4 comments about Modern Signals and Systems/Book and Disk (Prentice Hall Information and System Sciences Series).

1. This book seems to cover many important aspects of linear signal theory. However, there are no answers included,nor any student study outline. I have found that personal study using this book is very difficult. Don't buy the book if you expect any answers to double-check your results.



2. To me, this seems the classical case of writers reasoning 'It was hard for us to learn, and therefore, we make it hard for you as well'. This book is terrible. It made my blood boil. There are many instances in this book where I dear to swear they made it complicated on purpose. Naturally: no answers supplied, and the 'answer book' is not in normal circulation



3. It is hard to believe that this book is written by Huibert Kwakernaak. In contrast, his old book "Linear Optimal control systems" has already been a classic.



4. I cannot believe that this excellent and outstanding book is out of print. Moreover, I cannot believe that this book is rated so low by other reviewers.

   If you are an undergraduate and want to become a Ph.D in electrical engineering specializing in control, signal processing, or communications, study using this book. Other popular books are too simplified. Most importantly, from other books, you will never perceive the importance of real analysis and measure theory.

No comments about The Faith of a Liberal.

3 comments about Code Three (Hugo Award Nominee).

1. This is not the complete book. It is only the first three chapters. This book is only 87 pages in length. I bought a complete copy from an online bookseller that is over 270 pages.



2. Future traffic policing is a 24 hour a day live in your vehicle job for these officers. Their banter is very entertaining.
   
   
   3.5 out of 5



3. Future traffic policing is a 24 hour a day live in your vehicle job for these officers. Their banter is very entertaining.
   
   
   3.5 out of 5

No comments about Water, Water Everywhere.

No comments about AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics.

No comments about The Chemistry of Photography.

No comments about Islam in China: Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics.

1 comments about Raphael (Chaucer Art).

1. Raphael is a gorgeous artbook devoted to the life and works of immortal Renaissance painter Raphael. Both his drafts and his paintings are scrutinized, and the text recounts his biography, in particular as the events of his life led him to create his greatest masterpieces. The classical artworks make Raphael a rapturous experience to page through for the illustrations alone, but the depth of insight in the discussion makes Raphael a definitive "must-have" artbook for libraries, illustrated art history shelves and personal collections.

No comments about Voices from the Corner: Poverty and Racism in the Inner City.

1 comments about Glencoe Literature: Reading With Purpose, Course 2.

1. This is the worst textbook I have ever seen. It will behoove you to be forewarned it is entirely grounded in outcome-based educational methods. My stepdaughter has an online correspondence course using it. Almost everything in it is from the 20th-21st centuries (from the beginning of the decline of Western Civilization onward), the rest from the 19th century. So, there is no Shakespeare, Chaucer, nothing from, say, Ancient Greece, hardly anything edifying. The book contains a very small amount of actual literature, a story by O. Henry, poems by Poe and Frost, and so on. But, overwhelmingly, the contents are complete junk. More than half of the reading selections are NON-FICTION. It contains: more SPANISH vocabulary words than I can count (an ENGLISH book), the phrase "Raza-style" defined as something innocent and positive, stories featuring ill-bred ghetto children who don't make efforts to better themselves and escape the ghettos, fluffy stories about friendship, a People Magazine article, a history of hip-hop music, a biography of Tony Hawk, endorsements of the UN and Head Start. This kind of thing may be what kids like to read, but it is certainly not literature and does not belong in primary (or secondary, for that matter) education textbooks. Each page has text in at least three colors, highlighting already done, notes scattered everywhere. It gives me a headache to look through the book. There are color photographs on most pages (enough for the socially promoted and illiterate), interspersed even within stories, so the reader's concentration is often broken. Furthermore, every selection has an elaborate, hand-holding reading and study strategy mapped out, taking up as much of the book as the selection itself does. It involves such things as using context clues (whole-language word-meaning guessing game) and assignments to write about one's feelings. Most of these sections include a an assignment based on a popular COMIC STRIP. The questions for the end of each reading selection have OBE prompts before each one, such as "infer," "respond," "recall," and "interpret," in order to drill students to recognize them for national testing, and so they will develop certain SKILLS deemed important for school-to-work goals, with no regard to retaining knowledge or achieving cultural literacy. Beware of this book. If you want your child to receive a traditional education based on a solid foundation, do not use this book or permit his or her school to do so. I recommend rather the book, The Well-Trained Mind. It is very good overall, and the literature curriculum (minus the recommendation of Beloved, which is not appropriate for children especially) is world-class.