, I personally am fond of this book. It is well-written and lucid, presenting basic Government & Binding theory in terms that are very easy to understand. I doubt a single non-technical introduction to generative grammar of this brevity and clarity has yet been written (far superior to Pinker's hand-waving in _The Language Instinct_), and I recommend it to anyone, non-generative linguist and non-linguist alike, who is interested in current mainstream linguistics in North America.

However, Cook does seem worshipful of Chomsky to a degree that is just short of disturbing; Chomsky is frequently quoted more as authority than for argument, and does indeed appear on almost every page. The overall affect was, for me, disquieting.

It is also, of course, no longer accurate: "Chomsky's" Universal Grammar is now the Minimalist Program, which is handled only by a final, tacked-on chapter. Cook should completely update this book with a third edition that starts with Chomsky's current theory from the beginning.


Nonlinear Regression Analysis and Its Applications
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (August, 1988)
Authors: Douglas M. Bates and Donald G. Watts
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watch out
If you are looking for some general guidelines into non-linear regression this is NOT for you. This is way over basic if not over intermediate bordering on super advanced non-linear regression discussion. The beginner and fairly knowledgeable person that is looking for some basic insight into non-linear work should stay away from this. A long way from this!

excellent and practical text on nonlinear regression
Along with Gallant's book on nonlinear regression this book is one of the best. It is on an intermediate level and assumes some knowledge of linear regression. Notable unique aspects of the book are (1) good use of geometry, (2) discussion of derivative free methods, (3) use of profile likelihood and profile t plots and (4) measures of degree of nonlinearity of the problem. The authors also provide many real world applications directly from their consulting experience.

These authors were among the researchers that developed these measures of nonlinearity and so that aspect of the book is original and is emphasized in this book more than in others such as Gallant's.


Turbine Design: The Effect on Axial Flow Turbine Performance of Parameter Variation
Published in Hardcover by Amer Society of Mechanical Engineers (May, 2000)
Author: Leslie Fielding
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Turbine Design
The potential of this book could have been enermous and an indeed welcome contribution to the business. But the book is sometimes disapointing especially when it comes to loss modelling, where the outdated original Ainley and Mathieson from 1951 is used. On the other hand, the chaper on blockage wery well written and useful.


Control and Estimation in Distributed Parameter Systems (Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 11)
Published in Paperback by Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (August, 1992)
Author: H. Thomas Banks
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Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Laramie, Wyomin, January 25-29, 1988 (Lecture Notes in Statistics)
Published in Paperback by Springer Verlag (September, 1989)
Authors: Lyman L. McDonald, B. Manly, J. Lockwood, and J. Logan
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Bahran
I am Ph.D of Agricultural Entomology. I am rock climbing coach! I love Mathematical biology.


Introducing Transformational Grammar: From Rules to Principles and Parameters
Published in Paperback by Edward Arnold (February, 1995)
Authors: Jamal Ouhalla and Jamal Cuhalla
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Not a Good Introduction to Syntax
This was a very disappointing book. It was used as a textbook for an undergraduate Syntactic Theory course that I took, and I just did not find it to be very understandable. There weren't enough examples of structure, and the examples that were there were often not adequately explained. Theories were not clearly distinguished, and several theories were presented at once, making it difficult to tell them apart. Some of the material was very good, especially the parts on phrase structure rules and syntactic categories. Everything after chapter 5, however, made little sense and was just too thick and murky to wade through. The sections on anaphora, passives, raising, and control were very difficult to understand. Keep in mind that this is coming from a beginner's perspective, and perhaps people with more of a background in syntax will have a much better time with it. However, as an introduction to syntactic theories and concepts it was not a very helpful book.


Numerical Data Fitting in Dynamical Systems: A Practical Introduction With Applications and Software (Applied Optimization, 77)
Published in Hardcover by Kluwer Academic Publishers (January, 2003)
Author: Klaus Schittkowski
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This book has the very very brief introductions to various topics and it almost feels like reading a bibliography on the topic of numerical data fitting ... could not find anything worthwhile in it .... I found more useful and comprehensive information on this topic through google search on the internet ... I regret spending all that money on this book.


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