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This robust text provides deep and wide coverage of the full range of topics encountered in the field of image processing and machine vision. As a result, it can serve undergraduates, graduates, researchers, and professionals looking for a readable reference. The book's encyclopedic coverage of topics is wide, and it can be used in more than one course (both image processing and machine vision classes). In addition, while advanced mathematics is not needed to understand basic concepts (making this a good choice for undergraduates), rigorous mathematical coverage is included for more advanced readers. It is also distinguished by its easy-to-understand algorithm descriptions of difficult concepts, and a wealth of carefully selected problems and examples.

Sales Rank: #966128 in Books
Published on: 2007-03-19
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: 1.46" h x 8.34" w x 9.24" l, 3.41 pounds
Binding: Hardcover
872 pages

From the Back Cover
Vision allows humans to perceive and understand the world surrounding them; computer vision aims to duplicate human vision by electronically perceiving and understanding an image. Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision is a comprehensive introduction to the field providing up-to-date coverage of all aspects of the subject. This book reflects the authors' experience in teaching one and two semester undergraduate and graduate courses in Digital Image Processing, Digital Image Analysis, Machine Vision and Intelligent Robotics, it is also influenced by their active research in these area. Many algorithms, diagrams, examples and up-to-date references make this book required reading for students and professionals involved in computer vision.

About the Author
Milan Sonka is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa. His research interests include medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis, and machine vision.

Vaclav Hlavac is Professor of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University, Prague. his research interests are knowledge based image analysis, 3D model-based vision and relations between statistical and structural pattern recognition.

Roger Boyle is Professor Emeritus of Computing and was Head of the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, England where his research interests are low-level vision and pattern recognition.

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Five Stars
By MR ADAM ROBINSON
Helped with my PhD!

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Great comprehensive reference, bad as a textbook
By calvinnme
I really love this book as far as having many algorithms in the area of image analysis and computer vision spelled out in both mathematical terms and algorithmic steps. Just about every subsection of the book has the format of mathematical equations that perform a particular vision task followed by the algorithm in numbered steps and accompanied by very good figures. What is lacking is any explanation on what is going on as well as a "big picture" viewpoint - why would you want to perform this transform in the first place? For those of us who know the whys and just need the hows, this is a great book. For the novice and the student, I can just imagine this book would be incomprehensible as a textbook. This book is also recommended to students taking a college course in robotics. Most robotics texts give you plenty of narrative on subjects such as the kalman filter or particle filter, but fail to deliver the goods on how to do it. This book gets you there. The product description does not list the table of contents, so I do that next. Note that I am reviewing the third edition, published in 2007.

1. Introduction
Motivation / Why is Computer Vision Difficult? / Image Representation and Image Analysis Tasks / Summary / References

2. The Image, its Representations and Properties
Image Representations, a Few Concepts / Image Digitization / Sampling / Quantization / Digital Image Properties / Metric and Topological Properties of Digital Images / Histograms / Entropy / Visual Perception of the Image / Image Quality / Noise in Images / Color Images / Physics of Color / Color Perceived by Humans / Color Spaces / Palette Images / Color Constancy / Cameras: An Overview / Photosensitive Sensors / A Monochromatic Camera / A Color Camera / Summary / References

3. The Image, its Mathematical and Physical Background
Overview / Linearity / The Dirac Distribution and Convolution / Linear Integral Transforms / Images as Linear Systems / Introduction to Linear Integral Transforms / 1D Fourier Transform / 2D Fourier Transform / Sampling and the Shannon Constraint / Discrete Cosine Transform / Wavelet Transform / Eigen-Analysis / Singular Value Decomposition / Principle Component Analysis / Other Orthogonal Image Transforms / Images as Stochastic Processes / Image Formation Physics / Images as Radiometric Measurements / Image Capture and Geometric Optics / Lens Aberrations and Radial Distortion / Image Capture from a Radiometric Point of View / Surface Reflectance / Summary / References

4. Data Structures for Image Analysis
Levels of Image Data Representation / Traditional Image Data Structures / Matrices / Chains / Topological Data Structures / Relational Structures / Hierarchical Data Structures / Pyramids / Quadtrees / Other Pyramidal Structures / Summary / References

5. Image Pre-Processing
Pixel Brightness Transformations / Position-Dependent Brightness Correction / Gray-Scale Transformation / Geometric Transformations / Pixel Co-ordinate Transformations / Brightness Interpolation / Local Pre-Processing / Image Smoothing / Edge Detectors / Zero-Crossings of the Second Derivative / Scale in Image Processing / Canny Edge Detection / Parametric Edge Models / Edges in Multi-Spectral Images / Local Detection by Local Pre-Processing Operators / Detection of Corners (Interest Points) / Detection of Maximally Stable Extremal Regions / Image Restoration / Degradations That are Easy to Restore / Inverse Filtration / Wiener Filtration / Summary / References

6. Segmentation I
Thresholding / Threshold Detection Methods / Optimal Thresholding / Multi-Spectral Thresholding / Edge Based Segmentation / Edge Image Thresholding / Edge Relaxation / Border Tracing / Border Detection as graph Searching / Border Detection as Dynamic Programming / Hough Transforms / Border Detection Using Border Location Information / Region Construction from Borders / Region Based Segmentation / Region Merging / Region Splitting / Splitting and Merging / Watershed Segmentation / Region Growing Post-Processing / Matching / Matching Criteria / Control Strategies of Matching / Evaluation Issues in Segmentation / Supervised Evaluation / Unsupervised Evaluation / Summary / References

7. Segmentation II
Mean Shift Segmentation / Active Contour Models - Snakes / Traditional Snakes and Balloons / Extensions / Gradient Vector Flow Snakes / Geometric Deformable Models - Level Sets and Geodesic Active Contours / Fuzzy Connectivity / Towards 3D Graph-Based Image Segmentation / Simultaneous Detection of Border Pairs / Sub-optimal Surface Detection / Graph Cut Segmentation / Optimal Single and Multiple Surface Segmentation / Summary / References

8. Shape Representation and Description
Region Identification / Contour-Based Shape Representation and Description / Chain Codes / Simple Geometric Border Representation / Fourier Transforms of Boundaries / Boundary Description using Segment Sequences / B-Spline Representation / Other Contour-Based Shape Description Approaches / Shape Invariants / Region-Based Shape Representation and Description / Simple Scalar Region Descriptors / Moments / Convex Hull / Graph Representation Based on Region Skeleton / Region Decomposition / Region Neighborhood Graphs / Shape Classes / Summary / References

9. Object Recognition
Knowledge Representation / Statistical Pattern Recognition / Classification Principles / Classifier Setting / Classifier Learning / Support Vector Machines / Cluster Analysis / Neural Nets / Feed-Forward Networks / Unsupervised Learning / Hopefield Neural Nets / Syntactic Pattern Recognition / Grammars and Languages / Syntactic Analysis, Syntactic Classifier / Syntactic Classifier Learning, Grammar Inference / Recognition as Graph Matching / Isomorphism of Graphs and Sub-Graphs / Similarity of Graphs / Optimization Techniques in Recognition / Genetic Algorithms / Simulated Annealing / Fuzzy Systems / Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Membership Functions / Fuzzy Set Operators / Fuzzy reasoning / Fuzzy System Design and Training / Boosting in Pattern Recognition / Summary / References

10. Image Understanding
Image Understanding Control Strategies / Parallel and Serial Processing Control / Hierarchical Control / Bottom-Up Control / Model-Based Control / Combined Control / Non-Hierarchical Control / RANSAC: Fitting via Random Sample Consensus / Point Distribution Models / Active Appearance Models / Pattern Recognition Methods in Image Understanding / Classification-Based Segmentation / Contextual Image Classification / Boosted Cascade of Classifiers for Rapid Object Detection / Scene Labeling and Constraint Propagation / Discrete Relaxation / Probabilistic Relaxation / Searching Interpretation Trees / Semantic Image Segmentation and Understanding / Semantic Region Growing / Genetic Image Interpretation / Hidden Markov Models / Coupled HMMs / Bayesian Belief Networks / Gaussian Mixture Models and Expectation-Maximization / Summary / References

11. 3D Vision, Geometry
3D Vision Tasks / Marr's Theory / Other Vision Paradigms: Active and Purposive Vision / Basics of Projective Geometry / Points and Hyperplanes in Projective Space / Homography / Estimating Homography from Point Correspondences / A Single Perspective Camera / Camera Model / Projection and Back-Projection in Homogeneous Coordinates / Camera Calibration from a Known Scene / Scene Reconstruction from Multiple Views / Triangulation / Projective Reconstruction / Matching Constraints. Bundle Adjustment / Upgrading the Projective Reconstruction, Self Calibration / Two Cameras, Stereopsis / Epipolar Geometry; Fundamental Matrix / Relative Motion of the Camera; Essential Matrix / Decomposing the Fundamental Matrix from Point Correspondences / Rectified Configuration of Two Cameras / Computing Rectification / Three Cameras and Trifocal Tensor / Stereo Correspondence Algorithms / Active Acquisition of Range Images / 3D Information from Radiometric Measurements / Shape from Shading / Photometric Stereo / Summary / References

12. Use of 3D Vision
Shape from X / Shape from Motion / Shape from Texture / Other Shape from X Techniques / Full 3D Objects / 3D Objects, Models, and Related Issues / Line Labeling / Volumetric Representation, Direct Measurements / Volumetric Modeling Strategies / Surface Modeling Strategies / Registering Surface Patches and their Fusion to get a Full 3D Model / 3D Model-Based Vision / General Considerations / Goad's Algorithm / Model-Based Recognition of Curved Objects from Intensity Images / Model-Based Recognition Based on Range Images / 2D View-Based Representations of a 3D Scene / Viewing Space / Multi-View Representations and Aspect Graphs / Geons as a 2D View-based Structural Representation / Visualizing 3D Real-World Scenes Using Stored Collections of 2D Views / 3D Reconstruction from an Unorganized Set of 2D Vies - A Case Study / Summary / References

13. Mathematical Morphology
Basic Morphological Concepts / Four Morphological Principles / Binary Dilation and Erosion / Hit or Miss Transformation / Opening and Closing / Gray-Scale Dilation and Erosion / Top Surface, Umbra, and Gray-Scale Dilation and Erosion / Umbra Homeomorphism Theorem, Properties of Erosion and Dilation, Opening and Closing / Top Hat Transformation / Skeletons and Object Marking / Homotopic Transformations / Skeleton, Maximal Ball / Thinning, Thickening, and Homotopic Skeleton / Quench Function, Ultimate Erosion / Ultimate Erosion and Distance Functions / Geodesic Transformations / Morphological Reconstruction / Granulometry / Morphological Segmentation and Watersheds / Particles Segmentation, Marking, and Watersheds / Binary Morphological Segmentation / Gray-Scale Segmentation, Watersheds / Summary / References

14. Image Data Compression
Image Data Properties / Discrete Image Transforms in Image Data Compression / Predictive Compression methods / Vector Quantization / Hierarchical and Progressive Compression Methods / Comparison of Compression Methods / Other Techniques / Coding / JPEG and MPEG - Still Image Compression / JPEG - 2000 Compression / MPEG - Full Motion Video Compression / Summary / References

15. Texture
Statistical Texture Description / Methods Based on Spatial Frequencies / Co-occurrence Matrices / Edge Frequency / Primitive Length (Run Length) / Laws' Texture Energy Measures / Fractal Texture Description / Multiscale Texture Description - Wavelet Domain Approaches / other Statistical Methods of Texture Description / Syntactic Texture Description Methods / Shape Chain Grammars / Graph Grammars / Primitive Grouping in Hierarchical Textures / Hybrid Texture Description methods / Texture Recognition Method Applications / Summary / References

16. Motion Analysis
Differential Motion analysis Methods / Optical Flow Computation / Global and Local Optical Flow Estimation / Combined Local - Global Optical Flow Estimation / Optical Flow in Motion Analysis / Analysis Based on Correspondence of Interest Points / Detection of Interest Points / Detection of Interest Points / Correspondence of Interest Points / Detection of Specific Motion Patterns / Video Tracking / Background Modeling / Kernel-Based Tracking / Object Path Analysis / Motion Models to Aid Tracking / Kalman Filters / Particle Filters / Summary / References

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Good text but expensive in the US.
By Franklin Vermeulen
This book is OK as a rather non-mathematical introduction to image processing at an advanced undergraduate level.
The "analog" approach to signal and image processing is not covered extensively. There is more emphasis on algorithmic aspects. Frequency analysis is kept to a minimum and one-dimensional signals such as speech are not covered extensively or at all, although some aspects of analog processing are more easily explained in a 1-D context.
Maybe just as well from an image analysis/computer vision standpoint. Indeed, many other textbooks exist with more emphasis on base functions and transforms (but then they are utterly lacking in the algorithmic approach).
More down to earth, though. I know that my students would be turned off by the US price of $115. Hardly appropriate for the less affluent student ! Especially since the UK Amazon price is £37. Same ISBN. Luckily, in Europe, we can order from the UK store.

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Ask most book people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you’ll typically hear that it’s a game of hazy crystal balls. The sales figures of E. L. James or Dan Brown, they’ll say, are freakish—random occurrences in an unpredictable market. But what if there were an algorithm that could predict mega-bestsellers with stunning accuracy? What if it knew, just from reading an unpublished manuscript, not just that genre writers like John Grisham and Danielle Steel would sell in huge numbers, but also that authors such as Junot Diaz, Jodi Picoult, and Donna Tartt had signs of New York Times bestselling all over their pages?

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Sales Rank: #84503 in eBooks
Published on: 2016-09-20
Released on: 2016-09-20
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“Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched ― and really worth your time.”― GQ

"Reveals the diverse directions in which popular fiction may be taken. . . the bestseller-ometer may find its most noble application as a democratizing force” ― The Atlantic

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“Aspiring novelists who thumb through this volume will find plenty to think about. . . [T]his book actually represents an opportunity for literary scholars” ― Public Books

“Archer is not some Silicon Valley whizz-kid looking to reduce the novel to 0s and 1s, nor is she a pretentious academic coming over the hills to sling around jargon about middlebrow novels. . . [She] is smart, savvy and full of ideas.” ―The Times of London

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“[The] claims are eye-grabbing. . . [and] also highly plausible.” ―The Spectator

Archer and Jockers “are ‘literature-friendly’ and want good books to succeed.”― Wired

"When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." - Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author

“The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling.” ― Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human.

"Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!"―Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford

“May revolutionize the publishing industry.” ―The Guardian

"The Bestseller Code is an intriguing read and its analysis of what makes a plot tick and how readers are grabbed is compelling."―Literary Review

About the Author

JODIE ARCHER bought and edited books for Penguin UK before decamping for the doctoral program in English at Stanford University. After her PhD, she worked at Apple as their research lead on literature, and has since consulted with many writers and businesses about literary success. She is now a full time writer.

MATTHEW L. JOCKERS is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches and directs the Nebraska Literary Lab. His text mining research has been profiled in the New York Times, The LA Review of Books, The Sunday Times of London, and more.

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A Word of Warning
By EVS
I found out about this research a while ago, and was looking forward to the book. The premise is perfect: science examining art and thus illuminating human condition. Well, examine it did, illuminate – not so much. I found myself simultaneously impressed with the depth of the research and disappointed with the triviality of the findings. Moreover, as much as the authors hope that their formula will open publishing industry to new writers overlooked otherwise, I have a feeling it will only serve to build more, higher walls, imprisoning writers in even tighter cells. Ironically, what would mediate the potential for abuse is making the formula available to the public in the form of a readily accessible test. It’s just the question of time until application of this or similar math becomes obligatory among agents and publishers. If the potential success or failure of an artist’s project is going to depend on a formula, the artist should have the right to face his accuser.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Saved My Book from the Abyss of Meh
By MD
Data for books the way it should be.
I will admit I love data and how concrete it is. As a creative who straddles the line between that and the analytical, this truly scratched my itch. I'm currently working on a book that will be finished in mere days. After reading this book (in one setting of an afternoon), I took my notes and takeaways and revisited what I'd written.
Mistakes that I'd never have seen blared at me. Not the normal mistakes of grammar or developmental issues--no mistakes that would have sent my book into the abyss of Meh. With a few tweaks here and there, my manuscript now gets me excited. I was able to change my perception of my writing to provide the entertainment ride it should be.
I will not attempt to tell you what I did, because I believe this books should be experienced in the customization of your own needs as a writer. I will say that I found the graphs they provided on pacing, the tips on theme and their examination of "The Girl" books and how 50 Shades and Da Vinci Code could be twins to be very illuminating.
This book may not be for you if you do not enjoy the value of data, have the ability to grasp the data and then conceptualize it into how it pertains to you or believe that a computer can read a book and then tell you how to make yours better. But, if you are adventurous enough to challenge your view of how to approach your next book, this one might be for you.
I love learning new things about writing and myself. This book allowed me to do that.

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By Brywig
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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! From mild to blistering, renowned author Jennifer Trainer Thompson offers 32 recipes for making your own signature hot sauces, as well as 60 recipes that use homemade or commercial hot sauces in everything from barbeque and Buffalo wings to bouillabaisse and black bean soup. Try making spicy chowders, tacos, salads, and seafood — even scorchingly delicious cocktails. Bring your own handcrafted heat to your next barbecue and feel the burn!

Sales Rank: #47412 in Books
Brand: Thompson, Jennifer Trainer
Published on: 2012-04-24
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: 8.56" h x .56" w x 6.50" l, 1.00 pounds
Binding: Paperback
192 pages

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"When the Smithsonian does an exhibition on hot sauces in America, let’s hope the curator is Jennifer Trainer Thompson. She’s the author, traveler, chef, shiitake-farmer and hot sauce creator who set it all in motion….she brought popularity and polish to an otherwise obscure hobby practiced by culinary eccentrics across the country.” Chile Pepper

“We’re having a heat wave, and the weather has nothing to do with it. It’s because Jennifer Thompson wants to take us ‘mouth surfing’ through the world of hot sauces.” Minneapolis Star Tribune

From the Back Cover
How Do You Like Your Hot?

Add a shot of hot sauce to your favorite dishes and spark a fire to thrill your taste buds. Make the hot sauce yourself and you can boost the heat, try out different vinegars, play up a favorite spiece, or adjust other ingredients to make a fiery condiment that's truly your own. Jennifer Trainer Thompson offers everything you need to know about making hot sauces, and then gets you started with 32 recipes that span every style, from a three-ingredient Louisiana hot sauce to a Caribbean concoction redolent of tropical fruits and ginger.

About the Author

Jennifer Trainer Thompson is the author of 18 books, including Fresh Fish, The Fresh Egg Cookbook, and Hot Sauce! Nominated for three James Beard Awards, she has been featured in Martha Stewart Living and Coastal Living magazines, and she has written for Yankee, Travel & Leisure, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times, among other publications. Thompson is the chef/creator of Jump Up and Kiss Me, an all-natural line of spicy foods. She splits her time between the Berkshires and Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Very Fun Book - Highly Recommended
By C. Hill
"Hot Sauce!" is a truly delightful collection of hot sauce recipes and is also a very good cookbook focusing on recipes using hot sauces. I am a hot sauce junkie and rarely get food spicy enough unless I make it myself, so was thrilled to be offered this book for review by the publisher.

The book starts off with a history of how the chili influenced early culture in South and Central America, and eventually spread around the world. There is also an enjoyable section that covers the commercialization of hot sauces from the early "Tabasco" to today's plethora of specialty hot sauces. There is even a chart to pair chili types to beer styles, which is helpful when planning a meal or party.

I enjoyed the interesting and often humorous anecdotes scattered throughout the book, most relating to painful experiences with various hot peppers. That being said, before starting into the hot sauce recipes, I highly recommended reading (and heading) the advice for safely handling hot peppers found on page 33. I consider myself fairly intelligent and, despite having been warned by my wife to be careful, have accidentally gotten capsaicin (the chemical that we sense as "hot") up my nose (no idea how, really) and spent the next eternity (or perhaps it was about 5 minutes) in extreme pain. Shoving bread or water up your nose does not really help, but cooking oil did bring relief. Seriously, treat these with respect!

The next section covers the types of peppers commonly available (Jalapeno, Scotch Bonnet, Serrano, etc) and their "heat", as mesued on the Scoville Standard. It also includes descriptions of ingredients you will need when making your own sauces. The hot sauces recipes range from the easy to prepare and serve within minutes to ones that need months to mature. The flavors are equally wide ranging, from just plain HOT to complex and subtle flavors that just happen to have some heat to them.

The "cookbook" section includes spicy drinks (very fun for spicy loving friends), simple appetizers and sides, and even a good range main dishes that can be tailored to your individual heat tolerance. The individual recipes are accompanied by a description of the dish, an ingredient list, and very clear, easy to follow directions. The recipes often include a recommendation on the commercial or homemade hot sauce to use with the meal.

This is a practical and fun cookbook that makes a great addition to my cookbook shelf!

Highly Recommended!

CFH

33 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
A Bit Disappointed
By G. Hassen
I first saw this title and was very excited to pursue making my own hot sauces. Upon getting the book, the recipe selection was not as extensive as I would have liked. About half the recipes in the book were dishes to cook using the sauce, which also recommended store purchased sauces. Defeats the purpose, does it not? The book does have a good history of peppers, pepper types, and pepper uses.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Great hot sauce recipes and information
By Shala Kerrigan
Jennifer Trainer Thompson knows her hot sauces. She's the creator of Jump Up and Kiss Me Hot Sauce, and she's written a few cookbooks as well as doing some travel and interviews specifically about spicy foods and sauces.

If you love hot sauces and want to make your own, or if you just want to know a lot more about hot sauces, this is a fantastic book. It's written in a conversational, friendly manner with a history of modern hot sauces. Starting with Tabasco sauce of course, it's history and the products it inspired. Then it gets into the more edgy sauces with impolite names and funny graphics that are so searingly hot they have warning labels.

There is art, history and side stories about the quest for heat, and a great chart with photographs of the different types of peppers used in making hot sauces. All very informative for the novice hot sauce maker, this is better than buying a kit because this is the information that will help you truly create your own recipe. She also explains how to bottle it for different applications, like just for personal home use or if you want to can it so it's more shelf stable for gifts or sale.

The recipes cover a multicultural range of flavors with a bit about each sauce type to introduce the recipe. They start from a super simple recipe and get more complex with more ingredients. They have fruity flavors, other spices and bases of different ingredients. If your family loves hot sauce the way mine does, it's hard to pick a favorite. This part of the book is my favorite for 2 reasons. It gives you a good range of flavor profiles to get an idea of what you like and it has tips on creating your own hot sauce recipe. By trying the different recipes in the book, and developing your own feelings about what kind of sauces you like best, you can design one then based on what's regionally available.

Then there are food and drink recipes to pair with your homemade hot sauces. If you like the idea of a spicy cocktail but dislike tomato juice, you might really love a Spicy Pineapple Margarita or a more simple spicy martini. Lots of condiment recipes from salsas to ketchup. Then comes a fairly extensive range of food recipes that are good with hot sauce. All the recipes include suggested hot sauces including some commercially available brands.

The appendix has tips on developing your own brand if you want to make hot sauce for sale, and a resources list for the supplies and ingredients.

This is a book that I happily recommend, and both my teens really like it as well. We are planning an Alaskan themed hot sauce in the near future.
[I received a complimentary copy of the book to review on my craft blog- Don't Eat the Paste. My reviews are always my honest opinion]

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Christa is a graduate of Middlebury College and received her Masters in Education from the University of Virginia, a program nationally recognized for its excellence. She resides in Arlington, VA with her husband and three children. Christa continues to coach students one-on-one in the Washington, D.C., area as well as students all over the world via the internet.

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Too easy.
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My son did both of the tests without spending half of the time and his score were both perfect. I don't know whether these are too easy or not compared with the real test. We'll wait and see the real result next couple of days.
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It's a start but too easy to rely on exclusively
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Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes. The authors present a concise and comprehensive exposition of the theory, practice, and research related to organization development. The Sixth Edition reflects the most recent developments, advances and expansions, and research in the area of OD. KEY TOPICS: Adds and updates new material to provide the most current information available. Strengthens coverage by adding new interventions and new material. Offers a more lively tone and writing style. Emphasizes the everchanging paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail. Sets discussions in the rapidly-evolving contexts of globalization, intensified competition and collaboration, Total Quality Management (TQM) and large-scale organizational change. Provides excellent coverage of the organization and its dynamics for managers and professionals.

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French and Bell explore the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes. They present a concise but comprehensive exposition of the theory, practice and research related to organization development. The Fifth Edition reflects recent developments, advances and expansions, and research.

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Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes. The authors present a concise and comprehensive exposition of the theory, practice, and research related to organization development. The Sixth Edition reflects the most recent developments, advances and expansions, and research in the area of OD. Adds and updates new material to provide the most current information available. Strengthens coverage by adding new interventions and new material. Offers a more lively tone and writing style. Emphasizes the everchanging paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail. Sets discussions in the rapidly-evolving contexts of globalization, intensified competition and collaboration, Total Quality Management (TQM) and large-scale organizational change. Provides excellent coverage of the organization and its dynamics for managers and professionals.

About the Author
Wendell French, PhD Harvard University, is a retired professor of management and organization from the University of Washington. His fields of specialty are organizational development and human resource management, including team building, inter-group team building, and human resource policies. His consulting work focuses on participative approaches to organizational improvement, assessment of HRM programs, and management and supervisory development. He is the author of several books and has contributed to numerous business and professional journals.
Cecil H. Bell (1935 - 2009) was born in Nashville, TN. He earned his master's degree in General Psychology at Boston University in 1960. He taught for 30 years at the University of Washington Graduate School of Business, Department of Management and Organization. He is the author of numerous publications and the co-author of a well-known book in his field of study, Organization Development: Behavioral Science Interventions for Organization Improvement.

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Conceptual!
By Charlotte Bullock
I have read and continue to re-read this book. The authors are two of very few individuals who have OD in black and white. From a sociotechnical systems theory to accurate team building, a must for all OD specialists.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
It's a Classic
By OD Consultant
I'm a little disappointed at those who were horrified at its age--the French and Bell book is a classic and it was updated in 1999. Anyone who is interested in learning OD should read the book and you will get a great foundation. Go from there to learn more about individual OD interventions or theories. Yes, Kotter's book is great, too, but Kotter speaks about leading change (only one topic in OD) or about leadership (another goodie but only one topic). If you don't know anything about OD, read this book. Because it was originally written in the 70s doesn't invalidate it; in fact, it shows how good it is.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
This book "fills in the blanks" of OD
By Peter D. Grimn
The book provides an introduction to the discipline, describing the historical foundations as well as specific applications in both for-profit and non-profit settings. The definition provided is deceptively simple; it is brief, yet completely encompasses the critical elements of OD efforts. What brings me back to it as a text again and again, however, is it's comprehensive list and descriptions of OD techniques. I have yet to find another book that so simply lays out the fundamentals of activities for interpersonal, team, inter-team, and large-scale organizational change. The final chapters deal with issues of consulting and the future of OD.
Because it ranges from a large-scale conceptual overview down to the nitty-gritty specifics of OD activites, it serves as an ideal framework to springboard to other books and readings.
Only caveat: The writing style is not commensurate with the excellence of the content.

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Pattern Magic is the cult pattern-making book from Japan. Taking inspiration from nature, from geometric shapes, and from the street, this book harnesses the sheer joy of making and sculpting clothes. The book takes a creative approach to pattern making, with step-by- step projects for fashion designers and dressmakers to enjoy. Each project is beautifully illustrated with clear diagrams and photographs showing the stages of construction, the muslins, and the finished garments.

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Brand: Nakamichi, Tomoko
Model: BCAC25548
Published on: 2010-10-06
Original language: English
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After serving many years as a professor at Bunka Fashion College, Ms. Nakamichi currently delivers lectures and holds courses on fashion design, both in Japan and overseas. This book brings together the results of the research on garment patterns she has carried out to help instruct her students.

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It has been a long time since I have found a pattern making book that I have found as exciting as this book.

Once you get beyond the basics of creating patterns that fit, commonly called slopers, what do you do with them? Most designs I see on the street, in catalogs, and in the stores are so easy to execute that the design process is not challenging at all.

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She uses a technique for evaluating pattern shapes that I have found invaluable in my teaching which is to prototype design ideas in paper so you can assemble the shape before you even touch needle and thread.

Tomoko also shares another passion of mine for developing design ideas using dress forms in scale. All the photos in this book are of the designs on a half scale manikin.

Caveat #1: These designs are unusual. If you are looking for the conventional, this is not for you. But if you step beyond "I wouldn't want to wear that" and move on to "What can I learn from this pattern design technique," I believe you will increase your pattern design skills exponentially.

Caveat #2: There are no sewing instructions. I would recommend when you try these ideas out you do what Tomoko does and try them in scale first. If you don't have a scale dress form, fashion dolls such as the ones Tomoko works with are an excellent medium to experiment with.

Bravo Tomoko--I can hardly wait until your volume 2 is translated into English. Although your illustrations are so clear, I am almost tempted to get the Japanese edition.

Don McCunn
Author of How to Make Sewing Patterns

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Not for beginners!
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I am not sure why I bought this book since I do not sew anymore (arthritis) and I do not particularly like to look at or to wear modern Japanese clothing. The cover caught my eye, I guess. I have always been curious about the structure of some of the more complicated Japanese designs. This is an amazing book. The clothing is amazing, if largely unwearable, but could be the springboard for your own interesting designs. Many of the ideas could be adapted to Western clothing.

Even though I have 60 years sewing experience and a tech degree in pattern design, I don't think that I could readily draft or adapt any of the patterns, not to mention making most of them. While there is ample information about drafting the pattern, there is no instruction about sewing the garment, appropriate understructure, interfacing etc. The notation on the patterns is a little different that what I was taught so I found it a little confusing. One generally needs to sew a complicated garment in a specific sequence that is not given in the book. If one is going to make the dress on page 55, for example, out of a "soft woolen georgette", one is going to need to underline and interline. That is not mentioned. I suppose a seasoned pro would know. Have plenty of muslin on hand if you try these garments.

The book is not for beginners. If you are very experienced with pattern drafting and sewing, go for it. If you are not, buy the book and admire the skill and ingenuity that has gone into drafting these patterns and making these garments. I would call this a sewing equivalent of a beautiful coffee table book, hardly practical but very interesting and, perhaps, inspirational. Four stars for the inspiration. While I know that pattern books rarely mention these things, I subtracted a star for the lack of information regarding structure and construction since these designs are so very complex.

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Brilliant book. You must know how to sew and have some experience to truly take advantage of this book. If you are into patterning you will love it because it takes you in an incredibly creative and unusual direction. I thought I knew how to move darts and then I read this book!

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