Good supplement to discrete text
581870
Good supplement to discrete text.  Sequence of topics is at instructor's discretion.  Fewer typos than expected.
Would have preferred separate solutions to exercises (as answers are given right after each problem).  Better breadth of topics -- with appendices -- than other outlines.  A good buy.
3888519
I haven't used it a lot but it does have good examples and is a good companion for the written rules, mainly for the illustrations.  Also eliminates guesswork on rule interpretation.
3523315
The general public would benefit from reading this, but the main audience is college students.  It's good as both synthetic study and primary source reader.  Focusing on salt, silk, spices and sugar highlights diverse international connections in premodern times.  "TT" is rather short: ideally it would be c. 180-200 pages, with the extra length devoted to further original source materials.  The authors/editors contextualize the evidence well by giving enough background data, though the maps could be more precise.  Their text is very readable, even sprightly and witty at times, though some errors creep in.  A potential drawback is that the price has gone up and may rise again, reducing its value for readers on a budget (who isn't nowadays?).  Still, it remains a good investment from a worthwhile series.
1766604
Readible -- easy to use indeependent of a classroom experience.  The CD that is available with this is a worthwhile supplement. (Google it if Amazon does not make the CD available)
3454394
Gallmeister splits this book into two main sections, an introduction to the material and a reference section, which provides detailed documentation for the various function calls and header files. Somebody new to the material will find the first section indispensable, while the pro will flip to the reference section to answer questions.
Chapter one provides an overview of the problems this book addresses. The second chapter examines POSIX, POSIX options, and POSIX namespaces. Chapters 3 - 6 define real-time problems and POSIX.4 solutions. Chapter 7 considers the issues of real-time performance.
Gallmeister provides many example code fragments to illustrate his points. He would have done better to have annotated his examples, instead of writing a number of descriptive paragraphs after each fragment. A particularly useful feature is his discussion of "current UNIX practice."
Overall, this book provides a reasonable introduction to the concepts of real-time programming, and a number of "recipe" examples for the POSIX environment. Recommended if you'd like to develop real-time skills or need a reference work on the subject. I found it useful learning to develop QNX software, even though QNX implements a number of "optional" features differently.
3976499
Using this as text in first ever simulation class.  Although somewhat dry and difficult to read, this text provides a good background to use of Arena.  Software itself is quite capable and outstrips the ability of the book to address many how-to's.  I would recommend a companion workbook to serve as more of a user guide to Arena.
3140233
This text and its companion text (<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Integrated-Korean-Advanced-2-Klear-Textbooks-in-Korean-Language/dp/0824827775/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Integrated Korean: Advanced 2 (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language)</a>) offer a variety of native texts with which to supplement one's learning. The vocabulary and grammar explanations are well-chosen and useful in preparing for the TOPIK exam (levels 4~6).

My only problem with the text is that the grammar explanations are too brief. One must do a bit of outside study to fully grasp the grammar points given. This can also be perceived as a good thing, however.

I wholeheartedly recommend this text to people who are serious about learning the Korean language.
1884859
Great as a supplement to a more "full" textbook. This treats subjects in a way that gives you the proof, then comments on the meaning and in many occasions it also provides with details on some subtle details of the subject. One particularly good example for this is the treatment of the Cut-off frequency in the chapter of Evanescent waves. The reason that I recommend this as a secondary and not as a primary book is because there are other books out there that might include more subjects and treat each one of them with the same detail as the subjects of this book(one example is Smith's Waves and Oscillations) and there are other books that might have more thorough discussions of each subject(like Crawford's excellent Waves book). What make this so good as a supplement to maybe the aforementioned textbooks is that although it analyzes less subjects than the other books, it analyzes them in more detail. So, it emphasizes on the basics which can be found in any waves book it also tackles few subtle points. The "few" is not a bad thing, because the "few" is meant in the following way: the author chose which subtle points to discuss in order to NOT hold the reader by the hand but providing him with unusual insight on carefully chosen points that are rarely discussed in other books but are important and can provide the reader with the means to think by himself the other subtle point that the book might not tackle.
582902
This is a review of the physical copy. The book is well-bound and I appreciated the green MIPS cheat-sheet. As for the content, the book is quite dense and lacking in example quantity and variety, but I'm surprised how much I'm able to retain, as the language used is pretty straightforward. My teacher ended up using the appendices (which are included on the CD-ROM) quite a bit; I would have liked to have them in a physical form, which is why I ordered the textbook in the first place -- so I guess that's a bit of a disappointment. Overall, I ended up liking the book's conciseness in conjunction with my teacher's lectures since I felt like the book quickly got "to the point," but someone who is reading this material independently might benefit from supplementary material.
4919377
I've been using this book for a while and since I am pretty familiar with it, the rather odd organization and hit-and-miss indexing aren't as much of a problem as they were.  So since I know where to start looking for the  information I need,  this book is very handy now.
I find that although  the prose style is not exciting, it is clear and definite (I don't find  myself wondering, "Did they mean *this* or *that*?").
The  bottom line is that if you are willing to make yourself use the book long  enough to get a feel for it, it will be a very useful reference.  However,  it would be much better if the familiarization period were unnecessary.
2723118
This book continues CRC's fine tradition of putting out definitive texts on a technical field. The amount of material on combinatorics is exceedingly non-trivial. I suspect few readers will actually take this book apart cover to cover. Which is a pity, because the coverage of algorithms is comprehensive and lucidly explained.

The book compares favourably to Knuth's classic 3 volume series,&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Art-of-Computer-Programming-The-Volumes-1-3-Boxed-Set-2nd-Edition-Vol-1-3/dp/0201485419/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Art of Computer Programming, The, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set (2nd Edition) (Vol 1-3)</a>. However, the problems for each chapter in the current book are simpler. There are few of the truly hard exercises that Knuth liberally sprinkled throughout his books.

What you may want to do with this book is perhaps only read the chapters relevant to your needs. Given on your part a reasonable pre-existing background in computing and combinatorics, then the book has a key property that its chapters are largely independent of each other. So you can get quickly to the germane sections.
932402
I bought this and used it heavily through Contracts, and found it took be a very good supplement to the casebook.  It covers the main issues in very good detail, but cannot be trusted as a single source for contract law of course - a short book could not be expected to do that.

The book is written in an informal but very information way, and cites many of the popular cases that will presumably exist in your casebook.

That said, if someone read this book before starting contracts, or read each chapter before reading cases relating to the material in that chapter, you'd probably get a more complete and faster comprehension of the material.  This book is great for that purpose.
270041
Solid translation. Contains a minimally abridged selection of the Objections and Replies, also includes one of Descartes most useful texts, Principles of Philosophy. Solid footnotes without being too dense. Introduction is solid, especially for those looking to study Descartes outside of a graduate class setting. Contains a useful bibliography of primary and secondary sources for those who need a place to get started. For undergraduate philosophy majors, I would heartily recommend using this copy over and above selections that contain only the Meditations and/or Discourse on Method, as Principles of Philosophy is an extremely clarifying supplemental text (written as an educational tool) that is seriously underused.
1705602
This is a pretty good grammar of the Mohawk language. It doesn't go into great detail, nor does it give many examples, but as a quick reference to Mohawk grammar, this book is pretty good. Although I would not recommend anyone use this book exclusively to learn Mohawk, it does make a good supplement to other texts. I would steer people interested in learning Mohawk to use 'Mohawk: A Teaching Grammar,' which is still available through the Kanien'keh:ka Onkwawn:na Raotitihkwa Language and Culture Center (search google for it).

Though I do recommend 'A Thousand Useful Words of Mohawk' by Maracle as a useful 'dictionary' for Mohawk.

As far as the spelling system used in the two texts by Maracle, for the modern spelling system, use the 'phoentic spelling.' The 'phonetic spelling' used in the two books represents the way the language is actually written in parts of Canada and also represents how it is pronounced in a better fashion.
3032271
As a medical student in pharmacology, I found them to be great supplemental material to learn the names, actions, and side effects of the drugs. Easy to quiz yourself with them. They are organized/grouped similar to Katzung Pharmacology (Lange) and provide an overview of the drug categories and mechanisms at the beginning of each group - great for when you need a quick reference. Not all of the drugs are included, but they provide an excellent starting point. The pictures are simple, yet clever, so for picture-oriented people, they work great. The phrases to remember the drugs are okay, often harder to remember the phrase than the drug itself. It got me rolling though, and I often came up with better ones on my own. Most importantly, they taught me a different way to learn drug names, so even when I'm not using the cards, I utilize the memory concepts. Although I have not been through them all, I have not found any mistakes, only a few contradictions due to discrepancies in the literature. I found the table of contents to also be a big help when trying to track down a specific drug.
86175
I'm using this in self-guided summer reading after one year of classes.  You have to admire Steadman's project--trying to use print-on-demand to bring inexpensive student editions of these texts to the market.  I also approve of his editorial approach generally; there is little benefit to beginning to early intermediate readers in spending endless time hunting through lexicons for obscurer forms (especially in non-Attic dialects).  The frequent-vocabulary list for memorization and generous glossing allow the reader to focus on the more worthwhile task of making sense of the text!  (For self-study, obviously, the more generous the glossing, the better.  Bryn Mawr put out an edition of Book 1 some time ago with an overlapping but hardly identical set of annotations that the independent student may want to keep alongside this edition for more help.)

 I do find that there are a number of instances where the gloss seems to have been chosen mechanically rather than with attention to context, which can pose barriers to understanding (e.g., in the section on the early abductions, ergon should probably be translated as "the work..." or "the deed..." rather than "the task of evil men" ).  Steadman invites corrections and can update the corresponding PDF instantly, so hopefully this text will improve over time.
2668767
I picked this book up as a supplement to my other study materials and as a quick reference guide, this is a decent book.  Although it doesn't go into any great detail, it does touch on a number of subjects.  Although I haven't taken the 70-290 exam yet, I did find more coverage of topics that are covered by the 70-291 exam, which were absent from those books.  The book also comes with a CD containing a MasterSim exam, which has over 200 questions.  I wouldn't use this for a stand-alone study guide, but I haven't found a book yet that could stand up to that challenge...  Summary:  brief and to the point.