In Chapter One we review the foundations of statistieal physies and frac tal functions. Our purpose is to demonstrate the limitations of Hamilton's equations of motion for providing a dynamical basis for the statistics of complex phenomena. The fractal functions are intended as possible models of certain complex phenomena; physical.systems that have long-time mem ory and/or long-range spatial interactions. Since fractal functions are non differentiable, those phenomena described by such functions do not have dif ferential equations of motion, but may have fractional-differential equations of...

Former Arizona Ranger, Sam Allen is trying to convince himself he can be content retiring to a rocking chair but destiny has other ideas. A Son's Blood is the story of Sam's pursuit of the Mexican killers of his son. An educated man, the product of southern aristocracy, Sam was a commander in the Confederate Army, and had returned from the war to find his parents dead and the plantation taken by carpet baggers. Now a widower, he is surprised to learn that the killers of his son were vaqueros working for his wife's Mexican cousins. The fugitive Mexicans, led by the patrician Alejandro Herrera,...