You'll cheer for Jeffrey the Jeep! It has a cute and meaningful story and colorful illustrations. It is not a board book and so is probably best for 4-8 years old but my 2 year old son loves it anyway.

Clare is a true poet, and strangely neglected currently it seems. Really he is one of the essential poets of the wonderful romantic era which includes Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, and Keats. Why is this just about the only book of his work being published? I think you're lucky to find this one, and you can find many poems of his on the web to see yourself. Cheers

Coming from a Dutch Indonesian family and being a first generation American, I grew up on rice rather than potatoes. It was not a strange thing to find roots and herbs with names like Laos in our cabinets (I found out later in my school days that this was a place in the world as well). I was fortunate that my husband's palate adapted once introduced to those flavors. But my mom's translations of a bit of this and a touch of that, did not help in my limited cooking experience. With this book I am able to reproduce with ease the foods I grew up enjoying. It is easy to use and the pictures are wonderful. Any cookbook worth its salt has color photographs. I wish I could find a copy of the first 'Let's Go Dutch'. Thank you Johanna and Jan!

This was a cute love story about two teenagers falling in love. Mary Anne, 14 years old, took a summer job babysitting Catsy, only in order for her to make enough money to buy new ballet shoes. Little does she know what's in store for her! Catsy's older brother returns home from boarding school for the summer. The two of them fall in love, not caring about the four-year difference in their ages. Their relationship grows as they sail on his boat, visit the country club, and spend afternoons at the beach. The summer comes to a quick end and he starts to pull away from her. Maryanne often asks herself if their relationship will stay or if it will leave along with his departure to school in the fall. This book was an enjoy to read and I recommend it to all!

Maple syrup is a unique North American food product that has a distinctive flavor and a distinguished history. "Maple Moon" is a gorgeous presentation of recipes, food photographs, and maple syrup stories and history.
The Maple Moon was a season of celebration and feasting among the indigenous peoples of eastern North America as the maple sap rose, was harvested and processed.
This "Maple Moon" cookbook has a superb collection of maple syrup and maple sugar recipes that include such luscious offerings, both savory and sweet, as Apple Blueberry Pie with Maple Sugar Crust, Mango Maple Meringues, Mango Maple Tiger Shrimp, Maple Pecan Chocolate Pie, Oven Roasted Maple Onion Potatoes, Maple Ginger Chicken, Maple Macadamia Ice Cream, and dozens more. I have made about 30 of these fantastic recipes and I am hooked. For Christmas all the people I really care about are going to get a bottle of maple syrup and a copy of "Maple Moon".

This book gives family history of the Martin Family of Floyd County, Kentucky. This book is still in print. The J.D. Miller Publishing Company was merged with It's Genealogy Baby of Elsmere, Kentucky. Jackie Miller owner and author of this book is still the person to order this book from. They have a website for details on all books avilable. If you a Martin kin then this book is for you. It should be advised that a new revised book on this family is due out in time for christmas 2003. The revise book will replace this book. Previews shows major additions.

Formally speaking, this is the second edition of a set of Paris lecture notes published by Gromov two decades ago in the French language. However, such a wealth of entirely new material has been added that in essence we are talking of a new book.

Among the additions, the bulky new chapter 3 1/2+ stands out, dealing with the phenomenon of concentration of measure on high-dimensional structures. This is a relatively recent discovery of modern analysis and geometry, tracing its origin to the work of Paul Levy and especially Vitali Milman. The essence of the phenomenon is that on many multidimensional structures, every `nice' function is constant with high probability. The manifestations of the phenomenon are many - from geometric functional analysis (Dvoretzky theorem) through information theory (blowing-up lemma) and probability (law of large numbers) to graph theory (superconcentrators) and topological dynamics. As Gromov stresses in his book, even deeper aspects of the concentration phenomenon have been long since discovered and are constantly explored in statistical physics in the context of phase transitions of various kind, and some of the first known examples where phase transitions appear in the context of geometry have been discovered by Gromov himself, e.g. for hyperbolic groups. Finding and exploring more instances of phase transitions in mathematics might well become a unifying heuristic principle across a large number of disciplines.

The mathematical setting for dealing with concentration and related issues is the concept of a metric space equipped with finite measure, what Gromov calls an mm-space. Apart from concrete objects (such as for instance spheres and cubes), there are `higher-level' examples of mm-spaces, for instance those whose elements are isomorphism classes of mathematical objects themselves (e.g. Riemanning manifolds or finitely generated groups). This leads to a probabilistic treatment of such objects. Of course Gromov's strength is that his treatment is always concrete and he never theorizes without having particular objects and applications in mind.

It is quite safe to claim that the full range and power of applications of the interaction between metric and measure are yet to be discovered, which is what makes this book so important. It is rich in open questions and suggested new research directions, but more than that, it helps the reader to develop a good intuitive feeling of where things are going these days, what things ought to be done, and what constitutes proper mathematics.

Even though I unexpectedly found myself among the privileged ones who received a copy of the book as a gift from the author, I would have certainly purchased it otherwise, as I firmly believe that every mathematical library in the world, be it that of a top-class University or just a modest, lovingly selected office collection of a humble mathematician, will be wanting without a copy of the monograph under review, which might well become one of the most important books in mathematical sciences for the early XXIst century.

Mixed effects linear models are very useful particularly in medical research (e.g. device or drug trials). Pinheiro and Bates provide comprehensive cover of both linear and nonlinear mixed effects models with many applications. Implementation is illustrated using the S programming language and the software package SPlus.

Bates is an expert on nonlinear regression and hence the emphasis on the nonlinear models as well as the linear ones.

I purchased this book a long time ago and did not realized itsimportance. Apparently the book keeps the good stuff later in the book,prefering to teach the reader with the basics of astrology. The technique is very valuable even for those who do not believe in astrology, which is the method of averaging GDP, Stock market indexes in relation to the cycles of the planets. Of course the techniques can be applied to cycles where it can be 1 year, 1.5 year, 4 year. Once you averaged them out , then using the bradley model, you can predict the stocks - non-linearly, with a VERY GOOD predictive accuracy! Softwares are critical for you to explore and can be obtained at Alphee.com or other books by Rob Merridian or David Williams in case this book is no longer available. I have explored every technologies known in the stock markets from chaos theory, neural networks, moon tides, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, cycle analysis, EMH, factoring analysis, value line, multiple linear regression, visual recurrence analysis, etc. etc. etc. and I can say with great confidence that there is something to astrology their timing can be deadly accurate! W.D. Gann predicted the stock market crash in 1929 to the very month, missing by only a couple of days. Two British astrologers actually predicted the stock market Crash of 1987 to the very day before the crash by one year in advanced. These are all documented and are reported to newspaper before it actually occurred. You will find the details how they managed to predict them. David Williams made a million in the stock market using his astrological techniques. One astrology fund outperformed the stock markets averages in 5 out of 7 years. You will find this and other information in this book, It will change how you view the markets. It totally changed me! All these amazing fact is well worth the reading. Use it along with your fundamental and technical indicators, it is indispensible! END

Along with Gallant's book on nonlinear regression this book is one of the best. It is on an intermediate level and assumes some knowledge of linear regression. Notable unique aspects of the book are (1) good use of geometry, (2) discussion of derivative free methods, (3) use of profile likelihood and profile t plots and (4) measures of degree of nonlinearity of the problem. The authors also provide many real world applications directly from their consulting experience.

These authors were among the researchers that developed these measures of nonlinearity and so that aspect of the book is original and is emphasized in this book more than in others such as Gallant's.