Blip, Ping, & Buzz: Making Sense of Radar and Sonar
 An Approachable Technical Overview of Remote Sensing: Books on technical subjects can be broadly divided into three main categories: (i) very basic in its descriptions with many historical and biographical snippets but with no mathematics or formulas, ( [... more]
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The Stars: A New Way to See Them
A "New" Old Book: Here is a book review of an old book, written by H. A. Rey, the author of the "Curious George" books (no relation to me!). _The Stars: A New Way to See Them_ was first written in 1952. Houghton-Mifflin's 3rd edition, [... more]
CDN$13.95
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Hampton Roads 1862: Clash of the Ironclads
An Excellent Campaign Summary: While a number of books have covered the famous engagement in March 1862 between the first ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, few have ever attempted to place this revolutionary battle in a campaign [... more]
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Structure Determination of Organic Compounds: Tables of ...
What you will find in this book is ...: The present data collection is intended to serve as an aid in the interpretation of molecular spectra for the elucidation and confirmation of the structure of organic compounds. It consists of reference data, [... more]
CDN$70.99
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Percolation
Percolation: Grimmett's book, Percolation, is excellent. Percolation theory began in the 50's; its mathematics is now quite mature, but the theory has recently acquired new techniques because many of the questions initially raised by percolation theory [... more]
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Still Life and Special Effects Photography: A Guide to ...
Hicks and Schultz, what a team...: I spend allot of time in bookstores searching for useful, yes that's useful books on photography. Once you have long since gone beyond the ranks of amateur, newbie or intermediate and reached the shores of expert and [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Business Applications of Neural Networks: The ...
An excellent overview of real-world neural net applications: This is a nice collection of a variety of neural network-based applications in a varity of industries in particular financial and telecommunication. It is an overview of these business [... more]
CDN$57.30
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Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling
yes, but ...: I've been using this book on and off over the last year. At first I was very impressed with the level of detail in the mathematics, especially as it was the only book at the time focussing on risk-neutral methods and covering BGM. But I've [... more]
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Rachel Whiteread: Looking Up
following the artist's process: This is a great book not only because the art project is amazing and both the pictures and the editing are beautiful, but also, and mostly (at least for people involved with creation), because it allows you to follow step [... more]
CDN$55.13
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A Traveler's Guide to the Geology of Egypt
Ties Geology and Egyptology Together: I have read over 100 books on Ancient Egypt and this is the first one I found that describes how the geology of the country was a significant factor in shaping the flow of Egyptian history and civilization. First [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Altered Carbon
From Amazon.co.uk: Richard Morgan's debut SF thriller Altered Carbon isn't for the faint-hearted. Its noir private-eye investigation races through extreme violence, hideously imaginative torture and many high-tech firefights. In 2411, death is not [... more]
CDN$14.95
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The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Excellent Historical Fiction: A well researched accounting of the Mandyllion with a modern twist, it should encourage anyone with an interest in Christianity's holiest relic to further examine the case for the shroud. Loved it!!: I loved every moment of [... more]
CDN$37.95
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