Andrei Codrescu's sharp observational wit is put to good use in this insightful book. Mr. Codrescu, as always, looks under the rocks most of us don't even see, and then he finds gem after gem. I am from San Antonio, covered in the book, and next time I go back, I'm definitely looking under some of the rocks Mr. Codrescu did. The book is funny, witty, appreciative of the places he visits and really contains great historical and social information. I would especially recommend it if you're moving to one of the places covered in the book. It'll give you a leg up on the city your moving to or visiting.

This book is an essential reference tool for anyone working and calculating with Brownian motion and related processes.

It is divided into two halves. The first (100 pages or so) summarises some useful definitions, theorems and facts about BM, stochastic processes and diffusions.

The second (over 300 pages) is a unique collection of formulas for BM and other processes. The scope is impressively vast and the level of accuracy is very high. Processes covered include: BM, BM with drift, Bessel processes, and the OU process. Functionals of these processes include (from a list of over 25): sup, inf, occupation time, local time, rolling mean, hitting times, joint distributions of the above and many more.

A must-have for Brownian professionals.

It was about 2.25 am in the morning when I finished Codresacu's riveting memoir The Hole in the Flag which I found poignant, fey, hopeful and insightful. Sometimes I read a book which demands that it be devoured voraciously and this book falls into that category.

For me, the Romanian revolution is still a cause of some mystification, but it is clear that it was more orchestration than spontaneous uprising. The current controversy with Mircea Dinescu and the debate over the availability of Securitate files, many of which have been pilfered and doctored no doubt. I found my discussions with locals in 2001interesting but wondered whether the divisiveness was a smoke screen yet again. Codrescu's is a reflective and analytical look at Romania just after the Revolution, and his own struggle to comprehend and make sense of the maelstrom that followed is one of the strengths of the work. At turns, banal, burlesque, and brilliant the book is skilfully written and will appeal as much to the general reader as it does to the Romanianists. I heartily recommend this book.

The essays collected in this book provide an excellent overview of the philosophical issues which surround the nature and role of interpretation in legal thought. Each of the authors brings to the subject a unique perspective or philosophical position, and argues for it persuasively. Needless to say, the contributors are not all in agreement regarding the fundamental questions under discussion. Topics covered include the nature of interpretation generally, in art and literature as well as in law; the claim by proponents of the Critical Legal Studies movement that every application of a legal rule involves an interpretation of it, and that the open texture of law is incompatible with the demands of political liberalism; Ronald Dworkin's distinction between rules and principles, and the significance of "original intent" in the interpretation of statutory or Constitutional provisions.

While familiarity with modern analytic philosophy may not be an indispensable prerequisite to a reading of this book, it would certainly do much to enhance your understanding of the argumentation. I suspect that a reader who lacked such knowledge would find some of the essays particularly challenging. In no way is this a criticism of the book; in order to address the philosophical issues adequately it is simply necessary to discuss, for example, Wittgenstein's remarks on "rule following" in the Philosophical Investigations, Kripke's misinterpretation thereof, and the realist/anti-realist controversy.

With its meticulous and thorough analyses, this book makes an outstanding contribution to legal philosophy, which I would highly recommend.

First, I think that I should mention that, at least for me, some parts of this book were a very tough read. To a large extent, this is because the book is so incredibly compact, which, since it covers most of the important theoretical topics in QCD, implies that it cannot possibly be as meticulous and explanitory in derivations as, for instance, an introduction in QFT. In other words, this book is for those who are thoroughly familiar with QFT and with its mathematical structure to the point that you can fill out the details of most proofs without too much difficulty.
This aside, I must say that this book is filled with fascinating, sometimes a bit unorthodox, insights not only into QCD, but also into all of quantum field theory itself (for example, take his wonderful chapter on path integrals in QM, which stands very well all on its own, or the intriguing viewpoints on gauge fields and their quantization, or especially on his exceedingly compact, elegant, simple, and yet philosophically complete treatment of radiative corrections and in particular on Wilson's ideas on renormalization).Although this book is not filled with a great deal of phenomenology, I do not think this is the point of the book; it, for me at least, is a profoundly philosophical text on QCD, in other words food for the mind and the soul.

Not that I've necessarily read this book from cover to cover COMPLETELY cuz I haven't COMPLETELY, but I do know the author extremely well. He's my professor. He's a brilliant man, and he knows how to keep the faith. So read this book. Live it. Be it.

Bonus feature: A handwritten preface in every copy she can find by Louisa.

A paean to inflatables, tensile canopies, demountable stages, and trailers, by an innovative LA architect and teacher who believes that "Anything you can't fold up and take with you is a blight on the environment and an insult to one's liberty." (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)

The book has been available since August 1998 and it is the very first volume on the topic. Very useful to people in atmospheric and molecular sciences. In particular, it may modify some well established procedures as they fail to consider the presence of molecular complexes.

MOLECULAR COMPLEXES IN EARTH'S, PLANETARY, COMETARY, AND INTERSTELLAR ATMOSPHERES Edited by: A. A. Vigasin & Z. Slanina

Contents: Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics of Bimolecular Complexes; Non-rigidity in van der Waals Molecules: Some Case Studies; Dimeric Absorption in the Atmosphere; Dimers in Earth's and Planetary Atmospheres: The (H2O)2, (N2)2, N2-O2, (O2)2, (O3)2, (CO2)2, (H2)2, and Ar-N2 Cases; Fullerenes and Other Carbon Aggregates, and the Diffuse Interstellar Bands; Planetary Atmospheres: The Role of Collision-induced Absorption; Chemical and Optical Properties of Molecular Complexes Using Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy; Infrared Spectroscopy of Size-selected Free and Adsorbed Water Complexes.

Published by: World Scientific, Singapore 1998, ISBN 981-02-3211-X, 288pp.

This tape provides insights into the true meaning of genius that all of us possess and can bring out in our children. Dr. Aleinikov presents, in a very practical and understandable way, the basic elements of genius, and how we can achieve this status. I highly recommend this to parents, grandparents, students, spouses, and any one that wishes to reach higher levels of innovation.

Andrei Linde manages in this brilliant book to introduce the reader to a wide spectrum of the immensely interesting aspects of the inflationary theory. This book is definitely a "must read" for all who want to understand the underlying evolution of the very early stages of our Universe.

Inflation is today believed by essentially all the scientific community to be the initial stage in the evolution of the Universe, giving the seeds to what then later develops into structures such as galaxies and human beings. All other known theories have today been observationally excluded, leaving inflation as our currently best understanding of the early Universe.

Linde describes in glorious detail all the physics needed for the understanding of inflationary cosmology, such as symmetry breaking (restoration) and phase transitions, and he describes various worked through scenarios, but the description is fairly technical and a strong background in mathematic is necessary. The book is intended for scientists and serious students, and non-scientists will need a good portion of patience to follow all the technical explanations.