No More Company Crap
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    No More Company Crap
    Ed Bayless
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    This is the story of one man's struggle to accept and overcome poor leadership in the workplace and to hopefully become a good leader himself someday.

    Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout (Social Institutions and Social Change) (Social Institutions and Social Change)
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      Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout (Social Institutions and Social Change) (Social Institutions and Social Change)
      Davita Glasberg , and Dan Skidmore
      Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction
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      ASIN: 0202305627

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      The 1990s have been marked by a renewed vigor in debates concerning reforming and reducing the size and scope of the United States welfare state, an approach that critics have described as attempts to dismantle the welfare state. The question of whether or not we have been witnessing an attack against the welfare state hinges on how we conceptualize welfare policy. Only when we redefine the welfare state as a conception of both social and corporate welfare can we see the expansion of the welfare state in recent decades.

      An examination of the savings and loan crisis and subsequent bailout reveals that the welfare state is a dynamic process: the bailout is an extension of a larger process of state projects for economic intervention that began with banking regulation following the Great Depression of the 1930s, and continued with the Chrysler bailout legislation in 1979 and the Garn-St. Germain Act of 1982, which deregulated the banking industry .

      In viewing the welfare state as a power process involving shifts in relative emphases on corporate and social welfare policies and expenditures, this book provides both central case studies and a new conceptual framework for policy debates on "welfare as we know it."
      Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout (Social Institutions and Social Change) (Social Institutions and Social Change)
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        Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout (Social Institutions and Social Change) (Social Institutions and Social Change)
        Davita; Skidmore, Dan Glasberg
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        ASIN: B000OP5VCS

        The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices
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        The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices
        Elazar Barkan
        Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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        ASIN: 0801868076

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        How do nations and aggrieved parties, in the wake of heinous crimes and horrible injustices, make amends in a positive way to acknowledge wrong-doings and redefine future interactions? How does the growing practice of making restitution restore a sense of morality and enhance prospects for world peace? Where has restitution worked and where has it not?

        Since the end of World War II, the victims of historical injustices and crimes against humanity have increasingly turned to restitution, financial and otherwise, as a means of remedying past suffering. In The Guilt of Nations, Elazar Barkan offers a sweeping look at the idea of restitution and its impact on the concept of human rights and the practice of both national and international politics. Through in-depth explorations of reparation demands for a wide variety of past wrongs -- the Holocaust; Japanese enslavement of "comfort women" in Korea and the Philippines; the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor; German art in Russian museums and Nazi gold in Swiss banks; the oppression of indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. mainland, and Hawaii; and the enduring legacy of slavery and institutional racism among African Americans -- Barkan confronts the difficulties in determining victims and assigning blame in the aftermath of such events, understanding what might justly be restored through restitutions, and assessing how these morally and politically charged acknowledgments of guilt can redefine national histories and identities.

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        3 out of 5 stars An admirable effort, but not engaging.......2001-11-05

        I hesitate to write a review of this book because I am reluctant to critique a very noble and dilligent effort by Barkan to document reparations movements and issues from throughout the world; I can only imagine the time and effort it took to write this. It's very well documented, and I cited it in my research. I just didn't find it very engaging personally, but that doesn't mean that others won't find it meaningful.

        4 out of 5 stars Callous disregard of the vistims.......2001-03-09

        "Those who love to feel guilty will applaud the book." How cynical! I'd have let it pass if it weren't for the "17 of 20 people (who) found the following review (by Derek Parker) helpful." Parker, like most white Australians, is totally into denial that the genocide started by invaders 213 years ago is the one and only cause for the abject state of the indigenous peoples who have not ceded sovereignty. Nine out of 10 were wiped out by slaughter, starvation, disease and dispersal from their lands. Massacres were still happening within the life spans of present-day parents and grandparents. Indigenous Australians live 20 years less on average than other people in the country. I could bore you with endless statistics testifying to the continuing devastation of Australia's First Peoples through the ongoing white war on them: deprival of education, health care, jobs, 20 times the normal imprisonment rate, etc., etc. What Parker obviously doesn't like is that the tyranny of distance no longer works and White Australia's crimes are more and more in the world spotlight, including in this book. Australia is getting plenty of stick in international bodies for not living up to human rights agreements it has signed up to. The issue is if not the biggest, then one of the biggest on the national agenda. Parker and his camp would be yelling loudest if present-day Germans were to shirk their responsibility for restitution to the Jews. Yet to him Australian perpetrators are sacrosanct. Parker alleges that "Barkan acts as if there are no difficult questions at all" in regard to the Aborigines, and "Largely, he accepts the claims put forward by the wronged group, dismissing contrary arguments." I would like Parker to back his claims that Barkan's "selection of evidence seems so one-sided as to almost be misleading" and that he's made a "number of straightforward errors." In my view, Barkan, as a non-Australian, has a remarkably accurate take on our country. "He seems to assume that the fact that someone has been wronged makes anything they say automatically correct." - Barkan does not. To speak of a "victim/victimiser methodology" is callous disregard of the pain our indigenous people still suffer and a vicious panning of those who empathize with them. "There are important issues of human dignity here." - You bet! Yet the Australian government is refusing to allow various United Nations human rights sub-bodies into the country to investigate. "How much responsibility can be placed on the shoulders of people who might well have been ignorant, or even born after, the wrongdoing?" - So we don't attone or restitute in any way once our parents and grandparents are no more? Tough luck for those suffering among us if our ancestors wronged theirs? If we're living off the fat of an invasion, and those invaded still suffer the after-effects? "The case he discusses where, in Australia in the 1960s, half-caste Aboriginal children were removed from their families and placed in (white) foster homes is a case in point. It now seems wrong, but at the time was done with benevolent intent." - The stealing of children went on for more than a hundred years. The plan was to "breed the colour out" of the indigenous people, not some benevolent intent. How can removing children from extended families by force ever be benevolent? Merely on the pretext that a traditional lifestyle did not fit in with the growing white settler population's idea of how one had to live? "Historical injustice deserves a great book." - and a better review than Mr. Parker's. "The Guilt of Nations" is good stuff. Hopefully it will reach many readers and put Australia's deniers on notice that more and more of the world is watching.

        3 out of 5 stars Not proven.......2000-07-07

        Barkan has to be commended, at least, for taking on a huge subject: the attempts of groups, seen increasingly over the past quarter-century, who have been the victims of government policies and wrongdoing to seek recognition and redress. The Guilt of Nations has introductory and concluding sections that thoughtfully discuss the issues involved, trying to establish a general framework. Philosophically and practically, it's a tough subject. There is, in liberal societies, an ongoing tension between individual and group rights, and limits on government resources. The particular circumstances of the wrongdoing also have to be examined. Barkan, as a means of illustrating the problems, looks at the post-war restitution by Germany to Jews; and, in a concluding section, examines the difficulty of compensating Black Americans for slavery. These parts of the book are well-considered and well-argued. The problem of The Guilt of Nations lies with the case studies that make up the middle section of the book, especially in the chapters dealing with indigenous groups. Here, Barkan acts as if there are no difficult questions at all. Largely, he accepts the claims put forward by the wronged group, dismissing contrary arguments. Indeed, in the chapter on Aboriginal issues in Australia ( a subject this reviewer happens to know something about ) his selection of evidence seems so one-sided as to almost be misleading. There is (in this same chapter) a number of straightforward errors that make one wonder whether his agenda is not more important to Barkan (who is an academic historian) than the facts. He seems to assume that the fact that someone has been wronged makes anything they say automatically correct. This is not to say that victims should be blamed for what might have happened to them: it is to say that human events can be much more complicated than a victim/victimiser methodology. This is a great pity, because there are important issues of human dignity here. The cases of the "comfort women" used by the Japanese army in World War II and the internment of Japanese-Americans by the US government in 1942 are undeniably affecting, especially insofar as a recognition of the wrong done to them was more important to those involved than monetary compensation. Yet Barkan, in what seems to be a rush to condemn the perpetrators (as he refers to those he doesn't like) seems to miss a crucial dilemma: how much responsibility can be placed on the shoulders of people who might well have been ignorant, or even born after, the wrongdoing? (Actually, Barkan does mention this question. But he doesn't answer it in a meaningful form; he sort of assumes it away.) There is another question he skips around: to what extent can the morality of 2000 being applied to quite different social circumstances? True, there are cases where evil is so obvious as to have no defence in circumstances; equally, there are cases where what now seems wrong seemed right, even necessary, at the time. The case he discusses where, in Australia in the 1960s, half-caste Aboriginal children were removed from their families and placed in (white) foster homes is a case in point. It now seems wrong, but at the time was done with benevolent intent. It might have been wrong, but it cannot be called evil if evil requires intent. But Barkan fails to makes such a distinction, and does not even seem interested in trying. Historical injustice deserves a great book. The Guilt of Nations isn't it. Parts of it have interesting things to say, but it veers between seriousness and silliness. Those who love to feel guilty will applaud the book. The rest of us will, and should, treat it with caution.
        Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice
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        Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice
        Gary North
        Manufacturer: Institute for Christian Economics
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        ASIN: 0930464176

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        5 out of 5 stars An outstanding book! Exceptionally thought-provoking!.......2002-03-27

        In my opinion, this is one of Gary North's best books, right up there with "The Sinai Strategy" and "Honest Money." In this book, which is a spin-off of "Tools of Dominion: The Case Laws of Exodus," North describes the Biblical view of the law as it is found in Exocus 21-22 and then applies that perspective to contemporary legal situations. The results are truly eye-opening.

        Why, for example, when a thief robs a victim, does the thief pay damages to the State rather than the person he robbed? Why does the victim of the crime often receive nothing for having been robbed (unless he receives it though the insurance he himself paid for)? Why do the fines from speeding tickets go into the general funds of the city or county in which the infraction occured, rather than go into a fund to pay for the injuries to other drivers and pedestrians who are hit by speeders? When the funds go to the city, doesn't this encourage the corruption of underposting the speed limit, speed traps and ticket quotas for traffic cops?

        Who is the victim of crime, the person who was robbed, beaten up or the family members of the person who was murdered, or is the victim of crime the State? Who should receive restitution from the offender, the victim or the State? Under our present non-Biblical system, the State receives the compensation from the criminal, not the actual victim of crime. It doesn't make sense. And because of that, our society is becoming increasingly lawless over time, not law-abiding.

        I most highly recommend this book to anybody who is interested in better understanding the Biblical view of one of the major social issues of our time. Regardless of whether or not you are a Christian, this book will have you thinking and reflecting deeply on the issues it brings up.
        The Law and Ethics of Restitution
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          The Law and Ethics of Restitution
          Hanoch Dagan
          Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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          Dagan's book provides a dynamic and much needed account of the American law of restitution. The book reviews the existing doctrine, including the forthcoming (third) Restatement, using an ethical perspective to expose and examine critically the normative underpinnings of the core categories of restitution. Dagan also discusses some of the most controversial issues in the area, such as cohabitation, improper tax payments, and the role of constructive trusts as trumps in bankruptcy. He further tackles the recent restitution claims of slave laborers (or their descendants) against corporations that benefited from their enslavements, and of governmental bodies against injurious industries. Dagan argues that the concept of unjust enrichment is not an independent reason for restitution but, rather, serves as a loose framework, structuring the contextual application of commitments to autonomy, utility, and community in situations where either the cause of action or the measure of recovery is benefit-based. By integrating doctrinal and ethical analyses of restitution across the spectrum of restitution contexts, the author offers significant and provocative insights on existing law as well as possible reforms.
          The Law and Ethics of Restitution.(Brief Article)(Book Review) : An article from: Michigan Law Review
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            The Law and Ethics of Restitution.(Brief Article)(Book Review) : An article from: Michigan Law Review
            Emily Sherwin
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            This digital document is an article from Michigan Law Review, published by Michigan Law Review Association on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8284 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: The Law and Ethics of Restitution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
            Author: Emily Sherwin
            Publication: Michigan Law Review (Refereed)
            Date: May 1, 2005
            Publisher: Michigan Law Review Association
            Volume: 103 Issue: 6 Page: 1578(17)

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            LAW AND ETHICS OF RESTITUTION
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              LAW AND ETHICS OF RESTITUTION
              HANOCH DAGAN
              Manufacturer: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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              Exploring profit - Sustainability trade-offs in cropping systems using evolutionary algorithms [An article from: Environmental Modelling and Software]
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                Exploring profit - Sustainability trade-offs in cropping systems using evolutionary algorithms [An article from: Environmental Modelling and Software]
                P. deVoil , W.A.H. Rossing , and G.L. Hammer
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                This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Modelling and Software, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                Models that implement the bio-physical components of agro-ecosystems are ideally suited for exploring sustainability issues in cropping systems. Sustainability may be represented as a number of objectives to be maximised or minimised. However, the full decision space of these objectives is usually very large and simplifications are necessary to safeguard computational feasibility. Different optimisation approaches have been proposed in the literature, usually based on mathematical programming techniques. Here, we present a search approach based on a multiobjective evaluation technique within an evolutionary algorithm (EA), linked to the APSIM cropping systems model. A simple case study addressing crop choice and sowing rules in North-East Australian cropping systems is used to illustrate the methodology. Sustainability of these systems is evaluated in terms of economic performance and resource use. Due to the limited size of this sample problem, the quality of the EA optimisation can be assessed by comparison to the full problem domain. Results demonstrate that the EA procedure, parameterised with generic parameters from the literature, converges to a useable solution set within a reasonable amount of time. Frontier ''peels'' or Pareto-optimal solutions as described by the multiobjective evaluation procedure provide useful information for discussion on trade-offs between conflicting objectives.
                Uncertainty, economics, and the spread of an invasive plant species.: An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
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                  Uncertainty, economics, and the spread of an invasive plant species.: An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
                  Mark E. Eiswerth , and G. Cornelis van Kooten
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                  Release Date: 2005-07-30

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                  This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 6500 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: Uncertainty, economics, and the spread of an invasive plant species.
                  Author: Mark E. Eiswerth
                  Publication: American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Refereed)
                  Date: December 1, 2002
                  Publisher: American Agricultural Economics Association
                  Volume: 84 Issue: 5 Page: 1317(5)

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                  Using GIS-based ecological-economic modeling to evaluate policies affecting agricultural watersheds [An article from: Ecological Economics]
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                    Using GIS-based ecological-economic modeling to evaluate policies affecting agricultural watersheds [An article from: Ecological Economics]
                    C.L. Lant , S.E. Kraft , J. Beaulieu , D. Bennett , and Lo
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                    This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    This paper has three purposes. The first is to conceptualize agricultural watersheds as complex adaptive human ecosystems that co-produce agricultural goods and ecosystem services. The second is to demonstrate a generalizable framework for the spatial modeling of ecosystem service production in watersheds based on this conceptualization. The third is to examine the policy implications of the analysis conducted using this spatial decision support system (SDSS). Analyses using the SDSS show that restrictions on soil loss to the ''tolerance level'' (T) cause average farm income to decline by only 4%, a reduction that is nearly eliminated if the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is available to farmers as an income-generating alternative. The spatially variable response of farmers to soil loss restrictions and the CRP creates a complex pattern of winners and losers and a markedly different land use pattern and crop mix than occurs without these programs. The land use pattern associated with T restrictions and the CRP yields about 64% lower erosion rates and 43% lower sediment yields than the pattern without T restrictions or CRP. These and other results from the SDSS analysis point out that ecosystem service-based subsidies, such as CRP, improve the joint production of farm income, soil conservation and water quality in agricultural watersheds. These subsidies could perhaps receive greater funding by shifting agricultural subsidies from income supports tied to yield and price as well as other crop-based programs. In this way, public expenditures on agriculture would produce a valuable public benefit in the form of load reductions in a TMDL context, and an augmentation of ecosystem services now in decline in many agricultural watersheds. Further methodological developments now underway using evolutionary algorithms can find near-optimal solutions for farms over time and for landscape patterns over whole watersheds.

                    Biophysical Processes in Living Systems
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                      Ionospheric Precursors of Earthquakes
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                        Sergey Pulinets , and Kirill Boyarchuk
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                        The book aims to explain the variations of near-Earth plasma observed over seismically active areas several days/hours before strong seismic shocks. It demonstrates how seismo-ionospheric coupling is part of the global electric circuit and shows that the anomalous electric field appearing in active seismic areas is the main carrier of information from the earth into the ionosphere. The discussion of physical mechanisms is based on experimental data. The results can be regarded as the basis for future applications such as short-term earthquake prediction. It proceeds to describe existing complex systems of space-born and ground-based monitoring for electromagnetic and ionospheric precursors of earthquakes, as well as those still under construction. It is an excellent text for courses and contains a wealth of information for those scientists working in the field of natural disaster reduction.

                        Principles of Modern Physics - International Series of Pure and Applied Physics
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                          Introduction to the theory of relativity and the principles of modern physics (A Blaisdell book in the pure and applied sciences)
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                            Huseyin Yilmaz
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                            Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Principles of Modern Physics (Secrets of the Universe)
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                            Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Principles of Modern Physics (Secrets of the Universe)
                            Paul Fleisher
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                            5 out of 5 stars Something practical.......2004-09-24

                            This book is part of the "Secrets of the Universe" series.

                            Reading the introduction makes you want to regurgitate. Even though the target reader grade is sit to nine, the author, Paul Fleisher, talks down to the reader in the most fundamental way.

                            After you get past the introduction it is Relativity and Quantum Mechanics relatively with out the math. You will find the book more of a history of how our concept of light and the makeup of the atom changes down through the ages. He sights key discoveries and concepts. And drops names such as Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Max Plank, and Werner Heisenberg.

                            Before you get a chance to yawn this is one of the few books that has practical experiments to prove the laws and not just take my word for it theories. Try the Red or Blue light on a motion detector that proves that "the shorter the wave = the higher the energy."

                            The information is split into logical and short chapters:
                            1. Relativity
                            2. Quantum Mechanics
                            3. Conservation of Mass/Energy
                            4. The Uncertainty Principle

                            Included are references to further reading and web sites to visit.

                            5 out of 5 stars Real science, real simple.......2004-07-18

                            This book by Paul Fleisher is an interesting introduction to a difficult subject. Written ostensibly for sixth to ninth grade levels, in fact many people beyond these levels have gaps in their knowledge about science. For all of its fame, the Theory of Relativity is one of the misunderstood ideas in science. Not as well known as Relativity, Quantum Physics is also largely misunderstood. Fleisher's book by no means presents all the depth of these ideas, but it does provide a very basic framework for understanding.

                            There are four chapters -- the first chapter looks at relativity, discussing the speed of light, frames of reference, and the idea of warped space-time around massive objects. The second chapter, quantum mechanics, presents the idea of the photoelectric effect, the idea the energy behaves in wavelike and particle manner, and that there are few 'real life' experiments that can adequately explain quantum effects. The third chapter looks the conservation of mass and energy, the famous Einstein equation of E = mc(squared). The fourth chapter presents one more misunderstood physics idea, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, one of the important concepts in quantum physics, that basically sets the stage for much of the 'bizarre' aspects of modern physics, including the concept of limits to our knowledge and measurement ability.

                            Fleisher presents several short appendices -- a two-page timeline starting in 1675 with Olaus Romer's discovery that the speed of light is finite to the late 1900s with nuclear events. There are eight pages of one-paragraph biographies of major physicists of the past few hundred years. There are selected readings and bibliography, as well as a useful glossary.

                            Not just for kids, the book and the others in the series of 'Secrets of the Universe' present science ideas in small, easily comprehended pieces for any non-scientifically-literate reader.
                            Principles of Modern Physics
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