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With a strong emphasis on skill-building, applications in the real world, and preparation for further math courses, this text unites the concepts of Elementary Algebra and Intermediate Algebra in one convenient and economical volume.
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Worth it!.......2006-07-19
This textbook is perfect for any learning college student. As a college math student I was forced to buy this book, but little did I know that in the long run, I'd learn alot from this book, and the materials learned stook out for a while. They stayed in my head and memory for a very long time. If you are going to move to the next higher level math, be glad you bought this one. It will help you a great deal. It's worth it!
I can compare this with bittinger's book (the one with the flower) but I haven't read enough of bittinger's book because I'm used to this one.
pros: great material, step by step examples and clear instructions. Hard to get used to at first but very easy to get used to. You learn about functions, equations, and everything!
cons: some of the material is hard. What do you expect from an intermediate algebra book. Also, if you have a hard teacher, it might make it harder for you to pass (or a strict one), but that shouldn't hinder you from learning from the book because the book itself can sometimes be a good instructor too! Though sometimes there isn't enough explanation for a particular problem, so it would be hard for some people who are hard of learning or just take more time to learn. But all it takes is dedication and determination, like everyone is saying.
Be Careful.......2004-01-31
I ordered this book thinking that it was the textbook. The book that I got not only took forever, but was not the textbook, it was only a student answer key. Seeing as how the description of the book says "text" it is very decieving. So if you need the text be careful when ordering this.
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desperate need of 2nd edition.......2007-06-20
This is a great introductory text into solid state physics. Do not expect mathematic rigor but do expect to obtain qualitative understanding. I bought this book while taking Condensed Matter where the main text was Ashcroft and Mermin. The class was taught horrifically and I was not ready for the level of A&M. I bought this book and it was a fine accompaniment.
That being said, there are problems. There are numerous errors (maybe they are corrected in the revised version). Omar uses n and N interchangeably for electron concentration which bothered me greatly. Also the problems are not that great. You don't learn a lot from doing them. A second edition would hopefully correct these issues.
A very good textbook.......2003-10-25
The book is, indeed, much better organized, and much more intelligible and pleasant to use than the unfortunate Kittel "standard." With some tweaking, it's a good undergraduate course textbook and deserves to be wider known. Despite its age (basically, from the mid-1970's), it discusses a number of applications which are of current interest: semiconductor devices and optics, liquid crystals and polymers, some biomolecules. There are very few good solid-state texts, and this one's in the top row.
Far superior to Kittel's book despite age.......1999-04-06
This is a corrected printing of the 1975 text which was plagued with mistakes. Omar does a good job introducing topics with easy to understand examples and good qualitative explanations. The very first chapter gets the reader off to a good start with a thorough, but understandable, teatment of crystallography (other authors always manage to botch this). Omar's problem sets are lengthier, more varied, and above all, more doable than those in Kittel's text. The problem sets are preceded by a set of qualitative questions, which are good practice for the occasional conceptual problem that the instructor may include on an exam. The text has two minor drawbacks which are forgiveable in light of the dearth of good intorductory texts on the subject. First, the author did not update the text at all, (did he pass away?) but simply corrected many old mistakes. It was undoubtedly an up to date text circa 1975 but his treatment of more specialized topics (i.e. superconductivity) is badly out of date. Of course the basics, such as x-ray diffraction and band theory, have not changed so it is a perfectly good book for a one semester or one quarter course. The second drawback is that the bibliography, which cites textbooks that the author thought useful in the mid-'70's, was not updated either. The first five chapters in this text correspond to the first seven in Kittel. If you are unlucky enough to have been assigned Kittel, reading Omar will clarify many matters and provide you with an abundance of solveable practice problems.
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- Decent text, unacceptable number of solutions errors
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 2: Electricity, Magnetism, Light, and Elementary Modern Physics (Physics for Scientists and Engineers)
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Decent text, unacceptable number of solutions errors.......2006-11-10
The text is fairly straightforward and example problems are very helpful. The multitude of end-of-chapter problems are helpful as well, but the problem solutions in the back of the book have a particularly high number of errors. With most science texts, one might expect an error here or there, generally one or two errors per book, but in this book I find one or two (sometimes more) errors per chapter. Of course, I'm talking about solutions; I haven't discovered any errors in the text itself. My other qualm is that the end-of-chapter equations list excludes some important equations, requiring unnecessary digging back through the chapter.
I give this book three stars, though, because the quality of text is good; if it weren't for the solutions errors, I'd give it four stars. Among the physics books I've used in this and previous classes, this book is the easiest to learn from. Buy it used, wait for a new edition, or be sure you have a professor who realizes what the errors are.
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Over 300 hands-on science activities for elementary school-aged children are brilliantly described and illustrated in four-color throughout the text. All WONDERSCIENCE activities are preceded with handy Teacher Tips and reference material unifying each activity to National Science Education Standards.
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WonderScience II is WonderFul, too.......2007-03-25
This has lots of great and easy to use activities. I found it on the website for the American Chemical Society (for a fraction of the cost) after a science professor recommended it to us for homeschool.
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- Science on a Shoestring
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This resource enables teachers to implement a high-quality and affordable science program. The Second Edition offers chapters on earth science, ecology, and light and optics. Grades K-8
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Science on a Shoestring.......2000-05-17
Herb Strongin was lightyears ahead of other science educators when he published SOS (1976). He recognized that there are a few big ideas in science, and if students organize their investigations around topics of interest that are sequenced to support those big ideas, then science content understanding will emerge from DOING science. The activities in this book are simple, at times unusual, and they really work! Elementary teachers with little content background in science will find these activities to be understandable and doable. Experienced teachers will find lots of suggestions for how to take their kids deeper into subjects. This is a GREAT book, and with it, Herb Strongin has left a lasting mark on science education.
Make Each Child "Person of the Century.".......2000-01-26
After thoureauly reviewing the experiments in this exceptional book, I've come to identify with the auther's implicit philosophy: get'em while they're curius! With collections like this unique lab manual for children in every field, the education crisis in America would be solved!
Science experiments for the elementary classroom.......1998-07-16
This is a collection of simple, yet unusual, science experiments for the elementary classroom using easily available materials. Presentation plans and exlanations accompany the experiment.
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Quantum mechanics is a difficult subject for students to learn after years of rigorous training in classical physics. In quantum mechanics they have to abandon what they have laboriously learned and adopt a new system of thinking.
In the previous edition of this book, the author reformulated classical mechanics as a classical theory with an undetermined constant. As the constant approaches zero the theory reduces to Newton's exactly, but when set equal to the Planck constant the theory reduces to the Schrödinger representation of quantum mechanics. Thus the new theory, at least in its mathematical form, can be learned without ramifications and complexity. Over the years, the book has shepherded the growth of a generation of physicists.
In this expanded edition, a similar trick is applied to introduce matrix mechanics. The matrix formulation presented allows quantum theory to be generalized to new physical systems such as electron spin, which cannot be done by the Schrödinger approach.
The result is a textbook which promises to provide a future generation of students a clear, usable and authoritative resource to study the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Twenty new problems are added to existing chapters.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-30
This is again a group of friends being entertained by Henry Curtis, and he has invited the old hunter himself over to regale the group with a tale over the odd drink or two.
Allan does come along and fills them in on another story with not the happiest ending, with elephants, a black maned lion, and a buffalo.
Misleading presentation.......2005-08-12
This is not a review of HUNTER QUARTERMAIN'S STORY, so please don't take the three stars too seriously. It should be said, though, that what is presented in this book as "Zikali the Wizard," a short story and, evidently, a rarity, is just a passage from the novel CHILD OF STORM. Haining is to be censured for not making this clear. He even lists "Zikali" as one of not quite twenty items in the Quatermain Saga, between CHILD OF STORM and "A Tale of Three Lions." This would be like taking the chapter "Riddles in the Dark" from Tolkien's THE HOBBIT and implying it is a rare short story about Bilbo.
Kudos to Mr. Haining! .......2005-07-04
Peter Haining has greatly enriched the world with his numerous genre anthologies and collections--THE FANTASTIC PULPS, THE FINAL ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, and THE JULES VERNE COMPANION come to mind. This wonderful collection of all of Haggard's QUATERMAIN short stories in one place at one time is like the cherry on top. It is true that all the stories have appeared elsewhere. For instance, I have in hand a 1980 Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy volume that includes ALLAN'S WIFE and three of the five short stories. These same stories have also been resurrected by WILDSIDE PRESS in the last couple of years. Indeed, a fourth, "Megapa the Buck," has only just become available again in the WILDSIDE PRESS reprint of Haggard's SMITH AND THE PHARAOHS collection.
But now--for the first time ever--all these stories are appearing in one volume! Kudos to Mr. Haining for this service! It is too bad to note that "Zikali the Wizard, "which is presented as a little known short story (and which appeared in a souvenir theater program in 1914!) is, as is stated correctly elsewhere in these reviews, no more than an episode word for word exactly the same as pages 5 through 22 in my volume of CHILD OF STORM.
Nonetheless, with the exception of the "Zikali the Wizard" notation, entirely appropriate is the inclusion here of the Quatermain Saga Chronology. It is similar to at least two other versions that I have seen, one in the afore mentioned Newcastle volume and the other in Peter Nichol's THE SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA (Also see the "Allan Quatermain's Complete Saga in Chronological Order" Listmania!).
A couple of technical points: I'm sure Mr. Haining is not at all responsible--no doubt the publisher is responsible--but the back cover says, "The most famous of H. Rider Haggard's dozen novels about him--which include SHE, ALLAN QUATERMAIN and ALLAN AND THE ICE GODS--have been . . ." The fact is that SHE is not a Quatermain book. The only similarity it has to the Quatermain books is that in the parallel universe in which these stories exist, H. Rider Haggard is merely the literary executor (and not the author) for both Quatermain and Horace Holly (who wrote SHE before he and and his ward Leo Vincey disappeared among the peaks of Central Asia). The other point is that the glue used in the "perfect binding" of at least my copy is not very flexible, and I dare not open it too wide . . .
One other nit-picky point. Mr Haining says in his introduction, "Haggard could not resist the temptation to bring together his two most famous characters in SHE AND ALLAN, not one of the most successful of the series." Frankly, I could not disagree more. As I have said elsewhere in these reviews--for the Wildside Press edition of SHE AND ALLAN--"Rider Haggard did an astonishingly good job of bringing together his two most venerable characters. . . . We read Quatermain stories to feel comfortable in the company of an old friend. By the time this novel was published, we were aware of nearly all that hunter's foibles, and there was not a whole lot that needed to be elaborated here. We already know his thoughts and reactions before he himself does. We already know his views on spirituality and destiny and love and friendship and loyalty. Ayehsa also behaves just as we would expect--evasive, vague, saying one thing one minute then something quite different the next. It's impossible to pin her down. But she is another we know well and can anticipate and feel comfortable just being close to. It's Umslopogaas the Zulu and the provenance of his Axe that are the real attention grabbers here. And there are some marvelous battles to be relished vicariously as we learn about that Axe."
Furthermore, while we are the subject, I have this to say about Hans, Quatermain's Hottentot companion through many of the adventures: "And just as some say that Sam is the real hero of the Lord of the Rings, for it is no more and no less than his steadfastness that gets Frodo to the end of the quest, so Hans' s role also needs to be raised up, for it is his pithy but invariably wise remarks and his own version of steadfastness that are the 'heart' of the Quatermain stories in which he appears. Would that Haggard had written more of Quatermain and Hans!!" And Hans is never more spirited and seldom so wise as he is in SHE AND ALLAN.
Quatermain finally gets short stories!.......2005-07-01
The Raven was pleased to see this book come out. Short stories about Allan Quatermain are finally released! Rider Haggard wrote something besides novels about his hero! Bravo to Mr. Peter Haining for taking time to select and edit the four stories and the novella Allan's Wife.
The stories are exciting for their tales of adventure and danger in The Dark Continent. They are takes of danger, hardship, and love and lost. Quartermain is a tragic hero, eventually becoming wealthy, but always at a great loss-- his son, his wife, and eventually his own life in the Africa that he loved with all of his heart. Shadows of this lie in all of the stories, and Mr. Haining has thoughtfully added a chronological list of the Quatermain stories.
Also, Rider Haggard made something of an enigma himself. He writes of the African people as most British writers of his day, in a somewhat prejudiced manner, even using the ugly "n" word. (To the British of that period, ALL colored races were inferior and generally refered to thus, such as Natives of India, China, and North and South America.)Yet Haggard praises the nobility of the black races, and one short story Magepa the Buck, tells of a black man who gives his life that his grandson might live. In the front of the story, Quatermain states that such a man makes him proud of the human race. Hardly the words of a truly prejudiced man.
The Raven has always felt that Rider Haggard was a writer truly ahead of his time in accepting that all men were worthy, none inferior. Kudus to Rider Hagard and to Peter Haining for this most excellent book! Quoth the Raven...
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