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A very elementary attempt at Video lighting
I don't usually criticize a book too badly, but this one just isn't cutting it (or the light for that matter)...it's so basic that if you have any knowledge of basic photographic lighting, don't even bother with this one because it's all repetition.I wanted to learn about lighting for subject movement and most of this is people sitting on their duffs (which is about 20% of the time)..you can tell the author photographs mostly sitting subjects - he may as well be a still photographer!And when he talks about onset and offset lighting, he says arrange it until it looks good - nothing is said about broad or short lighting and how it can flatter a thin or round face....He forgot about the most important thing - the subject.I teach a photographic lighting class, and this would not even be close to the book I would recommend.If you really want to learn about lighting, buy the book called: Set Lighting Technician's Handbook for film lighting equipment, Practice and electrical distribution by Harry C. Box.(this is really his name)....Anyhow, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my expensive copy of Lighting for Video - I may use it for my next subject to sit on to raise their elevation for a photo - that's about all it is good for. Sorry, but horrible attempt at giving good examples of real life lighting situations - MOVEMENT !!

Excellent detail for the beginner
Lighting for video (or film) is really an artform in itself.Using different combinations of light sources can make your shot look fantastic.............but you really need to know what you're doing.This book teaches you that.It goes into great detail about electricity and how easy it is to overload a circuit and damage equipment, or worse yet, start a fire.Extremely important information to know.I've seen too many people who just plug lights in willy-nilly and when the inevitable disaster strikes just throw the breaker switch and 'give it another go'.This is essential reading for anyone wanting to use lighting for their productions.

The Best I've Seen
This book is very detailed but lays things out in a way that
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detailled information
this book isnt easy to read. the illustration could be better. but on the other hand it is full of very detailed information about control of various electrical maschines (with sensors, sensorless and DTC). it gives a complete introduction to the space vector theory. a short review of different electrical maschines is also present. a basic understand of electrical maschines whould by helpfull reading this book.

Sensorless Vector and DirectTorque Control(Monograph in El
En que consisten los controles de par para motores de corriente alterna, especialmente los que se implementan en variadores de frecuencia, que puedan ser acoplados a compresores de aire, amon?aco o bombas de extracci?nde agua de pozos. son aplicables este tipo de controles?

Sensorless Vector and DirectTorque Control(Monograph in El
En que consisten los controles de par para motores de corriente alterna, especialmente los que se implementan en variadores de frecuencia, que puedan ser acoplados a compresores de aire, amon�aco o bombas de extracci�nde agua de pozos. son aplicables este tipo de controles? ... Read more

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Worse Book Ever
Absolute waste of money. The Motorolla website has more information than does this book. The author has made many many mistakes on about 60% of his sample problems. DON'T BUY.

Great code examples
This book has great examples of coding.The book will step through an example, then give more examples for you to try with solutions.The book's appendix is packed full of good references.It includes the assembly language op codes with details on the CCR changes, and ASCII table, review of binary and 2's compliment arithmetic operations, and more.This is a great reference or addition to any books you currently have. ... Read more

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The best intermediate level Mechanical Desktop Book
Simple, precise and organized are the perfect adjectives for this book. It�s amazing how the book guide you in an easy way through it chapters. Mechanical Desktop 6.0
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Best book on the market for the HCS12
I'm an Electrical Enigineering student and do a lot of work with the Freescale MC9S12 family of 16-bit microcontrollers.After using just about every other book on the market for the HC(S)12 family, I can honestly say that this one is the best - by far.It's definitely the only one you will need on your desk if you work with these chips.The thing that makes it so useful is the wealth of code included in the text - both in assembly and C.Most books on the topic just include assembly, which is a fine place to start, but most of my work is done in C.So having the addition of the extra language is a huge selling point for me.And this book is for JUST the S12 family; it doesn't try to confuse things by adding the older HC12 family.The author includes code for everything that he goes over; and not just one or two snippets, there are many full examples for each of the topics covered.The author thoroughly discusses all of the hardware aboard the S12.It's like he takes the Freescale User Guides, interprets them into a form that's very easy to understand, and then gives you the code, both in assembly and C, to perform the task that was just explained.The author chose to use AsmIDE, MiniIDE, and GNU C for the code in the book.These software tools are freeware which makes the book more appealing to students or those without high-dollar development tools.In addition, they're included in the CD that comes with the book, and since they are freeware IDE's, they have no memory size restriction like the tools included with many other book CD's.Also, a plethora of practical applications are presented such as interfacing the S12 with stepper and DC motors, Servos, keypads, LCD's, external memory and much more.It also explains how to program the onboard Flash memory using both the resident booloader and a BDM.No other book that I have found even comes close to presenting just these two topics as well as Dr. Huang does.Before I had this book, I spent weeks trying to figure out Flash programming and Interrupts.This book makes it simple.Also, if you're just starting out and not familiar with a programming language, this book begins at the ground level introducing assembly and C.Basically, this is THE textbook on how to make the HCS12 microcontroller work.I use mine constantly and all of my other books just sit on the shelf - honestly.Come to think of it, the copy I have isn't even mine but my professor's :) To sum it up, I love this book because it's completely up-to-date, easy to use, and applicable to actual applications that one is likely use with the HCS12.You can tell that Dr. Huang actually uses the S12 and knows what he's talking about; not just a professor writing a text for an academic audience.This book is completely thorough and made to be used in the field.Money well invested!Thank-you Dr. Huang for such a great book! ... Read more

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OK, but not great
As some of the other reviewers mentioned, this book is lacking in some critical details. I am only about 120 pages into it and have found some parts to be very confusing, particularly when it comes to the sequence of operations. Unfortunatly there are not many books about Rhino so I felt cornered into buying it. Do not pay full price to get a new one. I paid $8.00

For beginners only
The best thing about this book is it's colorful cover; the contents disappoint.When compared with a top-tier technical book such as the excellent "AutoCAD Bible", it is poorly organized, it's examples are confusing, and many explanations are downright befuddling.One example: one draws in viewports similar to AutoCAD's.The default layout is the standard Top, Front, Side (left or right), and perspective. The actual drawing entities are either established with the pointing device or entered as X,Y,Z coordinates via the command line.So far, so good.However, using the mouse to add entities to an existing object in 3D space yields unexpected results because Mr. Cheng has neglected to tell you that unless you pick the object using OBJECT SNAP, your entities will be drawn on the viewport's default construction plane which is at the origin.You overcome this by moving the construction plane through space to the location where you want to draw, but this crucial bit of information is inexplicably withheld until page 437!
Inside Rhinoceros Is the best book for BEGINNER !!!
100% a great book for beginner to start how to use Rhinoceros Version 2.0Read more

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The State of the Art as it Exists Today (2006)
I suppose that anyone even thinking about this book realizes that without ways to automate the design today's ever more sophisticated and ever larger chips simply wouldn't exist. There would be no way to manually keep track of the billions of connections required. There would be no laptops, cell phones, digital cameras or any of the other neat little electronic gadgets that we have today.
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Excellent introduction to manipulator analysis and control
This is the book nicely describing kinematics, statics, and dynamics of manipulators. There is a strong mathematics tool used but very understandable. I reccommend the books to students or teachers ofkinematics for its nice mathematical description. I wish to find the booksof the same clarity for other topics I teach. ... Read more

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Perhaps one star is too much
It appears that a lot of the contents were copied or gleened from other books.
The 8051 by Mazidi & Mazidi
The books only covers basics. They have not touched many of the areas such as RTC etc. Many of the topics are not covered in depth. They should also have touched the topic of programming 8051 with C and C++ or they can write a seperate book for this topic.

An Excellent book for starting your first project in 8051
It is a great book for beginners ,It has been very useful for my first project ,It explains how to start programming and designing the 8051 microcontroller ,and I advice every engineer student who wants to get a good start in using 8051 in one of his projects to take access of this book. ... Read more

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Verbose, dull, and utterly uninspiring
This textbook was a requirement for a graduate-level course taught by (guess who?) Dr. Betz.I had read the entire book before the class even started (thank god for coffee), and I re-read every chapter as the semester progressed.I received an 'A' on every assignment, which is good, considering that I was bored out of my mind with the material.The book has a few interesting anecdotes, and a lot of page-filler anecdotes.It is more concerned with scientifically correct vocabulary than giving context to concept in plain English (e.g. endless ranting about physical morphologies, schematic logic, and different flavors of paradigms -- YAAAWN).Overall, this forgettable piece of work is reflective of an uninspiring academic.

The Big Picture on Management of Technology
Betz's book qualifies as a "seminal work" on the subject of the Management of Technology. The book is concise and well-written. Too simple and too much introductory -not for grad student
This book is too simple to use as a textbook.It's a nice book for undergrad class in business school or introductory class of management in engineering fields.Again, this is not the book that can be used as atextbook at all.Too simple and spend half book just for "roughlytalking".Reader can found more reviews in "Interfaces, Vol.29,(2), 1999", in Book review section.The economic of technology is themore important is ignored in this book.Not recommend. ... Read more

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Reviews (31)

Outdated and provides little useful information
I'm afraid I need to disagree with the professor's review. If you are at all interested in the PIC microcontrollers and use of PIC Basic you would be best served looking elsewhere for inspiration. John Iovine's book is poorly written in so many ways that even someone new to microcontrollers would find very little use for it. Aside from his writing style being somewhat confusing, this book is full of outdated information. With a publishing date of 2004 I was suprised to find so much information applied to applications and hardware from the 90's inside. Aside from this, which in and of itself is reason enough not to waste your time or money on it, he doesn't list any resources in his text. For example, he makes mention of serial LCD's, but doesn't provide any specific examples of vendors or models and makes claim that they all work the same, which is not true. His projects are the same basic beginners projects you can find all over the internet for free and are less descriptive than those you might find elsewhere. There isn't a single PCB design in the book and he demonstrates all of his projects with a breadboard. Most unfortunate, is the pictures he provides of the finished breadboards - they are taken at an angle, far enough away from the breadboard that not only could you not use the picture to validate your own breadboard design, you can barely tell what is what on the breadboard at all. On top of everything else, he explores only the PIC16F84 chip, which while one of the more popular chipsets ever produced by Microchip, is also outdated information since Microchip has since updated this to the PIC16F84A model and he doesn't cover any other chipset in any detail. One or two of his projects and examples show a different chipset in the schematic, but that's about it. His exploration of the BASIC language is no more or less descriptive than, say, the users guide of the PIC Basic language itself (which you can get for free). There are also many omissions and errors throughout the book, specifically as they apply to his projects. For example, his H-Bridge DC motor controller design is not smokeless (you could easily fry the PIC and/or other components in this design) and is missing several key components (like capacitors) that would prevent the design from working in a real world application. He also has a half a dozen or so shameless plugs throughout the book pointing you to 'other books he has written' to get more information - if this book is any example of what you might find in his other books, you'd be best to stay away from this author altogether. The cover of this book claims it is 'Completley updated and revised' - I guess this means the first edition was really horrible, the second edition is, in my opinion, simply not worth the read.

Excellent starting point
When I bought the previous edition of this book, I couldn't put it down. I had no idea how easy PIC BASIC was, and that you can get PIC chips for free!
Excellent place to start with microcontrollers
This is a great book for learning a "beginner's basics" in microcollers.I give it four stars because of the misleading cover images of robots.There is nothing in the book about making a complete robot, but there are good basic microcontroller applications that could be used in a robot.In other words, there are PIC Basic programs where the reader can see real world applications while learning how to program and set up circuits. ... Read more

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Machines only mimic behaviour, not human action.
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Reviews (9)

Excellent source for the right person
This is an excellent source for the right person who is looking for it. If you are looking to find the nuts and bolts of Bluetooth profiles and what is under the wraps then you will find this book fascinating to read and do what ever you do. All you care is writing applications on bluetooth and looking for a book that can guide you, then this is probably not yours.

Just an amazing book.
I lent this book to a friend of mine and he refused to give it back, forcing me to be purchase another copy.What can I say Bluetooth Profiles IS the definitive guide to Bluetooth.No developer should be without a copy.

Good advice for Bluetooth deveopers
Amidst a near tidal wave of technological advances it is inevitable that a book discussing each breakthrough is bound to follow.Bluetooth Profiles emerged in the wake of this revolutionary wireless technology alongside many other books on the subject.It is my preferred choice, primarily because the author, Gratton, broaches the subject with such enthusiasm and respect for the development involved in taking Bluetooth to the consumer. ... Read more

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