2. On the central role of scale invariant Poisson processes on (0, oo) .by Richard Arratia . 3. Beyond the method of bounded differences by Anant P Godbole and Pawel Hitczenko. 4. Distinguishing and reconstructing sceneries from observations along random walk paths by Harry Kesten. 5. Enumerations of trees and forests related to branching processes and random walks by Jim Pitman . 6. Couplings for normal approximations with Stein's method by Gesine Reinert. 4 Opinion This book would benefit greatly from the addition of a Preface or Introduction chapter, with an overview of the importance and techniques of the area, links to other related areas, and a shor t explanation of the significance of each article . As it is, the book essentially reads like a collectio n of independent papers as opposed to a unified exposition; although this is understandable since the book consists of the proceedings from a DIMACS workshop, a "semantic overview layer" would add a lot of value . An Index would also be useful . I would suggest the following three recent books as useful background or supplementary readin g for those who are not discrete probabilists : 1) Markov Chains : Gibbs
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