Massachusetts Books

Who on earth would have thought that reading court records could be such fun?! Witness drunken brawls, teenaged boys setting their bare bottoms on the neighbor's loom, slander, etc., all the way to much more serious and heart-rending cases.

This is worth the price and the wait.

Coloring Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket by James Owens is a delightful book. I have given many copies as gifts to both young and old, as the artwork is superb and of a much higher quality than your average coloring book. It also presents a fun way to learn about Cape Cod history by including text with pictures such as: Thornton Burgess, The Aquinnah Cliffs and The Judah Baker Windmill. I would highly recommend this book as a gift for young children or for anyone convalescing and needing an engaging activity.

My wife bought this book for me, wow what a great book. If you are a lover of Colt SAA's or any of the Colt products for that matter, it's covered in here. This book includes dates of production and numbers produced. It also has beautiful pictures to illistrate some of their finest work.

I had to do a 100 page portfolio project in this book saved my life. It was easy to read and follow. The pictures were amazing and I loved the book. It was filled with so much information about our history and the history of art.

I really like this book a lot! It has a great deal of information on Oxford and Dudley, as well as explanations as to how a small community went from a farming town into a mill town. Great buy!

This book is a fascinating look at the people and times of America circa 1892-1893. The letters and other correspondence of Hosa Knowlton,Prosecuting Attorney of the Southern District of the Commonwealth of Mass. draw a vivid picture of people from all walks of life and their opinions and reactions to the murder of the Borden family. Anyone who has been drawn into the mystique of Lizzie Borden and her times will not regret the time spent with this book.

Whether legal professional, historian, or one curious as to what the laws "were like" before our notions of "modern" came into being, this volume is a standard in the field. Originally published in 1836, the scholarship, though perhaps equalled, has never been surpassed.

Those "only" curious as to the sorts of things that were regulated for public safety, or prohibited, this reads as if an interweaving of the unexpected yet obvious and familiar, and the not-quite-real, as if a work of fiction -- that is how strange some of it is.

Were the Pilgrims "Libertarians"? Is it true there was no regulation of such dangerous substances and objects as alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, before the advent of "Liberals"? Or were the colonists, despite beliefs in superstitions, and prohibitions against witchcraft and other "wrong" "religions," otherwise sane -- "Liberal" -- thus actively concerned with public safety?

How did the laws concerning Indians differ from those concerning non-Indians? What were the penalties for fornication? For "stubborn child"? What were the sources for the crimes and penalties to which the death penalty was applied?

And what of such mundane matters as marriage and divorce, out-of-wedlock children and "welfare," real estate transactions, penalties for trespass, adultery, swearing and cursing, drunkenness?

All that and more is here, as one witnesses a small group of humans, in a strange wilderness, slowly establish rules -- laws -- by which they will manage their affairs, and then elaborate on those rules as the community grows and expands.

Recommended especially for those who believe they know the history because they saw a movie.

After reading through this technical note, I feel that I now know more about the use of deterministic and random signals for impulse response determination than I know about my own soul.

I'm a tour guide for the Boston area, and I frequently use this book for reference. I love this book. I've had to buy it twice because I ruined my first copy by reading it so much and taking it everywhere. It's small, light and totally portable, so if your here walking the trail it's the perfect companion. If your not here walking the trail, you should be! This book will take you step by step through the Freedom Trail, give you really good suggestions and directions, and bombard you with useful and interesting historical information. It also provides the times, and admission fees for sites. Basically, it is your very own tour guide minus the crowd and rush of the tour (not to mention the over enthusiastic, babbling, yet good natured guide). Take your time, learn and enjoy!

This proceedings includes papers that were presented at the 10th International Conference on Cold Fusion held in Cambridge, MA, in August 2003. Following the initial announcements by Martin Fleischmann and Stan Pons in 1989 of an excess heat effect in electrolysis experiments with PdD, both theoretical and experimental work has been pursued by scientists seeking to understand the excess heat and related phenomena. Similarly, following the announcement of Steve Jones of low-level nuclear emissions from TiD, scientists have continued to explore the effect. Recent results in these areas and other areas were reported in more than 90 proceedings papers included in this proceedings. Topics reported on include: [1] experiments on excess heat, calorimetry, correlation of excess heat and helium, laser-induced excess heat; [2] tritium production; [3] transmutation, including elemental and isotopic anomalies, the Iwamura experiment, and other observations; [4] nuclear emissions from metal deuterides; [5] theory.

The conference was very strong technically. Because of the success of this conference, DoE conducted a review of cold fusion in 2004.