Social Security in the United States: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act

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An informative treatment of the original Social Security Act and the steps leading to its enactment, as well as some of its effects and an early appraisal of its future.

Social Security in the United States: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act

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Social Security in the United States: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act
Paul H. Douglas
Manufacturer: Whittlesey House - Mcgraw Hill
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ASIN: B000NW68N8

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Social Security in the United States: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act
Paul H. Douglas
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUH1JQ

Social Security in the United States: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt and the era of the New Deal)

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Social Security in the United States: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt and the era of the New Deal)
Paul H. Douglas
Manufacturer: Da Capo Pr
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ASIN: B000OSFJ5O

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Holy Cats!!.......2003-01-02

This is my all time favorite humor book. I have the original and have enjoyed it for almost 20 years now. (It's getting a little shopworn, but still as funny as ever.) The students of cat high are hilarious- every possible high school stereotype from the cheerleader to the nerd. The teachers are your typical assortment, too, with a little Catholic School thrown in also- Sister Mary Spade- teacher of Cat-holicism and Dog-ma!!

I wish I'd bought a few more copies at the price it's going for now!!

Super.......1999-08-15

This is a really great book. Humanoid cats. Very cute, very funny. It's a shame it's out of print.

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Features 50 first-rate musical compositions from the early Middle Ages to the middle of the 18th century. Among the selections are a Gregorian hymn, an English lute piece, operatic arias, instrumental and vocal motets, a French ballad, as well as works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, and others. Includes commentary.

Treasury of Early Music : An Anthology of Masterworks of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance & the Baroque Era

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Treasury of Early Music : An Anthology of Masterworks of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance & the Baroque Era
Carl (Editor) Parrish
Manufacturer: W. W Norton
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A Treasury of Early Music: An Anthology of Masterworks of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque Era

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A Treasury of Early Music: An Anthology of Masterworks of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque Era
Carl Parrish
Manufacturer: Norton
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Gerry Smyth reconstitutes the category of "space" as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary, and historical studies in Ireland. This book is based on the dual premise of an explosion of interest in the category of space in modern cultural criticism and social enquiry, and the consolidation of Irish studies as a significant field of inquiry across a number of institutional and intellectual contexts. Besides a methodological-theoretical introduction and two case studies, the book includes an auto-critical dimension which extends its interest into the fields of local history and life-writing.

A conversation between spatial theory and Irish studies.(Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination)(Book Review): An article from: Irish Literary Supplement

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A conversation between spatial theory and Irish studies.(Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination)(Book Review): An article from: Irish Literary Supplement
Beth A. Wightman
Manufacturer: Irish Studies Program
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Irish Literary Supplement, published by Irish Studies Program on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1767 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: A conversation between spatial theory and Irish studies.(Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination)(Book Review)
Author: Beth A. Wightman
Publication: Irish Literary Supplement (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Irish Studies Program
Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Page: 15(2)

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Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review) : An article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies

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Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review) : An article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Vic Merriman
Manufacturer: Irish University Review
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This digital document is an article from Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies, published by Irish University Review on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1173 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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Author: Vic Merriman
Publication: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: Irish University Review
Volume: 32 Issue: 2 Page: 370(4)

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"AHistory" serves as the definitive (if unofficial) timeline to the whole of "Doctor Who," and incorporates nearly 500 full-length stories into a cohesive chronology. In short, this book indexes virtually every "Doctor Who" event worth nothing -- starting at the beginning of time and running through to the universes end. This guide is the vastly updated and revised successor to Parkins hugely acclaimed "A History of the Universe" (1996), and contains more than double the material of the original. All told, "AHistory" incorporates: More than four decades of the "Doctor Who" TV show, including the 2005 series starring Christopher Eccleston; all original "Doctor Who" novels up through "The Gallifrey Chronicles; all "Doctor Who" novellas from Telos and all "Doctor Who" audios from Big Finish up through "Terror Firma." This book is written by Lance Parkin, with additional reporting by Lars Pearson (the "I, Who" series).

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Completists Rejoice - Simplifiers Beware.......2006-08-10

"Ahistory" is the latest edition of Mr. Parkin's attempt at chronologizing Doctor Who. As such it is a humongous work with seemingly endless entries about every tiny nuance that ties individual episodes of Doctor Who together, along with the books and audio adventures of the same.

The trouble here is that everything is an enormous mess, because nobody really cared all that much about continuity in a show that was originally designed to be shown once and then taped over.

What makes it worse, according to "About Time" (which I recommend instead), Mr. Parkin seems to have actually written Doctor Who novels to cover plot holes in the continuity (such as Tegan not liking transmats when she'd never seen them before in the show -- surprise, there's a story he wrote where Tegan encounters transmats!)

There is much in this book. Far, far too much. Also it contradicts many things that are said in "The Discontinuity Guide" and "About Time". It even contradicts itself in places.

One gets the sense that it's all a bunch of fanboys arguing with one another, and not a respectable history (or even ahistory) that tries to be definitive.

So this is a terrible work for someone wanting an introduction to Who, but is great for those who want to write their own Who and would like to know what happens in the Somethingth Century so they can put their story there.

The major redeeming feature is that "The Discontinuity Guide" and "About Time" do not cover the books or audio adventures to any real extent, and "Ahistory" does. But even this can be seen as a handicap when there is still much debate over the canonicity of the books or audio adventures.

A purist will probably go for just the television series, as there is enough of that to last a lifetime (28 seasons so far), and will likely wish to pass on this book. But the rest of us; the completists, the people interested in what the novels are saying without wishing to actually read them, and the novelists and writers of fan fiction; these will want to have a crack at "Ahistory".

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A true labour of love from Lance Parkin!
The Quintessestial Dr. Who Reference book
Parkin surpasses himself with this work of metafiction

Doctor Who: A History of the Universe
Lance Parkin
Manufacturer: Doctor Who Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0426204719

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A true labour of love from Lance Parkin!.......2002-04-21

The first attempt to chronologize the Doctor's adventures began in Jean-Marc Lofficier's Terrestrial Index. It was a nice starting point, but with the coming of the New Adventures, i.e. the continuing adventures of the Seventh Doctor and Ace, and Missing Adventures, stories of the previous Doctors, well, fans learned a lot more of the Time Lord. Lance Parkin, author of the NA Just War, and the MA Cold Fusion, has superceded Lofficier's chronology into a more expanded and enlightening work.

In addition to incorporating the NAs and MAs, he uses his own conjecture in various places, but those are few. For example, in The Masque Of Mandragora, the Doctor says that it will return to Earth in five hundred years, 1992. He assumes that if it did, it must have been defeated once more. The text for the televised adventures is done in a normal font, the NA and MAs in bold, and his own conjecture in a slightly thicker bold-italic. The footnotes after each event or story is explained in detail on the sides of each page. It's easy for stories that explicitly state the date e.g. Silver Nemesis takes place on 23 November 1988, but what about stories like Delta And The Bannermen, which takes place in ?4287 AD? Parkin gives arbitrary dates, but the interesting thing is, the last two digits are equal to the digits the show came out, 1987. The Caves Of Androzani, which came out in 1984, is given a date of ?2884.

There are seven sections in the book: Prehistory, Known History, Contemporary, the Near Future, which we're in right now, Colonisation, the Earth Empire, and the Far Future. Although a history of the universe, there is clearly an Earth-bias especially in the Earth Empire section. Yes, the Earth follows the model of the British Empire, from rise to collapse, as was mentioned in the TV story The Mutants.

There are explanations of the Great Old Ones, the powerful beings such as Fenric, the Animus, and the Great Intelligence, in the Prehistory section, as well as known astronomical theory such as the Big Bang and Galaxy formation hypothesis, and the variability of races that sprang up.

My favorite part is probably the period we're in right now in the book, with technological gluts, environmental disasters, shifts in the ozone layer, severe overpopulation, goth-apocalypse culture, and civil wars. All this takes place 2001-2009, and I sometimes wonder that given the corporate mindset of industrial countries, if this science-fiction will become reality.

One peeve I have is the dating of the Patrick Troughton/Jon Pertwee era UNIT stories, a sore point between Who fans. I belong to the faction that puts them the year or the year after the story came out on TV. Others put them in the future. Parkin merely dates those stories (1970's UNIT-- ). I don't know about that.

This last New Adventure covered here is Happy Endings, where Bernice gets married to Jason, and the last Missing Adventure is Sands Of Time, the sequel to Pyramids Of Mars. It's important to note that around the time this book came out, Virgin Publishing's rights were set to expire in May. A handful more of New and Missing Adventures came out, too late to be incorporated into Parkin's book. That also meant there could never be a second edition of the Universe book, also published by Virgin.

What I wonder is, now that BBC books has the rights to new Who stories, will they come out with their own Who universe guide, thereby invalidating Lance Parkin's painstakingly crafted work? It would be a shame if it did. Why not incorporate the New/Missing and the current new adventures in a future book? For now, this will do just nicely.

The Quintessestial Dr. Who Reference book.......2002-02-12

Wow Lance, you obviously had a lot of time on your hands when putting this masterpiece together. This book puts everything that has happened in the Doctor Who universe from the TV series and Virgin novels into chronological order. A great feat to accomplish especially with all the discontinuity in the series.
This book deserves an award - thanks Lance. RECOMMENDED!!!

Parkin surpasses himself with this work of metafiction.......1997-01-28

While I wouldn't suggest this title as standard fare for anyone but "Dr Who" fans, it is certain to be a staple in their diet for years to come. By dint of long effort, Parkin manages to reconcile the television and book worlds of "Who", creates an arguable but entertaining future history that explains a good deal about the good Doctor's adventures over the years. A must piece of "Who" nonfiction

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MySQL is the most popular SQL database in the open source community and is used almost universally by web sites running on open source systems. As powerful and flexible as it is lightweight and efficient, MySQL packs a large feature set into a very small and fast engine that now runs on more than 500,000 servers. This renowned online manual that has supported MySQL administrators and database developers for years is now available in paperback format. This book is an exact reproduction of the MySQL Reference Manual from the MySQL development team's Web site, minus some non-technical appendices. This version covers MySQL 4.0.

Many sophisticated topics appear in this comprehensive manual, ranging from the hitches you may run into when first installing MySQL to internals that will help you tune your queries. MySQL Reference Manual contains all the comprehensive reference material one would expect for building the product, running administrative utilities, and using various API as well as MySQL's rich version of SQL. In addition, you can turn a page and find such unexpected riches as:

A thorough comparison of MySQL with SQL standards and other databases
A discussion of privileges and suggested uses of privileges to enhance security
Directions for replicating a database and for running several MySQL servers on a single system
Directions for initializing a database from a flat file
Guidelines for estimating the performance of different queries
A far-reaching discussion of optimization, with reference to the implementation of MySQL
Investigations of the differences between data types and the pros and cons of each type of number, string, or timestamp
An extended inquiry into the effects of using delayed inserts
A candid explanation of why various errors occur and how to recover from them
Tips for weighted, full-text searches
Detailed descriptions of the features, strengths, and weaknesses of available table formats
A guide to adding new functions to MySQL

No serious MySQL user should be without this book.

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MySQL Reference.......2003-12-17

This is simply the printed version of the online documentation. This is very handy to have when you are not in front of your keyboard. I use the printed and online versions equally. The layout of the printed version is not the best by any means. Used in conjunction with the online documentation, you will find what you need though. This book should be on any PHP/MySQL programmer's shelf.

As stated earlier, complete but poorly organised..........2002-10-26

This book is the printed version of the online documentation available through the MySQL site. It is the definitive version of documentation for MySQL, but it is also left wanting. The authors, two of the principle programmers of MySQL, provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of MySQL.
That being said, one of the biggest problem with this book is not its subject coverage, but its organization. Most technical books begin with installation instructions, or a brief overview of the software's purpose and the need it addresses and then moves into technical subjects. This one spends the first 10% telling you why you should use MySQL, and only then does it start delving into technical matters.
Skipping past that, the book's other big shortcoming is that it's biased towards a Unix mindset. Granted, the software was developed on Unix and the largest portion of deployments are on *nix. However, as a long-time Windows user with little *nix familiarity, a lot of the material is over my head. If they want Windows users to use MySQL correctly, they're going to have to make it much easier for Windows users/admins to understand.
The one thing I found the book does really well is to teach you exactly how to use MySQL using SQL, and documenting well where MySQL diverges from ANSI SQL compliance. The portion of the book strictly dedicated to teaching the user how to use it is well-written and thorough, I wish the rest of the manual was written this well.

Complete, but poorly organized.......2002-10-11

A paper copy of the manual can be most useful, since I, like most people, find it hard to wade through an online manual.

But there is one area in which the online form is more useful: searching. By opening the MySQL manual in a text editor, one can search it, making the poor organization of the manual less of a problem.

The printed copy suffers from the same poor organization (indeed, it is the same as - or very, very close to - the online manual) but without the ameliorating factor of searchability. The index is not very good, but even if it was better, the scattering of information throughout the book would make for lengthy index entries.

Take security for example. What is the recommended process for securing a fresh MySQL installation? Start at the Table of Contents: Aha! 4.3 "MySQL User Account Management" Sounds promising. P. 249. GRANT and REVOKE Syntax? Not what I had in mind. I just want to know about the right way to secure the system and create new users. Back to the Contents. 2.4 "Post-Installation Setup and Testing" P.113. Nope, nothing there.

Last resort: The index. Security, against hackers, p.227. Nope. But that page is in section 4.2 "General Security Issues and the MySQL Access Privilege System." Now that sounds like it. Start reading section 4.2.1 on p. 224... "If you are able to connect successfully to the server without being asked for a password, you have problems! ... Review the MySQL installation instructions..." I thought I just did that. Now I know the secret is burried in the installation instructions. Back to Chapter 2. Still no dice.

Give up and install phpMyAdmin.

While I don't doubt that the answers to this and a myriad other questions are in there somewhere, the poor structure of the book makes it extremely hard to find anything.

A complete rewrite would do the trick.

Good things worth waiting for.......2002-08-21

It's been a long wait, but finally a comprehensive MySQL Reference manual has arrived ! Definitive comprehensive and one might even say exhaustive - you'll want to keep this one handy.

These guys wrote MySQL.......2002-07-17

Well, they wrote big parts of MySQL. That's a good recommendation, if you ask me

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