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Price/Haddock/Brock has been a long-time market leader because of its readability and relevance. The book includes many real-world examples, high-interest problems and activities, in-text help, and classroom-tested dynamic pedagogy. With the addition of McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager, Topic Tackler Plus, and an Algorithmic Test Bank, the new edition includes more technology support than ever before.

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This digital document is an article from Wines & Vines, published by Hiaring Company on August 1, 2000. The length of the article is 584 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Grape Bearing Acreage Standing by Major Variety and Type, 1990-1999 [1].(Brief Article)
Publication: Wines & Vines (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2000
Publisher: Hiaring Company
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Wine Industry in South Africa: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (Strategic Planning Series)

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Wine Industry in South Africa: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (Strategic Planning Series)
The Agricultural Services Research Group , and The Agricultural Services Research Group
Manufacturer: Icon Group International, Inc.
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General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0741826550
Release Date: 2005-09-30

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The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process, and consultants who help their clients with this task. The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning in South Africa.

This report helps executives evaluate strategic investment and entry alternatives in South Africa. In order to evaluate South Africa, Icon Group International, Inc. draws on a methodology developed by Professor Philip Parker at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. The methodology decomposes a country's strategic potential along two key dimensions: (1) latent demand, and (2) accessibility. A country may have very high latent demand, yet have low accessibility, making it a less attractive market than many smaller potential countries having higher levels of accessibility.

This report provides a strategic profile of South Africa along these lines. Throughout the discussion, literally hundreds of statistics on South Africa are benchmarked against regional and global averages. The reader can thus quickly understand where South Africa fits into the regional and global perspective. The report first investigates the economic fundamentals affecting South Africa. These fundamentals are the source for South Africa's latent demand. Then, the subsequent chapters detail South Africa's accessibility. This evaluation covers a number of entry alternatives, including export strategies, and local direct investment strategies. If a firm decides to have a local presence in South Africa, this requires a strategic understanding of local business conditions. The conditions investigated in this report include local marketing (advertising, distribution, pricing issues) and entry strategies (opening an office, joint venturing, etc.), as well as human resources management (labor...

The 1999 Minnesota Agricultural Assistance Program: A preliminary evaluation for the Minnesota Department of Revenue, Tax Research Division

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The 1999 Minnesota Agricultural Assistance Program: A preliminary evaluation for the Minnesota Department of Revenue, Tax Research Division
Steven J Taff
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A conspectus of nutritional assessments of the Maine population across the lifespan, 1966-1999 (Miscellaneous publication / Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station)

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A conspectus of nutritional assessments of the Maine population across the lifespan, 1966-1999 (Miscellaneous publication / Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station)
Richard A Cook
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Crop cost and return estimates in New Mexico, 1999 (Research report / New Mexico State University, Agricultural Experiment Station)

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Crop cost and return estimates in New Mexico, 1999 (Research report / New Mexico State University, Agricultural Experiment Station)
Jerry M Hawkes
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Crop data from 1960 and projected to 1999 for three North Dakota regions (Agricultural economics statistical series)

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Crop data from 1960 and projected to 1999 for three North Dakota regions (Agricultural economics statistical series)
David W Cobia
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This definitive work is the most uptodate compendium on tungsten in over twenty years. Wolf-Dieter Schubert's scientific career and extensive research activities combined with Erik Lassner's long-term industrial and development knowledge make this an essential resource on the current status of tungsten science and technology.
Consolidating new knowledge previously presented at seminars or in the technical press, Tungsten is a significant contribution to the broader acceptance of the most recent innovations in the field. The text is enhanced by over 300 illustrations.

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Tungstenopliles, look no further.......2000-04-11

After groveling and scraping for every little tungsten factoid I could find, this book was more welcome than a healed disciple at an evangelical fund raiser. What EXACTLY is ferrotungsten? Got it (including some typical chemistries). Lightbulb filaments? Finally a full story. >>Basically one heck of a lot of info on my favorite element. < < Omissions? Tungsten in fluorescent lamps is barely mentioned. Radiation shielding details not found. Direct carburizing recipies mentioned but details left to REFERENCES. Thank you, thank you for the references!

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Data analysis is of central importance in the education of scientists. This book offers a compact and readable introduction to techniques relevant to physical science students. The material is thoroughly integrated with the popular and powerful spreadsheet package Excel by Microsoft. Excel features of most relevance to the analysis of experimental data in the physical sciences are dealt with in some detail. Fully worked problems reinforce basic principles. Underlying assumptions and range of applicability of techniques are discussed, though detailed derivations of basic equations are mostly avoided or confined to the appendices.

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A disappointing book.......2004-11-12

This is an introductory book on Excel for physical scientists. Cambridge University Press deserves a compliment for a beautifully produced volume. Unfortunately, its contents are disappointing, because the text contains serious errors and omissions. The most obvious error is the statement, on page 308, that Excel does not provide built in facilities for fitting equations to data using nonlinear least squares. Excel does provide these, in the form of Solver, but the reader will look in vain for any mention of Solver in this book. (Figure 9.1 on page 365 shows that the author indeed has not bothered to activate the Solver Add-in.) The most serious omission is that the existence of user-definable functions and macros is not mentioned either. This leaves out two of the most powerful features of Excel: nonlinear least squares, and user programmability.

Another major problem with this book is that it doesn't show the reader how to use the spreadsheet effectively, but often goes out of its way to make easy things difficult. The almost exclusive emphasis in this book is on least squares methods, yet these are handled quite clumsily. On page 244, e.g., the linear correlation coefficient is computed from its formula by calculating the necessary sums, rather than by taking advantage of the fact that Linest, Regression, and Trendline all provide this parameter or its square. On page 284 the reader is shown the matrix algebra for fitting data to a parabola, and then told that "The built in matrix functions of Excel are well suited to estimating parameters in linear least squares problems", as if Linest, Regression, and Trendline are not there to take care of such tedious data manipulations. Likewise, on page 290, the user is not informed that Linest and Regression can also do multivariate analysis, but instead is instructed to do this the hard way, again by setting up and solving matrix equations. It is as if the author hasn't quite figured out yet that the spreadsheet has several built-in facilities specifically designed to make such least squares problems user-friendly.

In comparison with other books vying for the scientific spreadsheet market it is difficult to come up with any area in which Kirkup's book has the edge over its competitors: Billo (2nd ed., Wiley, 2001), Bloch (2nd ed., Wiley, 2003), de Levie (Oxford, 2004), Gottfried (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2002), Liengme (3rd ed., Newnes, 2002), and Orvis (2nd ed., Sybex, 1996) all provide much more useful information, and don't make their readers jump through unnecessary hoops either.

A must for engineering statistics.......2003-10-20

If you are doing an engineering statistics course this book is of a hell of a lot more value than Engineering Statistics by Hubele, Montgomery and Runger.

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The Quantum Challenge, Second Edition is an engaging and thorough treatment of the extraordinary phenomena of quantum mechanics, and of the enormous challenge they present to our conception of the physical world. Traditionally, the thrill of grappling with such issues is reserved for practicing scientists, while physical science, mathematics, and engineering students are often isolated from these inspiring questions. This book was written to remove this isolation. Greenstein and Zajonc present the puzzles of quantum mechanics using vivid references to contemporary experiments. The authors focus on the most striking and conceptually significant quantum phenomena, together with a clear theoretical treatment of each. The depth and extent of the challenge of quantum mechanics becomes increasingly compelling as they move from the simplest experiments involving single photons or particles, to the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen and Bell's Theorem, and then to macroscopic quantum phenomena.

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excellent for first year grad students.......2006-12-29

This book is great for understanding QM conceptually. You should have studied QM at least at the undergraduate level already - the authors assume you already know the math. I'm a first year grad student in electrical engineering and the level is perfect for me (that is, challenging and slow to read, but very rewarding and not too frustrating). The authors go over a lot of spiffy experiments that have taken place in the last 50 years. They give you the experimental schematic, tell you the "expected result", give you charts of the actual result, and discuss what it means. As an engineer, this style of learning is great for me, because there's a lot of pretty diagrams and plots.

The authors also teach you how to apply the math you learned in your undergrad to actually analyze real world situations. For example, they analyze scattering events inside a fission reactor using the uncertainty principle and conclude *warning: spoilers* that the uncertainty in the position of a particle in a fission reactor is one hundred times bigger than the cross section of the nucleus it is to strike. (This is a fundamental uncertainty due to the Heisenberg Principle, not due to faulty measuring equipment). This means that we cannot visualize a fission chain reaction as these neat little balls that bounce around, splitting nuclei apart. It means that we cannot be sure what is going on inside at all. I thought that was neat.

The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics made accessible.......2006-08-24

Even after taking an advanced-level quantun mechanics course my junior year of college, I had only heard vague reference to Bell's Inequalities, and certainly had not heard of delayed-choice experiments or Bohm's formulation of quantum mechanics. I knew nothing about quantum computation, hidden variable theories, or really anything at all beyond the Copenhagen Interpretation.

Quantum mechanics tends to bring up philosophical questions in first-time students. I have a friend who after taking his first quantum course, was adamant, to near the point of hysteria, that quantum mechanics must be wrong because to him the collapse of the wave function simply did not make sense. For him, and for myself, The Quantum Challenge was exactly what we needed. It takes questions about the meaning of quantum mechanics and answers them firmly and concretely (to the extent that the answers are known) in light of experimental results. These are the sort of things they don't teach you in physics class, where you diagnolize matrices, solve Schrodinger Equations, and learn approximation methods for months without understanding how everything you're doing works in application.

I was a teaching assistant for an intensive, 4-week quantum mechanics course for high school students this summer. The Quantum Challenge was our text. At first, I was skeptical of using this route to introduce students to quantum physics, but now I realize that it is much more successful than a traditional approach towards the mathematics of quantum. After working with Quantum Challenge, my students had a better understanding of quantum physics than they would have if we had spent four weeks trying to teach differential equations and linear algebra to them.

The book does include some math and is not for a complete beginner in quantum mechanics. Before reading it, you should understand bra-ket notation and have enough quantum mechanics to do simple one-dimensional problems, but after that, dive into the arcane and fascinating world of the quantum.

An honest presentation of the puzzles in Quantum Mechanics.......2005-10-03

This is the only pedagogical book I have seen that tries to explain the issues in interpreting Quantum Mechanics without trying to sell the reader on a philosophical direction first. The authors just try to explain the implications and rationale behind QM as it is today, without promoting a "new direction". I think this is extremely useful - even if you want to go somewhere else, it helps to know where you are, to start.

There is a lot of discussion of the relevant experiments and the issues they settle (and raise). This is rather grounding.

The reader will need a good undergraduate-level capability in mathematics and previous exposure to quantum physics, in order to make real progress with this book. I think this is unavoidable, as QM is inherently mathematical. Given this background, the reader should find this book clear and well filled-out.

(I am writing about the 1st edition - I'm not sure how the 2nd edition differs.)

Great book........2005-01-01

I had Professor Zajonc for my Modern Physics class. He assigned some readings from his book; I don't think anyone read it. They should have because this book is immensely readable and it was a LOT better than his lectures. I think I learned more reading this book than going to class, which admittedly I didn't do very often.

This book is an excellent bridge between popular accounts of quantum mechanics, which focus on the consequences but have no math in them at all, and technical accounts, which are all math. This book is a good medium. If you have knowledge of undergraduate math and physics you should be able to get through this book.

The Quantum Challenge.......2003-06-17

This is the best book available, by far, on experimental results of the quantum measurement problem. It is one of the few books that are beyond popular accounts, which generally do not have the depth necessary to understand the measurement problem, and - on the other hand - very technical quantum optics volumes. I give it my highest recommendation for anyone with some science background to become acquainted with the quantum measurement problem in detail. It is a triumph and comprehensive in its coverage and reference to quantum measurement experiments. Every scientist should read this book.

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Good fences may make good neighbors, but in Magnus Mills's first novel, bad fences make for high tension indeed. An eerie noir fable told in a grim, deadpan voice, The Restraint of Beasts begins as an unnamed English fence builder finds himself promoted to foreman over Tam and Richie, two undermotivated Scots laborers. They've just been sent out to fix a high-tension fence when events go horribly awry--and that's just the beginning. For the rest of the novel, as his charges drink, smoke, loaf, and pound the occasional post, things go wrong over and over again. In a sense, that's all you can truly rely on in Mills's fictional world. It is not giving away too much to say that with these particular fencers on the job, you'd best watch your back. And your front, for that matter. And maybe keep a firm eye on the skies, just in case.

The team travels south to England, where they live out of a damp, cold caravan in the town of Upper Bowland. They're soon at loggerheads with the sinister Hall brothers, whose business enterprises seem to combine fencing, butchering, sausage-making, and a fierce attachment to school meals. "We committed no end of good deeds!" cries John Hall. "Yet still we lost the school dinners! Always the authorities laying down some new requirement, one thing after another! This time is seems we must provide more living space. Very well! If that's the way they want it, we'll go on building fences for ever if necessary! We'll build pens and compounds and enclosures! And we'll make sure we never lose them again!"

In between placing Kafkaesque obstacles in his narrator's path, Mills seeds his debut with small, darkly comic touches: Tam's father, whom we last see erecting a stockade round his house "to stop you from coming home any more"; the sound of Richie's Black Sabbath tapes "slowly being stretched in an under-powered cassette player"; the caravan's encroaching squalor; An Early Bath for Thompson, the book that Richie tries without success to read. No doubt about it, The Restraint of Beasts is a strange novel that only grows stranger as it progresses; with luck, it augurs more brilliant, odd work from Mills. --Mary Park

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CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF 1998 BY THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES" AND WINNER OF ENGLAND'S MCKITTERICK PRICE This award-winning literary tour de force, shortlisted for both the Whitbread and the Booker prizes, tells the captivating tale of three men: Tam and Richie, good Scots lads at heart who have turned loafing into an art form, and their ever exasperated English foreman. Carefully laid plans go haywire from the start, and as they cover their tracks the best they can, the hapless trio heads south from Scotland to do a job in England, where they find that their reputation has preceded them, to say the least. This outrageous and brilliant tale is riveting from beginning to end, introducing a magnetic new voice.

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Don't be fooled!.......2007-05-19

Saying this book is good is like saying you use good toilet paper. You still wipe you butt with both of them. Yeah, the characters are well drawn. Yeah, it has a splash of dark humor--I won't ruin it for those of you unlucky enough to believe the other reviewers. I should have known it was going to be bad based soley on the cover! What writer in his right mind would allow the jacket to so grossly misrepresent the very job his entire book is about.

It may seem a small detail however, the forman on the cover is smoking. In the novel he's the only one that doesn't smoke (in a 200 page novel every little detail is important. Furthermore, anyone who has ever had the unholy pleasure of digging fence-post holes would know you could never use A PICK-AXE or a flat-head shovel. And yet there they are on the cover of the book. Maybe I was expecting too much. Based on the reviews and blurbs on the cover I had in mind side spilting laughter--I've always loved the dark humor of Vonnegut and his ilk--what I got was a 200 page disertation on the empty minds of slack Scottish laborers and their idiotic new forman. Could have been funny, most definately was not.

Intelligent Drudgery.......2007-03-27

Who ever thought that fence detailing could be so interesting? The truth is that its not that interesting, but Magnus Mills creates an interesting story about a couple of bumbling fence builders in this farcical, droll novel. His dry humor makes you laugh out loud while his characters keep you interested through their oddly familiar personalities.

Dry Black Comedy.......2006-03-31

The Restaint of Beasts probably isn't for everyone, but it is one of my favorite novels and maybe one of the most brilliant first novels ever. As other reviewers have said, Mills uses a spare, deadpan approach; his humor is dry. The comedy is black and not all will find the events depicted here funny. I had an idea who Tam and Richie(two laborers building an extremely long fence)were, but it was mostly in my own imagination because Mills doesn't give us much character description.
I thought this was a witty and captivating tale with an eerie sense of impending doom hanging over the proceedings. I recommend this book to fans of offbeat literature.

Funny but Sad.......2005-07-05

I loved this book from the first page. There's black humour all the way through it and from my own experience of being an Englishman doing menial work in Scotland (making wooden pallets for three years) of course it was realistic. The three main characters are treated like beasts themselves by their bosses worthless except for the money they represent(the term beasts is what the Scots use to describe livestock).The work they have to do all day is so boring and laborious that all they've got to look forward to at the end of the day is a few drinks in the pub. Oblivion in any form to take them away from the drudgery of their lives. Two of them keep stopping for smokebreaks at the slightest chance, anything to stop this depressing work. Also I liked the way that there weren't any women in their lives, they seemed totally cut off socially from them by circumstance, bad pay and lack of experience. Fenced in themselves, if you like.I liked the bits in the english pub where they sit and drink and there is almost an invisible fence between them and the proper world outside. Sprinkled through the book are plenty of laughs but this will depend on you, the reader, as it is all so subtle. The author doesn't spell everything out for you and there are hidden meanings and hidden laughs all the way through. I'm so glad that books like this that are so different and creative can still be written and find their way to the shop shelves. I'll be keeping an eye out for more of Magnus Mills.

Deceptively Simple.......2005-05-13

The Restraint of Beasts is simply not a simple novel, though it gives that deceptive appearance.
Magnus Mills writes in simple English. Hemingway would applaud his stark and plain style. Yet, there are things going on just beneath the surface that will grasp your imagination and have this simple story haunting your mind for days after you read the last page.
It is a simple story: the newly appointed foreman of a fence-building crew is sent from Scotland with his two-man crew to do a job in the north of England. The foreman, the unnamed narrator of the tale, soon makes it apparent he has reservations about his assignment and, in particular, his crew who are as skilled in avoiding work as they are in doing it. Things go awry even before they leave Scotland when a customer is accidentally killed. Rather than reporting the incident or taking other actions we would assume "normal," they bury the man and move on. A similar incident occurs soon after their arrival in England.
There are reminders here of Kafka and Becket and humor of a decidedly dark turn between turns of repetitious drudgery and pub-crawling that is the lot of these hapless laborers. Mills crams some memorable characters into the short 214 pages of this novel, including a father who builds a stockade to keep his son away, the obsessive owner of the fence-building company and the equally obsessed Hall brothers.
I believe I'll be wanting more of Mills' tales.

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The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills
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The Restraint of Beasts.
Magnus Mills
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The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills
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