The French Ecotourism Market (Special Report)

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Over the last decade, economists have increasingly recognized the role of meta-analysis and value transfer in synthesizing knowledge and efficiently exploiting the existing pool of knowledge. Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment explores the potential significance of using these techniques, particularly in environmental economics.

Both meta-analysis and value transfer constitute major research tools which efficiently use knowledge previously acquired from other studies. The book focuses on the potential role and usefulness of these tools in environmental economic research, and goes on to address their validity, relevance and applicability. A future agenda for research is also illustrated.

Combining methodological analysis with a variety of case studies - on aircraft noise, environmental policy in European space and urban energy policy, among others - the contributors present an illuminating examination of the utilization of meta-analysis and value transfer.

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Title: Comparative risk analysis: limitations and opportunities.
Author: James A. Swaney
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: v30 Issue: n2 Page: p463(11)

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Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making (Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)

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Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology applied to facilitate decision making when various activities compete for limited resources. CRA has become an increasingly accepted research tool and has helped to characterize environmental profiles and priorities on the regional and national level. CRA may be considered as part of the more general but as yet quite academic field of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Considerable research in the area of MCDA has made available methods for applying scientific decision theoretical approaches to multi-criteria problems, but its applications, especially in environmental areas, are still limited. The papers show that the use of comparative risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for environmentally sound and cost-efficient policies, strategies, and solutions to our environmental challenges.

Decision Science and Social Risk Management: A Comparative Evaluation of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Analysis, and other Formal Decision-Aiding Approaches (Risk, Governance and Society)

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Decision Science and Social Risk Management: A Comparative Evaluation of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Analysis, and other Formal Decision-Aiding Approaches (Risk, Governance and Society)
M.W Merkhofer
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Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Review

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Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Review
Christopher Wood
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Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas: Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (NATO Science for ... Security Series C: Environmental Security)

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Human experience has shown how great cities, nations, and empires have either collapsed or retired from their predominant stature when natural resources are depleted to an extent that exceeds the ability of the environment to restore or replenish their supply. This book explores the challenges facing coastal areas during the next few decades and the difficult decisions needed to prevent a repeat of the past. Establishing, maintaining or enhancing a sense of environmental security in different coastal regions and improving the management of critical infrastructure will require (i) matching human demands with available environmental resources; (ii) recognition of environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and, (iii) identification of the range of available options for preventing and/or minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and/or terror actions. This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and decision-making tools such as multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).

Putting comparative risk assessment into an economic framework (Policy study / Reason Public Policy Institute)

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Richard J McCann
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Ah, Wise Guy Cookbook, Uh? ya, ya, ya!.......2004-10-09

For those who like their stooges trio, this is cookbook. Fun and rare, lightly seasoned with some actual edible recipes and them some others.

What's cool about the combo cookbook is one can cook and remember the stooges films and remarks at the same time. See knucklehead!

Buy this if you're a stoogehead or know one who'd love this!

A Book Only A Completist Stooge Collector Would Like.......2002-04-15

This is one book that only a "completist" Stooge collector would like. Thankfully, I received mine as a gift -- sorry, Tina!

True to the Stooge spirit! And yummy, too!.......1998-12-14

This book was obviously written by someone who has had a deep love for the Stooges for years. While there are some good looking recipes in here, the real treasures in this book are the celebrations of Stooge food humor (remember "Filet of Sole and Heel" or "Burned Toast and a Rotten Egg." I also loved all the little bonuses, like the 10 Commandments of Stooge cooking and the formula for figuring out how much Curly weighs. A really funny book about some really funny guys.

I haven't eaten this well in years.......1998-10-28

As a novice chef I was looking for a good cookbook to begin my culinary arts training. I came across this book and new instantly that it was for me. I have now hosted several dinner parties and now I'm considered a "Master Chef" by all of my friends.

So funny; a great compliment to the encyclopedia........1998-10-26

I am so thrilled that Kurson has done another Stooge project. I have read the Three Stooges Encyclopedia three times over and found it hilarious each time. Now this cookbook gives me yet another venue for Kurson's excellent writing.

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Contains a unique combination of ancient Tibetan singing bowls and contemporary crystal singing bowls. Tillmann begins performing solely on singing bowls; in the second part, he adds other instruments, such as cymbals and chimes. Tibetan singing bowls have transparent, clear overtones, whereas the crystal bowls have a softer sound, with unexpected, crisp overtones.

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Good stuff.......2007-08-24

This is the only CD with Tibetan Singing bowls that I own and I like it though not crazy about it. It does have some good sounds in it that can be used for deep meditation. The quality is also pretty good. Overall, a purchase worth your money.

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Naked Angels Revisited.......2002-01-04

As much time as John Tytell has spent with Beat writers and artists, it is understandable that he would return to the topic twenty years after first publishing Naked Angels. That book is one of the best early references on the lives and works of Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs--fully informed by Tytell's scholarly research and interviews with Beat figures. If there is one criticism of Naked Angels, it is that the book has begun to show its age as more and more important biographical and critical discoveries are made regarding the Beats (for instance, Kerouac's letters and journals--and the publication of Some of the Dharma). With Paradise Outlaws, Tytell has taken the opportunity to update--and in some cases expand on--his work in Naked Angels. The result is something of a companion to the first book, with the Kerouac-Ginsberg-Burroughs sections shortened substantially and the academic tone removed. Tytell compliments this approach with first-hand accounts of his relationships with Beat figures (accompanied by photographs by his wife, Mellon). By doing this, he has created a personal book, a "My Life With and Studying the Beats." It is a unique perspective that stands out in the current glut of Beat books.

Tytell's first-person, casual writing gives Paradise Outlaws the feel of a conversation more than a lecture. With this in mind, the book should not be read as a critical study of the Beats, rather as an oral history. (Tytell even recommends Jack's Book: an oral biography by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee to reinforce his approach.) While it seems, at times, that Tytell and Mellon tossed in photographs for no reason and tried to make them fit with the Beat theme, it's hard to find fault considering the book is based on Tytell's own experiences and opinions. Who's to argue if he thinks the "Rainbow Family" is a descendent of Beat culture?

Finally, Tytell concludes the book with a fantastic section on pedagogy. References to and recommendations of source material from a Beat student with the experience and knowledge of Tytell should be taken seriously. My only complaint is that his final section--the Beats influence on pop culture--is typically narrow. All the allusions to punk music reminded me of The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats. Tytell, of all people, should give the Beats more credit for their influence and dig a little deeper into the social fabric to find the true cultural legacy of the Beats. But this is a small criticism of a book that belongs on the shelf of any person who has found themselves captured by the humanity and personal nature of the Beats. Tytell's book would make his Beat friends proud.

Inviting the Beat family over for a Blast.......1999-11-01

The good thing about this book is that it's neither a thick boring pedantic tome, nor a fluffy coffeetable picture book. The photographs are personal and real like a family album with a great photographer in the house. And then there's the text which I liked because even though I'm pretty familiar with the subject matter, Tytell's one of those encyclopedic professor types that can retain all these different facts at once and then weave them in together. Like that Larry Rivers lived on West 21st, and would hear Bill Cannastra's parties on West 20th and go over, and that's where Rivers joined up with Jack and Allen for the first time - in the very apt. where Jack would soon write On The Road. There are all of these interesting little details sprinkled in with a friendly big picture take, coincidently framed by all the pictures Mellon took. There's Cherry Valley in the 70's, Boulder in 82, and NYC in the mid-to-late-90's that really gives you a great perspective on the gang growing up. Yeah - perspective - that's what this has - great perspective! Read on!

Congenial view of Beats as human friends, not literary icons.......1999-10-19

The Beats are usually regarded as a back-to-the-earth clan of literary geniuses, but somehow mystically detached from mainstream humanity. Most studies of the Beats treat them as a dying species, certainly on the endangered list, in the style of a distant scientific treatise. Because he knew them as friends, John Tytell has studied the Beats and written many intriguing books that attempt to capture their inner nature, as well as their literary impact. His latest work, "Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats," continues the tradition, but his style is even more congenial that in his previous books, probably because has seen many of his friends pass on, touching a sense of nostalgia. John wife, the noted photographer Mellon, has added delightful selections from her extensive photographic portfolio of the Beats. Her photographs are as intimate and revealing of the inner human nature of the Beats as John's words, and together they portray the Beats as an unusual fraternity who relish living outside the mainstream, but who at the end of the day have their own set of simple human emotions, feelings, and drives. After reading "Paradise Outlaws," I felt I knew the Beats just a little better as tender people, not towering icons. Mellon's photographs painted real faces on those often gentle people, yet intense through their work. Her photographs, along with John's humane words, left me with fond remembrances of new friends--real people, not lifeless participants in a museum diorama.

Illuminating the Beats in the American Night.......1999-10-18

Beat scholar John Tytell first covered the Beats in 1976's seminal "Naked Angels," one of the first books to take the Beats seriously as a literary movement. Tytell's new book, "Paradise Outlaws," continues his vibrant work on Beat words and Beat life with a Beat lesson: it is life itself which gives literature its pulsating heart. The Beats took this as a credo and they confessed their lives, loves, sins, and visions throughout their work. "Paradise Outlaws" follows in this tradition by mixing Tytell's life with his book: part literary criticism, part memoir, this vitally important additon to our thinking about the Beats weighs their impact on American culture at the same time it describes Tytell's own interation with the Beats as Beat teacher, critic, and friend. "Paradise Outlaws" is also packed with stunning photos of the Beats by Mellon, whose loving camera eye catches the Beats in frozen time as Tytell's prose thaws them out. This is a book that will prove to change how we read and think about one of the most important literary movements America has ever had.

John Tytell is the author of the book, not the editor.......1999-10-04

Paradise Outlaws is a personal memoir of the Beat Generation. Elissa Schappell, in the Sept. issue of Vanity Fair, said that the book is "the original Beat scholar's Roman candle of a memoir, dosed with anecdote, lit crit, and spectacular Mellon photos of Big Daddies such as Burroughs and Ginsberg. Go ahead, pull my daisy."

Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
David Seed
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 650 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: Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats.(Review) (book review)
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Date: September 22, 2000
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Mean spirited and self righteous.......2007-09-04

This author takes every opportunity to take The Great One down a few pegs. Even when begrudgingly admitting Gleason's strong points (such as his generosity and support of civil rights), there is an underlying tone of judgement throughout the book.

Also, I kept waiting for the "Honeymooners" period to be discussed, but this entire period seems glossed over. No anecdotes, no behind the scenes tales...

It seems the author just wasn't privy to much information and instead composed a smear campaign of a dead man. A shame.

Bitter, hypocritical, and misinformed.......2002-09-16

On the first page of the book you hit the statement that Jackie was "the laziest man alive." For me, that statement sets the tone. A quick look at the picture of the author will show he doesn't know much about excercise himself. I found it laughable that one of the big gripes William makes about Gleason was he proported musical talent was his that belonged to others, when whole paragraphs from the previous two biographies mysteriously found themselves into this book, word for word at times. Whereas the first two books were written by friends of Jackie's, William never had even a personal conversation with him, and spoke to NONE of the family. While he did speak to coworkers, I got the feeling from the beginning that he had set out to write a "Jackie is a smuck" book, and filtered everything accordingly. Within the first few chapters, I lost count of the number of factual errors that I found. Mae's mother had 11 children, not 5. They never actually lived in Ireland. Jackie's darkness didn't come from some ancestral Spainard sunk of the coast of Ireland, but from a maternal Great-Grandfather from Portugal. Herb, the father, was not a decade older than his wife, but three years. These were all easily researched items and were wrong. This cast a long shadow of suspicion over the rest of the book which consists of people's accounts of things long past. We all know how memories can be. The bookcover said the author treated shortcomings with compassion, but I found it closer to intense condemnation, such as with the statement, "the laziest man alive" because Jackie didn't walk 12 blocks in New York. Have to wonder if the author would have hoofed it, or hailed a cab. There may be some facts buried in the pile of misinformation and bad feeling, but it may be hard to find, or to identify. For me, I see Jackie's ever changing stories as a way for him to keep the truth private and just for himself. I certainly hope no one out there really believes that Tom Cruise is telling us the truth about his life, or Julia Roberts. Just because they do something, doesn't mean we deserve the intimate details of theirs lives. And just because Jackie wasn't upfront about his, doesn't change that mystical magic that happens when people watch the Honeymooners. He wasn't perfect, few of us are, but he gave us smiles we didn't have before. His life was sad and hard, but to be so spiteful and mean about it makes William's life even sadder. Imagine implying Jackie shouldn't feel upset because his mother died when he was a "man of nineteen" instead of boy of sixteen. I can't imagine having lost both parents by nineteen and to only have one cousin at my wedding for family. This book will only give you what you want if you already know that it has been written by someone who looked for the bad and down played the good, or quite possibly, simply didn't include those accounts. The book wasn't that interesting, and I certainly could put it down. It left a very bad taste in my mouth.

Bitter, hypocritical, and misinformed.......2002-09-16

Seems well researched but bitter.......2002-01-08

As far as I know, this is the only biography written by someone who was not a friend of Gleason's, and it shows. While the book is well-researched, the author takes an inordinate amount of pleasure in pointing out as many of Gleason's faults as he can. I was left with the impression that the author was jealous that Gleason enjoyed such enormous success despite not always being a pleasant person.

Audrey Meadows commented at the end of her book "Love, Alice" that the author skewered Gleason for not living up to his (the author's) standards, and that sounds about right. To pay Meadows back for this, the author tries to discredit her story about how she won the role of Alice on "The Honeymooners," but only ends up looking vindictive again, as Meadows has published the photos taken of herself auditioning for Alice that prove her story true. This is only one of several instances where Henry tries to attack people who try to disagree with his negative view of Gleason.

There are many instances in the book of phrases like "Gleason said..." or "Gleason often commented..." but very few of these quotes are backed up with any kind of source in the text itself, and there are no endnotes in the book. In addition, many other people quoted in the book are identified only as "colleagues," with no one specific being cited as the source(s) of many of the stories about how horrible Gleason really was.

I noted the comments from various celebrities on the back of the dust jacket, and was surprised to hear praise from people who call themselves Gleason's friends. It makes you wonder just what kinds of friends they were.

The Great One was a Great Big ............2001-07-25

What Mr Henry reveals in this biography is the true ugliness of Jackie Gleason. Yes, he was an outstanding performer. Yes, he was loyal to his "pals". Yes, he worked his way up from nothing to become something. But what, exactly, did Gleason become? "The Great One", a title he bestowed upon himself? Or a miserable, bitter drunk, who twisted and controlled everything and everyone around him just to project the image of a genius?

I believe every word of William Henry's excellent book, even though Jackie fans most certainly do not. I believe it because Mr Henry went to the sources--he interviewed Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Jane Meadows and Joyce Randolph; he interviewed The Great One's directors, producers, castmates and writers (the people that truly made him great)--and they all agree to a universal conclusion, even when they try to be kind: Jackie Gleason was a crude, cruel, manipulative man, even beyond what you may expect. Read this book and prepare to be shocked.

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The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason
William A. Henry III
Manufacturer: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1992
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The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason (ISBN:0385415338)
William A., III Henry
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This popular series of tutorials, featured over a period of years in the Journal of Electronic Defense, is now available in a single volume. Organized into chapters with new introductory and supplementary material from the author, you get clear, concise and well-illustrated examinations of critical topics such as antenna parameters, receiver sensitivity, processing tasks, and search strategies, LPI signals, jamming, communication links, and simulation. The chapters define key terms and explain how and why particular technologies are relevant to electronic defense. Detailed charts, diagrams and formulas give you the practical knowledge you need to apply specific techniques in the field.

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Excellent.......2007-02-06

The author has the ability to turn complex issues into simple concepts. It's very useful for those giving first steps in this subject and those who need refreshing their knowledge. I strongly recommend it.

for readers outside EW field.......2006-04-22

EW101 is a compilation of articles published in the Journal of Electronic Defence, over several years. The level of treatment is semiquantitative. The basic methods in areas like jamming, decoys and simulations are expounded. Readers with an undergraduate background in engineering or science should be able to follow the text. People already in the Electronic Warfare field will find the discussion pretty elementary. But Adamy is writing for those outside the field.

The merit of this book is that it gives you familiarity with the key topics and ideas in EW. Enough to qualitatively follow a technical discussion. Or even perhaps, as the author suggests, for managers of EW engineers, who need to brush up on what their chaps are doing.

Adamy also usefully supplies references to more detailed texts and journals. There is a surprising amount of material out there that is declassified.

Excellent and very useful!.......2001-04-17

This book is an excellent reference for those profesionals or specialists who are involved in the Electronic Warfare (EW) world. It's also useful for those who want to learn more about this interesting, complex and important subject. As it can be demonstrated thru the history of the EW, it has played an important role in the military actions related with the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (communications, radar, Infrared, laser and more). I strongly recommend it.

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