Bob Miller's Calc for the Clueless: Calc I (Bob Miller's Clueless Series)

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The first calc study guides that really give students a clue.

Bob Miller's student-friendly Calc for the Clueless features quickly-absorbed, fun-to-use information and help. Students will snap up Calc for the Clueless as they discover:

Bob Miller's painless and proven techniques to learning Calculus
Bob Miller's way of anticipating problems
Anxiety-reducing features on every page
Real-life examples that bring the math into focus
Quick-take methods tht fit short study sessions (and short attention spans)
The chance to have a life, rather than spend it trying to decipher calc!

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Great Study Tool..........2007-01-26

Bob Miller's "Calc for the Cluless: Calc I" is very helpful. I find that he does a great job explaining the topics and gives a variety of examples for practice. If the Calc I is great, then the other two books in his series must be great as well.

Math Made Easy!.......2006-04-05

Bob Miller takes very difficult concepts and makes them extremely easy to grasp. It is the one math book that will not make you tear your hair out of your head!
The author uses a bit of humor and emotion to make math understandable to the average layman. The books are meant to be a supplement to whatever math text you are using. After Bob explains the concepts you will breeze through your textbook's examples. A great book at a great price!

This is awful........2002-03-25

I don't know what planet miller is from, but it surely isn't one of a student. There are tons of other books out there to learn by besides this one. It is so hard to understand and the examples are just stupid. I am teaching myself calculus and I have found Calculus Made Easy and the Barron's calculus books to be much better. Of course, some of the best books can be found at your local library which were written in the early 1900s.

This book is more designed to go along with classroom instruction, but it really isn't good at that either. I would not recommend this.

Not a good introduction to calculus.......2001-06-16

I bought this book to help me understand calculus, as a student returning to a graduate program after many years out of school. This was definitely not the book to buy. I understood my textbook more than Calc for the Clueless. Lots and lots of equations but very little in the way of explanations.

A good review for a final exam, but ..........1998-10-24

I ordered this book hoping for a good *introduction* to calculus, with some intuitive explanations of some of the basic concepts of calculus. Instead, this book is meant to help a student solve problems correctly, without necessarily improving their understanding. The book's style is annoying - it's written in 1st person, and every page has lots of !!!'s. For example one chapter begins, "The subject I beleive I teach better than anyone in the world is..." The problem solving methods are clear and it will work for a review, but it wouldn't work for someone who had never seen the course, and I don't think it would help someone understand what calculus is all about.

Bob Miller's Calc for the Clueless, Calc I, 2/e (4-vol. Set)

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Bob Miller's Calc for the Clueless, Calc I, 2/e (4-vol. Set)
Robert Miller , and Bob Miller
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0079137067

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The book presents the material in the first semester of a standard college calculus sequence as an encouraging teacher would, explaining all topics and techniques in clear, easy-to-understand terms, answering the questions that most often crop up, anticipating students' difficulties and confusions like an experienced teacher, thereby eliminating math anxiety and bridging the "understanding gap" between student and standard text.

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There is no magic formula for balancing fiscal policy and economic performance. As a scholar and policy advisor, Vito Tanzi has made a major contribution to identifying links between public finance and macro- and microeconomic consequences. His findings bear relevance in both developing and industrialized economies. The essays in this volume and its companion, Fiscal Policy and Economic Reform, highlight many of these interconnected issues, including the interaction between budgetary policy and economic aggregates, such as employment, inflation and growth; the implication of economic linkages for designing fiscal policies; expenditure policies and alternative deficit financing strategies; and the trade-offs between macro- and microeconomic objectives. The list of contributors includes Max Corden, John Makin, Ronald McKinnon and Richard Musgrave.

A Guide to Wisconsin Employment Discrimination Law
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A Guide to Wisconsin Employment Discrimination Law
Rose Ann Wasserman
Manufacturer: State Bar of Wisconsin
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ASIN: 1578620163

Solving the employment discrimination puzzle: A guide to the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act
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Solving the employment discrimination puzzle: A guide to the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act
Linda Hadbavny Fernandez
Manufacturer: Center for Public Representation
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ASIN: B0006XIQIO

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The Wisconsin Fair Employment Act: A guide to handling the employment discrimination case
Linda Hadbavny Fernandez
Manufacturer: Wisconsin Dept. of Industry, Labor and Human Relations
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Your rights in the workplace: A legal guide for people living with HIV in Wisconsin
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Your rights in the workplace: A legal guide for people living with HIV in Wisconsin
Lynne Hodgkins Solomon
Manufacturer: AIDS Network
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ASIN: B0006RBRKO

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Livestock raisers and healers everywhere have traditional ways of classifying, diagnosing, preventing and treating common animal diseases. Many of these "ethnoveterinary" practices offer viable alternatives or complements to conventional, Western-style veterinary medicine - especially where the latter is unavailable or inappropriate.

This rich bibliography contains annotations of 1240 publications that deal with sociocultural, politico-economic, environmental and biomedical aspects of community animal healthcare. Entries span 118 countries of Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. Examples of ordinary people's diverse knowledge, skills, beliefs and practices are recorded for some 200 health problems of 25 livestock species. The species discussed range from 'exotics' like reindeer, camelids, elephant and yak, through more familiar farm and pet animals, to micro-livestock like fish and bees. Reference is made to hundreds of plant species or genera, to inorganic items or compounds, and innumerable foodstuffs and household items employed as "materia medica" in treatments that run the gamut of medicinal, surgical, physical/mechanical and supernatural. In addition, stockraisers' many astute and often environmentally friendly health-related herding, housing, husbandry and breeding practices are documented.

The volume prioritizes twentieth century literature, with the bulk of publications dating from 1989 to 1999. It is designed to provide researchers, development professionals and policy makers working in agriculture, education, national development and human medicine with contemporary data, ideas and approaches for the practical evaluation, application and extension of community animal healthcare knowledge and resources to solving immediate development problems. At a broader level, the bibliography suggests the many potential benefits to people everywhere of systematically studying and building upon sometimes ancient - and sometimes brand new - local/indigenous knowledge.

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What causes an earthquake? When will another big shock shake Tokyo or Los Angeles? Can people create deserts? How are the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect interlinked? Is global warming a force of nature—or of man? This compelling and informative book, illustrated with marvelous photographs and specially commissioned artwork, explains the latest scientific insights into these questions. Each force of nature is separately fitted into the jigsaw puzzle of global environmental change. The revised edition of this widely praised book draws on the dramatic evidence of recent years to evaluate the state of the planet—and man's effect on it—in the new century. 275 illustrations, 135 in color.

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Doctor Who - Earthshock
Ian Marter
Manufacturer: Target Book
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Doctor Who: Earthshock (Target Doctor Who Library, No 78)

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Good bye, spoiled brat
Return of the Cybermen
An old enemy and other surprises

Doctor Who: Earthshock (Target Doctor Who Library, No 78)
Ian Marter
Manufacturer: Carol Publishing Corporation
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ASIN: 0426193776

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Good bye, spoiled brat.......2005-09-04

This is one of the better Target novels and a fast paced read. Mr. Marter does something that few other Target authors do: he creates minor charecters that you can care about. Also, the ending always makes me cry with joy. Companions are an important part of Doctor Who, and it's always pleasent to see bad ones go.

Return of the Cybermen.......2005-06-04

The Doctor faces off against the cybermen again in this novelization. At his side are Adric, Nyssa and Tegan as well as some random troops from Earth, circa 2526 AD.

The Doctor and company return to Earth and land in the middle of a dinosaur dig gone bad. Seems the palaeontologists have been mysteriously attacked and nearly wiped out. The Doctor finds himself accused of the deed although the true perpetrators show up shortly and the Doctors aids in their defeat. The Doctor then takes the fight to the leaders of those perpetrators and in so doing discovers the reason for the dinosaurs extinction (among other things).

Once again the Doctor saves the world (or the universe) from an evil plot! A quick, fun read.

An old enemy and other surprises.......2000-12-31

Oh dear, what do you say about this book and keep to the "no spoilers" rules that surround writing reviews for Amazon?

'Earthshock' sees the return of an old foe and a traumatic experience for the TARDIS crew (the details of both, I'm sure, the vast majority of readers will already know). Looking at the cover and reading the blurb on my copy offers no clues to either, and this story really emerges like a shark from the deeps, especially when compared to that which proceeded it ('Black Orchid").

It is adapted by Ian Marter, who played companion Harry Sullivan some seven years before the broadcast of this story, and, as I have previously commented, his writing style is rather not the straightforward adaptation that most Doctor Who novelisations enjoy and/or suffer (depending on your view and the novelisation).

One substantial complaint (with the original story, and hence also featured in this adaptation): Eric Saward, who began as script editor for this season as well as writing the story in the first place, obviously wasn't happy with the concept of the Doctor not using weapons and solving things by thinking them out. On the cover of my copy is a photo of the Doctor with a gun, straight from the serial. A very bad move, Mr. Saward. This increased violence continued while Mr. Saward was script editor.

Earthshock
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Earthshock
Basil Booth , and Frank Fitch
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
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ASIN: 0802705936

Earthshock: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, and Other Forces of Nature
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Earthshock: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, and Other Forces of Nature

Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0500015791

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In this book, experts in different fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology present unique forms of knots which satisfy certain preassigned criteria relevant to a given field. They discuss the shapes of knotted magnetic flux lines, the forms of knotted arrangements of bistable chemical systems, the trajectories of knotted solitons, and the shapes of knots which can be tied using the shortest piece of elastic rope with a constant diameter.

Untying The Knot: Ideal And Reality In Asian Marriage

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Untying The Knot: Ideal And Reality In Asian Marriage

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Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia

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The CEO of the Sofa (O'Rourke, P. J.)
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Over done reading

P.J. being P. J.

"Your girlfriend's ugly,your wife's a bitch,and your dog can't hunt."

Hit and miss.

Not his best, perhaps, but still worth reading.

The CEO of the Sofa (O'Rourke, P. J.)
P. J. O'Rourke
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This" (O'Rourke, P. J.)

ASIN: 080213940X

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New York Times best-selling author P. J. O'Rourke lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, traded quips with communist rebels in the jungles of the Philippines, and went undercover at the Dome of the Rock Mosque as P.J. of Arabia. Now, in his most challenging adventure, he journeys to the heart of that truly harrowing place -- his living room. The CEO of the Sofa follows America's preeminent political humorist through a year on the domestic front as he covers stories (and visits watering holes) close to home. He waxes cynical over the election of Hillary Clinton. He waxes nostalgic over learning to drive. He waxes poetic as he adds happy endings for liberals to famous tragedies. Now if he would just wax the kitchen floor. And P.J. does still get off the couch and embark on exotic adventures -- to the magical land of India, to the U.N. Millennial Summit, to a blind (drunk) wine tasting with Christopher Buckley, and, most exotical of all, to a Motel 6 where he has twenty-eight channels and a bathroom to himself. In The CEO of the Sofa, P.J. tackles everything and the kitchen sink, fighting evil, injustice, and absurdity with the gloves off and the oven mitts on. "An entertaining and engaging read." -- Dick Lispey, Associated Press "O'Rourke swings cheerfully into action ... nothing has softened [his] wicked sense of fun." -- Allen D. Boyer, The New York Times Book Review "His fans will love it. Democrats will grit their teeth and laugh to ease the pain." -- Chicago Sun-Times

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Over done reading.......2007-04-14

The audio version of this book is way over the top. When the reader reads dry humor in such a flowery way he makes the author sound snotty. I couldn't bear it. Its hard to say if I would have liked it better if the reader had toned it down.

P.J. being P. J........2006-11-21

The books of P. J. O'Rourke can be divided into three classifications. First come single-topic books, such as Modern Manners or The Bachelor Home Companion, which are (or give the appearance of being) single, unified works. Second are the collections of random essays on unrelated topics, such as Republican Party Reptile. Third are the essay collections whose individual pieces all fall under some general unifying topic, such as All the Trouble in the World or Parliament of Whores. Then there's The CEO of the Sofa, which either exists in a category of its own, or occupies a stitched-together amalgam of two or more of the preceding. Other reviewers have already cautioned the newcomer to O'Rourke's writing not to begin with this book. Heed them. If you've never sampled O'Rourke's style before, it's as likely as not that you'll be utterly at a loss if you begin here.

The CEO of the Sofa is a collection of essays with a unique conceit (unique to O'Rourke, at least, as he openly admits having swiped the idea from a collection of columns by Oliver Wendell Holmes): each is purportedly one of a series of conversations around the house with family members, friends, his personal assistant, and some imaginary neighbors. This is used as a means of linking, however tenuously, a series of essays that would otherwise have little to do with one another. The essays themselves are essentially unchanged from their various prior publications, and often the only reminder that a particular piece is supposed to be part of a dialogue is the occasional (sometimes jarring) insertion of the other party's name. Like most experiments, this one is not entirely successful, although only the pedant will allow it to detract from essays that he or she would otherwise enjoy.

The book's contents themselves are essentially what one has come to expect from P. J. O'Rourke; vaguely libertarian, mostly hilarious musings on a variety of subjects. In this case they include Hillary Clinton, the 2000 presidential election, the current (or then-current) crop of celebrities, and anything else he happens to cast his critical eye upon. His style is unchanged; he can still zero in on the dumbest-sounding passage in a book or speech and gleefully quote it, he is still adept at pointing out hypocrisy and contradiction, and he is still capable of generating hilariously descriptive similes about ninety percent of the time (likewise, about one simile in ten is a groan-inducing dud that thuds to the ground and dies; my biggest general criticism of O'Rourke, a writer whom I treasure, is that he is slightly too much in love with his narrative voice to effectively edit out the clunkers).

If you are an aficionado of O'Rourke, you will like this book, or should. It is never boring. If you haven't sampled his writing before, my admiration for the man demands that I warn you away from this one, at least for the time being. By all means you should give him a shot, but you would be best served by starting with something earlier, such as Parliament of Whores (one of the best nonfiction books on American government, period, and nicely evenhanded in criticizing the entire government, thus satisfying readers of numerous political stripes). Then come back to The CEO of the Sofa with your sense of humor properly honed, and enjoy.

"Your girlfriend's ugly,your wife's a bitch,and your dog can't hunt.".......2005-12-19

I love political satire and humor,both left and right wing.I can't believe it;but this is the first book of PD's that I've read.I know he is a popular writer,his books are everywhere;but for some reason I've passed them up.I guess I just wrote them off as popular fiction.I've got nobody to blame but myself ,but now that I've found him,I'll be reading more.
A lot of writers of political satire confuse hatred, foul language and outright nastiness with humor.Not so with PD.He takes the ordinary things that go on all the time and comes up with off-the- wall thinking and makes very different and truly humorous comments and observations.His approach is reminiscent of Twain and more recently Mark Russell.He had my sides splitting without resorting to mean spirited character assissination.His humor is more like the type of thing you get on "Roasts".
He amazed me time and tme again,by pointing out great humor where I had not even realized it existed.
If you like one-liners the book is littered with them.
Here is a little bit of the sort of thing he gives us:
"NABAA--The National Association to Ban Almost Everything"
"Clinton's popularity ratings are getting so high he's starting
to date again."
"If I had a cell phone, I'd lose it.I lose everything,I left my
first wife in the back of a cab somewhere."
"The only thing the UN is suited for,according to its charter,
is an invasion from Mars."
"The Web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the
world at the speed of light."
"NAPWETD--National Association of People ith Not Enough to Do."
"Ideas are to Hillary,what sex is to her husband."
"Since the time of Jimmy Carter,Liberals have been chasing
their tail,and,last heard,they've caught it and begun eating
and had chewed their way up to the back of their own ears."
"The computer becomes the handgun of modern mugging."
"This spawned a multitudinous generation of white-collar
criminals who can't even be bothered with the collar."
"Kids today may be wizards with virtual reality,yet they seem
a little foggy about what makes reality virtuous.

He does some great takes on a book "Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing",obviously from the left:
"Sure,the task force seems to be nothing but a rat bag of
shoddy pedagogues,athletes of the tongue,professional pick-
nits filling the stupid hours of their pointless days with
nagging the yellow-bellied editors of university presses,
which print volume after volume of bound-wad fated to sit
unread in college library stacks until the sun expires.
"Why doesn't the task force just combine "she" and "it" and
pronounce the thing accordingly."
If you've ever read Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas", or seen the movie,and wondered what it was all
about;PJ explains it all for you.
"A thrilling saga in which nothing much happens--a fitting
example of the picaresque for the Now Generation.One of the
things Hunter did in this book was write a coda to,an obituary
for,the nonsense of the 1960's.It is important to recall that
in the 1960's nothing much happened."
So,you can see,nothing in off-limits to PJ'sharp satire.
He keeps CEO's,the Stock Markets,technology,Drugs,Gun Control,
Political Correctness,Europe,India and particularly,the Liberal
Elite directly in his gun sites and fires back with some of
the best ammunition available---HUMOR!
This book has made me a P.D. James fan.
Oh yeah,my title is a quote from page 103;guess who he was
talking about.

Hit and miss........2005-07-21

If, like me, you read P.J. and enjoy his wit even though you frequently find yourself disagreeing with him politically, there is a great deal of material in this book that you will find very funny. However, if like me, you occasionally find that he goes too far and simply becomes insulting without bothering to be witty, you will find a great deal in this book annoying and unfunny. In this, it is not unlike "Republican Party Reptile", although it's not quite as funny and a bit more irritating. In quality, it's about on a par with "Bachelor Home Companion", although that book was less political and thus less annoying when it failed to be funny. As such, it's nowhere near as good as his best work: "Parliament of Whores", "Eat The Rich", "Holidays In Hell", and "Give War A Chance", in (more or less) order from best down, but it's miles ahead of his worst books, "The Enemies List", "Modern Manners", and "Age And Guile...", in order from worst up.

If you actually enjoy P.J. unconditionally and agree with his politics more than I do, you may well find this book more enjoyable than I did. I'd still say that it's a mid-range effort when compared to his other works.

Not his best, perhaps, but still worth reading........2005-07-04

I agree with some of the negative comments of others who comment on the book, that it's not his best, but there are still enough observations and turns of phrase that make you laugh out loud, to make it worth reading. I'm on the last 60 pages, now.

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THE CEO OF THE SOFA
P. J. O\'ROURKE
Manufacturer: PICADOR
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SEMLI2

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The CEO of the Sofa
P.J. O'ROURKE
Manufacturer: Picador
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