For all of you web travel fans, the Second Edition of Internet
Travel Planner has been updated with the best and newest web travel sites. As a former travel industry employee, I find this is the most complete and easy-to-read internet book now that all the large travel suppliers and surviving internet travel businesses have improved their online booking sites.

Using Michael Shapiro's book as a guide, a newcomer to researching travel can click through a website with ease. An interesting new appendix was added on digital photography. Do any of us world travelers leave home without a camera! Of course we love finding a good discount and each chapter lists sites known for the best deals. Travel sales are still down and businesses are reducing prices or adding incentives to get customers. I would highly recommend buying the book for yourself or giving it as a gift for the holidays.

Learn how to save time and money through a guide which shows how to use the Internet to locate the best travel bargains and save money. Internet Travel Planner goes beyond pinpointing the latest sites: it tells how to join online discussion forums, how to gain access to newspapers and reviews, and how to use online resources to create your very own custom made traveler's guidebook.

I found this book to be both informative and useful even though I had already used the internet for travel purposes. My husband found out about free email accounts and signed up for one within a few minutes (Chapter 14). After reading Shapiro's Internet Travel Planner, I realized that by booking airline tickets on line, I had only begun to scratch the surface of the possibilities for travel planning on line. What I found most useful for both 'arm chair travel' and trip planning was Shapiro's chapter on discussion forums and bulletin boards. Search engines are great but I find the results to be catch as catch can. In Chapter 13 I got a clear sense of which sites were worth my time. Shapiro covers everything from frequent flyer miles to vacation package sites, from weather to medicine abroad. The book is easy to use-it offers an index and appendices that allow you to find websites quickly. Read this book even if you wouldn't book a flight or make a reservation on line. The web is too great and too vast a resource to skip and you'll be glad you have this guide as you surf.

While PERFECTION SALAD is certainly about food, it is also a rich cultural history of women and food. With a wonderful selection of resources, from a recipe for raisin stuffed marshmallows to a celebration of Fannie Farmer, this is a delightful and interesting treat. Introduction by Michael Stern, co-author of EAT YOUR WAY ACROSS THE U.S.A and Gourmet Magazine?s popular column "Roadfood."

Foodies and feminists alike should read this book. As part of the Modern Food Library reprints, chosen by Ruth Reichl (who is known for her good taste and her own laudable literary contributions - "Tender at the Bone" and "Comfort Me with Apples"), "Perfection Salad" describes all the elements present at the turn of the century that combined to forever change the way Americans view food. Food, its preparation and presentation became a female obsession in an time where the kitchen was really the only arena in which a woman could rule. The female nutritionists and cooks from that era seemed bent upon exerting control on SOMETHING, and that something turned out to be food - with sometimes terrible consequences. After reading "Perfection Salad", I understood the recipes that my grandmother (born in 1898) and my mother after her learned and served. Don't be frightened by the scholarly look of "Perfection Salad" - there are hilarious nuggets in the text - like color-themed menus (everything green and white, for example), putting everything into gelatin for the sake of "daintiness" (no messy lettuce leaves hanging out of your mouth) and covering absolutely anything and everything with "white sauce". For more laughs, peruse "The Gallery of Regrettable Food" by James Lileks in which he has gathered some of the most revolting-looking photos of the consequences of "Perfection Salad".

This highly readable, beautifully researched book provides a fascinating look into American "cuisine" circa 1850-1920. The Boston Cooking School and other institutions promoted Americanization through cooking conducted on scientific principles, although immigrants proved reluctant to give up their "coarse and unsavory" meals for triumphs of digestibility such as the following, served to President Wilson on his first day in office: "cream of celery soup, fish with white sauce, roast capon with two white vegetables, a fruit salad,and a dessert made with gelatin, custard, and whipped cream"(212). Other triumphs included a salad made of bananas and pimentos bound together with mayonnaise and whipped cream and, later, grapefruit pieces mixed with dessert mints. Often funny and always interesting, this book
also helps readers to understand the convenience food mania of the 1950s.

This book is the bible for anyone traveling to hawaii. You can plan your vacation based on the activities you like and you will not be disappointed by their recommendations. The hotel reviews are very accurate and I used the restuarant reviews exclusively. Even on my second trip I found the book to be extremely useful.

We are planning our first trip to Hawaii and have been amazed on the amount of information that is out there. This book summarizes all of the hawaiian islands and helped us plan our 3 week trip. It reviews not only hotels, but restaurants, activities and hot spots to see. All for less than $20! I feel that it is a must for any traveler to the island.

This past October, two friends and I went to Italy for 2 1/2 weeks. Although we used many other books, Frommers was our bible! It helped us find wonderful places to stay, great information about attractions and great places to eat. It even helped salvage our stay in Venice by suggesting a wonderful non-touristy restaurant. We traveled from Rome through Tuscany (Siena, Assisi, Florence, Pisa) to Venice. Frommers helped make it a managable and thoroughly wonderful vacation!

There is hardly anything I wanted to know about that couldn't be found in Frommer's latest travel book on Rome. With events, and travel notes updated to accompany this Jubilee Year, you will not feel left in the dark. Especially helpful are the listings of many restaurants, hotels, travel guides/tours, rentals, etc. according to whichever budget you choose, and whatever part of Rome you plan to be in.

This book contains the full development of a new kind of function theory that is closely connected with several interesting physical problems. This new theory is that generated by the metaharmonic generalized Dirac (Moisil-Theodorescu) operator, which factorizes the Helmholtz operator, and which leads to a very nice and powerful eight-dimensional generalization of classical complex analysis. The authors' approach is to stress the importance of integral representations to solve boundary value problems and then to apply these tools to handle some physical problems.

The contents are: Introduction and Some Remarks on Generalizations of Complex Analysis; Alpha-holomorphic Function Theory; Electrodynamical Models; Massive Spinor Fields; Hypercomplex Factorization, Systems of Non-linear Partial Differential Equations Generated by Fueter-type Operators; 4 appendices.

Intended mostly for researchers, but suitable for graduate-level courses. Includes lots of results found only in research papers, and some of them appear proved here for the first time.

Includes an extensive list of references. Just be careful with some typos.

If you are interested in hypercomplex analysis read also the books by Brackx et al, Delanghe et al, and Guerlebek & Sproessig.

Please take a look at the rest of my reviews. Thank you.

This is an important book whose title, unfortunately, reveals little of its contents. The subject is a rigorous formulation of classical electrodynamics and relativistic quantum mechanics in terms of complex quaternions. The latter form a mutidimenional algebra extending the complex numbers and possessing powerful generalizations of Cauchy's integral formulae. Although there are several books on the market using Clifford algebras (including complex quaternions) in mathematical physics, this book is distinguished in several ways. Most such books stop with the albegra, while the book under review also contains much rigorous analysis, including the "integral representations" of the title. Specialzing to complex quaternions (instead of considering general Clifford algebras) leaves ample freedom to describe the chosen physics while allowing the development of powerful new methods. The connections with classical results by Moisil, Theodorescu and others are emphasized, helping to motivate and orient the mathematical reader.

This compact travel guide is packed to the gills with excellent information for the novis or perennial pilgrim to Las Vegas. It contains loads of new information for those who own other editions as recent as the 1999 version. Herczog's comments are informative and reliable--you can tell if you'll want to go to a particular restaurant or casino from her descriptions. This guide is indispensable to me (since I always run out of time to see all I want to see in Las Vegas). It's a great complement to Saehler's UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO LAS VEGAS. Also this year, see an excellent chapter of webs sites at the end of the book. (I believe your photo shows the 1999 edition, however.)

This book is strong because it picks out the best travel sites and offers an intelligent, thorough description of each one. While so many other Net books simply list an overwhelming enormous bunch of sites, Shapiro's book grabs only those that stand out and really serve travelers. He's picked the ones that you want to use.

Whenever I refer to it, I can depend on each site he describes as high quality. And since he describes the advantages and disadvantages of each one, I can pinpoint which site has the features closest to what I'm looking for.

We don't have to spend hours searching. Shapiro has done the research for us.

Rings is a wonderful compilation of art and artists in an incredibly unique collection. Each piece is discussed in order to help readers understand these contributions to the artistic world. This book is informative, asthetic and well worth the wait. I was fortunate enough to visit the exhibit in Atlanta and this is an incredible keepsake to remember it by.

This is an amazing book and I am surprised it is not better known. It tells about the life of a Polish Jew who escaped from what he considered the stifling atmosphere of Polish Hasidic life and went to Germany to become part of the German Enlightenment. He translated Kant into Yiddish for the edification of his compatriots back home. The scenes depicting Maimon's marriage at the age of 12 and of Jewish life in eighteenth century Poland are very memorable. Someone told me recently that this book might not actually have been written by Maimon at all but by the "editor," the German writer Karl Philip Moritz, who apparently had a similar life. Perhaps that is why the book has not been reprinted.

I was just 3 years old the last time the Brooklyn Dodgers went to the World Series. In 1956 the Dodgers were an aging team and were probably not even the best team in the NL (that being the Milwaukee Braves). Ironically by picking up old enemy Sal Maglie, Brookyn won the pennant on the last day of the season. They lost the World Series to the Yankees in 7 games (Game 5 was Larsen's Perfect Game) and it was a credit to them that they were able to take a superior Yankee team the distance.
The next year the Dodgers finished third and were a team that was "past it's prime and past its time." Walter O'Malley was not a nice man by any means. He was devoted to his family and had a great sense of business but as Michael Shapiro points out, should not have been a baseball owner. O'Malley was strictly a bottom line owner - he counted how many butts were in the seats at Ebbets Field. If you went to one game a season but followed the Dodgers passionately over TV, the radio and newspapers, and argued about them in the luncheonette, then by O'Malley's reckoning you were not a real fan. O'Malley missed the mystical connection between team and fans. However as Shapiro makes known, the real villain was the ubiquitous and dictatorial Robert Moses and the notorious way that business was done (and is still done) in New York. Moses refused to condemn land (something he loved doing - condemning land) to build a new stadium. At heart Moses (as was O'Malley) was not even a baseball fan and had little connection to the average Joe Sixpack who followed the team. Shapiro's book as well as being a great account of the 1956 season, is in ceratin ways a sociology and urban history book of New York in the 1950's as well. It is apparent that as beloved as the Dodgers were, they have been romanticized by people such as Roger Kahn way out of proportion. Jackie Robinson comes across as a fierce competitor whose will to win was unmatched, but as not such a nice person. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to follow the ups and downs of a legendary team and have the truth revealed about the 1958 move to Los Angeles.

Michael Shapiro has done a fabulous job of bringing the 1956 National League pennant race to life. Reading this book makes that season as vivid as if it were this year's season. His telling of the machinations of Walter O'Malley and Robert Moses gives a great look at New York in the Fifties. Although long time Brooklyn residents may disagree, Shapiro points to Moses as the real villain behind the Dodgers' exit from New York. His reasoning is sound and he does a great job of showing O'Malley to be the conniving businessman he was.

Even though I was only five years old when the Dodgers left Brooklyn, I always had a fond spot in my heart for the team. I collected Brookyn Dodger yearbooks over the years. This book, by Michael Shapiro, brought out many interesting facts which I did not know, such as it was only at the end of the season did the Dodgers actually sell out any games. Even though Ebbets Field only held 32,000 I assumed there were several sell outs during the season. Yes,the Dodgers were profitable but O'Malley was a business man and saw (like the Braves) he could make significantly more money. Knowing that area of Brooklyn, that if the stadium was built in 1957 and the teams which would have included Koufax and Drysdale they would have succeeded greatly. Also, the book points out the relationship between Robinson, Campenella and Newcombe. I was not aware of the relationship between the three. I could not believe Newcombe left Ebbets Field, after getting knocked out of the 7th game of the World Series. Yanks start Johnny Knucks against the leagues MVP and Cy Young winner and Newcombe gets knocked out and leaves the Field. I found it incredible that the day after the World Series the team leaves for Japan. I wonder how todays players would react. I wonder why Rachel Robinson declined to be interviewed by the author, I believe she could have added greatly to experiences at Ebbets Field and Brooklyn in the 1950's. I enjoyed the part when Sal Maglie first came to the Dodgers and his reception in the clubhouse. The best part was describing Brookyn in the 1940's and how it was transforming in the 1950's. I read the Boys of Summer many years ago, but this book by Michael Shapiro is clearly superior. I would recommend this book to any baseball fan from that era, especially Brooklyn Dodger fans. Both O'Malley and especially Robert Moses are the real villians here.