Reviews for Lightwave Technology Telecommunication Systems

The average rating for Lightwave Technology Telecommunication Systems based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 Wendy Steeves There’s plenty of solar science in Karl Hufbauer’s Exploring the Sun: Solar Science since Galileo, but a major theme in this broad-sweeping overview is the gradual professionalization of the solar science community and how it has developed through insider & outsider influences. Hufbauer explains in the introduction to Part Two: “Since the beginning of World War II, solar research has evolved along so many different paths at the same time that there is a significant advantage to focusing on only a few lines of development. Doing so ensures that space is available for treating chronology, biography, patronage, and communication patterns with the sort of attention that distinguishes historical narratives from scientific review essays.” (p. 117) It’s a history book, not a science book. This is not a criticism. One could probably not ask for a better or more thorough recounting of the progress of solar science across four centuries of development. For a historian of 19th & 20th century science, Hufbauer drops hints of issues, investigations, and personalities that might warrant further exploration.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-01-05 00:00:00 Erin Webber Damon Knight's "What Rough Beast" was very intriguing indeed (although--among other things--I'm afraid that I didn't quite grasp the reason for the narrator's Tarzan, Tonto & Frankenstein approach to the lingo). The Farmer thing ("Alley Man") turned out to be way too long and annoying as hell. Emshwiller ("Day At the Beach") was good, and of course there was Sheckley's best story, "The Store of the Worlds" (here under the goofy alternate title "The World of Heart's Desire"). "What Now, Little Man?" was also nice. Nothing else here of terribly great interest though. Although "Adrift at the Policy Level" has always been one of my favorite titles. :)