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A text truly deserving the designation "classic"; bravo to Springer for reprinting this book! This seminal text provides a clear exposition of the topic, along with numerous jumping-off points for exploring interesting outgrowths and tangents. A must-have text for anyone interested in the subject.

It's an absolute pity that this book is out of print, since it's one of the few good recent textbooks about combinatorial group theory. One can only hope it will be reprinted soon...

A "must read" for everybody who is interested in combinatorial aspects of algebra. You can read whole book or some chapters (free groups, free constructions, diagrams, 1-relator, ...). I don't think it's for absolute beginners, but if you want, you understand it. It would be great if this book were reprinted with some complements (which could be written by Ol'shanskii, Gersten, Sapir, Shupp, Stallings, Guba, S.Ivanov, Baumslag, Lysyonok ...)

I heard about this book through a co-worker who stated that the author was her friend, so I bought the book to support her friend............ I NEVER knew it could change my world!! I could relate to so much of the things that the author writes about in her book but I never knew the answer, well I have found it. I am so glad that I purchased this book and I think every single person male or female teen or young adult would be tremendously blessed by this book. It is a "now" word. It will give you all the hope and peace you need as you wait on who God has for you. You will be able to walk the "single" state whole and complete and no one will be able to take that away from you! God Bless You! Thank you.

I read this book over and over again. I could NOT put it down. It is truly life changing and thought provoking! My entire view of being "single" has been changed by this book. I thank God I read this book, and ALL singles everywhere should read this book because it truly is a road map to being COMPLETE!! God Bless You! Thank you for this biblically Sound "guide" and for being so transparent and REAL. Just what I needed!!

This is truly a book inspired by the Holy Spirit. The honesty and openness of the author makes it easy to identify with. We all seek to find an anwser to lonleness. This book gives the anwser. It should be in every college campus library and in every youth department. This book truly prepares one for marriage and comforts in the face of divorce. It is a must read.

What set this book apart from other books is that it puts side by side C++ and Fortran. Not only that, it does not waste (your) time and talks about the essentials of these two programming languages in a straightforward away. Things like how to input and output your data, arrays, logical expressions and even "arcane" sujects like pointers and objects are presented in a clear way.

Note, though, that this is an introductory book that is aimed at those that are taking their first steps in C++ and/or Fortran programming. And for an introductory book it does a fine job.

In addition to being a chemist myself who uses programming technologies extensively, I also teach courses designed to introduce relevant software technologies to other chemists, such as programming and database skills.

One of the problems that I faced was lack of a good introductory text on programming that would be relevant to an applied scientist. Most introductory programming books appear to be written for someone who intends to be a computer scientist, or even worse, rather than teaching language-independent skills, they try instead to teach you one programming language. As anyone knows who has ever browsed the computer section of their local bookstore or even here on Amazon, the number of books available on the topic of programming is enormous, to say the least.

I was pleasantly surprised when I came across this book at a local electronics store. For the time being, I am going to refer to it as a good starting point for any scientist who wishes to enhance his/her programming skills.

Barlow and Barnett cover many of the topics that I consider essential when learning any programming language, such as data types, operators, conditional statements, looping constructs, etc. Furthermore, he even covers important concepts like accessing memory (e.g. pointers in C++), state machines, abstraction, and object-oriented techniques. I was very happy to see the authors stress the importance of striving for ANSI compliant code.

For a book that was published in 1998, I was very impressed to see a section on template programming with C++. Clearly, Barlow and Barnett are very good at recognizing emerging trends. Furthermore, they are equally adept at explaining difficult concepts in a lucid way. Towards the end of the book, the authors' physics slant is evident by the section on numerical analysis, but the treatment is great, since it exemplifies how programming can be used for solving computationally intensive tasks that have physical significance.

Although this book on programming is geared towards scientists, it really would serve as a nice introduction to programming for any discipline. Although Fortran's popularity is very low outside of engineering, the juxtaposition of C++ with Fortran was a very nice touch, as it really allows one to look past language specific features in order to see generic programming concepts. Computer languages, like spoken languages, are such that, the first one is hardest to learn, but with each one you learn, the process of learning the next one becomes successively easier, and authors' use of two languages in one book really exemplifies this concept.

This book does not aim to teach you either C++ or Fortran, although it does point out some real pitfalls (e.g. in C++, x = a[i] + i++) in each language. Instead, the authors gives you a great foundation, from which you will be able learn generic programming concepts, as well as evaluate programming languages, so that in the future, you should be able to select one that is appropriate for your task at hand. Finally, they authors give great examples of using programming technologies to solve problems of a scientific nature, and he is able to accomplish in less than 300 pages what most books fail to do in three to four times that amount.

Intended for first or second year engineering or science students. It teaches programming at an introductory level. Yes, its a text book for one of those Programming 101 courses.

However, what sets this textbook apart from others is that it employs two languages (i.e. Fortran and C++), instead of one, to teach the same old material. And this has some interesting charasteristics. The authors has presented the material in a comparative way so that the student has the chance to see, very clearly, the relative merits of each language. For example, when they introduce arrays you will see the ease of Fortran in dealing with them. On the other hand, when object oriented programming is presented, C++'s superiority becomes apparent for that purpose. By seeing two languages side by side, one can also discern the fundamentals from language specific rules.

I'm familiar with Fortran and it has been a while since I took my first course in programming but this textbook has taught me quite a lot of things. If you know one of the languages, it might still make sense to buy it. You will appreciate your language better and will find what the other language does better. By the way, the book doesn't teach about mixed language programming.

This is one of the best collections of papers I have seen! Top notch researchers of organizations contributing to one of the most novel ideas of modern study of organizations coming from an interdisciplinary perspective. I wish it was somewhat cheaper but for such a rare book I would definitely have our schools library get it.

As a student of social capital, I found this volume of invaluable help in understanding the positive and negative effects of networks in and of organizations. Especially the distinction the editors make between social capital and social liability is useful and makes so much sense. And all the big shots have a chapter in here. A great resource. The reference list alone is worth the money. I will keep reading these chapters.

This book is a winner. It provides a very useful and comprehensive overview of the field of social capital/social networks and organizations. By addressing the topic both from the level of individuals within organizations and from the level of orgs themselves, the book provides an excellent introduction to and theoretical deepening of the field. Moreover, the concept of 'Corporate social capital and liability' as suggested by the editors in the volume and their respective chapters provides a very useful framework for the study of networks and social capital within an organizational context. Especially their focus on social capital and liability as OUTCOMES of networks, rather than as networks themselves is a fundamental idea that definitely advanced my understanding of the topic of social capital. Their discussion that social structure may have social capital/liability outcomes at different levels of analysis was an eye opener to me. Read it! The only downside to the volume is its price. Make sure your library gets the book for you!

I loved this book! I became a little girl again with eyes wide open in awe of my heroes - Roy and Dale. Cheryl is very honest about the fun, the hectic schedules, the grief over the loss of her siblings, her rebellious nature in an innocent way, the strengths and weaknesses of her well-known parents who raised their family well, loved them dearly, lived a honorable life and had a lot of adventures in the way. Where the fans viewed Roy and Dale as super heroes ... Cheryl presents them as parents. I highly recommend this book!

who enriched our lives over five decades.

Cheryl Rogers Barnett has truly written a memoir full of Love, Respect, and Admiration for her late parents, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. She writes of the people they were, before she was born, the circumstances of her adoption - yes, Cheryl was adopted by Roy and his first wife - and growing up in the Rogers-Evans* (Roy's first wife died while Cheryl was still a young pre-adolescent child, Dale lovingly took her on as her own) household. Roy, bless his soul, was in many ways, a real cowboy who eschewed the Hollywood lifestyle and could live in the great outdoors - in fact one of their early homes out at Lake Hughes was in a wooded setting - with rattlesnakes! Knowing that this wouldn't work, Roy moved in closer to Los Angeles, but always made sure that his children were grounded and did not have airs about them.

Barnett writes about her growing-up in the Rogers-Evans household, and in reading it one kind of wishes that too were put of a family that truly lived by the Cowboy Code. Roy and Dale were among the kindest folks one could ever meet, and I sure wish I did. Both Roy and Dale were unfailing kind and considerate to most people they met. It speaks volumes that in the one instance Roy ever got angry at fans was when they chose to want to visit him on the day they were burying Cheryl's little sister, Robin, and only AFTER these uncouth and rude people insisted in visiting him, having no consideration for the grief of the family.

She writes of the wonder horse Trigger, of how George "Gabby" Hayes was as different in real life as he was in the movies. Gabby, bless him, was a trained Shakespearian actor who was more accustomed to wearing tweed suits than a bandana and chaps - still, he too made the roles his very own. There are the Hollywood stories and vignettes of growing up knowing John Wayne and so many other Western heroes and other television and movie celebs, written straightforward, (the reader will never have the feeling that this book is a gossipy read) of Nudie the Famous Rodeo Tailor whom Roy helped to get established in Hollywood, and finally of the last decades when Roy and Dale, seeing how different Hollywood had become (mid-1960s), chose to move out to Apple Valley, and live out their lives there.

Throughout it all, Roy and Dale always gave deep love to the people they knew, and encouraged their children to be the best and fine folks in their own right(after learning she was adopted, Cheryl underwent a quest to learn about her real parents, with Roy and Dale supporting her every way). With the happiness there were the tragedies, first Robin, then the young son who died serving in the U.S. Army, and the adopted daughter from Korea, killed in a senseless road accident. Throughout it all, Roy and Dale's faith in God was never unwavering and was always solid. They lived the true meaning of the Cowboy and Cowgirl Codes.*

*(on their very last record together, Roy, Dale and son Dusty recorded a song written by two great friends of mine, Chris Hillman and Steve Hill entitled: "God's Plan" ...that pretty well sums up the honest and rich meaning of the lives they lived.

A warm memoir of a time when the tinsel Cowboys were so very much real - and real people too, unlike the sad imitation that Hollywood has become these days. Thank you, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett for a heartwarming read, and for signing my Roy Rogers-Dale Evans lunchpail in Wickenburg, Arizona last April.

Cowboy Princess: Life With My Parents Roy Rogers And Dale Evans is Cheryl Rogers-Barnett's true story of growing up as the daughter of "the King of Cowboys" and "the Queen of the West", whose popular exploits on movies and TV captivated the nation. Joy, the gruelling demands of the entertainment industry, the terrible loss of three siblings, and the lively personalities of those who shared their lives with Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Cheryl Rogers-Barnett fill this highly readable and personal account. Highly recommended for fans of Roy Rogers and the western movies of yesteryear.

It is driving me absolutely nuts that I can't find a copy of this book that I can keep for my own. This is another good work about the music scene in the Pacific Northwest. It covers the bands and venues in and around Portland and Seattle quite well, but as with so many works, Tacoma (which had a large, vibrant and lively music scene) was largely ignored. That is too bad. There were so many great bands in Tacoma, and great musicians that went on to have successful careers with other groups. Other than that, this is an excellent reference and research tool... and a good read for those who just want to read the story. If anyone ever wants to part with a copy, please let me know. SamCarlson@TheRegents.net

I finally found a copy of this book and I am pleased to say that I was not disappointed at all. This book gets right to the roots of the rock and roll explosion out of the Pacific Northwest in the 50's and 60's. Don did a good job selecting the bands to be represented. I know he could not cover them all in the space of a single volume. This book needs a volume II and a volume III or more to tell the full story. Still, this single book is the best published on the subject so far. It needs to get back into print... NOW!

If you are into the Pacific Northwest Sound of the '60s, this is the most complete book on the market anywhere!! It doesn't leave ANYBODY out! The Viceroys, Wailers, Kingsmen, Ventures, Sonics, Beachcombers, Bards, Counts, Don & The Goodtimes, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Jim Valley, Dave Lewis, Doug Robertson, and many more!!! Even "Jerden" and "Bolo Seafair Records" companies are listed!!! This book is from A to Z, all inclusive! All played by "KJR Seattle - Channel 95" No Disappointment!!

The Author Kate Sedley was born in Bristol and it is probably no coincidence that the majority of the Roger Chapman books take place in and around the Bristol area. Kate was educated at the Red Maid's School in Westbury-on-Trym. She is married and has a son and a daughter.

Kate Sedley's books about Roger Chapman, the pedlar come murder mystery sleuth are becoming more and more popular and rightly so. They are good entertaining reading with plots and backgrounds that have been well thought out and well researched. They are what I would call light reading (very much like the writing style of Paul Doherty or Bernard Knight, two other well known authors of medieval mysteries). This book is the very first in the series.

This book takes place in 1471. Now the 15th century as a whole was a turbulent period of English history not least because of the longstanding war between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, a war that spawned the Battle of Towton, near York, in 1461. This was the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil.

The political situation in 1471 is complex and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastrian sides still rages. Roger the Chapman has only recently given up his Spartan life as a Monk and has taken up a life as a pedlar travelling the roads selling things to the great households and anyone else who has the money to pay for silk, cottons, fine gloves, needles and many other useful items. Roger finds the life a happy one and a pleasant change from the strict day to day habits of a monk. That is until he gets caught up in the strange disappearance of a man . . .

"Death and the Chapman" introduces the reader to a wonderful mystery series featuring an itinerant English peddlar with a nose for solving a mystery. Full of history and details of everyday English life in the late 1400s, this series is a delight for any historical mystery fan. I had previously read and enjoyed four of the later novels in this series before I finally tracked down this very-hard-to-find series debut. As with any series, starting at the beginning gives the reader the best understanding of the characters in the story.

Opening in the spring of 1471, as King Edward IV has just returned to the English throne, we meet 19 year-old Roger the Chapman, who has recently departed from his studies as a novice at the Abbey of Glastonbury, having decided not to take his final vows. Seized with an urge to see the country, young Roger has decided to become a "chapman", or a travelling peddlar. In Roger's first adventure, Roger has a randome meeting with Marjorie Dyer, the housekeeper to Alderman Alfred Weaver of Bristol. Roger then learns of the mysterious disappearance six months earlier, of the Alderman's son, Clement Weaver, while on a visit to London to purchase materials for his sister's wedding dress. When Roger admits that he is ultimately bound for London, he agrees to make inquiries in London to see if he can learn anything about Clement's disappearance.

As Roger makes his way towards London, the reader is treated to details of other towns he visits along the way. Finally Roger reaches Canterbury, on the outskirts of London, where he learns of another mysterious disappearance of Sir Richard Mallory, who also disappeared from the Crossed Hands, the very same inn in London where young Clement was last seen.

When Roger finally reaches London, he meets Martin Trollope of the Crossed Hands inn and begins to make inquiries about the missing men. As a final mystery in the story, Roger also becomes involved in solving the disappearance of the Lady Anne Neville, cousin of the King Edward and beloved of Duke Richard Gloucester. This story line explains how Roger meets the Duke of Gloucester, a recurring character in the subsequent mysteries but a story that is never fully explained.

"Death and the Chapman" is a thoroughly enjoyable story on its own, but one which will be particularly enjoyed by readers of the other installments of this excellent medieval series.

Let's say something about the book with the German title "Die letzte Rast". (The English title "Death of a Chapman" is much better in my opinion!)
A brief description of the story is already on this site so I leave this out.
This book was a christmas present and so I didn't want to read it for a few years. But often the things you don't really want to do are the best ones:
I was soon captured by the story simply because of the colorful description of medieval England together with the possibilty to identify myself completely with the hero Roger Chapman.
This is also due to the a-little-bit-flat description of his character. (Is flat description of advantage in crime stories? Think of Sherlock Holmes!)
The plot is straightforward and very original. In fact, it is guaranteed that it will scare you quite a bit at least if you are on a business trip and have to spend your night in a guesthouse!
It will not be easy for the follow-ups (there are two yet!) to do as good as this one.

I've only read half of the book, but even that was enough to astound me. I discovered the book whilst staying in an apartment near Barcelona. It is owned by Cooper himself and I had the great privilige to meet Roger during my stay. He is a truly incredible person, and the tea he took my family out to was one to remember. I HAVE shook his hand, and think that what he has been through is unlike any experience I have ever been through. Definitely a must-have book (I'm getting it for Christmas and so should you!).

I've only read half of the book, but even that was enough to astound me. I discovered the book whilst staying in an apartment near Barcelona. It is owned by Cooper himself and I had the great privilige to meet Roger during my stay. He is a truly incredible person, and the tea he took my family out to was one to remember. I HAVE shook his hand, and think that what he has been through is unlike any experience I have ever been through. Definitely a must-have book (I'm getting it for Christmas and so should you!).

If you only read one book a Year, this is a must for this Year.
What a man , He has been there , done it and wrote the book.
This is a book for the "real reader".
If you ever find Roger Cooper, ( he must be in Europe?).Please let me know, I would love to shake his hand.I will say nothing about the book , JUST BUY IT !!!!Enough said

The most enjoyable read in years. This is one of the few novels where you can't predict the ending from the first few pages, in fact it keeps you guessing until the end. The story is fast moving whilst we agonise with the characters & share their joys, in every twist & turn of their lives.
Not surprisingly it has had wide newspaper reviews & has been nominated for an award.

The Diary of a Scullery Maid has been nominated in the Top 100 Books of the Historical Novel Society's Book Section and tells of love/hate relationships and illicit affairs as seen through the eyes of a young servant girl, while at the same time demonstrating the total inhumanity and absolute futility of the Boer War then raging, when Concentration Camps were first used against innocent civilians.

This is a magnificent story of a young servant shockingly exploited - not only by an arrogant aristocracy but by fellow servants seeking to obtain promotion by making her unhappy life much more miserable.The pace quickens sentence by sentence and the action unfolds paragraph by paragraph as the characters, with their larger-than-life experiences of love, hate, betrayal,war,prostitution and lesbian relationships - set against a background of the Boer War and the beginnings of revolution in Ireland - virtually leap from the pages.

The parts of this book I've read have been clear and accessible for someone with an undergraduate degree in mathematics and some knowledge of stochastic processes. It doesn't needlessly multiply the jargon like some books, and it focuses mainly on the one-dimensional case so that the intuition isn't constantly obscured by matrix notation. Many subjects also have chatty introductions that offer intuition and a bit of relief from the hard work involved in learning this subject.

In this second volume in the series, Rogers & Williams continue their highly accessible and intuitive treatment of modern stochastic analysis. The second edition of their text is a wonderful vehicle to launch the reader into state-of-the-art applications and research.

The main prerequisite for Volume 2,'Ito Calculus', is a careful study of Volume 1,'Foundations', and although Volume 2 is not entirely self-contained, the authors give copious references to the research literature to augment the main thread. The reader may want to prepare for the stochastic differential geometry material in Chapter 5. As a good introduction, I recommend Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Volume 1 and A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Volume 2.

The book begins with Chapter 4, which develops the Ito theory for square-integrable semimartingale integrators which are either of bounded variation or are continuous.
The chapter begins with a definition of the allowable integrands. These are the so called 'previsible' processes and this notion generalizes the concept of left-hand continuity. Some authors (page 131 of Karatzas & Shreve's Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus) refer to such integrands as 'predictable'.
As a warm-up into the full theory, the authors present Ito calculus from the Riemann-Stieltjes point-of-view for integrators of bounded variation. Applications to Markov chains are studied which foreshadow the strong Markov process applications derived later on from a more full-fledged theory.

The main simplification that the authors derive from continuity assumption is the implicit agreement of the optional quadratic variation process and the Doob-Meyer predictable quadratic variation process. This helps streamline the presentation of the more full-fledged theory and allows the reader to get the main applications more quickly.

All the key results from the classical Ito theory are presenting in this chapter, including Integration by Parts, Ito's Formula, Levy's characterization Theorem, the martingale transformation Theorem, Girsanov's Theorem and Tanaka's formula for Brownian Local Time. There is also a nice treatment of the Stratonovich calculus and its relation to the Ito theory.

For readers of Volume 1, the material in Volume 2, Chapter 5 is the long awaited development of stochastic differential equation techniques to explicitly construct Markov processes whose transition semigroups satisfy the Feller-Dynkin hypotheses.

After some motivating examples of diffusions from physical systems and control theory (including the ubiquitous Kalman-Bucy filter), the authors focus on strong solutions of SDE's. Ito's existence theorem, which was inspired by a Picard-type algorithm from the theory of classical PDEs, is presented for SDE's with locally lipschitz coefficients. As a really terrific application of Ito's existence theorem, Rogers & Williams introduce the notion of a Euclidean stochastic flow.

Next up, the discussion turns to weak solutions of SDEs, the martingale problem of Stroock and Varadhan. Existence of solutions of the martingale is established with a nice probability measure convergence argument. This treatment really gives the flavor of the Stroock-Varadhan theory and is much more accessible than the full-blown Krylov results found in the Ethier & Kurtz text 'Markov Processes Characterization and Convergence'.

For me, the real highlight of Chapter 5 is the wonderful section introducing stochastic differential geometry. Diffusions on n-dimensional manifolds are introduced and the interplay between Ito and Stratonovich calculus is carefully studied. Examples of diffusions on Riemannian manifolds are studied in some detail.

Chapter 6 extends the Ito theory developed in Chapter 4 to general square-integrable semimartingale integrators. The Doob-Meyer decomposition is explored and the divergence between predictable quadratic variation and optional quadratic variation [M] for a square integrable (local) martingale is studied. Next, [M] is generalized sufficiently to complete the development of the Ito calculus. The general Ito Formula is applied to such problems as the Kalman-Bucy Filter and the Bayesian Filter of Kallianpur-Striebel.

The book wraps up with an introduction to excursion theory. The premise here is that we want to study those times for which a Markov process visits a compact set. The theory leads to some nice results, including a proof of the embedding theorems of Skorokhod and Azema-Yor along with applications to potential theory and the general study of local time.

This book and its companion volume are a well organized and relatively easy-to-read introduction to a wide variety of ideas in stochastic processes. It is not only a great reference (I always keep it on my desk) but it also has a solid expositional style that fully motivates concepts as they are introduced. The Ito Calculus volume goes deeper than a number of other books on topic including information on integration wrt to a general semimartingale instead of just BM and even an introduction to stochastic calculus on manifolds. My only complaints about the book are that it is separated into two volumes which can be kind of a pain and that its coverage of the SDE/PDE relationship is weak. I would recommend reading Karatzas&Shreeve in addition to this book to fill in some the SDE/PDE details and to get another point of view on the somewhat difficult topic of stochastic analysis