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Work-Life Balance in the 21st Century (The Future of Work)
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As we begin the twenty-first century, UK employees work the longest hours in Europe. Workplace stress and home responsibilities are among the top five causes of absence from work. Yet work-life balance has emerged as a key concern for employers, policy makers and the media. This edited volume contains findings from fourteen research projects within the ESRC's Future of Work Programme. The research examines the notion of employment flexibility and the effects of gender and care responsibilities on work and work performance. Conflicting needs of employers and employees and the gender divisions in work and family life call into question the feasibility of achieving the Government's aim of work-life balance for everyone.
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International Financial Economics: Corporate Decisions in Global Markets
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Completely updated and revised, the second edition of International Financial Economics: Corporate Decisions in Global Markets applies the principles of financial economics to explain how international corporate finance decisions are made in the real world. Written from a practical, financial perspective versus one of pure economic theory, the text is divided into three sections. The first section provides a comprehensive discussion of exchange rates. The next section offers an in-depth look at a firm's foreign exchange exposure measurement and hedging. The material highlights the connection between foreign exchange exposure in profit and foreign exchange exposure in equity, as well as the impact of foreign currency debt and currency swaps. The third section examines overseas investment decisions in both countries integrated with the global financial market and those still segmented from it. Coverage emphasizes the cost of capital and accounting for overseas investments and hedging of foreign exchange risk. International Financial Economics: Corporate Decisions in Global Markets is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in global financial management. Features BLEmploys a practical, financial perspective with real-world applications BLIncludes expanded material on currency swaps to show their role in foreign exchange exposure management BLOffers a detailed description of economic foreign exchange exposure BLProvides additional material on overseas investment decisions when exchange rates are not correctly valued
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International Sales Law: A Critical Analysis of CISG Jurisprudence
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This book is the product of extended research by five scholars working in the area of private international law. It provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the jurisprudence surrounding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). As of 1st January 2004, 62 countries have adopted the CISG as their countries’ international sales law. Since the introduction of the CISG fifteen years ago, a critical mass of interpretive jurisprudence has developed, and, given its importance now as the world’s preeminent sales law, the authors believed that a fresh analysis of the evolving case and arbitral law was now needed. The analysis in the book is undertaken at two levels - the practical interpretation of the CISG and the theoretical limits of interpretation of supranational conventions.
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This book is the product of extended research by five scholars working in the area of private international law. It provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the jurisprudence surrounding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). As of 1st January 2004, 62 countries have adopted the CISG as their countries' international sales law. Since the introduction of the CISG fifteen years ago, a critical mass of interpretive jurisprudence has developed, and, given its importance now as the world's preeminent sales law, the authors believed that a fresh analysis of the evolving case and arbitral law was now needed. The analysis in the book is undertaken at two levels - the practical interpretation of the CISG and the theoretical limits of interpretation of supranational conventions.
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FRECKLES THE RABBIT (How Your Pet Grows!)
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This book is illustrated with LOTS of beautiful photographs of two spotted rabbits named Freckles and Dotty. It begins with their mother building a nest, and soon we see the first picture of the two rabbits as new-borns. As the babies grow, the illustrations follow, and we see them at eight days, thirteen days, three weeks (getting very cute), five and six weeks, and three thru seven months, when the bunnies have grow to adults and Freckles has her first litter of baby rabbits. The text is simple, and gives lots of information on rabbits, while telling the story of these rabbits in particular. This is a very enjoyable book.
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HOW YOUR PET GROWS FRECKLES THE RABBIT
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Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Urodela (Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny, V. 1, Pt. a)
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a must for reproductive biology enthusiasts.......2004-09-14
as all the works by Barrie Jamieson, this book is a real mine of data. I recommend it to all persons interested not only in reproductive biology, but also in biodiversity studies
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Rockwatching: Adventures Above and Below Ontario
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Hiking backwards in time.
Southern Ontario's sedimentary deposits hold the fascinating story of our planet's last half billion years. Most of the surface rock in Southern Ontario is limestone, dolostone or marble. Consequently, geologic history is readily visible in its distinctive layers -- if you know where to look.
Explore ancient seabeds. See evidence of violent, catastrophic floods. Witness the effects of glaciers that scoured the continent. Discover signs of droughts that lasted thousands of years.
No matter what your age or skill level,
Rockwatching is an entertaining and informative guide that shows you can go back in time.
Rockwatching features fascinating locations that can be explored in a single afternoon. Visit the formidable cliffs above Georgian Bay, their enormous broken potholes gaping like fierce jaws. Or, on the opposite side of the Bruce Peninsula, stroll through the dunes of Dorcas Bay, where strange, red-veined pitcher plants lurk among the bog reeds and many species of orchid make their home.
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Great Book a must have.......2005-08-31
This is a one of a kind book! If you think that you may be interested in anything to do with rocks in Ontario get this book. Well written with lots of background information. If your a caver, climber or weekend hiker you'll like this one. Great photo's and side stories.
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- Intermediate text, very readable, conversational tone...
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Modern Classical Optics (Oxford Master Series in Atomic, Optical and Laser Physics)
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The book gives accounts of non-quantum optical phenomena and of instruments and technology based on them, at a level suitable for the last two years of an honours degree in physics and for graduates starting out. Topics covered include the conventional (diffraction, coherence, thin films, holography...) but also the less conventional (etendue, Gaussian beams, laser cavities, cd reader, confocal microscope...) which belong in today's university courses, for example, to support laser physics. Even the conventional material has frequently been given a fresh presentation by giving a tidier-than-usual route through a calculation, or finding insightful connections with other parts of physics, or simply avoiding common errors. Problems offer opportunities for checking the reader's basic understanding, or for taking a careful route through reasoning, or for checking orders of magnitude. But most problems contain exploratory and critical material: investigating possible alternative approaches, asking searching questions about fundamentals, or solving apparent paradoxes.
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Intermediate text, very readable, conversational tone..........2006-02-10
Born and Wolf is a classic, but tough sledding at times. If it is a common topic in optics, you probably will prefer reading about it here instead. This book has a nice conversational tone, gives insight, and is reasonably detailed (but not exhaustive). It includes a lot of practical advice in small-type paragraphs in margins throught book (for example, the chapter on thin films notes that the refractive index can often vary with deposition method, etc.).
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Dispersion, Complex Analysis and Optical Spectroscopy: Classical Theory (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
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This book is devoted to dispersion theory in linear and nonlinear optics. Dispersion relations and methods of analysis in optical spectroscopy are derived with the aid of complex analysis. The book introduces the mathematical basis and derivations of various dispersion relations that are used in optical spectroscopy. In addition, it presents the dispersion theory of the nonlinear optical processes which are essential in modern optical spectroscopy. The book includes new methods such as the maximum entropy model for wavelength-dependent spectra analysis.
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- Pleasant light intro, but exercises too trivial.
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Introduction to Classical and Modern Optics
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Yes and No.......2004-05-19
A previous reviewer has suggested that this book's breezy style contributes to readability but limits the utility of the book for those who seek a substantive and quantitative understanding of optics. In this he is correct. In his assertion that the book's oversimplifications are, "presumably," appropriate for optometry students, he is mistaken. To suggest this is analagous to suggesting that cliff's notes are acceptable for students of physics but not of literature. After all, physicists, bless their sweet souls, could not comprehend the full text versions!
If you are a student in an introductory optics course (in any field), this book's style may help you get your footing. If you are not a beginner, or you want to understand the mathematical basis (derivations) of paraxial optics' formalisms and assumptions, this book is not for you.
Of course, it would be absurd to suggest that any work is, by itself, sufficient for the study of any discipline.
Pleasant light intro, but exercises too trivial........1999-05-08
For several semesters, I used the text by Pedrotti and Pedrotti in my 1-semester Optics course for Physics majors. But needing a change, I eventually switched a few years ago to Meyer-Arendt, and despite growing misgivings, have taught the course from his book 3 times so far. It appealed by its brevity, large variety of topics offered, lively historical anecdotes, and appeared somewhat more amusing and less dry than the solid, thorough, careful book by P & P. In those respects, it did not disappoint.
However, I need to warn potential readers and adopters of a serious downside: exercises are TOO simple--usually 1-step plug-and-chug jobbies. They may be adequate for future optometrists, who were, presumably, a large part of Dr. Meyer-Arendt's original audience. But they offer no real workout or skill-building exercise worthy of a Physics or Math major. The text also seems to bend over backwards to be "user-friendly" to the least skillful readers--rather than "scare away" anyone still at the "Sophomore level," it tends to fade out into vague descriptive language at the ends of chapters or whenever the topic at hand threatens to become a little bit sophisticated. No science student can solve any quantitative problems based on such hand-waving "snippets," so what good does this do?? No skill is imparted by these weak chapter-endings--but every mature Physics student knows that skill-building ability is the one indispensable criterion of value in a textbook. Unless a reader/teacher has the wherewithal to invent adequate problems to accompany the text, he should be aware of this practical limitation of the book as a learning tool.
With all respect, I APPEAL TO THE AUTHOR to rescue his rather entertaining, breezy book by adding problems worthy of intelligent science students. And to shore up many chapter-ends, replacing the descriptive fluff with usable, quantitative material--if need be, putting it in optional sections that "eyeglass-doctors," bless their good souls, can skip.
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The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics
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Introduction to Classical and Modern Optics
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Modern Classical Optics (oxford Master Series In Atomic, Optical And Laser Physics)
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Captain Antifer's father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Jaff [Jaffa], Kamylk Pasha, and many years after he received a mysterious document naming latitude 24 degrees 59 minutes north, and saying that the longitude would follow later. It never did; but Antifer succeeded in discovering it, and had a series of most exciting adventures in searching for the wealth which was to be found on the spot indicated.
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Quick Reference Guide.......2000-07-26
This particular reference of the Kings and Queens of Britain provides 2-3 page autobiographies of each monarch from a complete chapter dedicated to the Saxon Kings, and from William the Conqueror to George VI. It provides a breakdown of the eight dynasties that has been seated on the throne from 1066 to 1952 along with detailed family trees for each dynasty. The book also provides detailed maps so the reader can get a visual idea of how Britain was created from the Norman Conquest 1067-72, The Dominions of Henry II Plantagenet 1154-89, to the Hundred Years' War, the War of the Roses, and the Civil War. This reference also has a chapter on Irish kings and a chapter on Scotish kings as well. This reference is good for people who just want a little overview of each king or queen of Britain. For anything deeper, I suggest an individual autobiography for each monarch.
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Wordsworth Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain: A Pageant of Royal History from the First King of Wessex to the House of Windsor
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- good ethnography but bad writing
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The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies , No 16)
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In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administrative and legal contracts, are among the fundamental ways that authority is established and maintained in a complex state. Yet few scholars have explored this process and the ways in which it changes, especially outside the Western world.
Messick brings together intensive ethnography and textual analysis from a wealth of material: Islamic jurisprudence, Yemeni histories, local documents. In exploring the structure and transformation of literacy, law, and statecraft in Yemen, he raises important issues that are of comparative significance for understanding political life in other Muslim and nonwestern states as well.
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good ethnography but bad writing.......2006-11-14
This could be a better ethnography if the author does not play his jargons. i feel overall the book presents a very interesting perspective approaching the shifting of authority of shari'a in relating to the modernization of Islamic state. In terms of the ethnographical details and the theoretical undertaking, the book is definitely the first rate. However, I cannot enjoy the reading since the author sometimes overthrows theorectical jargons in his descriptions, which in turn obscures his arguments. Thus, I rate this book relative lower. And I do hope a book with such an interesting idea can be written in more precise language.
Ethnograpy of the Shari'ah.......2003-06-19
Messick's work is perhaps one of the most interesting approaches to studying the shari'ah ever written. His focus and approach is that of an anthropologist, hence the ethnographic character of the book; however, at the same time he maintains a keen understanding of both history and fiqh throughout.
The locus of this work is nearly entirely dominated by the highlands of Yemen and Ibb, the location of Messick's own ethnogrpahic study. Through the filter of Yemeni culture and the vast changes occuring there, Messick weaves a tale of what happenned theoretically, structurally, socially, politically, etc. to the practice of the Shari'ah within Yemeni society--oscillating between pre-modern, pre-bureacratic practices of the imamate, the effects of Ottoman reforms and the nationalist efforts at modernization.
As is fitting in the context, a keen regard is kept throughout the work for the dialectial aspects of textuality and orality and how as the scales increasing tip in favor of textualized, bureacratic order Yemeni society is utterly transformed. We then are able to see how the shariah was reshaped from a central discourse of the Muslim polity into "Islamic Law" as yet another component of governance have been repositioned within the framework of the nation-state.
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The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society
Brinkley Morris Messick
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- Major Disappointment
- Stimulating to one's gray matter.
- This is not a book for old fuddy duddies
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Anti-Gravity and the Unified Field (Lost Science Series)
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Major Disappointment.......2006-09-15
After reading the reviews I could not wait to recieve this book.
To be honest if it go lost in the mail I would of been happier.
Totally disjointed reading, found myself skipping around for lack of grabbing my attention, I ended up moving along to my next book.
Stimulating to one's gray matter........2002-03-15
I bought my copy of David's book from a store before I discovered Amazon.Com. As the clerk bagged the book for me she jokingly remarked "Well this looks like relaxing read for the weekend". This book is more fun to read then the title let's on. However, I don't think It was compiled as well as some other works like in the author's lost cities series. David's chapter on Einstein and unified field was good but the rest of the book looked a little thrown together. Even compulations should be well ordered. And, I am not saying this because my copy was bound with some extra duplicate pages either.
I appreciate the author's open mindedness on many issues. If this work were someones first read of this author they might be tempted to underestimate the rest of his work. I am saying this as fan.
This is not a book for old fuddy duddies.......2000-06-10
Are you stuck in your thinking, or can you entertain new theories, new thoughts, a new approach to thinking? What we see is not all there is. We live amongst unseen (but not unfelt) waves and vibrations which impact us daily. Yet, we go about our lives in an unthinking way because we cannot actually "see" radio waves and their impact upon us. Yet, they do impact us. Is your mind open or closed to new ideas about who we are and the world around us? Einstein told us that energy and mass are interchangeable. If that doesn't blow you away, then you're a perfect candidate to read this book.
This is not a book for old fuddy duddies.......2000-06-10
Are you stuck in your thinking, or can you entertain new theories, new thoughts, a new approach to thinking? What we see is not all there is. We live amongst unseen (but not unfelt) waves and vibrations which impact us daily. Yet, we go about our lives in an unthinking way because we cannot actually "see" radio waves and their impact upon us. Yet, they do impact us. Is your mind open or closed to new ideas about who we are and the world around us? Einstein told us that energy and mass are interchangeable. If that doesn't blow you away, then you're a perfect candidate to read this book.
Can We Control Gravity?.......2000-04-27
Childress, in his Anti-Gravity books, theorizes that Gravity can be controlled and warped into a field around us, providing propulsion for flying saucers and other aircraft. Apparently, he says, UFOs are already using a kind of technology like this, utilizing the Unified Field of Gravity, Magnetism and Electricity. A fun book on UFOs, suppressed technology, Nikola Tesa and more.
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The Flying Saucer Mystery (Dramatised)
Charles Eric Maine
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Like the first edition, this revised and updated edition of Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition provides a variety of perspectives on the complex relationship between society and nature on the rainforest frontiers of Latin America. Containing eleven new articles from experts in various fields and an updated introduction by the editor, this book provides an overview of the complex issues of tropical deforestation, both past and present.
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Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition.
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Susan E. (ed) Place
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