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This is really a great book of numerical examples. It teaches you on how to use those "abstract" numerical recipes. From here you will be a good commander of both numerical recipes and numerical programming. You will learn a lot of practical experience. You can not miss it! enjoy it.

If you ever had to program a complicated numerical algorithm, such as SVD decomposition, Bessel functions, eigensystems or Fourier transform, you will know how useful this book is. All those problems, and many others, are presented and the full BASIC code of a routine, which solves it, is given. This book is an issue for "Numerical recipes in FORTRAN", that brings the codes in FORTRAN 77 and also the mathematical theory behind the routines. There are versions of this issue also for Pascal and C++. If you need any routine, you just have to "cut and paste" it from the book into your program. Don't left to look "Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN", which is the mother of the whole collection.

Provides insights into the practice of Object Oriented Software Engineering through numerous C++ examples, culminating in the development of a chess game program that runs to 4000 lines of elegant C++ code. The important issues in the design and implementation of object oriented software are described with clarity, precision and pragmatism. I have purchased and read literally dozens of OOP/C++ texts - this book remains one of my most valued texts. Quite simply, an OOP classic.

The venerable Paradox for DOS set the standards by which all database products are measured today in terms of power vs. ease of use. This even includes the newer Windows-based tools. If you or anyone at your office still uses Paradox for DOS today then this book MUST be part of your library. I was the technical editor for the 4.0-based edition of the book and the quality and quantity of useful information in this text has to been seen to be truly appreciated.

This book gives practical advice in communication and interaction with others using examples from the life of Jesus. It is set up a bit like a daily devotional rather than chapter form. Each "nugget" is one or two pages long and includes both a title and theme quote. Some examples of theme quotes from the book are. - Jesus was authoritative, not authoritarian. - Jesus kept his finger on the pulse of the world. - Look for several people you want for friends. - Jesus kept his complaints private. - Jesus went beyond doing good things for good people. - People become what you call them. - Jesus was discreet in his use of power. - Jesus dealt directly with his enemies. These are just of few of the 59 miniature power lessons from the life of Jesus. This makes a great gift or coffee table book as well as helpful personal tool.

I know and appreciate very much Ms. Grafton's books. Being a lacemaker, a crocheter and an embroiderer, I really love the variety of laces presented in this book. Antique prints, drawings and photographs bring us many examples of historical laces. Needlelace plus Bruges, Venetian, Milanese, Teneriffe, Battenberg laces and Square-net embroidery are all presented in this book. Although very appealing to the eye, it could disappoint the novice lacemaker, because there are no instructions, prickings or diagrams; only a wealth of exquisitely detailed laces from many ages and countries. Anyway, it's a good source for advanced lacemakers (embroiderers, crocheters...): they can draw inspiration from those patterns to develop their own designs and prickings.

This book is essential to those working with SAS in a reporting environment. Lauren steps you through PROC TAB (as it's called where I work) in a very logical manner. I really learned a lot about PROC TAB from this book! It's a life saver. I really like the inclusion of material on new features in PROC TAB introduced in version 7. In summary, this is the ultimate reference to PROC TAB.

I've used this book for several years to teach an undergrad course introducing CS majors to assembly language and computer representation of data.

The authors have chosen an interesting way to ease the transition from high-level language to assembly: they use several successively more realistic versions of the same (ultimately MIPS) assembly language, all of which run on a simulator provided with the book. The first models a memory-to-memory machine, with typed variables and no registers, allowing students to learn about the minimal arithmetic and control operations (including a limited form of procedure calling) of assembly language without worrying about other concerns. In this context they spend two chapters on integer, floating-point, and character representation. In Chap. 7 they introduce memory addresses, using an array-like syntax familiar to high-level-language programmers, and show how to implement simple data structures. In Chap. 8 they introduce registers and type-specific operations thereon, pointing out that in a load/store architecture like MIPS, all arithmetic actually works on registers. Chap. 9 treats procedures more fully. This constitutes a minimal course; the remaining five chapters can be used as time allows. Chap. 10 discusses assemblers, machine code format, and the "true" MIPS assembly language; chap. 11 discusses I/O, chap. 12 interrupts and exceptions; chap. 13 performance; and chap. 14 other approaches to computer architecture.

I switched to this book when I found Hennessy & Patterson too advanced for my students, and it has served me well. Students are sometimes a little confused about which version of the assembly language we're using at the moment, and I wish the author of the simulator had put in a three-way choice rather than accepting all three languages at once, but I still think the approach works better than throwing the kids in the deep end.

As a law student, I have often sought books which are willing to explain difficult material in the clearest terms possible. With most textbooks there is no hope. However, this Real Estate Examples and Explainations book was fantastic. It is written clearly and yet deals with some of the most complex material in real estate law. For persons seeking a grasp of the fundamentals of real estate law and finance, this book is of infinite value. For others seeking a more detailed analysis of complex real estate issues, this is a good starting off point. I would highly recommend this text.

The theory of representations of semisimple Lie groups is very complete from a mathematical perspective and is of enormous importance in high energy physics. This book gives a comprehensive overview of this theory, and deals with both the noncompact and compact cases. My interest was with the noncompact case and in topics such as the Langland's classification, and so I read only chapters 5 - 10. Therefore my review will be confined to these chapters. Throughout the book, G denotes the group in question and K denotes the elements of G fixed under the Cartan involution. The author endeavors, and this is reflected in the title of the book, to employ many examples to illustrate the main results. This makes the book considerably more easy to follow than others that are written in the "Bourbaki" style.

The Iwasawa and Bruhat decompositions and the Weyl group construction are shown to hold for non-compact groups in chapter 5. The Borel-Weil theorem is proven for compact connected Lie groups using the results of the chapter. The Harish-Chandra decomposition fo linear connected reductive groups is proven in chapter 6. The author shows clearly the role of holomorphic representations in obtaining this result and the construction of holomorphic discrete series. The principal series representations of SL(2, R) and SL(2, C) are use to motivate the notion of an 'induced representation" in chapter 7. The theory of induced representations involves the Bruhat theory and its use of distribution theory, and relates via the 'intertwining operators', irreducible representations of two subgroups.

The author discusses the notion of an admissible representation in chapter 8, which are representations on a Hilbert space by unitary operators and each element in K has finite multiplicity when the representation is restricted to K. Equivalence of admissible representations are discussed via the concept of an "infinitesimal equivalance", which is the usual notion if the representation is unitary and irreducible. The Langlands classification of irreducible admissible representations is discussed in detail. The Langlands program shows to what extent irreducible admissible representations of a group are determined by the parabolic subgroups. The construction of discrete series, used throughout the proof of the Langlands classification, is then done in detail in the next chapter. Ths concept of an admissible infinitesimally unitary representation plays particular importance here. Here the representation operators act like skew-Hermitian operators with respect to an inner product on the space of K-finite vectors. If one reads this chapter from a physics perspective, the representations constructed using discrete series are somewhat 'exotic' and will probably not enter into applications, in spite of the fact that physical considerations do dictate sometimes the use of noncompact groups.

Chapter 10 addresses the question as to the completeness of irreducible admissible representations using discrete series. If there not enough discrete series representations this will show up in the Fourier analysis of square integrable functions on the group. In the compact case, Fourier analysis proceeded via the characters of irreducible representations. The author shows how to do this in the noncompact case via 'global characters' of representations, which are well-behaved generalizations of the compact case. The well-behavedness of global characters comes from their being of trace class, with the result of the trace being a distribution. The author gives explicit formulas for the case of SL(2, R), and shows hows differential equations can be used to limit the possibilities for how characters behave. In fact, the author shows to what extent characters are functions, proving that the restriction of any irreducible global character of G to the 'regular set' is a real analytic function.