Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century

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Quality product on the subject matter.......2007-03-01

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The Legal Foundations of Public Administration

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The Legal Foundations of Public Administration
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The third edition of this highly respected textbook introduces students of public administration to the practical issues of administrative law. While useful to law school students, it is most relevant to public management students. The presentation provides a concise foundation to the history and theory of administrative law, rule making, and judicial decisions. The most important issues in administrative law are included--meaningful issues for present and future administrators. A larger number of recent cases and other up-to-date information will be found in the book in order to make the student aware of the kinds of legal problems likely to be encountered in public agencies.

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The Licensure and Certification Mission: Legal, Social, and Political Foundations

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The Licensure and Certification Mission: Legal, Social, and Political Foundations

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Excellent analysis of the rationale for credentialing.......2000-06-03

This book packs a smorgasbord of information into ~250 pages. The editors are affiliated with the Professional Examination Service, so it is not altogether surprising that the book makes a strong case for credentialing. But the contributors, who are from a variety of backgrounds, make it clear that licensure and certification have an important ethical and legal foundation in terms of protecting the public interest. This is NOT a how-to book that will lead your organization through the steps of establishing credentialing standards, but it will lay the groundwork as far as enlightneing an organization's executives and governing boards about the reasons for and possbile benefits of establishing a credentialing process. Highly recommended.

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Most biological science departments run general skills courses for their first years, which include some combination of a range of topics from lab skills, writing and presentation to basic maths, statistics and IT. The IT section of these courses tend to include some internet coverage but the trend towards learning how to find, access, manage and correctly cite online resources is rapidly becoming a required necessity for every student throughout their undergraduate career.

At present, there are no internet guides that specifically target this audience, despite the increasing importance placed on the use of online resources and the difficulties students encounter trying to make effective use of the information that is available. There are a lot of resources on the internet and students, especially first years, can feel swamped. As well as needing a guide, students need support to help them identify good, reliable information on the net. They also need guidance in administering the organisation of their searches and the materials that they discover on the internet. This simple guide will help bioscience students to access the information they need on the internet, and to make the most efficient and effective use of their time online.

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The internet is becoming increasingly important as a reference tool, with many students using it as their first choice of resource material. However, as the scope of the internet grows, so does the need for a concise, accessible guide to help students access, manage and cirrectly cite online resource material. Biosciences on the Internet: A Student's Guide is aimed specifically at students in the biological sciences, providing them with practical information and support to help identify good, reliable information, and guidance in administering the organisation of their searches. This simple guide will help bioscience students to access the information they need on the internet and help to make the most efficient and effective use of their time online. Starting with an overview of the origins and history of the internet, subsequent chapters look at accessing relevant websites, how to record and organise material, how to recognise copyright and pagiarism issues and how to evaluate and navigate round websites. Information is also given on how to construct personal websites. This book will be invaluable to all undergraduate students within the biological sciences who are looking for a practical guide to using the internet in support of their course assignments. Biosciences on the Internet: A Student's Guide: is a friendly, comprehensive guide providing bioscience undergraduates with practical advice on sourcing, retrieving and utilising information on the internet includes numerous images and illustration to help students grasp key concepts and navigate successfully through the text offers a supplementary website, including relevant links.

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This book is an up-to-date introduction to univariate spectral analysis aimed at graduate students, which reflects a new scientific awareness of spectral complexity, as well as the widespread use of spectral analysis on digital computers with considerable computational power. The text provides theoretical and computational guidance on the available techniques, emphasizing those that work in practice. It gives equal weight to both algorithms and statistical theory and is valuable for the many examples it gives showing the application of spectral analysis to real data sets. The book is unique in placing special emphasis on the multitaper technique, which can successfully handle spectra with intricate structure and data with or without spectral lines. The text contains a large number of exercises.

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Excellent exposition of modern power spectrum ananysis.......2000-09-01

A splendid overview of modern power spectrum analysis, with an emphasis on multitaper methods. Perfect for any scientist or engineer who deals with time series data.

Spectral Analysis for Physical Applications: Multitaper and Conventional Univariate Techniques.: An article from: American Scientist

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Spectral Analysis for Physical Applications: Multitaper and Conventional Univariate Techniques.: An article from: American Scientist

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The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other, containing the romantic extravagance and comic exuberance of the great nineteenth-century novels with the self-conscious depth and introspection of the great Modernists. Maiden Castle portrays in pointillist detail the complexities of sexual and romantic feeling that bedevil an eccentric cast of characters, and explores the psychological idiosyncrasies that fuel their hopes and dreams, fantasies and failures.

At the center of the novel is the aptly named Dud No-man, a historical novelist widowed after a yearlong unconsummated marriage to a woman who continues to haunt him. Inspired by pity and his own deep loneliness, Dud takes Wizzie Ravelston, an itinerant circus performer, into his home and heart. Their awkward yet endearing efforts to create a life together unfold in counterpoint to the romantic and familial relationships that sizzle and simmer in the village of Dorchester. Yet even as the characters in Maiden Castle struggle with the perplexities of love, desire and faith-readjusting their sights and affections-it is the looming fortress of Maiden Castle that exerts the otherworldly force that irrevocably determines the course of their lives.

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Disturbing Dungeon.......2007-08-06

This book, of the four Powys novels I've now read (plus his Autobiography), is at once somehow the least polished and the most deeply disturbing. It is eerie in an exceedingly dark and profound sense that rather creeps up on one and that did not begin to affect me until I was over three hundred pages well into it. I think the reason for this quality, is that, in many ways, it is more deeply autobiographical than Powys's actual Autobiography. Powys here opens up his "Elementalism" - a sort of Wordsworthian Animism - and puts it to a severe trial by fire, from which our main character, Dud No-Man, makes a narrow, but harrowing and wounding, escape. But of more interest is the other main character, Urien, who does not escape. Both of the main characters (as anyone who has read any of Powys's other novels would expect) are based partly on Powys's himself. What so disturbs one about this novel is that Powys's puts on fierce display a part of himself, and by Powsyian inference, a part of all humans, in which that way madness lies. The notion plumbed here is that we all have our own "life illusion" or "personal mythology" as Powys, by turns, is pleased to call it, stripped of which we rapidly disintegrate. Powys portrays this disintegration so convincingly that I can safely say that it's one of the most disturbing novels I've ever read (and from Malcolm Lowry to Cormac McCarthy, I've read many).

What I find a bit irking and unpolished about the style of the prose is Powys's constant appropriation of phrases from other authors, particularly Shakespeare, particularly Hamlet. The nonpareil example here is the use of "bare bodkin" for unsheathed knife, in the phrase "Dud's words cut into her like a bare bodkin...." I venture to say that you could spend the rest of your life searching for the alliterative "bare bodkin" and would find it in only two places, this book and the most famous soliloquy in the English language. Yet, somehow again, this presumptuousness ceases to rankle after some time due to the deeply chilling nature of the narrative. There's really no way, of course, of conveying this quality in a review aside from proffering a few quotes, which I shall proceed to do:

"Every life, if the truth were known, contains experiences of monstrous grotesqueries."

"These deep conflicts aren't misunderstandings, as both sides love to affirm: they are understandings. They know each other too well!"

"Don't you see what force there is in sterile love? Why, my dear boy, it's the strongest force there is! Rampant desire unfulfilled - why, there's nothing it can't do. Stir up sex till it would put out the sun and then keep it sterile! That's the trick! That's the grand trick of all spiritual life."

"...the abominable loneliness of every person in the world, the loneliness of our pain, of our despair, of our insanity, sent a shiver through her that made her feel sick and weak."

"Does our real conscience only get roused by a madness that reduces the pleasure of life itself to cold, stale, wet ashes in comparison?"

These are the sorts of baroque insights into which this book will draw you and leave you mulling over long after you have turned the last page.

A Fierce, Dark, Ancient Paganism.......2007-06-29

Ever since Hardy, the greatest English regional novelist (indeed, in the opinion of some of us the greatest English novelist full stop) Dorset has been a favourite setting for novels. Recent novelists who have set works in the county include John Fowles ("The French Lieutenant's Woman"), Keith Roberts ("Pavane"), Christopher Priest ("A Dream of Wessex") and Ian MacEwan ("On Chesil Beach"). The early twentieth-century novelist John Cowper Powys was originally from Derbyshire, but spent much of his life in Dorset or neighbouring Somerset, and wrote several works with a Wessex setting.

"Maiden Castle" is set in Hardy's home town of Dorchester, which he called Casterbridge in his novels. (Powys was himself living in Dorchester at the time the book was written). Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" begins with a scene in which the hero, Michael Henchard, drunkenly sells his wife at a village fair. "Maiden Castle" quite deliberately begins with an incident which parallels, and inverts, Hardy's opening. It also starts with a woman being sold, but in this case the hero, Dud No-Man, is not the seller but the buyer. He "buys" Wizzie Ravelston, a young circus rider, from Ben Urgan, the circus owner, who has seduced Wizzie and (unknown to Dud) fathered a child by her. Wizzie becomes Dud's companion and, possibly, mistress (it is not clear whether the relationship is ever consummated or not). The remainder of the novel is concerned with the changing relationships between Dud, Wizzie and a group of their acquaintances, including Urgan (generally known by the nickname "Old Funky") Teucer Wye, a retired professor of Greek, his daughters Jenny and Thuella, the mysterious and sinister Uryen Quirm and his wife Nancy, Jenny's companion Roger Cask, a well-to-do and ascetic philanthropist with a passionate devotion to Communism, and Wye's son Dunbar, an equally committed Fascist.

The book was written in 1937 and set two years earlier, in 1935. In some respects it is a very realistic novel, firmly anchored in a real time and place. The town of Dorchester is described in detail, much of the action taking place in real streets and real buildings. Hardy similarly made use of real Dorset settings for his work, but, unlike Hardy, Powys does not disguise his settings by using fictitious place-names.

In other respects, however, the book is far from realistic, something emphasised by the eccentric names which Powys gives to his characters. This was partly done so that they could not be easily identified with real individuals (Powys had been sued for libel after some local people had taken exception to the portrait drawn of their town in his earlier novel "A Glastonbury Romance") but also for symbolic purposes. Dud No-man, a historical novelist, has deliberately adopted this pseudonym to emphasise his anonymity and his uncertainty about his identity. His original surname was Smith, but he rejected this in favour of No-man when he discovered that he was illegitimate and that his mother's husband was not his true father. We never learn his true Christian name; "Dud" is a childish nickname, not a diminutive of Dudley.

Apart from Dud, the central figure in the story is probably Uryen Quirm, who in the course of the book is revealed as Dud's true father. He also goes under an alias. Quirm is not his true surname, and his real Christian name is actually Enoch, but he has rejected this in favour of the more mystical Uryen, a name which reflects his Welsh origins and his obsession with pre-Christian Celtic religion and mythology. The "Maiden Castle" of the title is a Neolithic fortified camp just outside Dorchester, and the finding of a prehistoric statue there by a team of archaeologists plays an important part in the plot. (The name "Maiden" has nothing to do with young women, but is a corruption of the old Celtic name of the fort, Mai-dun). Uryen is particularly obsessed with Maiden Castle, which he regards as a symbol of the Old Religion he follows, and of a past time when "neither the pleasures of life were denied nor the paths to immortality discredited". He believes that it is there that he can get in touch with the gods of that lost religion.

Paralleling the story of Uryen is that of his son Dud and his relationship with Wizzie. This is not perhaps the most successful part of the book. Dud is too cold and withdrawn to make a sympathetic hero, and the moral conventions of the day meant that Powys could not treat their story with the sexual frankness that he might have wished. For example, it is implied that Dud is unable to consummate his relationship with Wizzie through impotence (and was unable to consummate his earlier marriage for the same reason), although this is never stated explicitly. Similarly, a lesbian attraction between Wizzie and Thuella Wye is implied but not made explicit.

Although his cast of characters includes both a Communist and a Fascist, and the book was written in the late thirties when the rivalry between those two totalitarian ideologies was threatening to plunge Europe into war, Powys was not particularly interested in political analysis. Dunbar is a relatively minor character, and Cask seems to have been included to provide a materialistic counterweight to Uryen's mystical spirituality. Whereas Uryen identifies with the Celts, Cask identifies with their Roman conquerors, whom he sees as having brought civilisation and order. (His nickname is Claudius, after the Roman Emperor who first conquered Britain).

Despite its realistic sense of place, the overall tone of the book is mystical. There is an even stronger sense of England's historic and prehistoric past which, in Powys's universe, seems to co-exist with the present. The plot of the book is in some ways unsatisfactory, but this is a book in which plot seems to take second place to an atmosphere of brooding spirituality, a spirituality which is not informed by Christianity, nor by a gentle modern New Ageism, but by a fierce, dark, ancient paganism.

Dud Noman's struggle to exist........1998-11-26

This book is about Dud Noman. Never has there been a more appropriate name for a charachter. The book takes place in the early decades of this century and revolves around a completely pathetic soul that the reader will both relate to and sympathize with. It is the story of his struggle to survive and live and really causes the reader to reflect upon their own existence. The characters are all multi-faceted and complex, but that is one of my favorite things about Powys. Like all Powys novels this one is well worth the effort.

Book of Maiden Castle (English Heritage)

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Book of Maiden Castle (English Heritage)
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The Cruise Of The Maiden Castle
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The Cruise of the Maiden Castle
David Severn
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The cruise of the maiden castle
David Severn
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English Heritage Book of Maiden Castle (English Heritage)

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English Heritage Book of Maiden Castle (English Heritage)
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