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This book gave us all I needed to get through Delphi 2 programming! Simple, easy to understand techniques taught by a great writer.

We use this book in addition to our own internal ECG course. It gives plenty nice examples for ECGs with a short description, which is not to complex for our audience (programmers and salespeople for out PC-based ECG systems). Excellent work! The authors also have an excellent website with lots of ECG material.

This is a well-written, carefully organized book that belongs on desks across America! Topics covered include organizing before writing, overcoming writer's block, suiting letters to complex situations, and using grammar and punctuation properly. If I had to provide one criticism, it would only be that the book is too short! As a reader, I didn't tire of the useful sample letters and would have happily read more and more. A great reference for the tentative writer and a good refresher for seasoned writers, as well.

This is a massive collection of signatures that is probably unequaled in any single reference. As a collector of moderately priced regional art, I found it lacking the examples I would be most interested in. On the other hand, the more famous and well known artists are represented well. This book is probably more suited to the experts rather than the weekend treasure hunter.

If there is a single concept that separates the successful math major from the math student, it is the ability to understand epsilon-delta proofs. First encountered in calculus, I have received more negative student feedback about what they mean than any other topic and it only gets worse when students move on to real analysis. Therefore, math teachers are always on the lookout for good exercises that can be used to clarify the meaning of those elusive epsilons and deltas.
The authors present twelve exercises that illustrate fundamental concepts of real analysis. The topics covered are boundedness, supremum/infimum, sequences, continuity, limits, limit suprema/infima and pointwise and uniform convergence. Numeric computations using Maple are frequently used with small values for å to demonstrate the trends of the expressions, as visual guide exercises for eight of the labs are included at the end. These labs are very helpful in giving the students visual demonstrations of the behavior of the formulas.
Many of the exercises involve computations designed to be performed on a calculator. There are also many tables where the students are expected to fill in the remaining entries. I found this workbook style to be a very sound approach to the teaching of real analysis and couldn't help but try a few of the problems.
Designed to be a supplement for a first course in real analysis, this book presents a set of problem solving strategies and problems to try them on that will help teach students what real analysis is all about. I definitely recommend that all teachers of calculus and real analysis look it over thoroughly before they teach these subjects the next time.

Published in the recreational mathematics e-mail newsletter, reprinted with permission.

Irving Adler wrote this back in 1967, anticipating a time, "some day in the near future" when group theory will be standard for 7th graders. So his text assumes 6th grade level math as preparation.

I'm writing this in 2003, and find little hint of Irving's bravery among today's reformists. But for those who do want to craft a quality mix for tomorrow's young, Adler's book remains a valuable resource.

Since the 1960s, we've seen numerous advances that might impact our approach today (Rubik's Cube, advances in cryptography, easier programming languages), but this tome is still highly relevant.

Whether Adler succeeds in keeping this material accessible to 7th graders all the way to the end, where he's dealing with homomorphisms and cosets of normal subgroups, is debatable, but also not so important. The goal is to create a footprint for the material, and then assume a thread stretching forward through higher grades.

I have the compact disc version, which is longer than the cassette version. I really like the discussions, but the packaging is skimpy. There should be a detailed description and table of contents in each jewel case. A small timeline and glossary would be wonderful. But it has none of these, and for the price I expected better. But the recordings are well done, and although I would have liked more talk about musical forms, the set does live up to its title.

Good collection of workable macro ideas but beware there is a fair smatterring of untranslated German scraps throughout the samples both in the worksheets and the VBA code.

Most of the differences are idiomatic translation - example the index says: "How can I call a Macro depending on how long the Workbook has been open?" when the real translation is "How can I call a Macro depending on what time the Workbook is opened".

As the VBA code started life in German a number of code samples use German language words as variable names making it a liitle difficult at time to decipher the meaning.

The CD is easy to use but lacks an install to Hard-disk option for the frequent user but that should prove litle challenge for the level of intellect for users likely to access the code.

The code is well laid out and every module is in a separate workbook allowing simple testing and exploration of the idea. Very few of the samples failed to run as promised and most failures relate to version differences in Excel particularly with those who have already migrated to XP - and then its mainly in the samples that use various email techniques or are affected by security levels in the users Excel.

Biggest plus is the cut and paste ability as the modules are laid out well and would satisfy the requirements of the strictest code cutter.

I keep going back to it and am gradually building up a better list of what each sample really does - I guess it was hard to find a translator who was as good at translation as Excel and VBA which is the only detraction from an otherwise great product!

If you're stuggling with the ideas of categorization, conceptualization, and subjectivity in regards to cross-cultural experience and knowledge, then this book might help you. Sahlins basically proves Obeyesekere wrong about the events in Hawaii in the 18th century and throws some philosophical ideas at our "culture-killing" culture. He expounds about the worst tragedy of our politically correct society; in order to justify the intelligence of native societies, we impose our western values upon them. This robs them of their voice and is more along the lines of colonial thinking than Captain Cook ever could have been.

The subject of this book is, of course, the European Space Agency, but more specifically the Science Programme and its "Horizon 2000" long term plan. Both authors are former executives of ESA and were directly involved in the definition of this plan, ensuring accurate information. Roger Bonnet was actually the head of the Science Programme for more than 20 years, and resigned only in 2000.

The first part of the text provides a historical background of the early days of cooperation in space among European nations, with the rise and fall of ELDO, and the transformation of ESRO into ESA in 1975. The book then continues with a explanation of how the very peculiar ESA system works: mandatory and optional programmes, the fair return system, the 120% cost overrun limit, etc. Diagrams are provided to synthesize the information.

Then, several international endeavours are being described: Giotto, the International Solar Polar Mission (which lead to Ulysses) or the ISS. For each, the role of ESA is explained, demonstrating the growing confidence of the Agency as it deals with more and more complex projects. Finally, the new international context, since the fall of the Soviet block and the rise of the European Union, sets the stage for the future of Europe in space.

This book, which is quite short, nonetheless provides the reader with a good idea of what ESA is, and how different it is from national organizations, such as NASA. Indeed, anyone frustrated by the repetitive project cancellations on the American side will be quite surprised to learn that not one ESA science project has ever been cancelled once approved, in more than 20 years. And only a few projects have suffered from major cost overrun... and they all involved some cooperation with NASA. As a consequence, it is quite clear from this text that both authors, who have been directly involved with those projects, share some resentment towards the US way of doing things.

Overall a good book, accurate and well written, if a little bit too short.

If you want to improve you overall knowledge of ESA, I would recommend the very interesting book from a professional anthropologist: "Launching Europe" by S. Zabusky (1995, ISBN 0691029725). In just under 300 pages, you will get an intimate view of the inner workings of ESA. For a very complete history, in 600 pages, you should read "A New Force at a New Frontier" by K. Madders (1997, ISBN 0521570964). You can also order (for free!) the annual reports from 1994 directly from the ESA web site.