State-Led Modernization and the New Middle Class in Malaysia (International Political Economy)

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Rich in detail and lucidly written, this is the first comprehensive study of the new middle class in Malaysia. Abdul Rhaman Embong examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class, particularly with regard to democratization and evolution of civil society in Malaysia. The author explores variations within the class across the country,andralso draws comparisons with the Malay working class, and the middle classes of China, India, and elsewhere in Asia.

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For the first time in our history, U.S. prisons house over a million inmates, enough to populate a city larger than San Francisco. Building prisons is the new growth industry, as the American public reacts to a perceived increase in violence and politicians take a hard line toward crime. But this eagerness to construct more prisons raises basic questions about what the community wants and will tolerate and what the Supreme Court will sanction.

In this timely book, Norman Finkel looks at the relationship between the "law on the books," as set down in the Constitution and developed in cases and decisions, and what he calls "commonsense justice," the ordinary citizen's notions of what is just and fair. Law is an essentially human endeavor, a collection of psychological theories about why people think, feel, and behave as they do, and when and why we should find some of them blameworthy and punishable. But is it independent of community sentiment, as some would contend? Or, as Finkel suggests, do juries bring the community's judgment to bear on the moral blameworthiness of the defendant? When jurors decide that the law is unfair, or the punishment inappropriate for a particular defendant, they have sometimes nullified the law.

Nullification represents the jury's desire not to defeat but "to perfect and complete" the law. It is the "no confidence" vote of commonsense justice refusing to follow the path the law has marked out--and pointing to a new path based on what seem to be more just grounds. Finkel brings to life the story behind the jury and judicial decisions, interweaving anecdotes, case law, and social science research to present a balanced and comprehensive view of important legal and social policy issues.

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GREAT BOOK.......1999-07-23

Until recently, jury nullification, and the role of jury discretion, were relatively obscure topics. Although there were literally hundreds of law review articles and other academic writings on the topic, almost none of them were available outside of the larger law libraries. The newspapers discussed the topic - inaccurately and sensationalistically - and the general public had no reliable source of information.

Today, however, there are several books on the topic. Godfrey Lehman's "We, the Jury" looks at the subject from a historical perspective. Jeffrey Abramson's "We the Jury" (now, sadly, out of print) and my own "Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine" look at jury nullification from a historical perspective.

Norman Finkel looks at how juries work - and when and why they nullify - from a psychological and sociological perspective, using legal cases to highlight when the law fails, and how. This wonderful work shows how jurors - and other citizens - view the law, and how the law SHOULD work, and contrast those views with those of judges and legislators.

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This digital document is an article from Criminal Justice Ethics, published by Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 5788 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law. (book reviews)
Author: James P. Levine
Publication: Criminal Justice Ethics (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics
Volume: v16 Issue: n1 Page: p49(8)

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Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law.: An article from: Yale Law Journal

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Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law.: An article from: Yale Law Journal
Athanasios Basdekis
Manufacturer: Yale University, School of Law
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This digital document is an article from Yale Law Journal, published by Yale University, School of Law on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3110 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law.
Author: Athanasios Basdekis
Publication: Yale Law Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Yale University, School of Law
Volume: 105 Issue: n8 Page: 2285-2290

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Discusses the applications of classical QSAR and molecular modeling analysis to the discovery of new agrochemicals. Examines hydrophobicity parameters derived from various partitioning systems. Includes chapters focusing on the use of three-dimensional QSAR analyses such as CoMFA and DISCO. Presents information on the use of QSAR to study transport and toxicology of agrochemicals.

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Rapid and major advances in our understanding of the physiological ecology of plants have been observed in recent years. This volume reviews some of these advances and new challenges under five broad themes: resource acquisition and utilization; interactions between organisms; responses to global environmental changes; ecosystems; and integration and scaling. Written by an international group of practitioners, the work adopts a broad approach ranging from the molecular to the ecosystem levels.

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This text is aimed at a one-term course taken by allied health and agricultural science students. It includes annotated reaction summary tables, solved in-chapter examples, integrated applications (industrial, medical, etc.) and essays that describe organic chemistry's impact on the economy, environment, and the quality of life.

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Your Students Will Actually Read It!.......2000-04-01

This book condenses what is usually a gruelling two-semester curriculum into a brief but thorough text that can be navigated in a single semester. Concepts are summarized in easy to understand color tables. Each chapter contains an interesting aside/biography to keep students awake and show that the knowledge has important applications. The periodic table of elements and lists of primary organic functional groups are summarized inside the hard cover for quick reference. A solutions manual for the homework problems is sold separately.

Aromatic nucleophilic substitution (Reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry)

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Aromatic nucleophilic substitution (Reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry)
Joseph Miller
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Nucleophilic aromatic displacement: The influence of the nitro group (Organic nitro chemistry series)

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Nucleophilic aromatic displacement: The influence of the nitro group (Organic nitro chemistry series)
Francois Terrier
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The first truly comprehensive account of this versatile field. Classified and well-documented, it covers:

* the chemistry of SNAr substitutions and anionic o-complexes * nucleophilic aromatic photosubstitutions
* the possible role of electron transfer in some substitution processes * the ANRORC reactions

The volume also discusses for the first time the whole field of nucleophilic aromatic substitutions of hydrogen, a subject of considerable recent interest.

Researchers and students alike will appreciate the book's balanced presentation of mechanistic and synthetic features.

Nucleophilic Aromatic Substition of Hydrogen

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Nucleophilic Aromatic Substition of Hydrogen
Oleg N. Chupakhin , Valery N. Charushin , and Henk C. van der Plas
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Nucleophilic aromatic substitution in carbo- and heteroaromatic systems is a subject of considerable interest to chemists. This book uniquely addresses the systematic analysis of a vast range of nucleophilic substitutions of aromatic hydrogen.

* This text provides coverage of:
* Nucleophilic displacement of hydrogen (the S N/H reactions) in pi-deficient aromatics, such as nitroarenes, arene-metal complexes, and the like.
* Nucleophilic displacement of hydrogen in heterocyclic substrates such as pyridines, their aza and benzo analogs, pyrylium and thiapyrylium cations, and other heterocycles
* Mechanisms for the S N/H reactions (S N/H(AE), vicarious nucleophilic substitutions, and radical S N/H substitutions

Copper- or silver-promoted aromatic nucleophilic addition and substitution

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Copper- or silver-promoted aromatic nucleophilic addition and substitution
Olof Wennerstrom
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Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitutions: the Influence of the Nitro Group

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Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitutions: the Influence of the Nitro Group
F. Terrier
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Zeolit-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions

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Zeolit-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions
Martijn Hendrik Willem Burgers
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Required Reading for Physics Students!

A good introduction to a deep thinker.

Defense of Hidden Variables

David Bohm and philosophy of physics

Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
David Bohm
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Required Reading for Physics Students!.......2002-04-20

I consider this book a gem.

The forthright explanations of mechanistic systems, both deterministic and indeterministic, will help to awaken any student of physics as to the degree to which their world-view may not be as broad as they had imagined.

The concerns raised about quantum mechanics are not trivial or extreme. And they are raised with deliberation and humility. Likewise, so are Bohm's suggested solutions.

Finally, and most importantly I think, the argument for a world-view of physics that presumes - as the most scientifically (investigationally speaking) useful view to take - that the universe is comprised of an infinite number of levels of depth and complexity. Perhaps there are not an infinite number of levels of reality, but to presuppose there is opens the mind to want to investigate what they might be. Thus, supposing that QM defines and "explains" the 'bottom' of reality is first, not a logically strong position (just as Brownian motion formulas do not "explain" such motion as a fundamental aspect of nature) and secondly, such a view is scientifically inhibiting: supposing that QM *is* the bottom level of reality is rather silly in light of our historical knowledge of how humans have consistently misjudged the 'fundamental' aspects of nature in the past, and supposing we have reached it now via QM is a dubious claim. Further, even the issue of determinism vs. indeterminism may be a moot point: it may be at a lower level of reality, there is no such distinction - we may be seeing those two 'macroscopic' aspects of a more basic or inclusive feature of reality.

If you want to be an original thinker in physics (or perhaps any science or philosophy), this book is a good starting point to help you realize how easily assumptions of the nature of reality slip past our awareness.

A good introduction to a deep thinker........2002-01-16

In this, David Bohm's first book looking at the conceptual foundations of modern physics he writes in a fast paced energetic way which, although quite analytical and interesting, lacks the warmth to be found in his later books.

His aim is to investigate the concepts of cause and chance and their applicability in physics. Bohm considers the ideas of causality in terms of relationshipos between "things" both as one-to-many and many-to-one types, then considers how contingency, chance and probablity are present in natural law.

Then, starting from the ideas of classical mechanistic physics and the changes which occurred over several hundred years in the way that the philosophy of mechanism both, took hold, 17th and 18th centuries, and significantly changed, 19th century he considers the longevity of this philosophy even after changes in it which would normally entertain a new outlook: classical particle mechanics->wave theory->fields. All of these new developments altered how the philosophy of mechanism was thought of but still maintained fundamental aspects such as: a quantitative law which could explain all natural phenomena. he goes on to explain the links between macroscopic and microscopic levels of law and how in each level a relatively independent state of affairs exists which regard to the laws, valid in each case.

Further, with the development of quantum theory at the start of the 20th century, ideas of probablity, indeterminacy and discreteness became the new concepts in physics, once again significantly changing the outlook yet still maintaining the most important tenet of mechanism: a be all and end all explanation of reality ie a final explanation which knows no alteration.

Bohm then goes on to demonstrate at least qualitatively what a different, alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics could look like, introducing his concepts of the sub-quantum level and the qualitative infinity of nature which is yet a unity. In the final chapter he looks at the way in which humans attempt to comprehend this qualitative infinity in terms of the abstraction of certain aspects from the whole and its consequences such as the multiplicity of these abstractions and their significance. He thereby avoids the seemingly obvious conclusion of Neumann regarding the non-existence of underlying laws or hidden variables. He considers question on the modes of being, becoming and how a "thing" can exist for long periods of time unchanged and yet in certain contexts always changing. He belittle's the Laplacian mechanistic "God" and what objective reality really means.

It is Bohm's first attempt at these difficult issues (1957) long before chaos theory and its ability to lead to randomness even from strictly deterministic laws and the further developments he himself underwent in talks with Krishnamurti and the consequent construction of the idea of the holomovement. This book does not go as deep or is as fascinating as his later, richer ideas. But it does give an overview of what Bohm wished to change in physics and also society through his ideas such as dialogue.

A good introduction to a deep thinker.

Defense of Hidden Variables.......2001-08-04

Bohm in this book attacks to Standard Interpretation of Quantum Physics. He starts with definition of Physical Theories, Laws of Nature, discusses Statistical Mechanics and goes into Deterministic Mechanicstic Philosophys and indeterminist Mechanistic Philosophy. He attackes Bohr and Heisenberg on their stand that Uncertainity Principal is the rule of the nature and foundation of Quantum Physics.Claims it is not conclusively proven as a rule and than argues that one can always find new Theory that can be fundemantally different from Uncertainity Principle, yet could explain nature better and yields current Quantum Physics as complimentarity. Although he claims that Heisenberg's claim is with no foundation, I believe he fails to prove that Nature can not be explained completely with limited number of laws and concepts.His argument against Heisenberg could be reversed and used against his own argument

David Bohm and philosophy of physics.......2000-08-18

This book is a bold and original investigation of the philosophical foundations of physical science. David Bohm, as a superb physicist with a major textbook on quantum mechanics, is qualified for what he undertakes to do in this book. The book is devoted partly to a detailed exposition of "mechanical philosophy". Bohm describes in detail the sources and implications of this philosophy as it appears in classical mechanics, statistical physics, and quantum mechanics. Bohm argues that mechanical philosophy is not a necessary consequence of the formalism or of the well-known success of these theories. It is one possible, albeit widespread, interpretation. According to Bohm, the mechanical philosophy is a result of assuming the validity of a scientific theory in all possible situations and contexts. Bohm shows how other more reasonable interpretations of specific theories can be developed. Bohm's own interpretation involves various levels, described by qualitatively distinct theories. These may be related but are not necessarily reducable to a basic level. In particular, Bohm discusses quantum mechanics from this point of view. This serves as an introduction to what Bohm elsewhere turned into a technical research programme. The book is pervaded by a sense of Bohm's deep and unified vision of the physical world.

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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
David Bohm
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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
David Bohm
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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
David Bohm
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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
David Bohm
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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
David Bohm
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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
David Bohm
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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

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CAUSALITY AND CHANCE IN MODERN PHYSICS DAVID BOHM

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CAUSALITY AND CHANCE IN MODERN PHYSICS DAVID BOHM

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i liked it

started out below average, but got better

Interesting

Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Manufacturer: Classic Books
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Binding: Library Binding
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Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley's most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it is an absorbing historical romance with intriguing feminist elements. Representative of the merging of historical romance with the literature of sentiment, this novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.

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His fancy only paused, when he would force it to adorn with beauty vice, death, and misery, when disguised by a kingly robe, by the trappings of a victorious army, or the false halo of glory spread over the smoking ruins of a ravaged town. Then his heart sickened, and the banners of triumph or the song of victory could not drive from his recollection the varieties of death, and the groans of torture that occasion such exultation to the privileged murderers of the earth.

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i liked it.......2007-08-01

Valperga is Shelley's 1823 historical and fictional account of the life of Castruccio Castracani who lived in the 14th century. You don't need to know anything about Italian history to become immersed and interested in this political novel. Shelley's story is exciting, and the Oxford edition provides numerous notes to clarify the historical figures and situations that are a part of the story. The novel follows the life of Castruccio, from his birth and the exiling of his Ghibelline family by the Guelphs to his rise as a commanding, powerful and tyrannical prince. Shelley writes about Castruccio's political and social endeavors which intertwine with the prince's relationships with two women, the devout, loyal, and powerful Guelph, Euthanasia, and the eccentric and heretical Beatrice. This novel of loyalty, love, war, religion, politics, and the desire for power is a novel that anyone seeking out more work by Mary Shelley should read.

started out below average, but got better.......2005-11-30

I was disappointed with the beginning of the book. It made me think that the whole story would revolve around the struggles of an exiled prince that sought to reclaim his "rightful" seat of power in his native town. Pretty worn out material.

The book got more interesting as Euthanasia and Beatrice were added to the plot. It seemed though that the women of the story were too much influenced by Castruccio throughout their lives. He lied to and scorned both of them, and seemed to never put them ahead of his addiction to power, yet they were enthusiastically driven mad by the memory of him.

Being that the book was written by a revolutionary female English author who grew up in the early and mid 19th century, I thought the women characters in the novel would reflect a sense of triumphant independence. Maybe back then her characters were exceedingly strong, but not very by today's standards.

I can say that Shelley's writing was enjoyable, and her descriptions were wonderful. I also like the references throughout to Dante and various other historical personalities.

Interesting.......1999-08-05

I thought this novel was very interesting. It was an Italian tale written by an English authoress, who did a very fine job of it. Unfortunately, this book is not as recognized as some of Mary Shelley's other work, but hopefully it will be soon.

Valperga - Or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca

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Valperga - Or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Mary Wollstonecraft; Curran, Stuart Shelley
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)

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Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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