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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sofya Kovalevskaya is a 1985 film, directed by Ayan Shakhmaliyeva and starring Elena Safonova. Epic film in four episodes, based on a true story of mathematician scientist Sofia Kovalevskaya. She was a Russian pioneer for women in Tzarist Russia. She was the first woman in the country to become a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It seemed that the whole world was against her accomplishing this feat. In spite of all the obstacles she later got a Ph. D. in mathematics. However she was denied a professorship at any Russian University because of her gender. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ada Lovelace, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Grace Hopper, Hypatia, Emmy Noether, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karen Vogtmann, Émilie Du Châtelet, Hilda Geiringer, Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, Juana Inés de La Cruz, Ingrid Daubechies, Julia Robinson, Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Anna Nagurney, Mary Somerville, Audrey Terras, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Mary Cartwright, Maria Klawe, Judith Roitman, Marjorie Lee Browne, Katia Sycara, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Etta Zuber Falconer, Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Zoia Ceauşescu, Maryam Mirzakhani, Ruth Aaronson Bari, Gertrude Mary Cox, Helena Rasiowa, Theano, Karen Uhlenbeck, Hertha Marks Ayrton, Ruth Lawrence, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Alice T. Schafer, Cecilia Krieger, List of Female Mathematicians, Sofya Yanovskaya, Evelyn Nelson, Gertrude Blanch, Hanna Neumann, Krystyna Kuperberg, Maria Chudnovsky, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Fan Chung, Philippa Fawcett, Diane Souvaine, Raman Parimala, Agnes Sime Baxter, Melanie Wood, Lenore Blum, Nan Laird, Sheila Scott Macintyre, Charlotte Scott, Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, Hu Hesheng, Mary Ellen Rudin, Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Chuu-Lian Terng, Daina Taimina, Alicia Boole Stott, Mary Celine Fasenmyer, Idun Reiten, Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Ida Rhodes, Karin Erdmann, Mary P. Dolciani, Bhama Srinivasan, Cheryl Praeger, Association for Women in Mathematics, Frances Kirwan, Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Sarah Flannery, Olga Taussky-Todd, Marianna Csörnyei, Ruth Moufang, Grete Hermann, Elizaveta Litvinova, Carol Karp, Joan Birman, Vera Kublanovskaya, Elizabeth Scott, Jessie Macwilliams, Nina Snaith, Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Dusa Mcduff, Esther Szekeres, Mary W. Gray, Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, Susan Howson, Mary Everest Boole, Käte Fenchel, Judy A. Holdener, Katrin Wehrheim, Marjorie Rice, Grace Chisholm Youn...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=149896 ... Read more

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Chapters: Dmitri Mendeleev, Ivan Pavlov, Sergey Korolyov, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Ilya Prigogine, Vladimir Shukhov, Dmitri Z. Garbuzov, Alexander Kuzemsky, Vladimir N. Beneshevich, Nikolai Vavilov, Alexander S. Potupa, Dmitry Okhotsimsky, Peter Simon Pallas, Anatoly Fomenko, Igor Spassky, Mstislav Keldysh, Struve Family, Nikolai Kibalchich, Askar Akayev, Ivan Ostromislensky, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Victor Ovcharenko, Boris Dubin, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Von Struve, Gennady Simeonovich Osipov, Vladimir Porfiriev, Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov, Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka, Yuri Izrael, Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff, Leonid Brekhovskikh, Vladimir Wiese, Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk, Sergei M. Plekhanov, Eduard Toll, Erik Laxmann, Gennadi Sardanashvily, Vasily Karazin, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Khabibullo Abdusamatov, Yuri Levada, Anatoly Vlasov, Oleg Ivanovich Mamayev, Mikhail Matinsky, Dmitry Zubarev, Sergey Polyakov, Iosif Shklovsky, Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, Victor Glushkov, Sergei Tyablikov, Georgy Gause, Alexander Abramov, Alexander Kuchin, Igor Ternov, Arsenij Sokolov, Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov, Anatoli Bugorski, Aleksandr Chudakov, Pyotr Zinchenko, Andrey Alexandrovich Verbitsky, Mikhail Yangel, Boris Babkin, Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, Anatoly Sagalevich, Alexander Nadiradze, Afanasiy Ilich Tobonov, Pavel Molchanov, Stanislav Mikheyev, Mikhail Budyko, Victor Linetsky, Alexander Von Middendorff, Andrey Nartov, Alexandr Kapto, Alexandr Mikhailovych Kondratov, Kirill Gurov, Vladimir Filatov, Nikolai Zhukovsky, Gleb Vladimirovich Nosovsky, Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović, Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, Nikolai Kardashev, Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Yuri Senkevich, Vladimir Vetchinkin, Gennady Osipov, Vladimir A. Babeshko, Rudolf Samoylovich, Nikolai Nikitin, Dmitry Strelnikov, Alexei Osipov, Andrei Richter, Alexander Shikov, Pyotr Anokhin, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=86655 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 320 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ingmar Bergman, Olof Palme, Horace Engdahl, Rubén Berríos, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Sven Hedin, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Dag Hammarskjöld, Per Enflo, George Papandreou, Bernt Carlsson, Mikael Ljungman, Per Ahlmark, Gunnar Myrdal, Christer Fuglesang, Gustaf Nordenskiöld, Johan Norberg, Vilgot Sjöman, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Bertil Ohlin, Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, Torbjörn Caspersson, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Pontus Hultén, Sven Lindqvist, Göran Malmqvist, Lars Leijonborg, Christian Engström, Anders Borg, Bert Bolin, Andreas Carlgren, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Birgitta Ohlsson, Nina Stemme, Dotun Adebayo, Thomas Bodström, Farhad Shakely, Tomas Tranströmer, Ivar Otto Bendixson, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Mattias Gardell, Pär Nuder, Lars Albinsson, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Walter Gordon, Kai Siegbahn, Oskar Klein, Carl-Michael Edenborg, Maciej Zaremba, Jan Glete, Lars E. O. Svensson, Annika Falkengren, Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Dror Feiler, Jan O. Karlsson, Assar Lindbeck, Germund Dahlquist, Barbro Holmberg, Anders Sandberg, Brian Harold Mason, Claes Elfsberg, Barbro Sachs-Osher, Leif Thorsson, Klas Eklund, Carin Jämtin, Thomas Karlsson, Antony Burgmans, Anna Kinberg Batra, Olle Wästberg, Ebba Witt-Brattström, Lars-Erik Tammelin, Geir Ellingsrud, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson, Jacob Dahlin, Inger Segelström, Johan Håstad, Mats Foyer, Philip Haglund, Rolf Schock, Göran Liljestrand, Erik Tengström, Urban Bäckström, Luis Eduardo Luna, Sven Hagströmer, Jerome B. Simandle, Johan Staël Von Holstein, Niklas Wykman, Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Erik Lakomaa, Jens Orback, Britta Lejon, James Kendall, Håkan Jörgensen, Nikke Ström, Tiina Rosenberg, Thomas Hakon Grönwall, Åke Pleijel, Pehr Gyllenhammar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 394. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO (19...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=529134 ... Read more

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Chapters: Gustaf Dalén, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Hannes Alfvén, Max Tegmark, Christer Fuglesang, Christopher Polhem, Anders Jonas Ångström, Per Carlqvist, Per-Olov Löwdin, Manne Siegbahn, Eva Ekeblad, Carl-Gunne Fälthammar, David Enskog, Kai Siegbahn, Oskar Klein, Bo Thidé, Johannes Rydberg, Wilhelm Hisinger, Anders Knutsson Ångström, Albert Victor Bäcklund, Guy Von Dardel, Bengt Edlén, Finn Malmgren, Hilding Faxén, Knut Ångström, Gunnar Von Heijne, Elsa Beata Bunge, Johan Wilcke, Erik Edlund, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Gunnar Källén, Joseph Nordgren, Anders Flodström, Carl Wilhelm Oseen, Bo Sundqvist, Ivar Waller, Carl Nordling, Anders Karlsson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (born 30 May 1908 in Norrköping, Sweden; died 2 April 1995 in Djursholm, Sweden) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy. In 1937, Alfvén argued that if plasma pervaded the universe, it could then carry electric currents capable of generating a galactic magnetic field. After winning the Nobel Prize for his works in magnetohydrodynamics, he emphasized that: In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magn...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=165123 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская) (15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 - 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1891), was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. There are some alternative transliterations of her name. She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky), for her academic publications. After moving to Sweden, she called herself Sonya. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation of Germany bestows the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award every two years. Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician, who made important contributions to mathematical analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. This prestigious award named in her honor is given to promising young academics to pursue their line of research in the sciences or arts and humanities. The foundation encourages applications from all areas of the academy so long as the investigator received a Ph.D. in the last six years and may be categorized as "top flight" by their publications and experience as commensurate with age. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bertrand Russell, Egon Schiele, Phoebe Hearst, Edmond Rostand, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Trevor Howard, Mark Sykes, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Sam Steele, Leefe Robinson, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Jules Dassin, Gaby Deslys, Robert Anderson, Washoe, John Struthers, William Wilson Hunter, Wallace Reid, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Henry B. Walthall, Dudley John Beaumont, Kōnia, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Orson F. Whitney, Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe, Willard Dickerman Straight, Joseph R. Williams, William Henry Elder, Robert Derzon, Princess Sophie of Saxony, Frank Granger Quigley, Dark Cloud, Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi, Hannah Connell Barker, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Ivan Milev, Reggie Schwarz, Daisy and Violet Hilton, Madge Syers, Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, Vestal Goodman, Jesse Lewisohn, Kate Carmack, Alfred Edwards, Radhikabai, George Raymond Dallas Moor, Briton Hadden, Augustin de Beaulieu, Thomas Dashwood, Margit Kaffka, Alan Arnett Mcleod, Toni Tecuceanu, Carleton Ellis, James Vernor, Matthew Mckay, Minnie B. Smith, William C. Farr, William Wilson Allen, William James Hardham, Alexander Mcnair, Georg Klebs, James A. Reilly, Gulbrand Hagen, Egbert Seymour, Bill Blair, Harold Lockwood, Samuel Laycock, Albert Edward Mckenzie, Eddie Mummery, Dan Mcmichael, Meri Te Tai Mangakahia, Charles Arthur Broadwater, George Washington Hays, Rafael Bolívar Coronado, Christoph Budde, Bill Yawkey, Walter Parr, Billy Franey, Ruby Lindsay, Frank W. Warner, Frans de Haes, Max Ramsland, Patrick Nolan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 335. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 2 Fe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4163 ... Read more

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Chapters: Sofia Kovalevskaya, Per Martin-Löf, Per Enflo, Lars Hörmander, Harald Cramér, Herman Wold, Henry Wallman, Anders Lindstedt, Olav Kallenberg, Ivar Otto Bendixson, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Paco Lagerstrom, David Enskog, Waloddi Weibull, Björn Engquist, Lennart Carleson, Filip Lundberg, Germund Dahlquist, Arne Beurling, Albert Victor Bäcklund, Conny Palm, Anders Martin-Löf, Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen, Anders Björner, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Helge Von Koch, Torkel Franzén, Johan Håstad, Marcel Riesz, Lars Gårding, Oskar Sandberg, Carl Johan Malmsten, Hans Riesel, Samuel Klingenstierna, Torsten Carleman, Thomas Hakon Grönwall, Åke Pleijel, Arne Meurman, Erland Samuel Bring, Fritz Carlson, Toby Gärnö Heikenen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 136. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Per Erik Rutger Martin-Löf (born 1942) is a Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematical statistician. He is internationally renowned for his work on the foundations of probability, statistics, mathematical logic, and computer science. Since the late 1970s, Martin-Löf's publications have been mainly in logic. In philosophical logic, Martin-Löf has wrestled with the philosophy of logical consequence and judgment, partly inspired by the work of Brentano, Frege, and Husserl. In mathematical logic, Martin-Löf has been active in developing intuitionistic type theory as a constructive foundation of mathematics; Martin-Löf's work on type theory has influenced computer science. Per Martin-Löf holds a joint chair for Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University. His brother Anders Martin-Löf is now emeritus professor of mathematical statistics at Stockholm University; the two brothers have collaborated in research in probability and statistics. The research of Anders and Per Martin-Löf has influenced statistic...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1925764 ... Read more

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Title: Spinning equations: Sofia Kovalevskaya.(HERSTORY)(Biography)
Author: Abigail Noble
Publication: New Moon Girls (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: New Moon Girl Media
Volume: 17Issue: 1Page: 27(1)

Article Type: Biography

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Beyond the Limit, a novel researched for more than ten years by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, is the true story of Sofya Kovalevskaya'sremarkable personal journey, from the constricted life of a teenage girl in St. Petersburg to the triumph of becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and join the ranks of Europe's great mathematicians of the nineteenth century.

For more than one hundred years, Kovalevskaya's struggle has inspired women of all nations to fight for educational opportunities equal to those available to men. But while she is known for the science and mathematics Opportunity Days sponsored in her name at major universities, the full drama and power of her life has never been told as it now unfolds in this thoroughly researched novel.

Based on Kovalevskaya's own writings, and many other primary sources, the story of her life plays out against a panorama of the turbulent, intellectually challenging 1860s and 1870s, as it follows a brilliant, complex woman on a quest that seems almost impossible to imagine, more than a century later. Friends with some of the intellectual giants of her time, ranging from Dostoevsky to Darwin, she was the equal of them all, as chronicled in this extraordinary work.

In the Russia of the 1860s, young women did as their fathers bid them, and after marriage was arranged, they did what their husbands told them to do. But Sofya Krukovskaya was different. Born to a family in which science and mathematics were already part of its heritage, Sofya takes every opportunity to learn more about mathematics in tutoring sessions. But her tutors know that if she is to realize her potential, she must study at a university. In order to do that, she lies to her family and makes a marriage of convenience with archaeologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, enabling her and her sister Anya to leave Russia and seek education at a German university.

However, leaving Russia is only the first hurdle she must vault to pursue her dream of becoming Europe's first woman mathematician. When she applies for admission, she is refused by stubbornly prejudiced university officials, forcing her to study covertly with the great mathematician Karl Weierstrass, under whose guidance she is at last able to gain her doctorate.

Very close to her sister Anya, a talented writer whose revolutionary fervor takes her to the powder keg of the Paris Commune of 1871, more than once Sofya has to forsake her own goals to save Anya from ruin, and even death.

Married in name only for many years, Sofya and Vladimir have a complex, volatile relationship. Loving each other, they're forced by the needs of their careers to withstand long separations and other trials. Across Europe, through tragedy and finally triumph, their story is richly told against the backdrop of history.

Mathematician and educator Joan Spicci's compelling narrative accurately documents Sofya's educational and professional struggle, in Beyond the Limit.

This fascinating, intimate portrait of Sofya Kovalevskaya's life confronts issues of women's rights and feminism that continue to face women who pursue careers in the sciences in the twenty-first century.
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Joan Spicci brought enough drama to this biography of Sofya Kovalevskaya to make the story of the first woman PhD in Math a compelling read. Kovalevskaya was not shy about writing her own story and documenting her life. Ms. Spicci clearly spent a lot of homework time studying these materials. Inspiring read for teachers and future mathemagicians.

Beyond The Limit - great book!
I found the book a very quick read because I just couldn't put it down.The author definitely has done her research as I am a M.Sc. (Mathematics) graduate.

truly compelling!
This is a true piece of art, a compelling love story wrapped into the trials and tribulations of humanity's pursuit of balance with being true to oneself and to those you love.This true story is beautifully told of the tribulations faced by a woman in pursuit of mathematics in a world unaccustomed or accepting of women.I couldn't put it down!

Beyond The Limit
We enjoyed this book immensely and recommend it to all readers who enjoy history.The book captures the struggles of women who persued higher education in a time of world governmental and social change.The romantic twists and turns of the characters are sure to keep the reader's interest from cover to cover.

Brilliant, inspirational, important
I highly recommend this book!From the very first page, the story engages the reader and the writing dazzles.This true story is about the trials and struggles of a brilliant, Russian female mathematician, Sofya Kovalevskaya, in the late 1800s.This was not a popular time to be a woman in Russia, and certainly not popular to be a smart woman -- especially if you wanted to study mathematics!However, the development of mathematics and science in Europe at this time was on fire (as was the politics), and Sofya was right in the thick of it all.

This work of historical fiction is well researched, with information gathered from many sources (including translations of personal letters), and masterfully retold.It's romantic, exciting and fascinating.A true gift to be able to walk these years in Sofya's shoes.

If you've ever struggled against societial prejudices, or struggled to succeed in a field of work not intended for your race, sex or color, you'll find this book an inspiration.

I anxiously await the sequel! ... Read more

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Sonya Kovalevskaya was a distinguished mathematician and considered by her contemporaries to be among the best of her generation. Her work, ideas, and approach to mathematics are still relevant today, while her accomplishments continue to inspire women mathematicians.

The academic year 1985--86 marked the 15th anniversary of the Association for Women in Mathematics and the 25th anniversary of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University--both organizations that have enhanced women's role in mathematics. These two occasions provided a framework for a Kovalevskaya celebration, which included a symposium at Radcliffe College, and special sessions at the AMS meeting in Amherst, Massachusetts, both in October 1985. The papers in this collection were drawn from those two events.

The first group of papers contains background material about Kovalevskaya's life and work, including a discussion of how she has been perceived by the mathematical community over the last century. The rest of the papers contain new mathematics and cover a wide variety of subjects in geometry, analysis, dynamical systems, and applied mathematics. They all involve, in one form or another, Kovalevskaya's main areas of interest---differential equations and mathematical questions arising from physical phenomena. ... Read more

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A great book
This is a great book, and a wonderful contribution to both the history of mathematics, and to the explanation of the very mathematics that Kovalevskaya has worked on. We need more such books. I wish Springer would re-issue it in paperback.

I (the author) think it's OK.
It would hardly be fair for me to review my own book.You need an impartial opinion, such as that of my mother, who unfortunately didn't live to see her son become an author; I think she would have liked it, however.As for me, I'm happy to find it's still available after 13 years! ... Read more