Freedom of Association: A User's Guide

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This practical reference offers a user-friendly guide to the ILO's freedom of association (FOA) standards, principles and procedures. Concise and easy to follow, the guide explains the ILO's FOA standards and the profound impact they have had on laws, individuals released from prison, and the right of trade unionists and employers to organize and bargain collectively. It also represents invaluable information on how these principles and procedures can be used to help promote and secure FOA around the world.

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Did your nest egg crack? ""America's Money Answers Man"" Jordan Goodman offers investing advice for today's troubled market.

Many investors have watched as their portfolios were ""downsized,"" so to speak, over the past few years. But, there are still pockets of opportunity in the stock market today. Finding it is simply a matter of discovering those great companies. In Everyone's Money Book on Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds, finance expert Jordan Goodman shows investors how the benefits of long term investing opportunities far outweigh any initial losses.

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Financial Navigation: Powerful Strategies for Investments & Insurance for Everyone Who Invests
D. David Campbell
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412082056
Release Date: 2006-06-30

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Describes in an easy-to-read format the top-level investment and insurance strategies that the rich and famous use every day.

They get these strategies from high priced investment advisors that most people cannot talk to since the entry level is $1,000,000 to get in the door.

Financial Navigation brings this knowledge to the average investor, the do-it-yourself investor and small business owners.

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This 12-chapter text prepares students to understand the legal and ethical issues inherent to working in an ambulatory health care setting. It features pertinent legal cases, anecdotes, and sidebars related to health-related careers. Content has been updated and special attention has been paid to legislation affecting health care.

Glencoe Law & Ethics For Medical Careers, Student Text

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Glencoe Law & Ethics For Medical Careers, Student Text
Sharon Blesie Hicks Karen Judson
Manufacturer: Career Education
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ASIN: B000OGP4I8

Law & Ethics for Medical Careers: Tutorial Program

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Law & Ethics for Medical Careers: Tutorial Program
Glencoe
Manufacturer: Glencoe McGraw-Hill
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Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: B000P8LBAU

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Includes PowerPoint Slide Presentation, Cases, Glencoe Health Occupations Student Testing.

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This book relates judgements of `deservingness' or `undeservingness' to perceived responsibility, values, liking relations, and ingroup/outgroup relations. The book presents a social-cognitive process model concerned with how people react to offenses and to the perpetrators of offenses. Studies concerned with achievement outcomes and with retributive justice, and ways in which the theoretical approach might be further developed, are described.

Values, Ethics and Alcoholism (Advances in Bioethics)

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Values, Ethics and Alcoholism (Advances in Bioethics)

Manufacturer: JAI Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0762302194

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It is apparent that the current literature fails to systematically describe and examine the diverse value and ethical issues that arise in relation to alcohol abuse. This volume attempts to fulfil this void by addressing the most basic scientific and philosophical questions about the causes of alcoholism, their implications for individual responsibility and the most basic public policy questions that stem from clinical medicine and public health.

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This book presents the first comprehensive exposition of the interpretation of quantum mechanics pioneered by Louis de Broglie and David Bohm. The purpose is to explain how quantum processes may be visualized without ambiguity or confusion in terms of a simple physical model. Dr. Holland develops the idea that a material system such as an electron is a particle guided by a surrounding quantum wave. He examines the classic phenomena of quantum theory in order to show how the spacetime orbits of an ensemble of particles can reproduce the statistical quantum predictions. The book will therefore appeal to all physicists with an interest in the foundations of their discipline.

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A good starting point.......2001-12-30

This book can serve as a good primer on the theory. It has many strong points and a few weaknesses. It's very good at explaining the postulates and assumptions that are the basis of the theory and comparing them with the traditional approach, without to much fuss with philosophy. It has several chapters with examples worked out in detail that I found really illuminating: even if the theory is ultimately found to be wrong, these examples will give the feeling to really visualise many quantum phenomena and to be able to deeply understand them, something which was much more difficult in the traditional approach. This is real fun for a physicist who has been using traditional quantum mechanics for years and remembers his early frustrations with the formalism. It convinced me that any course on quantum mechanics should include a short description of Bohm-de Broglie with a couple of examples.
Among the weaknesses, it seems to me that the maths used to derive the quantum statistics in chapter 3 contains several errors. Also, the relativistic version of the theory is a bit sketchy, although in my opinion this theory demands a much deeper investigation in the relativistic context. This weakness may be inherent to de Broglie-Bohm theory and is already present in Bohm's and de Broglie's works. I think there is a tendency in the research in this field since de Broglie, which this book inherits partially: spend too much energy to convince of the validity of the theory, instead of using it to derive useful results. But forget the weaknesses and enjoy the chapters with QM examples.

best on pilot wave to date.......2000-02-15

I prefer this one to Bohm's _Undivided Universe_. The exposition is clearer, and it does well without any super-speculative, cloudy ending. The virtue of the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave is unmistakable here: real stat-mech type probabilities (which many-worlds can't get) emerging without any special postulate for the universe going on strike when a "measurement" occurs (which Copenhagen can't get rid of). Other good stuff here too; e.g., take your pick: Bohmize the Pauli equation, the Dirac equation, or an alternative treatment of spin coming from a quantum potential for the rigid rotator.

excellent.......1999-06-06

An excellent book that covers the hidden variables (which are actually the measured variables)interpertation as advanced by deBroglie and Bohm. This book carries this furthur and completes the theory in an understandable manner. It helps the reader to accept the possiblity of a field in 3N dimensional space. Once this is done things fall into place. It covers the main topics such as EPR, the measurement problem, and shows how the shifting boundary between the quantum world and the macro world vanishes.

It is written for physicists, but I was able to muddle through the math with a fairly limited background. The verbage is excellent and so can be read by philosophers without missing the main points.

A "lay" edition would be most welcome.

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Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture.

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Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the United States' uniquely hospitable environment lead inexorably to their assimilation and loss of cultural identity? This is the conundrum that Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab explore in their wise and learned book about the American Jewish experience.

Jews, perhaps more than any ethnic or religious minority that has immigrated to these shores, have benefited from the country's openness, egalitarianism, and social heterogeneity. This unusually good fit, the authors argue, has as much to do with the exceptionalism of the Jewish people as with that of America. But acceptance for all ancestral groups has its downside: integration into the mainstream erodes their defining features, diluting the loyalties that sustain their members.

The authors vividly illustrate this paradox as it is experienced by American Jews today--in their high rates of intermarriage, their waning observance of religious rites, their extraordinary academic and professional success, their commitment to liberalism in domestic politics, and their steadfast defense of Israel. Yet Jews view these trends with a sense of foreboding: "We feel very comfortable in America--but anti-Semitism is a serious problem"; "We would be desolate if Israel were lost--but we don't feel as close to that country as we used to"; "More of our youth are seeking some serious form of Jewish affirmation and involvement--but more of them are slipping away from Jewish life." These are the contradictions tormenting American Jews as they struggle anew with the never-dying problem of Jewish continuity.

A graceful and immensely readable work, Jews and the New American Scene provides a remarkable range of scholarship, anecdote, and statistical research--the clearest, most up-to-date account available of the dilemma facing American Jews in their third century of citizenship.

Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale (The Yale Scene: University Series)

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Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale (The Yale Scene: University Series)
Dan A. Oren
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

ASIN: 0300033303

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This unique and richly informative addition to American educational, religious, and cultural history examines the college life of Jews at Yale from the first Jewish graduate in 1809 to the present time, drawing comparisons to the Jewish experience at other elite colleges and universities and to the experiences of other minorities at Yale. In this revised edition, Oren draws on new interviews and references to present the dramatic events of the past twenty years, describing the tensions between majority and minority cultures in an academic world increasingly committed to inclusiveness and the solidification of meritocracy.

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