Policy Regimes and Industrial Competitiveness: A Comparative Study of East Asia and India (International Political Economy)

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This book looks at the economic performance of East Asia over the past three decades in a unified way. The focus is on the common forces, generated by each country's policies, that jointly produced such successful outcomes. The role of macroeconomics and microeconomic factors are analyzed. For comparison, the same framework is used to examine the less successful performance of the Indian economy. The analysis emphasizes the significance of the overall institutional context in which policies are implemented in determining their effectiveness.

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Crime scenes associated with child sexual exploitation and trafficking in child pornography were once limited to physical locations such as school playgrounds, church vestibules, trusted neighbors' homes, camping trips and seedy darkly lit back rooms of adult bookstores. The explosion of Internet use has created a virtual hunting ground for sexual predators and has fueled a brisk, multi-billion dollar trade in the associated illicit material. Approximately half of the caseload in computer crimes units involves the computer assisted sexual exploitation of children. Despite the scale of this problem, or perhaps because of it, there are no published resources that bring together the complex mingling of disciplines and expertise required to put together a computer assisted child exploitation case.
This work fills this void, providing police, prosecutors and forensic examiners with the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation, in particular, child pornography. The book will become an indispensable resource for those involved in the investigation, prosecution and study of computer-assisted child sexual exploitation.

The book provides a history of child exploitation cases and studies, outlining the roles of technology in this type of crime and the evidence they can contain, and documenting new research performed by the authors. It details how successful undercover Internet operations are conducted, how the associated evidence is collected, and how to use the evidence to locate and apprehend the offender. The heart of this work is a legal section, detailing all of the legal issues that arise in Internet child exploitation cases. A forensic examination section presents evidentiary issues from a technical perspective and describes how to conduct a forensic examination of digital evidence gathered in the investigative and probative stages of a child exploitation case.
Citations to related documents are provided for readers who want to learn more about certain issues. Actual case examples from computer assisted child exploitation cases are explored, at all times protecting the privacy of the victims while providing enough detail to educate the reader.
In addition to providing guidance on the technical and legal aspects of child exploitation investigations, this work identifies and analyzes trends in this type of crime and helps readers understand the similarities and differences between child predators who take to the Internet and predators who do not. Data from the thirty Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces are compiled and reported to provide a deeper understanding of the types of cases, types of offenders and the level of danger they pose to themselves, their victims, and investigating officers. Also, sex offender data from the Offices of Attorneys General in the United States and similar offices in foreign countries are gathered to increase the study sample size, establish controls, and expand the scope of the research to outside of the United States.

- The first comprehensive title in this subject area
- It will use real cases and examples of criminal behavior and the means to detect it.
- Provides guidelines for developing a Field Manual and a Checklist to supplement the investigation and legal process
- Establishes a reliable system and legal, procedural-backed protocol by which to conduct an online sexual investigation and collect evidence

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Crime scenes associated with child sexual exploitation & trafficking in child pornography were once limited to physical locations such as school playgrounds, trusted neighbors' homes, camping trips & seedy darkly lit back rooms of adult bookstores. The explosion of Internet use has created a virtual hunting ground for sexual predators & has fueled a brisk, multi-billion dollar trade in the associated illicit material. Approximately half of the caseload in computer crimes units involves the computer assisted sexual exploitation of children. Despite the scale of this problem, or perhaps because of it, there are no published resources that bring together the complex mingling of disciplines & expertise required to put together a computer assisted child exploitation case. This work fills this void, providing police, prosecutors & forensic examiners with the historical, legal, technical, & social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation.

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In the late eighties large-scale control operations were carried out to control a major desert locust upsurge in Africa. For the first time since the banning of organochlorine pesticides these operations relied mainly on non-persistent pesticides such as organophosphates and pyrethroids. The amount of pesticides sprayed and the area covered were probably the highest in the history of locust control and raised criticism with respect to efficacy, economic viability and environmental impact.

As a consequence, applied research into the problem was intensified, both at the national and the international level, with the goal of finding new and environmentally sound approaches and solutions to locust and grasshopper control. Emphasis was laid on developing new control agents and techniques.

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Essentials of Mucosal Immunology presents basic concepts as well as new and exciting advances in mucosal immunology and inflammation, the development of mucosal vaccines, and the role of the immune system in mucosal disease. Specific chapters highlight novel approaches to the treatment of autoimmune disease, including the use of oral tolerance; approaches to and vectors for new vaccines; and current concepts in mucosal inflammation and its role in inflammatory bowel disease and ulcer disease.

Key Features
* Contains the most current research on mucosal immunology and is comprehensive in scope
* Includes ideal coverage of both the basic and clinical aspects of the mucosal immune system
* Provides an understanding of the mucosal immune system with regard to new treatments and preventative methods, including vaccine development
* Includes contributions from an international team of experts

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This concise volume represents an enlarged and improved edition of the author's original text on the theory of scattering electromagnetic waves, of classical particles, and of quantum-mechanic particles, including multiparticle collisions. Includes updates on developments in three-particle collisions, in scattering by noncentral potentials, and in inverse scattering problems. 1982 edition.

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"Well organized, edited and arranged, this text is of unquestioned value to all teachers of mythology, to the advanced student of the classics and to the research scholar, a welcome resource volume."--Classical World.

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Quite good book.......2003-10-28

Thanks to my ancient greek teacher Carine, I have found a great interest in this book. It's a shame there isn't more philosophy in it.

Great advanced undergraduate material........2000-05-15

I wouldn't recommend this be the first book anyone studying classical mythology reads -- the analysis may be a bit over the newbie's head and the issues require more knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman culture. However as an advanced undergraduate, graduate or professional resource, Edmund's analysis provides good food for thought which you agree or disagree. Good interweaving of poem, play, philosophical, and visual accounts of the myths with details about Greek society itself. Could use some stronger citations at points.

Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King (Greek Studies-Interdisciplinary Approaches)

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Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King (Greek Studies-Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Michael J. Bennett
Manufacturer: Littlefield Adams Quality Paperbacks
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This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the "belted hero," and argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological significance. The belted hero fuses king, warrior, charioteer, and athlete into a supreme image of political power. The special "heroic warrior's belts" ("zosteres") worn by Agamemnon, Menelaos, and Nestor served as unimpeachable visual emblems of their exalted positions of rank. The feminine counterpart, or "zone", presents the woman as superior in the competitive arena of love. Bennett shows that the belted hero represented an ideology attractive to wealthy landowners, their "oikoi", and inter-family connections. He suggests that the communal spirit of the hoplite phalanx attempted to appropriate the belted hero ideal, even while undermining its ethos of personal honor. Bennett also makes several important iconographic interpretations that provide fundamentally new insights into early Greek oral epic compositional techniques, conceptions of time, and cosmological structure. "Belted Heroes and Bound Women" will be of interest to scholars and students of early Greek art, history, or literature.

King Midas Book: With Selected Sentences in American Sign Language

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King Midas Book: With Selected Sentences in American Sign Language
Robert Newby
Manufacturer: Gallaudet University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Unit-ties
Marcia Tretler
Manufacturer: Learning Links
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000733U20

What Men or Gods are These?: A Genealogical Approach to Classical Mythology

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What Men or Gods are These?: A Genealogical Approach to Classical Mythology
Boswell Fred
Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press
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APPROACHES TO GREEK MYTH
Lowell Edmunds
Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LZDEGG

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Letters From the Silk Roads is the English translation of Eiji Hattori's "Bumei no kosaro de kangaeru" (Kodansha Press). The book describes the land and sea routes that connected Eurasia, helping to dispel certain cultural warps in modern world history and international relations. Hattori argues persuasively that the silk roads and the spice routes are really part of the same dynamic and vast network. Even today there are echoes, memories, and impacts from the silk roads that affect whole cultures and civilizations and sometimes spell the difference between war and peace, or preservation of the earth and its continual ruin. The Silk Road is a metaphor for worldwide intercultural cooperation in the new millennium. Hattori does a comparative East-West analysis of various political, philosophical, and ecological issues, particularly in Eurasia. This book is culturally enriching to students from high school to college level and readers interested in an intellectually challenging text.

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Reaching for the Silk Roads of Exchange - One Man's Attempt.......2001-05-19

This review addresses 5 questions about the book:

1) What is it about?

2) What is the author trying to say?

3) How does he make his point?

4) How could it be made better?

5) Why is this book important?

1) This book is about the history of interaction between peoples and cultures, specifically trade, religion, and culture along silk roads - not a specific route, but one defined by exchange. Also this exchange is characterized by mutual benefit, equity, and mutual respect. Although not confined to it, the author usually paints a picture of these silk roads in Asia of the past.

The book is about these silk roads and invisible threads that connect civilizations, and how they are in sharp contrast to the Elitist, exploitative, one way exchange characterized recently by the WestEthrough colonialism and the current world order.

2) The author is making an appeal for a more egalitarian means of cultural dialogue and worldview that is less West-heavy and more objective.

3) The author makes his point by first painting a picture of a historical Asia. He shows how, for the majority of history, civilization has called Asia home, with diverse cultures linked together by trade, religion, and even common origins. These invisible lines are very ancient and connect Asia from East to West, Japan to Turkey.

He expresses the common link between the great Asian Empires (Chinese, Persian, Islamic, and Mongol) as the democratic participation in trade and contribution to the posterity of culture.

One good example is the evident Altaic link between Eastern and Western Asia. It is fairly accepted that Japanese Sumo, as well as other aspects of ancient Japanese culture, originated North of China, in the Altai region of Mongolia and Central Asia, then traveled South through China and the Korean Peninsula. These Altai Mts. are also thought to be the place of origin of the Turkic peoples, some of who migrated West to Anatolia and live in modern day Turkey. Besides the lingual similarities between Japanese and Turkish, Hattori offers another invisible string in support of this Altaic connection.

In Ancient Japanese tombs can be found a symbol incorporating four creatures situated as if directions on a compass. The black Genbu (a mythical Turtle-Dragon) is to the North, the Red Phoenix to the South, the Blue Dragon to the East, and to the West, the White Tiger. Now think about a map of Western Asia, featuring Anatolia (Turkey), Syria/Palestine, and Egypt. There are 3 seas featured. Hattori's explanation for how they got their names is interesting. The Black Sea to the North, the Red Sea to the South, and to the West, the Mediterranean, or in Arabic and Turkish, Bahar Abbayad (the White Sea). Dollars to Pesos that if there were a sea to the East, (bigger than the Dead Sea), it would be the Blue Sea. Evidently it is this same color-coded directions originating from a common Altaic source.

Intriguing and obscure historical references to a surprisingly socially integrated past challenges the notion of linear and cumulative development of civilization. For all our technology, we are forced to consider how long ago, people far away were more advanced in at least one basic thing: getting along together.

4) The author's over 20 years of experience working for the UN in 80 different countries and his wealth of historical illustrations help to paint a vivid portrait both of the Silk Roads and an Asia of the past.

It is easy to read some of Hattori's letters as being out of context, like when he compares powdered milk donated by Western countries to Cambodian refugees with poison gas. We are not given much information, just that the so-called emergency help turned out to be as lethal an instrument as poison gas without proper sanitation. Having worked for an NGO distributing powdered milk and other food and medical in the Gaza Strip, I was particularly interested in how this story was used to help raise awareness and safeguards in distributing emergency aid, or to polarize and vilify the West.

Hattori has no such aim, however, and his criticism and anecdotes must be seen in their context - that of a Japanese intellectual working for an International organization in a world where American preeminence and the overall dominant and value-laden culture, economy, and structures characterize the current Global system that he wishes to address diametrically.

Basically, it is an attempt at balance, or at least a strike in the name of balance.

As objectivity is inhuman, though, we do get a glimpse of Hattori the man, especially when he is trying to incorporate his own country, Japan, into this image of a free-flowing past Asia of exchange and the current order of division. This leads him to talk of a unique "Japanese brain" and "Japanese soul" that is somehow intrinsically incompatible with Western modes of communication and with logic. He then ascribes Japanese "discrimination, segregation, and ignorance of the people of Arabic, Asian, and African civilizations" to outside Western influence. Hattori says that Japanese translations of Western history led to Japanese textbooks being written, "just as if Japan were outside of world history".

5) This book is important because it helps us, both the Occident and the Orient, to see our world in a different way. Just as the Peters Projection map presents such a different image of the world than we are used to seeing. Hattori found a vision of a world in which nations co-existed and even prospered by sharing ideas, culture, and goods in a system of trade. The model for this was the ancient silk roads going East and West in which "everyone went seeking something". The many historical references to invisible strings that connect civilizations not only shed light on a much-neglected past, but also give us hope for the future by making us realize how connected we really are.

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"Nobody is entitled to anything . We want a budget director who is mean as a Junkyard Dog.".......2006-08-20

This is the first book I've read by this author;but it certainly won't be the last. It was "Further Tales of the Illuminati",on the cover that caught my attention.
The best way I can describe my experience reading it is it reminded me of watching those old black & white cowboy movies and seeing the wheels on the wagons as they spun frontward,backward and even momentarily seemed to stop.
The book wanders all over the place,sometimes very lucid and down to earth and at other times so far removed from reality that maybe it's lost in space.
Not having has any experiences with LSD or Heroin;I can only imagine what it does to ones consciousness from reading Wilsons
ramblings. I have experienced Demoral and Morphine and it was quite the experience.
The chapter "The Persecution And Assassination of the Parapsychologists as Performed by the Inmates of the American Association for the Advancement of Science under the Direction of the Amazing Randi" has to be some of the most hilarious thoughts I've ever come across. I have actually sat through sessions that were just about like these;but failed to notice at the time how ridiculous 'brilliant" people can get;when they really apply themselves--they become almost unstoppable,and the only defence one has is to leave.
Wilson can come up with lines that will knock your socks off like;
"He has the distinction of being called the Father of the
Hydrogen bomb, why anybody would claim paternity in such a
case is a mystery to the uninitiate.The Novelist would
personally rather be dubbed the Father of the Bubonic
Plague;but,you know,different strokes for different folks;
different scenes for different genes,etc,"or different lanes
for different brains;or different models for different
muddles."
Or how about this;
"It was an axiom of his philosophy that ten thousand trained witnesses reporting something which doesn't fit the local tunnel-reality have less credibility than two drunken participants in an auto accident." How better descriptive can you get?
This book is loaded with stuff that will awaken ideas that will set your mind in motion--actually,spinning is more like it. Wilson covers everything from God, Bucky Fuller,Emperor Norton of the United States,Ecology,Having Fun with Your Head,and just about everything that you thought you had figured out; or did you?
If you want to read something really different ;you'd have a difficult time finding something better than Wilson to try.

Not Wilson at his best, but some definite treasures.......2004-06-27

This book resembles a collection of essays, except he has tied them together with cut-up sequences like those found in his Illuminatus! Trilogy. He covers a variety of subjects, including a description of the method used to produce the cut-ups.

I didn't find this book as dazzling as some of his others, the cut-ups didn't seem to work as well as in Illuminatus!, and it even dragged a bit at times.

However, the book certainly does have some great parts. For example, "The Persecution and Assassination of the Parapsychologists as Performed by the Inmates of the American Association for the Advancement of Science under the Direction of the Amazing Randi" is required reading on Mr Randi, and I keep the book on hand so that I can pass it off to anyone who mentions the Randi Prize.

Do NoT rEaD tHiS rEvIeW- and other logical types.......1998-12-20

A perrenial favorite of mine. Wilson is my hero; next to Burroughsian beats, Leary the Mad Leprechaun, and Quantum Physics-- which by no coincidance, RAW got me hooked on. Wilson has spun a titillating web of Indraic beauty in the omnidirectional expanding noos-sphere. Have fun with your head and read this or any of Wilson's mind candy manuals...HOO!

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Adam Werbach is the youngest and most visible general in the battle for America's environment. His youthful energy and boundless enthusiasm have mobilized the slumbering Sierra Club, fired the imaginations of the media and fueled a grassroots environmental movement among Gen Xers that most people would have thought impossible.

He began his activist career 15 years ago, when he organized a petition drive at school that called for the dismissal of then Secretary of the Interior James Watt. He was only eight years old. At 13, he founded the Sierra Student Coalition, a student-run adjunct to the Sierra Club that now boasts 30,000 members. Today, he is the youngest president the Sierra Club has ever had.

Act First, Apologize Later shares Werbach's thoughts on a wide array of subjects in such chapters as Ferns and Cougars: Why We Need Nature; The California Desert Protection Act: The Anatomy of a Victory; Eco-Thugs: Profiles of Members of Congress Who Are in the Pockets of Polluters; and Solutions: Beyond "Band-Aid" Environmentalism. Written with the passion and zeal that has already inspired hundreds of thousands of people, it is an important call to arms in a war America must not lose.

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Why don't the big environmental groups get it?.......2005-03-02

I heard Mr. Werbach speak on NPR recently and bought the book used. It's interesting to see how his thinking has progressed from when he was 23. I enjoyed reading this book and I bought it for two friends after I was finished. I recommend that readers who enjoy this book should also look for Henry David Thoreau's early works -- this book reminds me of Civil Disobedience.

I read about him in the NYT and bought this book..........2005-02-28

I have to say it's an interesting experience reading a book by someone that they wrote when they were 23 -- almost a decade ago. I read about Werbach in the NYT this month about the deep-think essay he did on the death on environmentalism. I read some of the other reviews that seemed to say that the book was a light read -- which, for me, was a good thing, since if you've read his speech it's very complex, and something lighter was nice.

The book tells a compelling coming of age story, blended with the telling stories of Werbach's experience at the heart of some of the most important environmental battles of his time.

I certainly am looking forward to reading whatever he does next. I hope he turns his speech into a book. Does anyone know him?

I love this book. .......2005-02-18

I read this book when I was in high school and it changed my life. I recently picked it up again (I'm in my final year of college) and it still holds up. My guess is that a lot of older activists won't get this book -- it's too raw. But it's honest, powerful and well-written. It's a quick, good read. If you've read Werback's recent speech on the death of environmentalism then you can see where he's at today. It's a much thicker read though. The nice thing about Act Now is that it's completely accessible.

mteeter

Pass Now, Wonder Later.......2003-06-27

Man, this book could have been so much better. Adam Werbach is certainly a noteworthy member of the younger generation (of the 90's), around the same age as me. I'm also a member of Sierra Club. Therefore I've always been impressed by this guy, who at a very young age, was able to become president of an established organization with hundreds of thousands of members. Werbach has great innovative insights into environmental philosophy and activism that are true improvements over the old antiquated notions. He's surely a unique thinker with many great ideas. But sadly, he is not a writer by any stretch of the imagination.

All of Werbach's good ideas and efforts are quickly used up early in this book. What remains is an unfocused, scatterbrained hodgepodge of disconnected ideas and points that are not explored. While claiming to write an activist's manual, Werbach merely delivers a list of environmental complaints and "inspirational" stories about local activists, with no surrounding context or big-picture conclusions. He makes up for it with a lot of sarcastic finger-pointing and attention-grubbing polemics. Werbach overloads clichés like "we were building a bridge to the future" and adds several short stories that are just squishy kiddie parables, possibly written when he was in grade school. Most laughable is a sketch of a man called Bootsy in the land of Phunk who wanted to be the sun. (The esteemed Mr. Collins deserves an apology.)

There are factual errors galore, like 1990 as the date of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. In Section 3 Werbach decides to organize all the environmentalists of the world into five categories, all with derogatory names - Druids, Polar-Fleecers, Apocalyptics, Eco-Opportunists, and Eco-Entrepreneurs - then weakly encourages all to work together. Werbach's takes on politics and economics are superficial at best. He comes close to major insights in his section on environmentalism and religion, but falls into triviality again. Pass on this book's sad case of arrested development, and wonder what could've been.

Inspiration is Step One: Adam's Book is Superb.......2002-05-05

Readers looking for a "how-to" of activism need to check out THE FUTURE IS OURS (John W. Bartlett, Ed.), to which Adam contributed a chapter, instead of harping on Adam's book for not providing one. ACT FIRST, APOLOGIZE LATER offers young readers what they need before seeking out the "how-to" -- inspirational success stories, a window into the grueling fun of Adam's own experiences as an activist, and some foundational principles for activism and life -- in an accessible and conversational tone. Simply put, Adam's book gives readers a sense of possibility for themselves and the world. Because it does that, it is invaluable.

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Act Now, Apologize Later
Adam Werbach
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEXUOK

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Act Now, Apologize Later
Adam Werbach
Manufacturer: Cliff Street Books/ Harper Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O62ABW

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