books about: primer     books:       Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford ...5 reviews Michael Baxandall Oxford University Press, USA, 1988 A classic study of the vocabulary of Renaissance painting I find it strange that many people find it strange that one might read a book like this one for fun. Twice in one day I had people approach me and ask me for what class I was reading this, as if there are books one reads only in school and books one reads in real life. I did read this in real life, and I read it for three reasons: 1) I knew this is a highly regarded book in art criticism, 2) it ...             C++ Primer Plus (5th Edition)53 reviews Stephen Prata Sams, 2004 Excellent! This book is great. This really breaks down C++ programming into easily manageable steps. It's better than any programming book that I have purchased in the past. Just like with anything that you want to learn you are going to have to spend some time with it. If you want to learn the basics and start coding today, then this book is for you!             Aventuras: Primer Curso de Lengua Espanola - Student Edition1 review Philp Redwine, Donley, ... Vista Higher Learning, 2006 Shop your courses carefully You have to visit the publisher's website in order to learn that this is supposed to be a two-semester course book. Many books tell you what their intent is. This one doesn't. A two-year college in my area uses it as a four-semester text. Another nearby two-year college uses another text for first- and second-year Spanish (according to their bookstore). Of course the book is not the course, ...             The Garden Primer: Second Edition8 reviews Barbara Damrosch Workman Publishing Company, 2008 Even better than the first edition I have long been a fan of the first edition and was pleased to hear the author on the radio recently. The second edition is newly updated and includes many details for organic gardeners which I enjoy. It is comprehensive in nature and well organized. It is the definitive garden book. You just can't do better.             Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)9 reviews Christopher Hallinan Prentice Hall PTR, 2006 Excellent survey I am an experienced embedded developer that just inherited an embedded Linux-based project already in progress. As there happens to be no one else at my company with any embedded Linux experience, I automatically became the de-facto Linux expert and I needed to come up to speed on a lot of topics very quickly. I found this book to be an excellent survey of the must-know topics for the embedded ...             A Primer of Drug Action7 reviews Robert M. Julien Worth Publishers, 2007 Very honest The seller was very honest about the condition of the book and shipped promptly.             The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Third Edition80 reviews Lora D. Delwiche, Susan J. Slaughter SAS Publishing, 2003 excellent reference for beginners and those needing a refresher This book is concise and has many of the key ideas that beginning SAS programmers need. It is a good reference even for advanced SAS programmers but does not go far beyond the basics. If you use SAS regularly this will not have enough information for you. However, it is the quickest way to find out how to do something basic that you either have never done or forgot how to do. I only have the 2nd ...             The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)332 reviews Neal Stephenson Spectra, 2000 A remarkable vision of the future, that doesn't quite become tangible The Diamond Age is an ambitious book, and one that kept me enthralled through about 350 of its 450 or so pages and then impatiently waiting for what turned out to be a highly improbable, fairly confusing, Hollywood style ending (where at all odds and in spite of massive casualties on all sides and the cataclysmic world-changing significance of the events they are caught up in, all of the main ...             Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists1 review Robert L. McCarthy, Kenneth W. Schafermeyer Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2007 New book shouldn't be priced that high I honestly couldn't get into the book. With the price I paid for a brand new book, I expected more. This primer is definitely that, a primer full of very basic knowledge. For example, my class studied economics and the health care system near the beginning of the semester. When I started to read the chapter in the book, I realized it was nothing more than a review of my economics course ...             Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer (5th Edition) (Health & ... James F. McKenzie, Brad L. Neiger, ... Benjamin Cummings, 2008 Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer, provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the practical and theoretical skills needed to plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs in a variety of settings. The Fifth Edition features updated information throughout, including new theories and models such as the Healthy Action Process Approach (HAPA) and the Community Readiness Model (CRM), ...             A Primer Of Ecological Statistics8 reviews Nicholas J. Gotelli, Aaron M. Ellison Sinauer Associates, 2004 Absolutely the best intro stats book for ecologists I'm a biologist and a writer. I am not a mathematician. This book presents a broad array of statistical concepts in a way that even I can understand. You won't have to reread paragraph after paragraph, because the text is completely straightforward. Don't expect to use this as your stand-alone statistics reference, but do expect to use it as a primary source for ecology-related techniques. A ...             A Pilates' Primer : The Millennium Edition18 reviews Joseph Pilates, Judd Robbins Presentation Dynamics, 2000 A pilates Primer by Joseph pilates outstanding book about joseph pilates and the pilates system. i use this text in a credit course for pilates mat at smith college             A Primer in Positive Psychology4 reviews Christopher Peterson Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 The Top Ten Reasons to Love Chris Peterson's "Primer in Positive Psychology" At Coaching Toward Happiness and at MentorCoach, we write about the leading figures in positive psychology and in coaching and talk to them in live teleconference interviews. We interviewed Chris three times. His new book is exceptional. Here's why: =================== 1. It's The Best. =================== Okay. This is arguably the best introduction to positive ...             A Primer of Biblical Greek12 reviews N. Clayton Croy Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 Excellent Starting Point N. Clayton Croy's grammar for New Testament Greek is a great place to start learning the language. I've just completed the book, which is the standard classroom text at schools such as Princeton Theological Seminary. Croy is quite accessible and lays out the basics of grammar in 32 concise lessons. Vocab is nicely distributed to match the subject of the lesson, and of course there are a lot of ...             Speech Science Primer: Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech2 reviews Lawrence J Raphael, Gloria J Borden, ... Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006 "Speech Science" the best primer is updated This text has, for the past 10 years, been the best and most prestigious of introductory books in our field. It is a fine lead-in for students wondering how speech is constructed. A follow-on for the more advanced student is my "Acoustics of Speech Communication: Fundamentals, Speech Perception Theory and Technology" 1999, Allyn and Bacon. J.M. Pickett             A Primer on Postmodernism20 reviews Stanley J. Grenz Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996 Excellent summary of Postmodernism Grenz book is written in a very scholarly tone, but not so much as to render it useless to a person more accustomed to lay-speak. He omits nothing to make the read easier, but definitely write concisely, never diverging into redundant blabber. The only thing I would note about this book is that Grenz is a Christian Minister who openly rejects Postmodernism. The first chapter of the book and the ...             Basic Reading Inventory: Pre-Primer Through Grade Twelve And Early Literacy Assessments4 reviews Jerry L. Johns Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2005 Find Instructional Reading Levels Efficiently and Effectively This inventory has many improvements from prior Johns editions. As always, the Johns is easy to administer. This version provides accurate instructional reading levels in a timely fashion with improved student texts and comprehension questions. The CD is easy to use and simplifies copying. As a teacher, this purchase is worthy of my time and money.             C++ Primer (4th Edition)136 reviews Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005 Best C++ book in my personal collection In the last year i had two computer science exams about C++ programming. I had never seriously studied programming before, so i was surprised with almost infinite potentialities of this language. However, modern C++ is a lot different from the one most books try to teach: i've got a lot of C++ books like Deitels' and Schlidt's, but all they offer is a overview of a "pre-standard-like" C++: a ...             The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer6 reviews Sandra Scofield Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Vivid Scenes Engage Readers Novelist Stephanie Cowell brought The Scene Book to my attention, and I'm grateful. Sandra Scofield packs her slim volume with essential and well-organized information on creating scenes with a pulse--the life-blood of engaging storytelling in print and on stage and screen. As both a novelist and playwright, I've gained useful insights from this book, which apply to my own writing, and I've ...             Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the Human Services2 reviews Jerry V. Diller Brooks Cole, 2006 A Great Text Several years ago, I adopted this textbook for the course I teach in cross-cultural counseling. I have not regreted that decision since. This deceptively thin and relatively inexpensive text is jammed full of up-to-date and useful information about cross cultural counseling, diagnosis and assessment. The writing style is clear and concise. It is highly readable, because the author does not go ...              search for books acoustics, assessments, aventuras, biblical, development, diversity, ecological, evaluating, experience, fifteenth, fifteenth-century, illustrated, implementing, introduction, inventory, kinesiology, millennium, paperbacks, perception, pharmacists, physiology, pictorial, positive, postmodernism, practical, pre-primer, promotion, psychology, real-world, statistics books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen VHS: Days of Thunder home  impressum - about us