A narrative of the author's experiences as a Texas Ranger keeping the peace in many parts of the state around the turn of the century. Illus. This title is cited and recommended by USiana.

My late father, Philip W. May, did the illustrations in this book app. 1946-47. Having worked in New York City for 20 years, more recently, and viewed how little the city puts into its infrastructure, I would imagine the book is probably still a very accurate view of the complicated web of wires, pipes, subways, etc. that weave below the streets. The book was contemporary when it came out, and more than likely still is to a great extent. It is also good history of how it all was done.

In this volume the authors do what no other authors have done before. They have made antitrust law and economics accessible to anyone with no understanding of economics and only a moderate understanding of law. The authors cover conspriracies in restraint of trade, monopolization, price discrimination and mergers. By including an economic foundation they are able to present a concise explantion of the philosophical underpinnings of the current debates about the usefulness of antitrust law. This is a balanced, accessible and informative treatment of an very complex area of law.

This book succeeds on many levels. It is a travelogue, a history, a social study, and a prophesy. It follows the relationship of the great Mayanist, Sylvanius Morley, with the Maya of Quintana Roo. Showing both the political and personal motivations of both parties the work unfolds like a beautiful flower. It raises question both cosmological and profane. From the Mayan conception of the "end of days" to American and European political intervention in Latin American affairs this work is crucial to understanding how the Mayan maids, bartenders, taxi-drivers, et al, view us gingos as we run roughshod over the indigenous culture in places like Cancun. A bell-weather for cultural awareness and understanding.

My husband and I had been trying for some time to learn how to sell our custom framing services to the U.S. Government. We found this book on Amazon.com, ordered it, and within a matter of weeks we were selling to Uncle Sam. We're a "mom & pop" type of operation so our sales are certainly not on the scale of IBM or Chrysler, but we're looking forward to continuing expanding our sales to the world's largest buyer. Thanks for this timely book!

David Sullivan presents a volume of Historical fact, worthy of the best textbook, in a style that reads like a good novel. He combines the human side of this complex period of our history, with a presentation which allows the reader to gain unique insight into the lives and minds of the actors. I couldn't put it down !

Mr. Sullivan presents a unique style of writing, which incorporates a large volume of historical fact into an easily readable format. He goes in depth into the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the United and Confederate States Marines during the war of rebellion while bringing you close to the personalities and motivations you won't get from a text book. A truly readable, in-depth picture of the Marines and the Naval conflict during this crucial period in the formation of the United States we know today!

Fixed points of mappings are of course of enormous interested in the fields of dynamical systems and differential equations. This book however is interested in fixed points from the standpoint of algebraic topology, namely with the study of the homotopy type of the fixed point set of a group action. This motivates the consideration of a homotopy fixed point set, and the author studies specifically the homotopy fixed point set of a finite group acting on a finite complex. From an equivariant point of view, a homotopy fixed point is a set of maps equivariant under the integers modulo 2 (Z/2) from the "antipodal" sphere (i.e the ordinary sphere provided with the antipodal action) to a finite Z/2-CW-complex. A homotopy fixed point is such a map, and ordinary fixed points determine homotopy fixed points. The Sullivan fixed point conjecture asserts that the mapping of ordinary fixed points to homotopy fixed points is a homotopy equivalence, and this conjecture is one of the main topics of the book. The resolution of this conjecture was accomplished by Haynes Miller, with other contributions made by Gunnar Carlsson and J. Lannes. As a point of historical fact, Miller first proved the Sullivan conjecture in the context of pointed maps from the classifying space of a finite group to a finite CW-complex. With the compact-open topology, he showed that this space of maps is weakly contractible. Another line of thought on this topic and considered in this book is that of the fixed point set of a G-space localized at a prime p. The question of whether this fixed point set is weakly homotopy equivalent to the homotopy fixed point set of G acting on the p-localization of a finite CW-complex was solved by Carlsson via a consideration of the Segal conjecture.

The author gives a nice overview of these results, and does so by first considering background material from the theory of unstable modules over the Steenrod algebra. The reader is expected to have a solid background in algebraic topology, particularly in the homotopy theory of CW-complexes, Eilenberg-Maclane spaces, Postnikov systems, the theory of spectral reduced and unreduced cohomology, cohomology operations, and K-theory. The Steenrod algebra has its origins in the consideration of stable Z/2 cohomology operations, where these operations can all be written in terms of Steenrod operations. Consideration of relations among the Steenrod squares result in a family of relations called the Adem relations. This construction can be generalized to a prime p by considering generators other than the Steenrod squares, and dividing out the Adem relations (these are more complex than for the case p = 2). The calculation of the cohomology of Eilenberg-Maclane spaces leads to a characterization of the Steenrod algebra as the algebra of all transformations of mod p cohomology that commute with suspension. Such transformations are called 'stable'.
The mod p cohomology of a space as a module over the Steenrod algebra is unstable, meaning that it is trivial in negative degrees. The author then characterizes the category of unstable modules over the Steenrod algebra (designated U by the author), and shows that is has enough projectives and that it is (locally) Noetherian. That this category has enough injectives is shown using Brown-Gitler technology. This involves the construction of the Brown-Gitler modules, which are related to the Milnor algebra (the dual of the Steenrod algebra, familiar from the elementary theory), and the Carlsson modules. The later are related to Carlsson's work on the Segal conjecture, and their description involves some interesting use of the combinatorics of binary trees. The Lannes functor is introduced as a generalization of this tensor product that still gives an injective category, and its properties are outlined in detail. Modular representation theory is used in the book to study indecomposable reduced U-injectives, and their graded vector space structure is studied using the familiar Poincare series. Then the quotient category of U by its subcategory of nilpotents is studied via a filtration on it, the quotient categories of this filtration being identified with the modular representations of the symmetric groups.
The last part of the book finally gets down to the Sullivan conjecture, beginning with a discussion of the Andre-Quillen cohomology of unstable algebras over the Steenrod algebra. All of the familiar tools from algebraic topology, such as Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequences and the Borel construction are used to prove Miller's version of the Sullivan conjecture and also a generalized version of it.

I had "Urban Economics" for one of my urban planning courses at graduate school. It was a pleasure to study the principles and processes of city building, growth and dynamics, through this book. Every chapter in the book can be a title for a separate volume. So this is a very comprehensive overall general view of economics as a determinant of urban development and form.

I particularly liked the chapters on Urban Poverty and Housing. The chapter on poverty explains issues like income transfers, food stamps and their effect on consumer behavior, problems of inner cities and development policies needed to change that.

Housing has a great chapter devoted to the peculiarities of housing as a commodity and the effect of race and discrimination on housing patterns. The most interesting part concerns the "filtering" of housing from the upper income to lower income populations.

Also explained is the auto oriented transportation vs mass transit and their specific roles in shaping cities.

Highly recommended. Easy to read and understand.

This book is a must for anyone who longs for the glory days of the hollywood bombshell. It features stars, pin-up girls, and strippers from the 1940's to 1960's. Each woman has a complete biography that includes the films she was in, the magazines she appeared in, and any other relevant media in which one might be interested. The author has even gone to the trouble of letting you know who was still alive at the time of printing which is something I always wonder about when I'm reading up on famous faces of the past. The book is chock full of pictures in both color and black and white. The book is very beautiful and quite informative.