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"A very good work for either self-teaching or for conducting a seminar on intra-organizational conflict management.>"--The Alternative Newsletter

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Making Cheese, Butter & Yogurt .......2007-09-18

This is a great book, having fun with the recipes. Great service, thanks Birthe

Nice little book for the price.......2007-08-23

Nice little book for the price. This is a good book if you are interested in making traditional cheese from scratch, it is not a good book for those interested in making yogurts or yogurt cheeses.

disappointed.......2007-08-22

I expected some easy recipes to make homemade cheese and yougart. The recipes required special and expensie supplies. Goodwill may like it.

Falls sort on Butter and Yogurt!.......2007-05-25

This is a great resource if you are wanting to make cheese! Techniques, ingredients, recipes ande quipment in a consise and straight foward easy to read style.

However this was recommended to me when I purchased my butter churn from Lehmans. Love their butter churn. There is one butter recipe ( the shake/quart jar method) that takes up a paragraph on the second to last page and the last page has a yogurt recipe. I think the title of the book is misleading.

Good recipes.......2007-02-21

After making my homemade yogurt (using Salton purchased from Amazon!) I found the perfect recipe to make yogurt cheese in this book. Easy to do and delicious! Soft and creamy and great on bagels!

Making Cheese, Butter & Yogurt: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-57

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Too much concise.
Book focuses primarily upon cheese

Making Cheese, Butter & Yogurt: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-57
Phyllis Hobson
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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ASIN: 0882662325

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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Too much concise........2003-08-16

It's not a beginner guide. Like this comment.

Book focuses primarily upon cheese.......2002-09-30

This book focuses primarily upon cheese. About 80% of the content of the book is on cheese and cheese only. The book contains about 2 pages of info on butter, with a remaining one half page that focuses on yogurt. The book is packed with information about supplies, how to's, and has a large variety of recipes on the subject. I wish it had more to do with yogurt making when I purchased the book. The book contains some illustrations that are helpful in showing what types of tools are needed. The book is packed with information, most likely more than in another larger book, I was unhappy with the mix of information. All in all a great book that should have been renamed 'A Guide to Cheese Making'.

Making Cheeses, Butters, Cream and Yogurt at Home (Self-sufficient living)

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Making Cheeses, Butters, Cream and Yogurt at Home (Self-sufficient living)
Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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ASIN: 0722505973

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These two volumes which concern mathematical statistical chronology represent a major, unique work and are the first of its kind published in the English language.
A comprehensive set of mathematical and statistical techniques is presented for the analysis of chronological data. These include, as main tool, the means to compare texts and other sequential data and the ability to judge them in terms of similarity and, hence, closeness. These techniques constitute a new important trend in applied statistics.
Volume I concentrates mainly on the development of the mathematical statistical tools and their application to astronomical data, including the Almagest and simulated data (to test the validity of the methods). Substantial material dealing with historical data and chronology is also included.
Volume II concentrates on the application of these tools to narrative texts and ancient and medieval records (such as Egyptian, Byzantine, Roman, Greek, Babylonian, etc.). An astonishing wealth of historical data is considered. The conclusions which are drawn concerning the accepted chronological dating of events in ancient history will certainly provoke controversy and serious debate. These two volumes provide the necessary background and material for intelligent participation in such debates.
For statisticians, historians, astronomers, archaeologists, and others with an interest in the integrity of historical dating and the means to analyze this.

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I find this book most amazing one I ever have read........2001-01-09

I find this book most amazing one I ever have read. If you read this book carefully you will be impressed how many things we take for granted and without any critique. You will be surprised how subtle and non-reliable is the building of modern history and chronology. To read this book is more interesting than any novel of Steven King.

A bug found in History 1.03b !.......2001-01-08

Words in reviews cant make you believe thet history you`ve learnd might not be the correct one, but onec you get hands on this book and read just the readeble parts you`ll see all events in new light. My advice for everyone interested in history is to read this book in order to be able to manage history data better. Fomenko did not present any suggestions on how the real history did look like and explains how hard it is going to be to put all peaces togeather. Aditional efforts could make this book more readable. The whole prepress could have been better. That would make it far more understandable. I`ll just poit out once more - if you realy want to believe in your history picture you will have to put it now to much serious tests that Fomenko and his assosiates have developed.

Mathematics against the fraud in history.......1999-12-14

First of all, the price for this English edition of Fomeko's book on chronology is too high, but that's a common practice to price high monographs in math (simply, it's assumed that nobody except few sepecialists in the area would ever read them), so I read this book in Russian. But, this is not a math book in usual sense. Russian is not my first language, so I had plenty of trouble reading this book but it was worthy of my effort. It is an excelent example how mathematics and statistics enter new areas to examine their accuracy and correctness. Traditionally, math-free history enjoyed lots of flexibility in presenting its descriptions of historical events. History, as we know, may sometimes be incorrect, but how incorrect can it be? According to Fomenko the magnitude of this incorrectness is so massive that it is simply shocking. He supports his claims by mathematical and statistical methods - i.e. scientific methods which became a new exciting area of the applied mathematics. Some of the most shocking statements of Fomenko are related to the global chronology of historical events. Simply, he claims that our history was extended artificially (by mistake or intentionally) by about 1000 year. That means, it's not the year 2000 but the year 1000. In order to learn how these claims were made, the reader should read the books by Fomenko devoted the global chronology of historical events.

Heavy going, unsettling, and extremely thought-provoking.......1998-07-24

This book, and its companion volume, represent fairly unidiomatic translations (from the Russian) of a long series of papers that explore various statistical techniques used by the author and his colleagues to delve into the subject of historical chronology -- i.e. the "science" of dating historical events. The going can be heavy because many of the papers are written in mathematicalese ("Let" statement . . . "Then" statement . . . "It follows that" . . . etc."), there is a lot of duplication of information because each was written to stand on its own, and there is a frustrating lack of summing up because the conclusions defy definitive conclusion. Nevertheless, the mathematical methods look sound (to a mathematically literate non-mathematician) and the hypotheses will turn your world upsidedown. To wit: We can't trust the dating of any historical event that happened before the 14th or 15th century; that whole sequences of! events in the historical record may be mistranscriptions of other sequences of events (the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, for instance); that history is thus much compressed from what we have learned since kindergarten, and civilization could be much younger than we believe. Because these lines of inquiry (the non-mathematical ones) began in the early days of the Soviet Union, one may be suspicious about ulterior (political) motives, and some independent verifying of some of the accepted "facts" is called for. But this raises more questions about the knowability of history than it can possibly attempt to answer, and it does plunge one headlong into the mysteries of the now ignored study of historical chronology. We've used the same temporal scaffolding for centuries without recently examining its foundation. Maybe its time for a new look. Turgid going, but dizzying implications.

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The limited coverage of data analysis and statistics offered in most undergraduate and graduate analytical chemistry courses is usually focused on practical aspects of univariate methods. Drawing in real-world examples, Practical Guide to Chemometrics, Second Edition offers an accessible introduction to application-oriented multivariate methods of data analysis and procedures that are highly beneficial to solving a variety of problems using analytical chemistry and statistics. Rather than overshadowing the concepts with theoretical background, this book uses application-oriented examples to illustrate how chemometrics techniques can be applied to complex scenarios with multiple and dynamic variables. The book presents a diverse selection of topics that include sampling, modeling, experimental design, calibration, pattern recognition, data analysis techniques, algorithms, and error. This second edition has been completely revised to feature new chapters on principal component analysis, self-modeling curve resolution, and multi-way analysis methods. It includes expanded material on normal distributions, sampling theory, signal processing, and digital filtering. Embracing the growing role of chemometrics in some of the latest research trends, such as quantitative biology, bioinformatics, and proteomics, this book also identifies several areas for future development and applications. Practical Guide to Chemometrics, Second Edition continues to offer a reliable source of useful information in a style that is accessible to all levels of students, professionals, and researchers involved in analyzing scientific data.

Chemometrics: A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation)

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A "Users Guide" to chemometrics
Chemometrics for the near-beginner
Solid, well written book

Chemometrics: A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation)
Kenneth R. Beebe , Randy J. Pell , and Mary Beth Seasholtz
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ASIN: 0471124516

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An outstanding practical guide to the most common chemometric methods in use today

Chemometrics explains how to apply the most widely used pattern recognition and multivariate calibration techniques to solve data analysis problems. This practical guide describes all key methods in terms of processes and applications in order to help the reader easily identify the best technique for a given situation.

Drawing on years of industrial experience with chemometric tools, the authors share their six basic steps, or "habits," for achieving reliable chemometric results, and cover key areas such as:
* Defining and understanding the problem
* Experimental planning and design
* Preprocessing of samples and variables
* Supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition
* Classical and inverse methods of multivariate calibration

Complete with helpful chapter-end summaries, technical references, and more, this book is an invaluable hands-on resource for analytical chemists and laboratory scientists who use chemometrics in their work.

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A "Users Guide" to chemometrics.......2006-04-28

Chemometrics by Beebe et al. is my first recommendation to colleagues interested in the successful use and theory of chemometrics. It is a user focused book with theory sufficient to guide the appropriate and informed use of chemometric techniques in a variety of analyses. It is a "hard read" in the best sense of that phrase. You will probably have to work at getting through this book, but you do not need a degree in mathematics to understand and enjoy it.

If you are using one of the many "shrink wrapped" chemometrics software packages available today, and you are troubled by these techniques great utility, and your limited understanding of the underlying theory, Beebe is a great a place to start.

Chemometrics for the near-beginner.......2002-08-26

The authors have put together a supremely useful guide to actually using chemometric techniques, as opposed to academic research. Consequently, my copy is getting dog-eared from frequent use. Perhaps the most helpful part of the book is the multitude of tables that explain when each different technique might best be used, and how to understand and interpret the diagnostics that arise from the calculations. The table of questions to ask BEFORE an experiment is worth the price of the book. If you're trying to write new chemometric algorithms, buy something else. But if you're trying to apply chemometric techniques in the 'real world' with the highest information-to-effort ratio, you need a copy of this book.

Solid, well written book.......2000-12-28

Admittedly, I'm biased as the authors are friends. However, this is one of the best books on chemometrics, particularly for those who have some exposure to the subject and wish to learn more. The authors have drawn on their years of experience explaining complex results to non-expert clients to present some complex mathematical ideas in an understandable fashion.

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Practical Guide to Chemometrics

Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0824785975

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An introduction for analytic chemists and other scientists who are involved with chemical analysis, to chemometrics, a developing technique that allows access to a greater amount of more reliable analytic information using existing instrumentation, than standard techniques. Focuses on laboratory ins

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Chemometrics - A Practical Guide
KENNETH R. BEEBE
Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5HP4G

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Are some areas of fast Fourier transforms still unclear to you? Do the notation and vocabulary seem inconsistent? Does your knowledge of their algorithmic aspects feel incomplete? The fast Fourier transform represents one of the most important advancements in scientific and engineering computing. Until now, however, treatments have been either brief, cryptic, intimidating, or not published in the open literature. Inside the FFT Black Box brings the numerous and varied ideas together in a common notational framework, clarifying vague FFT concepts. Examples and diagrams explain algorithms completely, with consistent notation. This approach connects the algorithms explicitly to the underlying mathematics. Reviews and explanations of FFT ideas taken from engineering, mathematics, and computer science journals teach the computational techniques relevant to FFT. Two appendices familiarize readers with the design and analysis of computer algorithms, as well. This volume employs a unified and systematic approach to FFT. It closes the gap between brief textbook introductions and intimidating treatments in the FFT literature. Inside the FFT Black Box provides an up-to-date, self-contained guide for learning the FFT and the multitude of ideas and computing techniques it employs.

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More "Dirty" Math, compliments of Chu et alii........2006-03-10

While I'm positive that this book will serve engineers well, I cannot recommend it to practitioners of pure mathematics, videlicit those who are not comfortable with the bloodied abortion that is mathematics to the engineer. It blows my mind that we ever got a man on the moon! A good example can be found in the first line of page 7. omega^l=omega^(l+(2*n+1)). Keep in mind that n is an element of the set of positive integers, their claim not mine. Now, if you solve for n you'll find that this equation can only be satisfied for n=-1/2, clearly not an element of Z+! (Perhaps rational numbers are included in the set of "integers for engineers.") And yet they seem to indicate that it holds for all n in the aforementioned set! I pray that I've missed something and that someone will embarrass me by pointing out my mistake because as irate as I am right now, blood will likely shoot out of my nose in the next 5 minutes and they'll find me dead in my office at day's end.

Varied, specific, and practical........2004-12-04

If you need this book, you already know it. You barely remember what the Fourier transform does, let alone how it works, and you need to implement it from scratch. This book is for you.

Most programmers never need to use Fourier transforms. Most of the ones who do will get by quite nicely on black boxes from Mathematica, Matlab, or Numerical Recipes. Data goes in, answers come out, and "a miracle occurs" somewhere in between. There are those times, however, when you can't use the canned routines. You just have to write your own.

This book isn't for the faint-hearted, but really does give everything a non-specialist needs for creating a competent implementation. There's no cut&paste code here, but this is for people with unique needs. It presents a number of basic variations, with clear illustrations and pseudocode. It even discusses 2D transforms, but most of that discussion centers on how to transpose the 2D matrix between 1D transforms.

The discussion of parallel implementation was the only section I found weak. It's aimed at standard sorts of multiprocessors, with specific kinds of connection networks between processors. First, those networks are rare in commercial multiprocessors or are so deeply embedded that the topology is not accessible to the application writer. Second, those networks and architectures miss a lot of important computing environments completely - including the ones important to me.

I don't wish it on anyone, but it might happen - you might have to implement a FFT for yourself. If it does happen, this book may be your most effective tool. It will probably take the non-specialist (like me) time to get past some of the notation, but the answers here are worth the effort.

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Touching, thoughtful, and dead honest, To Fly and Fight is the story of a boy who grew up living his dream. During World War II Anderson flew with Chuck Yeager in the famed 357th Squadron where he became a triple ace by shooting out of the sky fifteen enemy planes. Following World

War II, Anderson became a test pilot and later commanded jet fighter squadrons in South Korea and Okinawa. Then, in 1970, at an age when most pilots have long-since retired, Anderson flew combat strikes over Vietnam.

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More than I expected.......2005-08-31

When I first bought "To Fly and Fight", I expected a book mainly about World War II aviation. Instead, there was much more. Colonel Anderson has a great amount of experience in many aircraft since World War II, as well flying F-105s as the 355 TFW commander at Takhli RTAFB in Thailand in 1970. If you are a military aviation buff, this book is a must

An excellent memoir of combat flying.......2004-08-18

This is a well-written memoir which covers a great deal of World War Two combat flying and ranks among the best books on that theatre of war that I've read -- and believe me, I've read an awful lot of them. The writing style is simple yet evocative and we quickly move from the author's training days to the moment when he first meets an enemy plane in combat. What I particularly appreciated about the book was the focus on Anderson's family and the stresses they suffered and the continual reference to the brutality of war and the number of the author's flying colleagues who died. The World War Two reminiscences end about two-thirds of the way through the book and then we have to wade through perhaps too much about his post-war experiences as a test pilot, a desk-bound bureaucrat and then a commander in the Vietnam war. But do buy the book for the World Wat Two material alone, which is excellent.

A well written page turner. This guy is a *somebody*........2002-03-22

Although this book has a different feel to it than the book to which it will invariably be compared, namely Chuck Yeager's "YEAGER" autobiography, I must say it stands on its own feet without any apologies. In this book, Anderson details a life full of accomplishments and adventure.

The chapters that focus on his World War II exploits are clearly the most interesting, although his post-war adventures (including missions in Vietnam) were entertaining in their own right. My only complaint is that he did not write more about this period of his life. It seemed that Yeager's book was a bit more balanced in that he covered his career from beginning to end with an even hand. Anderson (or his publisher) chose not to do so, and that is unfortunate, for I am sure there is much to be learned from this period of his remarkable life.

Despite these minor shortcomings, this one is definitely worth a look. The beginning may be slow to some, but keep going. It is well worth it.

A humble Ace...........2002-03-10

I found "To Fly and Fight" to be an excellent biography of man who grew up with an intense love of flying, and who fulfilled his dreams. The book chronicles his growing up in the rural foothills of Northern California, and his growing love of flying. It gives a very personal accounts of his early days days with the Army Air Corps from training to activation in England. I enjoyed the accounts of his early friendships and escapades.

The descriptions and events as a P-51 pilot flying in the ETO are first rate. The first chapter grabs hold of you and doesn't let go with his account of a high altitude duel with an ME-109. It is a classic. He describes many of his combat missions and describes his growing friendship with Chuck Yeager. The story of his final mission with Yeager is priceless.

The book also includes some revealing sections about his tedious days as a recruiter and several stints with the Pentagon to heady days as a Test Pilot at Wright Field and later at Edwards. He also gives us some excellent insights into his days as a Squadron Leader flying F-86's in Korea and a Wing Commander flying F-105's from Okinawa and Thailand during the Vietnam Conflict.

I had the opportunity recently to meet Col. Anderson and his lovely wife Ellie. We spent several hours together discussing his flying days. It was a real priviledge. He is truly a humble man but has that touch of steel of man who has lived through a lot. He is still a hearty and it's great to think of him still tearing up the skies at Air Shows flying the Old Crow along side Chuck Yeager.

I highly recommend "To Fly and Fight" to all WWII aviation enthusiasts.

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To Fly & Fight.......2000-11-13

As an avid reader of World War Two History. And being a Viet Nam Veteran; I found this book to be a most fascinating history; Of "Not Only the Man"; But his recollections of his life growing up oin Rural California in the 1930's & 1940's. His enlistment in the Army Air Corp; And his experiences in England during the war. This is "No dry" mundane slow reading military text book. Colonol Anderson, tells of his love for flying and his vivid discriptions of Europe during World War Two; Help the reader to picture what it was like for an average guy; Who has a love for flying and trying his best to stay alive in a extremly hostile environment. He does not dwell on the sadder aspects of war. But trys to explain how he learned to cope with these stressors; And still fullfill his dream of flying. He also go's to great lengths to discuss the other aircraft he had flown. His adventures in P-39's and T-6 Texans. I found his book to be non-judgemental; But very fair to all the persons good and bad that he had come to know in his life. He only briefly discusses his flying career during the Viet Nam Conflict. But then this book was not written with Viet Nam in mind solely. This book is about the man; His love of flying.

I found this book to enlightning; refreshing; funny; sad; extrordinary; And written with a smooth tempo and hums along like the engine of a P-51 Mustang. The Book and the Man are unseperable. He takes you up in his Mustang with him through his rememberences. And brings you home to the runway just as a good pilot would do today. I would recommend this book to anyone who has not only an intrest in World War Two. But an intrest in a "Great Man" who lived an extrordinary life. Fighting for all of us; Flying for all of us. This man is a "TRUE"; American Hero.

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To Fly and Fight, Memoirs of a Triple Ace
Colonel Clarence E. Bud ANDERSON
Manufacturer: St. Martin
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