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It covers various types of ground vehicles and the authors has done a tremendus job to produce such a good book especially on engineering point of view. Well and easy understanding for Engineers with lots of mathematically formulaes and explainations.

It worth to read over and over again.

A book for reference if involving ground vehicle dynamic computations.

I HAVE NOT YET SEEN THIS BOOK, SO I COULD NOT WRITE REVIEW COMMEN

Similar to Steven Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People, etc.) principles, but stated in a fresh way and making insightful observations about life at the turn of the 21st century - why it's so stressful, and what we can do about it. I bought this book for one friend and recommended it to several others.

Six strategies for taming the 'new world of work' address the problems inherent in the breakdown between barriers between work and home life. Readers who find themselves working not only harder but all the time will find Thriving In 24/7 a practical guide to adjusting routines and recognizing the hidden obstacles to success at home and at work.

I like this book very much because it starts with the basics of Adobe Photoshop, and it also starts with learning different effects and techniques you can start to use right away. This is a fun way to learn - you really feel like you are accomplishing something. Perkins and Grant use layman language without making the reader feel like a dummy; illustrations and examples of what is being talked about are plentiful.

I turned to this book many times when I needed to learn a Photoshop technique in a hurry, although I have several Adobe Photoshop books on hand. I knew with Tradional Photographic Effects With Adobe Photoshop I could do what I needed to with little confusion and searching.

Along with clear and concise instructions for working on your photographs, a section covers input and output techniques.

This is a great book for Photoshop beginners and a nice book for Photoshop pros to have on hand to a technique up in a hurry.

This book pulls out all the stops, presenting helpful, practical information vital to creating perfect prints. It is well illustrated with color images and screenshots, making any digital-photographic endeavor--from sandwiching to vignetting to creating "infrared" images--a quick and painless process. I especially appreciated the reader-friendly organization of the book. I could flip to any page to find a great technique, mastering the steps at my own pace without wading through a maze of unimportant, high-brow digital jargon. This book is inspiring!

John Guaspari uses a murder mystery - Who killed the consultant? - to set up his explanation of the value effect and its power. While value effect adherents at a corporate retreat are busy devising strategies to serve customers by employing the fundamentals of human nature, the consultant gets whacked. But who did it? The guilty party is someone from the corporate department that is most threatened by the use of the value effect. Do we have a human resources murderer or a marketing manslayer? Trying to figure out the mystery adds some fun to this business saga, which we at getAbstract.com recommend while applauding the author's originality in creating a corporate thriller. His book is a cut above the usual "next big thing" pomposity, even if the main CVC concepts described within will sound distressingly familiar to readers of management theory. (By the way, if you don't care about who done it, but are curious about CVC, the value effect itself is skillfully summarized in a concluding memo.)

John Guaspari is a true-blue man of business, being the cofounder of Guaspari & Saltz, Inc. of Concord, MA. He is a thought guru on various aspects of customer service and has written four books on the subject.

The Value Effect is not another of John Guaspari's well known books about quality in business, but is a good old-fashioned whodunit murder mystery based in the world of business, competition, and things not being quite what they seem. Even Detective Larry Gatling is not quite what he seems. He comes on like Columbo, and in the end uses simple logic to solve a mystery that has the big thinkers at Lodestar, Inc. baffled.

Lodestar has what they call an annual NBT, or Next Best Thing. Their latest NBT has been a smashing success. Michael Fallon engineered what was called "Creating Value Connections," and, surprisingly, it worked with Lodestar's customers and staff. But just as he is about to uncover the master stroke, Michael Fallon ends up dead, and the execs of Lodestar are the primary suspects. Gatling goes to work and hooks up with Ronald Carpenter, who was working with Fallon at the time of the murder:

"Gatling was intrigued. 'Let me ask you something,' he said. 'I know more than I'd like to know about all this murder stuff. It's my business. When it comes to some of the stuff you were talking about, like Total Reengineering and Empowered Quality and NBTs and CVSs and all the rest, though, I can't say I know much about those kinds of things. So I'm thinking, maybe you can help me understand the business side of all this. You know, behind the scenes, help me sort through what I'm gonna hear when I talk to the others."

Gatling, who has been "on the beat for twenty-two years-be twenty-three years in June," uses his moxy to disarm and expose the killer.

The Value Effect is written in a stripped-down, "just the facts, ma'am" manner. It is clean, concise, contains no fluff or unnecessary side characters, and drives its point home well.

Shelley Glodowski Reviewer

As an adult, I was fascinated by this book. I enjoyed the photos and the biography. I think this is a book for adults and children to read together and to use as a springboard for dialogue about life's challenges and how to deal with them, as well as the discrimination faced by a minority. It is all about the incredibly difficult challenges that one man has gone through (discrimination, parental loss as a child, polio, etc.), and is inspiring in how he reinvented himself over the years and managed to find success.

I found this book very inspirational, as it tells the life and struggles of an artist and Hollywood special effects master. The language sparked my interest and made me want to read more. I especially enjoyed the details about Chang's work with Walt Disney Studios and the Star Trek TV show. The book made me feel that I personally knew someone famous. This is an interesting story of a man who accomplished so much. As an educator, I would recommend the book to students and to adults. It will help others realize that we CAN get past difficult times and that we can nurture our own creativity in order to see our own dreams come true.

So many people can benefit from this book: nutritionists, nurses, physical therapists, sports medicine, environmental sciences, etc. I only wish the media would present such informatiion as clearly to the public as this book does.

The authors of this book have taken what is surely a very complex issue and made it both readable and informative. They cover all or most of the issues concerning both tap and bottled water and allow the reader to make up his or her mind about which course to follow. I particularly appreciated the history of drinking water going back to Biblical and Talmudic times. I think anyone who drinks water would benefit from this book.

In The Wireless Age: Its Meaning For Learning And Schools, Judy Breck (director of academics at bigchalk.com, an education portal serving the K-12 learning community) offers a jargon-free presentation of insights into the wealth of educational resources the Internet offers the classroom and students of today. Breck blends a theoretical explanation of the growth of cyberspace with a practical exploration of the tools available for its maximum utilization in the learning process. The Wireless Age is an invaluable introduction for classroom teachers, school librarians, education policy makers, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in improving and enhancing the quality of public, parochial, and private schools.

Judy Breck's The Wireless Age is an enlightening and passionate prediction of the future role the Internet will play in education worldwide. Wires and plugs will disappear and all students may be empowered with their own handheld computer devices that will be as inexpensive as telephones. In the authors words:

"I predict that wireless handheld computers that include Internet access will make teaching in now difficult schools less frustrating and more fun. The kids will respond to having their own tools, just as ghetto kids did a century and a half ago to learning their letters by writing them on a tablet. The optimism of kids is the elixir that will restore the good health of teaching in America."

Making all that is known available to all children, through a far-reaching technological transition, raises crucial questions about the nature of teaching and learning. Will teachers understand how to apply this new, powerful global tool? To what end will it be applied? How will teachers engage students to use this wealth of knowledge? Will it change the meaning of learning? Will students know what it means to use knowledge to discover and create? What does all this mean to the standards movement engulfing American education? The author concludes:

"The Great Change will be complete when a student can hold in his or her hand everything that is known."

And our understanding of its meaning for learning and schools will just begin.

Interesting study of nine culturally diverse women and their reactions to computers based on their life experiences. Women who are computerphobic will gain insight into their condition after reading this book.

This book challenges traditional research that indicates that gender differences explain why women exhibit lower levels of computer use. What an eye opener

Writing from the perspective of an art historian, Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women transform their lives, considering how these inventions and developments offered women new liberties, growing work-associated competencies, and ultimately confrontations with established perceptions of women's work. Add over 150 images of women at work with machines from American and European art depiction and you have Women And The Machine, a fascinating and informative blending of social history and art.

"Women and the Machine" by Julie Wosk is a bright new breakthrough text and picture book, thoroughly and adeptly written in a classical narrative-chronological style. I was intimidated at first because of the knowledgeable depth she so aptly displayed, but gradually I began to appreciate Wosk's underlying message that women will no longer stand to be ignored in the roles of human history. Free of resentments and bitter feelings, Wosk discusses the treatment and attitudes of women since times of "the spinning wheel to the electronic age." "Women..." makes an excellent sourcebook for book reports, covering "Women and the Bicycle" (Chapter 4), "Women and the Automobile" at Chapter 5. From there she moves into "Women and Aviation" and "Women in Wartime" at Chapters 6 and 7, respectively.

This book is beautifully arranged with full color photographs, old advertisements, curios, mosaics and even art. As a grown man myself, I feel men could develop a deeper respect of women's roles in modern history, as well as a well-deserved slice of humble pie. We can say, "No, women are not mechanically incompetent, nor are they completely helpless without men in their lives." This book has proven that women are quite capable and adept, having had an important role in shaping the 20th century and beyond. Remember Rosie the Riveter? There's a picture of her in here. That women played a vital role in our World War 2 victory is self-evident, having left the role of housewife and instead have helped to build our fighter planes, gun turrets and tanks--which the fighting men used on the battlefields. Men, take note. Women, take hope. We are, after all, together part of making the world a better place. It's not always men first. Women sometimes have the last word, and we have to accept that. "Women and the Machine" is nothing short of brilliant and provocative, completely unequalled to date.

This book is huge. Meaning in length and in import. John Landon has synthesized all of world history, look in the bibliography, enough books to last a lifetime, look at his Amazon.com reviews, a smaller number, still enough to last most people a very long time, look at this book itself, it is very detailed. What do you get when you synthesize this world's past? The eonic effect. There are three great turning points-the rise of civilization with Egypt and Sumer at -3000, the rise of all the great religious and philosophical traditions with the Axial age, (-600 to -400), and the rise of the modern during 1500 to 1800. You'll notice a periodicity of 2400 years. Not a predictive aspect of the book, just a fact that we can observe, and that we could perhaps nail down conclusively with more evidence stretching back into deep time, though around -5000 and -8000 there are suggestive concentrations of history. So random variation and selective survival, Darwinian evolution, is not applicable to humanity. In reality there is periodic morphogenesis, which natural selection can't account for. But Darwinism is not really the book's subject. There are many other books which easily dispatch that strange theory. (Beyond Natural Selection, by Robert Wesson. Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, by Michael Denton). World History and the Eonic Effect is not a piece of theology, either. The world's religions, non-adaptive human endeavors, are of course one of the book's subjects, but the book cannot endorse theories of a deity, all of which for Landon face the same problems as Darwinian theory, except that now god needs to be explained instead of man. To me, god is that which naturally arises out of "nothing." How to explain it? It can't be explained, but it can make sense, if you're feeling right. To me, the complexity of the human brain proves intelligent design. One hundred trillion neuronal interconnections is too large a number, compared even to four billion years. 25,000 perfect, sublimely inspired in their level of genius, connections on average, every year the earth has existed? Seventy trillion cells in the human body, harmonically grown like an infinite symphony under the guidance of a string of base pairs a few billion long? It's not possible, except that it happens, as Wesson says. So read WH&EE today, or perhaps tomorrow, because it helps to be in the right mood/mode when diving into a study this expansive. Landon's writing is good to stare at, read if possible, think about, and ultimately tell everyone about, because the eonic effect is staring us in the face, and it's kind of embarrassing that we don't talk about it. How will the Darwinists explain this one away?

Here we have a book that commits one of the greatest taboos of modern science- it challenges Darwin. And it does a great job. While it must be said that I found aspects of the book unclear, I enjoyed the journey it took me on. Landon is convinced that history, if looked at with an open, flexible mind, is trying to tell us something. It is telling us that there are clear patterns of change which speak strongly against any attempt to explain away culture in a purely mechanistic/reductionistic fashion. I also delighted in the sort of creative chaos which this book demonstrates. It it obvious that Landon's imagination is fully engaged with a search for more plausible explanations of the evolution of culture. In fact, personally, I take this book to be an example of the beginning direction in which science must move if it is to begin penetrating the surface of things, if it is to begin presenting us with true knowledge, instead of abstract information based on hollow models. One of the primary indicators that somebody is engaging with this transformation in science, is, I think, the quality of imagination that can be experienced in their work. Now, obviously, I don't mean imagination in the positivistic sense of the word in which it is striped of any access to objectivity, but in the Coleridgian/Barfieldian/Goethean/Steinerian sense in which the imagination is understood as THE aspect of reality which, if applied in a trained, systematic manner, we must use to gain access into the inward aspects of reality. Unfortunately, modern science has quickly swept the 'inward' out, and we are left with ,as Barfield called it, "an epistemology of outwardness with no inwardness". I believe the ideas which this book is trying to present would do well to be grounded in a more explicit theory of knowledge- one which allows the very reasons this book had to be written in the first place to be addressed. The philosophical works of Owen Barfield and Rudolf Steiner are wonderful examples of this sort of epistemology. Anybody interested in this approach would want to read, "History, Guilt and Habit" and "Saving the Appearances" by Owen Barfield and "Truth and Knowledge" and "A Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe" by Steiner.

The Eonic Effect should be read on two levels. Obviously, for the content, but also with a feeling for the quality of thinking which is going into its production. It doesn't matter if it is unclear in some places because actually, often, it is the places I find it a little unclear in which I sense the beginnings of the objective imagination mentioned above. A great and very particular book which I think will be treasured by many interesting souls over the years. I look forward to catching Landon's next work.

ps: just a little personal gaurantee: in fifty years it won't be nearly the big deal it is today to challenge Darwin because there will be so many strong movements in science which, while appreciating his efforts to articulate evolution, will be based on much more convincing grounds. If you stand back and look at the literature surrounding the Darwin debate, it is clear that we aren't fixated on Darwin's theory because it brings us the most insight, but because the possibility of having to let it go for new, challenging ideas, is terrifying...especially ideas which challenge the greatest taboo of all in science: the taboo which does not allow us to question the assumption that mind with all its creative activity is a product of nature with all its mechanical, blind forces.