Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000 (National Bureau of Economic Research--Comparative Labor Markets Series)

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In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors. Today, the United Kingdom is one of the least regulated economies in the world, marked by transformed welfare and industrial relations systems and broad privatization. Virtually every industry and government program has been affected by the reforms, from hospitals and schools to labor unions and jobless benefit programs.

Seeking a Premier Economy focuses on the labor and product market reforms that directly impacted productivity, employment, and inequality. The questions asked are provocative: How did the United Kingdom manage to stave off falling earnings for lower paid workers? What role did the reforms play in rising income inequality and trends in poverty? At the same time, what reforms also contributed to reduced unemployment and the accelerated growth of real wages? The comparative microeconomic approach of this book yields the most credible evaluation possible, focusing on closely associated outcomes of particular reforms for individuals, firms, and sectors.

Seeking a Premier Economy - the Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000

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Seeking a Premier Economy - the Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Selections from the shorter wrintings of Reinhold Niebuhr.

Love and Justice Selections from the Shorter Writing

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Love and Justice Selections from the Shorter Writing
R. Niebuhr
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Love & Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

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Love & Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold; Robertson, D.B. (ed.) Niebuhr
Manufacturer: Meridian Books
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Love and Justice: Selections From the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

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Love and Justice: Selections From the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold. Ed. D. B. Robertson Niebuhr
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Stochastische Methoden finden in der Informatik zahlreiche Einsatzfelder, insbesondere in der Bio- und Medizinischen Informatik. Ziel des Buches ist es eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der Stochastik zu geben, wobei viele Anwendungsbeispiele für die notwendigen Theorie motivieren und diese illustriert. Über weite Strecken konzentriert sich das Buch auf die für die Informatik besonders wichtigen diskreten Modelle. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auch darauf gelegt, die Brücke zur Numerik zu schlagen, weshalb z.B. exakte Konfidenzintervalle sehr ausführlich behandelt werden. Um dem immer wichtiger werdenden Gebiet der Bioinformatik Rechnung zu tragen, werden entsprechende Beispiele (z.B. Hardy-Weinberg-Gesetz, medizinische Tests, Sequenzvergleiche) und Methoden (exponentielle Schranken, EM-Algorithmus) behandelt, so dass auch Informatiker mit Nebenfach Medizin und Biologie das Buch mit Gewinn lesen können. Hinweise zu weiterführender Literatur runden das Buch ab.

Übungsaufgaben zur Mathematik für Informatiker und BioInformatiker: Mit durchgerechneten und erklärten Lösungen (eXamen.press)

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Übungsaufgaben zur Mathematik für Informatiker und BioInformatiker: Mit durchgerechneten und erklärten Lösungen (eXamen.press)
Manfred Wolff
Manufacturer: Springer
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Übung macht bekanntlich den Meister. In der Mathematik gilt dieses alte Sprichwort auch heute noch uneingeschränkt!

Eine Fülle erprobter studienbegleitender Übungsaufgaben zur Vorlesung "Mathematik für Informatiker" helfen dem Studenten, sein mathematisches Rüstzeug zu erneuern, zu optimieren und sich unter anderem damit bestens für Klausuren vorzubereiten. Im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Übungsbüchern zu Mathematik werden hier nicht nur Ergebnisse oder bestenfalls Lösungsskizzen gegeben. Vielmehr werden Musteraufgaben vom ersten Ansatz bis zum Ergebnis vollständig durchgerechnet und schrittweise erklärt. Beispiele und Java-Applets erläutern dabei prinzipielle Methoden, die zur Lösung der Aufgaben angewendet werden.

Das Übungsbuch und das Lehrbuch Wolff/Hauck/Küchlin: Mathematik für BioInformatiker sind aufeinander abgestimmt.

Die Java-Applets sind unter der URL http://min.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de zu finden.

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Thermochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes

Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S.
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Thermochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes.

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Summary of basics of small system (or nonmacroscopic) thermodynamics, written by the originator of the field, introduces basics, explores environmental variables, examines binding on macromolecules and aggregation, and includes brief summaries of electric and magnetic fields, spherical drops and bubbles, and polydisperse systems. 1964 edition.

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On the Thermodynamics of small systems.......2006-07-18

Thermodynamics in its beginnings was devoted to macroscopic objects. However its methodology has found room for application at microscopic molecular level something that, has adquire notoriety in recent years. The author presents a wider scope of basic thermodynamics which goes beyond its original intentions thus opening the door to new possibilities. Books like this one offers a clear exponent that things that now are rediscovered and presented as a spectacular breakthrough in fact goes to the sources of Thermodynamics.

logical presentation of nanothermodynamics fundamentals.......2001-04-09

Some scientists, including the author, are beginning to use the phrase 'nanothermodynamics' to describe the behavior of small chemical systems at or near equilibrium. 'Thermodynamics of Small Systems' provides many concepts which can be used to describe these behaviors in practical terms for biological systems, between nearest-neighbor molecules or molecular clusters at surfaces and interfaces, in vapor-liquid-solid interfacial reaction and diffusion, in adsorbent-adsorbate interactions, or in membrane science and heterogeneous catalysis at short length scales. Concepts are clear and easy to apply if one has a strong background in chemical thermodyanmics and physical chemistry. A basic understanding of quantum chemistry is also useful.

When I read this book a few years ago, I merely sought to round out my knowledge of molecular level chemical systems by covering an area of thermodynamics I wasn't familiar with, but had no expectation of ever using those concepts. In fact, I've found that Dr. Hill's book has become a fundamental reference for my own work.

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Microcanonical Thermodynamics: Phase Transitions in 'Small' Systems
Dieter H. E. Gross
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Thermodynamics of Small Systems Part 1
Terence L Hill
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Thermodynamics of Small Systems, Two Volumes
Terence L. Hill
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Thermodynamics of Small Systems. Vol. 1 Only
terrell hill
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Bad relationships never change

Whining depression in Heian Japan

A Context for Gossamer Years

A Context for Gossamer Years

A fascinating look at an obscure time period

Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan

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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan (Penguin Classics)

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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

ASIN: 0804811237

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Bad relationships never change.......2003-10-08

The author was far away in time, place, and culture from where I am now. Her self-induced misery is completely up to date, though.

This piece is divided into three books. The first was mostly a series of conversations, held in short, oblique poems, often in terms of proverbs lost to history. My western eye found little to cling to.

The second book is more readable, describing the long slow fall of her relationship. She was concubine to Kaneie, second to his actual wife. Even so, she had a large household of her own. Perhaps she was a she was a kept woman, but she was very well kept. Not well enough for her taste, though. She constantly demanded more of Kaneie's time, but seemed to reward him, most often, with excuses or aloofness. She really could not see how hard she worked to put him off, while faulting him for being put off.

The third book completes her estrangement from Kaneie, not in any harsh way, but with a mutual numbing of interest. It's not for me to say - still, I wonder whether this is a first-person account of clinical depression. She finally shifts her interest to her son's future, then leaves us with the most dramatic cliff-hanger ending in all of literature.

"Gossamer Years" is a good addition to a well-rounded library of Eastern classics. I wouldn't suggest that it be among the first in that library, though. Shonagon's "Pillow Book" is a much more enjoyable piece of Heian women's literature.

Whining depression in Heian Japan.......2003-08-23

I found the author to be a whining depressing mess. She spend half of her time moaning about how miserable she is because her husband doesn't pay any attention to her, a quarter of her time snidely gossiping about her husband's other women and the other quarter of her time she's gloating about whatever "great" poem she's recently penned.

This is the second book I've read from Heian Japan. I found Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book to be a much more engaging read.

A Context for Gossamer Years.......2002-09-02

If you are new the Heian period, this should not be your first book; The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu and The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon are required reading, along with excepts from the Kokinshu. However, if you're already familiar with the literature and history of the Heian period, and want to know more about the lives of women in this time period, then this diary is an excellent source.

Teachers of Japanese literature might find it useful to pair readings from the idealized novel Tale of Genji with similiar episodes in the real life Gossamer Years -- all too often students are left dazzled by the brilliance of Murasaki's novel and tend to believe it represents an accurate view of court life in the Heian period. Murasaki's novel is high literature and possessed of significant psychological insight and truly deserves its status as a great work of world literature, but it is fiction. The Gossamer Years, written by a real woman about her real life, gives a very different view of how it felt to actually live with a philandering husband and court intrigues, as well as worrying about more ordinary tasks such as sewing and raising a son.

The reader who wants more exciting stories and courtly tales from the Heian period would probably be better entertained by works such as The Changelings (a tale of a brother and sister who swap places in life), The Tale of Ise (poetry and episodes from the life of a gentleman famous as a poet and a lover), and the The Tale of the Heike (the epic tale of the rise and fall of the House of Taira, a sequence of events which formally ended the Heian era and ushered in the rule of the samurai).

A Context for Gossamer Years.......2002-09-02

A fascinating look at an obscure time period.......2001-12-12

(written on light-grey paper, with a sprig of rosemary tied into the ribbon around it)

I came into this book knowing absolutely nothing about the Heian period of feudal Japan, and left knowing enough to stand my own. The details revealed are absolutely fascinating, and the writing is rich and evocative. It is a lifestyle of an age long gone, brought to life again.

The noble writer of the diary is, as has been promised, not entirely an angel (her life does sound a bit talk-show-ish at points), but she does certainly have an eye for detail and storytelling. I doubt even non-history-freaks would find this difficult going. Easy to read and digest, with lots of neat looks at life in a very exotic place.

I cannot say enough about the book's usefulness as a sourcebook for the period. The copious notes at the end are almost as fascinating as the book itself. I wouldn't have minded more pictures, but I suppose one can't have everything. Those into history, Japanese history, biographies/diaries, etc., will find this a fascinating and informative read.

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The Gossamer Years (Kagero Nikki) The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan

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The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Edward, Trans. Seidensticker
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The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Kagero Nikki
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The gossamer years;: The diary of a noblewoman of Heian, Japan (UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series)
Michitsuna no Haha
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Finding the best sites on the Civil War can be a daunting task when you consider that a simple search on the web for Civil War can yield over a million hits. The Civil War on the Web, SR Books' highly acclaimed guide to Internet resources, elimina

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Scratched the surface.......2000-12-12

Very well done. Logically laid out and easy to use. CD-ROM attachment is very helpful.

I found myself skipping the profiles and going straight to the sites and am disappointed that the number of sites are limited . . . of course they are only profiling the best. It does cover a very broad number of topics.

A good effort but they barely scratched the surface. I had a better time working the link lists at major sites.

What Many Of Us Have Been Looking For.......2000-11-29

Anyone who has lost themselves in the web searching for Civil War information know that the amount, quantity, and accessibility of material can, and does, fascinate and frustrate. Sites that looked promising turn into dead ends, information presented can be of dubious quality and, most of all, the sheer volume of material can consume many tedious hours. The Civil War on the Web highlights the best sites, and will save this researcher much valuable time. Civil War enthusiasts will also enjoy the authors' essays and summaries for the insight they provide on the state of scholarship today. A must for anyone curious about the war who has access to the internet!

My favorite gift.......2000-11-25

My wife got me this book for my birthday. I'm a big Civil War buff and even I found sites in this book that I never would have found otherwise. I found so much to read on the Civil War on the web through this book its like getting a 100 books (for the price of one). Plus, there is a CD that makes linking to the sites even easier. If you know someone who likes the Civil War, this is the book for them.

Civil War Researcher's Dream.......2000-11-14

An excellent book to purchase whether you are an advanced Civil War researcher or a novice. I found that the book's reviews are on the mark in ranking websites that present solid information clearly, and are relatively easy to navigate as well.

Using Civil War on the Web, I discovered exceptional websites that I would have overlooked otherwise, sifting through hundreds upon hundreds of hits. I very highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know where the best information is without spending hours on the search alone.

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Explores a neglected, yet fundamental feature of history and society

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Unique in its depth, breadth, and variety of opinions and writings, this anthology of scholarly and popular articles explores the positive, negative, ethical, and unethical issues faced by society as technology changes the world that we live in—on a personal, national, and international level. Using specific examples from the past and present (and hypothesized ones for the future), it exposes readers to the full breadth and depth of issues, showing the complexity that makes “solutions” not so simple. It encourages readers to think critically, analytically, and creatively about today's technological and sociological problems, and challenges them to contemplate solutions of their own. Ethical theory, technological history, the depletion of energy resources, population growth, ecological changes, medical technologies, and third world development. For anyone interested in the impact of technology on society.

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A good survey of the implications of technology on society.......1999-11-05

This book was written for university undergraduates to help them understand the relationship between technology and society. There are chapters covering the history of technolgical development, the impact of technology on the environment, warfare and technology, the consequences of technological development on the third world, and how technology might affect the future. Each chapter comes with questions, exercises and flow charts to help the reader translate theory into reality.

Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century

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Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century
Barbara A. Eichler, Ahmed S. Khan, John A. Morello Linda S. Hjorth
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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