The Complete Pregnancy Exercise Program

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The Complete Pregnancy Exercise Program
Diana Simkin
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The Complete Pregnancy Exercise Program
Diana Simkin
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Shape Up During Pregnancy: Your Complete Ante-Natal Exercise Program
Julia Swift
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Complete Pregnancy Exercise Program

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Although the title is deliberately provocative, this is a serious study that sheds light on how some warships came to be tainted by bad reputations. The author, one of Great Britain's most noted warship experts, profiles vessels that achieved notoriety due to outlandish design or appearance and others that were lost in dramatic actions or by accidents. Also covered are warships that never endeared themselves to operators, and, as a consequence, suffered prejudice against their design. The author contends that few ships are incompetently designed but rather victims of flawed operational concepts, over-ambitious specifications, poorly designed weapons systems, or financial stringency. Among ships included in the book are the Russian Popoffkas; the French battleship Brennus; the British vessels Captain, Sheffield, and Invincible; the U.S. monitors Katahdin and Vesuvius; and the Japanese light cruiser Mogami. This new perspective on naval design will appeal to everyone interested in how a ship's form fits its function for better or worse.

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Mediocre.......2003-08-08

I was expecting more. He covers a few obvious ships, but some obscure or questionable ships as well.

The obvious WWI Brit Battlecruisers are not covered, but the US Four Stackers were. Japanese Yamato is covered (too big/expensive) but the fragile IJN battleships of the inter war period are ignored. The Hood is classified as a terrible ship, even though it was 20 years old when it faced the modern Bismarck (which is also listed as a failure).

Few WWII or later Russian ships are listed even though quite a few were duds (only one sub is discussed).

Overall I expected more from this author. I bought this book with high hopes, and was a bit disappointed when I read it.

A fascinating selection of ships........2003-05-13

Before settling down to read this book, I began by glancing through the pages to see what sort of warship might be regarded as the world's worst. The inclusion of the "K" class submarine did not surprise me but the Yamato, Graf Spee and Hood - I thought these were the outstanding Battleships of their day. Then, having read the narrative for each vessel, it became quite clear why they are included.

"The World's Worst Warships" is a hard-back book measuring 10" x 8" containing almost 200 pages of detailed information on a carefully chosen selection of warship types. Commencing with the Monitors of the American Civil War, the Author brings us through his book - chapter-by-chapter and development-by-development, as this particular type of war machine evolves and improves. Each chapter becomes a fascinating read and the book is well illustrated with a generous selection of line drawings and historic photographs. Incidentally, all illustrations are courtesy of "Chrysalis Images." Chrysalis Books are the parent publishing company and I suspect many readers will find some of the images to be new and previously unpublished.

At the beginning of the book, it is very easy for the reader to mock the early efforts of those building the very first iron-clads - the benefits of hindsight and all that. Later on, however, we can only stand in awe as we learn of the political thinking and sheer dogmatism that surrounded the design of this and the building of that. To think that the one country which truly recognised the value of the Aircraft Carrier right at the outbreak of WW2 would also insist on building 2 Yamato class Battleships - the construction of which almost bankrupted the nation and also even deprived the country's fishermen of their nets. It's all in there.

This is a work of reference to interest ship's historians the world over. I also suspect it will be much sought after by Scuba Divers who look for the reasons why this wreck or that wreck is where it is today.

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From the South African Past: Narratives, Documents, and Debates (Sources in Modern History Series)
John A. Williams
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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ASIN: 066928789X

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This volume presents primary source materials that illuminate the formation of the modern multiracial society of South Africa. Students will be enlightened by the "African Voices" that recur throughout the text, in the form of praise poems, trial testimonies, speeches, and manifestoes. Chronologies, maps, and lists of key terms and people enhance learning.

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This example and exercise-rich exploration of both elementary probability and basic statistics places a strong emphasis on engineering and science applications, many using data collected from the author's consulting experience. In later chapters, there is an emphasis on designed experiments, especially two-level factorial design. Includes a vast, rich collection of problem sets, current coverage of two-level factorial design, curve fitting, and case studies in the first two chapters. For those who are interested in Probability and Statistics or Applied Statistics for engineering, physical science, and mathematics.

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One of the better statistics books.......2006-11-04

For the most part this is actually one of the better statistics books I have used. It's greatest strengths lie in the number of examples provided and the "Do's and Don'ts" at the end of each chapter. The narratives and proofs do a fairly decent job of introducing and developing new concepts and formulas, and there is generally a good segway from one topic to the next. If you have other statistics books like I do, this book actually does a good enough job deriving each distribution that things became clear here that I had always puzzled over in my other books. It is admittedly a bit distracting at times when an example references data from an earlier example in a previous chapter requiring you to bookmark pages with your fingers so that you can flip back and forth as you work through an example. In other areas, at times an example might skip a few steps which will require you to think through how they made the leap. Still, despite these shortcomings and the occassional errata, I still believe this is one of the better statistics textbooks.

Right Book, Arrived Quickly.......2005-09-24

They send me the book I ordered, and it arrived long before the expected date. It was not the book I needed, but that was my own mistake.

Not Good.......2005-07-18

This is probably the second worst textbook I have ever read. I have struggled through the third chapter. In some cases, the text seems as though it was written for elementary school math covering set therory: extremely detailed and excessively verbose. In other cases, the text throws out examples without explaining any reasoning, or any how or why a formula is used.

The text continually refers to examples in previous sections, which forces the reader to search back through the text. The interuption is distracting and annoying. In many cases, the page numbers where the example can be found are not given. The text also does this with the exercises, forcing the student to wear-out the pages. Sometimes, I feel as though I need two copies of the textbook so I don't waste so much time thumbing back and forth.

I have ended up reading and re-reading the text while trying to understand some of the concepts and rational. In some areas, the author does not explain anything. While other times, the text continues for pages explaining things that an elementry school graduate should know. I am waiting to see multiplication tables in future chapters. All the while, some college level information is brushed-over. I typically need to work several exercises and beat my head against the wall a few times until I go ah ha! Why didn't the author explain this.

With textbooks like this, it is no wonder engineers have a reputation for poor communication skills.

Smooth and useful text for probability and statistical tests.......2004-11-09

The book is rather well written. It starts with verty simple probability theory and then describes densities and gets into tests and other topics. The level of math is reasonable and I think undergraduates in both engineering and economics should be able to handle that level of math. Every topic comes with numerical examples which makes it easy to get ideas. There are exercises in the book too and many of them (but not all of them) are helpful for understanding. At the end of the book you can conveniently find tables of distributions and different statistics you can use. I am still using those tables for my works. The only downside is that the book doesn't cover much of probability (like functions of random variables). The distribution covered are mainly to build basis for later chapters about testing. So I would say this is a good book for those who want to learn statistical tests and reliability.

A poor quality book.......2004-10-25

For 6th edition:

One may use this book as a handbook for some statistical problems. However, I find it very poor in terms of reading it from scratch. Moreover, many important issues are not covered, and those covered are not very analysed.

i.e. I cant find the transformation of stochastic variables, The properties of the gaussian d. are not fully covered. No Rayleigh or Rice distribution? After all I am not sure this book is for engineers.

Miller and Freund's probability and statistics for engineers: Instructor's solutions manual

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Irwin Miller
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Miller and Freund's probability and statistics for engineers: Instructor's solutions manual. 4th Edition. 1990 Edition

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Richard Johnson
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Probability and Statistics for Engineers
Irwin Miller , and John E. Freund
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Probability and Statistics for Engineers, 6th Edition, INSTRUCTOR'S SOLUTIONS MANUAL

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Probability and Statistics for Engineers, 6th Edition, INSTRUCTOR'S SOLUTIONS MANUAL
Miller , Freund , and Richard A. Johnson
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Probability and Statistics for Engineers, 6th Edition, INSTRUCTOR'S SOLUTIONS MANUAL

Miller & Freund's Probability and Statistics for Engineers (Sixth Edition).(Review): An article from: IIE Transactions

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Miller & Freund's Probability and Statistics for Engineers (Sixth Edition).(Review): An article from: IIE Transactions
Yasuhiro Omori
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Miller & Freund's Probability and Statistics for Engineers (7th Edition)

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Richard Johnson , Irwin Miller , and John Freund
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Miller and Freund's Probability and Statistics for Engineers : Student's Solutions Manual : Fifth Edition

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Richard A. Johnson
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Probability and Statistics for Engineers
Irwin; Freund, John E.; Johnson, Richard Arnold Miller
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The most brilliant female British scientist of the 20th century

The true story behind a myth

Heartbreaking Story of a Woman Scientist

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

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Release Date: 2003-09-30

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In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.

Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.

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Scientists at work........2007-04-22

After reading the book it is clear the scientific community is both collegial and cut throat. In Franklin's case, the lure of honor compels a fellow scientist to use Rosalind's research without giving her the credit she deserved in uncovering the structure of DNA. Maddox provides insight into the not always amicable inner workings of a research lab and the psychology of scientists.

As an elite, Jewish, female Francophile, Franklin was not an easy person to get along with, especially in the lab at King's College London under Dr. Randall. If she had a difficult personality though, she was anything but shy and certainly was not politically naive. She held her own in a male dominated environment and perhaps this is the reason she become known as the Dark Lady. Maddox does her best to give Franklin a balanced appraisal.

Scientists share information and materials through attendance at conferences and in social settings and keeping up with each other's work is expected. But, the use of Rosalind's unpublished material (the crucial photo 51 and experimental data) without her knowledge, to make a breakthrough discovery, is of questionable ethics.

The author presents some insight into the mentality of the scientist. She quotes Albert Einstein, "that a scientist makes science `the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the whirlpool of personal experience.'"(32). To Rosalind "science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated."(61) Is this why she found it so difficult to explain her work to family and friends? They simply could not understand?

Maddox notes: "it can be argued that scientific discovery is not creativity in the sense that artistic composition is. `Science differs from other realms of human endeavor in that its substance does not derive from the activity of those who practice it'"(213) Therefore it is interesting when an eminent scientist is caught in the trap of his own beliefs and exposed. This occurred when Rosalind corrected the eminent British virologist Norman W. Price. She was right, and had the proof, but he would not accept it, even in the face of convincing evidence to the contrary.

Disappointing.......2007-04-12

This is an essential book. I rushed to it after finishing The Double Helix, by James Watson; I was incensed by Watson's misogyny and eager to learn the other side of the story. And this is the main accomplishment of Maddox's book, that it does give the other side of the story in a thorough and detailed manner. Too often, however, Maddox's tone slips into defensiveness, and her feminism appears to be a position she arrived at not as a result of rational thinking but because of her bitterness at the many injustices women have suffered at the hands of men.

I was troubled by this. I admire Rosalind Franklin -- yes, I have to admit that my admiration was nourished to a great extent by Maddox's book -- but I'm put off by how much of her biography of Franklin is a direct, self-righteous and self-justifying response to James Watson's flippant comments in The Double Helix. I was disappointed, for instance, by how much time Maddox spends explaining how sophisticated Franklin's taste in fashion was, simply because Watson made a snide comment in his book about Franklin's clothes and hairdo.

Another problem with Maddox's narrative is its pace. I found the book very hard to get through; paragraph after paragraph plods on, heavy with detail and almost empty of energy. I read The Double Helix in three days, breathless with excitement; for all its flaws, Watson's telling of the story sparkles. I don't look, when I read, to be entertained at the expense of truth, but I don't want either to be given the truth in a dry and awkward way. And Maddox's syntax is often awkward; I found myself going back again and again over her sentences to figure out what she was trying to say.

This material -- the story of Rosalind Franklin's life -- needs a better and more evenhanded writer, one who has nothing to prove and is aware that a biography, no matter how well-intentioned, can, just like the badly-intentioned ones, tell only one side of the story.

The most brilliant female British scientist of the 20th century.......2007-01-10

Probably the most meticulously researched biography I have ever read. Maddox`s accounts of the personalities, not only of Rosalind, but of all the famed scientists she came into contact with,are breatktaking. And Rosalind,herself,comes across as human and humane besides having a brilliant mind.

The true story behind a myth.......2005-09-13

Rosalind Franklin is the closest that 20th century science has to a mythical figure. She had already died before the great majority of people had heard of her, but she sprang into prominence in James Watson's famous book The Double Helix. Watson's portrayal of her was not a kind one, and readers were left with the impression of a second-rank scientist, competent enough as an experimentalist, perhaps, but barely able to understand her own results and far too possessive to allow better scientists to analyse them and make their fortunes with them. It is important to emphasize to non-scientists that an unwillingness to hand over hard-won data to anyone who asks is almost a universal characteristic -- not at all a special fault of Franklin's. Watson's portrayal of himself and his friends was not particularly flattering in his book either, but the fact that he came over as a bit of a rogue himself only tended to reinforce his unattractive portrayal of Franklin.

It was obvious even when The Double Helix appeared that the "Rosy Franklin" described there was a crude caricature, and various people, most notably Anne Sayre, have tried over the years to rehabilitate her. Their efforts have resulted in a picture almost equally caricatural: a brilliant young scientist, subject to discrimination -- as a Jewish woman -- in the masculine Christian atmosphere of King's College, unable to to get the support she needed, cheated of her data by unscrupulous superiors and competitors, denied her rightful Nobel Prize. Brenda Maddox, in this excellent biography, points out that "In ensuing decades, the myth of the wronged heroine has grown, nourished by the fact of Rosalind's early death. Rosalind Franklin has become the symbol of woman's lowly position in the pantheon of science." Now that Chicago has a Rosalind Franklin University, and even King's College has a Franklin-Wilkins Building, there is little danger that she will be forgotten.

Maddox has interviewed nearly all of the major players -- with the obvious and unavoidable exception of Franklin herself -- and has written a balanced account of the story behind the myth. Certainly, Franklin was brilliant, and given time she might well have arrived at the structure of DNA herself, but there is nothing to suggest that she herself thought she had been cheated of the discovery, and she could not have received the Nobel Prize for it, because she had already died by the time it was awarded, and it is never awarded posthumously. Moreover, in the years after the discovery she enjoyed good relations with both Watson and Francis Crick, though not with her former superior at King's, Maurice Wilkins.

Heartbreaking Story of a Woman Scientist.......2005-07-23

This book tells the story of a woman scientist who I had never heard of. Her work on DNA is only a part of the book. She died of ovarian cancer in her late thirties. The book suggests that she might have married a fellow scientist, Don Caspar, had she not become ill. The science is accessible and held my interest. Maddox by no means paints her as a saint but presents both the positive and negative. It sounded like she may have been arrogant at times but she certainly had no picnic in making her way in science in the fifties. Very moving story.

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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of Dna
Brenda Maddox
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ROSALIND FRANKLIN The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
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Rosalind] MADDOX, Brenda. [FRANKLIN
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Crystallizing a life in science. (Scientists' Bookshelf).(Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

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Crystallizing a life in science. (Scientists' Bookshelf).(Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist
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An embattled woman.(Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA)(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Queen's Quarterly

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For every tragic story of a life unravled by battle, there are a dozen tales of men and women who have managed to triumph over the harrowing experiences of war and ruin.

The Price of Their Blood.(The Price of Their Blood: Profiles in Spirit): An article from: DAV Magazine

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"Elemental" is the perfect word to describe George Olson's watercolor drawings of the plants of the tallgrass prairie. Delicately precise yet filled with vigor and color, they present the prairie in its individual elements and--taken as a group that celebrates the hues and textures of tallgrass wildflowers and grasses--in its seasonal abundance. In The Elemental Prairie, the combination of George Olson's luminous drawings and John Madson's eloquent essay "The Running Country" encourages us to look at the prairie world with newly appreciative eyes. For some years Olson has focused almost exclusively on the grasses and wildflowers of the North American prairie, meticulously reproducing their elemental structures and colors while--proving once again that art can both imitate and enhance nature--emphasizing their magical loveliness. By painting certain species in their winter and summer "plumages," he reveals the plants' stark wintry framework as well as their more glorious warm-weather beauty. The Elemental Prairie presents sixty glowing images of tallgrass plants, from the familiar purple coneflower and black-eyed susan to the less-often-seen rattlesnake master and compass plant. Together Olson and Madson, two dedicated prairie restorationists, one using images and the other using words, create a living prairie in all its brilliance.

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A beauty all its own.......2007-01-19

When we moved for my spouse's career from upstate New York to the edge of the prairie on the western side of Illinois, I cried all the way from the airport upon seeing what looked to be flat desolation. Over the five years we lived in Galesburg, Illinois, I came to learn and understand the prairie and to appreciate its exquisite beauty. George Olson's stunning watercolors and John Madson's essay transfer that beauty to the print medium. It a treasured book in our home, especially since our departure from the prairie, and one we have given as gifts to those friends who have also had to leave the prairie.

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