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What type of external resources will be required
What to expect of external resources
What will be required in terms of program deliverables, reports, quality assurance, risk management, and reporting relationships
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In this book, human resource management and training expert Judy Hale demystifies training outsourcing and details how companies can successfully outsource their training and development needs from the entire learning function to selected services and programs. It also covers the labyrinth of contractual, interpersonal, and legal dimensions inherent in any decision to partner with another service provider. Filled with practical tips, guidelines, and plenty of tools, this book explains how to determine What type of external resources will be required What to expect of external resources What will be required in terms of program deliverables, reports, quality assurance, risk management, and reporting relationships The level of readiness to outsource deliverables ranging from managing the training and development function to specific program elements The contractual elements that best protect an organization's interests How to collaborate effectively with all of the functions involved in outsourcing decisions

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Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 2000-2001 Millennium Edition

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A directory of outstanding individuals in the medical field. Biographies of persons who have made important contributions to medicine and healthcare. Includes personal and professional information. Alphabetical index. Table of specialty abreviations.

Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 2000-2001: Millennium Edition (Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare)

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Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 2000-2001: Millennium Edition (Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare)

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From the big bang to the present and into the next millenium, The Universe Story unites science and the humanities in a dramatic exploration of the unfolding of the universe, humanity's evolving place in the cosmos, and the boundless possibilities for our future.

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wonderful book.......2007-07-26

Everyone should read this book or "universe is a green dragon" or "hidden heart of the cosmos". These powerful cosmological ideas are beautifully captured in these books.

Abject depravity.......2001-06-29

I have reconsidered my first (one star) review and it is clear to me now this book fully deserves five stars, simply because Swimme, without apology, wants to make clear his worldview. Read on...

Author Swimme zooms around the globe in commercial air transports, speaking at "earthspirit rising" conferences, telling his audiences that humanity needs to embrace the "new story" so the Earth can bloom again. He has also written to me stating that "knowledge of complex systems is crucial."

Swimme is in a predicament here. In this book, he shakes his fists at consumerism, rages against the machine, and complains about environmental degradation. Yet for whatever reasons, he does not see fit to eschew commercial air transportation and instead walk to the conferences he speaks at. It's my view Swimme can't have it both ways. He asserts that knowledge of complex systems is crucial, yet he appears comfortable that the turbofans attached to the airplanes he rides in spew a great quantity of carbon dioxide into a very complex system (the Earth's atmosphere). What other conclusion is there than this: that knowledge seems neither crucial nor has it changed Swimme's behavior. Worse, if the new story hasn't changed him, how does he expect it to change anyone else? You would think that Swimme, in all his cosmological wisdom, would lead by example. Is not Mohandas Gandhi sufficient prooftext for that?

The rest of humanity need not worry about Swimme (or worry about his fellow ecoutopians), at least as long as he doesn't have power. My frank assessment is that the great majority of utopians really don't have what it takes to change anything, including themselves. One of the easist things a person will ever do is theorize. Swimme is proof enough of that. Beyond that, it's all work. And making things work.

Nevertheless, history teaches a few utopians gain power. Then they change things a lot. One very good example is Pol Pot. Another, who I consider the quintessential utopian of the 20th century, is Joseph Goebbels. A common theme of their thinking was to posit at least one segment of humanity with derivative value. It is not surprising that Brian Swimme essentially holds true the same view, but he elevates it to a new level, as he has written: "The well-being of the Earth is primary. Human well-being is derivative." Swimme's statement is not unique to the religion he practices, as his ecoutopian friend Rosemary Radford Ruether has spoken at another "earthspirit rising" conference thus: "We need to seek the most compassionate way of weeding out people." So now, all of humanity, not merely the Jew (as in the case of Goebbels), is of derivative value.

Nevertheless, my faith in humanity to overcome this sort of evil remains steadfast: history also teaches there are two constants associated with utopians in power. First, their power always comes to an end. Second, most unhappily, the end is always very messy.

As for me, I will continue to marvel at the antiutopians. The example of Gandhi comes to mind. Now here is a guy who knew the value of walking the talk. And then there's that quintessential antiutopian, none other than Jesus of Nazareth. This guy held the value of humanity above all else. Brian Swimme, you might want to make note of that.

The universe in a wildflower........2001-05-03

"There is eventually only one story," collaborators Swimme and Berry write, "the story of the universe. Every form of being is integral with this comprehensive story. Nothing is itself without everything else. Each member of the Earth community has its own proper role within the entire sequence of transformations that have given shape and identity to everything that exists" (p. 288). Beginning 15 million years ago (p. 7), THE UNIVERSE STORY follows the universe "from its original Flaring Forth through the shaping of the galaxies, the elements, the Earth, its living forms, the human mode of being, then on through the course of human affairs during the past century" (p. 241). The product of its writers' "imaginative power as well as intellectual understanding" (p. 237), this book "is not the story of a mechanistic, essentially meaningless universe, but the story of a universe that has from the beginning has [sic] its mysterious self-organizing power that, if experienced in any serious manner, must evoke an even greater sense of awe than that evoked in earlier times at the experience of the dawn breaking over the horizon, the lightning storms crashing over the hills, or the night sounds of the tropical rainforests, for it is out of this story that all of these phenomena have emerged" (p. 238).

This superb book shows that the universe acts "in an integral manner" (p. 26), everything in the universe existing for everything else (p. 263). For plants and animals, "the universe is a chorus of voices" (p. 42). We are told, for instance, "the winds speak to the butterfly, the taste of the water speaks to the butterfly, the shape of the leaf speaks to the butterfly and offers guidance that resonates with the wisdom coded into the butterfly's being" (p. 42). Similarly, we can "climb a mountain and get hit by something so profound, at so deep a level," that we will never be quite the same (p. 41). For humans, "the adventure of the universe depends upon our ability to listen" (p. 44) to "the mountain language, river language, tree language, the language of the birds and all animals and insects, as well as the languages of the stars in the heavens" (p. 258). We also learn Walt Whitman's sentience was "an intricate creation of the Milky Way, and his feelings are an evocation of being, an evocation involving thunderstorms, sunlight, grass, and death. Walt Whitman is a space the Milky Way fashioned to feel its own grandeur" (p. 40).

The moral of this STORY is that the Earth is "a one-time endowment" (p. 246). Through the destruction of the rainforests at the rate of an acre a day, by disturbing the chemical balance of the planet through petrochemicals, through genetic engineering, and through the "radioactive wasting of the planet," we are "eliminating the very conditions for renewal of life in some of its more elaborate forms" (pp. 246-7). "As the natural world recedes in its diversity and abundance, so the human finds itself impoverished in its economic resources, its imaginative powers, in its human sensibilities, and in significant aspects of its intellectual intuitions" (p. 242). This celebration of the unfolding universe will change the way you look at life.

G. Merritt

Sweeping Thoughts, Bad Conclusions.......2000-11-23

Brian Swimme sure knows how to put it all together. This book purports to be the story, or history, of the Universe. It is absolutely amazing in its scope. The book attempts to tie up everything that has ever happened in any form of existence into one tight narrative. This is possible, according to Swimme, because everything is interconnected, it is a coherent one. Nothing happens without everything else feeling its effect.

Needless to say, the book is heavy with physics and philosophy. The book starts out with the Big Bang and ends with today. Along the way Swimme shows how all things are built on what has come before. This is his big thesis behind the story, that the Universe is not a cyclical set of events, but a series of epic transformations. When viewed in this light, events begin to fit into place. Massive changes occur that everything after builds upon, and which could not have existed if that shift hadn't occurred in the first place. Human history also has undergone these fundamental shifts, in thought as well as geographical movements. These shifts are one way in which the Universe expands and expresses itself in reality.

There are some deep thoughts in this book. Swimme says that Walt Whitman's poetry, and the feelings behind it, are, "an intricate creation of the Milky Way, and his feelings are an evocation of being, an evocation involving thunderstorms, sunlight, grass, history, and death. Walt Whitman is a space the Milky Way fashioned to feel it own grandeur." Deep stuff.

Though the book is well written and expresses a deep intelligence, there are alarming statements in the book that show the ideological underpinnings of the authors. I first heard about Swimme when I read Kenn Kassman's book "Envisioning Ecotopia", which studied the Green movement in the United States. Swimme is an acolyte of the Deep Ecology movement, a belief system that posits a rejection of the industrial system we know today so that mankind can return to the days of Neolithic life. This book makes several telling statements that conform to this wacky belief system. While discussing the ultimacy of nature, Swimme discusses how all things on Earth must have communion with every other thing. Therefore, in the example Swimme gives, when a group of woodpeckers from a different region move into a new one, they must conform to the new area, or perish. When this is applied to the real world, we see that this isn't happening. In America today, there is no communion. Communion is frowned upon, while "multiculturalism" and "diversity" rule the roost.

Swimme also buys into the Mystical Deep Ecology belief of Ecofeminism, where women should be in charge of everything, just like the old days when humanity worshipped "Mother Earth". This raises the ugly spectre of Charlene Spretnak, an author who is the main theologian of this ideology. Spretnak is even cited in the bibliography as a source for this material. Using this wingnut's material seriously undermines Swimme's arguments.

What's so bad about being ecologically minded? Nothing if it's done responsibly. But these people are anything but responsible. Take this statement found on page 243 of this book, "The well-being of the Earth is primary. Human well-being is derivative." Enough said.

Swimme also believes that the world has lost its relationship with nature. Maybe so, but his argument that humans should return to the Neolithic Age is ridiculous. Swimme says that by industrializing, we have lost touch with the good old ways. By the use of the term "good old days", Swimme must be referring to starvation, disease and early death. While these things still exist today, it is nowhere near the levels it reached under Swimme's glorious "neolithic" days.

This book is well written and contains many mind expanding statements that will make you think. His conclusions are absolutely wacko, though.

Cosmogenetic Scripture.......1999-12-06

The enthusiasm of this book is almost tangible. Describing the history of the universe in a wildly dynamic, even celebratory style, authors Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry evoke emotions of awe at the story of cosmogenesis, an awe that high school students don't always feel when reading science texts. It captures a beauty that microbiologists behold when focusing an electron microscope on a chromosome, that poets experience when describing a rose, and that astrophysicists feel when listening a distant pulsar. This novel is the scripture of science.

Religion sometimes exaggerates Man's place in the Universe, while science frequently diminishes it. To my delight, The Universe Story finds a balance, reconciling the natural world and the special role humans play in it. A revelation of hope for the future, the Story calls upon humans to fulfill their special destiny: to become the first creatures conscious of themselves and their universe. This consciousness is what the stars intended when they so generously erupted tens of millions of years ago, relinquishing their matter to the human form - for indeed, we are star stuff. Now, as we turn to our futures, may our own cosmogenetic stories reach such a climax as the explosion of a supernova! May our own stories never cease, but simply continue to differentiate and to commune with the original stupendous energy which exploded so many billions of years ago with a big bang! These are the stories which will captivate us all ... the stories integral to the one story, the story of the universe.

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Details the TRUTH to life after death - TRULY AMAZING.

Mildly entertaining gobbledygook

Want to Learn More About Christinanity, Must Read!

Absolutely amazing stuff.. Open your mind before you proceed

I changed my life for better from the time I read this book.

The Laws of Eternity: Unfolding the Secrets of the Multidimensional Universe
Ryuho Okawa
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Details the TRUTH to life after death - TRULY AMAZING........2006-08-16

If you have ever wondered what life is like after death but didn't know where to search for answers, then this book is definitely for you. It is written in very simple language, but the content will open your mind to something you knew in your heart existed by never learned in school (or anywhere else). This book has the special power to ease the worries in your heart and mind, and guide you to understanding the meaning of existence. Through this, your life will become more proactive and filled with motivation to be the best that you can be. There is a meaning to life and everything you do in life is not wasted as life is essentially spiritual and eternal. Life continues for eternity - which is something wonderful to know. Once we know this we cannot live meaningless lives or lives of taking, we have to live for others.

This book explains the higher dimensions (or heavenly realms) in crystal clear detail. Read it, enjoy it and let the contents fill your heart with wonder.

Mildly entertaining gobbledygook.......2004-06-03

Yet another of the many New Agey religions that are springing up in Japan like weeds these days. The big-nosed demons are good, as is the bit about what Moses is doing these days (he's busy remodeling hell), but other than that it's just run-of-the-mill rainbows-and-dolphins feelgooderism. Give it a miss.

Want to Learn More About Christinanity, Must Read!.......2000-10-23

This explains much clearer about the mystery of Christinanity. It's well-written so that anyone can read without having hard time understanding. I couldn't find this kind of book anywhere before. I learned one and the only thing we can take to the other world after death is our mind. That's why it is so important to improve ourselves in this world! Read so that you can, too learn the importance of love, knowledge, reflection, and development.

Absolutely amazing stuff.. Open your mind before you proceed.......2000-04-13

How open is your mind? Read the book from word to word and make up your mind at the end of it. Do not stop mid-way and jump into conclusion. All the Nine Dimensions World mentioned are inter-related and you need to have a complete picture. If you believe what's written in the book, you will develop a new perspective of life that makes your current living absolutely worry-free and you will begin to enjoy what you have - regardless of what it is - there is no good or bad, it is your mind that determines it.. not the "it".

I changed my life for better from the time I read this book........1999-09-29

I was surprised when I found in this book a clear and racional explanation about the structure of the "Other World". The multi-dimensional structure of the other world, the memories of past lives, the stages of enlightenment and the inhabitants of each dimension (from the fourth to the ninth), as well as how they live in their levels was an extase for me. My inner-self agreed with all the concepts and explanations of this book, and I felt the happiness we experience when we meet the Truth, which is stronger than any wordly concept or definition. I found the meaning of my life and the reason why we face many troubles and difficulties, unable to recognize why people are so different from each other...Everything lies on the Truth that we're here on Earth to train our souls and evolve, but each one of us is in an unique, personal and particular stage of enlightenment. Then, this book presented the concept of the different stages of enlightenment and love, which was the key for me to work for the improvement of my inner-self instead of complainning about others or the environment and day after day I can see and practise its concepts in my daily life, with imediate and astonishing results. Extremelly practical and positive. Great reading.

Manna and Mercy: A Brief History of God's Unfolding Promise to Mend the Entire Universe

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Manna and Mercy: A Brief History of God's Unfolding Promise to Mend the Entire Universe
Daniel Erlander
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Manna and Mercy (a brief history of Gods unfolding promise to mend the entire universe)

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Now What? Developing Our Future: Understanding Our Place in the Unfolding Universe

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Now What? Developing Our Future: Understanding Our Place in the Unfolding Universe
Anne Goodman
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Resource Book for the Teaching of Astronomy and Instructor's Manual for Ivan King's Text, 'the Universe Unfolding'.

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Resource Book for the Teaching of Astronomy and Instructor's Manual for Ivan King's Text, 'the Universe Unfolding'.
Andrew Frabknoi
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WAY TOO MUCH

Unfolding our Universe
Iain Nicolson
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The beauty of the stars, the planets, and other faraway objects of wonder is readily apparent, while the reason for their splendor is not. Now, there exists a source of expert advice that amateur astronomers and interested stargazers can actually understand: Unfolding Our Universe. Popular science writer and award winning author Iain Nicolson opens the world of astronomy to a wide audience. He takes readers into the heart of the Universe, clearly detailing the facts, concepts, methods, and current findings of astronomical science. This unique book strikes a perfect balance between the fundamentals of the subject and cutting-edge research. Step by step, the volume leads to a complete understanding of astronomy. Readers can access the material without referring to any mathematical principles or formulas. The well-designed text allows more ambitious readers to easily delve more deeply into key points and consult basic mathematics found within self-contained boxes. More than 100 full-color photographs beautifully and clearly illustrate all concepts. The wealth of color illustrations and very readable chapters make this book a delight for the casual reader to browse, while the clear and concise explanations will appeal to anyone with an interest in the science of astronomy. Iain Nicolson is the author or co-author of some 17 books, including The Universe (with Patrick Moore) and Heavenly Bodies. In 1995, he received the Eric Zucker Award from the Federation of Astronomical Societies (UK) for his work in popularizing the subject.

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WAY TOO MUCH.......2001-04-24

This book claims to be for a lower-level college Astronomy course. Currently, I am enrolled in a lower level astronomy course and have just completed the book. IN the early chapters the book is supurb, primarily because it relies heavily on definitions, however, further into the book (where it supplies explinations) it becomes extremely confusing. While explaining something the author will quickly spit out 3 or 4 new words which immediately leaves the reader mind boggled. I found myself reading a whole section just to have no clue what it was really trying to say. I recomend this book if you are an advanced astronomy student, yet if you are a beginer or just taking it to satisfy your science core requirment (which I am) stay lightyears away from this book. It starts off great but then throws WAY TOO MUCH at you.

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THE UNFOLDING UNIVERSE
Arthur Findlay
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The Unfolding Universe
Patrick Moore
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3rd book in Findlay's Trilogy is the best

The Unfolding Universe
Arthur Findlay
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3rd book in Findlay's Trilogy is the best .......2007-09-05

This book forms a trilogy with 'On The Edge of The Etheric' and 'The Rock of Truth'. For those who have not read these books, the former is mostly a factual record of the author's experiments with medium John Sloane, which even to the skeptic show that many phenomena occur in the presence of genuine mediums that defy 19th century physics, but not 20th century physics. We now know that there is no such thing as a solid material object - it looks solid, as those electrons are spinning so quickly, but really an atom is mostly space. Hence the physical human form is only solid to the human eye. We too consist of mostly space, our weight being the sum total of all the protons in our bodies. It is important to keep this in mind when considering that we may have a second etheric body interfused with the physical one, which is released at death. Those who says they merely believe what they see must find the operation of their TV, radio and microwave, to give just a few examples, a mystery as they do not accept the existence of the invisible waves received or generated by these devices that full the rooms where they are sitting. In truth, what appears as space is full of elecromagnetic waves and who knows what else that is outside our limited range of perception. Consider how easily we accept invisible forces like gravity and magnetism - early physicists who rejected Newton's idea of an invisible force of gravity considered it to be too occult-like. We have seen a similar reaction to the forces encountered in Spiritualism.

The Rock of Truth is basically a comparison of Christianity and Spiritualism. Findlay first relates the history of Christianity, then the beliefs and aims of Spiritualism. Both this and the previous book I have previously reviewed in more detail.

Which brings us to this book, which covers similar ground as The Rock of Truth (which I had rated as 5 stars, but compared to this 5-starrer deserves just 4) but with far more detail. This is one of Findlay's best, covering the rise of world religion and Christianity in particular in far more detail. Included in the book is the text of the Quelle, 9 pages of Jesus' original teaching before it was added to and corrupted over the next 3 or 4 centuries, which makes interesting reading. It's all the moral and ethical teaching we are familiar with, but without claims to be the Son of God and no reference to the Trinity, the Pagan concept later grafted onto this original teaching. This is the teaching of Jesus, the religious teacher who tried to make the lives of his fellow men more bearable, and who died like we all will some day. The teaching of Christ, that mythological being who is one of the three gods believed in today by Christians, born of a virgin and dying for the sins of man, has but a feeble connection with that of Jesus. That explains why the same man could preach such messages of love on one day, and yet on another, say that 'Those who do not believe in me bring them before me and slay them.' That was not Jesus, but followers of the religion created by Paul tring to justify their slaughter of opposing Christian groups or followers of other religions.

In summary, I would strongly recommend this book, as well as book one of the Trilogy, On the Edge of The Etheric. If you've read these two, The Rock of Truth is no longer necessary reading, as most of the material is repeated in The Unfolding Universe in more detail.

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The first part of this monograph presents theoretical analysis of the thermophysical properties of strongly coupled coulomb systems. A new model is then developed, making it possible to calculate the full set of low temperature, multicomponent, nonideal plasma transport coefficients, based on the kinetic coefficients of strongly coupled coulomb systems and experimental data for the transport coefficients of Dense, Low temperature plasmas. This model can easily be implemented in the form of a set of computer algorithms, and the third part of the book shows how it can be used to solve important problems of high temperature gas dynamics, for example, heat and mass transfer in the shock layer of a space probe, stability of temperature and concentration fields in gas phase nuclear reactors, and critical phenomena in low temperature plasma dynamics.

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Reflecting the rapid advances in microelectronics and computer technology, this powerful study guide is ideal as a supplement to any course on this subject or for independent study by electrical engineering majors and practicing engineers. Readers will learn how digital signal processing techniques come into play in a wide range of fields and will appreciate this thorough, yet concise coverage. The many illustrative problems with detailed solutions and the supplementary self-tests speed comprehension and aid remembering.

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Clean book just like new.......2007-10-05

The book came fast, was much cheaper than a new book, and its quality was practically new.

Great Companion.......2007-02-18

This text was recommended as a companion to Oppenheim's "Discrete Time Signal Processing" for a senior DSP filtering course. If your school is like mine, you sit in three hours of lecture a week, nodding and agreeing and feeling like DSP is straightforward and intuitive. Then you sit down to do your homework and wonder, "where did this come from?" Schaum's helps to bridge this gap with compartmentalized topics and numerous examples. The sections help you quickly ascertain how the notation translates and how thoroughly the topic is covered relative to the coursework. The examples help because, let's face it, it helps to see certain types of problems worked through from start to finish. There are many, many examples within the sections and at the end of the sections, worked through in minute detail. If you're into or studying DSP as a senior engineering student, if you're not the top dog in your class but still want to do well, if you learn from examples and from working through many problems that you're able to confirm, then this book is for you. If you're looking for a "solutions manual" type of book, if you want a "cliff notes" type companion, or if you don't understand lecture concepts at all, then this book won't help you much. It's not an introductory text, although it covers introductory concepts, in my opinion there's not enough background on the rudimentary DSP topics to truly qualify as introductory.

Helpful in Understanding Academic Deception.......2006-11-04

Look, to an engineering mind, the processing of samples at a certain rate is really straight forward and can be mastered in a couple years at any decent engineering firm.

Now there are concepts (useful abstractions...organic way of thinking) that will probably allude such a mind (machine way of thinking) in such a situation, but certainly ease one's solving of problems.

Unfortunately, these useful abstractions are not covered in this text. As far as I've seen, most DSP literature--this book is a good example--either never mentions or else completely obscures such useful abstractions through the inclusion of a huge number of useless and even harmful ones. Abstractions, that is. In short, this text is a student mind-control/brainwashing tool.

Moreover, as a Schaum's outline, this hidden purpose is reprehensible. Most Schaum's outlines serve as illuminators of the useful abstraction. Not this one. And so (tongue-firmly-in-cheek) DSP by Hayes can really only serve in the understanding of academic deception at institutions like MIT (Hayes is MIT^3: BS, MS, PHD) and GATECH (Hayes works there).

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After some reflection, let me add the idea of "leaky abstractions."
In a sense, no abstraction is truly DRY, all leak a little bit, all subject to cross-cutting concerns. But in the case of Dr's Hayes's Outline, the abstract leakiness factor is far from a fixable plumbing problem and more towards one h-ll of a pss-poor construction.

Excellent Refreshing supplement for revision.......2006-04-30

This book is a carefully written one which will enable any student to revise thoroughly before DSP exam. It has an outstanding collection of solved problems like most other Schaum's outlines. This book is to be used as a supplement book to any standard DSP book like Oppenheim or Proakis & Manolakis. This book can make quite a lot of difference in final grades of most of students. So, it is advisable for any UG/PG to revise this book well before exam.

Good as a refresher or supplemental text in DSP.......2006-01-11

This outline could never stand alone as a DSP tutorial, but it is excellent if you need extra problems to solve or if you need a refresher course in elementary DSP topics. Chapter one starts where any DSP course usually starts - with a quick review of signals and systems. Chapter two is on Fourier analysis and discusses all of the basics including the concept of filtering, interconnection of systems, and finally the discrete time Fourier transform and its properties. Chapter 3 is on sampling, and includes a good discussion of analog to digital conversion and how it can induce aliasing. Next the converse, digital to analog conversion, is discussed as well as discrete time processing of continuous signals and finally sample rate conversion. Chapter 3 is especially useful, since most DSP texts do not go into as much detail on practical A/D and D/A conversion topics as this chapter does. Chapter four finally gets into the z-transform - its definition, its properties, and its inverse. Chapter 5 is about the transform analysis of systems and specifically how the z transform makes the analysis of such systems much simpler than what was done in earlier chapters. Chapter six discusses the discrete Fourier transform, which is a finite-series version of the DTFT, which was discussed in chapter two. Because the Discrete Fourier Transform has a time complexity of NxN, the next chapter discusses its more practical alternative the Fast Fourier Transform, which has an NlogN time complexity. This might seem trivial at first, but if you are filtering 1Kx1K pixel images, the difference becomes significant. Although this chapter is very brief, it does a pretty good job of driving home the main points of the algorithm. Also, it has some pretty good exercises on the FFT, which are usually hard to find in textbooks. Now that all of the groundwork has been laid, chapter eight discusses the implementation of discrete time systems, which is the essence of DSP. Common filter structures are introduced. Chapter 9, the final chapter, is on filter design. Both IIR and FIR filter techniques are introduced. Thus, if you are in an advanced DSP course, this outline will probably be too elementary for you. For first semester students, this should be a very helpful outline for transitioning from the study of linear systems to DSP.

Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables

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Handbook of formulas and Tables
great reference
one of the best
Very useful in a pinch

Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables
Murray R Spiegel
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ASIN: 0070382034

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Students and research workers in mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation of more than 2000 mathematical formulas and tables invaluable. They will see quickly why half a million copies were sold of the first edition! All the information included is practical -- rarely used results are excluded. Topics range from elementary to advanced-from algebra, trigonometry and calculus to vector analysis, Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials and elliptic integrals. Great care has been taken to present all results concisely and clearly. Excellent to keep as a handy reference!

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Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables.......2007-09-25

A very useful book that gathers all the mathmatical formals 'as the title states. As an Engineering Student it is very helpful to have everything in one text instead of getting your old books and digging through them to find them.

Handbook of formulas and Tables.......2007-01-04

It is a good quick reference to getting formulas for math problems.

great reference.......2007-01-04

tables are concise with out missing any important integrals. the table is my constant companion for undergrad physics and mathematics.

one of the best.......2006-11-10

one of the best books i've ever got....
it has every thing i need

Very useful in a pinch.......2006-11-10

As a tabular summary of many useful mathematical relations, the book is very job-specific; however, it contains most of the functions and functional relations that a scientist or engineer might need. The layout is clean and very well organized. It's a useful reference, but does not actually derive anything, so if one is looking for derivations, then try looking at applied mathematics textbooks.

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Great
Does not review all the sampling methods
A five-star book
Assumes too much from the readers
Not enough detail

A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms
J. F. James
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521004284

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This new edition of a successful textbook for undergraduate students in physics, computer science and electrical engineering describes important contemporary ideas in practical science and information technology at an understandable level, illustrated with worked examples and copious diagrams. The field is covered broadly rather than in depth, and includes references to more extended works on various topics. This new edition is slightly expanded, and includes additional new material in the applications sections.

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Fourier transform theory is of central importance in a vast range of applications in physical science, engineering, and applied mathematics. This new edition of a successful student text provides a concise introduction to the theory and practice of Fourier transforms, using qualitative arguments wherever possible and avoiding unnecessary mathematics. After a brief description of the basic ideas and theorems, the power of the technique is then illustrated by referring to particular applications in optics, spectroscopy, electronics and telecommunications. The rarely discussed but important field of multi-dimensional Fourier theory is covered, including a description of computer-aided tomography (CAT-scanning). The final chapter discusses digital methods, with particular attention to the fast Fourier transform. Throughout, discussion of these applications is reinforced by the inclusion of worked examples. The book assumes no previous knowledge of the subject, and will be invaluable to students of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computer science.

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Great.......2007-05-12

Gives a great mathematical breakdown of Wavelets with good references to applications. It easily related the Wavelet transform to the DFT.

Does not review all the sampling methods.......2006-03-02

The data provided is not complete for my application

A five-star book.......2002-03-29

I was appalled at the poor reviews this book has received. It
has been a tremendous help to me as a student and now lecturer
teaching this material at post-graduate level. It is exactly
what the title says - a student guide. It gives a very clear
introduction to the Fourier transform using abundant graphical
examples. Multi-dimensional transforms also get a brief
mention, and the book ends with a simple FFT routine written in
BASIC. Any interested student like myself will find this fun

to play with. Compared with other more expensive, weightier
books apparently written to make the subject as obscure as
possible, James's book is a delightful concise 128 page read. The
reader should gain an intuitive feel for many of the important
properties of the FT which will help greatly before tackling
more in-depth treatments. I think it is much better value for
money than many maths books on offer. Those wishing for the
most complicated explanation of Fourier transforms possible,
with no diagrams, applications or humour could try the book
by G.H.Hardy instead.

Assumes too much from the readers.......2000-11-05

This book consists in brief review of the fourier transform and a few applications.The brief review in the first two chapters is ok Only the essentials are given and the proofs are omitted.The problem starsts with the applications. There are applications to difraction of light to information theory and so on. However too much is assumed from the students with respect to those applications .After reading the chapters the students , i suspect, will ask what they have learned.A little more material explaining what the applications are about would improve the book a lot.It is almost useless in the present form

Not enough detail.......1999-10-28

I was a little disappointed with the book. Wanted a little more details and somemore solved examples. This book only introduces FT. It is a good book for the introductory classes in Physics and engineering, after that it is useless.

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Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms

Manufacturer: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H1YC8I

Students Guide To Fourier Transforms 2ND Edition

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Students Guide To Fourier Transforms 2ND Edition
J F James
Manufacturer: CAMBRIDGE UNIV*@ PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N797T0

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A balanced selection of classic and contemporary works by prominent and less-well-known writers. From Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, Auden, Stevens, Dickinson, Faulkner, Hawthorne, and Whitman, to Sharon Olds, Nicholson Baker, Carolyn Forché, Paul Ruffin, Salman Rushdie, Agha Shahid Ali, Eamon Grennan, Linda Pastan, Li-Young Lee, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Simon Ortiz, Seamus Heaney, Karen Volkman, and David Ives.

"Exploring Contexts" chapters provide a window into the broader literary world by placing the stories, poems, and plays in contextual groups, literary, authorial, cultural, historical, and social, illuminating connections among texts and the influences that shape them.

"Critical Context" Casebooks, a new feature, serve as capstone chapters for each genre. Each includes one primary literary work followed by several professional critical responses, allowing students to explore one work in depth and to develop and expand their reading and analytical skills as they prepare to write about what they've read. Two student papers, one, a personal response essay, and the other, a research paper, round out the fiction casebook.

Reading, Responding, Writing chapters introduce students to a genre and ways of exploring and writing about it.

Understanding the Text chapters within each genre cover the elements of literature, providing students with the tools they need to consider various works.

Evaluating chapters strengthen students' critical skills by guiding them in the difficult task of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of literary works.

A Reading More section offers an album of pieces for further reading.

New Fiction Chapter: "Cultural and Historical Context" This new chapter focuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" and discusses the historical events and cultural climate that provided the backdrop for Fitzgerald's fiction. No other anthology offers so deep a contextual analysis.

New Drama Chapter: "The Author's Work as Context: William Shakespeare" Pushing students beyond their natural curiosity about Shakespeare's life, this new chapter calls attention to stylistic and thematic currents running through Shakespeare's work and encourages students to read Shakespeare actively and critically.

Evaluation Chapters Revised "Evaluating" (fiction, poetry, drama) chapters have been reconceived to guide students toward determining and declaring the basis on which they are making their evaluative judgments.

New Introduction: "What is Literature?" Alison Booth's insightful introduction discusses questions concerning the nature of "literature," the value of reading and writing about it, and the history of "the canon."

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The Norton Comprehensive Literature Introduction.......2005-02-17

This is a great, comprehensive book, for your short stories, poems and plays. It includes the cannon syllabus and many lesser known works. The poetry section is particularly stong.

There are also many great techniques on writing essays, and apporaches to writing about the selections.

Great for college classrooms.

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition

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The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition
Editor-Jerome Beaty; Editor-Alison Booth; Editor-J. Paul Hunter; Editor-Kelly J. Mays
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KFRSNM

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