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No image in our culture invokes a more powerful taboo than the male nude. Yet this subject matter has held a central position in Western culture-from the idealized beauty of ancient Greek and Roman statues to the photography an pop media of today.
With lavish illustrations and an incisive, witty text, Adam reveals a history of the male in art of every medium. This book shows how the heroic nude traversed the centuries from ancient Rome to the "peplum" movies of the 1950's; how a tamer, feminized male made his appearance in flirtatious paintings of the French rococo; how the Christian shame of nudity was solved in representations of the crucifixion or images of martyrdom; and how baroque artists exaggerated male characteristics to create supermales. Work of artists as diverse as Leonardo, Fragonard, Beardsley, Nadar, and Weber- and the historic contributions of men from David Bowie to Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Nuba warrior-combine to make Adam a fascinating and entertaining romp through the history of art and sexuality.
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Disappointing.......2006-12-03
Given Lucie-Smith's vast experience in the field, I expected a more definitive work on the male figure in the history of art. I found it to be much short of that. The scholarship and the illustrations just don't measure up to anything like a seminal statement on the subject. In fact, there are many instances when the choice of illustrations is inexplicable. This is not a book that I have kept for my art library.
great resource for art historians interested in masculinity.......2001-11-13
this book seeks to briefly encapsulate the history of the male figure in (western) art. it does a good job of providing a variety of styles and media, and the images are always very interesting. also, as a dancer, it is fascinating to note how the body becomes more and more realistic as anatomy is more fully studied and understood. it is a great resource for those interested in this branch of art history, as well as those who are interested in the way culture has looked at the male body.
A thoroughly refreshing entry into art history.......1998-10-25
Adam; The Male Figure in Art by Edward Lucie-Smith sets out to explore how artists have perceived and represented man as a subject in every form of the arts. With his characteristic enthusiasm and wit Lucie-Smith offers enough treasures of painting, sculpture, photography, murals from Egypt and Rome and Greece to satisfy even the most avid art historian. It is a pleasure to discover young contemporary artists along side the ancients and the grand masters. This is a potpouri, a delectable, energetic voyage that begs frequent return visits. A must from the current coffee table art book selection for the holidays!
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Profusely illustrated reference documents clothing styles of all classes — from garments of 10th-century Anglo-Saxons to the splendid coronation outfit of Anne Boleyn in the 16th century, with special attention paid to such details as footwear, cuffs, collars, and hats. Includes information about dress-making construction, and notes on social customs.
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Great place to start.......2004-09-28
This book is pretty good to get a basic idea of shapes for each given period, but that's about it. Unfortunately there are no seams shown, and while it's a very small detail, there weren't cod pieces in most places where there should have been. Small, but very important, detail. None of the illustrations are original (photos or reasonably accurate drawings of sculptures, rubbings of engravings, etc.) and all have a sort of 1940s feeling to them which kind of detracts from the accuracy. The text part is pretty decent though, and if you use it for ideas in conjunction with a more construction-oriented book, you'll have a pretty good chance of making something accurate. Of course, if you're just looking for ideas on how to clothe a character in a book, it's great.
Very good children's costume books.......2003-01-03
I have fond memories of checking out the original printing of these books from my local public library as a child. They placed these books in the children's section- for readers 8 and up. And I checked out those hardcover books over and over. Those books may have helped spark my lifelong interest in historical costume. Ms. Brooke's rendering of the costumes are very clear, and often they are presented in groups as if you were looking into a scene in a story or play. Excellent books for older children and young teens interested in costume history.
Shallow Overview of Medieval Costume.......2001-07-17
This is probably a great book for the beginner, but if you are looking for either a serious study of medieval costume or a how-to, you will probably be disappointed.
This book goes into a lot of detail about medieval costume with little documentation to back it up. There are no tips on construction and no actual pictures. Instead, the author relies on romanticized line drawings of people in costume with the emphasis apparently on the people, rather than the costume.
Once again, however, if you are an absolute beginner with little to no knowledge of medieval costuming, this book is an economical way to catch-up. It has a very wide scope. I did not note anything blatantly wrong, and the drawings, unhelpful as they are from a construction viewpoint, do show the costumes in context and as they would actually appear on the (idealized) human form.
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Ever wonder what madness happens inside you during times of severity and heartbreak? Feels like a war is being waged in your stomach? There is!! I'll show you the little demons inside as I embody emotions as the tiny evil creatures that they are. Anyone ever crushed by a loved one will instantly be able to relate to this inner saga. Brought to you by the 1999 triple Eisner nominated artist of Lenore, Roman Dirge. This book promises to be slightly disturbing yet funny in it's own special little odd way.
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A let down.......2006-12-27
Story was really short, lacking a lot of content. The illustrations were interesting but the actual story was lacking, in my opinion. So far I have only enjoyed Lenore by Dirge and have not been a big fan of his other works.
I knew monsters existed!.......2004-07-20
For anyone who might want to blame their emotions on someone/thing else...look no further. The Monsters in this story are so morbid, but you can't help but want to squeeze them and love them. I remember one of intestinal organs saying, "Pooka, Pooka" and that really doesn't do it justice until you actually take a look at the visual element itself. I don't think Dirge actually meant for this to be a literary phenomena and it isn't, but what it is, is a candid, yet quaint protrayal of personified organs. I would recommend looking at this even if you aren't interested you will become interested because it will trap you in its glory. The illustrations are beyond cool. Personally, I loved it, but then I'm not a hard-core critic. If it's good...it is good and that's just the way of it.
Okay.......2002-12-06
While I am a huge Roman Dirge fan, I didn't find this book to be all that great. Sure, it was somewhat good, but I have come to have high standards for Roman. I think anyone could relate to the character, but half of the story was kind of pointless.
Definatly read this book!.......2002-05-18
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WE ALL FEEL..........2001-03-20
BEING A ROMAN DIRGE FAN FROM WORD ONE, I HAVE A FEELING THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. GUARANTEED, WE ALL HAVE FELT THIS WAY AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER. IF NOT, YOU'RE EITHER VERY LUCKY OR IN DEEP DENIAL... ENJOY.
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This popular volume collects two of Lowell's finest books of poetry.
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Confessional Intensity, Disaffection, and Technical Brilliance.......2007-04-22
Robert Lowell's poetry is praised for its technical brilliance, metrical complexity, and verbal ambiguity. In an earlier review of Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle (awarded Pulitzer Prize of Poetry in 1947) I compared reading his poetry to studying mathematics, too advanced mathematics.
Furthermore, I am often uncomfortable with Lowell's disaffection, mistrust, and anger (one critic calls it apocalyptic rage) evident both in his criticism of contemporary society, and in his confessional topics such as marital difficulties, drinking problems, and mental illness. And yet I keep coming back to Lowell's work to savor his remarkable command of language.
Life Studies, a blend of prose and poetry, is more explicitly personal than his earlier work. The prose section, titled 91 Revere Street, is quite exceptional, not simply for its dispassionate candor, but for its literary excellence. Lowell is almost brutal in his depiction of himself as a boy, offering no excuses for his insensitivity toward others. He is no less severe with his parents. Lowell's portraits of his grandparents, aunts, and uncles were equally candid, but more sympathetic.
Lowell reserves his later difficulties, including struggles with mental illness, for his poetry. Waking in the Blue, a haunting picture of fellow patients in a mental hospital, is immediately followed by an unsettling description of Lowell's return to his family, Home After Three Months Away. Soft Wood, dedicated to Harriet Winslow, who "was more to me than my mother", is deeply moving. Other family poems - like Dunbarton, Grandparents, and Sailing Home from Rapallo - have a poignant beauty. I also liked Beyond the Alps, the first poem in Life Studies, which reappears with an additional stanza as one of the last poems in For the Union Dead.
For the Union Dead has a broader span, addressing social issues and historical subjects, as well as confessional topics, and is thus more similar to Lord Weary's Castle. Hawthorne, Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts, Water, The Old Flame, and the title poem, For the Union Dead offer a good sampling of this work.
My own minority judgment Good but not great poems.......2006-12-05
The quality of a writer for us , it seems to me, is often defined by how much of ourselves we are willing to put into knowing their work. I read the poems in this collection, but am not tempted to reread them. They make sense and tell of Lowell's childhood, his relation to his father, his meditation on the way he first met his first wife and the way they have grown distant through the years, his sense of his grandfather's grandness as he takes him with him on a local tour, his friendships with other writers. I can read the poems and feel their meaning and sense quite clearly. This to my mind raises them above much poetic language which in many modern poetry writers does not have a context or a sense. Lowell does often tell a small story in his poem.
But there is for me , anyway, a certain absence of music , a certain lack of those kind of memorable lines I find in my beloved poets.
Reading other reviews of Lowell's poetry I see others see more in his work, feel it deeper than I do. They are the truer readers.
an american giant at his best.......2004-08-16
Robert Lowell is a giant in American poetry. He is pretty much unanimously considered one of the best of his generation. This book combines two of his volumes of poetry. One of those volumes is his masterpiece Life Studies--the reason why he is a giant in American poetry. This is his seminal work. No matter how you look at it, this is an important book of poetry. And an excellent book of poetry. Most of the poems are good and there are several phenomenal poems within. Life Studies alone belongs on any serious poetry connoisseur's shelf. Also in this book is arguably Lowell's second best collection (only Lord Weary's Castle might be better) For the Union Dead, which contains another masterpiece, "For the Union Dead" (and a favorite of mine "Hawthorne"). This is a book that poetry lovers of all kinds should have.
My Favorite Poet.......2002-04-22
Lowell is of the vanguard of American twentieth century poets, a man who created many brilliant works other than the two joined in this volume. In such poems in Life Studies as Beyond the Alps and A Mad Negro Soldier Confined in Munich, as well as his portraits of various friends and family, we discover a man capable of both acid humor and outright sadness. However, in Life Studies, these excellent poems are overshadowed by the towering biographical essay 91 Revere Street. In this touching memoir, Lowell describes distant, illustrious relatives, Amy Lowell being a famous but ostracized example, friendships wrecked in childhood, disquietude over a girlfriend who soils herself in class (in his embarrassment, Lowell sits in it), his formative years on the periphery of polite, conservative Bostonian society, and his fathers coarse, difficult superiors and buddies that cropped up in the father's job with the Navy. Though his poems here are outstanding, an uncomfortable question arises when one considers this essay: Would Lowell have been better off to employ his time as a prose stylist, not a poet?
For the Union Dead validates Lowell's decision to declare poetry his mode of expression. Poems such as the dolorous My Last Evening with Uncle Devereaux Winslow and Terminal Days at Beverly Farm expose a man groping for hope after the deaths of close relatives; Waking in the Blue and Myopia: A night explore, respectively, Lowell's mental illness and attendant three month hospitalization, and a night of insomnia that becomes a maelstrom of tortured reflections and half-hewn thoughts; The Drinker explores alcoholism as a product of foiled love, with a question as to whether pathology or sheer carelessness and love of idleness is the underlying shibboleth. Water, the poem that stoked my love for Lowell, uses a maritime theme to express sorrow over a lost love. Beyond the Alps, from Life Studies, is reprised here with an elided stanza reinserted at the behest of coeval John Berryman.
Lowell is one of those poets so gifted, so erudite, so steeped in classical literature, it's hard to grasp that, as he explains it, he was "less rather than more bookish than most children." Much of the isolation evinced in Lowell's poetry, as well as the restlessness of his life, both as youth and adult, are radiantly eviscerated in these two collections.
Girls and Undesirables.......2000-06-17
Most of us probably first read Robert Lowell in high school, and I remember being both repulsed and fascinated by Life Studies when I was a teenager. I am no longer repulsed, but simply fascinated by Lowell's writing. Life Studies' haunting biographies of Lowell's relatives frame the poet's autobiographical memoir of growing up with "no girls or undesirables in [his] set"; his attention to detail constantly mesmerizes the reader as we tour a New England catalogue of memorabilia, illness, and affect. Lowell's resolutely melancholy, nostalgic, and idiosycratic tone reminds the reader that poetry may speak most generally when it is most particular in its subject. I've spent twenty years thinking about these poems, and the thoughts are never stale, even if the lives they chronicle are preternaturally decayed.
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Where was Jurassic Park filmed? How about Beetlejuice? What town was terrorized in The Birds? Where did Meg Ryan "fake it" in When Harry met Sally? Look no further! The author of the authoritative book on famous spots in Hollywood has cast his eyes across the U.S. for sets and sites of interest.
Although this is billed as a good way to visit the sites where hundreds of movies and T.V. series have been filmed, I actually found this more interesting as a resource to select videos which took place in certain locales: "Say, honey, let's watch a movie filmed in Charleston..." --a sad commentary on how sedentary my life has become that I'm traveling by VCR!
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Learn to play chords on the mandolin with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-use book. The Hal Leonard Mandolin Chord Finder contains over 1,000 chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types, including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck! Also available in a 9 inch. x 12 inch. edition: 00695739, $5.95.
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Decent, and easy to carry.......2007-07-24
I'm newer to the mandolin, so I found the guide pretty helpful. I'm confused that some standard chords are not listed in the book in the traditional fingerings I've learned from other guides, but other than that, I've been satisfied. It's nice to have a smaller compact guide like this rather than hunting on the internet or printing out a sheet of tiny thumbnail fingerings that you need a magnifying glass to decipher. The book is cheap enough - I'd recommend it.
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The winning moves for hundreds of chess positions
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Well Written Book.......2006-04-07
This is a simple well written book with over 400 puzzles. However I felt the puzzles were too simple. The tactics are rather straightforward, so if you have been playing the game for a while you should get most of the solution in under a minute. So if you are looking for brushing up ur tactical skills this is a good book. For advanced tactics this is not recommended.
Good practice for intermediate players.......2005-03-29
This is good training material for up to intermediate players (from maybe 1.600 to 2.000 strength). While the weaker players will learn many tactical concepts by going through the exercises, the stronger ones can use them to practice daily, like the piano player has to practice his fingers on a daily basis.
Only four stars, as this is definitely a book that was easy to produce.
excellent for his target audience.......2005-02-05
Gary Lane writes very well for us 1200 to 2000 players. If you are like me, want to enjoy chess for his mind stimulating discoveries in the 64 squares, for the satisfaction of finding themes during a game to gain victory I think this is a book that should be read. It teaches tactical motifs in a wonderfully stimulating way with many examples that feel more on target than many I have seen elsewhere (a little help as intermediate step in its exercises/tests is also offered, but your score will go down if you use it!). You can actually really score yourself without need of mind bending calculating techniques! This is not an encyclopedia but who has time for those? We are not all grandmasters or want to be grandmasters ! The book will improve your tactical skills more than many other ones I have read (LeMoirs books, Mensa books, Vukovic, Tinsdall, Plaskett, Aagard, Alburt and on and on ) because is better structured for you if you have not so much time or an above 2000 elo points experience. Buy and enjoy it is fun.
Improve Your Chess.......2004-08-09
There is one obvious way to improve ability at chess and that is to try tactical puzzles. This can be dull but for a change the standard, tired format has been revamped. Gone are the obvious, old puzzles and in comes a galaxy of games played in 2004 and short nuggets of information before each diagram. It makes learning fun.
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Microsoft's notoriously grueling interview process has been emulated by companies everywhere that seek to separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? reveals more than 35 of these challenging riddles and puzzles and, for the first time, shows how answers can be found through creative and effective analytical thinking.
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Good for interview backup.......2007-06-05
This was a pretty fun read. The book goes over the origins of brainteaser/puzzle interviews, how they are/should be used, and has a lot of well explained examples. For my purposes of going over brainteasers that I might run into in investment banking interviews, the book was pretty handy because the few brainteasers I did get, I had read about before. If you are trying to do the same thing for other types of interviews (with trading companies or something more quantitative) then the book isn't as good in those areas, because the questions are more probability/stat based.
Overall, very enjoyable and well-written.
The answer key to your next interview.......2007-04-15
For anyone looking for an entry level position at a financial or technology firm, this is a must read. Insane logic puzzles and brainteasers are the new craze in interviewing, and the ideas are spreading to more and more companies. Whether such silly interview questions are a good measure of a candidate's intelligence is debatable. But one thing for certain is that interview brainteasers are here to stay.
Mt Fuji covers all angles of the interview brainteaser, from its history and origins to how they should be handled in an interview. The first segment of the book about the history of interviewing and puzzles is an interesting read and gives you insight into why their creators first put them to practice. As both an interview and interviewee, the history may help you understand their application, but overall this segment is not very practical for a tough interview.
The meat of this book comes near the middle, where it gives a list of popular logic puzzles actually used by some companies (solutions to all puzzles mentioned throughout the book are in the appendix). If you have the time, they are fun to work out. After this page of puzzles, the author describes how employers applied them in interviews and gives general guidelines for defeating similar questions.
The final chapter before the appendix is directed towards potential interviewers. It explains how some companies have gone overboard and improperly used brainteasers to evaluate job candidates. For interviewees, it makes you feel better if you had a bad interview because of unfair use of brainteasers.
Mt Fuji is an excellent read for any young person currently seeking a job, and any employer who would like to incorporate brainteaser questions into the interview process. The puzzles and history are geared towards technology firms like Microsoft, but these brainteasers are also very common with Wall Street firms. Not only is this read informative, but will be fun if you enjoy thinking out of the box.
The utility coefficient between the contents of this book and your interview at Microsoft will be
< 0.15.......2007-02-09
At this point, this is for entertainment purposes only. Like the late James Fixx's brainteaser books, these now are just for fun. If you really wish to cram logic puzzles for interviews, it probably pays to look at very old ones rather than current hot ones, since HR departments are not snoozing at the wheel on the ambitious nerdnicks who memorized vocabulary lists for the SAT.
There does appear to be some mapping of the techniques tested here and workplace problem solving skills, but we are in the artistic stage of alchemy rather than a scientific stage of chemistry on the topic. Anyone who claims these puzzles distinguish intelligence might as well be wearing a pointed hat and gazing into a bowl of mercury (on a tripod, warmed by a candle no less).
Still, lots of fun.
This book was a delicious read!.......2007-02-07
I typically read for a half an hour a day and found that it felt more like 5 minutes when reading this book. Learn about the puzzles, riddles and just plain crazy questions used by some of the world's top companies (including Microsoft) when looking for top creative "out of the box" thinkers for their organizations. Be prepared to be stumped on more than one of these puzzles - but you'll also be jumping for joy when you solve a few! Totally entertaining and captivating.
Not good for preparing any interview.......2006-12-21
This book was a disappointment. It consists of a few anecdotes about William Shockley and Microsoft people, and does not offer any insights into the questions asked, or how to solve them. It is not any significant research into the puzzle questions in job interviews. Nor is it an original collection of brainteasers. It is written in the style of a very long Sunday magazine, and not a book. For a job seeker who might be faced with logic and puzzle interviews this book has very little to offer. It can actually be detrimental, because it gives a feeling of intimidation, and not revelation.
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Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is their technique that other leading corporations-from the high-tech industry to consulting and financial services-are modeling their own hiring practices on Bill Gates' unique approach. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft's puzzles and riddles, such as: n Why does a mirror reverse right and left but not up and down? n If you could eliminate one U.S. state, which would it be? n How would you make an MM? n How many piano tuners are there in the world? And, for the first time, this book supplies answers and approaches using creative analytical thinking that works. Anyone in business, and everyone who wants to be, will find here a valuable new approach to hiring, identifying talent in an organization, and getting the job of a lifetime.
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Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is their technique that other leading corporations-from the high-tech industry to consulting and financial services-are modeling their own hiring practices on Bill Gates's unique approach. HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft's puzzles and riddles, such as: - Why does a mirror reverse right and left but not up and down? - If you could eliminate one U.S. state, which would it be? - How would you make an M&M? - How many piano tuners are there in the world? And for the first time, this book supplies answers and approaches using creative analytical thinking that works. Anyone in business, and everyone who wants to be, will find here a valuable new approach to hiring, identifying talent in an organization, and getting the job of a lifetime.
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If you interview people, this book is worth an investment.........2007-01-21
Don't get decepted that this book is not about Microsoft -- rather how does one find the right talent! While the book talks about Microsoft examples on interviewing, it does contain lot more than Microsoft interviewing. It talks about how to conduct interviews for various levels and positions, how do you get the best out of a person, and how do you spot the right talent in the person whom you are recruiting. I have been on both sides of the table and these days almost on the side of interviewing candidates -- believe me this book has changed my attitude towards how I view every one of my candidate and it feels good about it too.
Whether you are interviewing or being interviewed, you won't regret your money on this a bit. In fact, some one walked of with my book, so, I invested in one more copy of this book, that every now and then, I refer to it.
Interesting, but not practical.......2006-12-11
I bought this book to prepare for an entry level Software Development Engineer interview. I thought it was an interesting read, but in none of my 6 interviews that day was I asked a single puzzle question. All my questions were solved using algorithms and code written on the whiteboard. The book was interesting for the sake of light reading and there were 2 pages of useful information about the number of interviews a candidate receives as an indicator of how well it's going, but overall, this probably just made me more nervous for my interviews because it suggests that a single incorrect answer could lead to a "no hire" decision and a single "no hire" is enough to sink a candidate. I know that I answered several questions incorrectly and I still got offers from both groups I interviewed with, so read the book, but know it's not quite as daunting as Poundstone tries to present it (or at least not always).
Forget it if you go to MS international interviews.......2006-08-01
During the Microsoft international interviews I did a couple of months ago there were no puzzle questions. The technical interviews went as advertised. The international hiring manager (an indian girl, whose name I don't want to remember) handled candidates as if they were pieces of meat and used agressive, pressure tactics against us. She didn't care we ended up with a very bad impression of Microsoft. This contradicts almost everything described in the book, therefore I would advice you to not read it unless if you want to be frustrated after being crushed by a clueless HR manager.
Microsoft doesn't ask puzzle questions anymore........2006-06-28
This book is fine if you go to a company that actually asks puzzle questions.
However, in October 2005 I went on three job interviews at Microsoft (each 4 hours long) and there wasn't a single puzzle question asked. I had to do whiteboard work where I created code to solve something with data structures.
Luckily I studied on data structures before I went on the interview and all three groups wanted to hire me :)
How many gas stations in USA?.......2006-04-06
I am looking for jobs and read this book recently. First of all, it is an easy read, yuu can read it while you are relaxing. I did know most of the puzzles included in this book. Tackling the open ended estimation questions like, "How many gas stations in USA?" were new to me. This book provides a good outline how to approach such estimation questions.
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