Economic Transformation, Democratization and Integration Into the European Union: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective

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The transformation from a closed and inward-looking economy to an active integration into the European Union is one that a number of countries are facing. This book examines the experience of southern European countries where such transformation has occurred within a short space of time and has been accompanied by important socio-political developments including the consolidation of democracy. The various contributors focus on the motivation for economic change, the problems encountered, and the lessons to be learnt.

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Title: Unity, diversity and the fragmentation of international law: how much does the multiplication of international organizations really matter?
Author: Mario Prost
Publication: Chinese Journal of International Law (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 5 Issue: 2 Page: 341(30)

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How much does law matter?: Labor relations in Rotterdam and U.S. ports (Working paper / Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley)

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How much does law matter?: Labor relations in Rotterdam and U.S. ports (Working paper / Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Robert A Kagan
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Donald D Opdahl
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During the last decade a wealth of new data has arisen from the use of new fluorescent labelling techniques and the sequencing of whole microbial genomes. One important conclusion from these data is that bacterial cells are much more structured than previously thought. The wall and the outer membrane contain topological domains, some proteins localize or move in specific patterns inside the cells, and some genes appear clustered in the chromosome and form conserved evolutionary units. Many of these structures are related to the cell cycle and to the process of cell morphogenesis, two processes that are themselves related to each other. From these observations the dcw gene cluster appears as a phylogenetic trait that is mainly conserved in bacilli. Molecules in Time and Space reviews the data on the formation of subcellular patterns or structures in bacteria, presents observations and hypotheses on the establishment and the maintenance of cell shape, and on the organization of genetic information in the chromosome.

Molecules in Time and Space Bacterial Shape, Division and Phylogeny

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Molecules in Time and Space Bacterial Shape, Division and Phylogeny
Miguel (EDT)/ Tamames, Javier (EDT)/ Valencia, Alfonso (EDT)/ Mingorance, Jesus (EDT) Vicente
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"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." #Richard Feynman#
Basing his discussion on a small number of conceptually simple models (the two-level atom, the two-slit interferometer), the author addresses a number of conceptually interesting questions concerning the puzzles of quantum mechanics. Though the phenomena arising from quantum interference are central, he maintains that they are not the only mystery in quantum mechanics: the deep connection between spin and the statistics of identical particles, the "ghostly" long-range effects that correlated particles exert on each other, and the perplexing role of topology in the interactions of charged particles and electromagnetic fields, are all conundrums yet to be understood.

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Essays in Quantum Interference.......2002-11-29

Mark P. Silverman's "More Than One Mystery", in much the same manner as his treatment of optics in "Waves and Grains" written a few years later, is a series of discrete but interrelated essays on different aspects of quantum interference. The treatment is semi-technical, with analyses of the math supporting the various experiments and their interpretations. Speaking as one with no math background at all and no formal training in physics, I still found this book fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable. Silverman is something of a polymath, with wide-ranging interests, and he succeeds in bringing together concepts from different fields of study in unexpected but very fruitful ways. He surely must be a wonderful classroom teacher; his enthusiasm for his subject matter is contagious, and to say that his use of language in his writing is masterful is an understatement. Formerly a journalist, he is always engaging, and never dry. Throughout, his descriptions are a model of clarity, and the precision of his vocabulary in the simplest nontechnical sentences is awe-inspiring in its elegance. This is not a textbook, but any serious student of physics who doesn't own a copy is missing out on an important book.

Much of this same material is presented for a general readership in his 2002 "A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe", a revision of the now out-of-print "And Yet It Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics".

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More Than One Mystery - Exploration in Quantum Interference

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More Than One Mystery: Explorations in Quantum Interference.
Mark P. Silverman
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More Than One Mystery: Explorations in Quantum Interference.
Mark P. Silverman
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i The English Novel in History 1700-1780 /i traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Burney and Sterne), as well as evaluating the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: scandalous and amatory fictions by Behn, Manley and Eliza Haywood; criminal narratives of the early part of the century by Defoe; the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's; novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life; novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter, by writers such as Haywood, Sarah Scott and Frances Sheridan. This original and useful book revises traditional literary history by considering novels from those years in the context of the transformation of Britain in the eighteenth century.

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The Facts.......2001-01-08

This is a well organized collection of many of the clues that can be founed in several other sources. The author offers little new insight with the exception of a cave that she discovered. It is a good book for beginners who would like an introduction to the clues pertaining to the lost dutchman's mine.

The Sterling Legend: The Facts Behind the Lost Dutchman Mine

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The Sterling Legend: The Facts Behind the Lost Dutchman Mine
Estee Conatser
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Word-collecting is an ancient practice that began nearly 4,500 years ago in pre-Babylonian Sumer. In Chasing the Sun, prominent British lexicographer Jonathon Green gives an account of his kind, tracing the history of dictionary making from the clay tablet to the CD-ROM. Green also examines--and debunks--the so-called impartiality of lexicographers. No matter how zealously they may protest, dictionary makers are never the passive recipients of linguistic law. They do have an agenda. As Green puts it, they are always "playing God. Or if not God, then at least Moses, descending from Sinai with the tablets of the law."

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A few will love this book; most won't.......2000-05-17

It's probably just me, but I had a hard time staying awake while reading this book, although I must admit my ears "pricked" up during the sections on slang. Green is an expert in this area, and his enthusiastic style belies the fact. The rest of the book was a bit less engaging. Hey, go ahead and get it anyway - it's only like ten bucks!

an enormous amount of interesting, useful information.......1998-11-02

. . .the first fourteen chapters. . .gather in one place an enormous amount of interesting, useful information about (deceased) lexicographers and the dictionaries they prepared.

as reviewed by Laurence Urdang in the Winter 1997 issue (Vol. XXIII, No. 3) of VERBATIM, The Language Quarterly.

Lexicographers as priests -- and people.......1997-04-29

On the surface, dictionary-making seems like an unlikely subject for a history intended for anyone other than specialists to read. Yet Jonathon Green succeeds in leading the reader to appreciate, first, that dictionary-makers serve an important role as arbiters of the language we use to shape our lives, and second, that they are not "harmless drudges" (in Samuel Johnson's memorable phrase), but people with colorful, even strange, backgrounds.

Green has several objects in his history. One of the primary ones is to elevate the lexicographer from drudge to priest. He points particularly to America in the nineteenth century as a land where immigrants and lower-class people wanted to be told how to speak and write properly in order to advance in society. They looked to dictionaries and their makers as the arbiters of what counted as "correct" language. Green argues that America has generally tended toward prescriptive dictionaries, while England has been home to more descriptive efforts. He clearly sides with the latter, and his discussion of the controversy over Webster's Third International (which took a more descriptive approach than most American dictionaries) with barely disguised disbelief -- how could people have been so silly? Still, his editorializing is relatively subtle -- and convincing.

Another of Green's goals is to present the people behind the dictionaries. In the modern world, dictionaries are identified by their publishers -- the American Heritage, the OED, the Merriam-Webster -- and the people involved vanish into anonymity. This was not always the case, as Green makes clear. Dictionaries from the sixteenth century onward were known by their authors, despite the fact that the dictionaries drew on (and, frankly, plagiarized) each other. The authors did not shy from letting their personalities and biases show through. What is more, they and their modern successors led unusual lives, shaped by the near-fanaticism that lexicography seems to require. Green shows us these characters, from the cash-strapped but elitist Samuel Johnson, to James Murray, long in charge of the OED, with his vast arrays of cubbyholes and contributors (including an inmate of the Broadmoor insane asylum!).

Green's history is very readable, if sometimes more detailed than necessary; he tends to throw more names at the reader than anyone could possibly keep straight. Still, the book should be fascinating for anyone with a love of words and a curiosity about unusual people.

An entertaining meander down the byways of English letters.......1997-01-16

As a lexicographer, Jonathon Green is brave, foolish or honest. Chasing The Sun presents his fellow abecedarians in a poor light: querulous, conceited, or mad. Photius, the ninth century Byzantine scholar, used to respond to his friends1 letters by correcting their grammar. (He was also the first book reviewer.) Dr WC Minor, who defined tens of thousands of words for the OED, did his work from Broadmoor after being driven mad by the American Civil War and killing a stoker in Lambeth. Noah Webster bowdlerised the Bible. In many cases, the idiosyncrasies of lexicographers are amplified by the insecure economics of the profession. Dictionary-making takes years, if done painstakingly and well, and a lexicographer with no other source of income must beg and scrape where he can. (Hence Johnson's celebrated rebuke to Chesterfield, willing to shell out more than 10 pounds only once the work was nearly completed: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?") Sales are uncertain: Johnson's dictionary sold fewer than 4,000 in the ten years after publication. And worst of all, the results are easily plagiarised. These economics explain some of the more harmless self-puffery, such as Partridge publishing a slang lexicon anonymously as Vigilans and recording in it his special debt to Eric Partridge, then repaying the compliment to Vigilans under his own name. Accusations of plagiarism can also lead to more protracted warfare. When dictionaries appear within a short time of each other (and that can mean within a decade or two), the earlier lexicographer will often have to attack the later, in the press, in pamphlets or in subsequent editions, because the latter is eating its predecessor1s food. This lay behind the two most celebrated wars of words, between Blount and Phillips in the seventeenth century, and between Webster and Worcester in nineteenth century America. Blount's Glossographia of 1656 was followed two years later by Phillips, who had lifted the bulk of New World of Words, uncredited, from his predecessor despite heaping scorn on him in his preface. Blount struck back, rebuking and refuting Phillips word by word, definition by definition, as a "beggarly, half-wited [sic] scholar". This war was extinguished by the death of both men and their replacement by Johnson as authors of the 'Unidentified Authorising Dictionary'. Webster and Worcester went beyond personal hostility to embody a clash of cultures. Webster consciously defined his 1828 dictionary as American, despite the fact that, as Green points out, very few of his words are distinctively American (though their spelling is). Worcester, following him by two years, again, was framed by default the Anglophile, elitist choice. The decision of which dictionary to buy became a question of national pride and national identity, and Webster won out, his more egregious errors, mostly of etymology, being fixed by others in later editions. Modern battles over dictionaries are less personal, usually centring on political correctness of one sort or another: either dictionary-makers are censured for allowing too many 'dirty' words in without comment, or for being insufficiently prescriptive. The battle over Webster1s Third International in 1961 grew beyond a dispute over whether the dictionary should have admitted the word `ain1t1 and became a clash over definitions of Western Civilisation. The debate over W3, as the dictionary is known to its friends, is in effect a clash between the prescriptive attitude of the general public and public commentators, who want a dictionary to set a standard of 'good English', and the descriptive bias of the professionals, who want a dictionary to describe a language as it is. Language, certainly the English language, is too tricksy a thing for the prescriptivists ever to win out; at the same time, as Green acknowledges, every lexicographer leaves some words out, and is therefore to some extent prescriptive. Dirt depends on date: Aelfric got away with 'beallucas' in 1000 AD, whereas in nineteenth century America 'leg', 'trousers' and 'sneeze' were beyond the pale. Abusive epithets are harder to deal with: Green tells the history of `Jew1 as a verb meaning to cheat, defined in this sense by the OED in the early twentieth century (and used in this sense by pop monarchy in 1995). Green sides firmly with the descriptivists rather than the prescriptivists: "include the word, opprobrious though it undoubtedly is, and mark it as derogatory, offensive, whatever. But do not on any account exclude it." Green1s book wavers between scholarship and readability: it meanders entertainingly into the byways of English letters, but its determination to mention by name every lexicographer since the Akkadians and Summerians cuts down on the amount of space available for the more entertaining episodes. In keeping with the subject, the reader has to hunt hard for the juicy bits, but aimless browsing yields unexpected rewards.

Chasing the Sun; Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made

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Chasing the Sun; Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made
Jonathon Green
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Chasing the Sun - Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made

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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers & the Dicionaries They Made

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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers & the Dicionaries They Made
Jonathon Green
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CHASING THE SUN: DICTIONARY-MAKERS AND THE DICTIONARIES THEY MADE
Jonathon Green
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A great betrayal

The Sacred Neuron: The Extraordinary New Discoveries Linking Science and Religion
John W. Bowker
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A new way of understanding our emotionsand faith W hy do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Or, that some things are beautiful, and other things ugly, some good, and others evil? In the past these questions have been answered by separating our emotional from our rational responses, but recent work in the neurosciences suggests that the questions now deserve very different answers. In his new book, John Bowker shows that reason and emotion work much more closely together in forming human opinions and judgments than has previously been supposed. This discovery has stunning implications for religion and for the human sense of God.

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A great betrayal.......2005-09-24

If ever a book's text betrayed its title, surely this one is the best example. We learn nothing of cognitive sciences and only Bowker's personal assessment of what's "sacred". From the opening pages, we're led to believe some innovative insights into why we act as we do will be forthcoming. Bowker's knowledge and erudition are immense. It's only reasonable to think all that background has granted him a vision of what it means to be human. Will Bowker provide an informative new view of that state?

He invokes a wide spectrum of scholarly sources as he builds the foundation for what should be an grand edifice. Darwin, naturally, leads the way. We are, Bowker recognises, the product of evolution. Although questions remain about what makes us human, especially how our intellect has been generated, Bowker's introductory chapters lead us to believe he possesses new answers. Science, he reassures us, is struggling to reveal more data on various aspects of the human condition. He seeks testimony from anthropologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. That all this accumulated intellect is centred on a dispute over an obscure bishop should give us pause, but Bowker casts Hensly Henson as a symbol. Why not, religion is a human universal. One example of it should be as good as another. Besides, the essays here are from the Henson Lecture series.

As we are dazzled by the breadth and scope of Bowker's presentation, we feel heightened expectancy. Soon he will tell us how the brain contributes to making us human. He addresses the issues of the brain and emotion, the brain and reason, the brain and ethics. But the relationships grow increasingly vague with the turning pages. No internal motivations are explained. Certainly, no evolutionary roots, Darwin's mention notwithstanding, ever appear. Instead, we are increasingly bogged down with culture. Not human culture, but that narrow range Bowker knows and adores - the Western European idiom, and particularly that of Bowker's England. Instead of the range of deities present throughout human cultures, we are given only his monotheistic deity familiar to all Christians. His god is decreed as the only deity to be considered. Is this the entire scope of humanity's relationship to the supernatural? Like all monotheists, Bowker would have us believe his deity represents a universal, something any anthropologist would summarily dismiss out of hand.

We never find out if Bowker's "sacred neuron" actually exists. No cognitive studies are presented supporting such a view, although several have been published. No neurophilosophers such as the Churchlands, Ramachandran or Edelman are presented. He cites scholars such as Damasio only to discount them. Damasio's work certainly doesn't support the idea of a deity influencing the development of our minds. In short, Bowker's title is merely a stupendous case of false advertising. He posits a deity as an a prior condition, then tries to use science to support the flimsiest of cases. It's not clear who has suffered the greater betrayal, the reader, the publisher or Bowker himself. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

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"Along the Arizona Trail" delivers!.......1999-01-01

M. John Fayhee tells the story of his trip along the Arizona Trail. Jerry Sieve captures the beauty of the trail in stunning photography. Fayhee does a great job of keeping the reader excited. My favorite area the Four Peaks Wilderness is not very well represented. Nevertheless I highly recommend this book!

can't get enough of Arizona.......1998-09-19

The photography in this book is unbelievable, and were it not for the requirement to note when photos are retouched in the computer, I would have believed they were "illustrations." I can never look at enough photographs of Arizona, but this unique stretch of trail which runs 750 miles from Mexico to Utah is a never ending string of contrasts, diversity and astounding beauty.

Jerry Sieve, the author, must be a book designers dream. He writes in strings of 20 word "pull quotes" and has done a great job of describing the trials and tribulations of hiking the unfinished Arizona Trail with a wonderful sense of humor. With the exception of a few stinging criticisms - the filthy air of Phoenix, road warriors in popular camp grounds, outdated topographic maps, etc. - he is as enthusiastic as those of us in Arizona about this monumental project and the opportunity for long distance non-motorized trail use that it provides.

You may have to purchase a new coffee table for this book!

The photos are almost as beautiful as the real thing!.......1998-09-15

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A Great Introductory Book on the Geology of Grand Canyon.......1998-04-17

Written in easy to understand language, this book is both interesting and informative. It provides generalized maps of geologic highlights along the trail, black & white pictures, and drawings which all tie into the informative text sections. Spiral bound with vinyl cover for rough handling during the hike. Highly recommended!

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Along the motor trail from Cameron, Missouri, to Phoenix, Arizona, and home again, in 1927,

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Along the old Vulture Road (U.S. Highway 60/Grand Avenue): Cattle tales and trails from Wickenburg to Phoenix (Cattle tales and trails series)

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