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Identifying International Financial Contagion: Progress and Challenges (The Cerf Monographs on Finance and the Economy)
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This book reviews the state-of-the-art of the literature on international financial contagion. The individual contributions bridge the gap between econometric theory and evidence, while the comprehensive range of financial market and country regions under consideration highlights the future challenges facing econometricians, international policymakers, and financial practitioners.
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Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work
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Globalization has become a seemingly unstoppable force over recent decades and, in its wake, global notions of social justice have developed in response to its negative aspects. Neo-liberal economic policies have been a key element in the wider processes of globalization, and these policies have had a profound impact on welfare provision and the shape of social work practice. Arising dissatisfaction among users of welfare and social work services is fueling the search for a new, more radical social work that is firmly rooted in principles of social justice.
This book explores the global effects of neo-liberal policies on welfare services in different countries, with contributions from social work academics, practitioners and welfare activists around the world. The first section of the book presents case studies of impact of neo-liberalism on welfare systems, social service provision and the practiced of social work. In the second section the chapters explore the relationship between social work practice and the struggle for social justice. Authors discuss the personal and political dilemmas they have had to address in seeking to link a personal commitment to social justice with their daily practice as workers and educators in social work. The final section assesses the prospects for social work practice based on notions of social justice, by looking at what can be learned from the experience of previous radical movements as well as from emergent global and local movements.
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Four-color manual with 46 exercises and step-by-step procedures. Most can be completed within two hours and require minimal instructor input. Answers are included on the Instructor Book Companion Website. Customization available.
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This fully customizable, four-color lab manual contains 38 lab exercises with more than 600 color, labeled photographs and diagrams. It is designed for an introductory level. Most of the exercises can be completed within two hours. To provide flexibility, you can vary the length of most exercises, many of which are divided into several parts, by deleting portions of the procedure without sacrificing the overall purpose of the experiment.
Each exercise is cross-referenced with pages in the main book and follows this format: Objectives, Introduction, Materials, Procedure (with each step numbered), Pre-lab questions, Post-lab questions.
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Handbuch des Umweltschutzes und der Umweltschutztechnik: Band 1: Emissionen und ihre Wirkungen (Handbuch Des Umweltschutzes Und Der Umweltschutztechnik, Bd 1)
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Das vorliegende Buch ist der erste Band des Handbuchs des Umweltschutzes und der Umweltschutztechnik. Nach einem kurzen einführenden Teil werden Emissionen und ihre Wirkung auf die Umweltmedien Luft, Wasser und Boden separat abgehandelt. Darüber hinaus werden aber auch akustische Emissionen und die Möglichkeiten zur Lärmminderung sowie radioaktive Emissionen und entsprechende Strahlenschutzmaßnahmen aufgezeigt. Das kontrovers diskutierte Thema der elektromagnetischen Felder und nicht-ionisierender Strahlen wird ebenfalls nicht ausgespart. Das letzte Kapitel enthält die Wirkung von Umweltbelastungen auf psychische Funktionen. Diese Buchreihe wird jedem Ingenieur und Naturwissenschaftler, der sich mit Umweltproblemen und Umweltschutz auseinandersetzen muß, ein unentbehrliches Werkzeug.
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Green's Functions and Ordered Exponentials
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This book presents a functional approach to the construction, use and approximation of Green's functions and their associated ordered exponentials. After a brief historical introduction, the author discusses new solutions to problems involving particle production in crossed laser fields and non-constant electric fields. Applications to problems in potential theory and quantum field theory are covered, along with new approximations for the treatment of color fluctuations in high-energy QCD scattering.
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This book presents a functional approach to the construction, use and approximation of Green's functions and their associated ordered exponentials. After a brief historical introduction, the author discusses new solutions to problems involving particle production in crossed laser fields and non-constant electric fields. Applications to problems in potential theory and quantum field theory are covered, along with approximations for the treatment of color fluctuations in high-energy QCD scattering, and a model for summing classes of eikonal graphs in high-energy scattering problems. The book also presents a variant of the Fradkin representation which suggests a new non-perturbative approximation scheme, and provides a qualitative measure of the error involved in each such approximation. Covering the basics as well as more advanced applications, this book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including quantum field theory, fluid dynamics and applied mathematics.
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With his latest national best seller, Peace Kills, P.J. O'Rourke casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun.
To unravel the mysteries of war, O'Rourke first visits Kosovo: "Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the country next to where it's happening." He travels to Israel at the outbreak of the intifada. He flies to Egypt in the wake of the 9/11 terrorists' attacks and contemplates bygone lunacies. "Why are the people in the Middle East so crazy? Here, at the pyramids, was an answer from the earliest days of civilization: People have always been crazy." He covers the demonstrations and the denunciations of war. "A moral compass needle needs a butt end. Wherever direction France is pointing-toward collaboration with Nazis, accommodation with communists, existentialism, Jerry Lewis, or a UN resolution veto-we can go the other way with a quiet conscience." Finally he arrives in Baghdad with the U.S. Army and, standing in one of Saddam's palaces, decides, "If a reason for invading Iraq was needed, felony interior decorating would have sufficed."
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Observances of a post 9/11 world.......2007-03-03
Book Review for: PEACE KILLS
I read his previous book "Give War a Chance", which I thought was awesome. Awesome, but a tad outdated as it centered around the 1st Gulf war. So I purchased this book to see the author's take on current events. The critics of the previous Gulf War I think were a little easier to make fun of.
The author, P.J. O'Rourke doesn't really disappoint when it comes to making fun of peace protesters. They tend to be a stupid bunch, I have noted that myself when I witnessed a protest march in DC. The book is awesome hilarious when the author makes fun of Nobel prize winners and their illiterate and easily disprovable political assertions about poverty.
What I wanted to read about when I read this book is how if at all the author modified his opinions from the fist book. In the fist book he talked about all the evil things the Iraqi army did in Kuwait when they invaded. And at the time just after Gulf War 1 it seemed that the cost of the liberation of Kuwait was easily worth it, restoring freedom to the Kuwaitis, keeping the lion's share of the world's oil out of the hands of an evil dictator.
I wanted to see, now that it seems that the situation we are in now is the direct, perhaps inescapable result of the 1st war, how the author judged the cost effectiveness of the 1st war. Was it still worth it? Was it still the right thing to do? I like the author's style and I admire his logic, and I would have liked to read him having written either for or against the conflict in its entirety. But in this book he does neither.
Still the book was entertaining. The author makes fun of homeland security (I would have liked him to be more cruel in making fun of the incompetent joke and waste of taxpayer money that organization is). He makes fun of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is both funny and tragic. He is entertaining but goes on a little too long about his travels in Egypt, and he has some interesting insights into the Arab mindset. He also poses an interesting theory about why the Arabs have not been successful at freedom or wealth, despite the fact that Mohammed said something to the effect of "it is not governments place to set prices". Even the small Arab countries that are simply a plot of land sitting on a spigot of liquid money offer little in the way of opportunity or freedom.
(My theory is that the spigot of liquid money is counterproductive because it creates a welfare nation. And a welfare nation is a nation that has no incentive to produce anything, and when the government is your provider you have no moral grounds to ask the government to leave you alone. The author's theory has something to do with initial wealth being derived from taxing commerce of the trade routes that went through their countries, thus there is a history of taxation and government regulation without visible consequences. As my theory does not account for the Arab countries that have no oil, and are still poverty ridden dictatorships, I think that the real answer is both and then some. Maybe it is something about no legitimate government power in Islam, so the most ruthless ones that don't care about legitimacy are the ones that gain power.)
Perhaps the funniest part of the book was the mocking of the peace protesters. A protest march of many different groups of protesters, all protesting together. Many of the groups with no clue, many others whose goals were in direct opposition to each other. Gays, Communists, Militant Islamists, Vegans all together, and some other groups with whose demands were uncertain, either because of the poor English in their signs, or because their message was a contradiction. None of the various groups seeming to grasp that, if any of the individual groups in the protest were actually in charge of our government; it would be pure hell for everyone in the other groups.
A little thin.......2007-01-08
I've enjoyed PJ's books before - he is often incredibly funny and informative even if you disagree with his politics. But this work is a bit thin, both in terms of length, information and humour. Rather than a detailed look at something (eg. O'Rourke's brilliant Parliament of Whores) this is a selection of snapshots. There is less humour and even less politics - the author himself seems unsure about what point he's making. The only chapter I really loved was his description of a peace rally in Washington, complete with dozens of hilarious banners as displayed by the protesters.
Even his hardcore fans will probably not appreciate this as much as others, if you're new to O'Rourke, get Parliament of Whores instead.
Shtick.......2006-07-09
A liberal goes to war and brings back horrific images of carnage and suffering. A conservative goes to war and brings back - images of bureaucratic ineptitude and ugly overstuffed couches. That's P.J. for you. This collection quickly gets tiresome, supercilious, and condescending. I'm not a conservative, but I have enjoyed P.J. before as a good writer, wickedly observant and self-aware. This ain't it, though.
Jaklak sez check it out if you're a member of the choir and want to be preached to. Otherwise, keep walking.
Peace kills is funny.......2006-06-17
Mr. O'Rourke is recognized as a conservative who hangs about with people of a type I find tiresome, politicians. The conservative Cato Institute publishes some of his books.
This author sometimes advances ideas that are wrong and meanspirited, sort of.
But he is also very funny and his mockery of tragic events sometimes has a valid point. What do we do about about many world problems? The answer sometimes is nothing because nothing we are likely to do will help.
Would that he was able to appropriately mock the people who have successfully broken a working country, our own, and taken it budget surpluses to an unending string of deficits that will only grow -- even with Bushian fuzzy math.
But read this and his work in magazines. He's very funny and sometimes his observations are so acute it hurts. A conservative with a genuine sense of humor? Can't be possible but it is. Here at least he mocks the new imperialism that has cost so many lives.
O'Rourke conservative humorist?.......2006-02-22
Is this the best the right has to offer when it comes to humor?
No wonder the best comedians are always liberals.
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