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The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articleswhich represent the best and latest thinking in the domain oftechnologytransfer, from research, academia and practice around theworld. Weenvisage that the book will, as a result of this, representanimportant source of knowledge in this domain to students(undergraduate and postgraduate), researchers, practitioners andconsultants, chiefly in the software engineering and IT/industries,but also in management and other organisational and socialdisciplines. An important aspect of the book is the role thatreflective practitioners (and not just academics) play. They will beinvolved in the production, and evaluation of contributions, as wellas in the design and delivery of conference events, upon which ofcourse, the book will be based. ... Read more

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Computer vision seeks a process that starts with a noisy,ambiguous signalfrom a TV camera and ends with a high-leveldescription of discrete objects located in 3-dimensionalspace and identified in a humanclassification.This book addresses the process at several levels. Firsttobe treated are the low-level image-processing issues ofnoise removaland smoothing while preserving important linesand singularities in animage. At a slightly higher level, arobust contour tracing algorithm isdescribed that producesa cartoon of the important lines in the image. Thirdis thehigh-level task of reconstructing the geometry of objects inthe scene.The book has two aims: to give the computer vision communitya new approach to early visual processing, in the form ofimage segmentationthat incorporates occlusion at a lowlevel, and to introduce real computeralgorithms that do abetter job than what most vision programmers use currently.The algorithms are:- a nonlinear filter that reduces noiseand enhances edges,- an edge detector that also finds corners andproducessmoothed contours rather than bitmaps,- an algorithm forfilling gaps in contours. ... Read more

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This innovative book funded by National Science Foundation, was developed as part of the calculus reform movement. It is problem driven and features exceptional exercises based on applications. ... Read more

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The second in a series of three volumes surveying the theory of theta functions, this volume gives emphasis to the special properties of the theta functions associated with compact Riemann surfaces and how they lead to solutions of the Korteweg-de-Vries equations as well as other non-linear differential equations of mathematical physics.

This book presents an explicit elementary construction of hyperelliptic Jacobian varieties and is a self-contained introduction to the theory of the Jacobians. It also ties together nineteenth-century discoveries due to Jacobi, Neumann, and Frobenius with recent discoveries of Gelfand, McKean, Moser, John Fay, and others.

A definitive body of information and research on the subject of theta functions, this volume will be a useful addition to individual and mathematics research libraries.

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Far and above the best Disneyland pictorial history
Now, yes, this book is expensive. So, put it on your wish list and hint to your family ect that you'd like to see it under the tree come Christmas

It's that good.

The author uses postcards to show the history of Disneyland and it's attractions, including the rides and attractions that are no longer there, but still fondly remembered by many. Ahh, the Mine Train ride, the 20,000 Leagues walk-through, America Sings (some of the animals from that are still working in Splash Mtn!), Country Bear Jamboree!

For anyone who love the history of Disneyland, or is a old-time fan, the book is a must get. It's a super trip through memory lane, one that is extremely well written and lovingly assembled for us.

Disneyland the Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey Through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on Earth - also includes some few attractions that were ballyhooed but never launched.

It's actually worth the $200 or so you might have to pay for it.

The Best Book on Disneyland You Can Get... At an Inflated Price
This is the ultimate book on Disneyland. It's more than a postcard book, it traces the history of the park & combines descriptive text with some of the best pictures you'll ever see of the park as well as the attractions, past & present. I have most every coffee table photograph book on Disneyland that has been released over the years, & this one is definitely the E-Ticket of the bunch. If you have the excellent 'Disneyland: Then, Now & Forever' (also Bruce Gordon), you have a taste of what you will find here.
The 2nd Edition is also the better of the 2 editions, with added material (1st Edition was 1995, 2nd Edition updates to 2000). I would take the 2nd Edition over the 1st Edition if they were both offered at the same price for this reason. This book is out of print... permanently since the unfortunate passing of Bruce Gordon in November 2007, there will not be any future updated editions.
Speaking of price, this book retailed for $75.00 when it was released. With some patience, this book CAN be found for around $150.00-$200.00 despite what you see here. These copies have been sitting for at least a few years at an inflated value. The book itself is spectacular, the fact that anyone would try to sell the book at $300 & up is shameful.

The Ultimate Disneyland Historical Reference
Let me start this review with the following statement: This is the most prized book in my collection. I'll try not to be too biased. It is also the most expensive and one of the hardest to come by. In the Afterwords section of Walt's Time, Bruce explains how The Nickel Tour came to be:

"We talked to every publisher we could find, and heard the same story, word for word. No Commercial Potential. No audience. No Market. No Deal."

They put the book together themselves: Scanned all of the cards, did the layout of every page and had it printed in Italy. They lugged the books to every convention and sold them through mail-order.

"And guess what: we sold every book we printed". --p. 241, Bruce Gordon, Walt's Time - From Before to Beyond

Disneyland, the Nickel Tour is a look at the first 45 years of Disneyland's history seen through the postcards of the park. In addition to Randy Bright's wonderful Disneyland the Inside Story, The Nickel Tour stands as one of the two most comprehensive books about Disneyland's history. Where it edges out Mr. Bright' work is that The Nickel Tour does cover the past 20 years. Unfortunately, Mr. Bright passed away in 1990 and a second edition is not forthcoming. Bruce Gordon, the primary writer of The Nickel Tour, was an Imagineer and started with the Company in 1980. Mr. Gordon co-authored many books about Disney and there are several that will be published posthumously later this year. Mr. Gordon passed away in November 2007. As it stands, the second edition of The Nickel Tour will probably be the last.

The Nickel Tour is an amazing work on so many different levels: the postcard images, the photographs of attractions that weren't released in postcard form, the historical information and the writing. They begin by sharing pre-opening cards and work their way through the history of Disneyland. One of Gordon and Mumford's strengths is that they write well and can take something as simple as post cards and turn it into an epic look at a theme park. The writing never gets technical and is always filled with reverence, love and a little remorse. Occasionally, they slip in some humor. It is always fitting and they obvious love word-play. The following paragraph could have been presented as just a litany of facts, but they went a different way with it.

"On the left hand side of Main Street, we encounter the Sunkist Citrus House. Long before this view was taken, the Citrus House had actually been two separate stores, one housing "Sunny View Jams and Jellies" and the other housing the "Puffin Bake Shop." By October of 1958, Disneyland had canned the jam and jelly shop and opened a candy store in its place. It was a sweet deal until June of 1960, when the Puffin Bake Shop went stale. (It seems they just weren't making enough dough to stay in business.) And even worse, it wasn't long before everyone was beginning to sour on the candy shop next door. So the two shops were joined together, and in a dedication ceremony held with Walt on July 31, they finally became the home of the Sunkist Citrus Shop. Things were calm until 1990, when the time was ripe to spin around in a circle once more - only to find the Sunkist moving out and the Bakery moving back in! Well, that story certainly had a peel. Orange you glad we wasted all this time? Meanwhile, here's the scoop on the Carnation Ice Cream parlor: in 1997 they split from their original parlor and (having lost their Carnation along the way) floated into the home of the bakery. Then, with perfect Disneyland logic, the bakery moved into - the ice cream parlor! If that doesn't get a rise out of you, nothing will!" p. 121

The sense of history that you get from The Nickel Tour, through the postcards and photographs, has not been presented in any other form. Besides being a reference work for postcards, it is almost a wish book--one you can flip open to any page and see a favorite or long-gone attraction and dream about visiting or re-experiencing. The images are stellar and your appreciation of postcards as art and history will grow.

Bottom Line: This work was obviously a labor of love for Gordon and Mumford. It is hard to stress how important this work is in the Disney Literature. Beside being one of two major historical works about Disneyland, you get a feel for how Disneyland evolved, how Walt plussed the park and how the Disney Company moved forward after Walt. It is the most cherished book in my entire collection. If you are lucky enough to find a copy, get it. I know that many people will dismiss this book because it is about Disneyland, but without Disneyland, there would be no Walt Disney World. The history of Disneyland offers a lot of insight into the growth of Walt Disney World as well.

This book is simply amazing!

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Great fun for Disney fans
What memories this brings back!Not only are the postcards wonderful, but the narrative is very entertaining - much more than I had hoped for - and the postcards are supplemented with some wonderful photos to fill in some of the gaps.A great way for us (we?) older Disney fans to share our memories of Disneyland with our children (and later grandchildren), too.I know I will get many hours of enjoyment from this book over the years to come.I am so glad I decided it might be worth the price - it's worth many times over!2007 update - Wow,the price I was referring to was $52.50, not the $189 I see it going for now.

Worth the wait and expense!
I've read "The Art of Walt Disney", "Walt Disney Imagineering", "Disneyland:The Inside Story", and several other books about the Magic Kingdom, and this book is by far the most detailed and enjoyable of them all. Every store that's ever had an address on Main Street...every sponsor that's ever had an exhibit in Tommorowland...IT'S ALL HERE. My only complaint is that I wish some of the illustrations were larger so you could take in more detail...but considering that every postcard ever issued by Disneyland is included, in addition to behind-the-scenes photos and concept art, this is an understandable compromise. Absolutely the best book ever printed on Disneyland. ... Read more

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Mumford's famous "Red Book" gives a simple readable account of the basic objects of algebraic geometry, preserving as much as possible their geometric flavor and integrating this with the tools of commutative algebra. It is aimed at graduate students or mathematicians in other fields wishing to learn quickly what algebraic geometry is all about. This new edition also includes an overview of the theory of curves, their moduli spaces and their Jacobians, one of the most exciting fields within algebraic geometry. The book is aimed at graduate students and professors seeking to learn i) the concept of "scheme" as part of their study of algebraic geometry and ii) an overview of moduli problems for curves and of the use of theta functions to study these. ... Read more

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The nearly Royal Road
In a nutshell, reading this book is like reading the mind of a great mathematician as he thinks about a great new idea. Anyone interested in schemes should read it. But a review needs more detail:

The RED BOOK is a concise, brilliant survey of schemes, by one of the first mathematicians to learn of them from Grothendieck. He gives wonderfully intuitive pictures of schemes, especially of "arithmetic schemes" where number theory appears as geometry. The geometry shines through it all: as in differentials, and etale maps, and how unique factorization relates to non-singularity. There is a bravura discussion of Zariski's Main Theorem (the algebraic property of being "normal" implies that a variety has only one branch at each point) comparing forms of it from older algebraic geometry, topology, power series, and schemes. Mumford cites proofs of these but does not give them. In fact, this theorem was one of the first things Mumford could use, to get Zariski to respect schemes.

Many accomplished algebraic geometers say this book got them started. But you probably cannot learn to work in the subject from this book alone--you either have to work with people who work with it, or use some other books besides (maybe both). The other book would probably be Hartshorne ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY, which is far more detailed, has far more examples, goes very much farther into cohomology--and is very much longer and denser (though also clearly written).

Eisenbud and Harris GEOMETRY OF SCHEMES covers a lot of the same ground as THE RED BOOK, with fewer advanced topics but many more details and examples, including classical geometric constructions like blow-ups and duals to projective plane curves. They use slightly more category theory than Mumford, more like Grothendieck.

Probably none of these books will work for you unless you already know some algebraic geometry: how polynomials define a variety, the Zariski topology, what regular and birational maps are. There is more than enough in Myles Reid's humorously titled UNDERGRADUATE ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY and UNDERGRADUATE COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA with vividly geometric ideas in slightly scheme-theoretic language.

The RED BOOK now includes the Michigan lectures, which are reputedly terrific, but I have not worked through them.

Before Hartshorne
There is a problem in getting going with alg. geo.To learn the geometry you need commutative algebra and to contextualize commutative algebra you need algebraic geometry.Mumford is an excellent book to get going withoutthe need for the heavy prereqs of the more classic books like Hartshore orG&H.A really good read.

This is not however a terrific referencetext, you'll need something else as a reference.Its much to expositoryand their is no index. ... Read more

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Chapters: Donald Knuth, Robert Tarjan, Joseph F. Traub, David Mumford, Ingrid Daubechies, Steven Strogatz, J. Tinsley Oden, Richard A. Tapia, Carl R. de Boor, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Max Gunzburger, Richard Karp, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Peter Lax, Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, Thomas J.r. Hughes, Thomas Kailath, James Sethian, Phillip Colella, John Hopcroft, Jerrold E. Marsden, Henk Van Der Vorst, John Guckenheimer, Eduardo D. Sontag, Ronald Graham, Donald G. Saari, Nicholas Higham, Harold W. Kuhn, Paul Garabedian, Roger Temam, Douglas N. Arnold, Andrew Majda, Gilbert Strang, Murray Rosenblatt, Stanley Osher, Joseph Keller, Ivo Babuška, Chi-Wang Shu, J. Alan George, Michael Waterman, Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen, Roger W. Brockett, Richard P. Brent, Simon A. Levin, Jack Dongarra, Cleve Moler, Harry Swinney, F. Thomson Leighton, Alexandre Chorin, George Andrews, Richard Askey, Avner Friedman, Charles F. Van Loan, Shmuel Winograd, Arthur Jaffe, Charles S. Peskin, Michael Artin, Ian Sloan, John Ockendon, Constantine Dafermos, Israel Gohberg, Harold J. Kushner, George C. Papanicolaou, Christopher R. Johnson, Grace Wahba, Roland Glowinski, James Glimm, Éva Tardos, Achi Brandt, Andrew M. Stuart, David S. Johnson, Margaret H. Wright, Paul Rabinowitz, Vladimir Rokhlin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 244. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced ) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University. Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms, contributing to the development of, and systematizing formal mathematical techniques for, the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8095 ... Read more

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Chapters: Richard Feynman, John Milnor, Peter Shor, Elwyn Berlekamp, David Mumford, Vern Poythress, Barry Simon, Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, William Nierenberg, Arthur Rubin, Kenneth G. Wilson, Bjorn Poonen, George Mackey, Reid W. Barton, Daniel Quillen, Neal Koblitz, Noam Elkies, Irving Kaplansky, Melvin Hochster, Andreas Blass, Robert Mills, Melanie Wood, Richard M. Dudley, Karl Rubin, Ravi Vakil, Eugenio Calabi, Don Zagier, Andrew Gleason, Don Coppersmith, Richard Schroeppel, James Bjorken, Miller Puckette, Gabriel D. Carroll, Jeffrey Lagarias, Roger Evans Howe, Peter Montgomery, Joel Spencer, Abhinav Kumar, Stephen L. Adler, Arthur P. Dempster, Daniel Kane, David Vogan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 159. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Phillips Feynman (pronounced ; May 11, 1918 February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25523 ... Read more

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Chapters: David Mumford, Caroline Haslett, Ray Streater. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is a mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University. Mumford was born in Worth, West Sussex in England, of an English father and American mother. His father William started an experimental school in Tanzania and worked for the then newly created United Nations. After attending the Phillips Exeter Academy, Mumford went to Harvard, where he became a student of Oscar Zariski. At Harvard, he became a Putnam fellow in 1955 and 1956. He completed his Ph.D. in 1961, with a thesis entitled Existence of the moduli scheme for curves of any genus. He met his first wife, Erika Jentsch, at Radcliffe College. She was an award-winning poet, and had a doctorate in Celtic Languages and Literature from Harvard. After Erika died in 1988, he married his second wife, Jenifer Gordon. He and Erika had four children. Steve (born 1960) is a published artist residing in New York City, Peter (born 1962) is a professional photographer and web developer living in Seattle, Jeremy (born 1969) is a visiting assistant professor of Latin American history at Brown University, while Suchitra (born 1970, now Suchitra Baranoff) has worked for more than fifteen years in the field of international adoption. Mumford's work in geometry always combined the traditional geometric insights with the latest algebraic techniques. He published on moduli spaces, with a theory summe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=394594 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alexander Grothendieck, Henri Poincaré, André Weil, Heisuke Hironaka, Vladimir Voevodsky, Elmer Rees, David Mumford, Igor Shafarevich, Jean-Pierre Serre, E. H. Moore, Patrick Du Val, Yozo Matsushima, Pierre Deligne, Oscar Zariski, Kunihiko Kodaira, Francesco Severi, Colin Mclarty, Steven Kleiman, Oleg Viro, S. S. Abhyankar, Shigefumi Mori, William Fulton, Miles Reid, David Eisenbud, Ravi Vakil, Joe Harris, Alfred Clebsch, Vladimir Rokhlin, Pierre Samuel, Frances Kirwan, Michael Artin, Geir Ellingsrud, Erich Kähler, Max Deuring, Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, Suren Arakelov, Jakob Rosanes, Pasquale Del Pezzo, Robin Hartshorne, Lothar Göttsche, Andrei Suslin, Francis Sowerby Macaulay, Victor Flynn, Giusto Bellavitis, Georges Henri Halphen, Rahul Pandharipande, Claire Voisin, Ragni Piene, Andrzej Białynicki-Birula, Geoffrey Horrocks. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 17 July 1912) (French pronunciation: ) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. He was responsible for formulating the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics. In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. Poincaré introduced the modern principle of relativity and was the first to...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48740 ... Read more

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The Third Edition of CALCULUS reflects the strong consensus within the mathematics community for a new balance between the contemporary ideas of the original editions of this book and ideas and topics from earlier calculus books. Building on previous work, this Third Edition has the same philosophy as earlier editions but represents a new balance of topics. CALCULUS 3/e brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of even more instructors teaching calculus. The author team's extensive experience teaching from both traditional and innovative books and their expertise in developing innovative problems put them in an unique position to make this new curriculum meaningful to students going into mathematics and those going into the sciences and engineering. The authors believe the new edition will work well for those departments who are looking for a calculus book that offers a middle ground for their calculus instructors.
CALCULUS 3/e exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the Rule of Four, an emphasis on modeling, exposition that students can read and understand and a flexible approach to technology. The conceptual and modeling problems, praised for their creativity and variety, continue to motivate and challenge students. ... Read more

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Get Help Elsewhere
This solutions manual is pretty much a waste of money (just like the textbook this is used for). For some reason, it answers every OTHER odd number. Basically answering problems 1, 5, 9, and so on. Other times, it actually skips some of those numbers!

The only reason why I gave it 2 stars is the fact that the problems the solution's manual does answer actually did help a little. Unfortunaly, it can be wrong once in a while, as my teacher can contest.

Don't waste your money on this unless you can find it for at most, a third of the price. Even then, the frustration probably still isn't worth it.

Calculus: Student Confusion Manual
This "solutions manual" only offers answers for every fourth question.The most painful part is that the so-called solutions are merely the answers from the back of the text book put into complete sentences; there is NO additional instruction.

Unfortunately, Amazon does not offer any way to properly rate this waste of money. ... Read more

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The Third Edition of CALCULUS reflects the strong consensus within the mathematics community for a new balance between the contemporary ideas of the original editions of this book and ideas and topics from earlier calculus books. Building on previous work, this Third Edition has the same philosophy as earlier editions but represents a new balance of topics. CALCULUS 3/e brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of even more instructors teaching calculus. The author team's extensive experience teaching from both traditional and innovative books and their expertise in developing innovative problems put them in an unique position to make this new curriculum meaningful to students going into mathematics and those going into the sciences and engineering. The authors believe the new edition will work well for those departments who are looking for a calculus book that offers a middle ground for their calculus instructors.
CALCULUS 3/e exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the Rule of Four, an emphasis on modeling, exposition that students can read and understand and a flexible approach to technology. The conceptual and modeling problems, praised for their creativity and variety, continue to motivate and challenge students. ... Read more

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Very complete book
this book help me so much with my job because i'm mathematics teacher in a school, and its very complete.

very good
item was recieved on time and in good condition
very happy with the purchase

Rewarding Book
If you want to learn integration techniques and become a whiz at basic computational calculus, you need another book. If you want a book that gives you a lot of proofs and tons of examples, you also probably need another book.

So why do I give the book 4 stars? The answer is _the problems_. I used this book for 3 semesters of calculus, and I felt like _I_ actually discovered a lot of the machinery of calculus just by doing the problems. It's a great feeling to discover rather than be taught. That's what this book helps you do.

Of course, this means you will probably have to do a few more problems than the teacher assigns (unless the teacher is very in tune with the book and knows exactly which problems are related). Also, when you get to techniques of integration, you'll probably need to refer to other books for examples.This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it is always better to learn from multiple sources.

One big downside is the cost. But, unfortunately, that's a problem with all American text books.Try to get a used copy.

Oh and about the book and solution manual not giving many solutions... Don't worry about it. When you solve most of these problems, you _know_ when you get the answer because everything will click and make sense. As for integration problems, just plug 'em into your TI-89, Maple, or the free Wolfram Online Integrator to check your answers!

In summary, this is a genuinely enjoyable book for problem solvers.Don't be scared by the other reviews.They are actually correct, in a way, but are simply coming from a somewhat narrowed perspective.

Great Book!
I don't know why so many people dislike this book...I probably learn in a different manner than they do.I've had to learn most of my calculus through Stewart's Early Transcendentals book, which I found very dry and mostly uninteresting.Luckily, I bought this book while I was taking a year off and taught myself calculus, having never even heard of a limit or a derivative before.

If you like thinking about the ideas behind things, and then learning about the formalism and mathematics of it, then this book is for you.If you prefer proofs, analysis, and "learn these steps and solve these problems" examples,you'll probably want to find a different text.

I can remember, though, the JOY of actually deriving things for myself, like how to calculate the volume of a solid rotated about some line or some such nonsense, because I could understand exactly what was needed.That is how I would describe this book:It's not a book about proving theorems and making you memorize a bunch of rules.Instead, it makes you really understand the subject matter, so that you can use the ideas of calculus to solve a variety of problems, even if they're problems you have no idea how to solve when you first read through them!

That is one thing that this book taught me that I found indespensible.You don't have to know how to do something, because you might be able to figure it out yourself instead of having some professor or text book or internet article tell you how to!Perhaps this approach is a little too ambitious, and I'll admit I spent a lot of time going through this text trying to reason things out, but it was time well spent.

So I suppose my advice would be not to buy this book unless you have to (for a course), or you're really willing to go through those problems spending a lot of time thinking about how to apply the IDEAS presented in the examples and text to the problem at hand.In the latter case, I think you'll find that the time you invest in this book will give you unexpected rewards.

THE ABSOLUTE WORST!
This is the worst calculus book out there.

One reviewer says "This book is for good students."I disagree.Iam a good student at a tough university and I hated this book.Out of 35 students who took my calc class only 2 got an A.I was one of the two.So you can take my word because I worked my ass off to get that A.THIS IS THE WORST BOOK ON THE MARKET.Why?

1.Not enough examples
2.The examples are either super easy or super hard
3.Poorly explained concepts
4.Questions on things hardly explained
5.Tons of ambiguous questions
6.Poorly designed text

I could go on and on... Just skip this book.Please.It will make me feel better. ... Read more

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An Amazing Scrapbook of Two Prolific Composers
Walt's Time - From Before to Beyond by Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman. 1998, 252 pages.

The Sherman Brothers need little introduction to Disney fans. Prolific composers of music for films and theme park attractions, they have written some of the most memorable songs in Disney history.

This book, which looks at their long career, finally saw the light of day after the Sherman Brothers met Bruce Gordon and Dave Mumford. Just like The Nickel Tour, publishers felt that there was no commercial appeal in this book. Bruce and David had self-published The Nickel Tour and thought that they could do the same with Walt's Time. The Sherman Brothers, after shopping the book around since 1981, had worked with Jeff Kurtti to have a majority of it written. Bruce and Dave met with Jeff and they agreed to self-publish. The Sherman Brothers were thrilled to work with Bruce, David and Jeff.

The book was created to resemble a scrapbook of their career. It starts with their first day on the Disney lot where they land the title song for the Parent Trap while auditioning a song for the Horsemasters. It then launches through the highlights of a majority of their Disney work. The middle section is dedicated to their father, Al and looks at everything that he published and his successes. During the section on their father, they look at their family history and how Al Sherman influenced his children. It is obvious from Walt's Time that the Sherman Brothers were profoundly influenced by their father and Walt Disney. When the brothers speak of either man, the text is filled with love, gratitude and wonder.

The third section details more of their work with the Disney Company, before and after Walt's passing. It also looks at the body of work they have done since leaving the company. Stage productions, theatrical work and animated films make up the bulk of their work in the '70's, 80's and 90's.

The Brothers spend a lot of time discussing their interactions with Walt Disney and how Walt was an amazing and optimistic person. The song There's a Great, Big Beautiful Tomorrow was inspired by Walt Disney. Their proudest moments include It's a Small World and Mary Poppins. They wrote the songs for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang after receiving Walt's blessings to work on the outside project. Albert Broccoli (producer of the Bond movies) also owned the rights to Fleming's children's novel about the car. Broccoli brought the idea to Walt, who declined saying he had too much on his plate and wanted more creative control. After the success of Mary Poppins, Broccoli gathered most of the creative team that had worked on Mary Poppins. The Brothers were also involved with two of the biggest animated films of the 60's as well: The Jungle Book and Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.

Obviously, the Sherman Brothers' influence has been felt greatly in the theme parks. The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room, Magic Highways, Magic Journeys, Makin' Memories, Astuter Computer Review, the Best Time of Your Life and Miracles From Molecules.

Looking at everything the Sherman Brothers have done is a tad bit overwhelming!

Bottom Line: I enjoyed this book and was completely astounded by how prolific the Sherman Brothers actually are. The book is designed beautifully and features awards, personal recollections and photos from every period of their career (just like a scrapbook!). This is book is clearly for music fans, fans of the Sherman Brothers and fans of Disney films from the 1960's.

Unique Volume Loaded With Disney Memorabilia !!
Every one of the more than 250 extra large Disney scrapbook pages is filled with unique, full color memorabilia from Walt Disney, and Robert and Richard Sherman, the song writers that created a world of popular music.Everything from pictures and memorabilia of Annette, Haley Mills, and Julie Andrews, to Tommy Sands, 101 Dalmations, The Carousel of Progress, and the Enchanted Tiki Room are featured. Items are grouped by decades.You can spend endless, enjoyable hours just looking in this huge volume that weighs 4 pounds !!Well worth adding to your Disney or music or movies or entertainment library.

It's docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-roopus backwards!
What a great book about in my opinion the best songwriters!The Shermans had the opportunity to be with Disney during what I believe was the peak of the Disney Co.Their songs have warmed the hearts of millions of peopleacross the world.My mother had never heard of the Shermans but whenever Ising their songs she says "I love that song, I didn't know they wrotethat..."I can count on their songs being family friendly and joyful. I love Winnie the Pooh was not at all surprised when I discovered whowrote the songs!I never get tired of reading Walt's Time.The picturesare great and layout is so different.It is fun to read the backgroundstories that is behind each song.Such as A Spoon full of Sugar and howRobert's son gave them the inspiration.I know the price makes itdifficult for some of us. I personally do not own the book, but I love toborrow it from my library.It is a must read for every Disney and Shermanfan out there!

It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
This book is truly the gem of my library... A beautiful look at the careers of Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman!Reading this book brought back so many memories! Little did I realize that so many of my favoriteDisney (and even non-Disney) musical films all had one special thing incommon... the music of the Sherman Brothers.

This wonderful book isformatted like a huge scrapbook... its fun to read, and just packed withrare photos, cartoons and other memorabilia that would delight any reader.

"Nowhere is there a more happier book!"
Wow!, What a feast of fun!Here's the story of two of this century's most prolific and popular songwriters, the Sherman Brothers, finally cronicled in a superb scrapbook.Discover the Sherman Brothers' insights into theenigma that was Walt Disney, and learn of their dream job with this man..who nurtured their talent, producing a sound that is truly instantlyrecognisable, the world over.These are the guys who created "thebiggest word you ever heard", who left us singing of a "small,small world".. and gave lyrical life to a "fantasmagoricalmachine" called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

This is a lovinglyremembered book by the Dick and Bob, put together with the help of a fewamazingly dedicated fans.Bruce & David and Jeff have produced anothergem of a book. With them, too much is never enough.. the photographictreasures, the office cartoons all give the impression of being invited todinner with the Shermans. I was lucky enough to hear the Shermans at thepiano for a preview of this book at a Disney fan's convention last year. That was a night I'll never forget.. as the brothers sang their way throughthe songs of my childhood.Now the feeling of that night (and mychildhood) has been captured in print, and I can't be happier! Thanks guys,it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ! ... Read more

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This innovative book is the product of an NSF funded calculus consortium based at Harvard University and was developed as part of the calculus reform movement. It is problem driven and features exceptional exercises based on real-world applications. The book uses technology as a tool to help readers learn to think. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

The sailboat on the cover is the best part.
Besides the picture on the front, this book is horrible! I've learned more by personal derivation and experimenting than through this book. The explanations are overly bloated, and include so many approximations andtables that the theory behind this book's ramblings is lost completely.Instead of focusing on theoretical multivariable calculus whileintroducing, as a short diversion an approximating method, this book buildsaround a foundation of approximations, which clouds the actual mathematicsin the process.

In my opinion, unless theory is ingrained in students'heads from the start, they will never even attempt to understand it. Afterall, the book gives the theory second priority, so why should students payany attention to it?

Moreover, in the introduction, the book promises tohave problem sets that a student "cannot just look for a similarexample to solve... you will have to think." However, after workingwith this book's homework problems, I've found them to be the exactopposite of this! There are plenty of similar examples for any givenproblem, and as a result the teacher's role becomes trivial, while at thesame time students don't really understand anything they're doing. Not onlythis, but the problems are overly MUNDANE, and there is too much practicefor a single concept. If a student has taken calculus, he can doderivatives, so he should not need 31 exercises to learn how to do partialderivatives.

Capping all this off, there are no truly challengingproblems at all in this book. All of them focus on mechanical methodsrather than clever application of known theory. The biggest challenge inthis book, in fact, is keeping your hand intact as you take 50 partialderivatives, and then hit a problem that says "repeat for the secondpartial derivatives."

Meanwhile, your fine motor skills deterioratequickly as you overwork them drawing or re-drawing a graph or table everyother problem.

Bravo, Debbie Hughes, you can use Mathematica's graphingcapabilities to their fullest. We're all proud of you. Now can you keepthem out of your textbook? No one wants to see a billion tables staringthem in the face, and then have to copy and change a billion more forhomework. That's not a way to learn. This whole textbook is just a way topretend you're learning.

Waiting to really learn anything from this bookis like waiting for Richard Simmons to get married. Trust me, it's notgonna happen, folks.

kubkhan

Beware!
"This innovative book is the product of an NSF funded calculus consortium based at Harvard University and was developed as part of the calculus reform movement" Beware of Harvard, i.e. reform Calculus. Instead of teaching people about maxima and minima, you show them how touse a calculator to guess.What a load of junk.Nobody learns whatanything means, just how to apply formulas, etc. It is a shame what booksand authors like these are doing to college mathematics.This book isparticularly bad, a whole bunch of fluff, not a damn ounce of substance.

Excellent overview of mutivariable calculus
I have to disagree with my fellow Californians and unfortunately agree with someone from New York.This is an excellent foundation overview without the clutter of Anton's and Stewart's books.I found it to be aconveniently carried paperback and an enjoyable read.

A waste of recycled paper
Calculus is confusing enough.You don't need a terribly written book to make it worse.The explanations are poorly written and extremely short.It takes a comprehensive understanding of calculus in order to understandanything that the author says.A well written book shouldn't have arrowspointing in random directions.Random arrows don't make a confusingconcept any less difficult to comprehend.I could read my chemistry bookand learn more about math than by reading this one.

HORRENDOUS!
This is the worst math book I have ever been forced to buy.This book does not teach you calculus, it only gives word problem after word problem that your regular calculus student will not be able to solve!Most requirea knowledge of physics or economy, as well as even-- topography!I am SOFRUSTRATED with this book.If someone has any idea where I can get thecomplete solution's manual, (the student solutions manual only givesanswers to 25% of the problems, in such a way that I can't possiblypractice enough to do well on the exams or even LEARN), please email me atangelaalbert@hotmail.comTHANKS, and good luck to you all that take mathwith this book.You will need it. ... Read more

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The new edition exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the Rule of Four, an emphasis on modeling, exposition that students can read and understand and a flexible approach to technology.
* The conceptual and modeling problems, praised for their creativity and variety, continue to motivate and challenge students. ... Read more

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DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!
This book is completely worthless.Not only it doesn't work out all the problems, it doesn't even work out all the odd problems.Just a random problem here and there.In many of the problems it doesn't explain how they got the answers or where in the text you can find some help.
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This version of "A Brush with Disney" is exactly the sameas the regular book (ISBN:0964605961) except for its packaging.

This version is packaged in a spectacular limited edition display box.The beautiful gray linen texture box is adorned on its front coverwith a reproduction of Ryman's famous signature... "Herbert Ryman"jumps from the cover in the same famous red that adorns so many of hismasterpieces.

The box is beautifully lined in velvet and each is numbered with ahandsome brass plate bearing the Ryman Foundation's 10th Anniversarylogo and the unique number of that box.

The box was designed by Disney Imagineer Bruce Gordon to serve as aneasel and is a spectacular way to display your favorite piece ofRyman's artwork. ... Read more

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A Stochastic Grammar of Images is the first book to provide a foundational review and perspective of grammatical approaches to computer vision. In its quest for a stochastic and context sensitive grammar of images, it is intended to serve as a unified frame-work of representation, learning, and recognition for a large number of object categories.It starts out by addressing the historic trends in the area and overviewing the main concepts: such as the and-or graph, the parse graph, the dictionary and goes on to learning issues, semantic gaps between symbols and pixels, dataset for learning and algorithms. The proposal grammar presented integrates three prominent representations in the literature: stochastic grammars for composition, Markov (or graphical) models for contexts, and sparse coding with primitives (wavelets). It also combines the structure-based and appearance based methods in the vision literature. At the end of the review, three case studies are presented to illustrate the proposed grammar.A Stochastic Grammar of Images is an important contribution to the literature on structured statistical models in computer vision. ... Read more