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• Concise text that focuses on the essentials of the course
• Quick-study sidebars, icons, and other instructional aids
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() This book is useful neither for review nor for learning from scratch. It seems to me that the only student who would benefit from this book is someone who knows precalculus so well already that he/she wouldn't need it. There are several other precalculus guides costing just a few dollars more that are much more helpful, and are of better quality to boot. (Some pages in this book just look downright amateurish, designwise). Do yourself a favor and skip this one; it's money wasted. I'm using my copy as a doorstop.() To think, some tree had to die to whisper this wonderful piece of crap into existence! This book doesn't explain anything! I picked this little thing up as a precursor to a more advanced text. This is usually my style. A nice little hors d'oeuvre, something simple, something easy with which to familiarize myself with the topic at hand. The book was cheap, and it was a Schaum's, right? What could be easier? Well, it wasn't easy, it was just useless. Don't spend your hard earned money on this little tidbit of ordure. Not even $.69.

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() This book is useful neither for review nor for learning from scratch. It seems to me that the only student who would benefit from this book is someone who knows precalculus so well already that he/she wouldn't need it. There are several other precalculus guides costing just a few dollars more that are much more helpful, and are of better quality to boot. (Some pages in this book just look downright amateurish, designwise). Do yourself a favor and skip this one; it's money wasted. I'm using my copy as a doorstop.() To think, some tree had to die to whisper this wonderful piece of crap into existence! This book doesn't explain anything! I picked this little thing up as a precursor to a more advanced text. This is usually my style. A nice little hors d'oeuvre, something simple, something easy with which to familiarize myself with the topic at hand. The book was cheap, and it was a Schaum's, right? What could be easier? Well, it wasn't easy, it was just useless. Don't spend your hard earned money on this little tidbit of ordure. Not even $.69.

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Prodigiously researched. . . . This volume will become a standard reference point for future policy debates over the U.S. laboratory system and its place in the national innovation system. -- Claude Barfield American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

There are more than 16,000 R&D labs in the U.S. today, including 12,000 in private industry. Yet until this book became available, there existed no systematic examination that fully revealed the remarkable institutional diversity that supported research in this country. In this book, American R&D labs have finally found their Linnaeus. -- Nathan Rosenberg Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University Review A thorough and detailed description and analysis of an important part of the national innovation system, namely, the U.S. R&D laboratories. What's more: a new way of looking at these diverse institutions at a time when U.S. competitiveness is important. (Erich Bloch, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitiveness ) See all Editorial Reviews

This book demonstrates analytical prowess of the first order. With an empirical base of staggering proportions, the authors shatter the categories we commonly apply to R&D laboratories. By presenting a new, empirically based schema for thinking about the structure and behavior of R&D laboratories, the authors provide academic and policymakers, alike, with a real foundation for crafting sound science and technology policies.The book will go down as a classic not only because of its definitive blow to the accepted policy shorthand, but also because of the elegance and rigor of their alternative view.Three cheers!

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Prodigiously researched. . . . This volume will become a standard reference point for future policy debates over the U.S. laboratory system and its place in the national innovation system. -- Claude Barfield American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

There are more than 16,000 R&D labs in the U.S. today, including 12,000 in private industry. Yet until this book became available, there existed no systematic examination that fully revealed the remarkable institutional diversity that supported research in this country. In this book, American R&D labs have finally found their Linnaeus. -- Nathan Rosenberg Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University Review A thorough and detailed description and analysis of an important part of the national innovation system, namely, the U.S. R&D laboratories. What's more: a new way of looking at these diverse institutions at a time when U.S. competitiveness is important. (Erich Bloch, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitiveness ) See all Editorial Reviews

This book demonstrates analytical prowess of the first order. With an empirical base of staggering proportions, the authors shatter the categories we commonly apply to R&D laboratories. By presenting a new, empirically based schema for thinking about the structure and behavior of R&D laboratories, the authors provide academic and policymakers, alike, with a real foundation for crafting sound science and technology policies.The book will go down as a classic not only because of its definitive blow to the accepted policy shorthand, but also because of the elegance and rigor of their alternative view.Three cheers!

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Prodigiously researched. . . . This volume will become a standard reference point for future policy debates over the U.S. laboratory system and its place in the national innovation system. -- Claude Barfield American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

There are more than 16,000 R&D labs in the U.S. today, including 12,000 in private industry. Yet until this book became available, there existed no systematic examination that fully revealed the remarkable institutional diversity that supported research in this country. In this book, American R&D labs have finally found their Linnaeus. -- Nathan Rosenberg Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University Review A thorough and detailed description and analysis of an important part of the national innovation system, namely, the U.S. R&D laboratories. What's more: a new way of looking at these diverse institutions at a time when U.S. competitiveness is important. (Erich Bloch, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitiveness ) See all Editorial Reviews

This book demonstrates analytical prowess of the first order. With an empirical base of staggering proportions, the authors shatter the categories we commonly apply to R&D laboratories. By presenting a new, empirically based schema for thinking about the structure and behavior of R&D laboratories, the authors provide academic and policymakers, alike, with a real foundation for crafting sound science and technology policies.The book will go down as a classic not only because of its definitive blow to the accepted policy shorthand, but also because of the elegance and rigor of their alternative view.Three cheers!

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