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1.		Lighting Design Basics from Wiley Price: $38.00 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


2.		The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook from Focal Press Price: $27.27 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


3.		Fundamentals of Photonics from Wiley-Interscience Price: $75.00 Customer Review: I understand the shipping time is rely on USPS, but the seller should help the buyer to track thei package. Do not reply standard emails to tell them to wait!	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Modern Optical Engineering, 4th Ed. from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $53.97 Customer Review: Without doubt, this is the best general survey of optical engineering, in or out of print. The book shows both the author's broad experience as well as his ability to apply theory to practice and then tell others how to do the same. The book is far superior in its selection of topics and in its... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.	[no image]	Digital Image Processing from Addison Wesley Price: $18.00 Customer Review: I took image processing in 2002 and this book was dated then. I opened it only to do homework. Otherwise I got my info elsewhere or from my notes. I used Anil K Jain's "Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing" as an alternate text and it rocked. There was far too much text and far too little... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.	[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


7.		The Landscape Lighting Book from Wiley Price: $81.37 Customer Review: As everyone who knows knows, this is the one and only book on landscape lighting worth having. Period. And Jan is such a great person and speaker. If you get a chance to hear her speak, go!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Schaum's Outline of Optics from McGraw-Hill Price: $10.34 Customer Review: This is a perfect supplement to the Optics book by Hecht. Taking a senior optics class at UTD and the schaums book had some really good key examples to help with HW, concepts in general. Highly recommended	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Nonlinear Optics from Academic Press Price: $60.00 Customer Review: I have had this book for about a year. I use it often. People are also borrowing it. It is very well written and covers subjects well. It is very readable. I am very pleased with this book.	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: $71.97 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.		Machine Vision, Second Edition: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities (Signal Processing and its Applications) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $86.19 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


12.		Analog Design Essentials (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) from Springer Price: $74.50 Customer Review: The book is great. It was a textbook for one course and it served well. The shipment was really fast.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Blu-ray Disc Demystified from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $33.71 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


14.		Optical Network Design and Implementation from Cisco Press Customer Review: I work for a switch fabric semiconductor company. I wanted to gain a better understanding of the types of systems that our components would be used in, specifically relating to IP-over-SONET traffic, MSPPs and ring protection mechanisms. This book fit the bill quite nicely. It covers the basics of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective from Prentice Hall Price: $39.00 Customer Review: Purchased this book for a graduate course in GIS. It was a good choice for the course objectives.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers (Classroom Resource Materials) from Cambridge University Press Price: $64.59 Customer Review: My major is physics, and i bought this book to learnmyself. The book is clear and requires less background knowledge, 2 years of basic college math and physics are enough.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Introduction to Fourier Optics from Roberts & Company Publishers Price: $67.82 Customer Review: I use this book all the time as a reference for Fourier optics. It has useful tables of common Fourier transforms found in optics work and far-field diffraction patterns worked out for popular beam profiles.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data: Principles and Practices, Second Edition (Mapping Science) from CRC Press Price: $86.11 Customer Review: Congalton does a great job presenting remote sensing accuracy assessment concepts. In addition to the theory, he provides practical examples to help in applying the theory to real world situations. The book seems way over-priced for its size.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices from Cambridge University Press Price: $68.14 Customer Review: Despite a writing style that reads drier than a cracker, this book succinctly covers the math you will need to analyze CMOS devices. The authors' IBM industry background seems to have shaped this practical engineer's guide. I recommend this book to people involved in device design and engineering;... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It all Work (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) from Wiley Price: $108.69 Customer Review: I've had this book for around a month, and I've already been able to apply its lessons in the lab on several occasions. Hobbs has a way of anticipating the things that will trip you up ahead of time, allowing you to learn lessons the easy way instead of the hard way. Some of the stuff in here would... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Sloan Technology Series) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $23.50 Customer Review: Charles Kao recently won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication." Hecht does a terrific job giving a thorough description of Kao's work that won him this award.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging from Wiley-Liss Price: $93.43 Customer Review: I had to buy this book for a Graduate level course that I took. We covered all of the material in the book in about 4 weeks. I didn't know anything about the class beforehand, but the book did help a lot. It was a little dull, but the content was good albeit a little outdated.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles (Wiley science paperback series) from Wiley-Interscience Price: $79.97 Customer Review: Bohren and Huffman present a coherent and comprehensive description of absorption and scattering by small particles. The text is written in a very amusing style, where ideas are presented in a conversation like manner, as if the authors are directly addressing the reader, providing jokes and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Fiber Optic Installer's Field Manual (First-Choice Field Manuals) from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $34.00 Customer Review: It started from the basic fundamental of fiber optics its uses, termination, safety, testing , documenting and upto its application	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Patterns of Light: Chasing the Spectrum from Aristotle to LEDs from Springer Price: $51.20	Click here for more information


26.		Introductory Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $98.11 Customer Review: This is a remote sensing text book, meaning that the quality of the imagery is very important. The pages in the book are photocopies of the original with a small section of color images inserted in the middle of the book. I would highly recommend buying this book in person to avoid getting a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Image Sensors and Signal Processing for Digital Still Cameras (Optical Science and Engineering) from CRC Press Price: $118.76 Customer Review: Junichi Nakamura did a great job in assembling these chapters by a number of knowledgeable authors on most aspects of state-of-the-art CMOS and CCD imager design. I've only read more carefully the chapters on optics and CMOS pixel design, but I found them both very well written and inclusive of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		The Laser Guidebook from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $23.87 Customer Review: I got the book in good condition and also almost half the delivery time. That increase my trust on Amazon	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Thin Film Solar Cells: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications (Wiley Series in Materials for Electronic & Optoelectronic Applications) from Wiley Price: $192.80	Click here for more information


30.		Advanced Batteries: Materials Science Aspects from Springer Price: $91.34 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

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