Introduction to the Theory and Application of Data Envelopment Analysis - A Foundation Text with Integrated Software
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    Introduction to the Theory and Application of Data Envelopment Analysis - A Foundation Text with Integrated Software
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    The book aims to introduce the reader to DEA in the most accessible manner possible. It is specifically aimed at those who have had no prior exposure to DEA and wish to learn its essentials, how it works, its key uses, and the mechanics of using it. The latter will include using DEA software. Students on degree or training courses will find the book especially helpful. The same is true of practitioners engaging in comparative efficiency assessments and performance management within their organisation. Examples are used throughout the book to help the reader consolidate the concepts covered.

    Managing Your Career for Dummies
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      Career expert Max Messmer shows you step-by-step how to become the CEO of your own career! These pages are brimming with cutting-edge advice on finding the work that you love -- whether it involves climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, starting your own company, working from home, or turning your hobby into a career.
      Managing Business Change for Dummies
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      Managing Business Change For Dummies gives you practical step-by-step advice for evaluating your organization's change effort from start to finish. This friendly guide brings you specific techniques and tools for each step of the change process -- from how to pinpoint potential problems and resolve them quickly, to how to help employees respond to change with more flexible and positive attitudes.

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      5 out of 5 stars A good book for a company leader/manager to read so she's ready for "change" when it hits her organization.......2006-07-23

      "Change," whether it's personal growth or failure, or a business going through evolution, is inevitable. Maybe not at this moment, but at some time "change" must occur. And when it does the status quo will resist it. And the people affected by it will probably incur increased stress levels. Apparently the authors of this book have written it for people who have to deal with "change" or live through it. And I think such people will benefit greatly by reading this book.

      In a way this book is a new slant on an old topic. Leaders and managers have to have leadership skills. They have to have people skills, and they have to be somewhat patient. And they have to be able to deal with resistance to change. How do they do this? Well, the authors say by:

      1. Managing resistance
      2. Managing stress (both theirs and their subordinates'), and
      3. Keeping the information flowing

      The authors say that most "changes" fail. They point out how important it is to strategize and plan how to create change or deal with change. Did we really need the authors to tell us to strategize and plan? I think not, but by reminding some people of this they fully cover the subject of dealing with "change."

      I loved that each chapter had a bulleted summary list of what was included therein. The content of the book was so dense that I especially welcomed seeing those summary lists. There are a total of 24 chapters in this book, so you can see why those summary lists are important. Without them it would be difficult seeing how the whole book ties together.

      I would have liked the book better if its overall purpose for existing had been clearer at the beginning of the book. When I finished reading the book I was glad I had read it, but I had (and still have) a problem clearly describing the book in a sentence or two. All in all, I give this book 5 stars.

      4 out of 5 stars Solid Business Change Fundamentals.......2004-09-23

      While I have never like the word "dummies" in the series title, I have liked the format and the content. Managing Business Change met my expectations. Typical of this format, it is more broad than deep. However, I appreciate the attention given to resistance. Helpful tips and checklists will make sure you are not completely in the dark when it comes to leading change.
      The main drawback I found was the fifth section titled "Taking Care of Yourself" where the authors put for topics on meditation and yoga. Not what I wanted out of the book but easy enough to skip over.
      I recommend this book to those who are dealing with minor changes on a daily basis. Mid to lower level managers will benefit most. Higher up on the chain would probably benefit more from Kaplan's work.

      5 out of 5 stars Don't judge this book by its cover........2004-03-28

      Finally I found a book that shows me how to lead successful change in my department. No longer does resistance sabotage my chance efforts. Now I know how to make resistance work for me. I keep a copy handy on my desk. Don't let this cover fool you - this is no book for dummies.

      1 out of 5 stars Nonsense!.......2003-05-02

      Professionals should know managing change is not for dummies. This book is insulting to managers. It's not helpful at all.

      5 out of 5 stars Managing Change in Real Life.......2001-07-27

      This book was written with working people in mind. It was easy to follow and had humor added in examples which were beneficial to the content. I enjoyed reading this book and feel I learned how companies should deal with change, and why some companies cannot make this transition. It also showed why some companies do make changes successfully and how it is done. I would recommend this book to other professional business people even if they are not considering change at this time. The insight is indispensible.

      Pesticide Fact  Handbook, Volume 2
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        U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
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        Contains 87 currently available Pesticide Fact Sheets issued by the USEPA, at a cost far below the cost of purchasing individual fact sheets. Each listing includes a description of the chemical use patterns and formulations, scientific findings, a summary of the Agency's regulatory position/rationale, toxicology, and major data gaps. The Fact Sheets cover more than 430 trade-named pesticides. The book also has Indexes of Common Names, Generic Names, and Trade Names.

        Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • Math Rules
        • Mathematics, Patterns & Biology
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        • DNA may not be the last word
        • Lots of interesting ideas about how Life works
        Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World
        Ian Stewart
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        "Stewart writes with such compelling clarity that general readers can share in the intellectual daring of his perspective."—Booklist An invitation to a hidden world In Life's Other Secret, mathematician and award-winning science writer Ian Stewart reveals the way mathematics describes the origin, structure, and evolution of life. Featuring a sumptuous gallery of color illustrations demonstrating nature's intricate wonders, here is an intriguing invitation to enter a world deeper than DNA, a world where number series bloom in springtime and equations gallop across the plains. From the latest theory of how life started to the rules governing the shapes into which animals grow to the ancient patterns of evolution, Stewart illuminates the fundamental forces that shape our world.

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        5 out of 5 stars Math Rules.......2003-01-30

        Is life regulated and given structure by genetics alone? Or do physical and chemical constraints have a significant bearing on an organism's morphology? Inspired by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's classic, On Growth and Form, mathematician Ian Stewart argues convincingly that, the current popular view of the primacy of the genome notwithstanding, the major phenotypical influences, including those of the genes themselves, are highly constrained by physics and chemistry, both as endogenous and exogenous processes. What's more, such processes are manifestations of underlying mathematical "rules". (Stewart is, of course, neither the first nor the last to champion the "life is math" viewpoint. Other strange bedfellows in this general tradition range from William Paley, the eighteenth century theologian who conceived a mechanical universe so finely crafted and tuned that there must be a (divine) "watchmaker", to Stephen Wolfram, whose recent vanity tome, A New Kind of Science, posits, at its core, cellular automata as life's computing mechanism.)

        Life's Other Secret is a beautifully written book that teaches about symmetry and symmetry breaking and oscillators and other important facets of evolution's geometry. It might seem odd that a mathematician takes on a subject more apparently appropriate to biology or zoology. And, indeed, life does often imitate art: In Collapse of Chaos, Stewart and Jack Cohen provide an example destructive professional encroachment: Two ice cream venders at the beach increasingly move in on each other's territory, so that, in the end, neither the bank accounts of the venders nor the gustatory desires of their customers are best served. Yet, in a more complete sense, the idea of bringing the weight of mathematics to bear on diverse disciplines is firmly in the tradition of "the unity of all knowledge". This concept (which Edward O. Wilson identifies as "consilience") held scholarly sway prior to the fairly recent "symmetry breaking" among the sciences: the ultra-specialization desired for engineering and for academic dissertations. A return to the renaissance approach is truly a breath of fresh air.

        Life's Other Secret is also a curiously non-technical book that should present few challenges to those with math anxiety. This is, in fact, a conscious part of Stewart's message. In the spirit of the late physicist Richard Feynman, Stewart promotes qualitative math (as opposed to the more common idea of quantitative math, which Life's Other Secret studiously avoids) not as "vague generalities", but as "features that are conceptually deeper than mere numbers."

        To me, one characteristic of good writing (both fiction and nonfiction) is that the reader is led to extrapolate and go off on personal tangents. Here are two possible directions for speculation. The positing of "rules-based evolution" raises the further question of whether these rules are artifactual emergences out of evolutionary dynamics, or whether they were set down by a Great Designer, ere the worlds began to be. And, secondly, how, specifically, do biological entities implement the math? That is, how do organisms "compute"? What are the "algorithms" of life?

        My only criticism is the lack of appendices where concepts such as spherical harmonics, field functions, and other technical matters could be discussed in more detail without tromping on the narrative. But this is, to me, a minor carp. In Life's Other Secret, Stewart is clearly a master expositor at the top of his form.

        4 out of 5 stars Mathematics, Patterns & Biology.......2002-09-15

        Life's Other Secret
        The New Mathematics of the Living World
        by Ian Stewart

        The secret that this book explains is that although we have come to believe that genes are the basis of all life they are only one part of it. Genes are the building blocks but there may be underlying mathematical principals that govern how the blocks are put together. When you consider that mathematics is the study of structure and pattern you can start to see how this relates to the biological world. Nature displays many example of patterns. But why? Are the organisms following some mathematical law? Take for example the spiral pattern in the seeds of a sun flower. This pattern, in fact, follows the Fibonacci sequence - one spiraling clockwise and the other counter clockwise. A Fibonacci sequence (named after the guy who discovered it), goes like this:

        1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144...

        Each number is a sum of the previous two- 3 + 8 = 13.

        So, these spirals are quite beautiful, but why spirals? Why not concentric circles, or squares or random patterns? What biologists have found, is that, this pattern is the most efficient way of packing as many seeds as possible into the head of one sun flower. So how do you get from a sequence of numbers to a spiral? This involves the "golden number" or "golden angle" of 137.5 degrees and the ratio of one Fibonacci number to it's neighbour. This led me to wonder about spirals. Why are spirals important in Celtic art? Why do we see spirals when we hallucinate? (Just like in the cartoons when the mouse hits the cat on the head...).

        The sun flower seed patterns is just one small example of the many topics covered in this fascinating and extensively illustrated book. There lots and lots of ideas to exercise your brain - why are leopard spots different from jaguar spots? How do fish and birds all turn at once? Do crowds of people make patterns? This book may stimulate your mind - open your mind to thinking about very interesting things - although at times it's frustrating, leaving you feeling that you missed something along the way.

        2 out of 5 stars Answers: yes; satisfactory level of understanding: no.......2000-08-30

        I think 4 or 5 stars is really over-rating this book...

        In short, if you "are" a mathematician to any degree, and are more than just a layperson looking for some neat facts to through out during cocktail conversation, then skip this. There are some answers, yes; but you won't find any of the depth of understanding that, in my opinion, goes with enjoying mathematics.

        There were a number of times I was reading a chapter, lost track of what the point was, and looked at the top of the page for the chapter name for help. A number of times I found myself unable to get the chapters' contents to jive with their titles and intros. Overall, it felt like a mish-mosh of topics, questions, answers,...

        The part about "Turing's equations" was especially frustrating. Over and over they were described in the context of looking for understanding behind animals' stripes, spots, etc. First the equations seemed to provide some answers; later they were not proven to have a physical basis; later still biologists are said to have re-embraced them. But through all this, not ONE iota of description (never mind -- gasp -- an equation) of what Turing's equations are !

        The one part of the book I *did* enjoy was the beginning third or so which, for me, added continuity to my previous disjointed understanding of how life could evolve from inorganic materials. And yes, he makes his point that "Genes are great, but there's math in there too!". But the point does *not* require that much argument; after a while, you're saying, "OK, OK, you've made your point. Can you focus on depth and continuity a bit more please."

        At 2/3-rds through the book, I skimmed the rest looking for something to make me want to continue reading it. I stopped reading it at that point.

        5 out of 5 stars DNA may not be the last word.......2000-03-19

        Stewart begins his book by telling the reader:

        "I am going to try to convince you that as wonderful as genes are, they are not the whole answer to the question of life. More radically, I am also going to try to convince you that a full understanding of life depends upon mathematics."

        Basically, Stewart believes that scientists have overemphasized genetics and ignored (or at least under emphasized) the role of what I'll call large-scale or macro rules of physics and chemistry and the comparatively simple mathematics that describe them. For example, a molecular biologist might see a striped shell and wonder which genes caused them. Stewart would be more inclined to ask if there isn't some sort of chemical diffusion equation that leads to the stripes without them being specifically encoded in the genes. The point is that DNA may not need to encode much detail in many cases because the detail arises spontaneously out of macroscopic laws.

        Stewart has studied at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. Other prominent scientists associated with the Institute are Murray Gell-Mann and Stuart Kauffman. Kauffman, in particular, has conducted studies regarding emergent properties of self-catalytic systems and you can see the influence of his thinking in much of Ian Stewart's book (see Stuart Kauffman's book "At home in the universe, the search for laws of self organization and complexity").

        The book begins with discussions relating to the nature of life and musings about DNA and replication. It's interesting to see the line between life and non-life blur under Stewart's prose. Chapter three discusses the emergence of DNA, possible roles played by clay platelets, and the idea that DNA might be just a frozen accident - the molecule was picked because it evolved first and created an environment in which no others could get a start once DNA was established.

        Chapter four is called the oxygen menace. There is an interesting discussion of how prokaryotes might have evolved, created oxygen as a poisonous byproduct, oxygenated the atmosphere, and then evolved into eukaryotes to capitalize on a more efficient method of generating energy by burning fuel using oxygen in the new atmosphere. This chapter has some interesting stuff on how cells move using the cytoskeleton and microtubules. I also enjoyed the description of slime-mold colonies and how they illustrate the possible manner in which larger organisms evolved from cooperative colonies of less complex life forms.

        Chapter five is titled artificial life, but much of it deals strictly with the process of evolution among very un-artifical forms. There is a discussion about the famous finches on the Galapagos Islands and how they stimulated Darwin to understand how species evolve. There is also some interesting material on numerical taxonomy, evolutionary taxonomy, and cladism. Finally, the end of the chapter distills the discussion into general principles of evolution and how simple computer programs (artificial life) can illustrate many of the patterns we see in the real world among living species.

        The first five chapters are really just background information about the first life on our planet, the evolution of DNA, and general principles of evolution. Stewart's real thesis (and the real fun) begins in chapter 6 with flowers for Fibonacci. Ever wonder why the seeds in a sunflower spiral the way they do? Ever wonder why there are the numbers of petals you find in flowers? Chapter 6 has the surprisingly simple answer, and it doesn't require lots of information encoding in DNA sequences, either.

        Chapter 7 is a little more controversial than chapter 6. It attempts to show that patterns in living organisms might not be specifically encoded in DNA, but might result from gradient chemical reactions and diffusion in some species. In other words, DNA only needs to encode the production of the right chemicals at the right time and macroscopic rules using rather simple mathematics do the rest.

        Chapter 8 deals with speculation about sexual selection and how it relates to such things as the peacock's tail. In this chapter Stewart argues that in many instances the thing that is being selected is actually symmetry. Asymmetry can be a sign of a damaged or defective organism. The thing I enjoyed most from this chapter was the discussion about common hallucinations and how they might result from the way simple plane waves in the visual cortex map into our retina.

        Chapter 9 was my favorite. It describes hypothetical harmonic generators that work together in various relative relationships of phase and attenuation to produce the natural gaits of quadrupeds and even bipeds. Stewart has done original work in this area, and so this chapter has some of the most insight and technical backup. I've often wondered about this myself and contemplated the possibility that such natural harmonic generators might be somehow related to the tendency of our species to develop certain musical beats and to naturally move in rhythm with them.

        Of course you will want to read chapter ten, which shows how rather simple rules can lead to rather complex looking spider webs. And don't forget to read chapter 11 which discusses the complex interrelationships of reefs, along with some rather interesting information regarding Von Neumann's amazing insights.

        This isn't a book on mathematics - it's a book about how mathematics applies to biology. And it's mostly qualitative. There are no mathematical equations, for example.

        Overall, I think this is a first-rate book. It's well written, engaging, has a complete index, copious notes, good figures, and brilliant color plates that I especially appreciated. You don't have to agree with everything Stewart has to say, but I think you will find his arguments intriguing, thought provoking, and stimulating regardless. If you love life and mathematics, this book should be in your library.

        Duwayne Anderson, March 18, 2000

        5 out of 5 stars Lots of interesting ideas about how Life works.......1999-04-12

        This book is about biomathemetics for those of us who didn't know we were interested in biomathematics. Stewart teases us into the subject by exploring different contexts for the question of "What is Life?". This leads to explorations into how life is shaped by the properties of physical laws. The book focuses on abstractions. Stewart talks about ideas, but chooses not to go into much detail. Many of the illustrations have no explanations, and some have errors. The ideas are all clearly related, but they are never really tied together in the book. I think this was intentional. I think Stewart is hoping that the theme of the book will emerge from the ideas. If he had tried to state the theme as a conclusion that tied the ideas all together, the theme would belong to the author. He wants the theme to belong to the reader, and so he let's us come to our own conclusions. This leaves you with an unfinished feeling, but there are lots of good references (I especially like his annotated further reading section). I feel wiser for having read this book. The most confusing part of the book comes from using the name "math" to describe the language of numbers and as a notation for describing symmetries in the physical universe.

        Scaling
        Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
        • Oriented toward physiology
        • Good (Complete), But a Little Short on Mechanisms
        Scaling
        Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
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        This short, non-mathematical discussion of how the physical size of an animal affects its physiological functions can be read profitably by both students and professional scientists. Elegantly written, the book illuminates those physical laws controlling rates of diffusion and heat transfer, transfer of force and momentum, the strength of structures, the dynamics of locomotion, and so on. It shows how these laws have profound implications for animals of widely different size and scale and why the size of living things is of such fundamental importance.

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        4 out of 5 stars Oriented toward physiology.......2000-06-26

        Schmidt-Nielsen's "Scaling: why is animal size so important" is a readable introduction to the influence of size on physiology (and vice versa). As noted in a previous review, the chapter describing structural engineering is relatively weak, but the chapters discussing allometric concepts, metabolism, thermoregulation, and physiological time are excellent. Other chapters address respiration and circulation.

        Unfortunately, Schmidt-Nielsen glosses over the ecological ramifications of the physiological mechanisms described in this book. For the ecologically oriented, I recommend Calder's "Size, function, and life history."

        All in all, an eye-opener and a heck of a lot more fun to read than most technical works.

        3 out of 5 stars Good (Complete), But a Little Short on Mechanisms.......2000-03-29

        Scaling covers both the various ways in which the size & shape of animals change, as well as the reasons or rationals behind such scaling laws. The book does a great job of presenting the data in an understandable format (and a lot of data as well!), but there were times I felt a little confused as to the physical reasons behind these scalings (perhaps because not all the details are known). For the most part however the explainations were clear, and for the statistics of scaling in the animals world I can think of no comparable text. Some of the subjects are scaling of eggs, running & jumping, & bone strength, but the most detailed sections (one of the strengths of the book) deal with the metabolism of animals; why a man's heart must beat faster than an elephants and slower than a hummingbirds, for instance. It's not a light read, and if all you want is physiology try his other book "Animal Physiology" (textbook) or Vogel's "Life's Devices" (more of a popular press book, but suitable as a teaching text).
        SCALING. WHY IS ANIMAL SIZE SO IMPORTANT?
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          SCALING. WHY IS ANIMAL SIZE SO IMPORTANT?
          K. Schmidt-Nielsen
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          North Carolina Hiking Trails, 4th (AMC Hiking Guide Series)
          Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
          • A Major Disappointment
          • An encyclopedia of trails--for all the bad and good
          North Carolina Hiking Trails, 4th (AMC Hiking Guide Series)
          Allen de Hart
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          Now completely revised and updated, North Carolina Hiking Trails is the most comprehensive guide available to the trails of the Old North State.

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          1 out of 5 stars A Major Disappointment.......2006-07-30

          As an avid New England hiker, I relied heavily on the AMC White Mountain guide when planning and going on hikes. I also used the AMC Massachusetts Trail guide and found it quite useful. I wish I could say the same about the North Carolina guide.

          When I moved down to NC, the first thing I did was purchase the guide. I was excited to start planning trips to the Smokies and routes for the Southern 6ers. Unfortunatey, this book is of little use.

          Problems:

          1) There are no maps.
          2) It is simply just a list of trails - rather than a true guide book.
          3) It is missing pages (skips 50 pages in the 300s)
          4) Unless you are familiar with the area or have all your topo maps handy its very difficult to even think about crafting a route.

          When I used my AMC White Mountain guide, I was able to select a region, then a peak/peaks and read about different routes to the summits. The trail descriptions were clear and it was very easy to choose between more scenic or less strenuous, etc. In the NC guide, this is nearly impossible. Nothing is organized in that manner. Instead it just lists all the trails in the various forests and gives a brief description.

          A huge huge disappointment and a real blow to my view that the AMC gets things right.

          2 out of 5 stars An encyclopedia of trails--for all the bad and good.......2005-06-03

          I bought this book thinking that it would be a complete guide of trails throughout the state of North Carolina. By this, I mean that I hoped to use it for trails in the mountains as well as trails in the triangle.

          This book does this much.

          However, the reason for the low rating is that this book lacks "useability." By this, I mean that in spite of being very complete in terms of distance and elevation change, the book lacks terribly in the "useful" and "personal" aspects that I would hope to see in a guide (stuff like what to look for, where to go, what the nicer trails are, and what the best way to get to the trailhead may be, etc.). In all, it contains no useful maps to help guide the user.

          I have used many guide books to help me through backpacking trips in the southeast, and this is by far the worst. Essentially, whereas I would typically carry both guide and a detailed topographical map to help me through my travels, I found that carrying this guide in addition to a map is simply redundant: All of the information I found in that book could be easily derived from a map (which is considerably easier to carry).

          This book does not even help in trip planning.

          The only good thing I found about this book is that thanks to its encyclopedic listing (it reads a lot like a phonebook), I found a few hiking trails near my home that I would otherwise never have known about.

          If you're looking for a list of hiking trails, and little else, then this may be something for you (but a map is both cheaper and lighter).

          If you're looking for a good all-around hiking guide that contains some maps and helpful information, then stay away from this one.

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