Electronic Test Equipment: Galvanometer, Ohmmeter, Ammeter, Voltmeter, Multimeter, Signal Generator, Spectrometer, Logic Analyzer, Breadboard Review

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(More customer reviews)First off, I think that publishing pages from Wikipedia in book form is an interesting idea, if for no other reason than it gives the reader something solid to hold, and that something will be always be available when a computer and Internet connection isn't. Besides, it's easier to write notes in the margins of a real book than it is to annotate a live web page.
Where this book fails miserably is in its total lack of illustrations. The publisher claims that they don't include them because they can't verify ownership of the images. When the source material comes from Wikipedia the associated images are clearly tagged with ownership and copyright information, so I have a hard time accepting that claim. It's not that hard to set up pages with images (it's called typesetting, and even MS Word can do an acceptable job of it in the hands of a skilled user), and it's not that hard to list the image credits in the back. Even contacting the rights holders for permission isn't hard to do, and if it's a corporation they will often agree let the image be used at no charge in order to get the free advertising and market exposure.
So, the bottom line here is that you're not buying anything with any real added value, and if you happen to own a duplex capable laser printer, you can download the material from the web and print it yourself. With the images intact.

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To Love Is to Live Review

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(More customer reviews)Obsessive love inspires a torrent of conflicted emotions in these heartfelt poems.
Love, Makhadmi writes in "I Love Love," detonates "like the alpha phase of an atomic bomb," and the 99 poems she gathers here register the searing heat, abject surrender and toxic fallout that ensue. The latter two predominate in her first section, "Poems of Painful Love," addressed by a besotted woman--in "Raindrops" she wonders, "How can my life have meaning / When the sole purpose of my existence is to love you?"--to a nameless, and often heartless, man. "My stomach fills with pain you've left me in," she keens to her cruelly absent lover in "Drown" before continuing: "I drown in tears that have fallen from my lashes; / Like a seal, I can't keep up with killer whales." In "Day and Night," her unhinged anguish turns to self-victimization: "I cut my flesh to give relief to the constant agony in my heart." In "Pain," the tears and blood dry up under a hot anger: "To taste your pain excites me; / To hurt you is my mission. / Oh, how senseless I can be, / And send you to a mortician." Makhadmi's dark, repetitive, incantatory images of blood, tears and rainfall lift in the concluding section, "Poems of Sweet Love." Here the woman's devotion remains self-immolating--"I would sacrifice my happiness for you alone; / Like a wounded fox, I would lie on train tracks," she vows in "Sacrifice"--but in "No Boundaries" it yields a quiet joy--"Like the beauty of a flamingo, / My love for you is never ending"--and in "To Know You"--"My heart pitter patters with excitement...Because to know you is to love you"--a sunny lyricism. Makhadmi's unwavering focus on her narrator's inner feelings often turns the figure of the lover into a cipher, yet it works: her poetry vividly conveys a certain rapturous kind of love that blocks out everything but the heart's desire.
An intense, tragic, but ultimately hopeful accounting of the price--and value--of passion.

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To Love is to Live is a collection of poems that deeply describes the feelings that love can bring. Love is a roller coaster ride that allows lovers feel moments of sheer joy-the feeling that the whole world has stopped, and their love is the only thing that exists. Hearts beat as one, and the rest of the world is distant, existing far from their emotional core. Yet love can also leave someone feeling that their whole life has been shattered; the world has suddenly become a dark, empty space seemingly overnight. The emotions of love cover the spectrum from total bliss to pure misery. These emotions cannot be denied; their strength over the hearts of lovers cannot be ignored. Some may yearn to feel the emotional high that love causes, but are scared to feel the hurt that sometimes comes along with it. Both the joy and the pain, though, are essential to being human. If you are not in love, you are not living.Love's CurseLove's curse is evil in itself; It preys on hearts of lovers at a time of weakness, Like a baby seal in the middle of the ocean. It seeks the souls of emptiness, And strikes at their most vulnerable, Like a hunter who follows its prey ...

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Obsessive love inspires a torrent of conflicted emotions in these heartfelt poems.Love, Makhadmi writes in “I Love Love," detonates “like the alpha phase of an atomic bomb," and the 99 poems she gathers here register the searing heat, abject surrender and toxic fallout that ensue. The latter two predominate in her first section, “Poems of Painful Love," addressed by a besotted woman—in “Raindrops" she wonders, “How can my life have meaning / When the sole purpose of my existence is to love you?"—to a nameless, and often heartless, man. “My stomach fills with pain you’ve left me in," she keens to her cruelly absent lover in “Drown" before continuing: “I drown in tears that have fallen from my lashes; / Like a seal, I can’t keep up with killer whales." In “Day and Night," her unhinged anguish turns to self-victimization: “I cut my flesh to give relief to the constant agony in my heart." In “Pain," the tears and blood dry up under a hot anger: “To taste your pain excites me; / To hurt you is my mission. / Oh, how senseless I can be, / And send you to a mortician." Makhadmi’s dark, repetitive, incantatory images of blood, tears and rainfall lift in the concluding section, “Poems of Sweet Love." Here the woman’s devotion remains self-immolating—“I would sacrifice my happiness for you alone; / Like a wounded fox, I would lie on train tracks," she vows in “Sacrifice"—but in “No Boundaries" it yields a quiet joy—“Like the beauty of a flamingo, / My love for you is never ending"—and in “To Know You"—“My heart pitter patters with excitement…Because to know you is to love you"—a sunny lyricism. Makhadmi’s unwavering focus on her narrator’s inner feelings often turns the figure of the lover into a cipher, yet it works: her poetry vividly conveys a certain rapturous kind of love that blocks out everything but the heart’s desire.An intense, tragic, but ultimately hopeful accounting of the price—and value—of passion.

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Universal Test Battery (UTB) (Passbooks) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a comprehensive manual. Without it I would have been at a disadvantage. I recommend this manual to anyone who will be taking any of the Universal Testing.

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Truest Love: The Universe Review

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(More customer reviews)Hard to believe this isn't memoir. Perhaps it is...
Jerry Sowles has written a book about salvation, growth toward human potential, and inspirational, all deriving from the love of a good woman with the unforgettable name of Forget Me Not. She is Jerrod's Korean wife, a woman who married him based on her believe that he's different from others, a man who can offer her options not available to her as a woman in her own country.
Truest Love is far better written than the majority of most self-published books and deserves to be read by a wider audience.
I wish Jerry Sowles all the best as he progresses toward his stated goal: "to write like John Irving."

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After being wounded in Afghanistan Jerrod Farnsworth Conroy comes to learn what true love really means, only by experiencing the painful loves and deaths around him. Forget Me Not, a fascinating and beautiful Korean woman, leaves her family to be with Jerrod, a man she believes is not like the men in her country. She loathes gender inequality. Strong, independent and morally sound, Forget Me Not offers Jerrod a redeeming spirituality. They marry, raise a child and have high hopes for the future. But Jerrod lives in a world of constant death and danger, haunted by a demon that is set to kill him.

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Workshop Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (Workshop Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (VIDEO-CD) Review

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(More customer reviews)It contains amazing infomation, only spoilt by the translation of the good doctor's English, this was one DVD I would have prefered to have had subtitled.
I found it very frustrating.

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WORKSHOP BI-DIGITAL O-RING TEST Acupuncture This course explains the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test and details about its applications. It's a theoretical / practical program outlining how the O-Ring Test can help diagnose a number of diseases. It's a great opportunity for acupuncturists to obtain up-to-date information about this Test,from a recognized leader in this field. The course has been condensed into a single CD ROM, with 4 hours of presentations by Yoshiaki Omura, MD. Sc.D., F.A.C.A., F.I.C.A.E - Director of Medical Research, Heart Disease Research Foundation, New York - President, International College of Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics, New York - Visiting Research Prof., Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College, New York - Prof., Non-Orthodox Medicine Dept., Ukrainian State Medical University, Kiev, Ukraine - Adjunct Prof. of Physiology, Showa University of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan - Former Adjunct Prof. of Pharmacology, Chicago Medical School - Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, The International Journal - President, Japan Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Association . The workshop was taught by Dr. Yoshiaki Omura IN ENGLISH during the first International Congress on General Practice held in São Paulo, Brazil on May 30 and June 01, 2002. The theoretical part of his presentation included topics such as: · The applications of the test · The use of a third person (intermediary) · The criteria used for the Bi-digital O-ring test · The Screening of Pre-cancer and Cancer · Selective drug uptake enhancement method · Evaluation of patients with early Arthritis In the practical part of the program, Dr. Omura teaches how to perform the O-Ring test, including (a) the basic conditions to perform the test, (b) the criteria to be used to select the fingers, and (c) an actual test on a patient to demonstrate how to screen for cancer. Dr. Omura's presentation was recorded in its entirety and edited into a 4 hour CD-ROM.

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The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook: Featuring More Than 1,200 Kitchen-Tested Recipes Review

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(More customer reviews)Let me say right off that I love Cook's Illustrated and its sister publication, Cook's Country. They are one of the prime reasons for my reputation as a fine cook and baker. When I heard that this book would soon be published, I got very excited. I have waited for years for them to publish a general-purpose cookbook. I will treasure this book, but it's not without its faults--faults that came from taking the cheap way out.
Unlike other books put out by Cook's Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen, this book contains many new recipes developed over years expessly for this book. It may seem a little dishonest to review a cookbook without trying many of its recipes, but I can say after many years of using their magazines and books that their recipes are the most foolproof out there. My only quibbles usually just come down to differences in taste. Their recipes work and they are usually a cut above the rest. This book has over 1,200 recipes and is loaded with photographs and tips. Like all their publications, you'll find the book fascinating and you'll learn a lot that will improve your cooking results. Unlike many of the recipes in their other publications, this book's focus is on everyday cooking from the basic stuff on up. Think of it as a better-researched Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens, but with higher standards.
I really hate to see excellence compromised, and that's what Cook's and their publisher have done. The design, layout (except for the dividers), thought, contents, etc. are all excellent and you can tell that years of preparation and work went into this book. If it had just been printed on thicker, glossier paper this book would be an instant classic. As it is, the paper is so thin (not as thin as Bible paper, but in waving distance) that it can be hard to turn a page without messing it up. And since the paper doesn't have a glossy finish, the photographs didn't reproduce well enough to show all the detail they were designed to do. Now, they don't look as bad as the crummy reproduction you see in, say, Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, but this lousy choice of paper has definitely COMPROMISED the overall quality of this book--and it's a shame. Also, the many dividers--although of thicker stock--aren't sturdy enough to really use their tabs to open to a section. Plus, they are not in alphabetical order--something that Betty Crocker learned long ago is necessary to make a cookbook handy--and with as many extra divisions as Cook's has put in this book, it just makes it that much harder to find what you're looking for. I realize that the choice of paper was almost certainly made to keep down the cost and bulk of the book (it's approximately 850 pages), BUT they made the wrong choice. I sincerely hope that Cook's gets enough complaints that this book is soon reprinted properly.

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Writing User Documentation: A Beginner's Guide To Organizing And Writing User Documents Review

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(More customer reviews)I was very disappointed with this book. It took less than 1 hour to read cover to cover and appears self-published by the author without use of an editor or proof reader.
It also feels like the author has not read the latest research on the subject but just quotes from his 20-30 years experience with examples that seem outdated for a book published in 2008.
It does have some interesting examples and would serve as a very basic primer on the subject if you don't mind paying the price. It seems much too expensive for what it is- The quality would better suit a $4.99 downloadable ebook.

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