Charleston Style: Past and Present

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From its earliest days as a burgeoning colonial port blending European, Caribbean, and Asian influences, Charleston has maintained a unique brand of southern cosmopolitanism. Charleston Style: Past and Present traces the city's allure through its exquisite and sometimes eccentric architecture, decorative arts, and garden designs, which express a wide range of European and American styles, including Georgian, Federal, Chinese Chippendale, Gothic and Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Eastlake, and more. Author Susan Sully explores Charleston as a medium through which this spectrum of styles becomes transmuted into a distinctive regional mode.

Sully's Charleston is a place where antique and modern, fantasy and reality, playfully intersect. During its ascendance as one of America's wealthiest cities, Charleston's most privileged citizens acquired sophisticated, even decadent, tastes that continue to infuse their homes and gardens. After the Civil War, hardship, pride, and nostalgia shaped an aesthetic in which peeling gilt and tattered lace became badges of honor. Thanks to one of the earliest and most energetic American preservationist movements, the past extends into the present in Charleston, and the city's spaces reveal its complex spirit.

Charleston Style: Past and Present features nineteen residences ranging from archetypally gracious antebellum mansions to cottagelike dependencies to the iconic Charleston "single houses," with their sweeping piazzas, high ceilings, and tall windows. Also featured are some of the city's most charming gardens, inspired by the formal and picturesque landscape designs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe as well as by the exotic gardens of Japan. With rich color photography by John Blais and a delightful foreword by acclaimed novelist, Josephine Humphreys, Charleston Style: Past and Present delivers an evocative portrait of this fascinating city.

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Rekindles Fond Memories.......2000-02-03

Susan Sully's book revived many delightful memories of my recent visit to Charleston. Her evocative prose paired with the beautiful photographs made as much of an impression on me as seeing Charleston's gracious architecture in person. It's not often that such a pretty book is also so well written, but Sully' elegant, beautifully crafted sentences do justice to the photos and the grand old homes themselves. After reading her book I wanted to book a flight back for another visit!

Charleston Captured Splendidly!.......2000-01-29

Susan Sully's Charleston Style splendidly captures the unique beauty of my city. Sully's writing is gorgeous, lush and evocative as many of the homes she shows us. Her thorough research is obvious; then she takes the facts and, with words, weaves a beautifiul gossamer fabric representing one ofAmerica's most beloved cities. As a Charlestonian, I was introduced to places I never knew existed. The detailed photographs, artistic and architectural, complement the text. I bought numerous copies to give to friends who have visited Charleston in reality or in their dreams.

finally, a beautiful book with an intelligent read!.......2000-01-29

Just named one of the ten best books of 1999 about South Carolina by "The Nation," this winner rises above the usual book of stunning photography in the quality of Sully's writing. Her thoughtful and incisive reflections upon a complex city are rendered in delightful, sensual, intelligent prose. All this is compellingly presented in a classic coffee-table stand-out!

Recent press on Charleston Style.......2000-01-29

Praised in House Beautiful (May '99) for author Susan Sully's "evocative text [that] lifts this book a notch above many similar style books," Charleston Style was listed by The State newspaper from Columbia, SC as one of the top ten books by or about South Carolinians published in 1999. The State's reviewer, William Starr praises the book's "uncommonly attractive" appearance and notes that "the author combines valuable information with an artistic sensibility.... Among the book's virtues is Sully's willingness to look beyond the obvious into homes which give us some very different views of this most traditional of historic cities."

Check out Charleston Style!.......2000-01-14

Despite author Susan Sully's grammatical errors, misspellings ("sheathes of wheat" instead of sheaves of wheat -- why, oh, why don't editors catch those anymore?), labored metaphors, and use of cliche' ("dripping with spanish moss"), I loved this book. Josephine Humphreys writes a beautiful and moving foreward. The photos (by John Blais) are literally breath-taking (to borrow another cliche'). Imperative reading for the student of architecture or design, or for those simply enamored of regional style.

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Charleston Style Past and Present
Sully Susan
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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A LOOK AT ONE PHOTOGRAPHER'S CAREER

Creative color photography of Robin Perry
Robin Perry
Manufacturer: American Photographic Book Pub. Co
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ASIN: 0817405755

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A LOOK AT ONE PHOTOGRAPHER'S CAREER.......1999-01-13

Although this book may not be of interest to everyone, it should be valuable to anyone who is aiming for a career in photography. This book provides a wonderful glimpse into the work of Robin Perry. Most of the images are quite out of this world. This book was published (in 1974) five years before i was born. I had a feeling this book would be out of print. I consider myself very fortunate to have found it at a used book shop several weeks ago.

Anyone who enjoys viewing or creating photography should see the pictures in this book. Each photo is accompanied by a complete description of how and why the image was created.

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Mining is fundamental in our lives -- we wear, travel in and build, cook and communicate with its products daily -- and it is also one of the most environmentally damaging industries. This uniquely thorough and innovative study examines how such a huge and multi-faceted industry can be made sustainable, minimizing its harmful impacts and maximizing its social and economic contribution.

Based on a fully independent study commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the IIED, and with extensive consultation with all the stakeholders -- companies, governments, communities and NGOs -- this book analyzes the different needs and risks of all those affected and the issues of supply and demand for minerals throughout the world.

Included is a free CD-Rom with extensive background material. This is a must-read for all involved -- the industry and its advisors, governments and regulators, civil society and communities -- and offers a model that other industries can follow.

Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development

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Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development
Linda Starke
Manufacturer: Earthscan/James & James
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ASIN: B000MUY0FY

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Making, amending, and interpreting constitutions is a political game that can yield widespread suffering or secure a nation's liberty and prosperity. Given these high stakes, Robert Cooter argues that constitutional theory should trouble itself less with literary analysis and arguments over founders' intentions and focus much more on the real-world consequences of various constitutional provisions and choices. Pooling the best available theories from economics and political science, particularly those developed from game theory, Cooter's economic analysis of constitutions fundamentally recasts a field of growing interest and dramatic international importance.

By uncovering the constitutional incentives that influence citizens, politicians, administrators, and judges, Cooter exposes fault lines in alternative forms of democracy: unitary versus federal states, deep administration versus many elections, parliamentary versus presidential systems, unicameral versus bicameral legislatures, common versus civil law, and liberty versus equality rights. Cooter applies an efficiency test to these alternatives, asking how far they satisfy the preferences of citizens for laws and public goods.

To answer Cooter contrasts two types of democracy, which he defines as competitive government. The center of the political spectrum defeats the extremes in "median democracy," whereas representatives of all the citizens bargain over laws and public goods in "bargain democracy." Bargaining can realize all the gains from political trades, or bargaining can collapse into an unstable contest of redistribution. States plagued by instability and contests over redistribution should move towards median democracy by increasing transaction costs and reducing the power of the extremes. Specifically, promoting median versus bargain democracy involves promoting winner-take-all elections versus proportional representation, two parties versus multiple parties, referenda versus representative democracy, and special governments versus comprehensive governments.

This innovative theory will have ramifications felt across national and disciplinary borders, and will be debated by a large audience, including the growing pool of economists interested in how law and politics shape economic policy, political scientists using game theory or specializing in constitutional law, and academic lawyers. The approach will also garner attention from students of political science, law, and economics, as well as policy makers working in and with new democracies where constitutions are being written and refined.

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Very useful synopsis of key themes.......2004-04-26

If economic analysis of law had developed in continental Europe it would probably have begun with Constitutional law, rather than torts (Cf. Calabresi, the Cost of Accidents). As it was, the body of economic analysis of constitutional law is just starting to come together from a variety of sources, including public choice theory. Cooter came up with the idea for this book by way of discussions with European constitutional law experts. The book has all the merits of Cooter & Ulen's "Law and Economics". It is very easy to follow because it has been clearly written. It is not as deep, but neither is it as verbose as Posner, nor as insightful, or as superficial, as Sunstein. As a law and economics professor I have found it a Godsend. Its many examples and exercises make it a perfect undegraduate textbook, and it is high time it were translated into other languages (particularly Spanish, where there is no equivalent contemporary text). One would hope that Cooter would follow it up with a casebook with American and European cases. This is still a white space, and there's no one better qualified than Cooter to fill it up.

One caveat is that The Stratetic Constitution still shows the joints between some of the chapters and the greater whole, and there seem to be other subjects which could have been dealt with in greater detail, such as the impact of positive constitutional rights, which is significant in many countries whose systems are based on statutory law.

Constitutional Law and Economics.......2002-08-11

Well written, simple and complete. If I wasn't aware of the existing public choice literature I would have thought that this branch of economics (or law?) is mature and well developed, and that this book is a University textbook for a would-be course in Constitutional law and economics (if ever tought). However, this field is still fresh and unchartered, and this book gives a good idea of what to expect next.

Good undergraduate text, Mueller (1996) may be a better buy.......2001-06-26

This is an excellent introduction to the study of constitutions and the organization of government. The author did a wonderful job at selecting topics that related to each other and provided a rather complete bird's eye view of how economics can be used to study government. When I first browsed at its table of contents, I thought this was THE book I needed for my research on public administration and political economy(at least in this respect, the topics here are more cohesive than the smosgarbord of Persson and Tabellini's Political Economics or Drazen's Political Economy and Macroeconomics). Despite its breadth, however, Cooter's book lacks in depth of analysis, and this makes it more suitable as an undergraduate text or an introduction to nonspecialists. I agree with the first reviewer that the book is not very good at justifying assumptions and that the analysis provided can be simplistic at times. For instance, one major weakness stems from the author's obsessive adherence to the original methods of the field of Law and Economics; namely, the emphasis on basic price theory and microeconomic theory, which makes the book read more like an undergraduate text in (applied) economics. What is lacking, and this is what makes Persson and Tabellini's and Drazen's books superior, is a more systematic and rigorous use of contemporary tools such as game theory. Because it lacks rigor, this book is not suitable for research or reference purposes. It is also dated in the sense that it clings to a Law and Economics paradigm that is decades behind the latest work in positive or formal political theory.

If you are serious about studying economic models of politics for research purposes, I would suggest buying the following books:

1) Persson and Tabellini, Political Economics, MIT Press, 2000.

Written by economists, this book focuses TOO MUCH on economic policy, but the first part on foundations and analytical tools is one of the best I have seen. In their favor, the authors also do a good job at describing the frontier of research and the limitations of their book.

2) Drazen, Political Economy in Macroeconomics, Princeton 2000.

This book is also written by an economist, and, unsurprisingly, it is biased towards economic policy. Like the previous book, it has chapters that teach you the underlying models. In addition, the author does have a unifying theme throughout the whole book, so despite the various topics, you can make sense of the analytical power you gain by explicitly adding political elements to mainstream (macro)economic models.

3) For an overview of applications, you could either buy Cooter's book, or, in my view, a better book (in terms of depth, although less cohesive in substance) on public choice:

Dennis Mueller (ed.), Perspectives on Public Choice: A Handbook, Cambridge 1996.

The Simplicity Constitution.......2001-01-27

Cooter's work the Strategic Constitution is inciteful in many regards. People not well versed in Law and Economics will find it a refreshing and easy to understand conception of the constitutional scheme. He presents his ideas clearly and doesn't assume too much about the lay reader's understanding of law or economics. It is a valuable first step into seeing Constitutional schemes through a less traditional lens. On the other hand, where the book is solid for novices, it is quite deficient for serious students of either law or economics. In his attempt to explain constituitonal issues using economics, he is guilty of oversimplying models to absurdity -- which, to some extent, is deceptive for non-students of law and economics. He rarely states assumptions or faults with his model or where new research is required to make the models more dynamic. The strategies implied are usually monotonic failing to realize that actors will modify their strategies for a more dynamic and complicated outcome if the results he presents are accurate. These faults are best shown in his seperation of powers analysis which not only improperly erroneously only considers "single-issue problems" but, along this vain, fails to factor in politics (or more complex strategic interactions) and non-policy focused preferences which occur and effect outcomes. For example, let's say A doesn't like a policy but is of the President's party, Cooter assumes (or by default assumes) that this person will vote to override a Presidential veto. Another failure of the book is its lack of empirical support. He cites few studies which are explained rather poorly. Overall, it is hard to believe that forty years of law and economics has not more flesh than the skeleton Cooter presents.

Book review: Local players in global games: The strategic constitution of a multinational corporation [A book review from: Journal of International Management]

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Book review: Local players in global games: The strategic constitution of a multinational corporation [A book review from: Journal of International Management]
F.A.A. Becker-Ritterspach
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The Implications Of A Flawed Constitution.(Iraq) : An article from: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East

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The Implications Of A Flawed Constitution.(Iraq) : An article from: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East, published by Thomson Gale on September 12, 2005. The length of the article is 1511 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

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Title: The Implications Of A Flawed Constitution.(Iraq)
Publication: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East (Newsletter)
Date: September 12, 2005
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IRAQ - The New Iraqi Constitution Is Assessed. : An article from: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East, published by Thomson Gale on November 14, 2005. The length of the article is 921 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

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IRAQ - The Sunni Constitutional Option. : An article from: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East

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IRAQ - The Sunni Constitutional Option. : An article from: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East, published by Thomson Gale on November 14, 2005. The length of the article is 2079 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

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Title: IRAQ - The Sunni Constitutional Option.
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Japan's constitution and defense policy: entering a new era? : An article from: Strategic Forum

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Japan's constitution and defense policy: entering a new era? : An article from: Strategic Forum
Rust Deming
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Forum, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 8469 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

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Title: Japan's constitution and defense policy: entering a new era?
Author: Rust Deming
Publication: Strategic Forum (Report)
Date: November 1, 2004
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Issue: 212-213 Page: 1

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Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation

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Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation
Peer Hull Kristensen , and Jonathan Zeitlin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0199275610

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What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their own identities, routines and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational corporation? Can a cooperative strategy be established that advances the development of the multinational as a whole,
or do mutual misunderstandings and the unintended consequences of strategic interaction among the players' lead instead to endemic conflict and disintegration?
This book tackles these novel and important questions through an empirical study of the strategic constitution of an 'actually existing' multinational. It does so by tracing the historical construction of the multinational corporation from the confluence of multiple formerly independent firms and
analyzing the interacting web of strategies pursued by different actors within it. The analysis reveals how workers, unionists, subsidiary managers, and corporate executives pursue separate strategic games rooted in their local contexts, whose global outcome contrasts sharply with idealized views
of the multinational as an integrated and coordinated organization.
By comparing these findings to those of the broader literature, the book proceeds to a theoretical examination of the challenges of managing the multinational, and the difficulties of resolving them through conventional organizational means. The authors propose new procedural solutions aimed at
fostering mutual recognition and knowledge exchange within the multinational corporation, and explore how a multinational public may be created to press for the necessary reforms in corporate governance. As the success of such reforms is far from preordained, the book concludes with a series of
alternative scenarios that illustrate the many obstacles to a smooth continuation of the globalization process.
This is an important and original study of significance for researchers, academics, and advanced students of international business, business strategy, comparative management and organizational studies.

Strategic Choice and Path-Dependency in Post-Socialism: Institutional Dynamics in the Transformation Process

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Strategic Choice and Path-Dependency in Post-Socialism: Institutional Dynamics in the Transformation Process

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The Strategic Implications of Change in the Soviet Union (International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference Papers)

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The Strategic Implications of Change in the Soviet Union (International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference Papers)

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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The Strategic Implications of European Integration (Adelphi Papers)

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The Strategic Implications of European Integration (Adelphi Papers)
Jopp Matthias
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Social Policy: Issues and Developments provides an engaging, comprehensive introduction to contemporary British social policy. It focuses primarily upon developments since 1997 including coverage of major service areas, ideological and other current debates in the subject. The book combines description and analysis in a clear and straightforward approach, whilst recognizing the complexities of contemporary social policy.

Contents Part I: The context for social policy Chapter 1. Economic, social and political change Chapter 2. The politics and government of social policy Part II: Developments in services Chapter 3: Income maintenance and taxation Chapter 4. Work and welfare Chapter 5. Education Chapter 6. The personal social services Chapter 7. Crime and criminal justice policy Chapter 8. Health Chapter 9. Housing Chapter 10. Ethical issues in social policy Chapter 11. `New' social policy Part III: Theorising social policy Chapter 12. Neo-liberalism Chapter 13. From democratic socialism to New Labour Chapter 14. Alternative approaches to social policy Part IV: European and international developments Chapter 15. The European Union and its impact upon recent social policy development Chapter 16. Globalisation and its influence upon social policy development Chapter 17. Conclusions

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This is the fifteenth edition of the classic text on the UK economy, originally known as Prest and Coppock. Comprehensively rewritten and updated at frequent intervals, The UK Economy has become acknowledged as one of the most systematic, up to date, and balanced assessments of British economic life. Written by a team of specialist economists and now edited by Malcolm Sawyer, it combines factual information and informed analysis in the single most accessible guide to the character, problems, and performance of the British economy. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and for this new edition all of the chapters have been rewritten and completely updated to include a full analysis of the the changes in economic policy under New Labour. There are in addition completely new chapters on the environment and on income distribution, along with expanded treatment of public expenditure and the welfare state, ensuring that this new edition remains fully up to date, and continues to provide an excellent introduction to the UK economy, including its EU and global context.

Unemployment in the Uk: Politics and Policies

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Unemployment in the Uk: Politics and Policies
Jeremy John Richardson , and Jeremy Moon
Manufacturer: Gower Pub Co
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0566008939

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Profiting In Turbulent Times discusses how technological innovations and widespread globalization have led us to the current economic situation and have changed the Speed of Business. The economic downward spiral points out the shortsighted decisions that make the mess worse. The remedies recommended introduces new indices of measurement and an innovative culture shift that restores companies profitability. The change is made in a step-by-step fashion addressing the six logical levels to achieve the Pinnacle of Success. A fictitious company and a cast of characters are used to present examples of behaviors that many have experienced and can relate to easily.

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