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Among numerical methods applied in acoustics, the Finite Element Method (FEM)  is normally favored for interior problems whereas the Boundary Element Method (BEM) is quite popular for exterior ones.

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(Horizon Bioscience) National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Canada. Presents a comprehensive overview of the current research on ebola and marburg viruses. Covers the genomics and molecular biology, pathogenesis, replication, epidemiology, pathogenicity, approaches to vaccine development, and immune response. For researchers and practitioners. ... Read more

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Anna von Marburg shows how to develop your own style and create cakes. Each step is simple and much of the preparation can be done weeks in advance. The book contains the recipe for Anna's chocolate fudge cake, which she uses as the base for most of her commissions. Every cake has clear step-by-step directions and short-cuts for making the decorations and for construction, and Anna also discloses where she gets her inspiration from - she suggests that the dreaming up of the idea is often more difficult than making the cake. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

Originality & Taste Matters!
For others to make such harsh & negative reviews one can only conclude that Cakes in Bloom may very well be on to something special, and could very well be a threat to the other gateau makers.Actually, having sampled cake from one of the many frou frou cake makers, my taste buds clearly smacked of Betty Crocker, except it was far from the moist.Personally what a cake looks like outside and how it tastes makes all the difference in the world.The many cake designers using typical, decorative hard paste icing cakes for me has become a bit passe, not to forget, unpleasing to the palate.Anna von Marburg must have something that no one else has...could it be originality and taste!?Mais oui!

Sloppy and Unprofessional
For the few ideas you might get from this book, it's not worth the price. You can find better ideas from many other authors. The work, as others have noted, is pretty unforgivably sloppy. I would be embarrassed to deliver many of the cakes pictured. And there's an interesting little copyright caveat that all the ideas belong to the author and are not to be used by others. Well, who would want to, anyway?

NOT for Wilton method die-hards!
I'm surprised at the aggressively negative reviews I find of this book!Why fans of traditional cake decorating find a book like this creative gem so threatening, I don't know.

Meanwhile, back to the book:one of the stars in my cake decorating collection for its creativity and passion and its distinct LACK of traditional, predictable work.The color-by-numbers type of decorators might find Von Marburg's style impossible to emulate (is that the threat?) but some of us welcome her addition to this genre with open arms since she alone swings the average of this art decidedly in a free-er, looser direction.She's the one extreme and Lesley Herbert is the other and we're all free to find the point on that continuum which suits us the most...

Von Marburg is not for decorators who feel that perfect piping and stringwork is the end-all, be-all.She is what French country cooking is to haute cuisine -- a whole different world and far, far more fun.

Sorry, but this one isn't very good...
I saw this one at the bookstore and was just leafing through it and nothing really caught my eye, but I decided to come here and get some opinions on it to see if it was worth a second look; it wasn't surprising what I found. I went back and looked again to check on the complaints and sure enough, the photos in this book are pretty bad. It is true that they are set at odd angles and that the cakes themselves...many of them do appear to look sloppy.

I didn't see any cake designs that interested me anyway.

I am grateful to have this site to check up on books (like this one) and save my money although I do hope the author tries again with something better-just to balance out this dog of a book.

cakes in bloom
I have a large collection of cake decorating books and I like this one very much. The author has created a number of cakes easy to make for a fairly experienced cake maker which are extraordinarily artistic. I like her book and those by Colette more than any others. People who like perfectly crafted traditional cakes may disagree but I think these two authors are in a class by themselves. ... Read more