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Gitman's Brief Fourth Edition approaches introductory finance with a focused concentration on the fundamental concepts, techniques, and practices of managerial finance. Through a proven, fully integrated learning system, this streamlined text provides students with a road map through the content. The overarching organization of the text is designed to conceptually link a firm's actions to its value as determined in the securities markets. Each major decision area is presented in terms of both risk and return factors and the potential impact on the owner's wealth. Every new textbook comes with MyFinanceLab (formerly known as FinanceWorks), Addison-Wesley's online homework, testing, and tutorial system. MyFinanceLab saves instructors time with automatically graded homework, and gives students the benefit of individualized study plans, unlimited practice, and immediate feedback.

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This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing a meaningful way of evaluating difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of prisons. Penal practices, values, and sensibilities have undergone important transformations over the period 1990-2003. Part of this transformation included a serious flirtation with a liberal penal project that went wrong. A significant factor in this unfortunate turn of events was a lack of clarity, by those working in and managing prisons, about important terms such as 'justice', 'liberal', and 'care', and how they might apply to daily penal life. Official measures of the prison seem to lack relevance to many who live and work in prison and to their critics. The author proposes that a truer test of the quality of prison life is what staff and prisoners have to say about those aspects of prison life that 'matter most': relationships, fairness, order, and the quality of their treatment. The book attempts a detailed analysis and measurement of these dimensions in five prisons. It finds significant differences between establishments in these areas of prison life, and some departures from the official vision of the prison supported by the performance framework. The information revolution has generated unprecedented levels of knowledge about individual prisons, as well as providing a management reach into establishments from a distance, and a capacity for 'chronic revision', that was unimaginable fifty years ago. Another major transformation - the modernisation project - brought with it a new, but flawed, 'craft' of performance monitoring and measurement aimed at solving some of the problems of prison management. This book explores the arrival and the impact of this concept of performance and the links apparently forged between managerialism and moral values.

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Steven Weinberg isn't ashamed of science. Of course, as a Nobel winner in physics, he does have emotional capital invested in the enterprise, but most of his arguments are sound and compelling. Facing Up is a collection of his essays, written over 15 years, celebrating and defending mainstream science. Rising up against the cultural critics who insist that science is essentially politics or even imperialism dressed up in a white coat, he is patient and eloquent as he explains how their misreadings of scientific literature and their own preconceptions guide their reasoning. From mildly wonkish to endearingly passionate, his writing engages the reader's full attention regardless of cultural affiliation. Science lovers will adore Weinberg's unabashed boosterism, while skeptics can try to rise to his challenge. --Rob Lightner

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In a recent New York Times profile, James Glanz remarked, "Steven Weinberg is perhaps the world's most authoritative proponent of the idea that physics is hurtling toward a 'final theory,' a complete explanation of nature's particles and forces that will endure as the bedrock of all science forevermore. He is also a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate--and sting...He recently received the Lewis Thomas Prize, awarded to the researcher who best embodies 'the scientist as poet.'" Both the brilliant scientist and the provocative writer are fully present in this book as Weinberg pursues his principal passions, theoretical physics and a deeper understanding of the culture, philosophy, history, and politics of science.

Each of these essays, which span fifteen years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Each is preceded by a new introduction that explains its provenance and, if necessary, brings it up to date. Together, they afford the general reader the unique pleasure of experiencing the superb sense, understanding, and knowledge of one of the most interesting and forceful scientific minds of our era.

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Making Sense.......2007-05-09

This is an entertaining collection of essays that deftly clarify the value of science, and the pointlessness of many of the arguments of its critics.

With a sharp wit, and devastating common sense, Weinberg shines a light on the absurdities behind many of the post-modern ideas. He also tackles Kuhn, in many ways the source of much of the relativist confusion, with personal correspondence with him.

He offers valuable insight into the role and meaning of reductionism. He also points out the fact that reductionism and positivism, so often intertwined and confused by the critics, are more usually opposing forces.

He deals with a wide range of other topics including intelligent design, and the utopian fantasies of various types of idealist. In the end, I felt relieved to know that there are such minds of great clarity and common sense in the world. As much as fans of the irrationalist fad would claim to deny reality, this book reminds us that the world will always intrude on our fantasies, and reveal itself, if we allow it, to be more wonderful than our wildest imagination.

How science matters.......2006-06-25

The first thing to note is that Steven Weinberg is a physicist and he repeatedly points out that he is not a science historian, nor is he a philosopher of science. Nonetheless he appears to have a solid grip on the basics of those fields, at least so far as they pertain to physical science. And science is the topic of this book. Facing Up is, as he explains, both a literal statement and a figure of speech. Facing up means looking up, as did the ancient astronomers, or at least looking to observation and experiment and logic to make sense of the world. Less literally it means facing up to our responsibility to do all these things and to defend such actions properly. Thus the subtitle, Science and Its Cultural Adversaries.

What the reader will find between these two covers is not a single monograph but a reprinting of twenty-three essays of varying lengths and topics, but all (except one) dealing with issues in the performance of science. Science has enemies. Or at least opponents, but sometimes outright enemies. They may come from either the political right or the left. They take the form of religious fundamentalists and of postmodernists. They are people who believe that science insults God. They are people who believe that science is too arrogant to be true. Beyond these two extremes, however, Weinberg delves into debates within science, and here he spends considerable effort discussing the issue of reductionism. Simply put, that is the notion that all science can be expressed, at least conceptually, as the combined action of the smallest and most fundamental concepts. In other words, particle physics. This is the subject of debates within science far more than between science and the outside intellectual community. Primarily, these days, such debates are political and fiscal. Namely, who gets funding. As Weinberg points out (since this is not merely a political plea publication), such was not always the case, and here Weinberg's basic grasp of historical issues shows. An interesting example is turn of the century (the last century) physics. It was a common belief that physics was nearing an end, and nothing remained to be solved. Though this was partly based on the idea that new concepts were fewer and further between, it was supported by a fundamentally irreductionist point of view, namely, that chemistry and biology had their own fundamental laws separate from physics. That physics couldn't explain life or atomic bonding was not a mystery so much as it was a non-issue.

Reductionism. Sociology. Postmodernism. Religion. Deconstruction. All these concepts join in the interplay within science and between science and the rest of the world. Weinberg's point is to provide the reader with his thoughts on the subject going back over the past couple decades. He makes a coherent and good case for the importance of science in our culture and for the primacy of science within its domain. As he states clearly, he is willing to have a dialogue with religion; he is not willing to have a constructive dialogue. Both sides have made their mark on history and both sides can live with their legacy. The same sentiment, I think, can be made with all of science's adversaries. But in the end, for now, science will continue its trend of discovering the universe and will do so secure not necessarily from political defeats, but always from intellectual defeats at the hands of those who would do it harm.

Well written articles on the culture of Science.......2004-10-25

This book is a collection of essays that to a large extent share the theme in the title: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. Of course, the title begins with the words "Facing Up" which to Weinberg has three meanings: looking upwards as an astronomer, facing up to the conclusions one derives, and looking upwards rather than downwards as if in prayer.

Well, who are the cultural adversaries of Science? Creationists? Certainly. But there are others. Weinberg agrees with most of the Creationists about truth being a value. The disagreement with them is about which side possesses it. There are others who attack the value of truth, including many multiculturalists. We Westerners say that the Milky Way is a Galaxy, our home Galaxy. That works for us. Mayan culture had the Milky Way as a river in the sky. That may have worked for them. Can Weinberg say that one belief is better than the other? He sure can. As he says, "Western astronomers got it right."

Weinberg criticizes some political attacks on truth as well. That's the point of his very short (about one page) article on Zionism. His point is not that anti-Zionists may tell specific lies as a means to some goal (such as winning a war). It is that, especially when he deals with fellow Western liberals, anti-Zionism is an attack on Western civilization and the culture of science in general, so that defeating truth as a whole becomes an anti-Zionist goal. It is also the point of his article about utopias, some of which idealize a world in which the cultural adversaries of Science are either right or victorious or both.

Still, the most interesting articles are on Reductionism. This is a philosophy of trying to explain phenomena in terms of a finite set of laws, describing something complex in terms of the less complex, and describing large numbers of obervations with just a few simple rules. It is not simply an act of trying to describe objects in terms of their components. For Weinberg, reductionism is an important part of scientific culture.

It's an intriguing and informative book, and I recommend it.

Made me smile and laugh out loud.......2003-06-15

I just graduated from UT in 2002, I've seen Weinberg once and have heard many stories about him. None of the stories are positive with the possible exception that he is too smart for his students to understand (although there is a quote in his book that shows he's been trying to improve "It never was true that only a dozen people could understand Einstein's papers on General Relativity, but if it had been true, It would have been a failure of Einstein's, not a mark of his brilliance." This is on page 141 responding to an extremely funny quote from a deconstructionist). I've read his Discovery of Subatomic Particles and The First Three Minutes. They were okay readings with good information especially the former. I thought I'd give him another try with Facing Up. I was pleasantly surprised of how funny he is. The humor is dry, but I couldn't help smiling and sometimes laughing at some of his comments about philosophers and religious leaders. Maybe this is because I agree with him; I can imagine someone getting mad at some of the things he says. In any case, this book really makes you think about some philosophical issues relating to science and its value to us.

Facing Up has to be turned down.......2002-12-29

I bought this book because it was touted as an imformed examination of the dialectic between science and its cultural adversaries. Science lost when I turned to essay 15 "Zionism and Its Adversaries". Here the author presents us with his distorted view of the reality of the Zionist project in Palestine. His negative comments regarding the October 2000 condemnation by the United Nations Security Council of Israeli violence against Palestinians in their Occupied Territories is especially offensive. Mr. Wienberg is ill-informed and wrongfully chooses to use his book billed as about science to propagandize for the Zionist project. The reader who paid for his book deserves far better.

The limits of theory. (book review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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