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It's okay -- but I was hoping for more..........2005-11-17

This is a good beginning book for those who have never created flip charts. Unfortunately I was looking for a book with more drawings / pictures that can be used on flip chart. I highly recommend Robert Lucas' Big Book of Flip Charts. Other easy to draw illustrations that can be used for such charts can be found in any of the books by Ed Emberley. Preview the books at your local library -- you'll then want to purchase them for later use.

Very valuable but not the best.......2002-02-10

This book ia packed with helpful ideas, tips and suggestions for using, making and presenting flip-charts efficiently and creatively. It is a wonderful resource for anyone who wishes to learn new techniques and also as a reference for any presentation skills workshop.

However, despite the graphics and the 'white space' you find yourself somewhat bored by them after a while. All the pages look very similar and there is almost no variation in the layout.

Good book but a bit pricy.......1998-04-23

The content in this book is solid, however there are many cartoon-type graphics and much white space with the bulleted format. Maybe a bit expensive for the amount of information covered.

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First class!.......1998-02-23

This was my favourite of 4 titles that I reviewed when preparing a course on the Internet for Physicians. This book is comprehensive, gives an overview of the Internet in simple language and gives examples of sites and resources in all specialities. I would highly recommend it for both personal collections and libraries.

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The origin of the most energetic particles observed in nature is one of the major unresolved questions in modern astrophysics. Theoretical speculations range from electromagnetic acceleration in some unknown astrophysical source to as yet undiscovered particle physics beyond the Standard Model. These speculations have also lead to the development of new detection concepts and experimental projects, some of which are currently under construction. The present volume consists of a self-contained set of lectures which cover most of these aspects: from the speculative origins and the acceleration and propagation mechanisms to a discussion of the detection techniques. It emphasizes the strong interdisciplinarity of this topic and highlights the many open questions. This volume is intended for students entering this field and for professional astronomers and particle and theoretical physicists.

Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, TX, 10-15 December 2000 (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, TX, 10-15 December 2000 (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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Every two years this conference convenes the leaders in the general topic of relativistic astrophysics to survey the latest results and the status of the field. The proceedings cover the full range of topics where speeds near the velocity of light and/or high gravitational fields apply to astrophysics. These include cosmology, galaxy formation, dark matter and energy, black holes and neutron stars, gamma-ray bursts and ultra-high energy cosmic rays.

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Ultra-High Energy Particle Astrophysics
Shigera Yoshida
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This compact yet thorough text zeros in on the parts of the theory that are particularly relevant to applications . It begins with a description of Brownian motion and the associated stochastic calculus, including their relationship to partial differential equations. It solves stochastic differential equations by a variety of methods and studies in detail the one-dimensional case. The book concludes with a treatment of semigroups and generators, applying the theory of Harris chains to diffusions, and presenting a quick course in weak convergence of Markov chains to diffusions. The presentation is unparalleled in its clarity and simplicity. Whether your students are interested in probability, analysis, differential geometry or applications in operations research, physics, finance, or the many other areas to which the subject applies, you'll find that this text brings together the material you need to effectively and efficiently impart the practical background they need.

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A practical introduction not so practicle.......2006-04-13

I took this book hoping that it can help me learn fast the important concepts of stochastic calculus. I liked the fact that it has exercises with complete solutions, and the friendly presentation. However there are some aspects that I did not like about the book. First thing is that Durrett is not so precise in the proofs of the theorems. Here are several examples.

In Theorem (2.4) he proves that continuous local martingales localize to bounded martingales. I did not understand why it is important to have continuity, and the proof does not give any hints towards this. It is true that even in Rogers & Williams you do not see that. My guess is that the first exit time becomes a stopping time if the process is continuous.

Durrett also does not say in the proof of Theorem (2.4) why he can apply the Optimal Stopping Theorem (2.3) since he did not mention that the stopped martingale is uniformly integrable.

In Theorem (3.1) he defines the variance process of a continuous local martingale. I had troubles with the proof of uniqueness of Theorem (3.1). He does not say why the difference of the processes is of local bounded variation. This fact is crucial for the proof.

The book is good in combination with Rogers & Williams.

Written by the priesthood for the priesthood?.......2005-09-07

I bought this book after reading in the last chapter of Steele's "Stochastic Calculus" that this would be a good reference for constructing martingales via pdes for the case of x-dependent diffusion coefficients. An introduction, this book certainly is not, nor is it practical or even useful for nonspecialists. I can hardly imagine a worse divergence between reality and an author's stated belief of what the book really is. Richard Durrett states in his introduction that he intends to present coherently the material that would otherwise require understanding many other difficult books. He also complains that his former editor refused the ms, so he went to CRC. Like many other topics in the book, e.g., "Martingale" is not defined, the author simply refers to his other books! Steele's book is extremely difficult: I cannot follow many of his proofs but his examples are stimulating and can be worked out. The examples show how the theorems work, which is practical. Generally, one example is worth a thousand theorems. Durrett's book is 'practical' in that he does offer exercises, and apparently Steele took his execises from this book. I would have wished for better editing, all authors suffer from too little criticism.

Note added later (and I should have given 2 stars): Durrett's 1984 book "Brownian Motion and Martingales in Analysis" looks somewhat more readable and has some examples. In fact, the examples in Steel, as well as the Martingale discussion of his last chapter, may be motivated by or come from the 1984 book. It's often the case that an author's later books on a particular subject are not as good as his earlier ones. Warning: the 1984 book is also written in highly impenetrable mathematese.

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1. 'Levy's theorem', pg. 111: take care not to conclude that martingales with variance linear in t are equivalent to a Wiener process, they generally are topologically inequivalent! E.g., for the exponential process with Hurst exponent H=1/2 one obtains E(x^2(t))=2t, and the factor of 2 makes all the difference, formally. More generally, consult Durrett's integration by parts formula (10.1) in part 2.10: since is generally not t, X^2(t)-t is generally not a martingale. Financial math texts tend to advertise falsely that all martingales are Wiener processes.

2. Instructive derivation of the Coulomb Green function from the martingale defined by the Poisson eqn.

3. The Girsanov factor for Ornstien-Uhlenbeck given on pg. 204 is wrong, see my revierw of the 1984 book for the correct factor. Better yet, work it out for yourself.

4. A statement on pg. 212 is wrong on acount of violating the warning of 1. above: an arbitray martingale is topoligically inequivalnt to a Wiener process!

5. Part 6.4. Very nice, and related to the Coulomb construction: or a class of odes the Green function is given by a martingale constructed from the corresponding Ito process. Sorely and sadly missing: explanation how the boundary terms vanish (to create the desired martingale) at the stopping time. Even worse, the Ito process is sidesteped in favor of a standard construction from odes which hides the role of the stopping time and how one can handle it! Note that the 7th eqn. on pg. 223 is wrong, the correct one is the 3rd eqn. The two are not equivalent unless the underlying Ito process is Wiener, and it generally is not.

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Paul Powell emerged from the hill country of southern Illinois to serve in state government from 1935 until his death in 1970. His political tenure included three terms as Speaker of the Illinois House, four terms as minority leader, and two terms as secretary of state. The sponsor of hundreds of bills, he worked tirelessly for his constituents in southern Illinois. He also worked tirelessly to promote his own interests.

In this first political biography of Powell, Robert E. Hartley follows the money. He tells how this man of humble origins and meager means amassed a world-class political and financial base. Part of that story is the disclosure of a personal fortune that boggled minds, including the unbelievable yarn of the $800,000 cash found in the hotel room following Powell's death.

Powell never earned a state salary of more than $30,000 per year, yet in the last year of his life, his federal income tax return showed an income of more than $200,000. At his death his estate totaled $3.2 million, and, when settled in 1978, was worth $4.6 million, including nearly $1 million in racetrack stock.

Following Powell's story, Hartley takes us deep into the Illinois political world of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, a time when politicians were on an "honor system" regarding their financial holdings. This was before disclosure of political contributions, before computer records, and before public meetings laws.

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A real inside look at politics.......2001-01-07

This is a fascinating look at a politican best remembered for the $800,000 he left in a shoebox (more or less) in a shabby Springfield hotel room. But Paul Powell was more than that. He was a product of a unique time and place and became a political force that for a time revolved as a "twin-sun" with the Chicago Daley Machine. This book explains how Southern Illinois shaped Powell and how his roots affected his role in Illinois politics. It's also a fascinating look at racetrack politics - a convergence that sent Gov. Otto Kerner to prison. Bob Hartley knows his stuff and has written a very readable account of a very fascinating man.

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A Compelling Immigrant Life

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The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life
Ernestine Bradley
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood (P.S.)

ASIN: 037542279X
Release Date: 2005-03-01

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In this moving and candid memoir we meet Ernestine Bradley, the wife of former senator and presidential hopeful Bill Bradley. She stood out among Senate wives: a German-born lover of languages and a transplant to America, Ernestine had a full-time career in New Jersey as a professor of comparative literature, commuted weekly to Washington, D.C., and ran two households—she was in constant motion.

As the book opens, Ernestine takes us to the small town of Passau, Germany, her childhood home, offering a vivid picture of ordinary German life during the Nazi period and just after World War II. As kids on the loose while the fathers were away at war and the mothers were working, Ernestine and her pals explored the town’s winding alleys and its three rivers, experiencing a sense of adventure and freedom (despite the privations of war) that would be a touchstone throughout her life. Ernestine vividly describes how she came to see opportunity in defeat as she watched the American troops roll through her little town; this was a primal moment that helped her to face everything that was to come. We follow her as she leaves West Germany, lands a glamorous job as an airline stewardess, and arrives in America, where she marries unhappily and divorces before finally meeting the basketball star and future senator. We watch their romance become an inspiring marriage of equals, his steadiness the perfect complement to her passionate, sometimes flaring nature, as their lives are soon crowded with family, the demands of their individual careers, politics, and, finally, Ernestine’s fight with breast cancer.

This is a wonderful, inspiring story from a woman who has triumphed—both publicly and personally—against great odds. It is also the introduction to an exuberant voice, one that invites us to reflect on all that we have and on how far we may have to travel to find our way home.

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Well-intentioned and interesting, though many unanswered questions.......2005-12-09

At a book-signing Mrs. Bradley approves that, unlike her parents, today's young Germans are willing to confront the Nazi past. I fear that they may be putting too much of their attention on the past, while they ignore (or, worse yet, rationalize) the shouts of "Death to the Jews" coming from their precious Palestinians. Germany may outlaw _Mein Kampf_ and _The Protocols of the Elders of Zion_, but expressing one's solidarity with the Arabs who promote this kind of hatred is still quite acceptable. I wonder what Mrs. Bradley thinks of PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk - a young German-American who dismisses the Holocaust as no worse than Kentucky Fried Chicken -- and Hitler no worse than Colonel Sanders.

I can identify with Mrs. Bradley's feelings when as an adult she learned of the consequences of her countrymen's infatuation with National Socialism. As a Jew I felt a similar shame upon learning of _my_ grandparent generation's enthusiasm for _international_ socialism. ("Nazi" is short for Nazional Sozialist, so perhaps we should refer to the Internazional Sozialisten as "InterNazis.") The InterNazis made only limited inroads in America, but tens of millions were murdered in the Soviet gulags -- the initial model for Hitler's concentration camps. The death toll was even worse in China and Cambodia; and continues under Zimbabwe's Marxist leader.

Unfortunately, many lessons of the Holocaust have yet to be learned. For example, a half-dozen years before the Holocaust the Nazi government ordered all Jews to be registered with the police. The author's husband (presidential candidate Sen. Bill Bradley) -- in a similar spirit of "We have too many of their kind" -- advocated registering handgun owners. I was also disturbed by his eagerness to outlaw the very guns used by many Korean shop owners to escape the Los Angeles Krystallnacht of 1992. Hitler once remarked that if you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it -- and the gun control movement relies on that tactic heavily. At least with the Bradley's they succeeded -- much as Hitler was successful with the Germans of the 1930s.

I guess that's why history repeats itself.

A Compelling Immigrant Life.......2005-10-21

Ernestine Schlant Bradley's memoir, The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life, is a personal document of the way, or road, she traveled and her changing perspectives as she lives her life. Having left her Bavarian home to settle in the US, Dr. Bradley shares many experiences with the million or more German speaking immigrants to the American continent in the postwar era. She left in April 1957 to explore the world as a hostess for Pan Am airlines and her very attractive picture from that time adorns the book's dust jacket. She then married and lived in Atlanta where her first daughter was born but soon began to take courses which led to a career as professor of comparative literature at New School University in New York. In1974, she married Bill Bradley, later the Senator from New Jersey. Ernestine clearly deserves credit as a survivor, not only of World War II and the hard post-war years, but also of an early divorce and breast cancer.

The Way Home is, however, more than a memoir; it is a detailed record of the author's continuing discovery of new views of the stations along her life's road. She creates lively images of the streets of Passau and the Danube River, her playground in her carefree early youth during World War II, and of her postwar years in bombed-out Ingolstadt. As she revisits these sites, the images get more detailed and personal. This approach can almost be compared to the way an artist gradually chisels his sculpture. We learn for example how a few hours in her grandfather's garden were often the only rest from a life of chores and learning because Ernestine became responsible for the household and her substantially younger siblings during her mother's frequent illnesses. As new perspectives reveal continually greater truths, this stylistic feature also reflects her personal maturation. In the process we see how family members influenced her and how she also came to view their roles in the hard events that made for the history of Germany. As she comments in her thoughtful way on that history, we find that her approach rarely lends itself to easy quotes about this difficult time. Late in life Ernestine also discovered her own somewhat complicated family story. The fact that her mother was at the time of her birth married to a man who was not her father briefly led to accusations of misrepresentation during Bill Bradley's campaign in the 1999/2000 presidential primary. Without this public exposure she might not have been led to these personal documents in the Passau archives.

By revisiting major stations on her personal road Bradley shows the reader how she, as we all do, grew in understanding, and, after all, that's what life is all about! If this "way" in the title gives the book structure, then changes for the word "home" give it depth. The reader will have to work a little when primary relationships are also frequently revisited. In the process, the meaning of the word "home" is freed from its connection to a place and stands increasingly for a condition of emotional wellbeing, an adjustment that immigrants can surely follow. An elderly aunt, Tante Betty, was her care giver in Passau and provided "home" for the young child. Her mother never succeeded in fulfilling this role and Ernestine admits that even beyond youthful rebellion the relationship remained strained through most of her life. However, she found her emotional home in her relationship to her two daughters and to her second husband, Rhodes Scholar, NBA star, and Senator Bill Bradley. Building their life together around two jobs and a daughter and suffering together through her cancer treatments, they consciously worked on giving each other an emotional home.

The Way Home was begun as a testament to her daughters and grandchildren. Readers will be grateful that it was also published, especially because it addresses the many issues around Germany's role in recent history in such a compelling way. Immigrants will find themselves empowered by Ernestine Bradley's honety to address those issues from the American perspective. All readers will find that this book is hard to put down. It is hoped that a translation will make it equally compelling for readers in Germany.
by Anne Marie Fuhrig, Ph.D., erstwhile Asst. Professor at MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL.

She would have been a great First Lady.......2005-08-19

considering the background of the author, the book is not as well written as I had hoped, but the contents are so interesting, and tell of such an interesting life that it more than made up for the sometimes awkward style. Life is not a bed of roses and relationships are complicated, and the author in candor and honesty discusses them. Her husband comes through as a good man whom we werelucky to have in the Senate.

An intense and compelling memoir.......2005-06-23

During this past election, many people thought that Teresa Heinz Kerry would become the first foreign-born First Lady. In fact, there had been a chance in the 2000 election, when Senator Bill Bradley ran for the Democratic nomination for president. His wife, Ernestine Schlant Bradley, impressed many observers with her intelligence, energy, and passion, and it was a shame that more Americans did not get to know her before the Bradley campaign faded in the primaries. Now they have that opportunity in this memoir, which describes her life beginning in Nazi Germany and the war years, and taking her through her emigration to America, her decision to pursue an academic career, an unsuccessful marriage in Atlanta, a new life in New York, her second marriage to the Rhodes Scholar, NBA star, and Senator from New Jersey, and finally her struggle in the 1990s with breast cancer. It is a remarkably honest, candid, and revealing account of her life, painful at times in its introspection, but deeply moving in its emotions and understanding.
It was during the presidential campaign that Bradley was jolted into reexamining her past. An archivist from Passau, her German birthplace, put material on the town's web site questioning her background and family history. The material suggested she was a Hochstapler, someone presenting herself with a better pedigree than she was entitled to. Her father, the posting suggested, was not the air force officer she claimed, but a different man, a hairdresser in Passau. He was also a member of the Nazi party, and the implication was that Bradley sought to conceal this politically damaging fact. These assertions, Bradley notes, "upset me enough that I needed to go back to my roots, to gain access to documents not previously available, and to reconsider how I became who I think I am." What she discovered was a very complicated family history. Her mother had indeed become pregnant at eighteen with the man that Ernestine would later know as her father, but in order to avoid hurting his promising career, she ended up marrying a local man, "the hairdresser." He was the man listed on Ernestine's birth certificate as her father. In 1943, when Ernestine was eight years old, her mother finally divorced him and married Ernestine's real father, the air force officer, but she never had him legally adopt Ernestine. These facts proved painful to Bradley when she discovered them, especially as they bore on her relationship with her mother. Bradley's describes her mother as a woman who "did not know what to do with me, except possess and display me, and she mistook that for love," and this emotionally tangled relationship is a centerpiece of the book. As we follow Bradley's life - watching her care for her younger siblings during her mother's illnesses, seeking the education her mother didn't get, deciding to come to America - her mother remains a central element in her life. When she speaks of her mother's disappointment in her when she got a divorce and then didn't return to Germany, one senses the real anguish that this brought. But many readers will also fully understand when she writes that after her mother's death, " I was overcome with a kind of grief I had not known before," and that she felt her mother's absence and was no longer angry with her, leading Bradley to wonder "How could a lifelong grievance vanish so quickly and so undramatically?"
There is a wealth of insight and wisdom in this book, but many readers will find Bradley's continuing confrontation with Germany's past to be of particular interest. Obviously she herself was only a child during the Nazi period, but that does not stop her from acknowledging that "like so many Germans of my generation, I have been haunted by the question of how I, as an adult, would have behaved during the Nazi regime." Her realization of the burden of German history came only when she started living in America in the early 1960s - because, as she writes poignantly, "in Germany silence surrounded the Holocaust like an impenetrable wall." But once she learned of the Nazi crimes, the knowledge "descended never to leave me again." Although there were no"murderers in my family," she discusses honestly the pain and soul-searching that her awareness of Germany's crimes has cost her. Eventually she realized that simple acceptance was the only option, an acceptance that "this is part of my history; this is my heritage whether I like it or not." That acceptance has also spurred her to an impressive academic career confronting the issues of the Holocaust and its legacy in postwar German literature. But as important as Bradley's intellectual contribution has been, it is in her human reaction, the pain and sadness which this burden of history has inflicted and her moving encounters with people who suffered under the Nazis, that stand out in this account of her personal "coming to terms with the past."
Despite her public visibility and political role, Bradley's memoir has the feel of an intense and intimate conversation with an old and dear friend. It is a gripping story, complete with moments of moments of great joy and sadness. Her final words capture the spirit of this book: "defeat is never permanent, nor triumph everlasting. Only memory seals these moments in unending glory."

The Strength of the Human Spirit.......2005-05-02

This superb volume epitomizes the value of the memoir genre. The auhtor's painstaking self-questioning produces a memorable work, as valuable for its insights as for the multi-dimensional and candid perspective of a witness to WWII from the "other" side. Dr. Bradley admirably describes a lifetime of being a survivor: of poverty, of the war, of divorce, and finally of cancer. But her book is in every sensse not merely survival but a tribute to triumph over each adversity. We glimpse not only the strength of the human spirit but the sometimes agonizing building of that inner strength and courage.It is well worth OUR journey to experience Dr. Bradley's journey home.

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This autobiography begins with large print to indicate the author's age of five, telling her life as in the present. This continues throughout the book with the print getting smaller and the verse more sophisticated as she grows older to age 20. If You Want to Soar is about the struggles and triumphs of the author, Anita Pace, as she deals with a difficult home life and realization of sexuality.

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