Economic growth in the United States: Its history, problems an d prospects

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Economic growth in the United States: Its history, problems an d prospects
Sumner H Slichter
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Economic growth in the United States: Its history, problems and prospects
Sumner H Slichter
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The author predicts an unlimited economic expansion in the future and finds our economy extraordinarily dynamic, adaptable, and efficient.

Economic Growth in the United States: Its History, Problems and Prospects

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Economic Growth in the United States: Its History, Problems and Prospects
Sumner H. Slichter
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Reprimand a class comic, restrain a bully, dismiss a student for brazen attire--and you may be facing a lawsuit, costly regardless of the result. This reality for today's teachers and administrators has made the issue of school discipline more difficult than ever before--and public education thus more precarious. This is the troubling message delivered in Judging School Discipline, a powerfully reasoned account of how decades of mostly well-intended litigation have eroded the moral authority of teachers and principals and degraded the quality of American education.

Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now. In a rigorous analysis enriched by vivid descriptions of individual cases, the book explores 1,200 cases in which a school's right to control students was contested.

Richard Arum and his colleagues also examine several decades of data on schools to show striking and widespread relationships among court leanings, disciplinary practices, and student outcomes; they argue that the threat of lawsuits restrains teachers and administrators from taking control of disorderly and even dangerous situations in ways the public would support.

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Isn't there a song called I've been waitin for a long time?.......2004-01-23

If there is, it suits this book. An absolute must read, eye opener for anyone entering the profession of teaching. For those of us who have been there and done that, who have felt the craziness creeping closer everyday as we viewed one failed plan after another trumpeted in and wheeled out, for those of us who believed we were the only ones who saw what was happening, who were disparagingly called "Old School", who sometimes felt totally alone wondering if we were the ones who were crazy, treat yourself to this book and enjoy a wonderful balm and tonic as you immerse yourself in some long needed support.

This book should have been dedicated to all of us who ever wondered what happened to the joy of teaching, and who have hung in there hoping someone would listen to us as we fought to bring it back. Judging School Discipline should be required reading for every administrator, school board member, policy maker, and politician, as well as everyone in our legal system.

To the authors I can only say "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Perhaps your book will help decision makers finally realize they have been dancing us around a camp fire of futility, and also enlighten them to the fact they can not avoid the real problem by trying to reinvent the wheel of education.

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As law is instituted by society to serve society, there can be no question that psychology plays an important and inevitable role in the legal process, clarifying or complicating legal issues. In this enlightening text, Roesch, Hart, Ogloff, and the contributors review all the key areas of the use of psychological expertise in civil, criminal, and family law. An impressive selection of academic scholars and legal professionals discusses the contributions that psychology brings to the legal arena.
Topics examined in this insightful text include:

juries and the current empirical literature
witnesses and the validity of reports
preventing mistaken convictions in eyewitness identification trials
forensic assessment and treatment
predicting violence in mentally and personality disordered individuals
employment and discrimination
new `best interests' standards for children in courts
education and training in psychology and law, and
ethical and legal contours of forensic psychology.

The volume also features a noteworthy appendix on specialty guidelines for forensic psychologists.

Psychology and Law collects a range of expert testimony in its thorough examination of the legal process, affording readers a unique survey of contemporary knowledge.

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Review from Contemporary Psychology.......2004-06-24

"This book successfully addresses two audiences. First, it provides an interesting introduction and overview of psychology and law for those unfamiliar with the field, and in this capacity would serve as an excellent sourcebook for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. Second, its critical, up-to-date research provides a use ful resource for researchers and practitioners who are already part of this rapidly developing field. As such, it provides a nice complement to other commonly used advanced texts in this area..."

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This is the first book designed to assist behavioral scientists in the preparation of scholarly or applied research regarding deceptive advertising which will ultimately affect public policy in this area. Because there was an inadequate foundation upon which to build a program of research for this topic, a three-part solution has been devised:
1) a review of how deception is viewed and regulated
2) a theory of how consumers process deceptive information
3) a sensitive and consistent means of measuring deceptiveness.

This text provides detailed discussions regarding the intersection of law and behavioral science and its application to deceptive advertising. In so doing, it offers a solid foundation upon which to base expanded behavioral research into how consumers are deceived by advertising claims, and what cognitive processes are involved in that deception.

The Essentials of New York Mental Health Law: A Straightforward Guide for Clinicians of All Disciplines

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The Essentials of New York Mental Health Law: A Straightforward Guide for Clinicians of All Disciplines
Stephen H. Behnke , Michael Perlin , and Marvin D. Bernstein
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Answers to 300 questions most relevant to mental-health practice in New York State.

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Knowing Where to Draw the Line instructs teachers on how to deal with students, parents, administrators, and local communities, covering an exhaustive list of legal issues such as sexual harassment, discipline, contract negotiations, liability, and medical concerns. It also highlights a number of court cases and uses hypothetical cases to further aid teachers in understanding these vital concerns. This book is an ideal guide for teacher education programs.

Law and Psychology: The Broadening of the Discipline

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Law and Psychology: The Broadening of the Discipline
James R. P. Ogloff
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Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities: Crip 4 Life

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Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities: Crip 4 Life
Debra Smith , and Kathryn F. Whitmore
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The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. The particular objective is to situate four gang members as literate, caring students from loving families whose identities and literacy keep them on the margins of school. The research described in this book suggests that advocacy is a particularly effective form of critical ethnography. Smith and Whitmore argue that until schools, as communities of practice, enable children and adolescents to retain identities from the communities in which they are full community members, frightening numbers of students are destined to fail.

The stories of four Mexican American male adolescents, who were active members of a gang and Smith's students in an alternative high school program, portray the complicated, multiple worlds in which these boys live. As sons and teenage parents they live in a family community; as CRIP members they live in a gang community; as "at risk" students, drop-outs, and graduates they live in a school community, and as a result of their illegal activities they live in the juvenile court community. The authors theorize about the boys' literacy in each of their communities. Literacy is viewed as ideological, related to power, and embedded in a sociocultural context. Vivid examples of conversation, art, tagging, rap, poetry, and other language and literacy events bring the narratives to life in figures and photographs in all the chapters. Readers will find this book engaging and readable, yet thought provoking and challenging.

Audiences for Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities include education researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education, at-risk adolescent psychology, and alternative community programs--specifically those interested in literacy education, sociocultural theory, and popular culture.

Negotiating on Behalf of Others: Advice to Lawyers, Business Executives, Sports Agents, Diplomats, Politicians, and Everybody Else (Negotiation and Dispute Resolution)

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Negotiating on Behalf of Others: Advice to Lawyers, Business Executives, Sports Agents, Diplomats, Politicians, and Everybody Else (Negotiation and Dispute Resolution)

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Negotiating on Behalf of Others offers a framework for understanding the complexity and effects of negotiating on behalf of others and explores how current negotiation theory can be modified to account for negotiation agents. Negotiation agents are broadly defined to include legislators, diplomats, salespersons, sports agents, attorneys, and committee chairs—anyone who represents others in a negotiation. Five major negotiation arenas are examined in depth: labor-management relations, international diplomacy, sports agents, legislative process, and agency law. The book concludes with suggestions for future research and specific advice for practitioners. Chapter authors and commentators are leading figures in the field of negotiation. Negotiating on Behalf of Others is a must read for professional negotiators, graduate students, and scholars in the areas of business, public policy, law, international relations, sports, and economics. Negotiating on Behalf of Others is the result of the first of a series of seminars conducted by the faculty of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard on “complicating factors” in negotiations. The first of these complicating factors selected for study was the effect of the presence of an agent on the negotiating process.

Psychology and Law, The State of the Discipline (Perspectives in Law & Psychology)

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Psychology and Law, The State of the Discipline (Perspectives in Law & Psychology)
Ronald; Ogloff, James R. P.; Hart, Stephen D. Roesch
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Psychology and Law: The State of the Discipline
Ronald (Editor) Ogloff, James R. P. (Editor) Hart, Stephen D. (Editor) Roesch
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ASIN: B000OSJ97S

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The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

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Defects in Secretion of Cystic Fibrosis presents an overview on current research from leading experts in North America and Europe. This update on cystic fibrosis provides in depth original work as well as review material on many of the relevant physiological and molecular topics in the field. Subjects covered include the interplay of the various epithelial ion channels, the underlying intracellular signal transduction, mucus secretion, and novel approaches to develop drugs against cystic fibrosis. This book brings together physicians, physiologists, and other scientists involved in basic research, from molecular biology to drug design and introduces novel investigative and therapeutic aspects of secretion disorders relevant in cystic fibrosis and related diseases.

This book will be of interest to Molecular biologists, physiologists, scientists working in pharmaceutical research and drug developement, physicians and researchers in Cystic fibrosis and related diseases.

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This book introduces the world of antimatter without using technical language or equations. The author shows how the quest for symmetry in physics slowly revealed the properties of antimatter. When large particle accelerators came on line, the antimatter debris of collisions provided new clues on its properties. This is a fast-paced and lucid account of how science fiction became fact.

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Science Is Approaching Science Fictions.......2003-04-30

Antimatter often appears in science fictions. In Gregory Benford's "Eater," for example, a robot made by magnetic copying of the heroine flies to the black hole Eater on a spaceship, carrying an antimatter bomb to change the course of Eater and to prevent its collision with the Earth. In reality, antimatter does not exist naturally on the Earth. Nor has it ever been made in a large quantity in the laboratory.

In 1996 Walter Oelert and coworkers at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva produced antihydrogen atoms, the first-step thing towards antimatter. Gordon Fraser's "Antimatter" describes the history of physics about the mirror world, in which antimatter has one of the deepest mysteries. First the success of Oelert's team is shortly described. Then the story starts from Galileo Galilei's work and comes to that of Oelert's team again through Paul Dirac's theoretical prediction of the existence of antiparticles and many discoveries by other physicists.

Fraser lucidly narrates to laypersons using neither technical jargons nor equations. A story about kaons in the chapter of "Broken mirrors" is possibly a little difficult to many readers, but this is a small flaw. Not only laypersons but also physicists can enjoy this book reading anecdotes of many great physicists and exciting episodes of finding antiparticles and producing antihydrogen atoms. In the last chapters the author describes the applications of antiparticles, the riddle of missing antimatter in the Universe and a program to search cosmic antimatter, concluding by the following words that might stimulate would-be scientists: "Our understanding of cosmology and the origin of the Universe would require a major rethink, a Copernican revolution for the twenty-first century."

Antihydrogen atoms of Oelert's team were flying so speedily that they were of no use for measuring their physical nature. In 2002, however, the ATHENA collaboration at CERN reported the success in the production of many "cold" antihydrogen atoms that move very slowly. Though it is yet quite far from the production of a massive quantity of antimatter, science gradually approaches the science fiction. I wish that this book be revised in the near future by adding the latest advances in antimatter science and by correcting the error of the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka's first name (now it strangely reads "Hatari" on page 39) as well as a few typos.

Interesting and informative.......2001-07-20

I picked up this book at Tokyo University, and read it on the flight home to Portland, Oregon. It's the sort of book you can read on the airplane - not too mentally exhausting, but not the sort of reading that leaves you feeling guilty about wasting your time, like you might after watching the movie.

Fraser's book is primarily a history of the science of antimatter, from its prediction by Dirac to the discovery of the positron by Carl Anderson and the fabrication of the first atoms of chemical antimatter by Walter Oelert's team at CERN. The book is also useful for understanding some essential and basic notions about antimatter - especially in the context in which these notions led to important experiments and theories regarding the stuff.

Fraser describes Dirac's development of four-by-four matrices to represent the electron, and the implication of particles with negative energy, from symmetry in these equations. This led to Dirac's view of the vacuum, which "could no longer be thought of as a void where nothing happened. In the new Dirac picture, the vacuum was in fact a bottomless pit of negative energy particles, each carrying negative charge." [page 61]. Initially resistant to the idea of a new particle, Dirac finally accepted the implications of his equations and wrote: "A hole, if there were one, would be a new kind of particle, unknown to experimental physics, having the same mass and opposite charge to an electron. We may call such a particle an anti-electron." [page 62].

One of the nice things about this book is the way it shows how science works - often in fits and starts, with plenty of blind alleys. Fraser also leaves the reader with a better appreciation for the difficulty of certain experimental observations. He gives, for example, a good description of what the tracks of elementary particles look like in a cloud chamber, and the difficulty of unambiguously identifying particles that streak through them. For example, a positron traveling upward through the cloud chamber can look just like an electron traveling downward through the chamber. How do you tell which is which? This was just one of the issues that Carl Anderson had to sort out before confirming the first identified observation of the positron.

Throughout the book Fraser reflects back on a principal theme - one of symmetry. A deep belief in symmetry has played an important role in the development of many theories in physics, and is deeply involved in our understanding of anti-matter. Richard Feynman brought a deeper understanding of antimatter through the realization that particles of anti-matter can be thought of as their normal-matter counter parts traveling backward in time (this is a key element of many "Feynman" diagrams).

I have noticed a trend among popular science authors to use poetic language, sometimes to the point of obstructing the meaning of the science. Fraser uses his share of such language, with subatomic particles in "electrical wedlock," "kissing," "dancing," etc. Sometimes it's just a little too much. My only other complaint is that the index is too brief. It has, for example, entries in the index for the Dirac equation and Dirac matrices, but nothing for the man, Dirac, for whom there is far more text than for either of the other two. Other than that, this is a pretty good book, overall. I'd wanted something that dealt more with the actual physics of antimatter, rather than a book that deals mostly with the scientific history of the stuff, but that's my personal preference. The history is interesting, too. If you have even a passing interest in antimatter, I think this book belongs on your shelf.

A pleasant breeze into the concept and history of antimatter.......2000-10-10

I was embarrassed to find out what "bretk" has written about this book, and the author's rebuttal is just a too decent one! It seems to me that "bretk" has never had any direct relation or connection with theoretical physics. The book is indeed an excellent one, on the subject, and it must be said that, in fundamental physics, how someone found something, including biographical details, is as important as what he found! There aren't many true discoverers in theoretical physics, and most of those which existed in the last century usually got the Nobel prize. Their lives and personalities are as important as their discoveries themselves, up to the point that it's hard to truly understand correctly a fundamental discovery without knowing more about life and philosophy of the person who did it. Whoever doesn't understand that should better put back on the shelf any book about discoveries and discoverers in physics.

fairly decent book.......2000-06-30

This book does a good job of detailing the facts relating to anti-matter and its history. However, I had a few complaints. The book does not appear to have been edited thoroughly as I found myself wading through a miriad of spelling and grammatical errors. The first few chapters were difficult to follow not for technical reasons but more due to the style of writing. In addition the book spends much time talking about the life and times of famous physicists rather than including more detail about the subject. I realize that the "who discovered" and "how they discovered it" information is an important part of the study of physics. However, I felt that much of this information could have been left out without harming the intention of the text.

Symmetries Obeyed and Broken.(Review): An article from: American Scientist

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Symmetries Obeyed and Broken.(Review): An article from: American Scientist
Peter Pesic
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This impressive, scholarly guide to Agatha Christie will not likely be surpassed for some time. Though, as Mathew Prichard writes in the introduction, "none of the solutions of the plots are revealed," although Dawn Sova has provided just about every other essential piece of information about Christie's works. The book begins with a short biography, then enters an alphabetically arranged section that contains all of Christie's writings, including cross-referenced character names and story titles. One small drawback of the book is that place names are not included. In the entries for books, Sova uses the British title, but the "Publishing and Dramatization History" for each includes all forms under which the story was published. Each tale also has a list of characters and, where appropriate, a chapter-by-chapter plot synopsis. The "Categorical Appendix" offers some final amusement. In addition to the expected listing of books by detective (and Sova has even marked out Poirot books featuring Hastings or Chief Inspector Japp), the author provides an index to "Means of Murder or Attempted Murder." Can you name the two Christie novels featuring electrocution? How about the one hit-and-run automobile accident? With Sova's help, you can. --Patrick O'Kelley

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During a writing career that spanned 57 years, Agatha Christie spellbound her audience with 78 mystery novels, 19 plays, 100 short stories-translated into 44 languages worldwide- as well as three books of poetry, six romance novels, and two non-fiction works. Legions of devoted fans, as well as general readers curious about her life and work, will delight in this richly detailed resource. Agatha Christie A to Z contains over 2,500 entries that cover all aspects of the Christie phenomenon, including relationships with friends, relatives, and associates; all that is publicly known about her strange 10-day disappearance in 1926; chapter-by-chapter plot synopses of all her mystery stories (omitting solutions to the crimes, of course!); and extensive coverage of film, stage, and television adaptations of her works.

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An indispensable work.......1998-06-26

Many books have been written concerning the life and writing of Agatha Christie, but, so far, this book must take the prize for being the most comprehensive, well-informed and accurate guide to the work of this remarkable author. This is not a critical appraisal of Christie's works, but rather the sort of book you need at hand when reading a Christie title. Dawn B. Sova has compiled an outstanding array of knowledge on Agatha Christie's books, with all sorts of information which should further any devoted reader's enjoyment of Mrs Christie's work. An excellent achievement.

Agatha Christie A to Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life & Writings (The Literary a to Z Series)

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Agatha Christie A to Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life & Writings (The Literary a to Z Series)
Dawn B. Sova
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BEWARE!.......2005-10-30

This book is very well researched. However potential buyers should be aware of a very glaring flaw. The introduction concludes by saying "And, by the way, none of the solutions of the plots are revealed." As a matter of fact, pretty-much ALL the solutions are revealed in one way or another. Someone using this book while they are reading one of Christie's novels in order to look up a character may inadvertantly have the ending revealed to them. The book's only usefulness is after you've read the works of Christie. That severely diminishes its value as a reference work.

Perfect for any Christie Fan.......2003-06-06

Agatha Christie A to Z is a pretty thorough and comprehensive guide to the works and life of the world's greatest and most enduring mystery writer ever. Everything is here from Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple to the most obscure characters. This is a must for Christie fans and for all mystery lovers.

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