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Estate Planning after the 2001 Tax Act is a step-by-step guide and sourcebook to help financial advisers navigate the estate planning?related changes in the tax code brought on by the 2001 Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. The author, estate planning expert and lawyer Martin Shenkman, provides a sound rationale for comprehensive estate planning and a host of invaluable planning techniques to address the uncertainties the new rules pose.
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Beyond Monopoly: Lawyers, State Crises, and Professional Empowerment
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How do professional associations build their resources and establish authroity? What are the conditions under which professional expertise can be mobilized for political action? If professional organizations are endowed with a wealth of resources, do they use them responsibly or only for economic monopoly? What is the potential scope of professional action today?
In this pathbreaking study of the legal profession, Terence Halliday raises and addresses these questions combining extensive data from the rich archives o the Chicago Bar Association, one of the nation's largest and wealthiest bar organizations, with data from a national survey of bar legislative and judicial action. Beyond Monopoly demonstrates that the primary commitment of lawyers to economic monopoly has long been complemented by "civic professionalism" as the legal profession takes on more responsibility in the American democratic system when state capabilities diminish.
Through his examination of three types of state crises in the 1950s and 1960s—the challenges to legitimacy in the legal system, the crisis of individual rights during McCarthyism and the civil rights eras, and the fiscal crises of various state governments—Halliday shows that large bar associations can have extensive influence on any institution that is regulated by law. He argues that lawyers have the capability of turning social and political issues into technical legal matters in what he calls an "idiom of legalism." Under technical guise, lawyers come to exercise moral authority.
Halliday maintains that the American legal profession over the past century has gone from a formative stage, when controlling its market in the delivery of legal services was paramount, to an established phase in the past two decades, when it has committed extensive resources to the complex needs of the modern state. A de facto bargain has been struck: if the state leaves the profession's monopoly fairly intact, the profession can use its expert resources to help the state adapt to strain and crisis. It can do so not only in the legal system, where it has been championing "autonomous" law, but in other spheres as well—from the economy to the private sphere of individual rights.
Halliday confirms that the legal profession deploys its expertise not merely to attain professional dominance, to control a market, or to purvey an ideology, but to increase the viability of democratic institutions. Beyond Monopoly introduces a pioneering approach to a historical and comparative sociology of the professions that will be of vital interest not only to sociologists, but to political scientists and lawyers as well.
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Various peptides native to the brain and the spinal cord, as well as various synthetic peptides, peptide analogues and peptidomimetics could be useful in the treatment of diseases of the central nervous system. This book provides an overview of the role and neuropharmaceutical potential of these peptides, and discusses the state of the art and future trends in the use of peptide pharmacotherapy involving the brain.
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This book contains 13 papers that reflect the development of neutrino interactions with the electrons and protons in a fixed-target experiment that, beginning in 1980, grew out of the formal collaboration in high energy physics between Japanese and American institutions. These experiments were crucial to the merger of quantum electrodynamics and quantum weak dynamics, the foundation of electroweak theory today.
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From the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Appetites: Why Women Want, a collection spanning fifteen years of witty, thoughtful, provocative observations on modern culture and women's lives.
Caroline Knapp's was one of this country's most intelligent, graceful, and humorous voices in memoir. Her readers are known not just for their number, but for their intense connection to her work. In Drinking: A Love Story, she homed in on the often unspeakable fears and longings that led to her alcoholism and back again. In Pack of Two, she trained her eye on the bonds between humans and animals. And in Appetites: Why Women Want, she brought her rigorous scrutiny to the ways in which culture shapes a woman's body and her hunger.
Now, with The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Knapp shows us that her vision through a wider lens is as brilliant as through a narrow one. This collection of essays spanning fifteen years paints the fullest picture of this wonderful writer that we've yet seen, but it's also a remarkably full portrait of a writing life, showing how the same themes can engage--and expand--a writer over a lifetime. Here are her major preoccupations, with work and love, with growth and loss, with distance and intimacy. Solitude, shyness, cereal for dinner, the fine line between boredom and lust, why women ask stupid questions, mastering the art of healthful self-deception--subjects that are universally poignant while charming, funny, and incisive--are explored in both long, thoughtful pieces and light, hilarious essays.
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I got very interested in this author.......2007-08-29
I have read other nonfiction essays by this author. They all have been very good. I won't spoil the clincher here but I wish she had more to offer us.
Recommended for fans of her earlier works.......2007-04-11
Caroline Knapp's fifth memoir was published posthumously after the author died from cancer at age forty-two. The book consists of newspaper and magazine essays written over a fifteen year period. The columns are presented thematically rather than chronologically, in sections about family relationships, grief/recovery/sobriety, the state of the world, and personal reflections.
Early essays discuss female friendships, girl crushes, and Knapp's relationship with her mother and father. She was a raging, active alcoholic when both passed away within a year of one another. Knapp also covers ground on two topics she's renowned for--anorexia (as described in her memoir Appetites: Why Women Want) and alcoholism (as described in Drinking: A Love Story). Her assays on recovery provide additional insight and reflection beyond what was in her other books. None of the essays were published during her active alcoholic period in the early 1990's (only one from 1989, a long essay about her eating disorder, was published prior to Knapp's sobriety).
In the lighter essays, Knapp returns to the familiar subject of her dog. One October 1998 piece for the Boston Phoenix is a rebuttal to Ron Rosenbaum's New York Observer column asserting the superiority of his cat over Knapp's dog. Other essays on the state of the world cover topics ranging from Linda Tripp s betrayal of her friend Monica Lewinsky, to life as an office drone in corporate America, to home decoration. The ruminations on life are hit-or-miss, and the fluffier pieces at the end aren't written as powerfully as Knapp's solid essays on addition and relationships.
If Knapp wasn't already a bestselling author of wide renown, this essay collection would be of little popular interest. The true gems are the essays which expound on the topics of her earlier works Drinking and Appetites. I recommend this book only to admirers looking for additional material from this accomplished and well-spoken woman.
Her Death Was A Terrible Loss For American Essays.......2006-07-22
Caroline Knapp died in 2002 of lung cancer at the horribly early age of 42. She was almost my exact contemporary in age. I nearly died of a diabetic coma at about the same time, so there is a weird little echo of experience and sorrow when I think about her. I was already familiar with her funny book of faux-advice, "Alice K.'s Guide To Life", but I hadn't yet read all of her really great essays that are collected in "The Merry Recluse." (The title is a state of being to which I also aspire.) She wrote all of these terrific little pieces in the 1990's when she was at the height of her powers and apparently at a level of maturity and confidence that allowed her to look back with considerable wisdom. Caroline suffered intensely earlier in her life from anorexia, depression and anxiety, alcoholism and shyness. But she writes about these with clarity, grace, much much humor and tough-mindedness. She didn't wallow in victimization like so many do; above all she wanted to understand. In the long hot summer of 2006 perhaps my current fvorite essay in this volume is "Endless (and Endless) Summer", about how much she hated summer, how she preferred autumn, and how weird she felt when she saw all the summer-adoring people around her. Believe me Caroline; you read my mind. As you did over and over again in this book, as if we were friends who never met. And I'm seriously going to miss your wonderful, tenderly witty yet serious voice.
Trust Me- you need a Knapp........2006-03-16
Oh--how I wish she were still with us. Caroline Knapp is one of the best authors I've ever read. Humor, diversity, insight and fierce and fearless exploration of common human issues are just a few examples of what make her writing irreplaceable. Read through her book excerpts, columns and articles from newspaper and magazine in this wonderful collection. You will laugh, cry, reflect and ponder life's mysteries. Whether those mysteries be big or small makes no difference--Caroline manages to explore them all in the most meaningful and unique ways.
If you are a woman I absolutely guarantee this book will strike a chord in you.
If you are a fan this is simply a must-read.
If you are just meeting her then this is the perfect first introduction to our marvelously intelligent, dearly missed, late, great Caroline Knapp.
Illuminating daily life.......2005-09-23
Ms Knapp shows a remarkable facility to delve into various aspects of life and make them fascinating for the reader. She explores twindom, eating disorders,alcoholism and relationships in addition to various other subjects, with an equal facility to expand one's understanding on these topics. She also has a a wonderful sense of humor underlying even her most serious observations. I continue to enjoy this book despite the few topics in which I have no interest.
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California Anti-Chinese Movement Traced to Jacksonian Times.......2001-10-01
In "The Indispensable Enemy," Alexander Saxton presents a broad study of American ideological history and an intricate examination of the California political system to further a better understanding of the anti-Chinese movement in California from the 1860s to 1902. According to Saxton, Chinese workers were "indispensable" to California for two reasons. First, the Chinese provided an important source of cheap labor for California industries. Second, the Chinese aided the labor movement in California (albeit unintentionally) by being the subject of the issue on which the majority of white workers could agree: the anti-Chinese issue. Saxton examines American ideology in the early nineteenth century to determine the roots of the anti-Chinese movement.
Alexander Saxton offers a comprehensive study on the ideological origins of the anti-Chinese movement, the political importance of the issue, and the issues's future expansion to include the Japanese. The Jacksonian ideas of nationalism and racial superiority provide a clear foundation for understanding American attitudes towards African Americans and, later, Californian attitutudes towards the Chinese. Moreover, Saxton emphasizes the psychological and ideological reasons for the reactions against the Chinese instead of economic reasons more commonly used by historians. By not relying on the economic motivation for anti-Chinese demonstrations, Saxton is able to distinguish the persecution endured by the Chinese from the persecutions endured by other ethnic groups, like the Irish and Germans. Unfortunately, Saxton's main points often get lost in the maze of comments about social, intellectual, and political history as well as a detailed chronological description of California political affairs. A more focused study on the anti-Chinese movement would help to underline his main points for the reader.
Saxton relies primarily on primary sources for his work such as newspapers, labor publications, and memoirs. Saxton, however, does deomonstrate an awareness of the limitations of such materials. Saxton also uses his sources appropriately. For example, Saxton does not include a chart on the number of Chinese workers in various occupations (as calculated by the Trades Assembly) as accurate statistical data. Saxton states that the chart is meant to show "how trade unionists viewed the [labor] situation in 1881-1882" (170).
One main problem with Saxton's study is that he does not explain the actions of the labor unions from the point of view of the Chinese, He does not mention any Chinese leaders in California or the reactions of leaders in their homeland. In a couple of cases, Saxton does hint at a Chinese backlash. For exapmple, Saxton describes Chinatown in San Francisco as a fortress protecting the residents from outside threats. In other cases, however, the Chinese are vaguely described as passive recipients of persecution (for example, the Chinese did not offer any protest against their forced removal from Eureka and Seattle). A closer examination of the Chinese side would make "The Indispensable enemy" a more complete work.
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Of all modern scientific theories, quantum theory has perhaps done more than any other to change the way we think about basic structure of the universe. This clear and accessible introduction covers quantum physics in theory and in practice, and explains why it has become known not just as a theory, but as a revolution.
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Focuses mainly on quantum effects and applications.......2007-06-22
Focuses mainly on quantum effects and applications. A relatively small book, it's a pretty easy read, though it does get somewhat technical at times. Simplified math is typically put in as optional sidebars. It is written in a fairly straight forward way. I felt it tended to "jump around" a bit, on occasion mentioning an unexplained term or fact, which might or might not be expounded on later, though this was rather minor. It has one chapter on underlying reality interpretations.
QM primer for the pure layman.......2007-05-31
In pop science literature on quantum mechanics (QM) this booklet is a bit of an oddity. Rae really does address "beginners", i.e. readers with very little or no background in mathematics and physics. However, unlike most pop science writers he does not shy away from simple mathematics, even though all the math is contained in seperate "math boxes" which one can easily skip without loss of continuity. Rae does an excellent job explaining the basics of QM, but still IMO - given the targeted audience -not as good as J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate's "Introducing Quantum Theory" (Icon Books).
Many readers are probably attracted to this kind of book in search of an explanation of the "weirdness" of QM. Although Rae splendidly epitomizes the many interpretations of QM in the last chapter, there are more comprehensive books out there covering this particular topic, including Rae's own "Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?" !
The main strength of this beginners's guide really is the way he explains the many manifestations of QM in our daily lives, from chemistry, power generation and climate change to computing and cryptography. As Rae is the first to admit, in such a short text he can do little else but scratch the surface, but nonetheless his descriptions are very lucid, well illustrated, and above all founded on a deep understanding of the essentials of QM. The biggest miracle of all is perhaps that he manages to convey this essence to readers who otherwise would probably never have dreamed of opening a book containing a single equation.
All in all, the definite primer on QM for the pure layman. For those who already have some background in physics and/or mathematics, the chapters on semiconductors, superconductivity and cryptography are a nice and simple introduction to these vast and fascinating subjects.
PS: my edition does contain two bizarre mistakes: Joule was an English and not a French physicist (p. 9), and Schrodinger was an Austrian and not a German physicist (p. 24). Not that it matters much.
If you know motion is discontinuous and random, you may finally understand quantum mechanics........2007-05-27
Rae's book is helpful for one to study quantum mechanics. But it cannot answer how to really understand QM. In fact, this is still a puzzle for everyone. For example, it is still unclear what on earth the wave function describes and whether or not the wave function really collapses.
As indicated by the well-known double-slit experiment, the solution hides in the real form of quantum motion in all probability. A recent analysis, which is given in the book Quantum Motion - Unveiling the Mysterious Quantum World, implies that quantum motion is actually the random discontinuous motion of particles, and the microscopic and macroscopic motions are both the displays of such quantum motion. As a result, what the wave function describes is the random discontinuous motion of microscopic particles. This picture makes quantum mechanics comprehensible for both physicsts and laymen.
When we realize that motion is discontinuous and random in reality, we may finally understand the mysterious quantum world, where an electron can pass through two slits at the same time. A popular introduction of quantum motion can be found at the website given by my name.
Quantum Physics: A Beginner's Guide.......2007-05-13
This is a very good basic book, however, not as simplified as I had hoped. I'm in a study group studying it so we are able to help each other get through it but at times I still feel lost. I would, however, recommend it to someone who knows a little about Quantum Physics and wants some additional basic information. I'm not finished with it yet so possibly as we go along it will get easier. I think what I really needed was 'Quantum Physics for Dummies' in order to get real basic.
The Perfect Book for the Quantum Curious.......2007-05-13
I don't have a Physics or Math background, and if you'd told me 10 years ago, that I'd buy AND read a book on Quantum Physics, I'd have chuckled. You, of course, would have been right, because I did. I loved it and whipped through it pretty quickly.
I bought this book to learn more about quantum theory. I wanted a book that wasn't going to beat me senseless with heavy theoretical math, physics or formulae. I wanted a more complete understanding of the possibilities that quantum physics theory hints at, which is exactly what I got with this book. This book offers the Open-minded a fascinating overview of some of the more controversial quantum theories, the experiments that "proved" some of them, and what might be just over the horizon for quantum physics and for us.
I found this book really worthwhile, with a positive slant that worked for me. What quantum physics seems to be demonstrating these days, according to the author, is that much of the information that we "knew" to be true, may very well not be. Which really does open up a world of possibility for all of us.
This short meaty book is ideal for the quantum-curious. I highly recommend it.
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This book is unique in occupying a gap between standard undergraduate texts and more advanced texts on quantum field theory. It covers a range of renormalization methods with a clear physical interpretation (and motivation), including mean-field theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular emphasis on the archetypal problem of fluid turbulence. The book is also unique in making this material accessible to readers other than theoretical physicists, as it requires only the basic physics and mathematics which should be known to most scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
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If a butterfly stirs its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos is the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems, has evolved into a new science that declares the universe to be far more unpredictable than we could have imagined. Continuing the now familiar format of the "Introducing..." series, this book documents how chaos is present in most events, from the fluctuation in small animal populations to the rise and fall of financial markets.
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Great book.......2007-06-15
This was the book that got me hooked on the Introducing... series. I wanted to get a nice overview of Chaos Theory, and this book provided it.
Introducing Chaos Adequate.......2006-05-02
I've read a number of books on Chaos/Complexity, and found this one to be fine. I think my favorite was the one by Mitchell M. Waldrop "Complexity: the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos."
At any rate, for the audience for which the book is intended, which is someone who wants an easy-to-read introduction on chaos, I think the book is perfectly adequate.
"Chaos" (not Chaos theory) is all this book introduces you........2002-05-14
I was looking for an easy-to-understand book on Chaos Theory for some non-English speakers (say, some Japanese students) to read, and I personally like "Introducing Fractal Geometry", so I got my hand on this book...
It was a mistake.
I would not say much about this. The author did introduce Chaos, not really Chaos theory, to the readers. He tried his best, I believe, to make things easy to understand by simplifying things... However, in doing so, he had just created Chaos.
Hence, this book is probably one of the best examples of "How Simplicity creates Complexity and Chaos"... a simple scheme found in Complex systems (like complex Cellular Automata which emerged from a simple set of rules).
One thing, while a lot of names (technical terms) were introduced, almost all of them are left unexplained. And I think only "introducing" is never enough. (Well, it was the name of the book afterall... this book wasn't named "Explaing Chaos" :)
There are other good books on Chaos for layperson. And, in fact, "Introducing Fractal Geometry" did a far better job than this one.
Introduction is what it is!.......2001-12-15
This is an excellent introduction to Chaos. It is aimed at the general non academic reader who may have heard about this buzzword called "Chaos" and wondered what's it all about. It is not for the academic, informed reader but a quick introduction for the intelligent layman or someone who last formally studied science many years ago. It draws heavily on James Gleick's book "Chaos" which was the first book to popularise the subject. If you are busy and want to know something about chaos to see if you then want to find out more, this book is perfect.
Confused and Mistaken.......2001-08-10
The main problem with the book is its emphasis on multiculterism, not to mention that the author simply does not know his stuff. We are told that Galileo ignored friction in order to get "neat results" and somehow caused Western science to only study linear systems. He seems to think that nonlinearity and chaos are the same thing. He tells us that nonlinear problems are not solvable. He actually suggests that we have only recently seen that the three-body problem is chaotic. (Instead Poincare proved the chaotic nature of the problem around 1890.) He seems to think that Asian philosophies actually capture the mathematical substance of chaos theory. I could go on. If you want to study chaos get the volume "Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science" by Peitgen, Jurgens, and Saupe.
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The Greenhouse: A Welfare Assessment and Some Morals
Christoph Lumer
Manufacturer: University Press of America
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In The Greenhouse, Christoph Lumer provides moral evaluations of the greenhouse effect and of some of its alternatives, from utilitarian and welfarist perspectives.
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