Books by Wolf

Tom Vance first became aware of the Ring of Fire volcanic area of the Pacific region as a high school geology student. Now after graduating from Stanford with a degree in geology, he is working at the US Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, in a newly-created position leading a department tasked with monitoring the underground plates that comprise the Ring of Fire.Rachel Collins, a South Korean geologist, is Tom's right-hand person. Together they have traveled to other countries around South Korea to set up an extensive network of earthquake and tsunami-monitoring devices. When a catastrophic earthquake suddenly rocks Japan, Tom, Rachel, and their team immediately head to Okuma where they witness the devastating results. As Tom and Rachel fall in love, he begins exploring whether outside sources may have played a part in the event. Together with Rachel and the team, he sets out on a quest to learn whether North Korea's underground nuclear testing is causing the earthquakes, and if so, how they can stop it from happening again.In this fascinating tale, an American geologist and his team investigate the source of devastating earthquakes with the hope that the region around the Ring of Fire may ultimately realize peace and prosperity.

Having just told a cute female bartender that he wanted to come back in his second life as a bottle opener, so he can slide around in her back pocket, this narrator leaves her bar and smashes his car into a tree. He does indeed wake up as a bottle opener and finds himself hanging on a string tied to a hook in the ceiling of a Lawton, Oklahoma bar. The opener, realizing that he is now "a dead man", loses any fear of speaking what is on his mind. Since no one can hear him anyway, he immediately begins ranting about the starving children in America, politics, lawyers, lobbyists, the media, cell phones and many other pet peeves he's harbored through out his life. Oddly, he can see and hear and constantly hears organ music and some type of ticker tape machine, or maybe a typewriter in the back ground. The bottle opener is moved to various bars around America and the world. Before long he realizes that he is following the path of his real life and begins to worry. As he (it) moves from bar to bar he continues to let loose with the many things that he hated when alive. Foreign aid is strongly questioned and the cost of the war in Iraq almost has the bottle opener tongue tied. As time goes on, he is sad that he did not get to do more with his life. He soon realizes that the young people in America should start earlier in their lives to learn about politics and other issues that will affect their future while they can still make a difference. Please don't start reading at the end of the book.. live a little of a bottle opener's life first

"Ripper Notes: Jack the Slasher" is a collection of essays about the famous unidentified Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper and related topics. Wolf Vanderlinden starts things off with an overview of suspect Hyam Hyams, an insane East End Jew sometimes named as being the Whitechapel murderer. This includes a never-before seen photograph of Hyams in an asylum. Wolf then provides an in depth look at Henry G. Dowd, the New York maniac known as Jack the Slasher. When he was caught the newspapers tried to link him to the more famous killings in London. Next Bernard Brown, editor of the Metropolitan Police History magazine, theorizes about what a New York Ripper would find most familiar in Whitechapel. This is followed by Tom Wescott with a thorough examination of the neighborhood where victim Elizabeth Stride was killed, including a large number of period photographs and illustrations. He then uses information about other murder scenes to try to determine the exact methods the Ripper used to subdue and kill Stride. Next "ESM" provides the facts and never before crime scene illustrations and photos of the little known case of the Vienna Ripper, another killer and mutilator of prostitutes in the late 19th century, one whose methods and personal characteristics could be directly comparable to the London murders. This is followed by Wolf again, this time detailing the known facts of a Lascar sailor named in some news reports as having been the Ripper. Profusely illustrated with rare and never before seen illustrations, Ripper Notes is a nonfiction anthology series covering all aspects of the Jack the Ripper case.

This volume presents six review articles devoted to various topics of current interest both in classical and in quantum optics. The articles include "Quanta and Information", a multidisciplinary subject which involves optics, information theory, programming and discrete mathematics.