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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.

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.

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

this book contains a few gems, mostly from Chomsky, but the authors write very bad english!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

I am Ph.D of Agricultural Entomology. I am rock climbing coach! I love Mathematical biology.

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.

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.