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Since the 1980s, Mexico has alternately served as a model of structural economic reform and as a cautionary example of the limitations associated with market-led development. Because of the importance of the Mexican experience in continuing debates about options available to developing countries, the twenty-three contributors to this book provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment of the principal economic and social policies adopted by Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s.
Mexico was a pioneer in the shift away from state-led industrialization and the adoption of market-oriented policies. As a consequence, Mexico emerged as Latin America’s largest exporter of manufactured goods, which provided the country’s most dynamic source of economic growth. Yet trade and investment expansion also significantly increased the Mexican economy’s vulnerability to external shocks. A profound financial crisis in 1994-95 deeply affected Mexico’s economic stability and rate of growth, and raised persistent questions about whether the country’s new economic model is capable of achieving sustained growth and equitable socioeconomic development.
The topics covered in the book are (1) macroeconomic and financial policies, including the impact of the adjustment process on growth, inflation, foreign and domestic debt burdens, the Mexican banking system, and foreign investment; (2) trade, export-led growth, and industrial policies, with attention to key actors and strategies behind the rapid expansion of Mexican manufactured exports and the limitations of this export-led growth model for national development; (3) social policies and rural development issues, focusing on education, health care, pensions, and problems affecting rural Mexico; and (4) poverty, inequality, and employment problems, notably income distribution and poverty trends, the efficacy of poverty-alleviation policies, urban and regional disparities, and the effects of economic liberalization on employment and wage levels. A final overview section analyzes the Mexican development experience of the 1980s and 1990s in historical and comparative context.
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In this new, in-depth book the best and most innovative solo and small firm lawyers give you their secrets, approaches and strategies to that age-old puzzle of growing your law firm. Through this wealth of savvy advice, you'll learn how to ask for business, attract and keep clients, partner with other lawyers, build a virtual law firm, use technology in client development, brand your law firm and much more.
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A must for Solos.......2007-02-18
Realistic, dont think so much to buy this book, just BUYYYYY. I strongly recommend... when you finish to read it you will feel very confident about your practice
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Biocatalysis-From Discovery to Application (Topics in Current Chemistry)
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Catalytic procedures are clearly the most economical means to effect selective processes in organic synthesis. For the preparation of enantiomerically pure compounds, the utilization of enzymes is particularly attractive because of high selectivities and mild, environmentally benign reaction conditions. Taking advantage of advances in molecular biology, unique new enzymes are now readily accessible in quantity with properties that are amenable to modification on demand. This volume brings together leading contributors from the forefront of this exciting technology. In their authoritative and timely reviews they cover the state-of-the-art of biocatalysis from the discovery of novel enzymes - by modern screening, evolutionary or immunological approaches through immobilization techniques for technical processes, to their use in the asymmetric synthesis of important target compounds.
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Rigid Rod Star Block Copolymers
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Compact and precise, this text offers advanced undergraduates and graduate students a diverse selection of topics: the electrostatic field in vacuum; general methods for the solution of potential problems; radiation reaction and covariant formulation of the conservation laws of electrodynamics; and numerous other subjects. 119 figures. 10 tables. 1962 edition.
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The best graduate level text available for Electrodynamics.......2007-07-31
I'm so thrilled to see that this book is back in print. It is vastly superior to the standard text (Jackson) used in most graduate physics programs. The explanations are concise but clear; and they help the student develop good physical insight. My only real criticism of this book is that the mathematical notation is a bit unwieldy, but it's used consistently throughout the entire text so that's not really a problem after you get through the first couple of chapters and get used to it. If you could have only one graduate level E & M book, this would be the one to get.
Emphasizes physical understanding.......2007-02-15
I am writing this review to balance the review by the dissatisfied student. Do not believe it. Panofsky and Phillips is one of the great graduate level books on classical electrodynamics. It is comparable in level and quality to Landau and Lifshitz and to Jackson. As the student reveiwer implies it may be a bit less concise and somewhat more talkative than those two, but the explanations given are often profund and can be of great value to the serious, mature, and literate student. This book really belongs to a decent library on electromagnetism.
Panofsky E&M 2nd Edition.......2006-11-03
Book is more about "words" than it is about math. YOu need to have a book like Jackson, or Griffiths to complement this book. To be honest, I hate it and don't use it. I like Jackson better. Makes assumptions with no proof.
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The new edition of this classic work in electrodynamics has been completely revised and updated to reflect recent developments in experimental data and laser technology. It is suitable as a reference for practicing physicists and engineers and it provides a basis for further study in classical and quantum electrodynamics, telecommunications, radiation, antennas, astrophysics, etc. The book can be used in standard courses in electrodynamics, electromagnetic theory, and lasers. Paying close attention to the experimental evidence as the basis for the theoretical development, the books first five chapters follow the traditional introduction to electricity: vector calculus, electrostatic field and potential, BVPs, dielectrics, and electric energy. Chapters 6 and 7 provide an overview of the physical foundations of special relativity and of the four-dimensional tensor formalism. In Chapter 8, the union of Coulombs law with the laws of special relativity gives issue to the relativistic form of Maxwells equations. The book concludes with applications of Maxwells equations in Chapters 9 through 16: magnetostatics, induction, magnetic materials, electromagnetic waves, radiation, waveguides, and scattering and diffraction. Numerous examples and exercises are included. Features +Designed as a text/reference for students, practicing physicists, and engineers +Updated in the second edition, including a discussion of the concept of negative oscillator strengths and a new section dealing with lasers and the threshold condition for lasing;revised experimental data (especially in the chapter dealing with relativity); expanded explanations, additional examples and exercises +Explores areas of contact between classical electrodynamics and quantum physics, such as electrostatic energy of nuclei, image charges as confinement mechanism for free electrons, magnetic monopoles, angular momentum in electromagnetic waves, radiation by atoms and nuclei, and lasers. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Vector Calculus. 2. Electrostatics. 3. The Boundary Value Problem. 4. Dielectrics. 5. Electric Energy. 6. The Theory of Special Relativity. 7.Vector Calculus in Spacetime. 8. Relativistic Electrodynamics. 9. Magnetostatics. 10. Electromagnetic Induction. 11. Magnetic Dipoles and Magnetic Materials. 12. Electromagnetic Waves. 13. Radiation by a Point Charge. 14.Radiation by a System of Charges. 15. Resonant Cavities and Waveguides. 16. Scattering and Diffraction. Appendixes. Bibliography. Answers to Even-Numbered Problems. Index.
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This casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation. Mark Wollaeger's introduction provides an overview of the composition and early reception of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as well as a survey of some of the recurrent issues debated by literary critics. Essays by Hugh Kenner and Patrick Parrinder offer both indispensable overviews of the entire novel-its themes, structure, and idiom-and close attention to specific interpretive cruxes. Other essays include classic responses by Wayne Booth, Fritz Senn, Michael Levenson, Helene Cixous, and a newly revised and expanded version of Maud Ellmann's groundbreaking "Polytropic Man." Together the essays bring into focus the wide range of questions that have kept A Portrait fresh for the new millennium.
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Casebook was a good guide.......2006-03-09
The casebook on Portrait was very helpful to me. I had to use if for a project in my English class and it was nice to have such a wide variety of criticisms in one place. I also liked that each cricicism was labeled so I didn't have to scan through it to know what it focused on.
A good guide.......2003-11-13
James Joyce's A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN is arguably one of the defining works of 20th century modernism. It set the standard that many writers who employed stream of consciousness narration (Woolf, Faulkner, et al.) would follow. This collection of essays is a good way to familiarize yourself, not only with the novel, but with the Joycean scholarship that followed. Some essays are better than others: Ellman's stands out as particularly good. Some essays drag. Still, I would recommend this to anyone embarking on "A Portrait".
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James Joyce's "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (Casebook)
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France and the Nazi Threat 1932-1939: The Collapse of French Diplomacy
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This book completes the picture for our understanding of how Nazi Germany was able to triupmh in 1940.
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'oikoumenical" as toyenbee embarks to purport........2001-12-21
This is one of the rare pieces of literature that may seem to be coarce but in the due cource of attempt he is revealing and is full of wisdom.
Should somebody wish to have a glimpse of the world's evolution in short or should one dare to rush through the mamoth 12 volumes of history philosophised "Study of history" then this is the best bet to begin with. This is one of the few naratives toyenbee has contributed to us and once through them his literal theoretical discources would be easy to comprehend and gem to cherish thereafter.
The best bety would be to go through 11 volumes of naratives of Will Durrant's The story of civilization and then Toyenbees complete work would complete the first phase of universal erudition.
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This book is very good, in scope and accuracy.......1999-11-02
Arnold J. Toynbee presents history the way it should be presented: Without bias and without overly rating the importance of some civilizations over others. Unlike previous authors, who treated western civilization as being supreme, Toynbee makes it clear that our earth has been and is home to other great cultures and people. His evaluations of China and her major impact on the world, by invention, art, and literature, are especially enlightening. A must-read for everyone, who wishes to broad his horizon by viewing history as the sum of all civilizations.
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- Don't believe an atheist.
- Spectacularly self-defeating
- Good overview of creation and the young Earth argument.
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The Evidence for Creation: Examining the Origin of Planet Earth
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The subject of origins has always been a controversial issue. How and when did life begin? Was it a result of random chance processes over millions of years of time or was life designed by a Creator. The controversy surrounding the origin and history of life has triggered heated debate between supporters of the two opposing views… Creation and Evolution. Evolutionists claim their beliefs are scientific and accurate, proclaiming their theory as an indisputable fact. Creationists maintain their perspective is logical and can be supported by the observable evidence. Is it really possible to know which of these two models is correct? Is there a test which can be made to examine the credibility of a theory? The Evidence for Creation examines the fundamental principles of the evolution and creation models and tests them against the observable evidence.
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Don't believe an atheist........2006-08-23
This is an excellent book! As far as evidence, it is all around us, you are part of it. It does take a fool to believe that the Earth and all it's life forms came in to being from "billions and billions" of years of fortuitous occurrences of accidental circumstances. ALL life forms show evidence of intelligent design. Therefore there must be a Designer. "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork."- Psalm 19:1 "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'"- Psalm 14:1; 53:1. There IS billions upon billions of coded information (DNA) in a single cell of your body to fill thousands of volumes of books the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The blueprint for your whole body, every single part of it, is encoded in each cell of your body. If you diligently and earnestly seek the Truth, you will find it. Read the book and examine the evidence.
Spectacularly self-defeating.......2003-07-11
My aim here is not to debunk creationism but rather to discredit this particular book, which consists chiefly of misinformation, unsupported assertions, and exceedingly poor arguments. The authors also unwittingly demolish their own position, ironically making the entire book a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. If you are interested in creationism, this would be an awful place to start. While I cannot in good conscience recommend a single book on the topic, I will simply point out that this one is exceedingly poor.
While my criticism is harsh, I feel it is completely warranted, particularly in view of the author's vindictiveness toward those who disagree with them. For example, they assert: "A person who accepts the evolution premise as valid can not be convinced through intellectual reasoning that he is wrong." And, "To any honest open-minded observer, the vast fossil evidence from all over the world confirms the Bible record of creation." [p. 75] Evidently the authors believe that anyone who finds the preponderance of the evidence to support evolution is, by that criterion alone, both dishonest and closed-minded. Such ad hominem attacks are not only uncalled for, they are fallacious. Arguments with genuine substance needn't employ such tactics.
There are far too many egregious errors in this book to list in a short review, so I will merely select a few random quotes: "The majority of the methods for determining the age of the earth indicate the earth is young. Only a few questionable methods of geochronology support the evolutionary concept of billions of years of age." As harsh as it may sound, this is a great example of the fallacy known as "invincible ignorance"; the authors simply refuse to acknowledge the colossal mountain of evidence against them. It hardly warrants further comment.
Here is another: "[Water] is one of the few compounds which does not follow the natural laws of chemistry. Instead of contracting when it is frozen, water expands to create ice." To say that water "does not follow the natural laws of chemistry" is precisely like saying that helium balloons do not obey the law of gravitation. The somewhat unusual (but not unique) property of expanding when frozen is an immediate consequence of its crystalline structure, which follows from its bond angles, which follows from quantum mechanics; Laws of chemistry, all the way down.
But the authors make the most spectacular blunder I have ever seen in print. Here is what they have to say about a world-wide deluge (Noah's flood): "All manner of life would be mixed and scrambled together and quickly buried." [p. 82] "Vegetation and animal life would be scrambled together, torn, and buried in the layers of the earth in no particular order." [p. 83] "According to the biblical model of the flood, all kinds of life would have been caught and destroyed in the layers of the earth. Fossils should not be found in a sequential order of simple to complex." [p.86]
The authors spell out what Biblical creationism predicts and correctly observe that it is dramatically different from what evolution predicts. After setting up this most appropriate test, which unequivocally distinguishes between two rival hypotheses, the authors simply abandon the entire argument and move on to a new topic, never once taking a close look at what we actually find in the geological record. While the authors do inject some odd statements later on (p. 165) about fossils everywhere appearing to have been formed by a sudden catastrophe, these are unsupported, wildly misleading, and evasive. The most relevant question is how (or whether) the fossils are ordered in the geological record.
Here is what we find: The fossils of the geological column are ordered according to phylogeny (relatedness) and not homology (similarity of form), revealing world-wide strata corresponding to epochs of immense duration, unerringly separating both flora and fauna into hundreds of distinct groups, and showing an unmistakable progression from simple organisms in the Precambrian era to complex multicellular organisms in the Cambrian era and beyond. Creatures are layered according to the most minute anatomical differences, such as the number of bones in the ear, the number of toes, or the number of lenses in a compound eye. Flowering plants (angiosperms) diversified in the mid-Cretaceous, as did insects, so the types of plants and insects that we find are quite different on either side of the Cretaceous strata. Not a single reptile or mammal has ever been found among the countless fossils of the Cambrian strata. Primates are found first in the Cretaceous era, never in strata below. On and on it goes. Few things in science are as spectacularly clear or well-documented as that. The words "slam dunk" come to mind.
Infer what you will about why the authors failed to mention any of that. Also, please consider again what the authors had to say about honest observers. Enough said.
Good overview of creation and the young Earth argument........2001-07-19
This is generally a good, solid book on creationism and the evidence for a young Earth. Probably more suited for the beginning, rather than the advanced, Creationist. However, it would be a good additional to any young Earth Creationists bookshelf.
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The Asian Vigna: Genus Vigna subgenus Ceratotropis Genetic Resources
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The Asian beans and grams, the species of
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