One might wonder why anyone in this day and age of electronics would feel a need to write poetry. There is a simple answer. No better way exists to express insightful feelings than by putting it in poetry form. Who remembers endless prose? Few do. Capturing insight in the form of a poem has a powerful impact unlike reams of prosaic writing. Any one who doubts this point should read T.S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock or Gerontion. Old men reading these Eliot poems understand fully the enigmas of growing old in a younger world. Poetry gives lasting power to conveying the spirit of the...

Animal photoons are much like cartoons excepting they are based on real-life photography. And photoons often have more narrative than what is usually found in a cartoon. Future plans are to make a sequence of photoon books. This first book contains 188 photoons. Everyone viewing them will get their share of smiles, belly laughs and guffaws. There is something funny for everyone of all ages and sophistication. This book is highly original. No book comparable to this collection can be found any where but here. The photography captures extremely unique images of animals found at a typical zoo....

Early in Dr. Brierly's career as a mathematician doing operations research for the US Department of Defense the author acquired an interest in investigating ways to optimize winning games of chance. He recognized that every gambling game offers a potential for applying probability and statistics to optimize bets. His first interest in this regard was devoted to picking winners at the harness horse races. After several years the author developed a computer system that essentially simulated a horse race based on race program data. He applied the simulation regularly for twenty years making a...