Tuvalu a Spy Guide

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Strategic and practical information on government, national security, army, foreign and domestic politics, conflicts, relations with the US, international activity, economy, technology, mineral resources, culture, traditions, govt

Tuvalu Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Spy Guide Library)

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Tuvalu Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Spy Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Tuvalu Business Intelligence Report (World Spy Guide Library)

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Tuvalu Business Intelligence Report (World Spy Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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ASIN: 0739782002

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This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

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Di Gi Charat has inspired a TV series, CDs, and videos. In the premier entry in this series, spunky Princess Digiko is forced by evil invaders from a neighboring planet to head to Earth, along with her companions Puchiko and Gemo. When they find themselves penniless and homeless, they realize it's time to get a job.

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Di Gi Charat Vol 1.......2007-01-05

My daughter collects all Di Gi Charat DVDs. Always come on time.

So hilarious..and cute. x3.......2005-11-21

Oh goodness. Di Gi Charat is everything.
It's witty, it's random, it's FUNNY.
It's not something I feel guilty about reading, it's very clean.
It's adorable, the characters are great, the storyline is confusing and nonsensical..but makes perfect sense all at the same time.

..How can you resist?

Only the best for me.......2005-09-01

I loved this manga. It is for all ages. So far their are only girls in the book. But I no later on their will be boys. This book is about this girl named Digiko (I think someting like that) and she is a princess from a planet called Di Gi Charat and she has this bell on her that holds her Space Ship........I think if I remember correctly. And her to freinds Rabbit N Rose. And this other one her name is like Pochico........ok thats totally spedlled wrong....but its something like that. And so in this book they just get a job in this place called Gamers. And then end up being waiters.......I think. And Digiko ends up going to school and the kids stare at her and laugh at her and pull her tail and ears. And her and Rabbit N Rose are always in compition with each other.

The cutest manga ever!.......2004-11-27

Di Gi Charat is so fun to read! It's fast paced, very adorable, and you can read one mini story in 10-15 minutes.

Absolutely adorable, but not all that interesting..........2004-06-07

I kind of feel like the bad person writing this-especially after all of the reviews this book got were 5 stars.
But to tell you the truth, I didn't enjoy this book a single bit. I was going to give it 1 star, but the second star is for its cuteness.
When I first bought this, I had high expectations for the series after hearing about it for several years.
As soon as I finished reading it, I felt as though I had wasted a good $12.95.
If you like cute characters who star in short stories with no plot, practically about nothing, then this is for you.
But if you're looking for a good story that has a terrific plot, then I suggest getting another manga. This isn't for you.
This is definitely a purchase I truly regret.

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For the first time in softcover, Edward Abbey's last book, a collection of unforgettable barbs of wisdom from the best-selling author of The Monkey Wrench Gang.Notes from a Secret JournalEdward Abbey on:Government"Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by a government against its own people."Sex"How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out of Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah."New York City"New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?"Literature"Henry James. Our finest lady novelist."

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Bumpersticker Abbey!!.......2001-12-03

A great service was provided Edward Abbey fans with the publication of this marvelous little tome. Now we anarchists have a handy source of short bits by Abbey to plaster on our webpages, our mail, and even our car bumpers! Up with nature, down with Empire!

4.5 is closer to it........2001-06-26

This is not Abbey's grand work nor was it intended to be. This is a small collection of one-liners and pithy observations of a highly talented, self-admitted misanthrope. "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" is a prime example.

Abbey was a truck riding good ole boy and was about as politically correct as a punch to the head. His backpack was not designed by Gucci and his boots were mostly army surplus but he spent a life time outdoors, not behind a desk finding fault. His writings, his actions and his public appearances brought more awareness of nature and its plight to the public than did the combined number of his critics by a factor of 1000.

Borne just before the depression, he did not see all wild game as Bambi or Thumper but, as a child, watched as his father hunted for the table. Abbey may not be for everyone, but, by the same token, neither is Mr. Rogers.

If you have read a lot of Abbey this is a great book........2001-03-14

If you have read only a few of Abbey's books these quotes might not mean anything to you. This is not a story but is just a collection of quotes. Although he likes to make broad generalizations like 'all rebels are good' that is part of what makes Abbey so endearing. He doesn't sugar coat his opinions. I may not agree with all he says but I do respect him for at least putting it out there and not backing down. It also gives a lot of insight into his writing and reveals some specfics that you would have to read every book of his carefully in order to understand. It does make for a great reference and is interesting to see him contradict himself. You could very easily write 'Down the River with Abbey' by using this book and it would have much the same feel as his book concerning Thoreau. A great book for just thumbing through or reading out load to friends on a long car trip.

Skip it!.......2000-06-07

Edward Abbey is quite possibly the most overrated author of the 20th Century. For proof, look no further then this little book of pseudo-wisdom. You'll have the pleasure of watching as Ed spouts tiresome untruths (all government is bad, all science is bad, all rebels are good, etc.) with the petulant attitude that he is the very first person in history to say them all, and that it makes him great. Environmentalists who think that Abbey was some kind of hero might be shocked by the elitist arrogance of this "man of the people" (he thanks nuclear physicists for inventing the atomic bomb) or by right-wing moronics worthy of the most brainless militiaman ("the rifle and handgun are 'equalizers'--the weapons of a democracy"). Abbey even puts the s-word in print and brags about it as if he were the first person on the planet to do it. If you are an environmentalist (like me) and you want inspiration, read Emerson, read John Muir, even read Wendell Berry--but skip Edward Abbey.

Vox et Abbey! Fantastic little book!.......1996-12-02

After Ed's passing, there were many holes, despite the prolific nature of the self proclaimed bastard. This small book offers a wonderful insight into the man behind the Monkey Wrench. Through his journals, poems and other unpublished work, another ray of desert sunlight falls upon Ed's hulking form. We miss you Abbey, but this eases the emptiness a little

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Sidney Rigdon, religious reformer, 1793-1876

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The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Sidney Rigdon, religious reformer, 1793-1876
F. Mark McKiernan
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Bishop Desmond Tutu : the voice of one crying in the wilderness : a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa

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Bishop Desmond Tutu : the voice of one crying in the wilderness : a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa
Desmond Tutu
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A Small Voice Crying in the Wilderness (of Christendom)

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A Small Voice Crying in the Wilderness (of Christendom)

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal
Edward Abbey
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Essays on the Problems of Science and World Affairs

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Essays on the Problems of Science and World Affairs
Bernard T. Feld
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A voice crying in the wilderness: The memoirs of Jacob L. Reddix

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A voice crying in the wilderness: The memoirs of Jacob L. Reddix
Jacob L Reddix
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS

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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
Havis A. Crawford
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An additional writing to my booklet "a voice crying in the wilderness"

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An additional writing to my booklet "a voice crying in the wilderness"
David Byler
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The antipopes of the second Vatican Council vs. the Roman Catholic Church (A voice crying in the wilderness)

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The antipopes of the second Vatican Council vs. the Roman Catholic Church (A voice crying in the wilderness)
Michael Dimond
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Ambitious Appetites: Dining, Behavior, and Patterns of Consumption in Federal Washington (Octagon Research Series)
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Ambitious Appetites: Dining, Behavior, and Patterns of Consumption in Federal Washington (Octagon Research Series)
Barbara G. Carson
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The Richter-Veresov System: The Chameleon Chess Repertoire 1. Dr Nfg 2. Nc3 D5.3 Bg5
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The Richter-Veresov System: The Chameleon Chess Repertoire 1. Dr Nfg 2. Nc3 D5.3 Bg5
Eduard Gufeld , and Oleg Stetsko
Manufacturer: Thinkers' Press
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Play the Queen's Gambit

San Luis 2005

ASIN: 0938650971

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Ultimately, most of us play to win and, we'll try anything legal, including playing a "system" which often can wriggle into a King's Pawn opening (French, Pirc, Philidor, Caro-Kann, or Pirc Defence) by beginning with 1. d4! Seven chapters concentrate on avoiding the Richter-Veresov proper. However, seventeen chapters do concentrate on a straightforward method of play which can involve excitement, combinations, and daring as much as any other chess opening. Over 550 game citations are offered, including 21 by master Veresov and 10 by master Richter. Modern grandmaster treatments are seen by Mestrovic, Miles, and Morozevich—the M&Ms. This comprehensive 1999 study is the first since Bellin's 1983 work.

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nice legs - shame about the face.......2000-04-16

This is a well laid out attractive book. It is obvious that alot of work has gone in to it.You can tell the Thinkers Press take alot of pride in their books.. What is disappointing is the opening itself. I knew little of this opening before I got the book..the statistics given for the variation 1/d4 Nf6 2/Nc3 d5 3/Bg5 c5 gives, based on 159 games, 25 % wins for white and 40 % for black ! Not very encouraging for a supposed repatoire weapon

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- Marketing Information: OneNote 2003, the newest member of Microsoft Office System, lets you capture, organize, and use your notes on desktop computers, laptops, and Tablet PCs. You get one place to store all your notes and the freedom to work with them how you want. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Organizer - Software Name: Office OneNote 2003 - Features and Benefits: Capture notes and information in one place: - Collect all your information in one place-type notes, record audio, copy graphics from the Web or other programs, or handwrite or draw on a Tablet PC. Organize notes the way you prefer: - Create multiple sections for different projects or classes. Arrange, separate, or combine notes and other content anywhere on the page. Quickly find the information you need: - You can quickly and easily search across all your notes to find key information, whether itandquot;s a clientandquot;s phone number or an important reminder. Prioritize important items more efficiently: - Highlight key ideas, reminders, or follow-up tasks in OneNote with Note Flags. View all of your Note Flags at once, customize them to highlight key categories. Share and use your notes more easily: - Make your notes more legible, organized, and easy to share or use. E-mail notes, publish them as Web pages, copy and paste into Word or PowerPoint. - Platform Support: PC

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Learning OneNote.......2007-05-13

I have to learn the use of this product well enough to be able to teach it to the workers in the offices for which I do technical support. I like this book because it presents the material in a way easy to understand and provides real life type examples that I can relate to. I want to model the lessons that I prepare after this.

The Historian and Believer: The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief
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The Historian and Believer: The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief
Van A. Harvey
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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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The Historian and the Believer the Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief
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Van Austin Harvey
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Historian and the Believer: The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief
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The Historian and the Believer: The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief.
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Van A. and Van Austin Harvey. Harvey
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From the doomed campaigns of Roman legions and Napoleon to the fate of U.S. forces in the South Pacific and Vietnam, torrential rain, brutal winters, monster typhoons, and killer hurricanes have had far-reaching-and often terrifying-consequences. As Erik Durschmied vividly describes in dramatic vignettes, the elements have decided human history as often as the spear, bullet, or atomic bomb. Drawing upon extensive research, as well as the author's own experiences in Vietnam, THE WEATHER FACTOR gives a fascinating account of the inevitable collision between weather fronts and human conflict.

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HOW MUCH A FACTOR?.......2005-07-18

Can the weather change history? Very likely so. In the 'Weather Factor', Erik Durschmied uses examples from the Roman Empire to Vietnam to show that the elements can make a difference. He is a fine story teller and writes fairly well, but the work suffers from three major flaws.

First of all, with one exception, all of his chapters are on battles or wars. Many of these certainly belong there, and they are interesting enough to read about, but I believe the book would have been better served if non military events were included. How, for example, has exploration and settlement been affected by the weather? What effect has the weather had on disease and famine?

Secondly, Durschmied rarely compares or contrasts his events with others, denying us the chance to see how history could have been different if things had been done another way. How, for instance, did the Russian winter impact Napolean and Hitler's armies differently? Why was the Mongol fleet wiped out by a typhoon while the US Pacific fleet largely survived?

Finally, the weather is never even shown to be the decisive factor in some of the cases described. This is most clear in the chapter on Vietnam, where the author was stationed as a reporter. Here he goes on for several pages about combat horrors he witnessed, including one scene where an apparently docile old women throws a grenade into a group of soldiers. Yet at the end of the chapter he tells us that the real enemy was the elements! Nature was in control the whole time. Really? In the end I feel the lack of analysis spoiled what could have been an excellent book.

Want the truth about this book?.......2004-06-29

Erik Durschmied's The Weather Factor: How Nature Has Changed History documents the influence of weather through history. From the storm that devoured Varus' legions in AD 9 to the monsoons of Vietnam in '65, Durschmied chronologically outlines the inescapable impact of the elements through a primarily military-driven theme.
While a well-meant endeavor to capture the essence of the historical ramifications of weather, Durschmied fails to appeal adequately to either the historian or meteorologist. He tritely draws from the ignored lessons of Napoleon that fostered Hitler's failure during Barbarossa. A historian knows already of both Napoleon and Hitler's defeat within the context of the harsh Russian winter and is afforded little new historical insight. The weather-savvy reader gleans no novel data or understanding either. Essentially, Durschmied treads on hackneyed ground only to see his footprints lost in a muddled field of bathos.
In the midst of a developing martial theme, the sudden interjection of Ireland's potato blight of the 1840's solidifies the strain of disorganization featured in this book. While the societal and economic ramifications of the climatologic fluctuation promoting the blight were felt internationally, this chapter adds an element of disruption and confuses the theme-driven reader. However, larger problems plague the organization of Durschmied's work. While a sound chronological method is applied, Durschmied interjects several terse chapters that fail to do justice to the most important events of the modern military age. D-Day, the largest military campaign launched by man, is afforded a mere two pages. Only a page and a half are reserved for weather's impact on the target selection in 1945 that launched the Nuclear Age in Hiroshima. Durschmied seems to communicate his inability or lack of desire to either research the events or make substantial claims from these scenarios. Rather he allows his work to be lost in oftentimes laborious narratives about seemingly inconsequential events when compared to the scale and impact of Hiroshima and Normandy.
In his apocalyptic conclusion, Durschmied leaves the reader dissatisfied and confused. After writing of the potential power of anthropogenic forcing in the atmosphere, granting humanity a fuller, more hydrated life, Durschmied waves his goodbye with one lone, unfounded, unexplained paragraph:
Weather fronts are still as unpredictable as they were during the days of Noah. We must learn to live in harmony with nature. It would be folly for man to try to master the elements; there are simply too many imponderables.
There is only one certainty:
Man has managed to harness almost everything.
But God still controls the elements.

In a failing attempt to provide some conclusive form to his already laboriously disorganized read, Durschmied flails with illogic and inconsistency.
The Weather Factor lacks entertaining passages but for the chapter documenting Admiral Halsey's typhoon-battered fleet. Fairly blending a historical narrative with meteorological data, Durschmied provides a glimpse in this chapter of what this book should have been. Yet this lone oasis is not enough to redeem an overall dissatisfying trounce in the world of weather and history.
Read it? Nah.

Everybody talks about it ,but.............2004-02-28

This book has received mixed reviews;therefore my expectations were not high when I started it.The first couple of events didn't excite me too much,but then they happened so long ago and I am not too familiar with those times. The more I got into the book ,the better I found it.The author gives very good summaries of events that in most cases were very complicated.This is not simple,but coming from a background of a journalist he does an excellent job.I find most history writing is too detailed even to the point of being an exercise in drudgery.The author is crisp and only drags out the story enough to set the scene.Then he goes into a good description of the weather condition and how it impacted the event.He shows in these events that the weather conditions had much more impact on the outcome of the event than the skills or the weapons of the forces involved.
I have read extensively about The Great Potato Famine and was impressed how well he covered this massive event which was very complicated,extended over several years,and did it in only 18 pages.In addition ,he really brought out the effect the weather had;a factor that is not usually as well emphasized.
A book of these shortened historys also reminded me of somewhat "corresponding"(in want of a better word) events.For instance I had never given it much thought that The Red Army launched it's defense of Moscow on Dec 6,1941 the day before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.Another thing was that at the same time that Napoleon was trying to take Moscow the British and the Americans were fighting the War of 1812 in North America.

The book has many other little gems:
The Potato Famine in Ireland may have had it's roots in the American Potato Blight of 1844.However;this may be of some question as I believe the blight also occurred in several other european countries.The effect elsewhere was nowhere as disasterous as the other food supplies were not shipped out of those countries by the landowners as happened in Ireland.
Two other cities ,Kokura and Niigata were ahead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as targets;but were by-passed because of weather conditions.
The author also tries to make one think of how future events,particularly wars will be influenced by weather.
Finally he reminds us that...
"Man has managed to harnass almost everything.
But God still controls the elements."
By the way there is an excellent Bibliography and Index at the end of the book.
Durschmied also mentions that he's working on a new book "The Snow Owl"--I'm looking forward to it.

No comparison to The Hinge Factor.......2002-04-02

I very much enjoyed reading "The Hinge Factor" and so I bought this book hoping to find more similar reading material. Chapter 1 raised my doubts and after finishing Chapter 2 I was really disappointed by this book. The episodes are really lenghty and somewhat hard to read/follow - the book is not well written. The most disappointing fact, however, is that this book has not very much to do with military history but focuses almost entirely on political history. The influence of the weather, as the title of the book suggests, seems almost constructed and bears almost no meaning to the events described.

Interesting take on weather and military history.......2002-02-01

My local library had this book filed under 551, i.e., in the meteorology section, which I think is an error. This book is more of a military history focusing on how weather has influenced the outcome of battles and therefore of history. The science of weather plays a small part.

That being said, it's an interesting read. It's divided into chapters, each devoted to a specific incident. Some are reasonably well-known, such as the battle at Teutoburger Wald that cost Rome three legions (included here due to a thunderstorm that bogged down the Romans and led the Germanic "barbarians" to think that their gods were on their side), the typhoon that destroyed Kublai Khan's fleet heading to invade Japan, and Napoleon's disastrous march on Russia that was devastated by the legendary Russian winter. Others were (to me, at least) more obscure: the thunderstorm that scattered the mobs in Paris and thereby cost Robespierre his supporters, the weather during the Battle of the Bulge that first protected the Germans from air attack and then cleared to leave them vulnerable to the Allies' unchallenged fighters and bombers, and the typhoon that devastated the American Pacific fleet in World War II.

The one non-battle chapter focuses on the Irish potato famine, which was facilitated by a cool, rainy summer that allowed the potato-killing fungus to flourish.

The penultimate chapter, about fighting in the Mekong delta during the Vietnam War, provides a change since it's written in the first person. The author, a war correspondent, was actually there, and gives a personal view of what it's like to fight natives in the muggy misery of a tropical jungle.

The final chapter addresses the possibility of manipulating the weather in the future to provide better prospects for one's own forces or worse prospects for the enemies'. This has apparently already been tried, with American forces trying to get it to rain on the Ho Chi Minh trail in order to bog down Viet Cong supplies.

The book is readable enough, though with one strange quirk: footnotes that provide additional information rather than references. These quickly become distracting, and I think some should have just been incorporated into the regular text while the rest should either have been eliminated or moved to the back. It's a strange affectation and not at all helpful.

So, overall it's an interesting book even if not what I expected.

THE WEATHER FACTOR. How Nature Has Changed History.
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Symmetry Discovered: Concepts and Applications in Nature and Science
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Brief, but nice

A classic in symmetry

An easily understood beginner's manual.

Symmetry Discovered: Concepts and Applications in Nature and Science
Joe Rosen
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Classic work, newly enlarged, provides excellent introduction to the basic concepts and terminology of symmetry, with lucid discussions of geometric symmetry, other symmetries and approximate symmetry, symmetry in nature, uses of symmetry in science, much more. Solutions to problems. Expanded bibliography. 1975 edition.

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Brief, but nice.......2004-07-09

This is a very slim book which could be a first introduction to symmetry. It has a good introduction to group theory, which is the principal branch of mathematics that deals with the topics needed to understand symmetry, and it covers some types of symmetries usually neglected, like color symmetry. It's not at a very high level, which is good if you're starting off, but not if you already have a good dose of the necessary material. In other words, this is an introductory book and will not satisfy you if you are looking for a more advanced text, but I recommend it as a first book.

A classic in symmetry.......2002-02-13

When it was first published in 1975, this book filled a gap in the literature. It still does. Simple and unassuming, it is the best introduction to symmetry that I ever read. A perfect introduction to the two subsequent books by Rosen himself, and to more advanced treatises, like Weyl's.

An easily understood beginner's manual........1998-08-28

Pierre Curie developed the idea of symmetry in 1894. He later won the Nobel Prize with his wife Marie for their studies of radioactivity. But Pierre Curie's greatest legacy may end up being his work on symmetry, which forms a rare link between science and art. But symmetry is a complex subject for general readers, as illustrated by the following concise definition of it: Physical processes require environmental dissymmetry, and although the symmetry of a product can exceed that of its cause, any dissymmetry of a product must have existed in its cause. The value of Rosen's book Symmetry Discovered is its success in reducing the complexity of the subject. Cambridge University Press originally published the book, and this edition is a reprint with a new preface and supplemental references including an English-language treatise from the Moscow University symmetry school, world center for this topic. Symmetry Discovered is an easily understood beginner's manual.

Symmetry Discovered. Concepts And Applications In Nature And Science

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