Reviews for Fifth International Symposium on Domain Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations

The average rating for Fifth International Symposium on Domain Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-03-30 00:00:00 William Bears The biggest knock against this book is a feature I've noticed with a lot of books written by sociologists: hardly a sentence gets by without a footnote or a bibliographic reference. In fact you can read page after page and not find a sentence that is Lorber's own: if it's not a direct quote, it is a paraphrase. The endnotes, bibliography, index make up more than 25% of the book'122 pages! Scrupulously researched, and a compendium of facts and viewpoints on gender. It's a great sourcebook for tracking down other writing that had something interesting to say about gender. The other thing I noticed is that the book seems dated. Many of Lorber's points are no longer controversial, have become commonplaces. Perhaps it took her so long to assemble the sources that the argument lost the timeliness it had when she began the project? Or perhaps I'm just in the choir she is preaching too. I doubt that those that might be influenced by a book such as this would even read it, and if they did they certainly would be turned off by the cobbled together prose of others. Even her beginning and concluding chapters are laced with quotes and bibliographic attributions. Where was her editor? Still, as a compendium of the arguments that gender is a social construction that is shot through our society in ways not always obvious, this is a comprehensive and indispensable book.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-04 00:00:00 Anthony Georgopoulos Fabulously insightful.