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Average customer rating: Disappointing treatment of true genius

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A self-educated man who knew no mathematics, Michael Faraday rose from errand boy to become one of Britain's greatest scientists. Faraday made the discoveries upon which most of twentieth-century technology is based and readers of this book will enjoy finding out in how many ways we are indebted to him. The story of his life speaks to us across the years and is a fascinating read, especially when the tale is told with the understanding and gusto that Professor Thomas-one of the UK's leading scientists-brings to the telling. Faraday took great trouble to make the latest discoveries of science, his own and others', intelligible to the layman, and the tradition he fostered has been kept alive ever since, so that the Royal Institution is as well known for its contributions to education as for its research. Written in a concise, nontechnical style, Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place is a human account that provides an introduction to the roots of modern science and ways in which scientists work. The book is lavishly illustrated with drawings, cartoons, photographs, and letters-many never before published. There is no similar book on Faraday that interprets his genius in modern, everyday terms, making it understandable, interesting, and exciting reading for scientists and nonscientists alike.

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Disappointing treatment of true genius.......2003-05-24

This is not a particularly good book. It is only readable because of the fascinating live that Michael Faraday lived. The author gives us a sense of that, but he could have used a more vigorous copy editor. And perhaps he could have refrained from filling page after page with quotations from different scientists of the day.

This is not a biography as such, more an account of Faraday's work and that of his associates at the Royal Institution and around the world. It offers some interesting historical insights, but overall it disappoints. ... for a 200-page paperback with B&W illustrations??

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Average customer rating: Excellent detailed history of contemporary Italy Italy: the ABC Murders

Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State: 1980 - 2001 Paul Ginsborg Manufacturer: Penguin UK ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Europe | History | Subjects | Books General | Italy | Europe | History | Subjects | Books General | World | History | Subjects | Books Social History | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books Similar Items: A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988 The Dark Heart of Italy Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories) ASIN: 0140247947

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Excellent detailed history of contemporary Italy.......2004-10-02

This book by professor P. Ginsborg is an excellent, detailed history of contemporary Italy. Starting with the post-war period, it goes all the way to the end of the '80s, taking into account all the changes made in the italian politics, but mostly in the italian society . The analysis of the attitudes, the way of thinking and the way that the italian society operated during that period is particularly interesting.

Italy: the ABC Murders.......2003-03-21

Paul Ginsborg's previous book, "A History of Contemporary Italy 1943-1988" is perhaps the best history of the postwar period of any country. It benefited not only from thorough research and fine organization but from a coherent and compelling thesis. Despite the many signs of vitality and progress in the Italian Republic, it faced severe problems in government and society which required urgent and farlasting reform. However, Italian political life was structured in such a way to make sure that reform never happened.

"Italy and Its Discontents" is the sequel. Although at times Ginsborg is somewhat cheery and optimistic, this is a depressing tale. In many ways it is a complex and nuanced tale, as Ginsborg discusses with enviable nuance the strengths and weaknesses of the Italian economy, the decline of the industrial working class and the plague of youth employment, the always persistent "Southern" problem, the clash between mass culture and a rising "civil society," and the many weaknesses of the Italian bureaucracy. He pays particular attention to the changes in the family, the rise of secularism, and the decline of Catholic and Communist cultures. He also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Italian politics, the complexities of corruption and the mafia, the less than impartial judiciary, and the complexities and failures of political ideologies.

And yet in some crucial ways Ginsborg's tale is very simple. Italian democracy in the 1980s was severely flawed both by corruption and by the success of vested interests in preventing, delaying or diluting vital reforms. The most honest and thoughtful party were the Communists, so much of the energy of its political class was dedicated to making sure they never had power. Italian politics in the eighties and nineties would be dominated by three people: Andreotti, Berlusconi, and Craxi. Andreotti was a "Christian Democrat" and deeply complicit in its corruption, patronage and ties with the mafia. Craxi was a "Socialist" who drapped himself in fashionable "Anti-Marxist" rhetoric while taking shakedowns and bribery to new heights. It was a politics of secret anti-communist forces (the Gladio), murdered anti-Mafia prosecutors, the strange and sinister P-2 Masonic lodge, sycophantic intellectuals, and one demagogic president. It was also a politics in which the Vatican banker would pay $7 million to Craxi's secret Swiss bank account and then be found hanging a year and a half later from Blackfriars' bridge. Craxi and Andreotti dominated Italian politics until 1992-93 when revelations of massive corruption decimated the Christian Democratic and Socialist parties. But just when it appeared that the Italian Left would finally be able to take power, Berlusconi appeared. Having been granted monopoly control over Italian television by Craxi, and having used that to help coarsen Italian cultural life, Berlusconi simply bought his own political party. Forza Italia became the new party of the Italian Right, replacing the factionalism and debate of the Christian Democrats with a cult of personality around Berlusconi. He ostentatiously disassociated himself from the Christian Democrats with Thatcherite rhetoric, notwithstanding the fact that he would face charges on ten trials over the coming decade. Making deals with selfish Northern Regionalists and Neo-Fascists, Berlusconi decisively won the elections of 1994 and 2001.

It is a pretty depressing sight by the end of Ginsborg's book. Measures to improve women, the environment and education have all been limited or delayed. Concerns about the gap between formal democracy and everyday life, the presence of clientelistic politics, politics that take into account the modern family: "these seem all to be far down the agenda of government, if indeed they are present at all." The Democratic Party of the Left has purged itself of its Communist Past, it fears that any sign of prinicple or vigor will be cursed as Stalinist. Instead of the popular mobilizations of the past, it pursues an unimiginative Technocracy that so far can't compete with Berlusconi's media monopoly and demagoguery. Ginsborg points to some positive signs. Despite the increasing xenophobia, the crassness of Italian television and the shallowness of soccer culture, there is also increasing interest in literature and culture. Working-class involvement in political and associational life declined, but there was rising voluntarism. And most of all there was the rise of feminism, many of whose challenges could not be ignored. One should not be too optimistic on this score. Certainly Ginsborg's account is full of qualifications and he notes that the new "civil society" is limited to a minority of the middle class. There are good reasons to suspect that it will not succeed or become an isolated minority dismissed as bien pensant elitists. Much of the chattering classes spent much of the past two decades, when not gushing about Craxi, searching for the "normalization" of Italian politics. Leftist and "utopian" ideas have been purged, while Silvio Berlusconi is now a mainstay of Bush's coalition of the willing. Now he is to be honored by an American right, once so easily appalled by Monica Lewinsky. Apparently money can buy you happiness, and much else.

Average customer rating: Great Book! easy to read Positives/Negatives of Div,Grad,Curl Should be a required textbook for all freshman/sophomore physics and engineering students Great way to learn your basics!

Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, Fourth Edition H. M Schey Manufacturer: W. W. Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Science | Subjects | Books Calculus | Pure Mathematics | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books General | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books Vector Analysis | Applied | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books Vector Analysis | Applied | Mathematics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Calculus | Pure Mathematics | Mathematics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition) Geometrical Vectors (Chicago Lectures in Physics) Ordinary Differential Equations Schaum's Outline of Vector Analysis Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics) ASIN: 0393925161

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Since the publication of the First Edition over thirty years ago, Div, Grad, Curl, and All That has been widely renowned for its clear and concise coverage of vector calculus, helping science and engineering students gain a thorough understanding of gradient, curl, and Laplacian operators without required knowledge of advanced mathematics. The Fourth Edition has been carefully revised and now includes updated notations and seven new example exercises.

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Great Book!.......2007-08-25

This book really nailed out the nuts and bolts of vector calculus. A must have for anybody taking an electricity and magnetism class in physics at the same time as multivariable calculus.

easy to read.......2007-06-13

good reference book for people who want to study mechanical engineering

Positives/Negatives of Div,Grad,Curl.......2007-05-19

The book was easy to read and learn from. It draws parallels with electric field "stuff" which really adds to the understanding you gain from the math discussions, even if you are not already familiar with electric fields. The book provides concise discussions on the div, grad, and curl operators; however, it is not organized like a reference book or text book (e.g. it lacks tables of these operators expressed in cylindrical and spherical coordinates). I highly recommend reading through this book if you are at all confused about what div, grad, and curl are, the differences between them, or why you should be interested in them.

Should be a required textbook for all freshman/sophomore physics and engineering students.......2007-02-17

Simply put, this book provides the best explanation of the gradient, the divergence, and the curl in any book I've seen. It really should be a required reference/text for every physics and engineering program in the country. All the mathematics is here, but the author also lucidly explains in words and diagrams the physical meaning of these three operations. Many students learn how to manipulate these operations, but they often have trouble understanding exactly what they mean. This book is easy to read (how many textbooks can you say that about?) and there are lots of problems to illustrate key points after each chapter. The author uses the mathematical formalism to solve some basic problems in electrostatics to provide real-world examples. After working through this book, you'll not only be able to calculate the curl of a vector function, you'll know exactly what it means.

Great way to learn your basics!.......2007-01-03

I had three years of higher-level calculus between my BS and MS in mechanical engineering, and none of these classes have explained the concepts in this book with such clarity and accessibility. The sample problems at the end of each chapter cement the concepts just learned. For me, they were just challenging enough to test and hone my skills, but not so crazy that I felt like I was stroking some intellectual ego instead of learning practical concepts.

I highly recommend it to people of similar backgrounds as myself--people with already decent math backgrounds, but who need to hone their vector calculus skills to enter the world of physics, electrical engineering, fluid mechanics, continuum mechanics, or anything else along those lines (lines! Hah! Pun!). I feel like this book was written just for me! Are there really that many of us?

One tip on this book--get serious with it, and you will really cement your skills. Do the problems, for real--work them out with pencil and paper; don't just skim them while you watch TV. They are, as I've said, challenging enough to be rewarding, but none are the type that would send you sobbing to your prof in office hours. Suck it up, fix yourself a nice cup of tea, get your dog to sit with you, and go for it! It's well worth the effort.

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Div, grad, curl, and all that H.M. Schey Manufacturer: W.W. Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FP7Z6W

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Div, Grad, Curl and All That.......2007-10-07

Since its publication in 1973, a generation of science and engineering students have learned vector calculus from Dr. Schey's Div, Grad, Curl and All That. This book was written [ circa 1992] to help science and engineering students gain a thorough understanding of those ubiquitous vector operators: the divergence, gradient, curl, and Laplacian. The Second Edition preserves the text's clear and informal style, moderately paced exposition, and avoidance of mathematical rigor which have made it a successful supplement in a variety of courses, including beginning and intermediate electromagnetic theory, fluid dynamics, and calculus.

Highlights of the Second Edition:

* Conversion from cgs to rationalized MKS units.
* A revised art program that includes many new figures and figures redrawn for greater clarity.
* A new section on simple connectedness.
* New reference tables on vector identities involving the operator del, and one listing the divergence, curl, gradient, and Laplacian in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates.
--- from book's back cover

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Div, Grad, Curl, and All That An Informal Text on Vector Calculus H.M. Schey Manufacturer: W. W. Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MXTIZ8

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Several miles off the Mississippi Coast, Horn Island rises out of the sea. A wilderness of slash pine, sea oats, and osprey, the barrier island stirs the imagination, nourishes the spirit, and challenges the soul. It is as unforgiving as it is lovely, with a story that unfolds as a natural pageant of sand, water, and wind.

Walter Anderson, artist and naturalist, fell under Horn Island's spell and painted myriad watercolors of its crabs, fish, birds, and butterflies in some of his most vivid and memorable work. Anderson's retreat and April Newlin's refuge weave together in a rich and intimate portrait of this seductive and mythic landscape. In a series of encounters over seasons and years, Newlin captures the island's intricate details from the terror of raging wind to the tickle of a snail's foot. She camps on the edges, hikes the interior, and wades the lagoons, immersed entirely in fourteen rugged miles of woods, ponds, and marsh. In her prose, the island begins to coalesce as an intense and transformative place, a wilderness beyond the grip of mainland sprawl.

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"Kate of Kentucky" begins in 1778 on the Virginia frontier, chronicling the perilous flight of seventeen year old Kate and her savior, mysterious Micah Randele, to a settlement in the wilds of disputed Kentucky known as "the bloody country.

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