co-author raymond baxter's authentic deckhand stories blend well with the historic photos and brief histories of the railroad ferry companies. dispatching of the chambers street boats had been "dumped" somewhere over the years on the gatemen. Once the rush hour ferry Youngstown left two minutes earlier than the scheduled 5:28PM departure. As a result a large number of angry commuters missed their Erie suburban commuter trains out of Jersey City. Many interesting stories abound. The photos of the ferries and the deckhand stories enabled me to relive my years of New York commuting by train and boat. Fordham University Press deserves praise for this book.

There was always the view of the busy harbor-ocean liners,freighters,tugs and barges.In the hot summer months there was always a breeze on the open deck. During heavy fogs there were close calls-making the trip a real adventure. This authenic book brought back good memories of my days commuting on the railroad ferries of the Hudson.The many rare photos and the short histories of the ferry operators add to the local color, and increase the value of this book.

This is one of the best books around for studying Random Processes ! The author has also provided a very good introduction to Detection, Estimation and Modelling of Stochastic Processes. I found this book very useful and I'd strongly suggest this book for an introductionary level graduate course. If you want to build a strong foundation in Random Signal Theory, this book is the way to go.. Other advanced texts like Simon Haykin's "Adaptive Filter Theory" will be a lot easier to understand once you study this book thoroughly and work out the exercise problems.

The authors have unleashed the subject of Stochastic Processes using a carefully paced and proven approach of introducing the material using a number of elegant examples where emphasis is to generalize specific results. This quality text will certainly not dissapoint readers who have come to expect high quality from K. Sam Shanmugam and Authur .M.Breipohl .It can be recommended for first course and also for gaduate level courses on the fascinating and challenging subject of Random Processes

I thought this book was excellent. It was extremely helpful as far as taking a piece of work that I found difficult to read, and not only making it understandable and interesting, but also giving it meaning and purpose. I now comprehend the book's importance as a historical piece of literature much better than I could before. I found the biography of Casmus' life to be well-rounded and captivating, without needing to read an entire book about him! I highly recommend this book for any student of literature who wants to better understand Casmus and/or his writing of The Plague.

Jesse Cunningham catalogues a broad, well-researched collection of essays that address readers on a variety of levels. Camus biographers Germaine Bree and Gaetan Picon introduce the work with insightful, easily understood discussions on theme and allegory. The other contributing writers, (John Cruickshank, Derek Parker, David R. Ellison, Brian Masters, Rachel Bespaloff, Jennifer Waelti-Walters, Patrick McCarthy, Allen Thiher, David Sprintzen, Bernard C. Murchland, and Robert R. Brock), tackle a variety of subjects with pertinence and wit. I highly recommend this work as an insightful read and a stepping stone to further research.

No one knows Woodrow Wilson as the late Athur Link knew him. Link, a Princeton historian, was chosen to edit The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, perhaps the largest collection of presidential documents and references ever assembled. From 1963-93 he and a team of researchers cataloged the collection. Toward the end of the project, Professor Link had an extended conversation with journalist James Robert Carroll who recorded, edited and presented the result in this fascinating short volume.

Link shares many insights with Carroll. We learn that Wilson typed many of his own letters; that most of his speeches were not written in advance, so that staff members had to scrambled to recreate copies afterward. Wilson taught himself shorthand, facilitating note taking. Link believes Wilson sustained small strokes very early in the century and that his obstinacy over accepting modifications to the World War I peace treaty stemmed not from ideological animosity toward Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and others, but rather from typical after match symptoms from his major stroke of October 2, 1919. He contends also that Edith Wilson did not make policy decisions for her ailing husband. Rather, she regulated who could see him and for how long, in an effort to provide him maximum rest and a calm atmosphere.

This book is not only interesting, but also useful for students of the presidency and for learning about the work techniques of a famous historian.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes view of Woodrow Wilson's life and afterlife, via a freeflowing conversation with Arthur Link, the late great Wilson biographer and editor of the amazing Wilson Papers. Link knew more about Wilson's life than anyone - perhaps more even than Wilson himself - and here he tells engaging and revealing stories about Wilson's rise from scholar and college president to New Jersey governor and president of the United States, culminating in his heroic fight for the League of Nations in 1919. We get rare glimpses of Wilson's childhood, loves, marriages, his intellectual life, and the impact of illness - including a series of strokes - on his presidency well before his dramatic collapse at the height of the League campaign. Link also describes his own leading role in one of the greatest editorial feats of all time - the nearly 70 volumes of the Wilson papers - documents written by, for, and about Wilson - which give us as complete and rounded a picture as we have of the life of any president - indeed of any human being. From their modest origins in the late 50s, when Link had little inkling of the scope of the task he'd rather casually undertaken, to their waxing with the publication of two massive, brilliantly annotated volumes a year, to the end in the early 90s, with the image of Link at his desk editing the last volumes almost singlehandedly (and by hand! - no computers), Link tells us in entertaining style how it was done, both the careful planning and the serendipity - including the thrilling discovery of a lost trove of papers from Wilson's childhood and early career in a forgotten upstairs closet of his Washington house. Tedium at times there was, Link acknowledges, but his unflagging enthusiasm and devotion shine through this conversation, as does his admiration, tempered by real discernment and almost infinite knowledge, of Wilson's character, achievements, and legacy. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in history and in how it's made - how leaders live it and how scholars write it.

GH.Stone isn't as good as Robert Aruthur but I enjoyed this book . Plus Can annyone tell me how to find the other book's .

As always the characters created by Robert Arthur are the best. Never before was such genius used in creating these characters. G.H. Stone did well in carrying on the tradition of Robert Arthur. The series is amazing, as is this book

CHARLES NICHOLL, author of SOMEBODY ELSE: ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN AFRICA 1880-91 has written of Dennis J. Carlile's translation of RIMBAUD:THE WORKS.

"These are the best renditions of Rimbaud in English since
Wallace Fowlie's nearly forty years ago, and many of them surpass that high standard. These poems have been wrestled with, which is the very least they demand, and successfully brought back home. Carlile gets the difficult switches and swoops of tone mostly right, and the linguistic detail is impressive-- for 'un voix etraignait mon coeur gele' you can't get much better than 'a voice would hobble my frostbitten heart'."

Five years ago I purchased Wallace Fowlie's "Rimbaud Complete," and since then have come to memorize most of it. I bought Fowlie's translation because it was the most accurate -- I was concerned more with WHAT Rimbaud had to say than HOW he had to say it. Fowlie, Professor Emeritus of French at Duke University, decided to do a word for word translation which has been the standard literal translation ever since (1966.) Being as familiar with Fowlie's text as I am, I have become somewhat of a 'content expert,' of Rimbaud translations and have never been pleased with any of the poetic translations available -- all of them are missing too much content or have the wrong tone. That's why I was shocked to read Dennis Carlile's book. He captures the mood AND poetry of Rimbaud WITHOUT losing content (this 'flavor' is what Fowlie's translation lacks.)

Carlile's translation makes much of Fowlie's work look brittle and obsolete by comparison, and while there are still some passages in Fowlie I prefer (probably because I am more familiar), I now feel silly anytime I think of opening his text--it just isn't Rimbaud the POET.

This is THE translation to get (even if you already own another.) Finally those of you who are unacquainted with this great and influential poet can buy a true AND poetic English counterpart...

Rimbaud is one of the most impressive poets of all time, never compromising himself to the drudgery of the world around him. If at any point in your life you have begun to feel like a free spirit, read Rimbaud's youthful verse and be prepared to percieve life transcedentally. Within his surrealistic vision you will find the vulnerability of weakness with the demonic anger of a pocessed soul. There are poems that stir every feeling of what it's like to be young, and free and drunk on the pleasures of life. A true poet.

We are not serious when we are 17...but are we more serious at 18 or later? He was so young, so sensitive; he wanted to find life, find a place, the place.Like Baudelaire, he was searching his own way, but not in a dark state of mind. The keywords to go through his works are: rebellion,youth and innocence...He is sometimes cruel but I think it's to hide his fragility...I like his childish way of creating; direct but full of hidden love he couldn't give.Read him and you'll probably find that we are not serious at 17 , but that although he found himself not serious, he was so intelligent and receptive to world despite his innocence...

Here's the story behind those magical roadside attractions children of all ages longed to stop at during your family travels on old Route 66. They're all here...trading posts, snake pits, the strange and the unusual places designed to lure travelers off the road. Thomas Repp spent years researching and interviewing surviving business owners and their survivors to provide intimate and fresh details about these gems from the past. A must-have for any serious Route 66 enthusiast or to anyone who enjoys reading about the old roadside businesses that made traveling what it was during the post-war period. This book is a complement to Thomas's first book, Empires of Amusement, which covered the eastern part of Route 66 in much the same way.

Filled with gorgeous full-color photography, Route 66: The Romance Of The West is a fascinating slice of American history and a "yesteryear" way of life. Filled with anecdotes garnered along the length of what is perhaps the most famous highway in America, Route 66: The Romance of the West presents such unique locales as the Wigwam Motel, Dinosaur Caverns, Lyon Pony Express Museum and much, much more. A treat for armchair travelers, Route 66: The Romance Of The West is an exciting treasure trove of nostalgic memory and cultural legacy. Also very highly recommended is author Thomas Arthur Repp's previous book, Route 66: The Empires Of Amusement.

This is the best book on political science I have ever read.
The fact that it was written nearly a century ago shows how
little the field has progressed since! Unlike modern political
theorists, Mosca was not a tenured scribbler isolated from
practical realities, but a Ciceronian intellectual who moved
with ease from politics to journalism to academia. While those
who hear about Mosca know him as a founder of 'Elite Theory',
those who have read him know that he is a much greater thinker.
Like his contemporary Max Weber, Mosca wrote on law,
politics, economics and comparative world history alike
with equal insight and brilliance.

'The Ruling Class' begins with an overview of the disappointing
progress of the social sciences. He notes in particular the
failure of the 'holistic' approach of Sociology and utopian
Marxism alike (apparently, some people still haven't caught on!).
He also notes the failure of the most successful branch of the
social sciences, economics, to quantify and colonize political
science (Mosca would not be surprised at the current absurdities
of 'Neo-Realist' and 'Rational Choice' theory-the more things
change...)

Mosca goes on to provide his own theory of politics, one that
I find eminently convincing. There is an excellent review of
it in Robert Kaplan's *The Coming Anarchy*, so it would be
superfluous and tedious to repeat it here.

One question remains-if Mosca was such a great thinker,
why is he so little known? Perhaps because, unlike Marx,
he offered no utopian promises or secular religions in disguise.
Perhaps also because of the strong Anglo-Saxon bias in American
scholarship-while an occasional French or German scholar is
recognized as worth of note, Italian thought is supposed to end
with Machiavelli!

For whatever reason, Mosca remains the best-kept secret in
political science; it is time the word got out.

The Ruling Class is an excellent example of early twentieth elite theory. It is a scathing retort to Marx and those who believe in a utopian vision without an elite. This book is clear and brilliant. It challenges the political thinker in a democratic society to examine the basic assumptions of democracy and representational government. This book is a must read for the political scientist.

I read this book YEARS ago and it has stuck in my mind as one of the top 10 books I have ever read. For parents looking to introduce youg readers to history this book is exceptional. The focus of the story is a young girl named Alys, she happens to live in Eleanor of Acquitaines' court. Through her (and others ) we learn of Eleanors life and times, which are fascinating enough not to need embellishing. The author does a superb job of setting the scene, you can practically smell the incense!

I am now 40 and looked up to see if this book is still around. I read it when I was about 16 and thought it was the best book I ever read. Hopefully, new technology is going to enable these out of print books to be ordered by individuals.