The Asian Financial Crisis: New International Financial Architecture: Crisis, Reform and Recovery

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The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy. What began as a localized currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies, long considered "miracles," respond? How did the United States, Japan and other G-7 countries react to the crisis? What role did the IMF play? Why did China remain conspicuously insulated from the turmoil raging in its midst? What lessons can be learnt from the crisis by other emerging economies? This book provides answers to all the above questions and more. It gives a comprehensive account of how the international economic order operates, examines its strengths and weaknesses, and what needs to be done to fix it. The book will be vital to students of economics, international political economy, Asian and development studies.

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At a time when the role of the legal profession, the jury system and other key aspects of American law are under much dispute, Imagining the Law provides a historical perspective on these critical public issues. Historian Norman Cantor explains how and why common law developed out of Roman law, in response to the needs and assumptions of English society and culture from 1000 to 1780, and how it became the basis of the American legal system.

Professor Cantor shows that many of the current debates about the jury trial, the adversarial model and other parts of our legal system stem from this history. He highlights the minds and personalities of prominent judicial leaders, from Cicero and Justinian in the ancient world, through Glanville and Bracton in the Middle Ages, to Coke, Blackstone and Bentham in later centuries. A concluding chapter relates the social and cultural history of common law to the American system of Supreme Court Justices John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes and to the legal profession in the United States today.

Imagining the Law is authoritatively based on the extensive amount of recent research and writing in the field of legal history, and on Professor Cantor's reading of thousands of court cases. It is the first book to examine legal history in a cultural and sociological context and thus illuminates one of our most important institutions in a whole new way.

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A good read for many reasons.......2007-03-29

Excellent writing from Cantor (as usual). Incisive, informative and even life changing. Why? If you have ever wondered why our culture behaves as it does, this book may give you some clues. It is a book that gets at the very core of our social foundations and explains in many ways who we are as Americans, descendants of the Brits, brothers in the Common Law system.
One you will want to read and, read again. Get a copy. I purchased a library cast off (good grief!) in hardback for 3.00. A gem. Law students: do not miss this one. You will have one up on your class mates.

Great examination of English & American common law.......2000-07-06

This is one of those rare history books that doesn't read like one. And given the subject matter that is a great accomplishment. This book gives both a broad survey of Anglo-American jurisprudence and insightful comparisons with the Roman law traditions of the rest of Europe. And without being partisan it highlights the good and bad aspects of America's legal tradition. I have a background in the subject, yet enjoyed this book as much as the other reviewers.

Imaging the Law.......2000-05-16

This is such a well written book. Great for a beginner like myself. It was actually very entertaining and funny at times.

A good read!.......1998-05-31

A fascinating introduction to what I once considered a dull subject. Cantor presents an engaging and sometimes humorous look at the social, economic, cultural and religious background to English common law. I hope the paperback version includes a glossary and chronology.

Imagining the Law: Common Law and the Foundations of the American Legal System. (book reviews): An article from: Trial

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Agriculture in the ME - not very insightful by 2005 eyes.......2005-02-03

I just perused (February 2, 2005) the above book which I borrowed from the USAID library in Washington, DC, and have a few comments. My background is as a former U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist, New York University B.A. geology student, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology M.S. student in groundwater hydrology, University of Arizona M.Sc. student in Hydrology and Ph.D. student in Soil and Water Science, University of Arizona/Arid Lands Center Associate in Arid Lands Hydrology and Agriculture, University of Arizona/Environmental Research Laboratory Hydrologist, University of California at Berkeley seminar student in water resources, Desert Development Foundation consultant on water resources and seawater agriculture and aquaculture, and USAID consultant on water resources and environmental management in Asia and the Near East. My views of course are my own and do not represent the views of any organization.

First, I didn't see much in the book to influence agricultural or water-resources practitioners or theoreticians, which was implied in the forward and I was cheerfully looking for such. Second, I was confused by the presentation on "Water Resources in the Middle East: Limitations and Prospects," which did not include the most water-efficient and agriculturally advanced State of Israel, and the Republic of Turkey, both countries otherwise represented in the book, as well as the exclusion of Islamic Republic of Iran. And third, I was surprised to see little on wastewater irrigation, desalination, managed groundwater recharge, and water demand management, as my own limited experience in the region show these to be important, though few countries there or elsewhere do very well on agricultural water-demand management.

If this book were written today, no doubt it would recognize: 1) the growing importance of wastewater for commercial and industrial use, landscaping, forestry, wetlands, and several agronomic crops; 2) the need for significant improvements in wastewater collection and treatment; 3) the slow but ongoing importance of saline water irrigation and integrated seawater farming; 4) the rapidly growing importance of desalinated water; 5) the advantages and opportunities of water-demand management, 6) opportunities for watershed harvesting, rooftop harvesting, and managed groundwater recharge, and 7) the unfortunate decline in available fresh water resources in the Middle East ,especially the Egyptian Nile and Jordanian Jordan River, due primarily to reduction in regional rainfall and increasing contamination by untreated wastewater and solid waste disposal practices. The best examples that I know about the best practices can be found in Cyprus, Israel, and Jordan.

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Challenging and provocative overviews are presented in Volume 40 of Current Topics in Membranes. Topics on cell lipids vary from basic themes such as biosynthesis and membrane distribution to the role of lipids in intracellular signaling and membrane flow. This single volume also highlights the roles of lipids in eukaryotic cells and discusses organization of lipids in microdomains.

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The key to understanding..........2003-05-06

I'm writing this review because the low rating this study guide currently has stunned me. This book is an incredible resource. However, it is to be utilized if and only if the textbook, "Physics or Scientists and Engineers" is used as well.

The guide for each chapter of the textbook available in this study guide begins with an introduction discussing the general goals of the chapter. Then the major equations and concepts of the chapter are summarized. Some suggestions, skills, and strategies are then presented, and a review checklist is provided that lists the concepts you should be able to describe after studying the chapter.

After the guide for each chapter is the solutions manual for selected problems in the textbook. Each one of the solutions has in depth explanation and step-by-step conceptual and mathematical guidance that are very easy to understand. Many solutions are set up according to the "GOAL" problem solving steps: Gather information, Organize your approach, Analyze the problem, and Learn from your efforts (how to check your work). Every solution in the manual presents a different direction from which to view some concept of physics.

The set of two study guides (this and volume 1) greatly facilitate the comprehension of the text itself. They also provide quick, easy review for a test or exam the next morning that you haven't studied for. Highly recommended and deserving of all 5 stars.

LILAJBG@STARMEDIA.COM.......1999-08-15

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For Chapters 23-46, this manual contains detailed solutions to approximately 20% of the problems per chapter (indicated in the textbook with boxed problem numbers). The manual also features a skills section, important notes from key sections of the text, and a list of important equations and concepts.

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Sir Victor Pritchett disproved almost every cliché of literary life. After making a striking debut as a journalist and fiction writer during the 1920s, he not only failed to burn out in a fashionably bohemian style but got a second wind that carried him clear through the 1990s. In an age of specialization, he left his mark on a half-dozen genres--the novel, short fiction, memoir, casual essay, travel writing, and criticism. Throughout a career of such jaw-dropping duration, he resisted literary fads like the plagues that they are. Finally, he had that rarest of authorial virtues--common sense--which enlivens almost every word of The Pritchett Century. No doubt Pritchett fans will argue over what their hero did best. But his short stories, which leaven a near-Chekhovian delicacy with the driest of British wit, equal anything written in our age. And his criticism is as entertaining as it is accurate, particularly when he wrote about books he loved. (Here's Pritchett on Huckleberry Finn, for example, mixing his panegyric with a soupçon of poison: "Huck is a only a crude boy, but luckily he was drawn by a man whose own mind was arrested, with disastrous results in his other books, at the schoolboy stage; here it is perfect.") In any case, The Pritchett Century contains ample helpings of every genre, which adds up to an amazingly distinguished--let's say Victorious--anthology.

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"If, as they say, I am a Man of Letters, I come, like my fellows, at the tail-end of a long and once esteemed tradition in English and American writing. We have no captive audience. We do not teach. We write to be readable and to engage the interest of what Virginia Woolf called 'the common reader.'"
In a life that spanned almost the entire course of the twentieth century--he was born in 1900 and died in 1997--Sir Victor Pritchett mastered nearly every form of literature: the novel, short fiction, travel writing, biography, criticism, and memoir. Now, Sir Victor's son Oliver has selected representative samples to illustrate the tremendous scope of his father's brilliance. Included in this volume are sections of Pritchett's memoirs, A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil; his reflections on turning eighty; and an account of a visit to the Appalachians written in 1925. There are also portraits of Dublin, New York, the Amazon, and Spain; selections from the novels Dead Man Leading and Mr. Beluncle; thirteen complete short stories; excerpts from biographies of Turgenev and Chekhov; and critical pieces on Twain, Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Henry James, Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, and others.
"Pritchett has lived as a man of letters must, by his pen, and he has done it with a freshness of interest and an infectious curiosity that have never waned," observed novelist Mar- garet Drabble. Taken together with Oliver Pritchett's appreciation of his father, and John Bayley's "In Memoriam," The Pritchett Century stands as the most comprehensive collection of Sir Victor's work available in one volume.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

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An Unassuming Brilliance.......2002-09-22

"The Pritchett Century" is quality, from its gracious Foreword by Pritchett's son Oliver and John Bayley's lucid Introduction, on through 695 pages authored by "the grand old man of letters" himself. Bayley tells us, "Pritchett was fascinated by trades." This volume offers only a fraction of Pritchett's achievements over a 70-year span as a master craftsman in the writing trade whose stunning output included novels, memoirs, literary criticisms, and books of travel. In his short fiction, his true genius shines through with an unassuming sort of brilliance. This fine collection is merely a "teaser," but a hefty one chosen by his son with loving care: three selections of autobiography, eight of travel writing, passages from two novels, 13 short stories, passages from biographies of Turgenev and Chekhov, and 21 literary criticisms of writers as diverse as Sir Walter Scott, S.J. Perelman and Salman Rushdie.

Pritchett's short stories deserve particular mention. Here, Oliver has chosen some of his own favorites as well as those of his father and mother; all 13 were first published between 1938 and 1989. They are wonderful. Like chocolate truffles, you must taste them to know how delectable they really are, so indulge yourself in a miniature gem like "The Liars," a tale of two people, aged and lonely and helping each other make it through the afternoon. And, "When My Girl Comes Home," cited as the author's favorite. There are 11 others to savor. Then, surely you'll agree with what was said of V.S. Pritchett: "No one living writes a better English sentence."

We know that "The Pritchett Century" was the 20th Century - his life spanned 1900 to 1997. Read Pritchett. Read his novels, his memoirs, his literary criticisms, his travel books, but above all read his short stories. Read other 20th Century masters of short fiction, like Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elizabeth Bowen. And read William Trevor who, into the 21st Century, keeps on creating exceptional stories that are graced with a similar sort of unassuming brilliance.

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Life in limbo.......2007-08-28

Clearly influenced by ULYSSES, Koeppen describes a day in an unnamed city in the American zone of Germany after WW2. The writing, even in translation, is fine throughout: sometimes quite straightforward, concerned with the streets and bars of the city, sometimes rising to poetic heights with multicultural literary allusions. But on the whole Koeppen's style is simpler than Joyce's, his world less glamorous, and his aim less consciously epic.

The book is a collage of paragraph- or page-long sections describing the actions of a dozen or more German characters from various walks of life -- decadent, downtrodden, or hopeful -- and a smaller number of Americans. There is little plot, but various characters do meet and cannon off each other in a sort of random Brownian motion, leading to a climax of sorts at the end, potentially serious but unresolved. Some of the characters are more fully realized than others -- I was personally moved, for instance, by the affair between a German ex-prostitute and an African American GI, both living on the fringes of their respective societies -- but the book as a whole is more important than its individual parts. It paints a powerful picture of life in that particular post-Hitler limbo, and therein lies its uniqueness for its time (written even before Gunter Grass' monumental THE TIN DRUM).

My four-star rating does not reflect the importance or basic quality of this book, though I do consider it a weakness that several of the characters are less fully realized. It is more a reflection of my own enjoyment. Although short (202 pages), this is not a book to be read quickly; it is difficult to take in its almost musical structure at a single reading; although simple enough from page to page, the book juggles so many balls that it becomes hard to keep track of them. But the subject is important, there is nothing else quite like it, and that alone makes it well worth picking up.

Tauben im Gras..........2001-07-19

...is Wolfgang Koeppen's magnum opus and in addition, it is one of the greatest German post war novels to date. The english title derives from the motto of the novel, a one liner by Gertrude Stein, that was quoted by the author in the beginning of the book. The novel is great in creating an authentic, general yet intimate picture of Germany in the years after WW II. The novel shows autobiographical strains and indulges in references to the traditions of the western world and especially to ancient greek mythology. Its narrative structure is shaped by a delicate use of stream of consciousness and the fragmentation of the plot, icluding its many intricately designed sub-plots.

PIGEONS ON THE GRASS. Translated by David Ward. Modern German Voices Series.

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ANOTHER WONDERFUL WORK BY DURANT

Durant is one of the greatest polymaths of the 20th century

What a superb series

The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with Special Emphasis on the Conflict between Religion and Philosophy (The Story of Civilization IX)
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(9th in Story of Civilization series)

Volume 9 in THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION, THE AGE OF VOLTAIRE, is the biography of a great man as well as the story of ideas and events that culminated in the French Revolution. But the revolution turned inward and set the stage for Napoleon, a disaster for Europe in general and for the French in particular. Of notable interest to the general reader is the Durants' conclusion that it was English ideas of skepticism, scientific experiment, "natural rights", constitutional government, and individual liberty -- that started the French on their road to ruin.

"A fine work of popularization...the Durants show an acute appreciation of the quality of this particular period." (The New Yorker)

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ANOTHER WONDERFUL WORK BY DURANT.......2006-01-16

Durant's popularization of history, which he continues with this wonderful volume, has been and indeed, still is poopooed by many an academic. I first learned of this years ago while taking a never ending series of history courses in college. Almost to the man and woman, they, the professors, would gave collective fits if a student brought the name of Durant to class and heaven help the sudent who used a "popular history writer" to class in the form of a reference on a paper. I knew then that I had to own and read these books. I did and do now and have not regreted it one bit. Popular history, i.e. history that most of us can actually read and learn from is a wonderful thing. Few of us grow up to be accademics and works such as these open many windows for we, the common person. I have been reading and rereading this series for years and have not regreted it one bit. This particular volume of course examines the French Revolution, it's results and those involved. Durant's style continues to come through and I promise you, you will learn much in a very enjoyable fashion. Recommend highly.

Durant is one of the greatest polymaths of the 20th century.......2005-01-02

Will Durant, initially by himself and later with his wife Ariel, has written some of the most readable and interesting histories of the 20th or any other century. I found these books in the early 1980s and took five years to read them all. It was the greatest intellectual experience of my lifetime, and now I am selectively reading them again. (Fortunately I then had the habit of underlining passages I found most compelling and facinating, and this is saving me a lot of time in my rereading of the Durants.) And this is perhaps the most informative of the books, especially given our present day American obscession with evangelical Christanity. Rereading Durant makes me conscious of just how destructive have been the Christian schools that so many of our students have been subjected to since the mid 60s. I think that the Durants would call today, with the eager reelection of Geo. W. Bush and his merry men, The Age of Ignorance. Would that our students of today felt compelled to read the Durants. wfh

What a superb series.......1999-10-18

I remember seeing these sets of books in my University Bookstore in College--never read them, but picked up the whole set for .25 each at a garage sale. Little did I know what I'd been missing. I also just started teaching history in Calgary--a colleague agreed with me that they are fabulous, but said the snobby professors looked down on the Durants as "popularizers." I can't think of a higher compliment. Excellent footnotes, with quotes from primary resources, all the marks of a hallmark historian. I reading these books like steamy romance novels--and they are a lot more fun. Durrant is not afraid to comment on the sexual mores/and morality of the times. His judgments are pithy and well, history is riveting. I would have paid full price for these if I'd known how good they were!

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The Ninth Volume in The Story of Civilization!

The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, With Special Emphasis on the Conflict Between Religion and Philosophy (Age of Voltaire)
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The Ninth Volume in The Story of Civilization!.......2004-08-30

In this, the Ninth Volume in the classic "Story of Civilization" series, Dr. Will & Ariel Durant have compiled a massive historical examination of France and England in the first-half of the Eighteenth Century.

At over >800 pages, the reader is treated to a vivid recount of: The English ideas that inspired an Enlightenment in France. The Salons of Paris. The philosophies of both nation states. Voltaire! The Augustan Age. The decay of absolute monarchy. Diderot, Helvetius, and Holbach, compilers of the first encylopedia.

Written to stand alone, or as part of the series, the Durants have written a smooth prose of unparalleled historical accuracy to be enjoyed by professional and layperson alike! I rate it as five stars as a part of the Durant's Magnum Opus known as "The Story of Civilization."

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Will and Ariel Durant
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Southeastern Hots for the layman/woman

marvelous book

Venomous Snakes Of The Southeast
Chad Minter
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"Informative, easy to understand, and filled with tidbits you'll enjoy. There are no hidden serpents lurking in the following pages. Instead, a goldmine of information to keep you safe from venomous reptiles, and to keep them safe from you!" Species Accounts For The Six Venomous Snakes native to the Southeastern United States - Venomous Snakes And Their Habits - If You See A Snake - Avoiding a Bite - First Aid For Snakebite - All About Venom & Antivenin - Myths And Folktales - Lots of Photos! - Includes A quick Reference Guide with Photos and Range Maps and much more!

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Southeastern Hots for the layman/woman.......2005-09-07

This is a must have book for those interested in venomous snakes of the southeastern U.S.A. and venomous snakes of the U.S. in general.
The book is very well written and presents an easy-to-understand language for the layperson or those with only a casual interest in these magnificent animals.
The author should be commended for his thoughtfulness in writing a book directed at people of all ages and all experience levels. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in venomous snakes looking for a straightforward good read.

marvelous book.......2005-02-24

This is a marvelous book. Its teaches mostly anything you can learn about venemous snakes in the south east. I would recomend this book to anybody because it gives a great message against animal cruelty. This is a book that i think anyone can read and is a fantastic book due to the educational values.

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