No comments about Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers.

2 comments about Introduction to Food Engineering, Third Edition (Food Science and Technology International Series) (Food Science and Technology).

1. Considero que es un libro de consiulta muy recomendado, hasta el momento no lo he usado, despuesde consultarlo podré dar un juicio



2. The product arrived in a timely manner and as descrbied would purchase from this seller again.

No comments about Introduction to Chemical Principles: A Laboratory Approach (Brooks/Cole Laboratory Series for Introductory Chemistry).

No comments about Modern Projects and Experiments in Organic Chemistry: Miniscale and Standard Taper Microscale.

1 comments about Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity, Volume 2.

1. The good bit to go-pharmacist says thanks for the teaxt. We got it quickly and all was good.

No comments about Study Guide And Solutions Manual: Used with ...Hart-Organic Chemistry: A Short Course.

2 comments about The Science of Chocolate (Issues in Environmental Scienc).

1. If you were ever interested where chocolate came from, this is the book to answer your questions. With a reasonably thorough explanation, Beckett explains the engineering and scale aspects of the industrial production of chocolate. He makes is abundently clear that you do not want to produce chocolate from the raw bean.

   He also covers the techniques used to determine the quality and character of the confection.

   Good for the scientist or intelligent chocolatier alike.




2. This book is the reference document for anyone truly interested in producing chocolate from cacao beans. Beckett is clearly detailing the chemical process at play, the methods currently used and the tools required. A serious professional work, this book is worth every penny. Following these explanations, putting hard work and some money in equipment you'll be able to start your chocolate production business. Unless this book makes you realize that the path from beans to truffle is arduous, technical and serious and ... therefore extremely rewarding if you persevere and have success.

1 comments about Study Guide With Answers To Selected Problems: By Danny V. White Of American River College And Joanne A. White: Used with ...Stoker-General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry.

1. I would have to say that if you are purchasing the textbook, you should also get the study guide as well. It has helped be succeed in chemistry easier than it would without it!

3 comments about Instrument Engineers' Handbook, Volume 1, Fourth Edition: Process Measurement and Analysis.

1. I have used this book for years and it has never failed to provide the information necessary to troubleshoot and repair problems with measurement systems. Liptak does a wonderful job presenting measurement theory and the principles of operation of various measurement strategies. The most helpful information Liptak includes is the discussion of the limitation of various measurement devices. If you are responsible for the maintenance of a wide variety of instruments and you desire to know how those instruments work, this book is worth every penny.



2. Excellent book. I second Mr. Hills comments, although I have recently purchased the books based upon comments Mr.Liptak has made in the control mailing list. It is a very good investment. The book is easy to read/understand, covers the full spectrum of instrumentation,give relative costs and companies manufacturing the items. It is a good first book to turn to, and will save me much research time. I wish I would have known about it earlier.



3. 
   The book cover almost every single instrument used in the process industry for Process measurement and Analysis of the most common process variables. The book covers Flow, Level, Temperature, Pressure, Density, Safety and Miscellaneous Sensors (Vibration, Shock, acceleration, torque, noise, etc.)
   
   One of the aspect that I find more appealing is that at the beginning of each chapter you find an application and selection oriented overview and an orientation table for the process variable covered in that chapter of the book. The tables list all the different types of sensors and summarize the features and capabilities, as well as approximated prices, accuracies and characteristics of each one. If you need a sensor for a particular application, you can narrow your options and then go to the sections of the book that covers in details the selected sensors.
   
   If you work with Industrial Instrumentation you will find this book to be a very valuable tool in your day to day job, either if you specify, install, maintain or operate them.
   
   This handbook has almost 2000 pages of really useful information.
   
   I have been working in the Process Industries for more than 16 years as an Automation, Instrumentation, Process Safety and Process Control Engineer. I consider this book to be the very best in the field, and it is really an Excellent reference for anyone and everyone working in these areas or in areas related with their Industrial applications.

5 comments about Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins.

1. I guess that everybody interrested by this kind of book knows already a little about bioinformatic and wants to improve his bioinformatician skill. So forget about this book:
   This is really a well-documented introduction to all the methods currently used by every biologist or biology student, such as Blast, Clustal, multiple alignement or use of web-interface for submiting sequence.
   So get it if you need a clear introduction to the field, but if you already know a little bit about bioinfo, immediately choose a more detailed book.



2. Like any survey, it seems to touch the major features only. And, as others have pointed out, the tools change but the book doesn't.
   
   I think this is a good, brief introduction to the wide variety of bioinformatic tools and databases on the internet. It describes the major features of each, and the kinds of results that each tool is good for. After that, the serious user will go to the sources of each tool or database, to learn more about the specifics as of the moment. No book can hope to keep up with the weekly enhancements at the major repositories.
   
   I emphasize that this is for tools users, not tool makers. It addresses the working scientists who already know their subjects and their needs. This skips over the algorithms in favor of higher level descriptions, and skips over many of the biological reasons for the tools described. Better-informed tool users get better answers from the tools, true. At some point, though, the biologists want to skip the theory, skip the introduction to subjects in which they're experts, and get on with their science. I don't think this book was ever meant for people - and I'm one - who want full details of the algorithms.
   
   I agree, the book treats its many subjects in a shallow way. I think that is by intent, since the book's real goal is breadth and its target is a reader who knows the basic science. It's a bit off the center of my interests, but I've found it helpful.



3. The book is a collection of chapters by different authors addressing software tools for various problems: database search, multiple sequence alignment, gene prediction, protein structure prediction, etc. A big flaw is that all of the authors assume a different level of prior background and have rather different emphases.

   I'd have to agree with the other reviewer that Chapters 1 & 17, which constitute 10% of the book, are wasted paper. No one in 2001 (when the book was published), let alone 2004, needs Chapter 1's lengthy explanation of what e-mail and web browsers are. And the perl program at the anticlimax of Chapter 17 was ... anticlimactic.

   The book is to a great extent a catalog of available software tools. With the exception of the chapters on multiple alignment and phylogeny, the emphasis is on not on how the tools work but how to operate them -- to the of saying "at this URL there is a web page where you can either paste in your sequence or upload a file". The idea of invoking a program through a Unix command line is more than once presented as a truly daunting prospect. The authors generally do a good job of emphasizing that the programs are the beginning of analysis and not the end; the results must always be viewed somewhat skeptically with an expert eye.

   If you're coming at the book as a biologist, you will probably find it to be a useful catalog of software, though undoubtedly dated by now. If you're coming at it from the informatics side, you're going to need some background... a book like Dwyer's, Setubal and Meidanis's, or Mount's will get you up to speed on the algorithm aspects of the field with simplified versions of many of the big problems. Then you can look at this book to find good pointers to the ways the real-world versions have been addressed.

   The book was published three years ago and, being to a large extent an index of the work of others, is necessarily no longer up to date in a fast-moving field. It needs a revision and, in the meantime, it would make more sense to snag a used copy than to pay full price for a new book.




4. Book came quickly but edges were bent, not like a new book. Returned it and got full refund.



5. I agree with the reviewer who said that this book is poorly organized. Actually, I would summarise this book with a single saying: TMI (Too Much Information)! In teaching you how to accomplish a simple task, the details given are tremendous, so much so that you can't see the forest from the trees and you end up having to navigate the bioinformatics Web sites by trial and error anyway. Perhaps this book would be useful for a post-doc or someone already very familiar with those sites and want to know how they work. For the student (undergrad through Master), I suggest picking up the short-n-sweet paperback 'Bioinformatics' by Westhead, Parish & Twyman instead.