Distribution Books

Excellent guide to the birding sites of Florida, especially to those birders chasing local "specialties".

We used this book as our itinerary planner for a recent 8 day trip to South Florida. We found the detailed directions to be so helpful to us in finding our target birds!

I used this book on a recent trip to Israel and Jordan. I was not on an "official" birding trip, but by keeping this pocket size book and my binos in my backpack, I was able to ID 30 new species. Photos are clear; descriptions good. Don't miss the Jerusalem Bird Observatory near the Knesset and the ponds at Magan Mikael (both near tourist sites and good, quick birder detours). I was working on completing Excuse #10 (Because I want to know that bird's name) and Excuse #6 (because I'm a wanderer) from my own book, 40 Excuses to Get Together with the Girls and it really helped.

This is the only major work available in english on the subject. It describes in detail the migration, breeding, habitat distribution and much more of all species recorded in Israel. It is not however a identification guide, but I have found the distribution info most usefull as a aid to ID.

Walter Neser

Peterjohn's "The Birds of Ohio" is the definitive scholarly work on Ohio Birds. Unlike other books of the same name this book is entirely original and based upon the authors own research. Other books have a more a cookie cutter approach. The publishers have created similar works for other states using much of the same information. While none of these works is intended as a field guide. Peterjohn provides the most complete and useful information for anyone interested in Ohio birds.

Peterjohn's, work is exhaustively researched and very well written, making it an invaluable reference. The species accounts tell the story of each species in Ohio and provide references. For common birds, habitat, migration, and nesting information is provided in a useful way. For rarities, a good history of sightings is provided.

Also included are the maps developed during the first Ohio breeding bird atlas. These provide a good reference on the distribution of these species.

This is the 2nd edition of the book and includes up to date information through 1999. Only a few species have been added to the Ohio list in the following years.

This book is highly recommended.

This small field guide has excellent photos, more than one per species is several cases; a migration map; notes on size; male, female and juvenile plumage; nest, eggs and incubation period;fledgling; migration; food; species comparison; and a great section entitled "Stan's Notes", full of interesting tidbits. Excellent picture guide for beginning birders.

This is a quality hardbound blank book with ivory pages. This is one of various cover designs that publishers Abyss Distribution produced in 2000. The book is primarily intended for recording personal rituals, spellwork, and other magical workings that an individual or "coven" might want to document. The quality is archival and suitable for presentation.

The cover art is hot embossed gold, this volume being one of the Triquetra design, symbolic of celtic artwork, also found in pagan and christain traditions. Wiccan and Neopagan symbolism is of the "Triple Goddess". The iconic image spans about half of the cover. There is a small similar stamp on the spine.

I obtained copies of this book as well as the various wiccan and egyptian versions because I believe the quality ensures a lasting record, when using the best quality archival inks. I particularly like the egyptian cover art: Goddess Maat, God Thoth, the Eye of Ra, and the Ankh. There are also covers with the Goddess Diana, a Triple Moon symbol, or a Pentacle, all well done and repeated on the spine.

Because this book is solidly bound blank pages, it requires some pre-planning before beginning to record your information. You will get the best use out of this book if you take time to divide it initially by topics you plan to write about or record. I recommend taking time to insert loose pages to section the book, as best you can to give it some index for the eventual content. Basic indexing will make your project easier to reference when filled, and more appreciated by others who may someday peruse your Book of Shadows.

I recommend these books, though they are increasingly very difficult to obtain, and none have been reprinted to date.

This is a beautiful hard cover book. An awesome journal, filled with enough pages and space to write and do whatever you need to do with it. The book is large, well made and durable. I do recommend making your own BOS, but this one is great.

You like adventure, heroes with a twist, and appreciate great pencils and panel composure - this is for you.

I never understood why Moebius - a.k.a. Giraud - did not make it big in the US. Marvel will reissue his terrific Silver Surfer graphic novel next month, but apart from that and an occasional Sci-Fi story here and there - nothing.
Charlier and Giraud created Blueberry in the seventies. The series of high class story telling combined with perfect art still continues today with about 48 different titles in print in Europe.

Blueberry is a free spirited hero, rough, with a broken nose but a good heart.
This is 1868, the Wild West, as wild as it goes. After the civil war, lieutenant Mike S. Blueberry finds himself as the makeshift sheriff of Palomito, some small border town in the middle of nowhere.
One day Mike breaks up a fight in the local saloon and stops things from getting worse by imprisoning a stranger accused of lying and cheating.
It is clear that he who calls himself Baron Werner Amadeus Werner von Luckner is a first class impostor. The problem is that there are quite a few men in town willing to believe his tales about the hidden Confederate gold.
Mike soon has to deal not just with the locals who want to retrieve their money, but also with two cold blooded bounty hunters who are after "Prosit" Luckner in a murder case.
When Mike's ever drunk assistant Jimmy falls for Prosit's wild tales about a goldmine in the Apache's sacred mountains and the prison is attacked by an angry bunch of locals, Prosit escapes and the story takes off.
It's all there, mystery, adventure, bounty hunters, heroes, villains, hookers, Apaches - you need more?
Masterminded by Jean-Michel Charlier and put into the best of scenes by Jean Giraud, this is a must have for anyone into adventure, be it film, novel or graphic novel (by the way, the movie Renegade was loosely based on this book. The book is much better though. It is deeper and more twisted and doesn't have the supernatural dream sequence that almost ruins the movie).

For those of you who read French, check out amazon.ca or .fr for the series. The stories are connected with sometimes two to three books building a tale, so you either start at the beginning or with La Piste des Sioux.
The French version of this is a must have. It is available in two versions, either two in one and slightly oversized: Les Monts de la Superstition, or seperate: La Mine de l'Allemand Perdu and Le Spectre aux Balles d'Or.
Comes with my highest possible recommendation ever!!!
Enjoy!

A sprawling epic tale in the style of Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti westerns, we follow the exploits of Marshal Mike Blueberry as he ventures through the untamed west in search of a fugitive Dutchman, who may, or may not know the whereabouts of a mythical goldmine. All of the archetypal western elements are present - dramatic shoot outs, collapsing mineshafts, bar room brawls, vengeful bounty hunters, card games, double crosses, attacking Indians and much more.

A true classic which, tragically, for the most part has remained unknown outside of Europe, The Lost Dutchmen's Mine ranks alongside all of the the modern masterpieces such as Watchmen, Dark Knight, Sandman, Elektra : Assassin and Love and Rockets.

It is probably Moebius' (who I consider to be the greatest living comics artist) most memorable achievement.

If you want to try something new and truly incredible, then you should get this book now as it has a habit of going out of print for long periods of time.

Boz the Bear is an absolutely wonderful character if you desire to teach Christian values to young children. My child has been enjoying Boz since she was under 2, and is now fully understanding the concepts that the Boz series presents. Kits like these reinforce what is presented in the amazing DVDs. My child could spend hours with this kit, and especially loves the clings. I would recommend this product to any Boz fan!

worth the buy.. this product is fun and spiritually fulfilling for the whole family. namaste!

Volume I of breakthroughs in statistics covered the foundations and the schools of inference that developed. Volume II did a good job of covering further developments in methodology and distribution theory. However after the two volume were published in 1992 it became apparent that there had been some key omissions and that further developments shed light on the importance of articles that had not been considered breakthrough papers earlier but in hindsight they clearly were. So in 1997 these fine editors published Volume III to fill in the gaps.

The earliest paper that was overlooked was Galton's famous 1889 paper that introduced regression, correlation and the phenomena of regression toward the mean. It is clear from reading the book that all the added papers were worthy of the title of breakthrough. Of particular interest to me are the articles that deal with faster computing techniques and computer intensive algorithms that were made practically important as the speed of computers grew astronomically in the 1990s. So the paper by Metropolis et al. 1953 became a breakthrough when another breakthrough paper by Geman and Geman 1984 showed the these Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms were useful in a Bayesian approach to image processing or "image restoration." After this breakthrough modifications of the basic algorithms have been developed to solve many of the previously viewed as infeasible problems in Bayesian inference. The practical development of frequency domain times series owes a debt to the fundamental breakthrough paper by Cooley and Tukey in 1965 that introduced the first versions of the fast Fourier transform. I shall skip the others except for two of my favorites, Peter Hall's 1988 paper that established theoretically through the use of Edgeworth and Cornish-Fisher expansions the asymptotic accuracy of various types of bootstrap confidence intervals and the 1986 paper by Liang and Zeger that developed an approach to longitudinal data analysis via generalized linear models. In this remarkable paper they also introduced Generalized Estimating Equations that are commonly used today. this work led to a famous and popular book on longitudinal data analysis that they coauthored with Peter Diggle. The pharmaceutical industry that I work in owes a great debt to Liang and Zeger as their approach to longitudinal (or repeated measures) data has been applied to the efficacy endpoints of phase III clinical trials.

Knuth said, garbage in garbage out. These three volumes are absolutely treasure of statistics, forever. The excellent papers in the past 110 years are collected and introduced. Whatever for students or researchers, they are definitely valuable to be at hand.

[1] The original papers are attached. Do you remember Abel said, Read the masters', not their pupils'?
[2] For each important paper, there is an introduction written by the real experts of this domain.
[3] This is a real awesome book that leads you to overview the history of statistics.
[4] You can find a surprise of good price somewhere on campusi.com if you need all the three volumes.

This volume is as praiseworthy as volume 1. However it covers a number of papers from the late 19th century and most of the twentieth century that dealt with distribution theory and statistical methodology rather than the foundational issues. Like volume 1 it was published in 1992 and includes an introduction by an expert that puts the article in contexts and explains why it is a breakthrough. All the articles are worthy of be designated as breakthrough seminal papers on the topic they cover. I will concentrate on my favorites to give the reader a flavor for the content. As with volume 1 I recommend this to any statistician or researcher interested in a deeper understanding of the history and key developments of statistics, a field developed primarily in the 20th Century.

The first paper in this collection is an article by Karl Pearson where his famous chi-square statistic is first introduced. Pearson's chi square was used by him as a way to evaluate the goodness of fit of a probability model to data. The chi square distribution that is the asymptotic distribution for Pearson's test statistic is one of the most important distributions in statistics. It is used in a variety of applications in biostatistics especially where contingency tables are involved and relationships between categorical or binary variables need to be tested.

The next paper is Gosset's (pen name Student) famous paper "The Probable Error of the Mean" published in 1908. This was the paper that guessed the central t distribution to be the exact sampling distribution of the t statistic used to estimate the mean of a distribution. Prior to Gosset's paper the standard normal distribution which is asymptotically correct for normally distributed samples was used. But Gosset dealt with small samples (perhaps in the range of 5 to 20) where the normal approximation is not good. Later R. A. Fisher mathematically proved the t distribution with n-1 degrees of freedom is the exact distribution for the t statistic from a sample of n independent identically distributed observations under the null hypothesis confirming Gosset's result.

Other papers among my favorites are Kolmogorov's 1933 paper on the empirical distribution function and the statistic that became known as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic for goodness of fit testing based on the empirical distribution, the Kaplan and Meier paper of 1958 establishing a nonparametric estimator of the survival function based on right censored time to event data, D. R. Cox's 1972 paper on the proportional hazards model for survival functions, Box and Jenkins 1962 paper on adaptive optimization and stochastic control that spawned their book on time series monitoring and feedback control systems, Nelder and Wedderburn's paper in 1972 on generalized linear models that led to the software product GLIM and later to the application in another breakthrough paper (in volume III) by Liang and Zeger to longitudinal data, and last but certainly not least Efron's 1979 Annals of Statistics paper on the bootstrap and its relationship to the jackknife which spawned a multitude of applications utilizing bootstrap estimates of standard error, confidence intervals and the application of the bootstrap principle to do Monte Carlo bootstrap approximations in a wide variety of complex and previously intractable problems.

Knuth said, garbage in garbage out. These three volumes are absolutely treasure of statistics, forever. The excellent papers in the past 110 years are collected and introduced. Whatever for students or researchers, they are definitely valuable to be at hand.

[1] The original papers are attached. Do you remember Abel said, Read the masters', not their pupils'?
[2] For each important paper, there is an introduction written by the real experts of this domain.
[3] This is a real awesome book that leads you to overview the history of statistics.
[4] You can find a surprise of good price somewhere on campusi.com if you need all the three volumes.

The California Landlord's Law Book: Evictions is a companion book that goes hand in hand with the Nolo title The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities. In fact, the opening chapters of the Evictions book repeatedly remind the reader to refer to Rights and Responsibilities, not for the purpose of selling more books, but because landlord/tenant law is best addressed with an overarching title, and if you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of having to evict a tenant, you can pick up the more specialized title on that topic.

I personally purchased the Evictions book when I had a non-paying roommate in my own home who refused to move out. I purchased this book after I had started the eviction process and seen the sheriff way too many times, and I cursed myself for not getting it earlier, because I found out that the law was more on my side that I had thought. Nolo taught me that the sheriff is often misinformed about the process of evicting a roomer (someone in a bedroom in your primary residence) versus that of evicting a tenant in a separate rental property. This book referred me to the relevant sections of the California civil code and penal code for situations with roomers.

The book and accompanying CD have all the California law forms needed for the eviction process, as well as instructions for deciphering the forms, which is a formidable task on one's own. Personally, the most important chapter in the book was the one that guided me though the unlawful detainer trial process. The author described in detail all the facets of a court hearing, the relevant players, the methods for addressing the judge, the order of events, and so on. I went into my trial with confidence because I knew what to expect and I knew how to prepare my case.

This book is well worth the cover price. The most important lesson to remember is that not following the unlawful detainer procedure precisely will lead to delays in resolving the issue (by getting rid of the tenant or getting them current on their rent). This title is one of the only ways, short of hiring legal help, that a lay person can ensure their documentation will be in order and the process will not be delayed any longer than necessary. Every landlord needs to own The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities, and the moment a tenant is late on rent or troublesome for other reasons, landlords need to buy The California Landlord's Law Book: Evictions.

I have been a landlord for many years and this book has saved me hundreds of dollars in legal fees and an untold number of headaches. Evictions are a tricky thing and this book really simplifies the process for you.

The book explains everything that the law requires you to do to properly remove a tenant: when to take certain steps, how to fill out the forms, how many copies to make, how to file them in court, and how to serve them to your tenant. The CD provides good template forms to start with, but better PDF versions are available online at various websites.

This book is a MUST for all investment property owners in California.

This book was a Godsend to me as I completed chemotherapy for breast cancer 4 years ago.This book touches on all the issues faced by cancer survivors on several levels - emotional, social, legal, etc. Only a cancer survivor knows what it is like to be a member of this special club of ours - a club whose members share the same renewed vision of life. The road to that renewed vision is not an easy one, and this book will help pave the way! I can't believe that it is out of print! My life has been enriched because of it. Thank you, Susan and Judith!

You thought getting your cancer cured took care of the matter? Dream on. There are a lot of issues in survivorhood. Your dates drop you, your insurance company drops you, your employer eases you out, your family doesn't want to hear about it anymore, and your adrenaline surges with every cough, twinge and hiccup that your now untrustworthy body produces. Here are some people who understand. Fellow survivors Nessim and Ellis walk you through every issue, offering sound advice and words of encouragement. Their chapter on the insurance obstacle is excellent. You might take a mind to joining one of the Cancervive chapters, if there is one in your area, or availing yourself of their over-the-phone counseling.

Will appeal to: survivors and their family and friends.