Beyond Maps: GIS Decision Making in Local Government

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Explores innovative ways to use GIS to improve local government operations through case studies.

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Commenting on the quality of the contributors when opening the conference on which these books are based, the Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Edward George, said "I cannot remember ever before having had such a galaxy of academic economist and central banking superstars gathered together under one roof!''

Celebrating the contribution that Charles Goodhart has made to monetary economics and policy, this unique compendium of original papers draws together a highly respected group of international academics, central bankers and financial market regulators covering a broad range of issues in modern monetary economics. Topics discussed include:

• central bank independence
• credibility and transparency
• the inflation forecast and the loss function
• monetary policy experiences in the US and the UK
• the implications of Goodhart's Law
• the benefits of single versus multiple currencies
• money, near monies and credit.

Each chapter of the volume relates to subjects that have been research projects in Charles Goodhart's wide-ranging portfolio, and all are interconnected. Through these, the book offers a summary of current thinking and insights into monetary controversies.

Covering recent scholarship on monetary theory, central banking, financial regulation and international finance, academic and professional economists alike will find this book an invaluable source of information.

The companion volume examines monetary history, exchange rates and financial markets.

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This book is a concise study of the structure and function of vertebrate respiratory systems. It describes not only the individual organ systems, but also the relationship of these systems to each other and to the animal's environment. For example, the author emphasizes that a proper understanding of respiration involves a consideration of the external environment as a source of oxygen as well as the biochemistry of the cell; and, from the evolutionary point of view, that physiological changes in the respiratory and circulatory systems are dominated by the origin of the land habit.

The author's approach to the subject exemplifies that trend to the amalgamation of Zoology and Physiology, which has become increasingly marked at universities and schools in recent years. This synthesis requires, broadly, a knowledge of classical comparative anatomy, ecology, evolution, physiology and biochemistry; an enormous task, but nevertheless one in which the zoologist holds a central position. This book indicates the nature of such an eclectic approach, with the animal, in its environment and its evolution, as its focal point.

Covering a rapidly changing field of research the author refers to many recent views and indicates where these differ from those commonly accepted.

Comparative Physiology of Vertebrate Respiration

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Comparative Physiology of Vertebrate Respiration
G. M. Hughes
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Respiration of Amphibious Vertebrates
G. Hughes
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The Vertebrate Gas Transport Cascade: Adaptations to Environment and Mode of Life (Medical Intelligence Unit)

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The Vertebrate Gas Transport Cascade: Adaptations to Environment and Mode of Life (Medical Intelligence Unit)
J. Eduardo P. W Bicudo
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This volume presents contributions given at the international symposium on The Vertebrate Gas Transport Cascade: Adaptations to Environment and Mode of Life, held in São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil from September 10-15, 1991. Recent developments in the field and the unifying principles of basic respiratory mechanisms are covered, and reviews in major areas of respiratory physiology are complemented by recent experimental data. Principal topics discussed include conditions for gas exchange in selected special environments, ventilation of the gas exchanger, diffusing capacity and exchange between respired medium and blood, respiratory pigments and oxygen transport by blood, cardiovascular function and oxygen transport by blood, oxygen delivery to tissue, and transition to anaerobic metabolism. The Vertebrate Gas Transport Cascade: Adaptations to Environment and Mode of Life will be a useful addition to the reference collections of respiratory physiologists, comparative physiologists, cardiovascular physiologists, experimental biologists, students, and others interested in the topic.

Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology

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Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology

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Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology: Vertebrate Gas Exchange, from Environment to Cell (Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology)

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Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology: Vertebrate Gas Exchange, from Environment to Cell (Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology)

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Today, engineering problems are very complex, requiring powerful computer simulations to power them. For engineers, observable-based parameterization as well as numerically computable formsâwith rapid convergent properties if in a seriesâare essential. Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches, along with its companion FTP site, will show you how to take on complex electromagnetic problems and solve them in an accurate and efficient manner.

Organized into two distinct parts, this comprehensive resource first introduces you to the concepts, approaches, and numerical simulation techniques that will be used throughout the book and then, in Part II, offers step-by-step guidance as to their practical, real-world applications. Self-contained chapters will enable you to find specific solutions to numerous problems.

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches:

Describes ground wave propagation
Examines antenna systems
Deals with radar cross section (RCS) modeling
Explores microstrip network design with FDTD and TLM techniques
Discusses electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and bio-electromagnetics (BEM) modeling
Presents radar simulation

Whether you're a professional electromagnetic engineer requiring a consolidated overview of the subject or an academic/student who wishes to use powerful simulators as a learning tool, Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches - with its focus on model development, model justification, and range of validity - is the right book for you.

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This book presents a rigorous application of modern electromagnetic field theory to atomic theory. The historical view of quantum theory was developed before four major physical principles were known, or understood. These are (1) the standing energy that accompanies and encompasses electromagnetically active, electrically small volumes, (2) the power-frequency relationships in nonlinear systems, (3) the possible directivity of modal fields, and (4) electron nonlocality. The inclusion of these four effects yields a deterministic interpretation of quantum theory that is consistent with those of other sciences; the quixotic axioms of the historically accepted view of quantum theory are not needed. The new interpretation preserves the full applicability of electromagnetic field theory within atoms, showing that the status of all physical phenomena - including that within atoms - at any instant does completely specify the status an instant later.

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Getting by with a little help

pleasantly surprised...

Very funny, snarky celebrity read

She's a "Chore Whore"

Chore Whore Delivers

Chore Whore: Adventures of a Celebrity Personal Assistant
Heather H. Howard
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Release Date: 2006-02-21

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Certain passages from Heather Howard's Chore Whore: Adventures of a Celebrity Personal Assistant lead one to believe that the author was trying to write a humorous public service announcement about the horrors (not whores) of becoming a personal assistant. Corki Brown, a long-suffering single mom with a handful of famously hard-to-please bosses, navigates a crazy world of gun-toting movie stars, Atkins diets, and hard-to-find toilet seats, all for less money than she really deserves. Howard apparently had a lengthy career as an assistant herself, so that toilet seat story would very well be based in reality. With terrifying tales like this lining bookstore shelves, it's a wonder the real rich and famous can still hail cabs, let alone find people desperate enough to wait on them full time.

The title Chore Whore might suggest that Howard would consider turning a critical eye towards those willing to take humiliating, low-paying work for the privilege of being close to celebrity. Say the type of person who looks at these positions not as regular jobs, but as literary internships to a career writing Chick Lit. No such luck, of course. The sins are all the side of fictional celebrities. (Don't worry--no actual famous people's reputations were harmed in the publishing of this book.) Howard is fine as writer; she makes the pages turn. One only wonders if books from this tell-all-style, assistant-fiction genre will hold up as well as some of the films made by the celebrities they criticize. --Leah Weathersby

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I have been used, abused, lied to, and cheated on, blamed, shamed, screamed at, and ridiculed. I've been scammed and damned, had my ass kissed, my reputation dissed, and my face spat on. All in the name of working as a celebrity personal assistant . . . a CHORE WHORE!

After twenty years of working thanklessly for a dozen high-powered Hollywood hotshots, Corki Brown has had enough. She's sick to death of handling elaborate extortion deals, washing groupies' dirty underwear, and having to whip up intimate dinners on no notice for spoiled stars, each with his or her own bizarre dietary demands. And now her ten-year-old son is starting to exhibit some disturbing signs of Tinseltown weirdness. It's time to get out, but escape won't be easy. . . .

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Getting by with a little help.......2007-05-29

First of all this book IS a novel. The author did work as a 'personal assistant' in Hollywood, but for obvious reasons, the novel format is used because there would be law suits if real people were mentioned. Real people ARE mentioned: Jennifer Anniston, Meg Ryan, Angelica Houston etc, but only peripherally ie. seen at a restaurant, attended her client's dinner parties and so forth. Corky Brown, the main character and 'chore whore' of the title, is a 40 year old woman of colour with a son to support. She is trying to raise her son and do her work in a way commensurate with her own morality and beliefs. Naturally this is impossible to achieve when your clients are superwealthy, engaging in group sex and expect you to clean up their physical and emotional messes with discretion! At one stage her son catches her lying for one of her clients and takes her to task for it and the reader feels the dilemma that Corky is caught in.

I think she has been careful to cover the identities of her main clients, although real names are frequently dropped in relation to them. Is Tommy Ray Tommy Lee Jones?? Who knows. I read this book in a couple of hours and did enjoy it. It got me thinking AGAIN about the emotional and moral vacuum the super rich seem to inhabit and the legions of support people who are trying to cope on very minimum wages in a city like Los Angeles. It all works out for Corky in the end. She seems a genuinely good person, with great skills who has spent most of her life struggling on a minimum wage, her work mostly taken for granted or unappreciated. It was nice to see her vindicated. She applies for a job as Jennifer Anniston's main assistant in the book and makes the final cut, turning the job down at the last minute out of loyalty to her oldest client (who then turns on her in a most spectacular fashion). You wonder how things might have turned out if she'd taken a job with this actor who the author makes a point of telling the reader is known as a fair and good employer.

Women like Corky survive by reaching out to friends around them, supporting them and in turn being supported by them. Corky's friendships are the most uplifting part of this book. Friends and family, the ties that bind, are what makes a crucial difference to all of our lives especially when things go pearshaped. I think that this is what the reader takes away from this book, underneath the glitter that is Hollywood.

pleasantly surprised..........2007-04-14

If you like books like The Nannie Diaries, First Assistant, Second Assistant and Citizen Girl then you will love this quilty pleasure. This story reads more like an autobiography which makes sense since it is supposedly 98% true. The thing that sets this book apart from the numerous others is that it is from the perspective of a seasoned veteran who had survived in her trade for over 20 years... It is not just those starting out that get treated so badly by the exorbinately weathly and famous... although the difference is that Corki's celebrities seem to actually need her, and want her help. They just have no clue how to act.

Chore Whore also has some great moments between mother and son. If you are also looking for a book that explores this mother/son relationship I recommend The Time Keeper by Kevin E. Cropp. Although certainly not as lighthearted, it has a get meaning.

Very funny, snarky celebrity read.......2006-08-07

Chore Whore is just the kind of book you want when picking up a fictionalized tale about celebrities. Great gossip, snarky commentary, and some truly scandalous dish on some barely disguised A-list stars by someone in a position to know what she's talking about.

Our heroine, like the author herself, is a celebrity assistant who works for a wide variety of A-list actors and musicians. The neurotic main character Lucy (Jennifer Aniston? Angelina Jolie? Laura Dern? all of the above are people the author has worked with) and her Billy Bob Thornton-ish husband is the most delicious to read about. Other fun characters in the book include a Jack Nicholsonish character who involves our heroine in a blackmail scandal and a relatively nice celebrity who actually treats the heroine well. You will finish the book genuinely liking and empathizing with the main character, as well as learning some hilarious gossip about real-life celebrities.

I don't know if this book REALLY is, as it claims to be, "98 Percent True," but it is definitely 100 Percent enjoyable. Recommended.

She's a "Chore Whore".......2005-09-22

Books by ex-celeb assistants are springing up like dandelions -- of course, who can blame the poor people, after having to be all-around gofers to people who can afford anything and everything? Heather Howard treads well-worn paths in "Chore Whore: Adventures of a Celebrity Personal Assistant," but manages to add some wonderful comic flourishes to a rather loose storyline.

Corki Brown is a hardworking widow, with a teenage son. She also works as a simultaneous "chore whore"/assistant/mommy to three different celebs: a sweet-natured star, Jack-Nicholson-style lothario Jock Straupman, and bratty Lucy Bennett,. Corki's job: Do the messy, the urgent, and the bizarre, like going shopping for someone else's condoms.

Then Lucy's personal and professional lives start to unravel. Her son starts causing trouble at school, while Jock's house is robbed of his "special" DVDs featuring trysts with underage girls, and Lucy becomes infatuated with a raging cowboy actor with a penchant for foursomes. Finally Jock and Lucy go too far -- worried mom Corki won't be used, abused, and taken for granted anymore.

Celebrities need not sweat -- while dozens are name-dropped, Howard doesn't dish dirt with any names included. It's really not even clear that Jock and Lucy are based on just one person each. But it is obvious that Howard has based Corki's nightmarish experiences on her own -- picking up the underwear of a one-night stand, because the maid won't? Ew.

Howard does a fairly good job with the comic elements of "Chore Whore," upping the absurdity factor to the max. But the multiple storylines are only loosely connected, and it's sometimes hard to keep all the maids, celebs and amours straight. And the whole matter of Corki's husband being alive or dead is brought up, then dropped.

But Howard does make some deeply likable characters, and she gives them a lot more depth than most "Devil Wore Prada" characters have. While we may despise Lucy and Jock, they have good points and human weaknesses. And while Howard never gets specific about why Corki's son is rebelling, she lets us see what happens when Corki has to play "Mom" to everyone except him.

"Chore Whore" runs along the same track as other such books, but Howard does provide some humorously human foibles for her bosses-from-hell. A fun light read.

Chore Whore Delivers.......2005-08-04

This was a fun read! I was at a book signing given by the author where she said that the book was 98% true and only the names were changed to protect the guilty. Knowing that this book wasn't just a purely fictionalized account of life as a celebrity personal assistant, I was up till 2 a.m. on a work night reading it! I couldn't stop laughing and sighing for poor Corki. Corki Brown's (aka Howard's) wild experiences working for Hollywood's elite and her comic delivery of the goods were as refreshing as a southern California ocean breeze. I particularly loved the description of the wedding Corki Brown had to arrange in Greece. I felt like I was there. I'm hoping they will make a movie of this book. The wedding scene in Greece where all Hell breaks loose would be brilliant on screen. I'd also love to see another book about how Heather got into the personal assitant business to begin with. I enjoyed Chore Whore much more than the Nanny Diaries.

Chore Whore: Adventures Of A Celebrity Personal Assistant

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Chore Whore: Adventures Of A Celebrity Personal Assistant
Heather H. Howard
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