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In this updated edition the main thrust is on applied Kalman filtering. Chapters 1-3 provide a minimal background in random process theory and the response of linear systems to random inputs. The following chapter is devoted to Wiener filtering and the remainder of the text deals with various facets of Kalman filtering with emphasis on applications. Starred problems at the end of each chapter are computer exercises. The authors believe that programming the equations and analyzing the results of specific examples is the best way to obtain the insight that is essential in engineering work. ... Read more

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Amazon is great, book is tough sledding
I received the book in a orderly fashion, new and paperback just as described.

The book is good, but is pretty tough to read unless you have seen the material before.

Lacking explanations as a textbook
I am trying to learn the subject by reading this and Gelb. Even though this book covers a lot of introductory concepts, it is lacking proper derivation of equations that I usually see in most math and physics textbooks. I find this book very disappointing for its price.

what you need to get started
I have read over simplified and over complicated descriptions
of the Kalman filter for years.The theoretical discussion is
well matched to the examples. THe authors have obviously had
extensive experiance TEACHING to a wide range of students and
the book benefits from their experiance.

I was able to program filters for three of the examples that
most closely match my own applications and exploit what I
learned in a matter of hours. The MATLAB code was useful, but
not critical.

what you need to get started
I have read over simplified and over complicated descriptions
of the Kalman filter for years.The theoretical discussion is
well matched to the examples. THe authors have obviously had
extensive experiance TEACHING to a wide range of students and
the book benefits from their experiance.

I was able to program filters for three of the examples that
most closely match my own applications and exploit what I
learned in a matter of hours. The MATLAB code was useful, but
not critical.

Best Kalman filter book
I use this book on a daily basis.It is worth its weight in gold. ... Read more

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Embodying Healing : Integrating Bodywork & Psychotherapy in
This book is the most straightforward and inclusive book I have ever read on the subject.The authors have professional and personal experience with dealing with the trauma of childhood sexual abuse.They don't shy away from any of the hard truths that one will have to confront during recovery, but they make one aware that as a survivor, they have already lived through the hardest part.The authors emphasize the fact that abuse happens to one's body, and that the body cannot be left out of the healing process.This book covers various methods of integrating the body and the mind in one's recovery, and contains many useful resources for the survivor, body worker, and therapist.This book is especially good in its ability to recognize male abuse survivors, but this book is not in any way exclusively for men.If you find this book helpful, you may also be interested in the following titles: Alive and Well: A Workbook for Recovering Your Bodyby Rita Ph.D Justice --The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis--The Courage to Heal : A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass (Preface), Laura Davis --Other authors that are inspirational on one's personal journey are:Marion Woodman, Nancy Qualls-Corbett, Marie-Luise Von Franz ... Read more

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Creative Postproduction explains the creative aspects of film and video postproduction so as to enhance the understanding and appreciation of film and television.This book provides essential insight into the postproduction process for general film students; those headed for careers as directors, cinematographers, producers, or writers; and those who want to pursue a career in the area of postproduction itself.

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Temple Slave tells the story of the Espresso Buono, the archetypal alternative performance space, and the wildly talented misfits who called it home in the 60s. The Buono became the birthplace of underground theaterand the personal and social consciousness that would lead to Stonewall and the modern gay and lesbian movement. Temple Slave is a page from gay historya riotous tour de force peppered with the verbal fireworks and insight that are the hallmark of Patricks work. ... Read more

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I've given this book 4 times as a gift...
Usually books that know how smart they are get on my nerves. As a reader, I'm all non-fiction and fluffy-escapist summer novels. Maybe that's why I love this book -- it's something in between, with humor, wit, and images so vivid, I read and re-read passages. It's never overdrawn, always genuine, and a glimpse into a time in the world that I'd known nothing about (having been born about a two decades too late to enjoy it) from other than an intellectual perspective. But Patrick's novel makes me wish I were there...

Hysterical Historical Novel
"Simon, set the way-back machine for the Sixties." But unlike so many nostalgic wallows, Robert Patrick's coy fictionalization of life at "Cafe Buono" based on his very real life experiences at thegrounbreaking Cafe Cino delightfully recapture tumultous, hilarious andtouching times. Written in the form of a correspondence to a compatriot inthe Off-Off Broadway theatrical revolution he co-founded, its a love letterto us all, gay and straight and every wonderful shade in between. Think ofwhat a "This Is Your Life" segment would be like if Oscar Wildehosted it....

Anger in its proper place
I was totally taken with this story of the birth of performance art and off-off Broadway.Robert Patrick appears to be writing a novel in Temple Slave (the names have been changed to protect the innocent, so to speak) but in fact gives a wonderfully angry, sweet, sad, touching, detailed and often thrilling account of his experiences as a writer, performer and gay man in New York in the 60s.There's also tons of sex but so what, if Edmund White can do it (re: THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY) why can't Robert Patrick?And if you've ever questioned the value of Warhol and Pop Art you will be as tickled as I was to find that you are not alone. ... Read more

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"A masterful book...one of the most thorough books on rhetoric I've seen."--Olivia Castellano, California State University, Sacramento
"A beautiful work.The first text I have so far seen that operates fully from the principles we have learned about writing and the teaching of writing in the last fiftenn years."--Ronald Shook
A dramatic, invention-centered approach to the teaching of writing skills, this comprehensive text actively involves students in the writing process, drawing on the language capabilities they bring to the classroom. ... Read more

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Drawing on extensive scholarship and the poet's own inimitableletters, this edition offers a wealth of information on Burns's life,the hardships of his early days, his political beliefs, his hatred ofinjustice, and his fate as a writer too often sentimentalized bybiographers and critics. Through his poetry, and as if for the firsttime, we see Burns as a radical figure in a British as well as aScottish context, the peer of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, andByron in the revolutionary and repressive world of the1790s. Containing recently attributed and never-before-published poemsdemonstrating that the poet's political sympathies were more radicalthan he could safely put his name to in public, The Canongate Burnsalso includes the sexually scandalous verses known as "The MerryMuses," originally circulated only in handwritten copies. This majorand definitive edition offers vitally fresh insights into theirreverent spirit and the democratic convictions of Scotland'sgreatest poet. ... Read more

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Canongate has one "n"(see review below)
One of the reviewers below suggests the general level of critics of this book in apparently not knowing how to spell the name of the press.

The Canongate Burns has many typographical errors and should not be used as the only source one has of Burns's texts.It has, however, admirable notes outlining Burns's political writings of his last years.Several probable new works by Burns have been uncovered by the authors (and they are clearly labeled as works that appeared anonymously or under pseudonyms in newspapers).

In bringing Burns out of the shadows of "Holy Willie" self-righteousness and bardolatry,this edition is much to be commended.James Kinsley (The Oxford Standard authors) is to be preferred as your popular text of the poems, but if you want to know more and are truly interested in Burns and the political contexts in which he wrote, the Canongate Burns is an inimitable gloss on Burns as a person and on the ideas behind the poetry.

Poppycock
The Cannongate Burns has been thoroughly debunked as rubbish of the highest order by legitimate Burns scholars both in the US and Scotland.Three of the most predominate scholars of Burns who have disavowed not only the total lack of scholarship in the book but the obvious absolute disregard of research and validation of their facts by both Noble and Hogg are Ross Roy, Professor emeritus atThe University of South Carolina and recognized as one of the world's most knowledgeable Burns scholars,Gerard Carruthers,member of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (member of council); Scottish Catholic Historical Association; Newman Association (Chair of Glasgow Circle); and the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society as well as a lecturing professor of English Studies at the University of Glasgow and Dr. James A. Mackay author of the 1992 Saltire Literary Award winning 'Burns' A biography of Robert Burns which is today recognized as the diffinative Burns biography of the 20th century and who is considered among world's foremost Burns Scholars.I am sorry that readers have been taken in by the trash called the Cannongate Burns but there it is. Shirley Kacmarik

An affordable, provocative edition
This is an exciting edition which I, as a beginning reader of Burns, find myself picking up again and again. In offering the reader a radical Burns, rather than the folksy popular bard, editors Noble and Hogg bring clarity to the image of the poet, though I sometimes worry that it's a false clarity. Their desire to replace the porchiness of the old image with one of radical potency comes through in a sentence like this, describing Burns's challenge to the conservative pro-Hanoverian establishment: "They were faced with someone hyper-literate, fecundly allusive to a degree far beyond their powers in canonical literary and biblical tradition, who could not only talk their pants off but, it was feared, those of their wives and daughters as well" (lii). Burns thereby gets turned into a Jacobinic superhero who had the aristocracy secretly shaking in their boots. This seems like a bit of critical wish-fulfillment. Though hardly unknown, Burns did not have the celebrity that Scott would later have.

Perhaps just as problematic, their repeated aligning of Burns with Romantic poets like Wordsworth implies that Burns was a self-originating genius. While Noble and Hogg offer a magisterial indictment of Burns's posthumous de-politicization which anyone interested in the period should read, they spend far less time commenting on his much more obscure 18th-century sources. While they discuss the contemporary historical situation of Scotland well, they offer no information at all about dialect verse, a tradition which after all Burns did not invent in that country. Beneath it all seems to be an almost impossible desire to define Burns as a "national" poet while avoiding anything that might wall him into an "ethnic" tradition.

Despite these Romantic overtones, Noble and Hogg want to position Burns as part of the radical Enlightenment. And the editors' resuscitation of this legacy restores a sense of excitement not only to Burns, but also to the entire period. It's hard not to relish the combative tone with which they hold up Byron's Jacobinism for comparison, even though it seems facile and perhaps wrong: "Was the mine-owning self-dramatizing aristocrat ever under the cosh in the way Burns was? Is individual nihilism of the Byron, Baudelaire variety the necessary prelude to utopian change?" (xci) Their editorial strategies are also innovative; I appreciate the bold decision to append their interpretations after each poem, rather than in the traditional hard-to-reach, tiny-font footnote, or in the old headnote that meekly pretends to "frame" the ensuing poem. These discussions helped to clarify some of the difficult poems, as well as offering something to contend with. All in all, this is among my favorite editions of a major poet, even though I might question some of its methods.

Excellent work
This is an excellent compilation of Burns' work, including many poems that were previously unpublished, unpublished in English language compilations or published under Burns' pseudonyms. The annotations, translations, and commentary are both helpful in understanding and interpreting this evocative and beautiful cornerstone of modern Scottish culture

Excellent work
This is an excellent compilation of Burns' work, including many poems that were previously unpublished, unpublished in English language compilations or published under Burns' pseudonyms. The annotations, translations, and commentary are both helpful in understanding and interpreting this evocative and beautiful cornerstone of modern Scottish culture ... Read more

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Somewhere in my quest to be "The Man", I lost the way to become a man.When God challenged me to examine self, I discovered I didn't know me.With every effort exhausted by human error, it was being still to know God was God that carried me to the place where I first became lost.It was after WOMAN had been created, when MAN first felt complete.There will come a time with every man when he desires completion.In the moment men adhere to guidance by the almighty, is the moment he shows you who you are.Once a man admits he is not a man, then he will fine his ability to become one."Mushey" ... Read more

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What I have learned from Patrick Glenn
From the passage about his temptation with Basil, I found Patrick Glenn to be a fornicator and a liar.I had to examine the impetus behind this book from the escapades he describes and found that the hypocrisy is so stark, that is dominates and casts a gloomy shadow in his real life.I found this memoir the saga of a serial killer, "a womanizer", who abuses women through their integral vulnerabilities, the sex and their baby.

One Sunday afternoon when I was three months pregnant with my first child, Patrick Glenn told me "I will never leave you."I am 25 years old and Patrick exploited me, leaving me without any support by the time we were 5 months into our pregnancy.If you read this autobiographical piece, you must evaluate the author's character.

I can't imagine how many tears and how brutal his relationship with his first wife's was, and this is what he did to me.

I ejoyed the book
I really enjoyed Mr. Glenn's book.
I found it interesting. How many men do we know, who are willing to admit the wrong they've done? Not many! The poems were my favorite part of the book.
I was able to hear Mr. Glenn speak at an event about two months ago. Mr. Glenn has a coat of many colors.
He is the National Spokesman for New Order Human Rights Organization. He is also a motivational speaker and a single father. I enjoyed the book. Having met Mr. Glenn I find it amazing how God has used Mr. Glenn.

Confessions of a Womanizer
Debut author, Robert Patrick Glenn, bares his heart and soul in his first literary offering, What Women Teach: One Man's Journey.Beginning with his mother, Glenn chronologically informs the reader of his experiences with women.He uses a no holds barred approach and tells it all-the good, the bad, and the ugly.The work, as the author describes, is "a book of poetry with a story in between," meaning that after each chapter, the author presents a correlating poetic work.

While reading What Women Teach, I was hoping that the author showed more insight as to what he learned from the women in his life.The book began and ended with this premise; however, the bulk of the book only tells of how Glenn exploited and used women.A self-proclaimed narcissist, Glenn at times seems proud of his philandering and "player" ways.Although at the end he seemed to truly be repentant for all of his wrongdoings, I felt as though he should have put much more emphasis on the knowledge that he acquired as opposed to all of his drama. Overall, the book was an average read, although I enjoyed the commentary Glenn provided on his views of the family and the state of the Black family. For this reviewer, it was his poetry that definitely enhanced the work as a whole.

Reviewed by Latoya Carter-Qawiyy
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Characterization and Metrology for ULSI Technology, held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, June 26-29, 2000. Topics covered included front end processes, contamination and defect analysis, and lithography. Includes a CD-ROM for use with the text. System requirements not listed. ... Read more

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In a developing information society, the members of the European Federation for Medical Informatics are keen to develop the dissemination of health information to the public at large. Health care should be safe, effective, efficient and patient-centred. Moreover, the health system should be more transparent. It should make information available to patients and their families that allows them to make informed decisions when choosing among alternative treatments or clinical practices. Information technology must play a central role in the redesign of building an information infrastructure to support health care delivery, consumer health, quality measurement and improvement, and clinical education. The extensive use of the web by patients and laymen for health information, challenges us to build information services that are easily accessible and trustworthy. The evolution towards a semantic web is one of the topics that is addressed in this book. Papers on the state of the art of more classical topics covering all the fields of biomedical informatics are also included. ... Read more

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Come spend the night with twice thirteen vampyr poets.Let their verses tickle your ribs, penetrate your heart, and even leave you bleeding.All they ask in return is a little immortality.Vampyr Verse contains 79 poems, plus a short story, all devoted to that mysterious figure-the vampyr! These selections run the gamut from pensive haiku to whimsical limericks to deadly serious free verse, and everything between. At 86 pages, the book makes an excellent gift for anyone aged 13 or older. ... Read more

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wonderful little book
Disclaimer: I am a contributor to this book.That said, I find this volme from Popcorn Press a delightful collection of poetry.From haiku to limericks to a ghazal, and a short story as well, these poems touch on classic to modern (Twilight, anyone?) themes. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more