"My point here," Zuckerman writes, "isn't to elucidate all the peculiarities of my social network (indeed, analysing these diagrams is a bit like analysing your dreams – fascinating to you, but off-putting to everyone else).
The writing is concise but clear, is filled with accessible examples, useful diagrams, and illustrations.
In Pakistan, he was instructed in the use of weapons and explosives and the court was shown his "student notebooks" from this time, with his handwritten notes and diagrams on subjects such as Kalashnikovs and the manufacture of poisons and bomb-making.
In her view, the cross-talk between them in women, suggested by the wiring diagrams, helps explain their better memories, social adeptness and ability to multitask, all of which benefit from the hemispheres collaborating.
Predictably, the majority of entries concern individual dancers, choreographers, works and companies from the western classical tradition: 13 pages for Petipa, nine for Nijinsky, six for "Swan Lake", 11 for the Royal Ballet.The encyclopedia's entries are liberally illustrated with photographs, drawings and diagrams.
It is gripping in those places where that is appropriate: well judged, nicely written by the standards of books you might otherwise pay for, not just by the standards of committee reports—and well illustrated with both photographs and diagrams.
The question goes to the arcane heart of control theory.Before deciding there were easier things to do in life, your correspondent spent his formative years computing Nyquist control diagrams for flying machines that would ensure they pointed in the right direction while performing arduous manoeuvres.
His book is a demanding read, with its fair share of mathematical diagrams and equations, but the fascination of the subject does come across.
ISAF officials like to display diagrams of how they intend to drive a wedge between the "irreconcilable" Taliban based largely in Pakistan and the more moderate local elements.
Three-dimensional network diagrams show ratios and relationships that were impossible to depict before.Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, co-directors of Google's "Big Picture" visualisation research group, lead the field.
Such advantages, they say, outweigh the drawbacks of exposing what are usually seen as corporate secrets.The origins of openIn some ways, open-source hardware is a throwback to the 1970s and 1980s, when early computers were sold in kits or shipped with schematic diagrams to make it easier for users to customise them.
