Bookkeeping for Builders

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Bookkeeping for Builders
Michael C. Thomsett
Manufacturer: Carlsbad, CA, U.S.A.: Craftsman Book Company, 1989
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ASIN: B000LTH350

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Bookkeeping for Builders

Manufacturer: Craftsman Book Co
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Business methods & organization for house builders & contractors
Arthur W Hopkins
Manufacturer: Ken-Pax pub. co
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Exhibit and book of instructions of Hadley's pathfinder bookkeeping system for contractors and builders
Robert W Gordon
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Exhibit and book of instructions of Hadley's pathfinder bookkeeping system for contractors and builders. Supplement
Robert W Gordon
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Single entry book-keeping for builders: With nearly sixty examples (Mechanics' manuals)
Paul N Hasluck
Manufacturer: Cassell & Co
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ASIN: B0008C5BYK

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Here is an inspiring introduction to the planets, the stars, the solar system, the whole wide, wonderful Universe. Hundreds of exciting, instructive experiments that show how the Universe actually works using everyday materials. For ages 8-14.

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Beautiful illustrations, good presentation of information, poor experiments.......2006-01-08

It was very hard to rate the books in this series, How the Universe included. In many ways, the book is excellent. The concepts and information are presented clearly and accurately, often in much more detail than usual in late elementary/early middle school. This series is produced by Dorling Kindersley, and though the organization is different (two-page spreads but with illustrated "experiments" and explanations rather that lots of picture-factoids), a flavor of the Eyewitness books remains.

HOWEVER, there are no experiments in this book. There are projects and demonstrations, but not one experiment. About 1/3rd to 1/4th of the activities are written as demonstrations that could be make into experiments with an adult's guidence so that a child is led to hypothesis and to test his hypothesis through experimentation, but as written, none of the activities can qualify. The remaining activities are either demonstrations that can't be easily turned into experiments or are simply projects, like making a telescope or a sundial. Some of the activities are also made ridiculously complicated and lengthy for the amount that a student would get out of it. For example, instead of sticking a sticker on a ball and turning the ball in the dark while illumated with a flashlight to show how day and night works, the child skewers a rubber ball to make an axis, uses two pieces of posterboard to place the axis at the exact right angle, paints the ball like the earth, puts a pin where he lives, and FINALLY, after several hours, uses a lamp to demonstrate something that without all the cutesy overhead would take less than a minute. Sure, you have a neat little globe as a result, but you just spent several lesson times on an activity that should have been a fraction of a lesson! The learning from the activity doesn't justify the time spent on it. Not every activity has this problem, but enough do that the overall effect is to lower the quality of the book.

Quite simply, this book would be a great resource for a flexible, knowledgable homeschool or institutional school teacher, but its educational usefulness exactly as it is written is limited by its flaws. On the basis of its flaws, I would give it a 2, but because of its great usefulness for the knowledgable user, I'd give it a 5. A 4 is a compromise.

The main topics in this book are:

Spaceship Earth
The Moon
The Solar System
The Sun
The Stars
The Cosmos

"Not Another Science Fair!".......2000-03-28

Heather Couper has scored a coup in writing this fun and exciting book to help you and your child be successful in school science. We used this book as a guide to a curriculum we wrote for a private school here in Washington. The students used to cheer when I came in the room with the lesson of the week which always came with an experiment from this book. Science was exciting and I never had any discipline problems. When you can properly engage a student and take away the fear of failure, you have won. This approach helped all the students but was especially impactful for the students with learning disabilities who struggled with the written word only approach. Get excited about science with your children! This book removes all fears.

GREAT BOOK.......2000-03-27

This book teaches much information about the universe, from quasars to black holes. It has many, many experiments kids can use to learn about different planets and topics. Great book!

Laboratory Astronomy: Experiments and Exercises

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Learning through experimenting

Laboratory Astronomy: Experiments and Exercises
Anthony J. Nicastro
Manufacturer: William C Brown Pub
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Learning through experimenting.......2000-03-25

As a professor of Astronomy, for a long time I have been trying to find the best way to help students fixate concepts that they mostly learn through formulas. This book is a very good tool for high-school and undergraduate professors with this purpose. I recommend its experiments since they are easy to be reproduced and understood.

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Astronomy: A laboratory textbook
John W Wilson , and John Wilson
Manufacturer: Contemporary Pub. Co. of Raileigh
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0898921260

Autoionization: Astrophysical, Theoretical, and Laboratory Experimental Aspects

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Autoionization: Astrophysical, Theoretical, and Laboratory Experimental Aspects

Manufacturer: Mono Book Corp.
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ASIN: B000M77CWA

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Consists of papers from a symposium held August 10 & 11, 1965, at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA. The book is divided into three sections: Astrophysical Aspects of Autoionization (2 articles); Theoretical Aspects of Autoionization (4 articles); Laboratory Experimental Aspects of Autoionization (2 articles). Also includes an index.

Challenges of Astronomy: Hands-on Experiments for the Sky and Laboratory

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A wonderful introduction to astronomy

Challenges of Astronomy: Hands-on Experiments for the Sky and Laboratory
W. Schlosser , T. Schmidt-Kaler , and E.F. Milone
Manufacturer: Springer
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Challenges of Astronomy in a unique collection of thirty astronomy experiments ranging from ancient astronomy to cosmology. Each of the experiments contains one or more challenges for the reader. The progression is from the Earth outward through the solar system to the stellar and galactic realm. Topics include the shape of the sky, Stonehenge as a stoneage abacus, determination of the size of the Earth, the distance of the Moon and planets, Kepler's laws, planetary mass and density, the temperatures and atmospheres of planets, the speed of light, the distances of stars, the nature of the quiet and active Sun, photometry and spectroscopy, stars clusters and variable stars, fundamental properties of stars, and Olber's paradox.
Challenges of Astronomy is a translation and extensive revision of a German-language resource book for secondary school teachers of science. Physical science teachers will find this edition too a rich resource of experiments to their own milieus, but it is suitable for many other English-language readers too, from northern and southern hemisphere locations. The beginning experiments are suitable for bright high school and non-science major university students while the later experiments which offer increasingly difficult challenges are more suitable for sciences majors. Amateurs with a variety of skills will find this hands-on book entertaining, informative, and useful.

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A wonderful introduction to astronomy.......2004-11-04

This is a very readable and informative textbook. While the initial exercises require far less scientific sophistication than the later ones, it is definitely written with potential scientists in mind (astronomy undergraduates in particular). It starts with some very preliminary material on our perception of the shape of the sky, followed by the use of sky charts and then an explanation of Stonehenge as a tool to calculate eclipses. The next twenty or so chapters deal with the fundamentals of doing planetary astronomy, while the final chapters move us outside the Solar System. It includes several useful appendices, including ones on coordinate systems, error analysis, and planetary positions.

If you are interested in astronomy, this is a great place to start.

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Hands-on Astronomy
Lind , and Plendl
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Insta Lab, The How to Book of Science (149 easy, simple, insteresting and instructive experiences for all grades in the fields of heat, light, sound, electricity, astronomy, health, etc.)

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Insta Lab, The How to Book of Science (149 easy, simple, insteresting and instructive experiences for all grades in the fields of heat, light, sound, electricity, astronomy, health, etc.)
Fred H. Abell
Manufacturer: Fisher Scientific Company
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ASIN: B000VFD5EC

Laboratory Astrophysics and Space Research (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

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Laboratory Astrophysics and Space Research (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792353382

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The book presents the most recent developments of laboratory studies in astrophysics and space research. The individual chapters review laboratory investigations under simulated space conditions, studies for the design of successful space experiments or for supporting the interpretation of astronomical and space mission recorded data. Related theoretical models, numerical simulations and in situ observations demonstrate the necessity of experimental work on the Earth's surface. The expertise of the contributing scientists covers a broad spectrum and is included in general overviews from fundamental science to recent space technology.
The book intends to serve as a reference for researchers and graduate students on the most recent activities and results in laboratory astrophysics, and to give reviews of their applications in astronomy, planetology, cosmochemistry, space research and Solar System exploration.

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Laboratory Experiments for Astronomy
Paul Johnson
Manufacturer: Harcourt College Pub
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ASIN: 0030096774

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Experiments: The earth and the stars
Ronnie L Ezell
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ASIN: B0006YEP3S

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FROM THE PREFACE: Pulse Methods in 1D and 2D Liquid-Phase NMR is written to enable the practicing NMR spectroscopist to understand and apply the varied and powerful new techniques developed in the past few years for obtaining spectra with greatly increased information content and from smaller and smaller samples. The intent is to describe both theory and practice in simple and detailed fashion so that the methods may be critically evaluated and effectively used in any potential application. As methods become more complex they require more instrument time, and it is important to be able to judge whether the investment of this time is justified. It is also essential for the spectroscopist to be in a position to evaluate the capabilities of the instrumentation available, as well as the additional requirements for utilization of particular new methods.
The material in this book assumes a knowledge of continuous-wave NMR methods as well as an elementary understanding of the normal pulsed Fourier-transform spectroscopic procedures, together with a knowledge of such related phenomena as the nuclear Overhauser effect. Although much of the treatment is necessarily methematical, this aspect of the presentation has been simplified as much as possible.

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Pulse Methods in 1d and 2d Liquid Phase Nmr
Wallace S. Brey
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGWWNI

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Are you:

Entering a program in the physical sciences?

A high school student who has taken most of the offered courses, and looking for a glimpse of college mathematics?

Engaged in self-study to hone your mathematical skills?

Then R. Shankar’s Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students is written for you. Based on the author’s course at Yale University, the book addresses the widening gap found by Professor Shankar and his colleagues between the mathematics needed for upper-level science study and the knowledge possessed by incoming students.

This superb text organizes the necessary mathematics background into a one-semester course covering such topics as:

- A review of calculus

- Infinite series

- Functions of a complex variable

- Vector calculus

- Matrices

- Linear vector spaces

- Differential equations

Get in shape for your future science studies with this outstanding text.

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Best undergrduate math refresher ever.......2007-10-07

Wish I had come across this book earlier. Other undergraduate math refresher/review books are either too basic or too formulaic (if I had wanted a table of functions I would have bought one). The stress is clearly on concepts, followed by techniques. The book is a great review of all the oohs and aahs of undergraduate and high school mathematics that you have forgotten over the years. I graduated from high school 15 years ago and by page 3 I was doing derivatives from first principles. Richard Courant's "What is Mathematics?" would make an excellent companion to this book. For example I complemented the first two chapters on calculus with the chapters on number systems and, limits and continuity from Courant's book and I truly felt that my calculus review was complete.

A really helpful book.......2007-04-04

This is a great book for someone who did his undergraduate studies in Engineering or Chemistry (like me) and now is entering a Physics program. It is a great review of most of the important stuff in Math for Physics, without the boring mathematical style: straight to the point with relevant examples.

Another good point is that it has problems scattered INSIDE the text, which enforce you to do them. Most of them are interesting and in a physical context (as: Lorentz transformations - as an example of a "rotation" matrix , Maxwell equations - an exercise in vector analysis etc.)

In addition, I don't agree with the reviewers who claim that you cannot actually LEARN new topics from it. I never learned "complex functions" during my undergrad, and actually managed to learn it with Shankar - at least the things important to a physicist.

A drawback: a chapter about group theory could be useful.

Kind of a last resort.......2005-02-06

This book tries to cover pretty much all the mathematical methods you'd need in college-level physics if you haven't had much experience with them before. The trouble is that that is a LOT of math, and trying to cover that in a book this size is just asking for trouble.

If you don't know any of this stuff, this book is going to kill you. It covers multivariable and vector calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, functions of a complex variable, etc. That is maybe 4-5 different math courses. The idea is that physicists don't really need the rigor of theoretical math, they just need to learn the "tools" so they can do the practical, applied stuff.

This book is good if you already have a general idea of these concepts and just want to get the important parts.

A Quick math methods book.......2001-06-19

.If you enjoyed Klepner & Ramsay 's "Quick Calculus" as a school student for its engaging and dearly wished there was an undergrad math methods book in that style! The answer is this book. You may not find a work book type fromat like "Quick calculus" . But let me assure you despite the formal style and Prof Shankar's repute for being verbose you will find it like a rhaphsody and yet in coherent english. I only dearly wish Prof Shankar would kill some research time to write a Graduate level fitness programme. I think all the previous reviewers justly awarded 5 stars to this book. To those raters responisble for eating half a star , let me say there is no other engaging lively and painless math review than this. If you find this book painful I don't know what to say . But on the contrary of you thought the book was too easy then read the title it is a fitness programme not a discourse like Morse & Feshbach or Courant & Hilbert.

An excellent math review for physics.......2000-04-08

This book covers the basic areas of math needed for physics. It is quite readable and useful for self-study. It covers the standard topics in a concise fashion, but in sufficient detail to be useful. I used it as a personal math refresher after being away from advanced physics for some years. It gave me what I needed.

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A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X (Study of History)
Arnold J. Toynbee
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