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An excellent introduction to Stochastic Integration.......2002-02-27

This book provides a very easy to read account of the development of the stochastic integral. While concentrating on integrators which are continuous local martingales, and thus lacking the full generality of treatment to be found in, for example Dellacherie
and Meyer, the basic constructions are all performed in a fashion which is readily extensible to the more general case. From a teaching point of view this is beneficial if the more general case is to be studied subsequently. Although the arguments can be considerably simplified for specific special cases (e.g. integration with respect to Brownian Motion only), it is useful to understand how the construction fits into the more general case, which also makes less of a discontinuity for the reader who is subsequently to study the general discontinuous theory!

The arguments are presented carefuly, for example all of the necesary conditions being checked explicitly in places where important theorems are to be applied, and there are none of the annoying statements which plague books on Stochastic Calculus along the lines "the reader can readily check", or "see problem 21.2.43" in the middle of proofs. Additionally very few lines are "skipped" in the proofs; while this does mean that they are lacking in brevity, it is strongly to be encouraged when a complex subject is presented to the novice. When the concepts are understood sufficiently well the reader can easily compile "brief" proofs on his own (as a form of revision), but working the other way round frequently, in my experience of supervising a similar course, leads to misapprehensions about the conditions for applying essential theorems.

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Introduction to Stochastic Integration (Universitext)
Hui-Hsiung Kuo
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The theory of stochastic integration, also called the Ito calculus, has a large spectrum of applications in virtually every scientific area involving random functions, but it can be a very difficult subject for people without much mathematical background. The Ito calculus was originally motivated by the construction of Markov diffusion processes from infinitesimal generators. Previously, the construction of such processes required several steps, whereas Ito constructed these diffusion processes directly in a single step as the solutions of stochastic integral equations associated with the infinitesimal generators. Moreover, the properties of these diffusion processes can be derived from the stochastic integral equations and the Ito formula. This introductory textbook on stochastic integration provides a concise introduction to the Ito calculus, and covers the following topics:

* Constructions of Brownian motion;

* Stochastic integrals for Brownian motion and martingales;

* The Ito formula;

* Multiple Wiener-Ito integrals;

* Stochastic differential equations;

* Applications to finance, filtering theory, and electric circuits.

The reader should have a background in advanced calculus and elementary probability theory, as well as a basic knowledge of measure theory and Hilbert spaces. Each chapter ends with a variety of exercises designed to help the reader further understand the material.

Hui-Hsiung Kuo is the Nicholson Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University. He has delivered lectures on stochastic integration at Louisiana State University, Cheng Kung University, Meijo University, and University of Rome "Tor Vergata," among others. He is also the author of Gaussian Measures in Banach Spaces (Springer 1975), and White Noise Distribution Theory (CRC Press 1996), and a memoir of his childhood growing up in Taiwan, An Arrow Shot into the Sun (Abridge Books 2004).

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An excellent text.......2007-05-12

From perspective of real analysis, this text gives a rigorous introduction to Ito calculus. In an extremely smooth fashion, all chapters flow out one by one. A background on real analysis is required. However, is it true that some basics of real analysis, e.g. Riemann integration, measurability, etc, are prerequisites for stochastic calculus? It was a wonderful experience for me to read though the book.

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Euphemisms sell war. From Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Free-dom, and throughout the intervening years of deadly sanctions, a dense fog of rhetoric rose to hide the government's imperialistic ambitions and our brutality. Blunt realities of war have been smothered under layers of language. This book will play a role in the evolution of an increased sensitivity towards the deceptive words of war.

Thomas Lee, Ph.D., biologist and pacifist, is also the author of books on the promises and perils of modern genetics, including The Human Genome Project: Cracking the Genetic Code of Life and Conquering Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Latest Breakthroughs and Treatments.

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An actual dictionary exposing war propaganda usage and terms.......2005-12-08

Plenty of books talk about wartime jargon, but here's an actual dictionary exposing war propaganda usage and terms in Battlebabble: Selling War In America. Soldiers and civilians alike will find it's a-z reference allows for quick look-up of terms and definitions - but it's much more than just a one-paragraph dictionary: in-depth coverage often takes up several pages to thoroughly explain history, jargon, and approaches to selling war in the media and to the public.

BattleBabble, by Thomas. F. Lee.......2005-10-06

Battlebabble is "a dictionary of deception": it lists alphabetically euphemistic terms the government uses to describe wartime activity, what author Dr. Thomas Lee calls "a tidal wave of deceptive rhetoric poured from the White House, aimed at drowning reason and protest." Such terms include "collateral damage," "friendly fire," and "air campaign," all of which in fact describe death and destruction but are peddled for public consumption by these "patriotic" and mendaciously neutral phrases.

Lee's "dictionary" is cogent, meticulously researched, well written, and passionately argued. It contributes significantly to the war against the war, and repeats a message we can never be reminded of too often: that, as Orwell said and Lee quotes, "Political language. . .is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Lee's specific exploration of individual terms and phrases ruthlessly exposes exactly this point, with deep concern for the social ignorance and complacency such language fosters.

If more people shared and acted upon Lee's simple but penetrating belief that governments must try to see war as "not the final resort, but a totally unacceptable alternative"-which he admits "is worlds away from the usual assumptions of our society"-perhaps pacifism would begin to seem less like an extreme stance and more like the right one. Battlebabble bravely and effectively tries to move us in that direction.

A "must-read" for all Americans.......2005-10-03

In his new book, "Battlebabble, Selling War in America", long-time activist Thomas Lee tackles the painfully disturbing subject of government deception and its willing advocates. This book comes to us at a time when people, who were originally beguiled by George W. Bush's war rhetoric, are now having second thoughts. Mr. Lee expertly defines and illuminates the reality lying behind the deceptive and euphemistic language employed by the current administration. This book is a "must-read" for all Americans.
Maureen E. Levine, Ph.D.

The Journalist's Companion to Australian Law

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The Journalist's Companion to Australian Law
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This practical, concise and comprehensive companion to Australian law will be a boon to working journalists and all those associated with the media. The essential information it contains is up-to-the-minute, and the unique A-to-Z format provides quick access to readily understandable and non-academic explanations of the law relevant to contemporary Australian media. Written by a well-known practicing barrister, this ready-reference will be a must on the bookshelves of every working journalist.

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The Media Law Dictionary
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Dryland agriculture is of more consequence now than ever because the worlds dependence on food produced in dryland areas is even greater. In recognition of this, and the fact that global food supply is increasingly interconnected, this volume takes a world view of dryland production continent by continent. The initial chapters of the monograph address the principles that underlie all dryland farming, and are the basis for the following chapters that address dryland farming issues around the world.

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A Guide to Dry Stone Walling
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A handsomely illustrated guide for those interested in rural crafts and for anyone wishing to build or repair a dry stone wall.

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Practical Advice.......2007-05-15

I give Andy Radford's book five stars, because now that I'm actually finished with months of off and on reading and I'm now down to actually building my stone walls, its his book (among half a dozen others), that I'm using for help.

Mr. Radford's experience is entirely from Great Britain where he lives. This could have been a big problem, since he works in a different climate with different geology. There is a bit of history over there about stone walls, so perhaps this is why the author ably communicated universal techniques that span regional differencs in aesthetics and stone.

Actually, the value I continue to get out of the book, despite the differences in geography and culture, probably result from Mr. Radford's experience as a teacher. His book (text, photos, step by step, and categorization by type of wall) follows a logical sequence specifically designed for the beginner.

The only thing I smiled about was the front cover photo - of a wall that very much looks like it was a beginner's first effort! Like they say, don't just a book by its cover. Inside is everything you need to know about the fundamentals of dry stacking a nice stone wall in a variety of situations.

Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land, Second Edition (Our Sustainable Future)

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A very good introduction to this topic

Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land, Second Edition (Our Sustainable Future)
John Opie
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In this new, enlarged edition, John Opie updates his groundbreaking work on the environmental history of the Ogallala aquifer and plains farming. He addresses the impact of the 1996 Farm Bill (Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act) and looks at the recent movement of industrial hog farming onto the plains. Opie also develops his argument for the plains as a “moral geography,” a view involving the recognition by society that it has an obligation to balance the responsibility for conserving natural resources with that for keeping a regional people—the family farmers—in operation.

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A very good introduction to this topic.......2000-08-12

A few years ago I came across a magazine article that discussed the importance of the Ogallala Aquifer to American agriculture, geography, and society. Realizing that I knew absolutely nothing about this topic I picked up John Opie's book. It's safe to say that I now know more about the Ogallala Aquifer than I could ever have imagined possible.

The book begins with a discussion of the geology of the aquifer, and then moves into the history of irrigation efforts on the Plains since the 19th century, and finally to a discussion of the various irrigation technologies currently used to exploit the aquifer. There is ample discussion along the way about how these technologies have changed over the years as environmental consciousness and the problems of declining aquifer levels have become more prevalent.

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The water that falls on the land is disposed of in three ways: First, under ordinary conditions, a large portion runs off without entering the soil; secondly, a portion enters the soil, but remains near the surface, and is rapidly evaporated back into the air; and, thirdly, a portion enters the lower soil layers, from which it is removed at later periods by several distinct processes. The run-off is usually large and is a serious loss, especially in dry-farming regions, where the absence of luxuriant vegetation, the somewhat hard, sun-baked soils, and the numerous drainage channels, formed by successive torrents, combine to furnish the rains with an easy escape into the torrential rivers. Persons familiar with arid conditions know how quickly the narrow box canyons, which often drain thousands of square miles, are filled with roaring water after a comparatively light rainfall.

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Dry Grain Farming Families: Hausalund (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared

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Dry Grain Farming Families: Hausalund (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared
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Anthropologists and economists have made persistent efforts to identify economic features of rural tropical economies in the simplest possible terms, in order to enhance their universality. This work has resulted in the creation of a body of doctrine on such matters as the causes of rural economic inequality and abysmal poverty which has hardened the arteries of our thought. The doctrine is far too generalised to have any practical utility; it is ahistorical; and it usually involves the dangerous and false belief that all cultivators in any particular community are apt to have similar economic responses. So firm is this orthodoxy (which has a wide political spectrum), so great the fear of the chaos which would result from emphasising the significance of the heterogeneity of socio-economic structures, that under-development studies have become deadlocked - to the point that our ignorance is constantly on the increase. The book represents a radical assault on prevailing orthodoxy: it is an attempt to break the deadlock by insisting on the prior need for the proper categorisation of the main types of agrarian system in the tropical world, which are not necessarily at all numerous. It is, moreover, a thoroughly practical demonstration of the possibilities of identifying one of these important categories and of drawing useful generalised conclusions about it, on the basis of detailed fieldwork in parts of northern Nigeria and south India.

Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains: Years of Readjustment, 1920-1990

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Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains: Years of Readjustment, 1920-1990
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Grandiose plans for land retirement and expanded irrigation have been frequently proposed for the northern Great Plains, but they have not significantly affected agricultural practices in the region.

Those major readjustments to farming methods that did occur in the region evolved out of local initiative in response to drought and depression during the 1920s. With some refinements but few amendments, procedures remain basically the same today.

In Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains, Mary Hargreaves reviews the changes in agricultural technology and farm management through the 1920s, the introduction of federal programs as drought and depression recurred in the 1930s, and the realignment of concerns from drought to marketing instability during the recovery years that followed.

Drought remains a perennial problem in the region, which in this study includes the eastern two-thirds of Montana and the western half of the Dakotas. But instability of marketing has been a greater concern, according to Hargreaves, and marketing, not environmental factors, occasioned the land retirement programs of the 1950s and 1980s.

Despite the economy and practicability of dry farming, the national agricultural policy of acreage restrictions since the 1930s has promoted the use of costly inputs and enabled higher-cost producers to continue competitive operation.

"Misconceptions and myths have too frequently entered into national land-use planning," Hargreaves writes. "There are still those who see the Plains as a 'Great American Desert'; still those who look to irrigation as the only basis for successful agriculture there; and still those who cherish the small diversified homestead operation as the agrarian dream, regardless of the environment."

Dry farming has proved successful in the northern Great Plains, Hargreaves contends. That success is measured not only by production but also by limited erosion. On its record, dry-land agriculture should not now fall prey to "hyperbole, myth, or politics."

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