Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.

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An incomplete tale by an author fascinated by the dark side!.......2007-10-24

They say "no news is good news". In the same spirit, this book dwells on the dark side of Bombay. It would have been fine if the title would have claimed this upfront. But, we are led to believe that the book would be about Bombay itself. While the book is still about Bombay, it is not the complete picture. It would be difficult to characterize all the different facets of a complicated city like Bombay. But, to say that Bombay is all about sex, bar dancers and delusional gangsters is nothing short of preposterous.
Do NOT buy this book unless you are interested in these "sensational" aspects of Bombay.

Splendid! A must read!!.......2007-07-12

If you enjoy non-fiction books that follow people's lives with intricate detail, you will probably enjoy this book.

Suketu Mehta is a Bombayite who moves to New York in his teens. He decides after he is married and has young children to move back to Bombay, India. First he talks about the lifestyle and adjustments he makes into his Bombay life. Then Mehta goes into the detail and life of various people he meets: bar dancers, religion fanatic rioters, gangsters, movie producers, and NGO (non governmental organization) member and police officers. He is actually able to talk on the phone to a notorious "Don" - Chota Shakeel This book is so well written with precise detail.

Everyone is somehow connected to the corrupt system. When he was talking about methods of torture used in Indian prisons to extract confessions, I was wincing. Here is a preview - a male's private part was cut and chilies were rubbed on it - yikes!!

Then he contrasts the people who live in the edge - bar dancers, gansters, etc to people who take diksha. Diksha means (as according to this book) giving up all material possessions and your life to attain Moksha. It is an amazing contrast. As I started reading this book, I could not put it down. I have been to India many times and I felt the book was accurate, well written and unbiased. Mehta never gets emotional about his State - Gujarat, or about his religion, which is apparently Hinduism according to his name.

Maximum City by Suketu Mehta and Princess by Jean Sassoon are my favorite non-fiction books. If you like this book, I would also recommend Princess, which is about a female in the Saudi Arabian royal family.

Suketu Mehta.......2007-07-12

The book was in excellent condition and the book is a must read for folks interested in knowing more about cities in India and Asia

Puliter Prize finalist with more f bombs than a cop movie.......2007-07-05

I love, love, love this book. I've never been to Mumbai, but Mehta's extensive description of the people he meets and they way they speak and act makes me feel as I've spent a couple years there as well. He's at his best when he 's talking with his subjects, the self-introspection bits drag a little. This is an extremely compelling book whose 400 or so pages still seem too few.

A great take on a vibrant city.......2007-06-09

Sure Bombay is crowded, dirty, polluted, everything that a third world megalopis is but its also a city like no other and Maximum City really gets to the heart of that. Bombay is a mix of Hollywood, and Lagos. Its the center of the Indian Subcontinent.

The fact that that book is a personal journey and that that it tells the story of the city today (rather than a history of the city) makes it very readable, and wildly interesting. Some parts of it are a bit winded but all in all, a fun book to read and extremely well written.

If you liked this book, you may also want to check out 'Midnight in Sicily'

Ciudad Total/ Maximum City: Bombay Perdida Y Encotrada/ Bombay Lost and Found (Literatura Mondadori)

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I have seen the future, and it stinks.(BOOKS)(Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found)(Book Review): An article from: Cross Currents

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I have seen the future, and it stinks.(BOOKS)(Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found)(Book Review): An article from: Cross Currents
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Title: I have seen the future, and it stinks.(BOOKS)(Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found)(Book Review)
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Maximum Mehta: how one writer unlocked a city of stories.(Q&A)(Interview) : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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Maximum Mehta: how one writer unlocked a city of stories.(Q&A)(Interview) : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Carl Bromley
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Title: Maximum Mehta: how one writer unlocked a city of stories.(Q&A)(Interview)
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Maximum City Bombay Lost and Found
Mehta Suketu
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mahta
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Combining the theoretical perspectives of a leading Russian political scientist and an American political philosopher who have collaborated for years, "Capitalism with a Human Face" analyzes the relation between economics and politics in Russia as it moves toward modernization. Throughout the book, the authors contrast Western media accounts of the Russian situation with less accessible but more relevant data gathered in Russia since 1991. They advocate a new notion of centrism for Russia: one that combines democratic politics and a market economy without abandoning the social guarantees on which many Russians have long relied and without which their political and economic life is likely to remain in turmoil. This will be an important work for scholars and students of social and political philosophy, international relations, comparative politics, and economics.

Mercado con rostro humano.(fusión del capitalismo y socialismo; filosofía económica)(TT: Market with a human face.)(TA: fusion of capitalism and socialism; ... An article from: Siempre!

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Mercado con rostro humano.(fusión del capitalismo y socialismo; filosofía económica)(TT: Market with a human face.)(TA: fusion of capitalism and socialism; ... An article from: Siempre!
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Newsletter publisher puts a human face on capitalism with philanthropic activism.: An article from: The Newsletter on Newsletters

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Experts from the U.S. and Latin America assess how poverty and inequality have fared in several Latin American countries over the past decade, examine how these problems are being addressed in each country, and explore the viability of alternative approaches.

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Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Strategems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
Bill Adler Jr.
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"The World's Blackest White Man." "The World's Most Elegantly Wasted Human Being." "The Human Riff." These descriptions are all part of the myth surrounding the legendary songwriter and rhythm guitarist of the Rolling Stones. A veteran observer of the rock scene on both sides of the Atlantic, Kris Needs has interviewed Keith Richards regularly for 25 years. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his encyclopedic knowledge of the Stones' discography, he reveals the complex man behind the myth, from blues-infatuated working class kid to world-renowned musician nearly ruined by heroin to present-day elder statesman of rock who continues to find personal redemption in music. Dozens of photographs and interviews with the legend himself make this the most up-to-date biography of the "Soul of the Stones."

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GOOD READ FOR KEITHS LATER YEARS.......2007-07-18

THERE ARE PLENTY OF GOOD BOOKS ON THE STONES EARLY YEARS. THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER BOOKS FOR THE 90S AND FORWARD. VERY READABLE.

Years of exclusive interviews .......2006-04-13

Interviews with rock musician Keith Richards himself rounds out a fine biography of the man in the unusual KEITH RICHARDS: BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN. Needs first met Richards at a drug trial in 1977 so has years of exclusive interviews to draw upon in his survey of a changing, eventful life. These interviews contribute vastly to an upbeat coverage which traces Keith's love of music: the core of his being.

Keef Madness.......2006-03-12

The best book on Keith. It captures the soul of the man. As for the facts review. I don't agree. For example this is the only source that gives the name of the jewler that made The Famous RING, but also the circumstances round the gift. Great book! A must read if you are a Stones fan.

Try a Little Harder.......2004-10-20

Kris Needs has a nice writing style, and bubbles with a lot of enthusiasm for Keith, so it's too bad he hasn't been paying better attention: The book is full of glaring inaccuracies that you don't even need to be a particularly intent Stones fan or Keith devotee to notice. If you were having trouble finding a competent researcher, editor and/or proofreader, Kris, all you had to do was call me!

strangely inspiring.......2004-09-14

A fascinating look at what makes Kieth Richards tick. Needs is very knowledgable about his subject, but what really made this book compelling was the insight into Kieth's personality and the contrast between his very real bad boy image and his creativity and compassion. The author makes no bones about being a charter member of the "Keef" fan club but after reading this book I'm inclined to join him.

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get the chessy with it?.......2000-05-09

DONT READ IT...DONT LOOK AT IT....DONT BORROW IT...DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT... if u are a ally fan this book will scorch ur poor little simple minds that u will never want to watch, hear or even see the ally mcbeal show again... so WARNING TO ALL ALLY MCBEAL FANS DONT READ IT!

Pure trash!.......1999-12-09

I bought this book thinking about a great source of info about the show & characters, but the only thing I could find were CRITICS, nasty critics by the way. I hate the book, I couldn't even finish to read it 'cause it is disgusting for anyonw who likes the show. I highly recomend you to go for the Official Guite just in case you didn't check it out yet.

BOO i had to read it!.......1999-12-05

I thought this book was really cheezball..... i think it deserves to be burnt!

Honest & insightful. You may never watch Ally again........1999-05-24

If you're a fan of the show, you might just end up being ashamed for watching it after you read That Lawyer Girl. Once you see in writing all the truly disgusting things that this show spotlights every week, you might just say to yourself, "Shame on me for wanting to be entertained by such garbage!" Basically, Beck tells it like it is, and because of that, Beck has raised my moral bar. I will no longer support such programming. Please join me...but read the book first. Thank you AC Beck! Not advisable for children under the age of 17.

sex and the single female, from a nude man's perspective.......1999-05-04

This is a great book. It's full of actual information about the show, instead of the dumb trivia in that "other" unauthorized Ally McBeal book -- "what Ally probably keeps in her fridge..." judging from her waist size, probably a thimble of milk and two celery sticks. But I digress. Buy this book. It doesn't have that many pictures, but hell, you already know what everyone on the show looks like anyway. If you don't, why the heck did you buy the book in the first place? That's a pretty stupid answer. Hello?

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a solid introduction, but could be better.......2007-05-13

The title of the book is misleading; It is rather an introduction to computer graphics;
The explanations on the graphics pipeline are really enlightening; The introduction on the curves is also worth reading. I consider it to be also a good introduction to OpenGL.
However, it deserves only 3 stars because of the too many typo errors (and that's the third edition...). Moreover some topics are too superficially treated, particularly extents or bounding volumes (which are of great importance in computer graphics), and surfaces.
The book is verbose, which is acceptable when some notions are hard to grasp, but it is definitely too verbose at the start of each chapters where you will find a "preview" followed by an "Introduction" section. One repeats the other.
In addition, the appendices only contribute to the thickness of the book. An appendix on matrix algebra where you will learn how to add / multiply matrices (...) and an appendix on the turtle drawing, a hot thing in the early 80s...
There is no real bibliography section, and no errata on the author's web site.
I was also not pleased by the exercises; the ones that are trivial are fully developed by the author, and the solution to the thornier ones are not presented.

Excellent computer graphics tutorial.......2007-01-24

This is a good solid introductory text on computer graphics theory and programming. Note that the book uses OpenGL rather than teaching it, so if you are looking for an OpenGL tutorial you will be disappointed. For that consult the classic "Red Book" on the subject. This book does throw in a couple of advanced topics - fractals, virtual realism, and ray tracing, for example. I really liked how the explanations were very detailed, and how pseudocode accompanies the explanation of every algorithm. The pseudocode is C-like and is therefore easily understandable. Also, the author makes excellent and frequent use of very excellent figures to get his points across. I also liked all of the practice problems, because they are good sanity checks on whether or not you really understand the material.

I will add that I was at first hesitant to add this book to my collection, because in the early 90's I used a textbook by this same author in a class I was taking on computer graphics, and it was about the most awful thing I have ever seen in print. There were a couple of good chapters, but most of it was paragraph after paragraph of rambling text without equations, codes, or anything that approached a tutorial. I wasn't a novice to this subject at the time, either, so it wasn't a lack of knowledge on the subject that made me hate that book. I'm saying all of this just in case this was your last experience with this author, don't let it prevent you from getting this book. Hill seems to have learned from his past mistakes, and I highly recommend this text. I notice the table of contents shown is for an older edition. This edition has changed considerably, so I show the new table of contents for the 3rd edition next:

Chapter 1 Introduction to Computer Graphics
1.1 What is Computer Graphics?
1.2 Where Computer Generated pictures are Used
1.3 Elements of Pictures created in Computer Graphics.
1.4 Graphics display devices
1.5 Graphics Input Primitives and Devices

Chapter 2 Getting Started Drawing Figures
2.1 Getting started making pictures
2.2 Drawing Basic Graphics Primitives
2.3 Making Line-drawings
2.4 Simple interaction with mouse and keyboard

Chapter 3 Additional Drawing Tools
3.1. Introduction
3.2. World Windows and Viewports
3.3. Clipping Lines
3.4. Regular Polygons, Circles, and Arcs
3.5. The Parametric Form of a Curve.

Chapter 4 Vector Tools for Graphics
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Review of Vectors
4.3. The Dot Product.
4.4. The Cross Product of Two Vectors.
4.5. Representations of Key Geometric Objects.
4.6. Finding the Intersection of two Line Segments.
4.7. Intersections of Lines with Planes, and Clipping.
4.8. Polygon Intersection Problems.

Chapter 5 Transformations of Objects
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Introduction to Transformations
5.3. 3D Affine Transformations
5.4. How To Change Coordinate Systems
5.5. Affine Transformations used in a Program.
5.6. To Draw 3D Scenes Interactively with OpenGL.

Chapter 6 Modeling Shapes with Polygonal Meshes.
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Introduction to Solid Modeling with Polygonal Meshes.
6.3. Polyhedra.
6.4. Extruded Shapes.
6.5. Mesh Approximations to Smooth Objects.
6.6. Particle Systems and Physically Based Systems

Chapter 7 Three-Dimensional Viewing
7.1 Introduction
7.2. The Camera Revisited.
7.3. To Specify a Camera in a program.
7.4. Perspective Projections of 3D Objects.
7.5. To Produce Stereo Views.
7.6. Taxonomy of Projections.

Chapter 8 Rendering Faces for Visual Realism
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Introduction to Shading Models
8.3. Flat Shading and Smooth Shading.
8.4. Adding Hidden Surface Removal.
8.5. To Add Texture to Faces.
8.6. To Add Shadows of Objects.
8.7. OpenGL 2.0 & The Shading Language (GLSL)

Chapter 9 Tools for Raster Displays
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Manipulating Pixmaps.
9.3. Combining Pixmaps.
9.4. Do It Yourself Line Drawing: Bresenham's Algorithm.
9.5 To Define and Fill Regions of Pixels.
9.6. Manipulating Symbolically-defined Regions.
9.7. Filling Polygon-Defined Regions.
9.8. Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing Techniques.
9.9. Creating More Shades and Colors.

Chapter 10 Curve and Surface Design
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Describing Curves using Polynomials.
10.3. On Interactive Curve Design.
10.4. Bezier Curves for Curve Design.
10.5. Properties of Bezier Curves.
10.6. Finding Better Blending functions.
10.7. The B-Spline Basis Functions.
10.8. Useful Properties of B-Spline Curves for Design.
10.9. Rational Splines and NURBS Curves.
10.10. A Glimpse at Interpolation.
10.11. Modeling Curved Surfaces.

Chapter 11 Color Theory
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Color Description
11.3. The CIE Standard
11.4. Color Spaces
11.5. Indexed Color and the LUT.
11.6. Color Quantization.

Chapter 12 Ray Tracing
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Setting Up the Geometry of Ray Tracing
12.3. Overview of the Ray-Tracing Process
12.4. Intersection of a Ray with an Object.
12.5. Organizing a Ray Tracer Application.
12.6. Intersecting Rays with Other Primitives
12.7. To Draw Shaded Pictures of Scenes
12.8. Adding Surface Texture.
12.9. Anti-aliasing Ray Tracings.
12.10. Using Extents
12.11. Adding Shadows for Greater Realism.
12.12. Reflections and Transparency
12.13. Compound Objects: Boolean Operations on Objects
12.14. Ray Tracing vs. Ray Casting

A1. Graphics Tools - Obtaining OpenGL.

A2. Some Mathematics for Computer Graphics
A2.1 Some Key Definitions for Matrices and their Operations
A2.2. Some Properties of Vectors and their operations.
A2.3. Spherical Coordinates and Direction Cosines.

A3. An Introduction to SDL: Scene Description Language
A3.1. Syntax of SDL
A3.2. Macros in SDL.
A3.3. Extending SDL.

A4. Fractals and The Mandelbrot Set
A4.1. Introduction
A4.2. Fractals and Self-Similarity
A4.3. The Mandelbrot Set

A5. Relative and Turtle Drawing.
A5.1. To Develop moveRel() and lineRel().
A5.2. Turtle Graphics
A5.3. Figures Based on Regular Polygons.

You'll note that the main difference between the second and third editions is that Hidden Surface Removal and Fractals no longer have dedicated chapters, but additional chapters on other subjects have not been added. The HSR material is now part of another chapter, and the Fractal subject matter is part of the appendix. One positive difference is the addition of some good material on the OpenGL Shading Language, which is a hot topic these days. Also, the material in the appendix on Postscript has been eliminated.

Too many typos and errors.......2007-01-19

I just bought this book and up to chapter 3 there are more errors and typos than what I care to recall. You would expect more of a book with a price tag as this one. Furthermore, the writing style is bad. The author begins a paragraph with one idea and finishes with something totally different, which makes it hard to read.

It is a very good book otherwise, but keep this in mind when buying.

Excellent book.......2005-11-25

This is an excellent book. I was coming from a novice OpenGL user and wanted to branch out from OpenGL, to understand more impressive CG techqniques. He uses OpenGL, but it's the underlying techniques that make this book impressive. He goes beyond the API and delves into a number of interesting areas. Good overall introduction, with a fair amount of code examples and discussion of how to modifiy what he gives you. Not perfect, I would have liked another chapter about radiosity, or more ray tracing, but really excellent.

Great Text.......2005-11-04

Like most of the books I buy online, this one was also for a class I'm currently taking. The instructor for this class is fresh out of the box and this is his first semester and class ever. Needless to say, any learning I have to do in this class is taught to me by reading the book. It is more of a teaching book than a techincal reference book, but the good news is, they offer a free online techincal reference book. The best of both worlds. If you're starting off in graphics like me, this is a great investment....

Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL

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Space Geometry made easy
A cool geometry book
Don't waste your money - a very bad book
no source == closed !open

Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL
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¿..Take advantage of open-source software tools for practical 2-D and 3-D programming¿. "Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL" is a comprehensive reference on the practice of geometrics and graphics programming. It is based upon and utilizes the industry standard open-source graphics API, Open GL. Readers will find a complete compendium of all methods and classes for Open Geometry GL, using any standard computer operating system (Windows 2000, Windows NT, Unix, and Linux). They will learn how to use these methods and classes and apply them in theoretical and practical applications for 2-D and 3-D graphics and animation, and data exchange, as well as create their own easily programmed extensions using C++ language. Topics and features: *Reinforced with more than 100 extensive documented examples *Flexibility and extendibility with open-source code and API library, for custom solutions to any geometric or graphics problems *Object-oriented viewpoint for all methods and programming in C++ *Based upon Open GL API and standards *More than 200 sample programs and executables on CD-ROM, covering wide areas of application, and with full source code *A comprehensive ¿toolkit¿ that is easy-to-use for beginning and advanced users of Open Geometry GL *Includes new coverage on projective geometry, fractals or Bézier surfaces, and B-spline surfaces With its accessibility, breadth, and well-devised organization, this handbook is a superb resource for those looking to develop a solid grounding and expertise in geometric programming with Open Geometry GL. It is an indispensable reference work ideally suited for practitioners, professionals, and researchers.

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Space Geometry made easy.......2005-11-25

The 700 page book is worth reading: It's actually a geometry book that tells you about many geometric details which you might never have heard about before: I did not know, e.g., about a quite useful developable surface named "wobbler" or "oloid", and how one can fold and unfold such surfaces via computer. The book comes with a ready to use software. The user writes little C++-programs that are linked to the library. The code of the librabry is just there to be compiled, and is not very well documented. However, it need not, since the user should only focus on his oder her part. Therefore, templets are provided that can be modified (learning by doing). Within a few hours, one is familiar with the system.

A cool geometry book.......2005-11-10

Open Geometry is a collection of C++ classes making it easy to program advanced three-dimensional graphics. The classes correspond to geometrical objects like spheres, conics, "path curves", b-spline surfaces etc. Open Geometry is distributed as source code, so you get, e.g., a project to open in Microsoft Visual C++. You can add your own source code to that project (or a copy of it). What makes the book so interesting, are the given 101 well-explained examples. Together with a large number of instructives figures, they build up a geometry book about kinematics, projective geometry, differential geometry etc. This seems to be a missing link between theory and programming practice. I recommend it!!

Don't waste your money - a very bad book.......2003-03-01

Don't waste your money. This is some of the most unorganized, poorly commented code I've ever seen. Some of the code is in German! The book is in English so silly me, I expected the code to be use English words for variable and function names. An example of their lack of attention to detail is the first example in the book (circumcircle) is not even in try.cpp. Yes, I fixed the example myself, but this is an example of the author's sloppiness. How about file names like a.cpp, b.cpp, c.cpp, etc! This was an ... waste of time for me.

no source == closed !open.......2003-02-25

the book and associated library look interesting.
i have not read it, only flipped through it.
i almost bought it but decided to do a bit of research
before hand. i'm glad i did, because the open geometry
library is in fact a closed source library
(as i understand it you must buy the book to get the source).
the word open is apparently derived from opengl.
the problem is that the word open in opengl is the 'open' of 'open standards' and 'open source'.
this is at best an ignorance of the current trends
in the software development world, and at worst, plain misleading.
when the authors either change the library's
license or the library's name to more directly reflect the true
nature of its license, i'll be glad to buy the book and review it again.
i think that they would find that by open sourcing their business model
they would stand to make a lot more money, as they are not really
in the business of selling software, but selling books. who wants to buy
buy a book about an obscure closed source library that could disappear tomorrow?

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