Local Economies in Turmoil: The Effects of Deregulation and Globalization

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This book examines the way local economic cultures and networks in the South and in Eastern Europe are effected by global deregulation and how traditional and not so traditional--but locally rooted structures of economic life adjust to new free markets.The contributors combine a "flexible specialization in clusters" approach with empirical data. An introduction and concluding chapter by the editors brings out the common issues and conclusions.

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In Ould Fields, New Corne you'll read about the peaks and valleys during Erwin N. Griswold's 22 years as dean of the Harvard School of Law, including his service as Thurgood Marshall's expert witness in trials addressing the "separate but equal" issue that eventually led to Brown v. Board of Education. You'll travel with him to Nelson Mandela's 1958 trial in South Africa, and argue landmark cases (including the Pentagon Papers case) as solicitor general before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ould Fields, New Corne The Personal Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Lawyer

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Ould Fields, New Corne The Personal Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Lawyer
Erwin N. Griswold
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OU0JNY

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This comprehensive, authoritative treatise covers all aspects of mucosal vaccines including their development, mechanisms of action, molecular/cellular aspects, and practical applications. The contributing authors and editors of this one-of-a-kind book are very well known in their respective fields. Mucosal Vaccines is organized in a unique format in which basic, clinical, and practical aspects of the mucosal immune system for vaccine development are described and discussed. This project is endorsed by the Society for Mucosal Immunology.

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* Provides the latest views on mucosal vaccines
* Applies basic principles to the development of new vaccines
* Links basic, clinical, and practical aspects of mucosal vaccines to different infectious diseases
* Unique and user-friendly organization

Defense of Mucosal Surfaces: Pathogenesis, Immunity and Vaccines (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)

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Defense of Mucosal Surfaces: Pathogenesis, Immunity and Vaccines (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)

Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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Binding: Hardcover

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Mucosal immunity encompasses a broad field of research that includes areas of epithelial cell and molecular biology, molecular and cellular immunology, microbiology, virology, and vaccinology. This volume presents up to date and concise discussions of concepts as well as recent advances. It provides an overview of the components of the mucosal immune system, and the basic science relevant to mucosal vaccination. The authors assess current research in critical areas including: Organization of mucosal lymphoid tissue; antigen sampling and presentation in mucosal tissues; mucosalimmune responses and tolerance; immune effectors at mucosal sites; microbial-host interactions at mucosal sites; mucosal vaccines and adjuvants. This multi-disciplinary effort will be a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians and students who need a clear understanding of concepts and a guide to the wide-ranging literature in this very active research area.

Gram-Positive Bacteria: Vaccine Vehicles for Mucosal Immunization

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Gram-Positive Bacteria: Vaccine Vehicles for Mucosal Immunization

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3540627766

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This book gives a very timely account of recent - partly unpublished - research on the development of gram-positive bacteria as vaccine delivery vehicles for mucosal immunization. The practical and theoretical considerations are discussed and the basic concepts behind the different approaches are compared by giving specific examples of the use of different non-pathogenic bacteria as vaccine vehicles. Thus, a common framework of concepts for a new generation of mucosal vaccines is provided.

Intracellular Bacterial Vaccine Vectors: Immunology, Cell Biology, and Genetics

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Intracellular Bacterial Vaccine Vectors: Immunology, Cell Biology, and Genetics

Manufacturer: Wiley-Liss
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Binding: Hardcover

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Host defense against infectious microorganisms is becoming an intensively studied topic; recent advances in immunology and microbiology have resulted in a substantially improved understanding of the pathways used by a variety of microorganisms to infect humans.

This resource provides up-to-date reviews of the invasion strategies utilized by selected bacteria and then shows how these microorganisms can be manipulated to generate potential vaccines. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the relationship between bacterial life-styles and immune responsiveness to bacterial antigens. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 describes basic research intended primarily for academic scientists. Included in this section are chapters describing the use of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella typhimurium and Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) to invoke different types of immune response. Part 2 describes the application of the engineered Listeria monocytogenes as a vaccine against specific tumors and the use of recombinant Salmonella and BCG in clinical trials for HIV and TB

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Mucosal Vaccines
H. (Edt)/ Ogra, Pearay L. (Edt)/ Kiyono
Manufacturer: Academic Pr 01/1//1996
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5LQU0

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Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, right up to contemporary figures such as Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, and Stephen Hawking. We meet scientists--all geniuses--who could be gregarious, aloof, unpretentious, friendly, dogged, imperious, generous to colleagues or contentious rivals. As Cropper captures their personalities, he also offers vivid portraits of their great moments of discovery, their bitter feuds, their relations with family and friends, their religious beliefs and education. In addition, since scientists in a particular field often inspire those who follow, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and so on--each section beginning with a historical overview. Thus in the section on quantum mechanics, readers can see how the work of Max Planck influenced Niels Bohr, and how Bohr in turn influenced Werner Heisenberg. By sequencing the biographies in this way, Cropper gives us an overall portrait of each field. Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries, starting with Galileo and his telescope and stretching to Stephen Hawking's work on black holes and cosmology. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.

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Highly recommended.......2006-08-21

This is an excellent book. Cropper must have put an enormous effort into researching and writing this 500 page, large format paperback, which has been nicely printed on white paper. At its current price of $12.97 an incredible bargain.

At first glance this book appears to be sort of a strange hybrid of biography and science, but the combo works. Cropper generally starts a chapter on a scientist with a few page biographical sketch followed by a longer, clearly written, physics section. I would estimate that the book is about 70% physics and about 30% biographical. The biographical sections are well done and interesting, but the book really shines in its overview of the physics.

Cropper covers 30 scientists with many of them in thermodynamics and atomic physics. Reading these sections you not only get a good overview of the science at a moderate technical level (a notch or two above the usual popular science writing level since Cropper is not afraid of using equations), but also you get an historical understanding of who did what and how their contributions fit together. Another plus is that Cropper will often describe in some detail how a key experiment has been done.

As a technical person (like a previous reviewer, I am an engineer), not only did I learn a lot from this book about how many of the secrets of this world have been discovered, but some of the gaps in my physics knowledge were filled in. Cropper set himself a big task to write an overview of much of physics, but he has pulled it off with style.

Great Book!.......2004-01-28

This is the best book I have read about the human side of physicists. Although, I have a Masters degree in physics, you don't need to be a practicing scientist to throughly enjoy the contents of this wonderful work. Cropper did an outstanding writing job.

What a wonderful book!.......2002-08-19

I've picked up many books over the years telling the stories of great scientists, but this is the only book of this type that I couldn't put down. I am a degreed engineer, now working in computers, with physics as a hobby. The coverage of Thermodynamics, which I have studied extensively, was fascinatingly rich and accessible. The complexity of other topics, such as nuclear physics, of which I know little, was surprizingly clear.

My curiosity attracts me to picking up compilations such as this, but I usually find them disjunct and uninteresting. Mr. Cooper has done an amazing job of weaving a coherent story of the lives of these fascinating characters spanning a history of 400 years.

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Great Physicists: The Life And Times Of Leading Physicists From Galileo To Hawking
William H. Cropper
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKCGBM

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Well-received in its own day, but all but forgotten in the nineteenth century, Anton Reiser (1785) has now finally regained the popular attention it so richly merits. Called a 'biography' by its author, it is in fact autobiographical, though it is also a searching psychological and religious discourse. Through a thirty-year-old's depiction of how his first twenty years were misdirected, it shows Moritz's spiritual journey, describing his struggle to move beyond the narrow Pietistic world of his youth. This lively but careful translation reinforces his standing as one of the most fascinating minds of the European Enlightenment.

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A note on editions........2000-05-13

The 1977 (or 1978) Hyperion edition is a reprint of P. E. Mattheson's 1926 edition. There have been two recent translations, one by John R. Russell (1996) and the other by Ritchie Robertson (1997). I cannot speak authoritatively about either translation, having not examined them in detail, but I can tell you that Robertson's includes the 'Gedankenstriche' (long dashes) that Moritz used, rather than converting them into more modern punctuation. This and the price would lead me to order Robertson's paperback edition.

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Anton Reiser: A Psychological Novel
Carl Philipp Moritz
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H7K10U

Anton Reiser: A Psychological Novel (The World's Classics)

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Anton Reiser: A Psychological Novel (The World's Classics)
Carl Philipp Moritz
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WNDNN6

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Anton Reiser;: A psychological novel, (The world's classics)
Karl Philipp Moritz
Manufacturer: H. Milford, Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Self and Sovereignty explores the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonization and the partition period.

Commencing in colonial times, Jalal explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of the Muslim individual and the community of Islam have been reconfigured over time. She examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the individual, regional, class and cultural differences that have shaped the discourse and politics of Muslim identity.

As well as fascinating discussion of political and religious movements, culture and art, this book includes analysis of:

-press, poetry and politics of late nineteenth century India
-the politics of language and identity - Hindu, Urdu and Punjabi
-Muslim identity, cultural difference and nationalism
-the Punjab and the politics of Union and Disunion
-the creation of Pakistan

Covering a period of immense upheaval and sometimes-devastating violence, this work is an important and enlightening insight into the history of Muslims in South Asia.

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A Different Look at South Asia.......2002-03-11

A work of encyclopedic proportions, Self and Sovereignty's wide-ranging investigation into South Asian Muslim thought and politics since 1850 is sure to fascinate aficionados of South Asian and Islamic history alike. In almost six hundred pages of meticulously researched analysis, Tufts University scholar Ayesha Jalal surveys the cultural, political and religious movements of the past 150 years in an attempt to unravel the complex intermingling of trends that reconfigured Muslim identities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Her questions are as complex as they are provocative: By what process of social re-engineering, combined with preexisting cultural difference, did religious distinctions come to be privileged over class, cultural and regional differences? How were South Asian Muslims able to surmount longstanding cultural, regional and even religious differences, to forge the world's first nation founded on the basis of religion?

But these questions have been asked before. Jalal's point of departure from other contemporary thinkers on the Muslim "problem" in South Asia is found in the boldness and breadth of her objective: to entirely rethink the puzzle of identity and difference in South Asia in the context of the changing relationship between the Muslim individual and community of Islam. Relying extensively on hitherto unexploited sources in Urdu and Punjabi as well as a broad collection of official documents of the late-colonial state, Jalal undertakes a meticulous reexamination of the circumstances by which the idiom of separation prevailed over prospects for Indian unity, presenting the tension between Muslim and Hindu communities in all their manifest complexity. Her research leads her to the conclusion that, with the end of Muslim rule in India, self-perceptions of Muslim identity and the place of the Islamic community in South Asia were fundamentally altered. Through the intertwining of external interests - political, cultural, economic and social - with the religious, a potent wedge was inserted between Muslim and Hindu, giving birth to the social and geo-political polarization of these religious communities that persists to this day.

Though Jalal offers insights the processes of identity formation and inter-group dynamics throughout the subcontinent, her discussion of the history of ordinary, non-elite Muslims and their Hindu counterparts, including women, is weak. Moreover, at times Jalal's analysis glosses over history that might serve to weaken her argument. For instance, short thrift is given to the movements initiated by Shah Waliullah and other thinkers of the Islamic revivalist movement who sought to "purify" Islam by returning to the hadith and purging contemporary practice of syncretic or otherwise externally influenced customs and rituals. Though tolerant of other religions, Waliullah regarded Islam as having superseded the religions of the past; hence a well-defined separation between `Islamic' and `un-Islamic' became increasingly important. Waliullah's philosophy might not have been significant for understanding Islamic identity and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries if his ideas had perished with him; however, his mantle was adopted with vigor by modern leaders in Pakistan like Mawlana Mawdudi, founder of the Jama'at-i Islami (the Islamic Party), an organization that would put down the roots of Islamic fundamentalism all across South Asia and the Middle East.

These few criticisms notwithstanding, Self and Sovereignty is as important a contribution to the study of Islam in South Asia as any to appear in the last decade. Jalal's outstanding tome offers compelling arguments for reconceptualizing the nature of individual-community interaction in South Asia, and the role of this dynamic in shaping political realities through to independence. Moreover, it would be shortsighted to limit the scope of applicability of Jalal's insights to the Muslim or even South Asian contexts alone. Beyond their value to students of South Asian and Muslim history, Jalal's conclusions have important ramifications for the way scholars of religion, culture and politics understand communalism and nationalism, and indeed the way South Asians understand their political and social heritage.

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SELF AND SOVEREIGNTY. Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850.
Ayesha: Jalal
Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W33UXE

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Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0195651847

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Covering a period of immense upheaval and sometimes devastating violence, this work offers important and enlightening insight into the history of Muslims in South Asia. Jalal examines the shifts in Muslim thought and politics in response to colonial rule in India through to the period of decolonization and partition.

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Now in its eighth printing, this best-selling off-beat travel guide to Oregon specializes in those out-of-the-way places that ordinary guidebooks never mention.

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I'm Curious.......2001-07-13

Mr. Friedman's book is fun. Using it is like going on a treasure hunt. Browse through the different regions in Oregon and discover things you didn't know were there, but because of his book you " . . . just have to see."

Oregon is my chosen state to live in and I really want to get to know it intimately. "Oregon For The Curious" is the perfect guide for me to take along on my travels.

Places are easy to find with directions to each listed down to the tenth of a mile. Enough detail on the highlighted places to visit is given to get you curious, but not to give the surprise away.

I'm curious and this book has made me "curiouser and curiouser."

a guide to meandering around Oregon.......2000-06-07

This book has been a part of our family since childhood. I remember my Mother taking it along on family vacations, and we'd stop at all of these cool spots that were recomended by Ralph Freidman. Now that all six of us are grown, we all have our own editions of this book. Whenever I take an Oregon getaway, this book always comes along. Whether it's geology, history, architecture, or anything in between that you're interested in, this book will be a great companion to your explorations.

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Oregon for the Curious
Ralph Friedman
Manufacturer: Pars Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H9KXL0

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Oregon for the Curious
Ralph Friedman
Manufacturer: Pars Publishing Co
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NPM8G6

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Oregon for the Curious
Ralph Friedman
Manufacturer: Pars Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KLT9UQ

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oregon for the curious
ralph friedman
Manufacturer: caxton
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UDZOO4

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Oregon for the Curious Signed
Ralph Friedman
Manufacturer: CAXTON PRINTERS+LTD
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VLIRUI

Oregon For The Curious, New Revised and Enlarged Edition

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Oregon For The Curious, New Revised and Enlarged Edition
Ralph Friedman
Manufacturer: Caxton Printers, Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000U6FT32

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OREGON FOR THE CURIOUS
Ralph Friedman
Manufacturer: The Caxton Printers Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H4N6XC

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Oregon for the Curious
Ralph Friedman
Manufacturer: Caxton Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RA2OPC

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Emphasizes reasoning and understanding (not computation) through step-by-step explanations and author comments. Coverage is traditional, covering descriptive and inferential statistics as well as common methods. Also includes modern ideas such as graphical analysis of data.

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