Bob Miller's Calc for the Clueless: Calc III

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Bob Miller's humor-laced, step-by-step learning tips make even the most difficult math problems routine. Based on more than 28 years of teaching and student feedback, his easy-to-grasp strategies give students much-needed confidence.

Third semester calculus is easier than Calc II--that's only part of the bonus this guide to mathematical fulfillment brings to today's attention--challenged student. Even vectors and integrals present no problem!

Customer Reviews:

Math Made Easy!.......2006-04-05

Bob Miller takes very difficult concepts and makes them extremely easy to grasp. It is the one math book that will not make you tear your hair out of your head!
The author uses a bit of humor and emotion to make math understandable to the average layman. The books are meant to be a supplement to whatever math text you are using. After Bob explains the concepts you will breeze through your textbook's examples. A great book at a great price!

ARgH!.......2005-09-07

In Calc III, the very first example has a mathematical typo! I spent ten minutes going crazy, not understanding how he reached his answer. The midpoint between 3 and -4 on the z axis is not and can never be -3.5!

My preview of next semester calc3.......2002-12-19

very easy to understand - very informative discriptions -

Useless, mostly.......2002-04-26

Got this book to help me study for my Math103 (calc 3 in duke notation) final, and it really serves no purpose. In the author's attempts to make calculus "easy" he ignores many many things that are important if one is to do well in calc 3 (or at least calc 3 as it is taught here). I've just started going through the book, and have only covered vectors and quadric surfaces, but the book has already completely skipped on covering the "universal" formula for distance between 2 things, as well as not covering curvature, the components of acceleration... I can only imagine how much more the author skips later on. I realize that the author could not satisfy the requirements for every calc3 class at every college, but come on: this is stuff that comes straight from what is probably the most used calculus text, Edwards + Penney. If you have a decent textbook for your calc3 class, you're better of just taking the time to study from it : you'll end up in much better shape.

Multivariable simplicity.......2002-01-21

After the stress of Taylor and Sequential Calculus in Calculus II, I assumed that the Calculus of several variables would be trivial. In essence, it was. However, the prohibition of calculator usage, coupled with the oddities of 3-D drawing made Calculus III a little more difficult. However, Bob Miller came to the rescue! With his relaxed prose style and user-friendly interface, Stokes, Gauss, and the like became quite simple. I was also concurrently in a Matrix Theory course, and his review of the idea of the R^n field and Abelian rules helped clarify other issues. All he needs now is to write a Linear Algebra book!

Bob Millerandapos;s Calc for the Clueless: Calc III

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Bob Millerandapos;s Calc for the Clueless: Calc III
Robert Miller
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OG1S1U

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Often applied econometricians are faced with working with data that is less than ideal. The data may be observed with gaps in it, a model may suggest variables that are observed at different frequencies, and sometimes econometric results are very fragile to the inclusion or omission of just a few observations in the sample. Papers in this volume discuss new econometric techniques for addressing these problems.

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This CD-ROM database contains the fully updated WTO services and schedules of services commitments and/or MFN exemptions for WTO member countries in English, plus the Legal Texts in English, French and Spanish. This material has never been available in one source before; much has been unavailable in any form.

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In the years since the publication of Susumu Ohno's 1970 landmark book Evolution by gene duplication tremendous advances have been made in molecular biology and especially in genomics. Studies of genome structure and function prerequisite to testing hypotheses of genome evolution were all but impossible until recent methodological advances.

This book evaluates newly generated empirical evidence as it pertains to theories of genomic evolutionary patterns and processes. Tests of hypotheses using analyses of complete genomes, interpreted in a phylogenetic context, provide evidence regarding the relative importance of gene duplication. The alternative explanation is that the evolution of regulatory elements that control the expression of and interactions among genes has been a more important force in shaping evolutionary innovation.

This collection of papers will be of interest to all academic and industry researchers working in the fields of molecular biology, biotechnology, genomics and genome centers.

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Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions. Among the topics covered are: acid rain, air pollution, Antarctic Circle, archoen eon, asteroids, barrier reefs, common rocks. Biographies include: Aristotle, Nicolas Copernicus, Charles Darwin, René Descartes, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Sir Isaac Newton, Ptomely, Carl Sagan, Leonardo da Vinci. Tables, charts, and diagrams include: Beaufort wind scale, cloud chart, comparative oceans chart, dinosaur classification, geologic table, Ice Ages, major hurricanes, periodic table.

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Classical Relativistic Electrodynamics presents an advanced course of classical electrodynamics with application to the generation of high-power coherent radiation in the microwave to optical-wave regions. Specifically, it provides readers with the basics of advanced electromagnetic theory and relativistic electrodynamics, guiding them step by step through the theory of free-electron lasers. The theoretical treatment throughout this book is fully developed by means of the usual three-dimensional vector calculus. This book can be recommended as a graduate-level textbook or a reference book in the fields of advanced electromagnetic theory, relativistic electrodynamics, beam physics and plasma sciences.

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Fun and very funny satirical dramatic comedy suspense novel

Vocational Guidance After a Layoff...Murder as a Trade

A dark, satirical comedy

Great Premise

A Great Story!

Since The Layoffs: A Novel
Iain Levison
Manufacturer: Soho Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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By the Author of A Working Stiff’s Manifesto

The work Jake Skowran is offered is a lot less than legal. He’s got little choice except to take it. The guys who owned the factory have left town for someplace with more sun and cheaper labor. The deserted plant is fenced in and the fence topped with razor wire, as if they’d worried that the locals would steal tractor-building equipment and start making tractors in their basements. Jake’s girlfriend has also decamped (along with the entertainment center). “She went off with some used car dealer, huh?” his bookie mocks.

“He was a new car dealer,” Jake retorts.

With unemployment running out, he’s up for anything.

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Fun and very funny satirical dramatic comedy suspense novel.......2007-03-06

This is really a fun read. The sense of humor is hilarious, but that seems to add to the sense of suspense of this story. I highly recommend this book.

Vocational Guidance After a Layoff...Murder as a Trade.......2005-03-08

Author Iain Levison accurately captures the quiet desperation that comes from losing one's job in a layoff. I should know, as I have been a downsizing victim myself. It's a devastating experience, one that has a visceral and insidious impact since you are told you are no longer worth a paycheck and adding insult to injury, you're losing your job so someone higher up can keep his. Bottom line, someone has deemed you worthless so someone else can keep his/her livelihood. Levison manages to detail this feeling with fierce honesty, illustrating the rape of a worker's dignity and the dread it begats. His focus is Jake Skowran, a laid-off loading dock manager in small-town Wisconsin, not too dissimilar to the depressed world painted by Michael Moore in "Roger & Me", his documentary about Flint, Michigan. Angry, in debt and abandoned by a cheating girlfriend, Jake doesn't give in to his depressed circumstance and instead, discovers a vocational direction that is both financially lucrative and emotionally healing. He becomes a hit man to pay the bills, but it becomes much more since from his perspective, work becomes his life, and the prospect of being out of work is to lose touch with life. Jake apparently finds his calling.

What I like most about Levison's book is his matter-of-fact attitude toward the heinous profession Jake has chose for himself. He is surprisingly pensive and calm about his new job. In fact, aside from the killings, the drama is of the more observational variety where we see Jake otherwise live his mundane everyday existence with friends and family. Levison's less-is-more style works well because this doesn't become a personal revenge tale (in fact, the boss doesn't even play a role in the story) or a socioeconomic statement about the disenfranchised. In fact, Jake's emotional detachment serves the reader to help root for him to get back on his feet and feel self-sufficient again. This stark novel feels almost like a black comedy version of Barbara Ehrenriech's non-fiction treatise on the blue-collar worker, "Nickel and Dimed" in that both capture the economic hardship of working people who are not in the position to fulfill themselves in other ways. It still seems like a most timely book to read, and even as a novel, it feels more authentic in its portrayal of blue-collar workers than a lot of books who simply observe and analyze their conditions from a distance. Highly recommended.

A dark, satirical comedy.......2004-06-02

Jake Skowran lives in a small town which has been badly affected since its large factory closed down a few months earlier. Like many other people, Jake is unemployed after having been laid off and lives on government benefits. Jake owes quite a large sum to Ken Gardocki, a bookie selling drugs and guns. Just as Jake is about to get a job at the town's "Gas 'n' Go" store for $ 5.75 an hour, Gardocki proposes to hire him as a hit man to kill his wife Corinne for five thousand dollars. Yet Jake does not know how his decision to accept Gardocki's offer will change his life for ever... If you are an angry and susceptible unemployed worker with access to weapons, this may not be a suitable reading for you!

Great Premise.......2004-05-20

The best part of this book is the question that forms the premise of the story: What would you do to take care of yourself if you lost your job, and your other options were
quickly running out?"

And this question can't really be answered by anyone who hasn't
been in that position, so readers should be too quick to judge
the story or the "hero's" response.

Here, the man who has lost his job also lost some of his friends
at the same time, and his girl friend moved out almost immediately, and he can see the entire town shriveling up and dying because the one big plant is gone forever, and all the supporting retail establishments are also drying up. He has reached the point where he has no hope, and he is beginning to
let his life slide along with no ambition, no expectation, no
social life, no fun, and he has lost all his possessions.

It's so bad that when an acquaintance says, accusingly, that his
girl friend ran off with a used car dealer, the only response the guy can make is, "He was a new car dealer."

If you have ever been there, or even close to it, this is a very
interesting book.

But, unhappily, the premise question is never quite answered satisfactorily because all at once, the subject of the story,
who has descended to depths never thought possible, decided to
quit the criminal game he started and retire to a regular business he bought with his criminal income, and he then gets a
very nice, understanding girl friend, and "they all lived happily ever after."

The ending is too abrupt and too pat.

Just think how this imposing question of how far we would go
had been addressed and answered by Elmore Leonard. Wow.

But the writer had a very good idea, and a subsequent writing will likely be improved.

A Great Story!.......2003-12-02

I bought this book when it came out last Spring and I must have read it five or six times already. A great story that is biting commentary on how the economic system we're all forced to live (and work) under is destroying our lives, country and planet. This book is extremely well-written. I highly recommend it!

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The Ninja were the secret agents and assassins of feudal Japan and they remain a subject of enduring fascination. They first emerged during the power struggles of 9th and 10th century Japan, in response to the increasing demand for spies, informants and even assassins, and they were used until the mid-1600s when they disappeared on account of a campaign to destroy them. This title provides an accurate and detailed account of the reality of the Ninja, detailing their daily life, training, hiring, combat use and secret operations; also covered are the Ninja's use and knowledge of poisons, medicines and charms.

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Way to fictional !.......2007-04-07

While Turnbull usually tells about historical persons and events - this time he wanders off into fiction...

About half of the book is rather good, telling the reader about the real ninjas of past - i.e. normal samurai and peasants working as spies and undercover agents (without special equipment or silly black uniforms)...
...while the other half of the book is about the fictional black clad super martial artists (i.e. the Hollywood and Japanese Iga/Koga-province tourist version).

Those of you who can think for themselves probably understands how silly the whole concept with special "Ninja-swords" etc. is, considering they were supposed to act undercover...

To make one thing perfectly clear: Ninjas (as we know them) are a myth, no such individuals ever existed. They were made up in the last hundred years, to give samurai (in movies and TV-series) suitable adversaries.

Later on people understood that there were money to be made on the Ninjas - Martial art systems were invented (mixing existing traditions) and movie companies in the west started to use Ninjas as Bad (and sometimes Good) Guys. The Swedish Film "The Ninja Mission" being the first to place Ninjas in a modern setting.

I do understand, and even respect, that mr Turnbull sacrifices truth in order to sell more of this book (as I understand him reusing Samurai material in dozens of similar books - I have atleast ten...).

In short, despite this book mixing fact and fiction it is a good book on the subject.

Perfect Ninja Book.......2007-03-31

I love this book! It strips away all the mythology and stuff we think is true because its in the movies and examines the historical shinobi ('ninja'), his role, training, tactics, motives, and his equipment. I cannot believe how many tools they had for getting into castles and killing their victims. One of the last sections of the book, 'Ninja in War' tells the heroic story of real life ninja and their involvement in the campaigns of the Sengoku Jidai Period. Interestingly, the author says that the ninja often disguised themselves as monks or enemy samurai, yet of the 48 ninja depicted in action in the plates, all but two are clad in the classic black ninja garb. The plates are also very good, and the plate commentary has helped me in my study of the ninjas' tools. The best book I have read on the subject, highly recommended for anyone seeking to read about the real ninja.

Ninja Ad.......2005-08-03

most books from the Osprey Publishing to well to educate thoroughly on a matter in history, this one was no different.

Ninjas in Detail.......2004-06-09

Military historian Steven Turnbull does an excellent job of portraying historical ninjas in this thin volume. A lot of the book on ninjas cover either ninja legends or "ninjitsu" which is a kind of reconstructed martial art which is practiced mainly by American ninja fans and Japanese who are working at ninja theme parks. Turnbull strips all this away and shows us what an authentic ninja was like. The real ninja was a mercenary who specialized in espionage, sabotage, and assassination. The image of a black-clad ninja is perhaps inaccurate. The point of espionage is not to get noticed, so ninja were more likely to be dressed as everyday people in order to infiltrate towns and castles. There are, however, lots of illustrations and photos of black-clad ninjas. Perhaps undercover ninjas are not so interesting to look at. The time period covered is 1460-1650 which was the golden age of ninjas, and which roughly corresponds to the Sengoku (Warring States) period of Japanese history. After this time period, Japan was in a state of peaceful unification and isolation which rendered the ninjas obsolete.

One great point of this book is that it introduces the excellent ninja museum in Iga-Ueno in Mie prefecture. I've visited this museum and they have a ninja house and a wonderful collection of fascinating ninja tools. The highlight of visiting the museum is the excellent ninja show. If you visit the Osaka or Kyoto area, and you have an extra free day, I recommend that ninja fans visit this place and check it out.

Turnbull does it again.......2004-03-03

This is a fascinating and easy-to-read book about the ninja and shinobi of Japanese history. And it should be noted I say "history" for a reason; Stephen Turnbull explains in the introduction that he took great lengths to make sure his sources were accurate and that he stayed away from the legends of myths accompanied with ninja. He'll mention ninja kites, but not ninja glides...and forget about the human bomb ninjas you saw in the kung fu movie "Duel to the Death."

The book presents diagrams and detailed explanations of the different equipments and tactics used by ninja, and also gives some insight into their history, including their war with Oda Nobunaga and their eventual service with the Tokugawa Shogunate (there is a very interesting reason as to why they joined the Tokugawa so willingly). The most fascinating part was the tale of how a ninja killed Uesugi Kenshin - this was by sticking a spear into him while hidden in the toilet (I won't go into graphic detail). It's a strange (and darkly humorous) tale, but Turnbull eventually dismisses it as legend using evidence that Kenshin died of stomach cancer.

Overall I enjoyed this read. It was a very educated look into the world of ninja from a neutral perspective, but I found it to be a good read. Another fine reason why my respect for the Osprey series remains high.

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On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne, the Centre of Canadian Studies of the University of Edinburgh hosted its annual conference on the theme "Majesty in Canada". The essays that were presented at that conference reflect the wide-ranging recognitions of the different roles that monarchs and their representatives have played in Canada.

The essays examine how Canadians have understood their ties to royalty and how the regal principle formed an important part of the national identity. Royal tours, vice-regal initiatives, representations of the sovereign's power, and Canadian appeals to monarchical sentiments comprise the themes of these engaging essays, providing an up-to-date look at the historical and current personal influence of the Crown in Canada.

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The original words announcing great scientific discoveries, from the first 'Eureka!' to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, can all be found in this fascinating addition to the world-famous 'Oxford Quotations' range. An essential reference tool, put together over 15 years with the assistance of a distinguished team of specialist advisers, it includes full author descriptions, exact sources, and a word-finding index for easy reference. Scholarly but accessible, it also presents the human face of science, as scientists reflect on achievements and failures in their own lives and those of others. Darwin not only describes natural selection, but carefully assesses the pros and cons of marriage, while James Clerk Maxwell constructs an electric but poetic Valentine as well as his 'demon'. From Archimedes to Einstein and beyond, the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations charts the progress of the great ideas of science. 'Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.' Arthur Eddington 'I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.' Albert Einstein 'Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.' Rosalind Franklin 'I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.' Galileo Galilei 'I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.' Linus Pauling

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The breathtaking wilderness next door

Located above the dense population centers of northern Michigan and New York, the province of Ontario hosts vast areas of primal wilderness.

Islands of Hope celebrates the preservation of the raw nature of these areas in word and picture. The book features 130 spectacular photographs that capture the spirit and essence of the northern wilderness. The photographs are by such first rate nature photographers as Freeman Patterson and Courtney Milne.

Forty-three contributions by writers describe the magic and beauty of specific sites, such as Algonquin Park and Temagami. Other essays detail the efforts to protect the wilderness for future generations. Among the contributing writers are Margaret Atwood, Loraine Monk and Alec Ross.

The book is organized in six major sections, each with a number of essays:

History and attitudes
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Compelling essays and riveting photography make Islands of Hope an exceptional addition to the libraries of nature lovers, photography buffs, environmentalists and travelers.

Customer Reviews:

Where's the overview?.......2005-10-30

Beautiful book, but I never found the lake with my family's cabin so I could locate parks in proximity to it. A good map of the province with reference to detail maps would have helped, but for someone interested in Bob's Lake, there's no useful info. It did not meet our needs.

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