American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation

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This clearly-written book provides an historical analysis of postwar economic development in the US, helping the reader to understand the nation's current economic position. Samuel Rosenberg investigates three postwar phases: the creation of an institutional framework setting the stage for prosperity in the US after World War II, the forces undermining this institutional framework and the resulting stagflation of the 1970s, and the recreation of a new institutional structure in the 1980s. Basic economic concepts are introduced and explained throughout and specific attention is paid to macroeconomic policy, industrial relations, the role of the US in the world economy, social and labor policy, the structure of the labor force, and the distribution of income by race and gender.

American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation

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Samuel Rosenberg
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The essays in this volume represent some of the best writing done about the history, political dynamics, and legal development of the Supreme Court. They remind us that interest in the court as not just a legal but a political and cultural entity has been prodigious. No other court has attracted anything approaching the scholarly attention on the so-called "Marble Palace" in Washington, D.C. Biographers, such as Bernard Schwartz and G. Edward White, remind us that talent on the high bench has made a difference in the growth of judicial power and in adjusting the Constitution to fit emerging social realities.
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American Law and the Legal System:: Equal Justice under the Law

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This overview of the system of law and government in the United States is a revision of the successful "Equal Justice Under the Law", that provides the conceptual tools needed to prepare individuals for their roles as citizens, paralegals, lawyers, teachers, law enforcement agents, government employees, and judges. ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructors Manual, ISBN: 0-7668-1741-5 COMING SOON West Paralegal Comprehensive CTB-2000-II, ISBN: 0-7668-1773-3

Equal Justice Under Law: The American Legal System

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Equal Justice Under the Law: An Introduction to American Law and the Legal System

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Thomas R. Van Dervort
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Equal Justice under the Law : An Introduction to American Law and the Legal System (Paralegal)

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This book contains articles written by experts on a wide range of topics that are associated with the analysis and management of biological information at the molecular level. It contains chapters on RNA and protein structure analysis, DNA computing, sequence mapping, genome comparison, gene expression data mining, metabolic network modeling, and phyloinformatics.

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This book presents a selection of revised full papers accepted for presentation at the First International Conference on Biology, Informatics, and Mathematics, JOBIM 2000, held in Montpellier, France, in May 2000.The 13 papers included in the book were selected after two rounds of reviewing and revision from a total of 67 submissions. Among the topics addressed are algorithms, comparative genomics, evolution, phylogeny, databases, knowledge processing, genome anotation, graph theory, combinatorial mathematics, macromolecular structures, RNA and proteins, metabolic pathways and regulatory networks, and statistics and classification.

Neural Networks and Genome Informatics (Methods in Computational Biology and Biochemistry)

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Neural Networks and Genome Informatics (Methods in Computational Biology and Biochemistry)

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This book is a comprehensive reference in the field of neural networks and genome informatics. The tutorial of neural network foundations introduces basic neural network technology and terminology. This is followed by an in-depth discussion of special system designs for building neural networks for genome informatics, and broad reviews and evaluations of current state-of-the-art methods in the field. This book concludes with a description of open research problems and future research directions.

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Good as a literature survey.......2002-05-31

This book serves well to introduce the reader to the literature on the applications of neural networks to bioinformatics. It falls short however in giving an in-depth view of how neural networks operate and does not include any source code. Performance issues with the use of neural networks in genome informatics should have been given a more careful treatment. Considering its price, this is disappointing. A reader could obtain the required reading material on this subject from an online search. An instructor in a course in bioinformatics might use this book as a reference source however. Those who have used neural networks in other fields might be able to use the book as a guide to applying them to genome informatics. Thus the book could be viewed as a (very expensive) literature review article, but it does include some interesting remarks at various places: 1. Amino acid groupings that are found automatically by a Kohonen self-organizing map. 2. Feature representation and input encoding. 3. The discussion on cross-validation. 4. The discussion on protein secondary structure prediction. Genetic algorithms are mentioned here, so readers not familiar with these will have to gain the background elsewhere.

Timely text for beginners and experts alike.......2001-06-15

In contrast to so many other bioinformatics books this one is written by genuine experts who have first-hand experience in both computer science and modern biology.

Each chapter is a masterpiece of clarity and good judgement in selection of topics to be covered. The book contains a large glossary of terms which makes it accessible for multidisciplinary readers. The authors made considerable effort to provide unbiased selection of most appropriate references following each chapter. This makes the book a superb research monograph for the specialists in addition to being a suitable text for educated beginners.

The book should be read by computer scientists who contemplate doing work in bioinformatics as well as by biologists who contemplate working in bioinformatics. Anybody who wants to design neural networks for specific biological applications will benefit the most from reading this text. Anybody who just wants to understand how and why neural networks can be used in biology will benefit from reading this book as well. Practicing computational biologists and bioinformaticians should have this book available as a desk reference. Psychologists, cognitive and social scientists who are interested in neural networks and artificial learning will likely benefit from reading this book as well.

I hasten to add that it would be really good for the book and for its readers if the publisher considered either lowering the price or printing a cheaper paperback edition.

GreatBook.......2001-05-31

This is a book that comes out at the right time, a time when tons of information from genomics and several improved analysis tools based on great ideas are both becoming available. I believe readers from a broad range of academic background will benefit from the integration of knowledges from genome informatics, statistics, computer science, engineering, and mathmatics, a feature that this book exemplifies.

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Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended up as one of the top U.S. chemical producers—with 1998 sales of $6.6 billion? In Unlikely Victory, Jerome T. Coe, a retired 40-year career employee with General Electric, who spent more than 20 years as a manager of the company’s chemical businesses, suggests that it was a combination of necessity, forward-thinking of the engineers, and managers wise enough to give them breathing room. “Much of what they did (then) was counter to the prevailing GE culture,” he writes. “Today, it has become the corporate culture.” The book tells the whole story of this successful business model, from the early years of GE chemistry through the company’s successes with silicones, synthetic diamond, Lexan polycarbonate plastic, and other high-performance thermoplastics. It also profiles four scientists and five managers—including former CEO John F. Welch, Jr., a chemical engineer and a product of the GE plastic business—who made a significant difference in the company’s chemical success. The book is amply illustrated with photographs of the people, products, and plants that contributed to one of America’s most unusual corporate success stories.

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Modern physics was born from two great revolutions: relativity and quantum theory. Relativity imposed a locality constraint on physical theories: since nothing can go faster than light, very distant events cannot influence one another. Only in the last few decades has it become clear that quantum theory violates this constraint. The work of J. S. Bell has demonstrated that no local theory can return the predictions of quantum theory. Thus it would seem that the central pillars of modern physics are contradictory.Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity examines the nature and possible resolution of this conflict. Beginning with accurate but non-technical presentations of Bell's work and of Special Relativity, there follows a close examination of different interpretations of relativity and of the sort of locality each demands. The story continues with a brief discussion of the General Theory of Relativity. This second edition also includes a new author's preface and an additional appendix.The book introduces philosophers to the relevant physics and demonstrates how philosophical analysis can help to resolve some of the problems. All of the physics is presented from first principles, and as much as possible is presented pictorially.

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Fascinating and somewhat disquieting.......2007-05-17

This is a great book - captivating, a bit technical in places (but you can easily avoid the technical details and still understand the theses), and ultimately somewhat disturbing in the best sense of that word (it will knock away a lot of your presuppositions). Quantum non-locality (QNL) has been experimentally verified and there is no question that it exists. Particles too far apart to "communicate" at speeds less than the speed of light nonetheless do somehow "communicate". Lorentz invariance, a cornerstone of relativity, has also been well verified experimentally. Yet Einstein's philosophical underpinning of special relativity, the democracy of all reference frames, seem to be radically called into question by QNL. The author goes through every theory put forward so far to reconcile special relativity (with its philosophical underpinning intact) with QNL, and shows that none can cut the mustard. Trying to reconcile QNL with general relativity leads to even worse conundrums. Science is in a deep quandary! This book will blow your mind if you let it.

Maudlin. A Great Teacher.......2006-01-06

In this delightful read, Maudlin goes through an array of topics revolving around non-locality, relativity, and the mathematics involved. However, although I didn't find any "new" ideas in the text, I was amazed at how quickly & clearly he explained the said topics. Without exaggerating, in 80 pages of this book I attained what had taken me an entire stack of now useless books on quantum physics (particularly Bell's theorem), relativity, linear algebra, and philosophy(don't read Philosophy of Physics by Lange, you'll get it all out of this)

Anyone who has a prior introduction to Quantum theory will love this. I'd suggest Quantum Reality by Herbert, But there are lots of good ones out there.

Crystal Clear.......2005-08-12

There are many books which discuss the issue of quantum non-locality and discuss its connections to relativity theory. The vast majority of them, however, are either un-serious popular pap, or serious tomes written by professional philosophers who are at least as confused as the authors of the pap.

Maudlin's book stands out like a beacon of light in this fog of confusion and muddle-headedness. It is accessible to anyone with a basic high-school education in math and physics, yet surpasses the vast majority of technical papers on this subject in depth, clarity, and (most importantly) correctness. If you want to understand the issue of non-locality that makes some people worry so much about quantum theory and its consistency with relativity, read this book -- study this book -- and this holds whether you are a Joe Schmoe off the street or a famous Professor from (say) Boston University.

A lucid survey of the implications of Bell's Theorem.......2002-03-11

It's no coincidence that those writing the clearest books in the philosophy of physics are also those doing the best work in the field. Maudlin's book is a perfect example of this. It is also remarkably self-sufficient, providing a review of special relativity, and a brief and lucid presentation of the foundations of quantum mechanics in the appendix. As a result, it should be readable by anyone with a high school education. Those already familiar with the physics and/or the issues may want to skip parts, though I should note that I found a couple hidden gems regarding things I was unfamiliar with or mistaken about even in the introductory sections.

The bulk of the book examines whether and to what extent quantum mechanics entails four superluminal phenomena often taken to be ruled out by relativity: superluminal matter transport, superluminal signaling, superluminal causation and superluminal information transfer. Maudlin convincingly argues that only the latter two of these are entailed by quantum phenomena. The book ends with an critical examination of the various theories put forward to circumvent these difficulties, and provides a brief discussion of how these issues hold up when we move to General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory.

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Great book, but Understanding ME will be even better!.......2003-04-18

It was through the essays that appear in this book, along with the dozens that followed them that Michael has written for Suite101, that opened the door to me for a wonderful walk down the road of Tolkien fandom. I have always of course been a big fan of LOTR and have read it several times (okay three, but enough to know there is really nothing better out there) but it wasn't until I came across Michael's essays that I really took the plunge into Middle-earth.

That plunge was so deep and so fullfilling, it led me to volunteer my time to Michael to edit two further books of his following this one- Parma Endorian as an eBook (from Free-eBooks.net, their #1 download since Janaury 2002 and behind only Stephen King all time) and the soon to be published Understanding Middle-earth, which is a sequel to this book, only structured differently (and better, if I may say so myself) and twice as long! Keep your eyes peeled for it late summer 2003; if you at all like Visualizing Middle-earth, you'll love Understanding it even more!

Definitive and insightful!.......2003-01-28

Over the years their have been numerous heated arguments about Tolkien's works. I used to get upset myself in some of these arguments until I realized one thing. Tolkien's books are fantasy and entertainment and limited only by my imagination. Above all Tolkien wanted his books to be enjoyed. Realizing such I hardly ever read other peoples opinions or enterpretations of his work and instead rely on my own imagination. This is the exception and the first book I have read where I either agreed with everything written or wouldn't be able to argue otherwise. I consider Michael Martinez's writings to be just short of the gospel on all things Middle Earth. He is obviously very learned and insightful and I enjoyed his writings very much. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Tolkien. WELL DONE!

Simply brilliant.......2002-08-19

I have enjoyed all of Michael Martinez's essays for several years. He is thorough and keeps an amazing grasp of all the facts about Middle-earth without losing sight of what his readers enjoy most. Mr. Martinez is one of my favorite Tolkien critics because he looks at the world inside the book and not the world behind the book. Readers always want to know more about Middle-earth. Even professor Tolkien said so. Michael Martinez makes it possible for the average reader to find out so many interesting things and to understand why professor Tolkien did things just so.

For example, Mr. Martinez speculates on when Sauron took the Dwarf rings of power and why he would have taken them. He suggests that the dragon attacks on the Dwarves may have alarmed Sauron into doing something before all the rings were lost. He supports his theory by looking at the history professor Tolkien gave us about the Dwarves, Sauron, and the dragons. One by one, Mr. Martinez eliminates unlikely possibilities and arrives at very logical conclusions.

In the essay on the rangers, Mr. Martinez looks at the history of Aragorn's family. He very neatly lays out all the clues professor Tolkien put into the stories about where the rangers lived. Every passage in The Lord of the Rings that speaks of the rangers or those who came before them is included. After what seems like a breath-taking whirlwind tour of Eriador, the reader is led directly to the only logical place where Aragorn's people could live. The book does not say so, but Mr. Martinez was vinidcated some time after this essay was written. David Salo, another well-known Tolkien scholar, found a note in the Marquette University archive from the professor's own hand. He had written that Aragorn's people lived precisely where Mr. Martinez said they should be found.

For me, the most touching part of the book is the essay on the "real" heroes of Middle-earth. They were not whom you would expect. Mr. Martinez displays a great talent for unearthing the painful and joyous events in professor Tolkien's life which had a real impact on his writing. I am sure that Tolkien's biographers also share these anecdotes. But Michael Martinez brings them into focus for the Middle-earth student unlike any other author. The death of Geoffrey Bache Smith, a man none of us have known, tugs at the heart when you see how deeply it affected his friend J.R.R. Tolkien.

All the silly debates about who has wings and who is medieval only get in the way of the truly meaningful parts of the book. I am sure Mr. Martinez has his reasons for spurring on the arguments. But to me this book is valuable because its author understands Middle-earth better than anyone else I have had the privilege of reading. Except for J.R.R. Tolkien himself. I cannot recommend this book enough, as all my friends well know!

Absolutely one of the best books on Middle-earth.......2002-08-16

The great Michael Martinez debate continues. The fact is that he is an extremely competent writer who does the research that most other people refuse to do. It is no wonder people get upset when he knocks their pet theories into last year with clear and numerous citations from Tolkien.

Most of the essays don't express personal viewpoints. They summarize the facts that Tolkien himself put down. It's easy enough to confirm that Martinez is not translating or interpreting Middle-earth. He does speculate on some things but he makes it clear when he does so.

Martinez has long been a target for verbal abuse and falsehoods on the Internet. He is not being treated any better here than elsewhere. But the people who are really suffering are those of you who believe the book is not as good as it really is.

A bad book would not require so much attention from the Martinez bashers. He looks straight into Tolkien's work and puts it together in a clear and concise presentation. You just have to read it for yourself to see that he writes well, writes knowledgeably, and leaves the wild interpretations to people who would rather make up their facts.

If you want to know how Tolkien put Middle-earth together, read the History of Middle-earth books. If you want to know what it looked like when Tolkien was finished, read Visualizing Middle-earth. It doesn't get any simpler than that. The scholarship in Visualizing Middle-earth is impeccable. Pick any essay and ask the critics what's wrong with it. They only attack it in general terms. And that is because the work stands on its own. The critics just don't know Middle-earth as well as Martinez does.

The best response to a book like Visualizing Middle-earth is another book. Obviously no one has the ability to rebut Visualizing Middle-earth. If the negative reviews keep you from reading VME, it will be the best-kept secret in Tolkien studies. And you will be the one to miss out.

Not all that good in my opinion.......2002-07-15

This is one of the oddest collections of reviews I have ever read. It seems there are only three types. Those who do not like this book, those who do, and those who think that if someone does not like it then they must have it in for the author (obviously this last group either likes the book or is a friend of the author--maybe the author himself?). Why is it that if someone dislikes the book they must be practicing a poison pen campaign? I do not like it and I am not out to hinder this book's sales. Regardless, this is the first book published by this author. He is an unknown, so how could so many people have it in for him?

I found the book to be rather amateurish myself and it was not the Middle Earth that I have visualized in my many reads of Tolkien over the past 20 years. I often disagreed with the viewpoints of the author, and even when he pointed to the books, or to Tolkien's letters as evidence I did not find his proofs that compelling. There are many interpretations of Tolkien's books, and many "visualizations" that can be reached. This author's evidence is not always proof of his personal viewpoints. In fact, I found some of his evidence could be just as easily used to support an opposing opinion. I just did not like the content (though of course anything on Tolkien is inherently interesting in some ways). And I found the writing to be weak and the conclusions to be misguided more often than they were on the mark. As for it being scholarhsip (why this seems to be such a huge debate I do not know), it is not really strictly such. It is a close reading of Tolkien's works and the author comments rarely on the vast literary tradition into which Tolkien's works can be placed or the equally vast body of criticism written on Tolkien. Scholarship would have addressed less pop items and looked more at the linguistics, literary style, past literary influeces (like Old English and mythology). The author, Martinez, really only mentions these in passing and often as an attempt to distance Tolkien from such concerns. In that way more than any other the author is misguided, as Tolkien himself was VERY mush a part of the literary tradition of scholarship. The book is better, in fact, when the author stears clear of real scholarship and concentrates on specific fan issues that have swirled about this body of literature for decades.

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