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Insight Guide Belgium includes a section detailing Belgiumâ€~s history, 9 features covering aspects of the type's life and culture, ranging from a passion to chocolate to the cultural scene, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many high quality photographs and 15 maps.

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Holland (Insight Guides)
Teresa Machan
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ASIN: 9812349758

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Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children

Insight City Guide Amsterdam (Book & Restaurant Guide) (Insight City Guides (Book & Restaurant Guide)) (Insight City Guides (Book & Restaruant Guide))

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Insight City Guide Amsterdam (Book & Restaurant Guide) (Insight City Guides (Book & Restaurant Guide)) (Insight City Guides (Book & Restaruant Guide))
Brian Bell
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ASIN: 9814137480

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Marrying lively essays and color photography--the hallmark of the origingal, award--winning Insight Guides--with a portable format and more practical information, the new Insight City Guides are the next generation in travel guides. Magazine-style information includes money-savings tips, free attractions, activities for kids, and websites. Expert evaluations of must-see sites boast full-bleed photos. A street atlas, tabbed travel tips section, and bonus take-it-away with you mini restaurant guide and city map complete the most user-friendly travel guides on the market.

Insight Guides Brussels (Insight Guides)

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Insight Guides Brussels (Insight Guides)
Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Apa Productions
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ASIN: 0395664306

Insight City Guide Brussels (Insight Guides)

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Insight City Guide Brussels (Insight Guides)

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ASIN: 9812582452

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Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life the city's history, culture, current affairs and, above all, the people. Incisive evaluations: From the spledours of the Grand-Place to the hotspots of St-Gery, from fine art museums to backstreet bars, it's all here. Evocative photography: Insight Guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Pictorial guides to major attractions: Detailed photo-features show you around sites such as the Royal Fine Arts Museums and Horta's house. Area maps plus street atlas: Main sites are cross-referenced by number from text to maps and a street atlas proves the overall picture. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels and contact numbers you'll need.

Insight Guide Amsterdam (Insight Guides)

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Insight Guide Amsterdam (Insight Guides)
Zoe Ross
Manufacturer: Insight Guides
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ASIN: 1585730009

Insight Netherlands (Insight Guide Holland)

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Good-looking but hard to lug

Insight Netherlands (Insight Guide Holland)
Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0134719964

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Good-looking but hard to lug.......1997-05-19

Insight's City Guides combine stunning photography with literate text and a smattering of basic travel information. The Insight Venice guide is worth adding to your bookshelf, but its practical advice is getting a bit long in the tooth and its heft makes it less than ideal as a take-along guide. - Durant Imboden, Venice for Visitors, http://govenice.miningco.co

Insight City Guide Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp

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Insight City Guide Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp
Brian Bell
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Binding: Vinyl Bound

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ASIN: 9812583998

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Insight City Guides draw on the best features of the original Insight Guides, combining insightful writing and lavish full-colour photography with a more portable format and greater emphasis on practical information to create the most complete portable travel guide. .Magazine-style articles .Lively essays written by local writers on culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations of must-see-sites - plus maps and floor plans .A bonus "take-it-with-you" Mini Restaurant Guide and City Map .An 8-12 page street atlas .Tabbed Travel Tips section for quick reference .Comfortable, rounded spine makes these volumes ideal for use on the go

Insight Pocket Guides Brussels (Insight Pocket Guides)

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good for city center only

Insight Pocket Guides Brussels (Insight Pocket Guides)
Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Insight Guides
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0887298478

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good for city center only.......1999-01-10

This is a precise, detailed map of the central portion of Brussels. Many of Brussels' suburbs are not included. If you think you will have need of any villages on the outskirts, e.g., Waterloo, you will need a different map.

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In this easy-to-understand book, the author, drawing on his many years of practical experience, addresses the problems experienced with management of change in chemical plants. He cites examples of the consequences of the insufficient review of changes implemented to solve one problem, which then create another. Illustrated with many case histories this book highlights the incidents of unforeseen, undesirable consequences of unwise change within chemical and petrochemical plants and petroleum refineries.

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In this easy-to-understand book, the author, drawing on his many years of practical experience, addresses the problems experienced with management of change in chemical plants. He cites examples of the consequences of the insufficient review of changes implemented to solve one problem, which then create another. Unwise chemical plant modifications are one of the major causes of chemical plant accidents and all proposed good ideas involving change require careful review and analysis before implementation. Illustrated with many case histories this book highlights the incidents of unforseen, undesirable consequences of unwise change within chemical and petrochemical plants and petroleum refineries.

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Leaning from the past.......2000-04-15

The emphasis in this book is on accidents that have occurred as the result of the unforeseen effects of changes to chemical plants. The descriptions are well written, easy to read and bring out the essentials of each incident. Everyone who works in the process industries, from operator to operations director, should read the book. But what is read is soon forgotten. More will be remembered if the incidents are discussed at toolbox talks or safety meetings. Someone should ask if anything similar has happened locally, if it could happen and, if so, how we should prevent it? In an introductory Chapter Roy shows that the chemical industry has a good safety record, better than many industries that have fewer intrinsic hazards. Nevertheless, none of the incidents need have happened. There is something fundamentally wrong with our safety training. Its weakness, I think, is that it pays too much attention to principles, procedures, codes and standards and not enough to incidents. Accounts of incidents can grab our attention and stimulate us to look into the procedures and codes that will prevent them happening again. If we read only the theory and the codes we soon forget. Accident reports can demonstrate their importance and make us remember. We should start with accident reports, such as those in this book and draw the theory and codes out of them, not start with theories and codes.

Book Review: Chemical process safety: Learning from case histories, third edition [A book review from: Journal of Hazardous Materials]

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Book Review: Chemical process safety: Learning from case histories, third edition [A book review from: Journal of Hazardous Materials]
G.F. Bennett
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Hazardous Materials, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This thorough text covers all aspects of process control used in the pulp and paper industry. Process Control Fundamentals for the Pulp and Paper Industry emphasizes lambda tuning, which the authors believe is the most effective approach for pulp and paper industry applications. Designed as a textbook, Process Control Fundamentals for the Pulp and Paper Industry will be a useful reference for pulp and paper mill engineers, especially those new to process control. Through the books seventeen chapters, sample problems, quizzes and case study, professionals and students alike can learn the basics of process control as it applies to the pulp and paper industry.

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Interesting collection of articles.......2000-09-17

This book contains an interesting collection of articles in different areas related to process control for the pulp and paper industry. Most articles have a practical approach to automatic control and are illustrated with real world examples. However, because of its heterogenous character, this is not a text book for students or engineers who want to learn process control in a systematic fashion, from the beginning.

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A unique, integrated treatment of computer modeling and simulation "The future of science belongs to those willing to make the shift to simulation-based modeling," predicts Rice Professor James Thompson, a leading modeler and computational statistician widely known for his original ideas and engaging style. He discusses methods, available to anyone with a fast desktop computer, for integrating simulation into the modeling process in order to create meaningful models of real phenomena. Drawing from a wealth of experience, he gives examples from trading markets, oncology, epidemiology, statistical process control, physics, public policy, combat, real-world optimization, Bayesian analyses, and population dynamics. Dr. Thompson believes that, so far from liberating us from the necessity of modeling, the fast computer enables us to engage in realistic models of processes in , for example, economics, which have not been possible earlier because simple stochastic models in the forward temporal direction generally become quite unmanageably complex when one is looking for such things as likelihoods. Thompson shows how simulation may be used to bypass the necessity of obtaining likelihood functions or moment-generating functions as a precursor to parameter estimation. Simulation: A Modeler's Approach is a provocative and practical guide for professionals in applied statistics as well as engineers, scientists, computer scientists, financial analysts, and anyone with an interest in the synergy between data, models, and the digital computer.

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unique book on simulation.......2002-02-21

I was asked to review this book for an Industrial Engineering Journal and in so doing I took a much closer look at it. I have not changed my opinion but am even more impressed with what Professor Thompson has written so concisely in a book of only 284 pages of text. In addition to providing the philosophy of a statistician and scientist with a wealth of experience, he makes several points that I find that I agree on with him. It is interesting to note his comments on high dimensional computer graphics and even one of his favorite tools non-parametric density estimation in high dimensions. On both topics Professor Thompson feels that the curse of dimensionality is difficult to overcome and we need to pay attention to useful models to guide us in the analysis. He has similar distrust for neural networks and fuzzy set theory. Exploratory analysis with no guiding model is fraught with difficulties!

Although the title is "Simulation", don't get the idea that this is a typical traditional text like say Fishman. Thompson covers many of the same topics but in different and interesting ways. For example the chapter on random quadrature covers most of the Monte Carlo techniques that one can find in Hammersley and Handscomb but he demonstrates the methods as ways to approximate integrals of functions. Although this was an early application of the Monte Carlo method, it is not what we typically do in simulation. But these techniques are still useful and regaining popularity when intensive computing is involved as comes about with bootstrap or Markov chain Monte Carlo. He also shows graphically the pitfalls of some pseudorandom number generators but does not get carried away in the quest to test randomness, a trap that too many of our colleagues fall into.

As Pieter van Gelder pointed out in his review, Thompson stimulates us with some examples of how Monte Carlo methods can readily attack solutions to differential equations such as in the gambler's ruin, the Dirichlet problem and the Fokker-Planck equation.

Thompson's strength is his knowledge of nonparametric density estimation and stochastic processes. Areas in which he has done a great deal of research.

Several authors including Thompson and Dudewicz have noted that the nonparametric bootstrap suffers some because of its discrete jumpy nature. If the distribution that one is sampling from is known to be continuous then smoothing the empiric distribution before resampling makes sense. Dudewicz refers to this approach as "the generalized bootstrap". Thompson and Taylor put a great deal of effort into such a resampling algorithm and named it SIMDAT. Section 5.3 addresses this approach. Thompson also presents SIMEST an algorithm that develops a likelihood function through simulation to then find parameter estimates that approximately maximize this likelihood. He demonstrates this with an oncological example of a stochastic model for tumor growth.

Other very practical and interesting examples of simulation in the text are rank testing for high-dimensional multivariate statistical process control, models for stocks (using geometric Brownian motion)and other problems in finance.

A whole chapter, Chapter 10 is devoted to resampling-based testing of hypotheses and Chapter 9 "Bayesian Approaches" covers Gibbs sampling and Markov chain Monte Carlo. Ideas of experimental design and response surface optimization are covered in Chapters 10 and 11.

Unusual for a statistics text is Chapter 8 that deals with the mathematics of Chaos theory.

Chapter 12 should not be overlooked. This puts many of the techniques together in the study of the AIDS epidemic. This is an endeavor that Professor Thompson has put a great deal of research effort into and his finding about the effects of the homosexual bath houses is very informative and enlightening.

This is a great book for statistician, operation research analysts, scientists and engineers. It contains some valuable material and philosophy that you will find nowhere else!

State of the art on simulation models.......2000-10-26

I found Thompson's book a pleasure to read. I was amazed to find out that difficult mathematical problems (such as the Gambler's Ruin problem, or Fokker-Planck's model) can be analyzed much easier when a microaxiomatic format with a simulation flow diagram is derived. Thompson uses a very clear style to explain things. Geometric Brownian processes, resampling-based tests, multivariate procedures and much more interesting stuff are treated in this book. People who are interested in the possibilities of problem-solving by simulation (more than in the mathematical fundaments of simulation) will find this book useful. For sure I am going to use simulation in my research more than I used to do...

describes statistical modeling from the simulation approach.......2000-06-14

Professor Thompson writes a very thought provocating book filled with his personal philosophy on model building. It should be taken seriously though, since Professor Thompson has a great deal of experience consulting on real problems particularly for the US Army.

I recommend that the reader go through the preface. It is not the standard preface that outlines the text but rather it introduces arguments justifying the approach. In the preface he describes the Monty Hall problem. This is a wonderful problem for illustrating the subtleties of probability theory. Many mathematicians (including thee famous Paul Erdos) were led to incorrect solutions through probabilistic arguments. Although a careful mathematical treatment would lead to the correct answer, Professor Thompson points out that the easiest way to be convinced of the correct answer is to simulate the game.

The text is fairly technical and is meant for the applied statistician with a strong mathematical and statistical background. For the right audience it is a very entertaining book.

The philosophy is very similar to the philosophy of Efron and other resampling statisticians who see the value in the use of intensive computing to replace analytical methods when the analysis is difficult. The book covers many of the computer-intensive methods that are currently popular including the EM algorithm, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Gibbs Sampling) and resampling methods including bootstrap. Monte Carlo methods are introduced early (after discussing pseudo random number generation) along with various techniques for variance reduction in the simulations. Then a variety of models and interesting practical examples are presented.

The presentation is not very systematic which may be unsettling for some readers. However, I think it is worth the effort. Any statistician with a broad range of consulting experience will appreciate and relate to Thompson's ideas.

for professionals in applied statistics.......2000-04-24

"Simulation: A modeler's approach is a provocative and practical guide for professionals in applied statistics..." as the publishers says at the cover of the book. I totally agree, if you are not very familiar with statistics and mathematical notations this academic book is hard to read. The first chapter tells about random generators for simulation and then continues with technical methodologies for technical, mathematical problems. The "modeler's approach" probably means the use of computer and mathematical software and not the relation to simulation models like post-offices. In the book different kind of algorithms are introduced, but a selection criteria, when to use which method is unfortunately not included in the book. Perhaps I will use the book someday to solve the AIDS problem, but till that day, I am afraid, I will not use this book often.

Simulation: A Modeler's Approach. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: IIE Transactions

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Simulation: A Modeler's Approach. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: IIE Transactions
Michael R. Chernick
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Simulation: A Modeler's Approach. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Michael R. Chernick
Publication: IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 325(2)

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