The editorial reviews on this paperback are right on the mark. It is an excellent 124-page booklet that follows the formal tour guide route.
The front tour section starts by providing just the right amount of "selected" detail (with some well-cropped and selected photos)on each of the 16 stops (36 pages). I was able to take the book out and use it as a quick stop tour. I found the positons easily (as they were concisely marked), then read the short, but complete narrative. I really got the context of the complete battle by putting all the tour stops together because the "important details" were included at each stop.

After the tour, an account of the fighting is described by day, hours and short descriptor, e.g."Action of Buford's Calvary, 8:00 to 10:00 am, July 1" (78 pages). Superb graphics that clearly sketch out positions with key topography markers help you fix on the formations. They are very distingushable as they are marked with reference to the modern day road structure in he park (e.g. you can tell the bulk of Pickett's division-by brigade-was originally lined up much farther south than the positon of Lee's statue in their charge by the Spangler house).

The final pages of the book summarize the strength and losses by unit (i.e. numbers by brigade level, but specifying the regiments included) and a good one-page suggested reading list (that shows the better Gettysburg books).

I have been to this field five times. It is a very good book for new and repeat visitors.

This book features a deep and focused lesson on Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods. It goes through the key topics as conjugate priors, MCMC methods (non iteratives and iteratives as the well known Gibbs samplining and metropolitis hastings algorithms), model selection methods (as bayes factor) and issues related as model robusteness.
The Approach is increasingly formal and deeply complex, allowing for getting the basics or diving into more complex knowledge according to your former background. You need at least a good understanding of Frequentist statistic to be able to follow the reasonings. Each chapter allow you to stop at some point without losing the thread. Last part of the book is in fact deep knowledge demanding.
The most interesting point of this book according to my very limited statistics background is that it makes good comparations with the frequentist approach (classical approaches as confidence intervals and point estimators), checking performance of either method. Even, it features some combination of both approaches getting some bayessian intervals.
As a negative point, I would say that examples are hard to follow for someone with limited bakground and too much complex. They really do not clear me up enough.
All in all, is a very profitable book for jumping into bayesian methods.

I read Anthologies. I read them alot, and one thing I've noticed is that there is usually at least one story that just isn't worth the trouble of reading it. This is one book where this was not a problem.

Since this book is a collection of stories from a magazine there are many types of subjects with only the magazine as a common thread among the seperate stories. This is a departure from current anthologies and actually kept me interested throughout the book.

Great for subway rides!

I READ THIS BOOK AND IT IS VERY REAL. THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS BOOK IS THAT THE AUTHOR WAS SO PASSIONATE IN SHARING HER LIFE EXPERIENCES. I REALLY ENJOYED THE REALISM...SHE DID NOT HOLD ANYTHING BACK. SHE GAVE ALL PRAISES TO GOD WHICH WAS VERY IMPORTANT. I WILL MAKE SURE TO DIRECT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO READ THIS BOOK. THE AUTHOR MOST DEFINITELY GETS 5 STARS.

This book is really good reading. It gives nice histories and stories about New York and New Jersey area, deep wrecks (includes the Wilkes-Barre in Fla. also). The book also tells about the locating, the identification and artifact recovery from, wrecks below 130 feet.

This book has been a blessing to me. It has answer so many questions. The author has done hours of research in putting this book toghter. Black people as a whole have accepted the brain washing that we as a boby of people are cursed. It is good to know that we are not and more important that we have a present in the Bible. We are a blessed people and we need to know that. Mr. Bradley does an excellent job in showing us why we have lost our identity. We owe it to ourselves to read this book and than take a leap of faith and find out who we are as race of people. Thank you Mr. Bradley

I ordered Book of Hymns as a Christmas gift for my wife -- hoping against hope that it would be a cut above the usual hymn history pablum. I was not disappointed. I couldn't put the book down! The authors have really done their homework, combining their own devotional thoughts with details from the hymnwriters' personal lives. Now it's on sale -- and I'm ordering two more! Highly recommended. Johnny Long Presbyterian Church in America World Harvest Mission ("The Sonship People") Africa Renewal Team Nairobi, Kenya East Africa

This book is very funny. I am thirteen and when my seven year old brother and I checked it out, we read it over and over again until the due date and than we checked it out again. It has alot of good life lessons and it made me think about the world differently.

This book will get children interested in learning new vocabulary by making them think about rhyming a few everyday words. Everyone that reads this delightful little tale tries to win the contest. A must-have book for any household with children!

Phillip Ferreira has here made a tremendous contribution to what seems to be a developing renaissance in Bradley studies (and Idealist studies generally). Concerned to subvert recent misunderstandings of Bradley's thought that would assimilate him to the tradition of British empiricism, Ferreira provides a detailed and highly readable exposition of Bradley's doctrines of truth, judgment, and "feeling" that restores him to his proper place in the tradition of rationalism and Idealism. This volume is an excellent introduction to Bradley's thought in general, the more so because Bradley's own writings are so difficult to find. (James Allard and Guy Stock have helpfully collected some of his central texts in _F.H. Bradley: Writings on Logic and Metaphysics_, which makes a nice companion to the present volume.) In it, Ferreira carefully examines and elaborates Bradley's understanding of _judgment_, which Ferreira describes as "_the_ basic act of cognition by which we knowingly encounter reality." The discussion turns to the relation between judgment and truth, the relation between contradition and thought, the specially Bradleian understanding of "coherence," and (very importantly) the relation between feeling and knowledge (which occupies two chapters). A closing chapter considers criticisms of Bradley levelled by Russell and James; a short conclusion argues briefly both that Bradley does not fit easily into more recent philosophical categories, and that Bradley's philosophy might provide a needed corrective to more recent views that we either have no access to the real or that such access provides no insight into universal _value_. An appendix delivers what seems to be a deathblow to recent views of Bradley as an Anglo-empiricist by considering his relations to what he regarded as the essentially empiricist view of inference: associationism. For Bradley, says Ferreira, "the truth is the whole." It would perhaps not be unfair to regard this volume as an attempt to spell out in some detail what this doctrine meant to Bradley and to suggest that its meaning should be important to us today as well. For those who, like me, have strong misgivings about the "analytic turn" in philosophy, this fine exposition of Bradley's thought will be most welcome. And for those who, also like me, regard Brand Blanshard as the finest of twentieth-century philosophers, this volume will be of interest as regards the Idealist tradition that was the strongest influence on that giant of rationalism.