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The Way It Was: An Oral History of Finance 1967-1987
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The Way It Was: An Oral History of Finance, 1967-1987
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Way It Was: An Oral History of Finance: 1967-1987.
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This latest, updated edition gives you practical, easy-to-understand answers to all kinds of everyday questions about divorce, child support, and child custody; credit, bankruptcy, and debt collection; starting a business; leases and tenant rights; small claims court lawyers; wills and probate; false advertising and warranties; immigration; and many more important legal converns. This book uses simple question and answer format to help you understand and solve man common legal problems.

Know your rights!: Answers to Texans' everyday legal questions

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Know your rights!: Answers to Texans' everyday legal questions
Richard M Alderman
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Know Your Rights!, 7th Edition: Answers to Texans' Everyday Legal Questions (Know Your Rights)

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Easy to use and informative.......2001-03-30

This book is divided into commonly used sections: property law, family law, etc. Each topic is then presented in specific question and answer form. It is nice that it specifically relates to Texas law, most books cover general US law and that is useless. Easy to understand and informative.

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This is a powerful original account of one man's efforts to raise wheat on his farm in Meade County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Lawrence Svobida tells of farmers "fighting in the front-line trenches, putting in crop after crop, year after year, only to see each crop in turn destroyed by the elements." Although not a writer by trade, Svobida undertook to record what he saw and experienced "to help the reader to understand what is taking place in the Great Plains region, and how serious it is." He wrote of the need for better farming methods--the only way, he felt, the destruction could be halted or confined. Well before the principles of an ecological movement were widely embraced, Svobida urged a public acceptance of the "sovereign rights of the states and the nation to regulate the use of land by owners . . .so that it may be conserved as a national resource."

This graphic account of farm life in the Dust Bowl--perhaps the only autobiographical record of Dust Bowl agriculture in existence--was first published in 1941. This new edition contains an introduction by the historian R. Douglas Hurt that not only objectively sets the scene during and after the Dust bowl, but also places the book properly in the growing body of contemporary literature on agriculture and land use. The volume is an important contribution to American agricultural history in general, and the the history of the Depression and of the Great Plains in particular.

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Important resource.......2007-05-13

This slim book isn't exactly an excellent read, but remains important for its facts and figures that add much to understanding a disastrous period in US ag farming. Especially the lessons learned. Wanting a little more data after I'd read The Worst Hard Time (absolutely great) by Timothy Egan, Lawrence Svobida's book filled the bill. Too bad he repressed nearly every bit of personal detail about himself, because he was obviously an intriguing, bull-headed, original young thinker.

Unique.......2003-01-04

Having searched for a first hand account of what it was like to attempt to farm during the dust bowl I was very pleased to find this work. Svobida provides a year by year account of his attempts to do that and I enjoyed learning from his trials and tribulations. The book is unique, as to this point, it is the only work I've found that gives the details of how farmers attempted to prevail during the dust bowl years. Increased an already high admiration for those who lived in and trhough the dust bowl.

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Living Earth vividly outlines the history of life on earth, showing how the biosphere and planet have evolved together as a single complex system. Few other texts effectively convey this essential part of geological or biological studies as well as this introductory level text.

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Mapping the relationship between human society and the Earth, the Encyclopedia of Global Change is the first general reference guide to the impact of politics, population, economics, and technology on the planet. Containing over 300 original, signed articles by distinguished scholars, it is the comprehensive work for this multi-discipline, high-profile field. The Encyclopedia synethsizes current knowledge on natural and human-made changes in the Earth's physical , chemical, and biological systems and the effects of these changes on society. Areas such as altered ecosystems, climate change, food supply, water production and consumption, population, and the political impact of global change are covered in detail. And the clearly written articles also include responses to global modification, agreements and associations, institutions, policies, biographies, and case studies. Enhanced by 1,500 illustrations, extensive cross-references, bibliographies, and an index, the Encyclopedia of Global Change links essential knowledge across many fields-geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric science, political science, economics, technology, and others-in a resource that is both accessible and authoritative. The jargon-free language makes it an excellent work for the professional scholar as well as the interested general reader.

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"The theory is systematically developed by the axiomatic method that has, since von Neumann, dominated the general approach to linear functional analysis and that achieves here a high degree of lucidity and clarity. The presentation is never awkward or dry, as it sometimes is in other "modern" textbooks; it is as unconventional as one has come to expect from the author. The book contains about 350 well placed and instructive problems, which cover a considerable part of the subject. All in all this is an excellent work, of equally high value for both student and teacher". Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik

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Good Reading........2007-09-04

Halmos uses informal language and is not afraid to let his feelings show from time to time. There are a couple of exasperated remarks about the formalism that I find very funny. Because of this personal quality of the prose I feel affection for the work that I don't feel for many textbooks.

For me this book was just fine as the introductory text. But I was a physics student and must have had from that a working knowledge of vectors and transforms in orthogonal spaces, and I knew and liked the rigorous approach to math.

I still feel I would not like to be without the book.

A Classic for the mathematically-inclined. Good preparation for learning quantum mechanics........2007-08-12

This was one of the two textbooks (along with Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis) that was used for the hot-shot freshman Math 218x course taught by Elias Stein at Princeton in the Spring of 1989.

It is a great book. It requires a bit of mathematical maturity, that is a love of mathematical proof and simplifying abstractions. This book abstractly defines vector spaces and linear transformations between them without immediately introducing coordinates. This approach is vastly superior to immediately extorting the reader to study the algebraic and arithmetic properties n-tuples of numbers (vectors) and matrices (n x n tables of numbers) which parameterize the underlying abstract vectors and linear transformations, respectively.

If I taught a serious linear algebra course using this book then there are a few deficiencies I would try to correct:

1. The polar decomposition is covered but the singular value decomposition (for linear transformations between different inner product spaces) is omitted. This is a pretty big gap in terms of applications, although it's easy to get the singular value decomposition if you have the polar decomposition.

2. The identification of an reflexive vector space with its double-dual was a stumbling block for me when I took the course in 1989. There was no mathematical definition of "identify", and so I was confused. Perhaps a good way to remedy this is to give a problem with the example of the Banach space L^p (perhaps just on a finite set of just two elements), and show how L^p is dual to L^p'.

3. The section on tensor products should be improved and expanded, especially in light of the new field of quantum information theory.

4. It would be nice to have a problem (or take-home final) where the reader proves the spectral theorem using minimal polynomials without recourse to determinants, and introduces the functional calculus just using polynomials. It is disturbing to see how many physics grad students are so hung up thinking of eigenvalues only as roots of the characteristic polynomial that they can't understand properties of the spectrum of a self-adjoint transformation A by considering polynmomials of A.

Except for property (3) above, this is a good book for students who are interested in taking a quantum mechanics or quantum computing course in the future. Halmos wrote this while Von Neumann was his advisor at Princeton, and von Neumann put quantum mechanics proper on a rigourous mathematical footing.

If you read this book and like it, then in the future you might want the following graduate-level textbooks:

Bhatia's book "Matrix Analysis".

Reed and Simon's "Methods of Mathematical Physics", especially volume 1 on functional analysis. (This is the infinite-dimensional version of Halmos's book.)

Halmos's "A Hilbert Space Problem Book"

You'll certainly need to learn some analysis before tackling the last two books, though!

A classic for advanced students.......2007-01-12

This book is very concise and covers everything you learned in undergraduate Linear Algebra course and much more. Pre-reqs I would say have to be a solid prep in Linear Algebra and knowing how to do proofs (a course or two in Real Analysis wouldn't be a bad idea). The book contains a handful of examples and exercises but most of the exercises are proofs. Recommended for seniors and graduate students only.

succinct and elegant descriptions.......2006-05-18

This book is correctly regarded by many mathematicians as a definitive introductory text on its subject. Be aware that it is not well suited as YOUR first text. If you have never dealt with finite dimensional vector spaces and are, typically, an undergrad, then a more standard and longer text will be an easier read.

But, once you have some knowledge of vector spaces, it pays to read Halmos. He provides a succinct exposition that explains the main ideas in an engaging and understandable style. Standard texts, directed towards a broader maths audience, often require more verbosity.

The only drawback with Halmos' book is the relative paucity of problems. However, if you have another text, that should typically provide you with the necessary problem sets.

overrated, but still good.......2004-04-10

This book is a good reference, because it contains a lot more material than is contained in most courses, but I don't think I'd want to use it for an intro to linear algebra. It's got stuff that other books don't have, like Hilbert spaces & some analysis stuff in an appendix, tensor products, multilinear forms... It's good as a reference or supplement, but not as a main text, IMO. For an intro, I liked Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right or the Hoffman/Kunze book.

Finite and Infinite Dimensional Linear Spaces (Pure & Applied Mathematics)

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Finite and Infinite Dimensional Linear Spaces (Pure & Applied Mathematics)
Richard D. Jarvinen
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Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces
Paul R. Halmos
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Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces 2ND Edition

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Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces 2ND Edition
Paul R Halmos
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Finite-dimensional Vector Spaces (University Series in Undergraduate Mathematics)

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Finite-dimensional Vector Spaces (University Series in Undergraduate Mathematics)
Paul R. Halmos
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Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces.
Paul R. Halmos
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Frames and Bases for Mathematics and Engineering: An Introductory Course (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)

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Frames and Bases for Mathematics and Engineering: An Introductory Course (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)
Ole Christensen
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During the last few years, frames have become increasingly popular; they have appeared in a large number of applications, and several concrete constructions of frames of various types have been presented. Most of these constructions were based on various characterizations of tight frames and dual pairs rather than the classical sufficient conditions for obtaining a frame. With this in mind, a need for an updated book on frames is evident, which moves the focus from a classical approach to a more constructive one.

Based on a streamlined presentation of the author’s successful work An Introduction to Frames and Riesz Bases, this new textbook develops frame theory as part of a dialogue between mathematicians and engineers. Newly added sections on applications will help mathematically oriented readers to see where frames are used in practice and engineers to discover the mathematical background for applications in their field.

Key features and topics:

* Basic results presented in an accessible way for pure and applied mathematicians as well as engineers.

* An introductory chapter presents basic results in finite-dimensional vector spaces, enabling readers with a basic knowledge of linear algebra to understand the idea behind frames without the technical complications in infinite-dimensional spaces.

* Extensive exercises making the work suitable as a textbook for use in theoretical graduate courses on bases and frames or applications-oriented courses focusing on either Gabor analysis or wavelets.

* Primary focus on basic topics without too many side remarks making it easier for students to follow the presentation.

* Detailed description of frames with full proofs, an examination of the relationship between frames and Riesz bases, and a discussion of various ways to construct frames.

* Content split naturally into two parts: Chapters 1–5 describe the theory on an abstract level, whereas Chapters 6–11 deal with explicit constructions of frames with applications and connections to time-frequency analysis, wavelets, and nonharmonic Fourier series.

* An appendix with basic results for easy reference containing material on pseudo-inverse operators and B-splines.

Frames and Bases for Mathematics and Engineering will be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. Practitioners working in digital signal processing who wish to understand the theory behind many modern signal processing tools may also find the book a useful self-study reference.

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Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces
Paul R. Halmos
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Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces
Paul R. Halmos
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Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces 1ST Edition

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Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces 1ST Edition
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As usual, Isabelle Eberhardt's stormy love affair with the Algerian desert sets the physical and emotional scene in this collection of short stories. Written in French in the late 1800s and translated by Karim Hamdy and Laura Rice, her characters live, love, work, and die with passions as fierce and brutal as the midday sun, reflections as gentle as the evening breeze, and happiness as beautiful and fleeting as the spring desert in bloom. As in "The Oblivion Seekers," Eberhardt's descriptions and voices are as lyrical, harsh, and ultimately captivating as the North African land and people she knew.

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Isabelle Eberhardt dreamed of escaping the gloom of Europe, and when she was nineteen she realized her desire in North Africa-Dar el Islam. In 1904, when she died in a flash flood in the Sahara, she was only twenty-seven years old, and had led a legendary, tempestuous life that encompassed both subversive political anarchism and the mysticism of Islam.

This selection of short stories, reportage, and travel journals, which glow with sensuous detail, superbly evokes the life of the desert towns and nomadic peoples of the Saharan region of Morocco and Algeria. As a radical individualist, Eberhardt identified with and defended the oppressed; yet she was a romantic as well, and ambiguous about the "civilizing" role of France. Today she has become an iconic figure at the center of discussions about gender, race, colonialism, representation, and writing.

In supplementary essays, Laura Rice provides historical and cultural context for Eberhardt's life and work, and explores her role as transgressor; Karim Hamdy surveys the realities of colonial exploitation, and places Eberhardt's membership in the Qadiriya Sufi brotherhood within the larger context of Islam.

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Excellent stories.......1998-04-16

This book contains some excelent stories that take you into the heart of Isabelle's Africa. I could feel a hear the countries and people, taste and smell the activities described. Of Isabelle's books this is my third favorite, preceeded only by her diary and The Oblivion Seeker.

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