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1.		Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Price: $14.49 Customer Review: After reading //Brilliant//, you'll never take life for granted again. From the great blackout of 1965 to the many "brown-outs" of recent times, //Brilliant// illuminates the dark areas from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The author, Jane Brox, has composed an enlightened look into the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Lighting Design Basics from Wiley Price: $34.54 Customer Review: If you are looking for a beginner lighting course, this books is just what you need. It goes through lighting applications per room/area, explains how to calculate foot candles, but if you want to read more about lighting plans, layouts, electrical requirements.....I would say - keep looking.more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Schaum's Outline of Optics from McGraw-Hill Price: $10.48 Customer Review: It is helpful supplements to a standard text book with lots of solved problems, mainly if you have the author text book with the same name. In some issues can serve as a text book. It has well done organization. In some topics elucidate some matter because provide numerics examples. I highly... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.	[no image]	Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation from John Wiley and Sons (WIE) Customer Review: I am reading this book for an introductory course in Remote Sensing. I thoroughly enjoy the level of detail and the presentation of quantitative methods for analyzing data. The text can be somewhat dry (and dense) at times and difficult to digest, but for the most part, it manages to stay... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) from Wiley-Interscience Price: $74.19 Customer Review: If you're looking for a book that can give you thorough knowledge about photonics, this book is probably the best choice. It is very well written, consistent throughout the chapters, and very insightful. Most notably, it is one of the few books where the mathematical description is presented in a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Introduction to Optics (3rd Edition) from Benjamin Cummings Price: $93.00 Customer Review: I used this book in an optics course, and I'd say that it was an okay book, not really something special. Pros: -Many nice illustrations -It describes many aspects of modern optics Cons: -At times really confusing, e.g. one equation contains two different variables, t,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Machine Vision, Second Edition: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities (Signal Processing and its Applications) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $61.60 Customer Review: For the analyst wanting to get into image recognition, Davies offers a detailed look at the many methods used in the last 30-40 years. These include neural networks, support vector machines, and the Hough transform. If you are tempted to use [or are using] the OpenCV code base for image... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Introduction to Fourier Optics from Roberts & Company Publishers Price: $65.99 Customer Review: This is probably my favorite text book of all time. Dr. Goodman's writing is excellent, providing heuristic insight into complex concepts using a very readable style. He is the Richard Feynman of optics. And other than chapters specific to polarization, this book is entirely applicable to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Nonlinear Optics, Third Edition from Academic Press Price: $45.62 Customer Review: Thank the author for using the SI unit, not the Gaussian unit, in the third edition!	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Photonics) from Springer Price: $48.98 Customer Review: Martin Green has done it again. Just what the researcher and applications scientist needs. Well done! Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Photonics)	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Photonics) from Springer Price: $48.98 Customer Review: Martin Green has done it again. Just what the researcher and applications scientist needs. Well done! Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Photonics)	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Modern Optical Engineering, 4th Ed. from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $67.03 Customer Review: Look, the joker who says this is a High School level text is dead wrong. Having been in the field for 10 years now and with a degree in optics, I tell you this is a very good text. No one book can make you a good engineer in any discipline, but lots of books help. The folks I know who are seriously... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Architectural Lighting Design from Wiley Price: $51.10 Customer Review: I was given this book as a gift just after I started working in the lighting industry, and at the time it gave me a very good overview of various lighting topics. The author spends a good deal of time on the "soft" issues of lighting design: those that tend to be more subjective and perception-based... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook from Focal Press Price: $23.89 Customer Review: Good overall lighting book. I would recommend this for anyone looking to get into the technical side of lighting. The theatrical side was a bit lacking, but overall a great book for learning.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering from Springer Price: $81.42 Customer Review: I took a ceramics class and found that the text we were using (fundamentals of ceramics, barrsoum) was missing a lot of processing and application info. This text covers every aspect of ceramic science and engineering you could think of and for the price its a must. The only thing that through... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Blu-ray Disc Demystified from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $31.81 Customer Review: This is a good book and offers a lot of information about Blu-Ray. I am planning to create some fancy blu-ray discs from my HD camcorder and I wanted to get familiar with the format. I was pleasantly surprised to see that besides the technical info (codecs, limitations, etc), this book also... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons (Oxford Graduate Texts) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $19.72	Click here for more information


18.		Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Materials Properties (Graduate Texts in Physics) from Springer Price: $71.94 Customer Review: The third edition is out of print. The fourth edition, with 775 pages, has just appeared. The book has been updated, many references to recent developments, additional problems and their solutions have been added. The price has remained almost the same! The book should serve as a textbook for a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		The Image Processing Handbook from I.E.E.E.Press Customer Review: The book covers every aspect of video in a technical atmosphere. It provides great insight and understanding in the field of video. I use this book as a reference and refresher when I work with video.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Optics Demystified from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $11.99 Customer Review: ... in other words, this is a bird's eye view. This is the kind of book that you buy your high school student or freshman college student before they ever get into the physics. This book does discuss a little of the physics - and does so amazingly well considering the high level that the discussion... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Field Guide to Geometrical Optics (SPIE Vol. FG01) from SPIE Publications Price: $32.63 Customer Review: When I took the course this Field Guide is based on, I walked away with a binder full of hand-written notes, which I probably never looked at again. 15 years later, I keep this (and about 4 other Field Guides from the same series) within arm's reach in case I don't feel like deriving a paraxial... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Light Science: Physics and the Visual Arts (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) from Springer Price: $68.93 Customer Review: For what it's worth, the book does a good job of going over the basic theories of how light works. It sometimes gets a little bit too technical, but otherwise it is an interesting read.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Detection Theory: A User's Guide from Psychology Press Price: $60.33 Customer Review: This is an excellent resource for your bookshelf. I've never contemplated using it as a textbook and thus am unsure of its utility for that purpose, but if you want a resource that you can turn to for a huge range of designs (simple discrimination, same-different, categorical ratings, ....), then... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It all Work (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) from Wiley Price: $81.51 Customer Review: I am going to buy this book. I have a fairly large electro-optic library myself and if it's another one of those books thats full of crap like "Photonic Rules of Thumb" I will beat you with it. Spend some time in your lab, teach yourself the tips and tricks and stop building lasers that... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Third Edition (Optics and Photonics) from Academic Press Price: $25.00 Customer Review: There are so many careless errors in the most important equations in this book. Some plots are wrong too. Some claims are ungrounded. Not for entry level. For expert who already knows this stuff and who can easily spot his errors. Otherwise you will be so confused and almost wanted to kill... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Advanced Batteries: Materials Science Aspects from Springer Price: $81.50 Customer Review: This book is well written and organized. The author provides very clear explanations and thinking tools in order to enhance the understanding of batteries and their materials. This book is a highly valuable source for students as well as for experienced engineers and scientists. I highly recommend... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM110) from SPIE Publications Customer Review: Binding broke away from spine after briefly flicking through the book. It appears with extended use the cover will tear away from the pages. Pictures/diagrams need refinement; some look as if they were printed on a bubblejet printer which was low on ink. Overall coverage of mounting systems is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Optical System Design, Second Edition from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $72.73 Customer Review: This is a must have book for anyone doing optical design or who want to use an optical design program. The book is great whether one is a novice or a professional at optical design.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons (Oxford Graduate Texts) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $19.72	Click here for more information


30.		Statistical Optics (Wiley Classics Library) from Wiley-Interscience Price: $76.90 Customer Review: Since I'm an optics graduate student beginning my research on image through atmosphere turbulance, I'm eager to find a book of statistic optics which can be both a classical one and easy of self-studying, in fact, I don't want to waste a lot of time jumping from one book to another trying to get the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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