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Photoshop in a Nutshell: A Desktop Ouick Reference. {Second editionL By Donnie O'Quinn. O'Reilly, Sebasto- pol, CA. (1999). $24.95. Contents:

Preface. I. Tools. 1. Selection tools. 2. The paint tools. 3. Special tools. 4. The view tools. 5. The color controls. 6. Quick mask tools. 7. The view controls. II. Menus. 8. The file menu. 9. The edit menu. 10. The image menu. 11. The layer menu. 12. The select menu. 13. The filter menu. 14. The view menu. III. Palettes. 15. The navigator palette. 16. The info palette. 17. The color palette. 18. The swatches palette. 19. The brushes palette. 20. The layers palette. 21. The channels palette. 22. The paths palette. 23. The history palette. 24. The actions palette. IV. Appendices. A. Common techniques. B. Photoshop shortcuts. C. Resolution types. D. Image credits. Index.

Hierarchical Annotated Action Diaqrams: An Interface-Oriented Specification and Veri[~cation Method. By E. Cerny, B. Berkane, P. Girodias and K. Khordoc. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA. (1998). 211 pages. $112.00, NLG 255.00, GBP 76.20. Contents:

List of figures. List of tables. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Overview of HAAD method. 3. Formal character- ization of HAAD. 4. HAAD VHDL model. 5. Consistency, causality and compatibility. 6. Interface verification using CLP. 7. Example: Interfacing ARM7 and a static RAM. 8. Summary and recent developments. References. Appendices. A. Grammar of the HAAD language. B. Proofs for Chapter 3. Index.

TCL//TK in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. By Paul Raines and Jeff Tranter. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1999). 440 pages. $24.95. Contents:

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Tcl core commands. 3. Tk core commands. 4. The Tcl C interface. 5. The Tk C interface. 6. Expect. 7. [incr Tcl]. 8. [incr Tk]. 9. Tix. 10. TclX. 11. BLT. 12. Oratcl. 13. Sybtcl. 14. Tclodbc. 15. Hints and tips for the Tcl programmer. Appendix. Tcl recources. Index.

Survivable Networks: Alqorithms for Diverse Routinq. By Ramesh Bhandari. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Bos- ton, MA. (1999). 200 pages. $110.00, NLG 250.00, GBP 75.00. Contents:

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Shortest path algorithms. 3. Shortest pair of disjoint paths algorithms. 4. Maximally disjoint paths and physical diversity versus cost algorithms. 5. Physically disjoint paths in real-life telecommunica- tion fiber networks. 6. Maximally disjoint paths algorithms for arbitrary network configurations. 7. K ( > 2) disjoint paths algorithms. 8. Disjoint paths: Multiple sources and destinations. Further research. References. Index.

Apphed Multivariate Statistics with SAS Software. Second edition. By P~vindra Khattree and Dayanand Naik. SAS Institute, Inc./John Wiley & Sons, Cary, NC/New York. (1999). 338 pages. $59.95. Contents:

Preface. Commonly used notation. 1. Multivariate analysis concepts. 2. Graphical representation of multivariate data. 3. Multivariate regression. 4. Multivariate analysis of experimental data. 5. Analysis of repeated measures data. 6. Analysis of repeated measures using mixed models. References. Appendices. A. A brief introduction to the IML procedure. B. Data sets. Index.

IUTAM Symposium on Rheoloqy of Bodies with Defects: Proceedinqs af the IUTAM Symposium held in Bei~inq, China, P-5 September 1997. Edited by Ren Wang. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (1999). 292 pages. $133.00, NLG 245.00, GBP 84.00. Contents:

The rupture theory of rheological materials with defects (L.W. Yuan). Rheological behavior and failure char- acteristics of viscoelastic solids with defects (T.Q. Yang). Simulation of slow kinetic fracture of gas emissionable materials (A.V. Balueva). A new creep law and its application to crack tip field analysis (Y.C. Gao). Damage field equation and criterion for damage localization (Y.L. Bai, M.F. Xia, F.J. Ke and H.L. Li). Energy esti- mates for piecewise smooth rate type thermo-viscoelastic models with van der Waals type equilibrium surface (M. Mih~ilescu-Suliciu and I. Suliciu). Some remarks on thermodynamic theory of viscous-elasto-plastic media (Z.B. Kuang). Stochastic response of degrading elastic systems (K. Sobczyk and J. Trebicki). Experimental studies on the evolution of defect temperature field during deformation of ABS (W. Luo). Rheological-thermai fracture by laser beam (Y.C. Zhou, Z.M. Zhu, Z.P. Duan and Q.B. Yang). A constitutive model of a parti- cle reinforced viscoelastic composite material with debonded microvoids (Z.P. Huang, J.K. Chen, H.L. Li and Y. Liu). Dynamic debonding between fibers and matrix in fiber-reinforced composites (N.C. Huang). A model for shear stress relaxation around a fiber break in unidirectional composites and creep rupture analysis ( N. Ohno, H. Kawabe, T. Miyake and M. Mizuno). Studies on rheological relation materials by taking into account the rate-dependent evolution of internal defects at high strain rates (L.L. Wang, Z.B. Jiang and J.Y. Chen). Damage wave propagation in elastic-brittle materials (X. Zhang and Y.W. Mai). Effect of initial flaws in high cycle fatigue of SG cast iron (A.S. B~ranger, R. Billardon, F. Hild and H.Y. Agha). Study of crack development and the basis