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Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (Essential ...
Stephen M. Stahl
Cambridge University Press, 2008
The one book that needs to be in your library
Dr. Stahl and Nancy Munter have outdone themselves once again. While the bar they have set is always high, this is the best book they have produced to date. Details are rich and easily understood - they even include tyramine content by brand. Everyone involved in ...
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Advanced Grammar in Use With CD ROM (Grammar in Use)
Martin Hewings
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Excellent for Teachers and students
If you are giving English lçessons this is the right book. Divided into simple steps the book provides you an excellent gide to your classes or self study.
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The Art of Electronics
Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Great refresher and then some
It is obvious to some that this book would contain material for the design of electronics but everyone who has any interest in the subject could just as easily learn electronics by giving this a read and performing some of the practice problems. I wish this was my ...
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English Grammar In Use with Answers and CD ROM: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate ...
Raymond Murphy
Cambridge University Press, 2004
very useful book
This book is very good self-study helper. People,who study English as an ESL should buy it. If I am not sure, I go through this book and look up the word I don't understand.I recommend this reference book to anyone even for the first language people.
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Minimus Pupil's Book: Starting out in Latin (Minimus)
Barbara Bell
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Minimus
I love this whole series. I use it in homeschooling my kids. Latin, while not used in communication, helps in grammar and spelling. I recommend this to any educator.
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The Uses of Argument
Stephen Edelston Toulmin
Cambridge University Press, 2003
Brillant book, giving new insights on our use of reason
It is a book you won't forget. Far from being boring or too technical, it is filled with examples, often funny, that help you to understand better the way our reasoning works. The classical categories are here related to our daily use of reason and the 'human face' ...
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Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models
Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill
Cambridge University Press, 2006
very broad coverage of data analysis with hierarchical models
Andrew Gelman is a top researcher in Bayesian statistics as well as an excellent writer. He has written an excellent text on Bayesian data analysis that uses the Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for dealing with hierarchical linear models. This book starts out on an ...
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The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
Cambridge University Press, 2001
The Heart of Asymmetric Advantage is NOT Technology
This is the only serious book I have been able to find that addresses revolutions in military affairs with useful case studies, a specific focus on whether asymmetric advantages do or do not result, and a very satisfactory executive conclusion. This book is strongly ...
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A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
Daniel Fleisch
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Epiphany of clarity!
Maxwell's equations represent a comprehensive and descriptive condensation of (once believed to be disparate) electromagnetic phenomena, into a gloriously concise set of self-consistent (albeit arcane) mathematical statements. Daniel Fleisch has lucidly crafted ...
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Essential Psychopharmacology: The Prescriber's Guide: Revised and Updated Edition (Essential ...
Stephen M. Stahl
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Essential Psychopharmacology: the Prescriber's Guide
Great book! I went to a training by the author on polypharmacy in the treatment of individuals with mental illnesses. I then bought his general "Essential Psychopharmacology" book that was fairly complex, but the cartoons made the information fairly understandable ...
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Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1 Omnibus Workbook North American edition (North American Cambridge Latin Course)
North American Cambridge Classics Project
Cambridge University Press, 2001
A teacher's teacher!
As a Latin tutor with over three years experience with teaching this language, and several years of learning it, this text was a surprise. Not only did it offer me better ways to use the Cambridge readers with my pupils, it also provided me with new information that I ...
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Excellent Summary On The Evolution of Western Warfare
As with its political and economic systems, Western Europe came to develop very unique military institutions that had evolved from Greco-Roman military doctrines applying war as a science and as a precise instrument towards defined political ends: emphasizing on ...
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)
Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Cambridge University Press, 1999
An interesting perspective on Chinese history
I'm a Chinese living in China. Because of politicized history accounts in China after 1949 I have little interest in official history books in Chinese. But I like this book very much; for me it provides a totally new perspective on the evolution of our culture, peoples ...
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Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing
William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, ...
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Essential book on scientific computing
Fifteen years after its previous edition, this peerless book on scientific computing has been upgraded with some very welcome changes. Not only have some advances in scientific computing been incorporated, the explanations are even clearer and more detailed than ...
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Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them
Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Great roadmap for finding nighttime sky objects
This is an excellent book for amateur astronomers who would like direction on exactly where and how to find 100 of the most interesting nighttime sky objects -- nebula, planets, galaxies, double-doubles, star clusters, etc. Be advised that this is not a coffee table ...
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