From Conflict to Recovery in Africa (Studies in Development Economics.)

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Establishing peace and reconstructing Africa's war-damaged economies are urgent challenges. For Africa to recover, communities must reconstruct, private sectors must revitalize, and states must transform themselves. Thus, unless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth can be poverty-reducing. But communities cannot prosper unless private investment recreates markets and generates more employment. And neither communities nor entrepreneurs can realise their potential without a development state-one that is democratically accountable and dedicated to poverty-reducing development. The international community can do much to assist-through more aid, debt relief, and peacekeeping-but ultimately the future lies in the hands of Africans themselves. This book examines these themes in a selection of African countries that have gone through intense and prolonged conflict, and its policy conclusions are important for understanding the prospects for peace and recovery not only in Africa, but also in other 'post-conflict' societies across the world. It also discusses the cross-cutting issues of how economic and political reform interact with conflict resolution and 'post-conflict' reconstruction. This interaction is often neglected by both governments and donors. However, reform and reconstruction cannot be kept separate if conflict is to be halted and poverty reduced. The book is one of the first to undertake a thorough examination of the economic dimensions of recovery from war. It places particular emphasis on designing a recovery in which the poor participate, so that the benefits of reconstruction from war do not just flow to a narrow elite. In highlighting the tensions and opportunities that exist in achieving recovery from war, it contributes not only to the debate on economic policy making in Africa, but also to the design of better reconstruction and reform programmes.

Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 14)

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This work examines how developing countries achieve economic, political and social reconstruction after armed conflict. Case studies include Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

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This book examines the ways in which developing countries can achieve economic, political and social reconstruction in the wake of armed conflict. It includes studies of Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, South Africa, Sri Lanka.

Africa's Recovery from Conflict: Making Peace Work for the Poor (Wider Policy Brief)

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Africa's Recovery from Conflict: Making Peace Work for the Poor (Wider Policy Brief)
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Introduction To Law, Law Study, And The Lawyer's Role
James E. Moliterno , and Fredric I. Lederer
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In this volume, Moliterno and Lederer take a fresh and innovative look at the subject of law and what law study and the practice of law entail by combining a traditional academic viewpoint with elements of law practice and ethics as it continues to be widely used in orientation and introductory courses. A teacher's manual is available.

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Nitric oxide, recently named"Molecule of the Year"by the journal Science, impinges on a wide range of fields in biological research, particularly in the areas of biomedicine and cell and organismal biology, as well as in fundamental chemistry. This volume and its companion Volume 269 highlight the most current and up-to-date methods used to research the physiology and toxicity of nitric oxide in cellular and organismal systems. It will be a valuable resourcefor the experienced researcher as well as for those newly entering the field.

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Almost everything you need to know about NO & NOS techniques.......1998-03-25

This series of books are great for people who don't have the time or the resources to hunt down unfamilar protocols. This volume is fairly complete for current (and older) NO and NOS based techniques.

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The third edition of General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts continues the tradition of presenting only the material that is essential for a one-year general chemistry course. As before, the text includes all the core topics that are necessary for a solid foundation in general chemistry without sacrificing depth, clarity, or rigor. The third edition features new Spartan molecular models, animations correlated to the text, the addition of molecular orbital theory and more. General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts is 200 to 300 pages shorter than traditional two-semester textbooks and is much less expensive. Dr. Chang’s concise-but-thorough approach will appeal to efficiency-minded instructors and will please value-conscious students.

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wonderful content and excellently written

an anecdotal smorgasbord

Confirming everyone's idea of the crazy scientist

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Humor, spite, joy, jealousy and other human reactions

Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
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The march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. It has seen deep intellectual friendships, as well as ferocious animosities, and once in a while acts of theft and malice, deceit, and even a hoax or two. Scientists come in all shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting witches' brew at the very close of the twentieth century, the stories in Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer. Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist who breaks a thermometer in a reaction vat and finds mercury to be the catalyst that starts the modern dyestuff industry; or a famous physicist dissolving his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis, recovering it when the war ends; mathematicians and physicists diverting themselves in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, by creating startling advances in their subject. We witness the careers, sometimes tragic, sometimes carefree, of the great women mathematicians, from Hypatia of Alexandria to Sophie Germain in France and Sonia Kovalevskaya in Russia and Sweden, and then Marie Curie's relentless battle with the French Academy. Here, then, a glorious parade unfolds to delight the reader, with stories to astonish, to instruct, and most especially, to entertain.

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wonderful content and excellently written.......2005-09-04

some anecdotes in this books, especially those deals with mathematicians, medicines and biologists, are very impressive.But to be honest,some are somewhat boring.
After all , it deserve to be recommendly highly for those who are interested for the history of science.

an anecdotal smorgasbord.......2005-09-02

This is the best and funniest collection of scientific anecdotes I've read and one of the best anecdotal collections generally. Many of the stories are hilarious, most are warm and intimate, and they revived my admiration for some of these great historical figures. It's a wonderful collection for just dipping in and out of over a week or so.

The funniest story? Maybe Niels Bohr's university exam. Or what the German mathematician David Hilbert said at a funeral.

Confirming everyone's idea of the crazy scientist.......2005-05-09

Walter Gratzer is one of the most brilliantly entertaining of writers in modern science, and every one of his book reviews is a pleasure to read. In Eurekas and Euphorias he collects anecdotes about scientists, mostly famous ones of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so most of the expected names are here: Crick, Darwin, Einstein, Feynman, Haldane, Kelvin, Pasteur, Pauling and many others, including, from earlier centuries, Aristotle, Newton and Pythagoras. Although many of the anecdotes are included for their entertainment value, one is conscious that behind it all there is the authoritative voice of a real scientist, not a journalist. In discussing the relative contributions of the different participants in the story that led to the discovery of the double helix, Gratzer writes very clearly as someone who has studied the evidence and knows what he is talking about.

Practising scientists will greatly enjoy this book, as they will know most of the names already because of their discoveries, but may know little of the real people behind the discoveries. Whether non-scientists should be allowed to read it, however, is another matter, because Eurekas and Euphorias will confirm all they thought they knew about crazy scientists with their heads in the clouds. The mathematician Norbert Wiener illustrates the idea. He "was noted for his coruscating intellect, his childlike vanity and legendary unworldliness, and absence of mind". Once he was lost after moving house, and, "accosting a small girl who was approaching in the opposite direction, he inquired whether she might not be able to direct towards Brattle Street. The child giggled: 'Yes daddy', she said, 'I'll take you home.'"

Not even an encyclopedia.......2004-12-01

I was going to call this book an encyclopedia of pedantic lectures, but it doesn't qualify: encyclopedias are organized.

For the 181 anecdotes in the book, there is no organization at all, that I can tell. If you prefer the stories about physicists, or from the 1900s, or about Newton, you're out of luck. The brief indexes are inadequate, and the shuffled nature of the stories makes searching for the type that you are looking for impossible.

Maybe I was under the wrong impression, but I thought that anecdotes were supposed to be funny and revealing stories. Tragically, Mr. Gratzer instead uses the Oxford English Dictionary definition as: "Secret, private, or hitherto unpublished narratives or details of history." His anecdotes, instead of being funny, well-timed, and enjoyable, end up as thorough, thick, and plodding details of scientific history.

Some sections of the book are actually funny, but they tend to be the blockquotes that the author has lifted from other sources. Mr. Gratzer even stoops so low as to include, verbatim, the common [...] Neils Bohr barometer spam that a brief trip to the urban legends site snopes.com can debunk. I was hoping for little-known, insightful and inside stories, and was disappointed to find things like this annoying forwarded spam included in the book.

Finally, the author's understanding of the underlying science that he is writing about is shoddy. The author tries to relate an understanding of some complex topics in physics, chemistry, and biology, but I don't trust any of it because he doesn't understand Archimedes' principle. From page 44: "Archimedes's Principle, as it is still called, states, of course, that the upthrust of an immersed object is equal to the weight of water displaced." Despite the use of the phrase 'of course', this definition is wrong. Gratzer digs his hole deeper: "So when the crown was lowered into a vessel full of water the amount of water displaced, or the apparent weight of the immersed crown, would give a measure of the volume of the metal; this, with the weight of the crown in air, would deliver the density of the metal and thus its composition." This is the most opaque, convoluted, and confusing wrong explanation I have ever heard. The whole point of Archimedes' Principle is that although measuring the weight of the crown is easy, directly measuring its volume is difficult. Since both are needed to determine the object's density, from which you can infer composition, the genius in Archimedes' idea is that you can *indirectly* measure the crown's precise volume by lowering it into water, and then measuring the volume of water that it displaces instead of trying to measure the dimensions of the crown itself. What this has to do with Gratzer's "amount of water displaced, or the apparent weight of the immersed crown" I have no idea.

Although the idea behind this book is great, I was greatly disappointed by its execution. Perhaps had the author tried to tell a few stories well, rather than every story he could find and in as concise a manner as possible, I would have been able to read past story #88 without growing so bored as to be unwilling to finish the rest.

Humor, spite, joy, jealousy and other human reactions.......2004-11-06

The popular perception of scientists is that they are different, with those differences ranging from mild eccentricities to being kooks. Yet, they really are human and it is those qualities that are emphasized in the anecdotes in this book. My favorites are about Albert Einstein. Forbidden by his doctor to buy tobacco, he would sneak into other people's offices and steal some. After all, the admonishment said nothing about stealing being disallowed. The best is a recollection by Otto Stern, that he and Einstein would "visit the local brothels together, for these were quiet, relaxing places in which to discuss physics." I roared with laughter at that one. The spectacle of Einstein discussing the most sophisticated of intellectual pursuits in a place devoted to satisfying one of the most animal of urges was something I found hysterical.
Many of these stories are existence proofs of the old adage that chance favors the prepared mind. While neither the German or Allied side used chemical weapons in World War II, they were often available for use in case the other side did. The U. S. Liberty was one of the ships transporting supplies in support of the Allied invasion of Italy. It carried 100 tons of deadly mustard gas, which was released when German planes bombed it. The gas caused many casualties, and Dr. Cornelius Rhoads noticed that the exposure led to a reduction in the production of white blood cells. After further research, nitrogen mustard was being used to treat diseases characterized by an overproduction of white blood cells. Therefore, it is accurate to state that this event was the beginning of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer.
The endings of some of the other stories are not so happy. All kinds of people are attracted to science, some of which are mean and vindictive. Furthermore, given the harsh political environments of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, there were many opportunities for them to exercise their baser natures. Nevertheless, it is appropriate for these stories to be included. Science is a self-correcting discipline, but in order for corrections to occur, the errors must be common knowledge.
I found this book to be a refreshing excursion into the minds and actions of some of the greatest people who lived in the last few centuries. They were responsible for most of our greatest discoveries, so they deserve to be remembered, even when those memories are not positive.

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On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie candidate to his first eastern audience. There his masterful appeal to the conscience of the nation prepared the way for his election to the presidency on the verge of the Civil War. Now, Bryant stood below Henry Kirke Brown's equestrian statue of George Washington, impressing Osgood as if he were "the 19tth Century itself thinking over the nation and the age in that presence." Bryant's staunch support of the Union cause throughout the war, and of Lincoln's war efforts, no less than his known influence with the president, led several prominent public figures to urge that he write Lincoln's biography. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote him, "No man combines the qualities for his biographer so completely as yourself and the finished task would be a noble crown to a noble literary life." But Bryant declined, declaring his inability to record impartially critical events in which he had taken so central a part. Furthermore, while preoccupied with the editorial direction of the New York Evening Post, he was just then repossessing and enlarging his family's homestead at Cummington, Massachusetts, where he hoped his ailing wife might, during long summers in mountain air, regain her health. But in July 1866, Frances died of recurrent rheumatic fever, and, Bryant confessed to Richard Dana, he felt as "one cast out of Paradise." After France's death Bryant traveled with his daughter Julia for nearly a year through Great Britain and the Continent, where he met British statesman and novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton and French literary critic Hyppolyte Taine, renewed his friendship with Spanish poet Carolina Coronado, Italian liberator Giuseppe Garibaldi, and British and American artists, and visited the family of the young French journalist Georges Clemenceau, as well as the graves of earlier acquaintances Francis Lord Jeffrey and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In his spare moments Bryant sought solace by beginning the translation of Homer, and Longfellow had found relief after his wife's tragic death by rendering into English Dante's Divine Comedy. Home again in New York, Bryant bought and settled in a house at 24 West 16th Street which would be his city home for the rest of his life. Here he completed major publications, including the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer and an exhaustive Library of Poetry and Song, and added to published tributes to earlier friends, such as Thomas Cole, Fenimore Cooper, and Washington Irving, memorial discourses on Fitz-Greene Halleck and Gulian Verplanck. In addition to his continued direction of the New York Homeopathic Medical college and the American Free Trade League, he was elected to the presidency of the Williams College Alumni Association, the International Copyright Association, and the Century Association, the club of artists and writers of which, twenty years earlier, he had been a principal founder and which he would direct for the last decade of his life.

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