Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination: Autobiography, Conversation, and Narrative
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    Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination: Autobiography, Conversation, and Narrative
    Susan Florio-Ruane , and Julie deTar
    Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum
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    Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn about culture, literacy, and education in their own and others' lives, and as a form of conversation and literature-based work that might be sustainable and foster teachers' comprehension and critical thinking. Dr. Florio-Ruane's role in the book clubs merged participation and inquiry. For this reason, she blends personal narrative with analysis and description of ways she and the book club participants explored culture in the stories they told one another and in their responses to published autobiographies. She posits that autobiography and conversation may be useful for teachers not only in constructing their own learning about culture, but also, by doing so, in participating in the transformation of learning within the teaching profession.

    NATURAL GOLF: HOW TO PLAY WINNING GOLF YOUR NATURAL WAY
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      NATURAL GOLF: HOW TO PLAY WINNING GOLF YOUR NATURAL WAY
      Snead Sam
      Manufacturer: Barnes
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      ASIN: B000J4W2I0
      Sam Snead's Natural Golf. How to Play Winning Golf Your Natural Way.
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        Your Way to Winning Golf
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          Your Way to Winning Golf
          David Graham , Larry Dennis , and Jack Nicklaus
          Manufacturer: Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)
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          Your Way to Winning Golf: A U.S. Open and PGA Champion Gives You the Keys to a Better Game
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            David Graham
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              Encyclopedia of Chinese Film
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • Indispenable Reference for Chinese Film Studies
              Encyclopedia of Chinese Film
              Zhiwei Xiao
              Manufacturer: Routledge
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              This alphabetically organized volume is the first authoritative, scholarly source on directors, genres, themes, and actors from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Including synopses of 300 Chinese films, the entries are heavily cross-referenced, and offer, where possible, annotated suggestions for further reading. Preceding the A-Z entries, an in-depth cultural perspective is provided in a substantial historical section dealing with the main studios and the impact of Chinese film abroad and at home in recent years. Three indexes have been included for quick reference, allowing readers to easily locate information on: * Film and TV titles, with year of release and directors' names * Names, including actors, writers, directors and producers * Studios. Other special features of this work include a classified contents list, a listing of relevant websites, an extensive film chronology and a glossary of pinyin romanizations, Chinese characters and English equivalents.

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Indispenable Reference for Chinese Film Studies.......2002-04-23

              This academic reference book includes six informative essays, an extensive bibliography, web site addresses, and indexes of titles, names and studios in addition to the hundreds of main entries. At less than 500 pages, this single volume title is hardly comprehensive, yet does provides valuable information on history, various films themselves, general topics, and people within the film industry. Due to the high price, I can only recommend this title to professionals and serious students of Chinese film. I do research for web-based and film distribution projects and I've found the book to be well worth the purchase.
              Zhongguo ying pian da dian: Encyclopedia of Chinese films (Zhongguo dian ying wen xian zi liao cong shu)
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                Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television (Console-ing Passions)
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                • A Very Illuminating Examination of What Others Fear To Touch
                Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television (Console-ing Passions)
                Kevin Glynn , and Kevin Glynn
                Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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                ASIN: 0822325691

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                During the latter half of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, television talk shows, infotainment news, and screaming supermarket headlines became ubiquitous in America as the “tabloidization” of the nation’s media took hold. In Tabloid Culture Kevin Glynn draws on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of electronic and print media in order to analyze important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon.
                Glynn begins by situating these media shifts within the context of Reaganism, which gave rise to distinctive ideological currents in society and led the socially and economically disenfranchised to access new forms of information via the exploding television industry. He then tackles specific daytime talk shows and tabloid newscasts such as Jerry Springer and A Current Affair, reality-TV programs such as Cops and America’s Most Wanted, and two different supermarket tabloids’ coverage of the O.J. Simpson case. Tabloid Culture is the first book to treat these diverse yet related media forms and events in tandem. Rejecting the elitist dismissal of sensationalist media, Glynn instead traces the cultural currents and countercurrents running through their forms and products. Locating both reactionary and oppositional meanings in these texts, he demonstrates how these particular media genres draw on and contribute to important cultural struggles over the meanings of race, sexuality, gender, class, “normality,” “truth,” and “reality.” The study ends by discussing how the growing use of the Internet provides an entirely new realm in which such material can circulate, distort, inform, and flourish.
                This innovative and provocative study of contemporary mainstream media culture in the United States will be valuable to those interested in both print and television media, the cultural-political influence of the Reagan era, and American culture in general.

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                5 out of 5 stars A Very Illuminating Examination of What Others Fear To Touch.......2005-12-03

                Please do not listen to the other review of this book: it is clearly written by someone who hasn't read Glynn's carefully argued, very interesting examination of "trash" television. "John Q. Public," as he calls himself in the review, seems to make it sound so simple -- networks play things because they get ratings. But what Glynn answers in a way that all of John Q's love for PBS can't is WHY they get ratings. The answer to this question has so often been astoundingly shortsighted and downright insulting: "People watch trash TV because they're stupid, don't know any better, and never will" or something as asinine and simplistic as that.

                But Glynn digs into the populist in a very interesting way, and what he finds is that these shows frequently validate everyday experiences and knowledge of everyday, working class viewers in ways that many instances of "high culture" on television don't. Glynn's point is not at all about aesthetics or artistic value (as John Q. Public assumes, having not read the book, that it is), as he largely leaves this question for the reader to answer: his point is about not just disregarding all these programs AND all their viewers because one has made such artistic judgements. In "trash" TV, Glynn finds many democratic tendencies.

                At times, Glynn can overdo it, and at other times, his enthusiasm to defend overlooks, or rushes through, disturbing political content of the shows (such as inherent racism or sexism), but most of the time he is remarkably careful to balance such tensions.

                This is an academic text, and so may not be ideal for everyone, though it is reasonably accessible. So, if you want to go beyond complaining that such television shouldn't exist, and if you're actually interested in why it does, and why so many people turn to it, I highly recommend this book. I share the reviewer "John Q Public's" regard for PBS, though I feel it has turned its back on many Americans, and on the real John Q Publics, so to speak. Glynn's book looks at what those John Qs are watching and starts to ask the reasons why. (For more on PBS and "the masses," though, I'd highly recommend Laurie Ouellette's *Viewers Like You?*)

                Phantasy Star IV : The End of the Millennium (Offical Players Guide)
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                • As good as it gets
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                Phantasy Star IV : The End of the Millennium (Offical Players Guide)
                Rick Raymo , and John Sauer
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                5 out of 5 stars As good as it gets.......2000-03-09

                Contrary to the general opinion, Genesis games can be quite hard and quite long, perhaps even as long as some of the PS and N64 games. Something like PhSIV definitely needed a thoughrough guide, and it got one. This guide is perfect (if you can get it for a reasonable price) - the maps are good, the strats are good, it follows the storyline and even gives you insights on parts you might have missed (and you will miss plenty). Best of all, the guide never gives you too much, and even when you think that you've learned everything about the game from this book, there is always something else to learn.

                5 out of 5 stars AN EXCELLENT GUIDE.......1999-04-14

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                In the Beginning...was the Command Line
                Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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                • The Reason Why I Learned to Love Linux
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                • Before the command line
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                In the Beginning...was the Command Line
                Neal Stephenson
                Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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                Release Date: 1999-11-09

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                Neal Stephenson, author of the sprawling and engaging Cryptonomicon, has written a manifesto that could be spoken by a character from that brilliant book. Primarily, In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line discusses the past and future of personal computer operating systems. "It is the fate of manufactured goods to slowly and gently depreciate as they get old," he writes, "but it is the fate of operating systems to become free." While others in the computer industry express similarly dogmatic statements, Stephenson charms the reader into his way of thinking, providing anecdotes and examples that turn the pages for you.

                Stephenson is a techie, and he's writing for an audience of coders and hackers in Command Line. The idea for this essay began online, when a shortened version of it was posted on Slashdot.org. The book still holds some marks of an e-mail flame gone awry, and some tangents should have been edited to hone his formidable arguments. But unlike similar writers who also discuss technical topics, he doesn't write to exclude; readers who appreciate computing history (like Dealers of Lightning or Fire in the Valley) can easily step into this book.

                Stephenson tackles many myths about industry giants in this volume, specifically Apple and Microsoft. By now, every newspaper reader has heard of Microsoft's overbearing business practices, but Stephenson cuts to the heart of new issues for the software giant with a finely sharpened steel blade. Apple fares only a little better as Stephenson (a former Mac user himself) highlights the early steps the company took to prepare for a monopoly within the computer market--and its surprise when this didn't materialize. Linux culture gets a thorough--but fair--skewering, and the strengths of BeOS are touted (although no operating system is nearly close enough to perfection in Stephenson's eyes).

                As for the rest of us, who have gladly traded free will and an intellectual understanding of computers for a clutter-free, graphically pleasing interface, Stephenson has thoughts to offer as well. He fully understands the limits nonprogrammers feel in the face of technology (an example being the "blinking 12" problem when your VCR resets itself). Even so, within Command Line he convincingly encourages us as a society to examine the metaphors of technology--simplifications that aren't really much simpler--that we greedily accept. --Jennifer Buckendorff

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                This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.

                Customer Reviews:

                1 out of 5 stars Shockingly bad.......2007-06-16

                I was excited about this book for about the first 10 pages. I did manage to read the first 100 pages but I just couldn't make myself read the rest of it.

                This book is full of gross technical errors, sweeping generalizations, long sidebars about unrelated topics, and useless anecdotes.

                I am a professional software engineer and spent years working early stage start-ups in Silicon Valley--The author knows very little about computers, programmers, and even about user interfaces.

                Yes, the book is 10 years old, and this is dated--but even ignoring this, the book has serious problems with its facts. The author's credentials do not enable him to write this type of book. Stick to fiction, please.

                5 out of 5 stars The Reason Why I Learned to Love Linux.......2007-03-07

                This book introduced me to the open source movement. Refreshing view of the programmer as "creator" in the domain of binary world. Interesting parallels to religion. This book captures the heart and soul of the information age.

                4 out of 5 stars You could just download it, but ..........2007-03-05

                It is nice to buy this anyway. The text is available for download at [...] so why buy it? Well, the book makes an interesting read in that it looks at historical pressures that has brought about the current state of affairs in operating systems. I find that every comment that other readers have mentioned are pretty much correct. That seems odd, in that there are such diverse opinions mentioned, but really the neat thing about the book is that it brings to mind many experiences that you might have had regarding operating systems and puts them in a historical light. Note the number of reviews, their overall quality, and it is fair to conclude that the book stirs passion about something as abstract as operating systems.

                That said, now my turn: I enjoyed reading the book, but I think it is a mistake to conclude that the Unix OS is superior to Windows, Macintosh, or BeOS. The point not addressed is that the addition of code in the OS to support complex behaviors such as drawing bit-mapped graphics, database operations, and text editing, to name just a few features, has redefined what features are in a sophisticated OS, and is an area where the open source community has not been in the forefront of development. The leadership in adding complex functionality to the OS has been in the commercial sector, led primarily by Apple computer, and Be, and even at times Microsoft. The comment in the book that applications of limited functionality do not appear when there is a complex user interface is demonstrably incorrect, as evidenced by the Desk Accessories that were pioneered on the Macintosh, and is a surprising mistake given the authors deep roots in Mac programming. The role of the sophisticated modern OS is to provide code support for complex behaviors such as graphics and sound support, and the blurring of the lines between application and OS are an interesting subject in computer science in it's own right.

                That long winded comment is just a quibble, however, and truly I wouldn't even have given much thought to the topic if it weren't for the book in the first place. So, buy the book since we owe it to authors to pay them for writing good stuff. 4 stars instead of 5 since the prose has simple style of phrase. I think the simplicity of style hides the superb weaving of ideas that the book has achieved.

                2 out of 5 stars Before the command line.......2006-12-06

                Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy Neal Stephenson's books. The historical content he winds into his plots is engaging. However, I have been working with the micro computer since before the command line. Neal, you have the title wrong. In the beginning was the Monitor. No doubts in my mind. My right hand is still trained to enter octal codes on a keypad at lightening speed! The Command line came much later, more like the coalescence of matter in the Universe when clumps of useful things needed some impactful gravity. The Monitor was there before the clumps and after the octal toggle switches, address load and register load momentary switches. The Monitor got the human fingers attached to the computer once and for all. So, 2 stars because the title is just wrong!

                5 out of 5 stars Great distilling of computer culture........2006-12-03

                Stephenson succeeds admirably in this endeavor, with entertaining and accessible prose. It engages the reader in a brain-tickling primer of various cells of factions building our operating systems and software while staying true to their respective visions of what they intend the landscape to consist of in their respective idealized futures. It will enlighten, and explain to, the reader all manner of interesting matters related to computing and hacker culture.
                In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line
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                  Neal Stephenson
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                  Encyclopedia of the Qur'an: Si-Z (Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an) (Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an)
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                    Encyclopedia of the Qur'an: Si-Z (Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an) (Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an)

                    Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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                    The Qur'ān is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the worlds population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'ānic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'ānic studies.

                    Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'ān. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'ān to appear in a Western language.

                    Cross-referencing and indices Frequent cross-references will draw readers to related entries and each article will conclude with a citation of relevant bibliography. The final volume of the EQ will contain indices of transliterated terms, of qur'ānic references and of the authors and exegetes cited in the entries and essays. It will also include a synoptic outline of the full contents of the EQ.

                    Fully international work The EQ is a fully international work supported by an international board of advisors. Scholars from many nations have written articles for the encyclopaedia.

                    Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean and Its Invaders
                    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                    • A panoramic view of history
                    • Will Sweep You Along
                    Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean and Its Invaders
                    Richard Hall
                    Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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                    5 out of 5 stars A panoramic view of history.......2003-02-01

                    I can't even imagine the prodigious amount of research Mr. Hall has done to recreate this history of the Indian Ocean peoples. For that alone, this book has 5 stars!

                    The book is divided into three parts - first the history of this region before the arrival of the Europeans, the European period, and the last part deals with the consolidation by Britain of the English lake (what the Indian Ocean was referred to as later). The first two parts are excellent in my opinion.

                    The book is filled with the most curious facts imaginable and long since forgotten from our history books. The brutality in the name of religion and empire still amazes me.

                    I highly recommend this book.

                    5 out of 5 stars Will Sweep You Along.......2002-10-08

                    I was lucky to pick up this book by chance in a wonderful bookshop in Ottawa, Canada. I had never heard of this book or the author and was just browsing. It was a great find! Mr. Hall has done a prodigious amount of research but this book is the opposite of stuffy and pedantic. It is a tribute to Mr. Hall that even after 500 pages you will be sorry that you have finished. He leaves you wanting more and fortunately he gives you a very nice bibliography which will allow you to satisfy your curiousity. This book moves along at a breakneck pace and sweeps you along from place to place all along the coasts of East Africa and the Horn Of Africa up into the Persian Gulf and along the west coast of India. A few early chapters even take you over to China and Indonesia. There are enough interesting characters to populate a novel by Tolstoy and you will learn a lot of interesting and horrible things that they never taught you about in school. What was done in the name of religion by both Christians and Muslims is very sad. An educated person might not be surprised by the fact of man's inhumanity but I think you will be surprised by the quantity and nature of what went on, and by the sheer joie de vivre of some of these folks! To give you only one "small" example, Vasco da Gama (who was held up to me in school as being a "great explorer") once won a small battle off of the coast of India and when he took some of his foes captive he cut off their ears, noses and hands and then put the poor wretches on a ship and set the ship ablaze. When the fire was over not everyone was dead so da Gama took the survivors and had them hoisted up on the masts of one of his own ships and let his archers have some target practice....This book is full of adventure, greed, hypocrisy and self-delusion. In other words, it is a wonderful mirror held up to life. Enjoy!

                    Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (5th Edition)
                    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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                    Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (5th Edition)
                    George F. Luger
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                    ASIN: 0321263189

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                    The fifth edition of this book continues to provide a balanced perspective on the language schools, theories, and applications of artificial intelligence. These diverse branches are unified through detailed discussions of AI's theoretical foundations. The book is broken down into six parts to provide readers complete coverage of AI. It begins by introducing AI concepts, moves into a discussion on the research tools needs for AI problem solving, and then demonstrates representations for AI and knowledge-sensitive problem solving. The second half of the book offers an extensive presentation of issues in machine learning, continues presenting important AI application areas, and presents Lisp and Prolog to the reader. This book is appropriate for programmers both as an introduction to and a reference of the theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence.

                    Customer Reviews:

                    2 out of 5 stars Superficial and unclear.......2005-05-27

                    Trying to gather the greatest audience possible, this book is superficial, completly unclear and boring. Why? Topics are quickly introduced, concepts are rarely analized deeply, it's more discorsive than formal. With so many subjects of AI in the same book not enough space can be given to all of them, so most of the chapters are lists of important algorithms or concepts, barely explained. Do you want to verify it? See the table of contents and the number of pages, and try to see how much space can be given to every point... not enough.

                    5 out of 5 stars Fantastic Introduction to AI.......2005-01-06

                    This book really stands out among the AI texts (I've read 4 others). First, the language is clear and simple enough for undergrads to grasp. Second, there are consistent examples that pervade the text to help the reader apply each method to an established problem. Third, the explanations of algorithms/structures are crafted and phrased to TEACH, not merely to summarize a bunch of material for reference purposes. Finally, the programming chapters allow the student to realize the material, and really think about the problems by implementing them and hashing out the details.

                    I cannot complain about any lack of depth - the length already exceeds 900 pages. To those that desire more, look into academic journals - this is an intro. Moreover, robotics, vision, neural nets, and other topics already have their own "forked" research fields, with textbooks of comparable length focusing on those topics alone!

                    Enjoy! This text is sure to get you started!

                    3 out of 5 stars this book not cover much.......2003-07-14

                    I bought this book for my introduction course in AI. I feel that this book has lack of somethings which are very important, neural networks, and Ai and robotics to name a few. I found that the text is very hard to understand. Again he didn't use enough example to explain some of the topics. I am lost reading this book. The book is not well structured and turned me bored after 30 minutes reading it. The reason are, AI term definations are not included as other book do, few visual diagrams, objective is not well defined. Once again, he didn't include introduction/review of what we acpect to learn of each of every chapters. Reading it is like reading a "white bible". Only plain text and unprofessional layout. This book discorage me reading it. I think i should buy other book that have a wider coverage topics in AI and yet easy to understand, consistent with my AI course syllibus and yet easy for my eyes.

                    4 out of 5 stars Good For Beginners in AI.......2002-12-05

                    This is a very good book for anyone wanting to get an insight. Good for the first college course in AI too. It introduces the different areas of AI quite well, and develops logic before doing that. Prolog and LISP are also introduced.

                    The only reason I wouldn't give this book 5 stars is because
                    1) The Prolog and LISP features aren't all that great. They could have done better than just explaining what they did.

                    2) There was very little or almost no depth in the material covered. I wanted to go on reading more about the advanced features, but that never happened. So, I had to go to the library and look for something there.

                    But a great book for a college course. I wouldn't recommend this for a Grad course in CS...A grad student should be knowing beyond what this book covers.

                    5 out of 5 stars Don't miss it!.......2002-05-24

                    This is the best general AI book I've seen this far. It introduces all the popular branches of AI clearly. If you are serious about AI, you should own this book...
                    Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving
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                      Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving
                      George F. Luger
                      Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
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                      Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (6th Edition)
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                        George F. Luger
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                        ASIN: 0321545893

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                        KEY MESSAGE: In this accessible, comprehensive text, George Luger captures the essence of artificial intelligence—solving the complex problems that arise wherever computer technology is applied.

                        Artificial Intelligence: Its Rootes and Scope: AI Early History and Applications. Artificial Intelligence as Representation and Search: The Predicate Calculus; Structures and Strategies for State Space Search; Heuristic Search; Stochastic Methods; Building Control Algorithms for State Space Search. Representation and Intelligence: The AI Challenge: Knowledge Representation; Strong Method Problem Solving; Reasoning in Uncertain Situations. Machine Learning: Machine Learning: Symbol-Based; Machine Learning: Connectionist; Machine Learning: Social and Emergent; Machine Learning: Probabilistically-Based. Advanced Topics for AI Problem Solving: Automated Reasoning; Understanding Natural Language. Epilogue: Artificial Intelligence as Empirical Enquiry. Languages and Programming Techniques for Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Prolog; An Introduction to Lisp; An Introduction to AI Algorithms in Java.

                        For all readers interested in artificial intelligence.
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                          George F. Luger
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                            Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem-Solving
                            George F. Luger
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