First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, "Capital City" is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s - John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", John Conroy's "The Disinherited", Robert Cantwell's "Land of Plenty" - "Capital City" depicts the troubles and responses of working people trapped in the Great Depression. It is a unique portrayal of the depression in the Great Plains, and a study of the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in the thirties before drawing them together in this novel, part allegory, part indictment, part warning.Famous for her passionate writing, Sandoz gave "Capital City" the full measure of ferocity and rage. 'The violence in this new novel is almost unrelieved by any sweetness and light...This novel is strong meat; not at all for the squeamish' - "Saturday Review of Literature".
A hold, biting novel by the author of "Old Jules (BB 100) and Crazy Horse (BB 110)", "The Tom-Walker" spans three generations in a Midwestern family. The patriarch, Milt Stone, who lost a leg fighting in Grant's army, is the Tom-Walker, circus slang for man on stilts. After the Civil War he takes his family west to the Missouri country. There he gains a reputation as a raconteur and as a passionate defender of the little man who works hard, fights the wars, and gets squeezed out by powerful interests. He lives to see his son and grandson fight in World War I and World War II, respectively, and return home from those wars, maimed like him, only to have to resume a fight just to stay alive.Crowded with living characters, "The Tom-Walker" never loses the larger view of American history. From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age, everybody is 'trying to be either a Jay Gould or a Jesse James, out for easy money, everybody is wanting to be king of something: mines, railroads, cattle, outlaws, anything'. How people like the Stones fare is the story within this story. 'Rich and warm and extravagant and deeply rooted in what her America has been and is' - "New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review". 'A vigorous and thoughtful novel' - "New York Times". 'There is a good deal of America in the book, and the narrative teems with violent energy' - "New Yorker".
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Si te encontraras una empolvada y misteriosa l mpara a la orilla de un r o, de la cual emerge un amigable genio m gico con el poder de concederte tres deseos, qu ser a lo primero en tu lista? Juguetes por montones, una computadora o un celular? Pues para Jack no hay nada mejor que dejar brillar su imaginaci n. Saborear una deliciosa paleta de coco y chocolate, adem s volar al igual que las aves de los campos, y apreciar m s de cerca las estrellas, al plasmar sus huellas en la cima del mundo.
This book gives a reliable review on structure selection of stochastic dynamic systems using information criteria AIC, BIC, o and stochastic complexity. After theoretical investigations many simulations are estimators, which illustrate both the effectiveness and the limitations of these methods. The reader can gain his or her own experience on the"working" of many methods (associated with different parameter estimators) using the demonstration disk which can be run on most IBM-compatible personal computers. The book will be helpful to anybody interested in applying automated methods of model-structure selection inn control engineering, in time series analysis or in signal processing.
Localization for underwater robots remains a challenging issue. Typical sensors, such as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers, cannot be used under the surface and other inertial systems suffer from a strong integration drift. On top of that, the seabed is generally uniform and unstructured, making it difficult to apply Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods to perform localization. Reliable Robot Localization presents an innovative new method which can be characterized as a raw-data SLAM approach. It differs from extant methods by considering time as a standard variable to be estimated, thus raising new opportunities for state estimation, so far underexploited. However, such temporal resolution is not straightforward and requires a set of theoretical tools in order to achieve the main purpose of localization. This book not only presents original contributions to the field of mobile robotics, it also offers new perspectives on constraint programming and set-membership approaches. It provides a reliable contractor programming framework in order to build solvers for dynamical systems. This set of tools is illustrated throughout this book with realistic robotic applications.
KISS ME, I'M DEADby J.G. Sandom BEFORE THERE WAS 9/11 . . . THERE WAS 6/15 On June 15, 1904, over a thousand New Yorkers, mostly German immigrants on a Church outing, died when the General Slocum steamship caught fire and sank in the East River. It was the greatest mass killing in New York City history . . . until 9/11. When her Jewish boyfriend is accused of the crime by the German community, 15-year-old Mallory Meer risks everything to solve the mystery behind the senseless tragedy. Was Dustin guilty? Or was someone else responsible for the fire that killed over a thousand men, women and children-including Mallory's own baby sister? Only Mallory can understand what this tragedy truly means. Because she's not only one of the victims . . . she's one of the dead. An extraordinary story of revenge, misogyny, anti-Semitism, the quest for justice, and of a love so powerful that not even death could extinguish it. Twilight meets Titanic Mallory Meer is like any other teenage girl. She likes to have fun. She thinks her sister is ridiculous. Her parents drive her crazy. She's got a terrible crush on Dustin and follows him everywhere. Mallory even has a summer job-figuring out the truth about the fire on the General Slocum steamship, the disaster that killed her sister. Mallory is determined to get to the bottom of it, to find out who's guilty, and to finally bring them to justice. Sometimes Mallory gets angry, very angry, and strange things happen when Mallory gets angry. Yes, Mallory is like any other teenage girl . . . except Mallory is dead. Ranked one of the Top Ten Children's Books of the year (2006) by the Washington Post, KISS ME, I'M DEAD was named a Notable Book for Teens by the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, a Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Teen's Top Ten, and nominated for a Cybils literary award, a Best Books for Young Adults (BBYA) by the American Library Association (ALA), and listed on Horn Book's Recommended American Historical Fiction list. The Washington Post said, "(J.G. Sandom) writes with a precision and delicacy unusual for YA fiction," and called the book, "A subtle gem." In its starred review, School Library Journal said, " KISS ME, I'M DEAD tells a remarkable story in a remarkable way." Horn Book Magazine called the work, "A decidedly unconventional ghost story . . . (and) a tightly wound novel." Kirkus Reviews termed it, "A remarkable account." Midwest Book Review called it, "a wonderfully different kind of ghost story." And Romantic Times said, " KISS ME, I'M DEAD is a book you shouldn't pass up." Originally released in hardcover by Penguin/Dutton under the title The Unresolved and pen name T.K. Welsh, the novel is being re-released by Cornucopia Press in time for the 120th anniversary of the General Slocum tragedy.
Reimpresi n del original, primera publicaci n en 1876. La editorial Antigonos est especializada en la publicaci n de reediciones de libros hist ricos. Nos aseguramos de que estas obras se pongan a disposici n del p blico en buen estado para preservar su patrimonio cultural.
Reimpresi n del original, primera publicaci n en 1876. La editorial Antigonos est especializada en la publicaci n de reediciones de libros hist ricos. Nos aseguramos de que estas obras se pongan a disposici n del p blico en buen estado para preservar su patrimonio cultural.
