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English Grammar In Use with Answers and CD ROM: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate ... 27 reviews
Raymond Murphy
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Great book.
Very good book. It goes with a page of explanation, and a page of exercices, and so it goes, with many of them. Very clear, and good to pratice what you learn and memorize. I'm looking for a similar grammar to study german, but I didn't find yet.
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Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them63 reviews
Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Every Astronomer Should Have This Book!
"Turn Left At Orion" is one of those introductory books that should be automatically dispensed with every first telescope! Bro. Guy Consolmagno (a Jesuit friar who serves officially for the Vatican Observatory) has an easy-reading style that is aimed at the neophyte star-gazer. He purposely avoids much of the "geek-speak" associated with the hobby, and where he needs to bring up technical ...
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The Prescriber's Guide (Essential Psychopharmacology Series) 6 reviews
Stephen Stahl
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Best Point of Practice Prescribing Resource
I have reached for my copy of Dr. Stahl's Essential Psychopharm Guide nearly every day since beginning my practice in 2005. When the time came to update, I didn't give a thought to looking for a different rersource. I particularly appreciate the dosing strategies, best augmentation practices, and Pearls. The unique, colorful symbols categorizing each drug according to its actions on ...
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Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) 9 reviews
Immanuel Kant
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Understand Kantian morality, it is not easy
I read "The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" for a graduate seminar in Ethics. Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, lived a boring life. Never married, never moved from Konigsberg, and was extremely regular in his habits. He was the first philosopher that was an academic, university philosopher. He devoted his life to one aim, to move beyond the traditional dichotomy that existed in philosophy ...
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Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics3 reviews
Marc J. Hetherington, Jonathan D. Weiler
Cambridge University Press, 2009
This is important
We've just gone through a summer of intense political difference, and I don't see or hear much that helps explain why the country is in such discord. Thanks to these guys, we have some answers, and new ways of thinking about why the country is so divided. Everyone, read up....
Bill Bishop
Austin, TX
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Advanced Grammar in Use With CD ROM14 reviews
Martin Hewings
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Very helpful
I like that one. It contains everything you may need, while you are using a little advanced English. Your grammar will become very good. It can be very useful in every way if you are just studing English or you want to live in English speaking country or you want to study there, or work for foreign company. In every way I recommend this book highly to everybody that want to speak English well.
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)28 reviews
Philippe Bourgois
Cambridge University Press, 2002
Apartheid in America
A well written, well researched ethnography that reveals structural violence and apartheid in America. Easy to read even for non-social scientists.
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A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations49 reviews
Daniel Fleisch
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Student Guide to Maxwell's Equations
Ordered this book for a couple of reasons: first, we have a son who loves Physics and will be pursuing the study of it in university so thought this book would be a perfect b-day gift & ref book in school (it was & will be); and second, I heard the author, Daniel Fleisch on CBC Radio-2 (Stuart McLean) when he won an 'Arthur Award' and I just loved the story and wanted to be a part of it, ...
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The Art of Electronics143 reviews
Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Excellent for Instruction and Reference
This is a must have for an electronic designer. Intended for a first course in electronic design, it still achieves enough depth to be useful as a reference for a designer with a need to design out of his/her usual area of familiarity. It teaches electronic design as a chess like endeavor, where a knowledge of the characteristics of the different pieces, and the patterns that have been ...
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions ...9 reviews
Elinor Ostrom
Cambridge University Press, 1990
We need more people like Ostrom
I am surprised that there's little review activity going on for this book, even though the author has won the "fake nobel" prize (i.e. the "price in memory of alfred nobel" for economy). Regardless of what one thinks about the fake nobel, the author is certainly someone whose achievements deserve recognition. This book is a pedagogical summary of the important work that she's done in relation to ...
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Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and Romance Languages3 reviews
Joseph B. Solodow
Cambridge University Press, 2010
a perfect book!
A great way to learn about etymology and the power of words, all wrapped up in engaging prose detailing the history of Latin after it turned into the Romance languages. Highly recommended for interested readers and students of the subject, alike.
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Minimus Pupil's Book: Starting out in Latin31 reviews
Barbara Bell
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Great activities!
I used this with my 4th and 5th grade GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) students. We loved the class activities that accompanied each chapter, especially when we learned how to sing "Happy Birthday" in Latin and made birthday cards for a teacher's birthday. It was a little expensive to buy the teacher addition as well as all the pupil books, but it was worth it. I knew only minimal Latin ...
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Essential Grammar in Use Edition With Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Elementary ...7 reviews
Raymond Murphy
Cambridge University Press, 2007
The BEST english grammar book ever!
English is not my native language and I know very well how difficult is to learn a second language without proper education. I have studied Murphy's books for a long time and recommend his books for everybody. There are a lot of good books out there (I have purchased a whole bunch of them!), but no one bits this one. This book is for elementary students. There are also the intermediate grammar ...
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Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity8 reviews
Mike Hulme
Cambridge University Press, 2009
A path-breaking book
I'm afraid the one-star reviews are missing the point of Hulme's book. His observations about the disagreements that arise in regard to climate change do a great service in revealing the complexity of this issue. Each of his chapters shows how the *idea* of climate change has become embedded in disputes that are inherent to the human condition--what we value, how we perceive risk, how we should ...
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English Grammar In Use with Answers: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of ...20 reviews
Raymond Murphy
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Every ESL Instructor & Student Should Have This
This is helpful for students who need some improvement on accuracy and the basic understanding of general or particular grammar concepts. Some Intermediate students have more needs than others as more complicated facets of English are brought forth at this level. If a student needs to more fully understand the difference between the usage of "for" and "since" for example, this particular point ...
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Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing10 reviews
William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, ...
Cambridge University Press, 2007
just keeps getting better
My copy of Edition 2 in C of Numerical Recipes is literally falling apart I have used it so much. There is much new in the 3rd Edition - I have already used the barycentric rational interpolation and Levin series accelerator in my work and am now investigating Kriging or Gaussian Processes - all of these are new, plus much much more. The upgrade to double precision in such routines as the gamma ...
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Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (Essential ...33 reviews
Stephen M. Stahl
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Lucid and readable with very helpful color diagrams
I am a Masters Degree student in counseling and was introduced to Stahl's writings in a Counseling and Physiology course taught by an M.D. This book provides color diagrams with very lucid descriptions and explanations of how various chemical substances impact brain functioning. I bought the second edition because of the price difference but for my application this edition is more than ...
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Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History5 reviews
Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, ...
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Major breakthrough in socioeconomic analysis
Rarely does a book shine a bright new light on a set of social, political and economic issues. This book answers questions that we have all contemplated for a long time: why does only 15 percent of the world population enjoy the western standard of living and why did this standard only begin to emerge 200 to 400 years ago? Why did mankind attain almost no economic progress for the first 12,000 ...
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Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models13 reviews
Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill
Cambridge University Press, 2006
very broad coverage of data analysis with hierarchical models
Andrew Gelman is a top researcher in Bayesian statistics as well as an excellent writer. He has written an excellent text on Bayesian data analysis that uses the Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for dealing with hierarchical linear models. This book starts out on an introductory level covering a wide variety of statistical modeling problems including logistic regression and multilevel logistic ...
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How to Prove It: A Structured Approach29 reviews
Daniel J. Velleman
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Completely changed my view of proofs.
Now I understand how proofs are being constructed. I can read and write them the right way! After reading this book I went back to my Calculus textbook and started looking at the proofs. I was amazed at how differently I perceived them. I actually enjoyed reading them and understood why they were written that way.
A little info about the book. Basically, it teaches you the same material that ...
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