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The Effect of No-Fault Automobile Insurance on Driver Behavior and Automobile Accidents in the United States 2001
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No-fault auto insurance opponents frequently argue that no-fault may ultimately lead to higher auto insurance costs by reducing drivers' incentives to drive carefully and thereby increasing the accident rate. The intuition behind this criticism of no-fault is simple: No-fault auto insurance lowers the cost of driving negligently by limiting first-party liability for the injuries suffered by third parties in auto accidents. This report evaluates this criticism of no-fault by examining trends in fatal and non-fatal auto accidents rates and rates of driver negligence in the U.S. between 1967-89. This report finds no evidence that the adoption of no-fault auto insurance between 1971-76 in 16 states increased fatal accident rates in those states and no correlation between the presence of no-fault auto insurance and a state's overall accident rate or rate of driver negligence.
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Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions between individuals are modeled as a noncooperative game. Most dynamic analyses of evolutionary games are based on their normal forms, despite the fact that many interesting games are specified more naturally through their extensive forms. Because every extensive form game has a normal form representation, some theorists hold that the best way to analyze an extensive form game is simply to ignore the extensive form structure and study the game in its normal form representation. This book rejects that suggestion, arguing that a game's normal form representation often omits essential information from the perspective of dynamic evolutionary game theory.
The book offers a synthesis of current knowledge about extensive form games from an evolutionary perspective, emphasizing connections between the extensive form representation and dynamic models that traditionally have been applied to biological and economic phenomena. It develops a general theory to analyze dynamically arbitrary extensive form games and applies this theory to a range of examples. It lays the foundation for the analysis of specific extensive form models of behavior and for the further theoretical study of extensive form evolutionary games.
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Latin American Macroeconomic Reforms: The Second Stage
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Hidden behind a number of economic crises in the mid- to late 1990s-including Argentina's headline-grabbing monetary and political upheaval-is that fact that Latin American economies have, generally speaking, improved dramatically in recent years. Their success has been due, in large part, to macroeconomic reforms, and this book brings together prominent economists and policymakers to assess a decade of such policy shifts, highlighting both the many success stories and the areas in which further work is needed. Contributors offer both case studies of individual countries and regional overviews, covering monetary, financial, and fiscal policy.
Contributors also work to identify future concerns and erect clear signposts for future reforms. For instance, now that inflation rates have been stabilized, one suggested "second stage" monetary reform would be to focus on reducing rates from high to low single digits. Financial sector reforms, it is suggested, should center on improving regulation and supervision. And, contributors argue, since fiscal stability has already been achieved in most countries, new fiscal reforms need to concentrate on institutionalizing fiscal discipline, improving the efficiency and equity of tax collection, and modifying institutional arrangements to deal with increasingly decentralized federal systems.
The analysis and commentary in this volume-authored not only by academic observers but by key Latin American policymakers with decades of firsthand experience-will prove important to anyone with an interest in the future of Latin American's continuing economic development and reform.
Contributors to this volume:
José Antonio González, Stanford University
Anne O. Krueger, International Monetary Fund
Vittorio Corbo, Pontifical Catholic University, Chile
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Central Bank of Chile
Alejandro Werner, Bank of Mexico
Márcio G. P. Garcia, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio
Tatiana Didier, World Bank
Gustavo H. B. Franco, former president, Central Bank of Brazil
Francisco Gil Díaz, Minister of the Treasury, Mexico
Roberto Zahler, former governor, Central Bank of Chile
Ricardo J. Caballero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip L. Brock, University of Washington
Stephen Haber, Stanford University
Pablo E. Guidotti, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Vito Tanzi, International Monetary Fund
Enrique Dávila, Ministry of Finance, Mexico
Santiago Levy, Mexican Social Security Institute
Ricardo Fenochietto, private consultant, Buenos Aires
Rogério L. F. Werneck, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio
Carola Pessino, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires
Michael Michaely, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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a must for any economist interested in latin america.......2003-07-05
The book is a great compilation of articles that tough on the most important macroeconomic issues facing Latin America on the eve of the new decade. The book is completely policy orientte but it offers an excelent mix of scholarly technical work with non technical insightful policy analysis. The authors are well known scholars and policy makers.
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Toujours Cricklewood
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Progressive or art rock was one of the most important trends in rock and roll during the early and mid-'70s. Groups like Genesis, Yes, Procol Harum, and Pink Floyd broke new ground by taking classical composition techniques and structures and wedding them with the power and drive of rock. Yet, by the end of the decade, the punk backlash had pretty much ended prog-rock's reign as rock's leading style. Today, scholars of rock and popular culture have returned to these musical groups and their achievements with new recognition of the musical sophistication they brought to rock and roll. In this book, the glory days of progressive rock are relived in a series of insightful essays about the key bands, songwriters, and songs that made prog-rock such an innovative style. For fans-both old and new-this collection sheds new light on an important trend in rock and roll with repercussions still being felt among today's artists. Progressive Rock Reconsidered promises to be a landmark work on this important era in rock's history.
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looks really, really great on a shelf.......2006-11-18
This book is really nice on a shelf. It also sits well under a coffee cup or with a diet coke sitting on it. It sets off the colors of a ficus or cactus really well but suffers from a lack of pictures.
My kids like the colors a lot. I am sure the author's mother is very proud and talks about it to her bridge club a lot, especially since he is now tenured and she can stop worrying about him on food stamps. Of course he is always travelling to frozen godforsaken places above the arctic circle to do research, but still overall a good boy who despite sharing a bedroom when he was growing up, managed to write a very nice book that sits well under a coffee cup or with a diet coke sitting on it.
YOU BETTER HOPE SO.......2003-03-11
The more you appreciate and enjoy music, the more it becomes incumbent upon you to understand music in terms beyond the social context, beyond "I like it" or "I don't like it". The arts are generally forgiving to lay people: you need not understand the references, the structures, the variations, the sources or the traditions. Which is a long way of saying, you don't need to understand much.
Unless you really want to enjoy what you're listening to.
This book brings together a generous spectrum of opinion on music and the battered category of Progressive Rock. I have been drawn to aspects of this musical "form" for many, many years. And while Prog includes its share of ostentatious and overblown nonsense, it also offers some genuinely original, powerful and moving music.
The positive attributes of this music are best exemplified by Gregory Karl in his analysis of King Crimson's "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" . Here at last is a lucid and insightful essay which clearly connects the music itself with its accompanying subtexts. Mr. Karl does an outstanding job of tracing the elements of the score and structure forward and backward in the King Crimson catalog to make an intellectual connection between sound and meaning. John S. Cotner's analysis of Pink Floyd's "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" is interesting in its attempt to take us through a new system of notation for a new kind of compositional technique. And there are several other essays ranging from lyrical analyses of works by Roger Waters and Adrian Belew, to the time and thematic transformation techniques of Keith Emerson, as well as other perspectives on the music of bands such as Yes and Rush.
These essays may seem dry and overly scholastic in some cases, but an untrained reader needs to look beyond the immediate and sometimes significant challenge of dealing with music theory to the understanding that this music usually goes well beyond the surface characteristics of sound and song to something more profound. In fact, if you like this musical form, this book will better help you understand why you like it, even without comprehending every nuace presented by the authors.
The only topic that seems to be missing is the role of the studio in much of this music. In many cases, signal processing techniques and studio manipulation play a significant role in the resulting music. For example, the article by Mr. Cotner, which goes to such great lengths to develop a system of notation capable of dealing with the vagaries of an Echoplex, never gives a complete nod to the sometimes "experimental" and even "accidental" origin of some of these pieces -- intellect catching up with intuition, as Brian Eno has said. None-the-less, Kevin Holm-Hudson needs to be applauded for putting together a broad-ranging, thought-provoking and -- sorry for the cliche -- challenging book that should compel you to know more about what you think you hear.
Interesting but not perfectly comprehensive.......2002-11-16
Progressive rock is a genre that has been consistently maligned ever since the emergence of punk around the time of my birth in the late 1970s for its movement away from the Dionysian values, working-class roots and blues-based songs characteristic of rock and roll in the days of Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.
This is especially true in Australia, where one consistently sees progressive rock albums listed as being "the worst albums ever" in entertainment guides (I recall "Nursery Cryme" being described in that way by Melbourne newspaper The Age - I cannot myself judge having never heard a note of it or related works), and artists who weren't progressive rock are maligned and distorted if their music failed to conform with the critics' party line of simple, stripped down rock - Australia is perhaps the most prog-phobic of major rock markets.
The book attempts to outline why progressive rock is different from the simpler styles of rock that dominated in the sixties. It contrasts progressive rock with earlier styles in terms of orientation (to body or mind), social status (working or middle class), lyrics (fastasy or romance & fun); and the song structures (extended suites such as "Echoes" or "Supper's Ready" in place of simple verse-bridge-chorus songwriting).
The amin focus, sensibly, is on the "true" progressive rock bands, where the emphasis was on flashy solos rather than, as in the case of numerous other artists of the era, improvisation. However, the book, I feel, ought to define progressive rock much more clearly than it does - and explain these definitions too. Often, especially in a prog-phobic country like Australia, there was never a great deal of care in this process. Moreover, those artists lumped in with progressive rockers (whether by punks or musicologists is irrelevant) were often as radically different from each other as they are from "true" progressive rock bands.
Most of the book deals with song structures of various pieces by such bands as Yes, explaining key musical points in their songs to show how progressive rock evolved. The later part of the book focuses on the piece "2112" by Rush (based on a work by Ayn Rand) and on "math rock", a little-known genre of rock in which unorthodox time signatures and shifting rhythms are used constantly rather than as occassional changes in rhythm. This is very interesting for someone interested in music theory, but it is not done by any means thoroughly so that everything is clear to the less knowledgeable. Rather, only a few tiny fragements are given attention.
Moreover, in the latter part of the book, unauthenticated calims are made that certain critically acclaimed bands in the 1990s (like Sonic Youth, generally classed as experimental rock - a genre which in some ways is an odd point between progressive rock and punk) have been influenced by progressive rock - and if we do, it does not seem to me to be very well done even though I am not knowledgeable about the bands concerned.
However, this is a most interesting read nonetheless.
excellent book dude.......2002-10-18
Really tubular book with lots of like really good stuff man. Not exactly a spidey book, or even Captain America but still a cool book! It rocks!
Thick as a Brick, but excellent for the thinking prog fan.......2002-05-22
Some previous reviewers have lambasted this book as "pretentious" (kind of funny, seeing that from alleged prog fans). What is so pretentious about an academic writer taking an "academic" perspective on rock? It's not as if this music was the Rolling Stones, after all. I don't see the pretense here; this IS an "academic" book, in that it does require some thought from the reader (it also helps to know the music that is written about well). But I enjoyed it for that very reason.
This is NOT a book for beginners, for those who want to know what prog was/is all about or for those looking for VH-1 "Behind the Music"-style bios. If you want a "survey" of progressive rock--what it was, its history, etc., check out Ed Macan's text "Rocking the Classics." If on the other hand you love this music, and maybe you're tired of reading the same facts over and over but instead you want to learn about how a body of music may be "read" from a number of different fields (philosophy, musicology, journalism), then this is for you. For that reason I would recommend it not only for serious prog fans, but for anyone interested in popular music studies.
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Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting 1920-1934
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Wrong Audience!.......2004-05-05
Looking for a fun read that will give you a quick introduction into the chaotic early days of radio with lots of examples of early attempts at getting commercials right, as I was when I ordered this book? Then this is definitely NOT the book for you. Want an academic read loaded with footnotes about the philosophy of the commercialization of radio and its consequences, which I didn't? Maybe this is for you. That's because this book is aimed at the wrong market. The catchy title and front cover design imply the book is for readers like me. The text is definitely meant to be read by scholars already familiar with the period and topic. I had expected to be entertained with the story of the origins of such programs as "Amos 'n' Andy". Instead I got mentions of it on four pages and only one paragraph that deals with it in any way.
Still, she did get me interested in the problem of how do you finance broadcasts that are necessary for the early radio manufacturers to continue selling their receivers when the listeners can listen for free (hence the two stars, not one). But although she goes into a long discussion about the advantages of 'indirect' advertising as apposed to 'direct' advertising, she doesn't give a single example of either, but merely gives references to academic books I'll never read! If this book had been properly packaged as the academic thesis that it is, I wouldn't have bought it. But maybe a lot of scholars in the field who didn't, would have.
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Build a Dynasty, Leave a Legend
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· Create a legacy: tips for Dynasty Mode™ help you get the most from your team and staff
· Comprehensive profiles for every team
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Prima Guide.......2006-03-22
Not Bad! has all the plays in it, which i really needed, plus all of the superstar moves!
It's okay, not much information really........2005-10-05
I think this book is kind of thin. I read through it once and it is not a really good guide because the information is not really enough and some information is missing. In this book, they mainly just say how each team do in the upcoming season and some little hint for playing for each team. But overall, it is still okay to get this.
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The USS Langley, the first American aircraft carrier, entered service in 1922. Despite being converted into an aircraft tender, it was the first step in a new direction for the US Navy and naval warfare. This book covers the design, development and operation of USN aircraft carriers built prior to World War II, including their aircraft and weaponry. It also explains their various successes and losses such as the first carrier vs carrier battle at Midway; the battle of the Coral Sea; the battle of the Philippine Sea; and the Operation Torch landings.
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An excellent booklet........2007-05-26
At first sight there really does not appear to be very much to this book. In fact, I would call it more of a booklet than a book - after all, there are magazines which are much larger. But don't be fooled. This publication is well worth the money and the illustrations by Tony Bryan are of the highest order.
What you get is a synopsis of the state of the US Navy Carrier Fleet at the outbreak of World War Two, details of the individual ships and a summary of their fate. There are historic photographs from the period on almost every page with all the aforementioned artwork placed together in the middle of the book.
This is excellent value for money and will leave most readers wanting to know more about these great ships.
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Carriers.......2007-01-11
Little of interest, most can be found better elsewhere. Pictures are very good.
Wonderful book on pre-war carriers.......2006-12-18
This is a gem of a book. Filled with great BW photos and color plates of the Carriers that won the Pacific war in WWII. Lots of information on the different classes of carriers that made life miserable for the Imperial Japanese Navy. A great companion book to this is the other Osprey book on Imperial Japanese carriers-which is also worth a look.
I'm so glad osprey has published all of these wonderful military books. I always loved reading about the legendary Pacific battles of WW II. Now I can take a trip down memory lane and examine the great ships that helped America secure the seas during the Pacific WWII conflict of 1941-1945.
This book not only honors these legendary ships, but the great men who served aboard them.
These ships won the Pacific war!.......2006-03-15
I may be guilty of exaggeration when I claim that the pre-war American aircraft carriers won the war in the Pacific, but I stand by my claim. Osprey's "US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922-45 : Prewar classes" is a compact history and guide to these eight American aircraft carriers, CV-1 Langley through CV-8 Hornet. One ship, the CV-4 Ranger, was a "failure," but participated in Torch. The experimental Langley had been reclassified as an auxilliary when sunk by Japanese bombs in 1942. The illustrious Enterprise and the Hornet were part of the daring Doolittle Raid, the little stunt that had limited material effect, but forced Japan to change horses in mid-stream and lose the fight at Midway against the Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet (all of the Yorktown class) and the unsinkable (and immobile) "aircraft carrier Midway Island."
These eight carriers suffered five of their number sunk in action against the Japanese--and two severely damaged multiple times. The Ranger didn't see combat in the Pacific. The Enterprise was perhaps the most famous survivor. And the Saratoga survived the worst Japan and the Pacific could dish out, ending its days as a target for American atomic bombs in Operation Crossroads, sinking on July 2, 1946. CV-4 Ranger was scrapped in 1947. CV-6 Enterprise was sold for scrap in 1958. These pioneer carriers lived on in name only when new aircraft carriers were commissioned.
The color plates show wartime camouflage measures applied during their wartime service. It wasn't really possible to "hide" something the size of two city blocks--the intent was to confuse submarines and aircraft concerning the aircraft carrier's vector and hopefully cause bombs and torpedoes to miss. A useful index and comprehensive bibliography are two items I look for in my reference works--usually, I have new questions after reading non-fiction. It's nice to find answer material. Radar and armament packages are detailed, and sidebars give thumbnail ship stats such as crew, displacement, and maximum speeds. I think I spent my money well on this book.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Confederacy
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 2nd Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
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One Of The Best.......2006-04-02
This book not only dispels most of the myths surrounding The War for Southern Independence (Civil War is actually incorrect) but is also an entertaining read. I highly recommend that those who know nothing but the propaganda put out by the North after the War and what is being taught today as the "truth" is only the victor's side of the story. This book provides an excellent balance for the reader to make up his or her mind and paves the way for more serious reading, such as the books by the Kennedy brothers (no, not John and Robert!).
Learn the truth about slavery, the plight of the middle and lower class Southern farmer and how Sherman (who exhibited sociopathic and sadist personality traits) devastated innocent people and their land so harshly that many areas have still not recovered.
If you want to be a fair-minded person, give this book a go and then question what you have been taught. There is a reason why Southern Generals, especially Lee, are still revered to this day even by their opponents and get a glimpse of the true love of family and soil that Southerners, black and white, possess to this day.
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Hey, How 'Bout Them Rebs?.......2003-01-20
It's about time someone gave us a really good look at Southern civilians during the Civil War, and this book does a better job than anything else I've read. It does look at the battles and the famous leaders, but even better it shows how the war years and afterward affected the common folk. There's also a really good chapter on the life of the average Southern soldier, the thousands of nameless Johnny Rebs. The chapter on the Confederate navy was welcome, and so was a chapter on Southern politics during the war. As a South Carolina boy, I give this a thumbs up and a good hearty Rebel yell too.
Made History as Painless as Possible.......2002-12-30
I am a Civil War re-enactor but admit I don't really like to READ history that much. But I did enjoy this a lot (got it as a Christmas gift) and recommend it. The background about all the politics and social issues leading up to the war was very helpful, gave me a new perspective on the roots of the war and secession. I knew a fair amount about some of the Confederate generals but wasn't too well versed in the politicians, so this book was an education. While I found a few minor errors in the index (not a big deal), the book was overall very thorough and well researched. The little boxed items scattered through the book (the "RebeLingo" items) were amusing and helpful. The author even had a section on us re-enactors, so I give him an extra star just for that!
A Pleasure to Read.......2002-12-09
I admit I only read books for pleasure. If a book bores me, I put it down. This was a pleasure to read, because I think the author knows what holds a reader's interest. Things that could have been really boring, like politics and the slavery issue and international relations, were made to hold my interest. I think this was a case where the material must have been close to the author's heart. I've enjoyed all the books in The Complete Idiots series, all are easy to understand. I hope they will do more historical books like this one on the Confederacy.
The Best Book on the Subject.......2002-11-13
I can't imagine a more pleasant way to learn about the Confederacy, and the Civil War, than this book. The book begins with a section on all the issues leading up to the war, and he gives a broad and fascinating picture of Southern society. In later chapters he presents that society suffering through the privation of the war years. I liked the fact that he concentrates on the civilians just as much as the great military leaders like Lee and Jackson. He also gives some needed attention to the politicians, especially the president Jefferson Davis and the obstructionist vice-president Alex Stephens. The book could use a few more illustrations, but the text is nicely broken up with a lot of "boxed items," like the "RebeLingo" boxes that define terms, and the "Did Y'all Know?" boxes with their trivia tidbits. I guess my favorite chapter was the end, which looks at the "neo-Confederates" of today and why the old South still fascinates people.
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Carving Our Destiny: Scientific Research Faces a New Millennium
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This is a book for people who love and understand science and want to know more about contemporary research frontiers. The questions addressed are as fascinating as they are diverse: Is the human mind truly unique among the primates? Does "dark matter" really exist in the universe? What can the human genome tell us about our evolutionary history?
These wide-ranging topics are brought together by virtue of their impact on our understanding of ourselves--and by the caliber of the authors: ten young scientists and scholars, reaching the height of their powers, who are especially talented in communicating their research findings to broad audiences. They were chosen to receive the prestigious Centennial Fellowships awarded in 1998 by the McDonnell Foundation, established and funded by the late aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell.
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In the Shadow of the First World: The Environment As Seen from Developing Nations
Winthrop P. Carty , and
Elizabeth Lee
Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
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Binding: Paperback
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