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Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production
Harrison C. White Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691120382 |
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In Markets from Networks, one of America's most influential sociologists unveils a groundbreaking theory of the market economy. Arguing that most economists use overly abstract models of how the economy operates, Harrison White seeks a richer, more empirically based alternative. In doing so, he offers a more lucid, generalized treatment of the market models described in his important earlier work in order to show how any given market is situated in a broader exchange economy.
White argues that the key to economic action is that producers seek market niches to maximize profit and minimize competition. As they do so, they base production decisions not only on anticipated costs from suppliers and anticipated demand from buyers, but also by looking at their competitors. In fact, White asserts, producers act less in response to actual demand than by anticipating it: they gauge where competitors have found demand and thus determine what they can do that is similar and yet different enough to give themselves a special niche.
Building on these and related insights, White creates new mathematical models of how the economy works and how the interaction of its sectors creates mutual protection from the uncertainties of business. These models provide new ways of accounting for profits, prices, market shares, and other vital economic phenomena. He shows, for example, that prices are determined by the coalescing of local variables rather than set in terms of averages as implied by the ''law'' of supply and demand. The model of ''pure'' competition favored by economics is deficient, he concludes, as it fails to account for the varied circumstances of particular industries.
Throughout, White draws extensively on case studies of American businesses and on recent mathematical and sociological work on networks. Rivaling standard economic theories with its rich empirical grounding, sheer originality, and scholarly rigor, Markets from Networks will resonate in economics and economic sociology for years to come.
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MARKETS FROM NETWORKS: SOCIOECONOMIC MODELS OF PRODUCTION.
Harrison C. White Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WAQO9Y |
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Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production
Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I8V684 |
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Organisational Behaviour: Individuals, Groups and Organisation (3rd Edition)
Ian Brooks Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0273701843 |
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Organisational Behavior: Individuals, Groups & Organisation
Ian Brooks Manufacturer: Financial Times Management ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0273657984 |
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This new edition builds on the strengths of the previous edition, and offers students a concise but broad coverage of the main theories informing organisational behaviour. The book moves from the individual to the organisational and the global context, and critically examines the three themes of change, communication and conflict in each. It promotes critical evaluation of theory and practice to enable students and managers to interpret and deal with organisational problems. This book is suitable for students requiring an introduction to organisational behaviour on business and management undergraduate degrees, post-experience and postgraduate courses, and professional courses. It is also designed as a focused and lively general reader on the subject.
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Organisational Behaviour: Individuals, Groups and the Organisation
Ian Brooks Manufacturer: Financial Times Management ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0273632868 |
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organisational behaviour.......2000-06-11
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Organisational Behaviour: Individuals, Groups and the Organisation
Ian Brooks Manufacturer: Financial Times Management ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OR4H5I |
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Soil Amendments and Environmental Quality (Agriculture and Environment)
Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0873718593 |
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This book presents a comprehensive and balanced overview of soil amendments and their effect on the environment. It encompasses both positive and negative aspects of chemical fertilizers that supply nitrogen, phosphorous, sulfur, lime, micronutrients, and trace metals. Pros and cons are discussed with respect to the optimal and the most environmentally sound use of soil amendments, and guidance is provided on how to minimize the environmental effects of amendments. Natural fertilizers, including manure, sludge, fly ash, phosphogypsum, and byproduct gypsum are also discussed. Alternative agronomic practices and biotechnology that ameliorate or minimize potential adverse effects of fertilizer use are examined in detail. This authoritative and up-to-date treatise is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, a powerful reference tool for researchers, a thorough guide for practitioners and policy makers, and an excellent text book for academic courses.
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Soil amendments reduce trace element solubility in a contaminated soil and allow regrowth of natural vegetation [An article from: Environmental Pollution]
E. Madejon , A.P. de Mora , E. Felipe , P. Burgos , and Ca Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR7DJ2 |
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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Pollution, 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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Soil testing services: Enhancing land productivity, amendment efficiency, & environmental quality
M. Ray Tucker Manufacturer: Agronomic Division, N.C. Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006RFRT6 |
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A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis
Peter Gay Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0300046081 |
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"A concise, pointed historical inquiry into Freud's atheism and Jewish cultural identity and their role in his development of psychoanalysis."-Library Journal "A lucid, occasionally provocative close-up of Freud-as-nonbeliever, enhanced by Gay's suave, broadly allusive handling of the historical and theological contexts."-Kirkus Reviews "In this valuable essay, Gay . . . brings great sensitivity and insight to a debate that still persists in some quarters."-Publishers Weekly "Freud . . . would have enjoyed Peter Gay's book."-John C. Marshall, New York Times Book Review "Freud himself asked why psychoanalysis had to be created by a 'completely godless Jew.' Gay elegantly and convincingly answers his question."-Choice "It is an important and welcome contribution to the vast literature that already exists on Freud and the movement that he founded."-Lee Dembart, Los Angeles Times Published in association with the Hebrew Union College PressCustomer Reviews:
Freud the Scientist, the Atheist, the Jew.......2002-01-29
Subtitled "Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis," Gay's short book was originally embodied in three lectures delivered at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in December 1986. It is an attempt, in Gay's words, "to translate [Freud's] two light-hearted rhetorical questions into three propositions." Gay states these propositions as follows:
"It was as an atheist that Freud developed psychoanalysis; it was from his atheist vantage point that he could dismiss as well-meaning but futile gestures all attempts to find common ground between faith and unbelief; it was, finally, as a particular kind of atheist, a Jewish atheist, that he was enabled to make his momentous discoveries."
After an introduction exploring the late nineteenth century intellectual milieu in which science and religion did battle ("Science Against Religion: `Clericalism, There's the Enemy'"), wherein Gay succinctly draws a counterpoint between the thought of William James and Freud, "A Godless Jew" successively examines each of Gay's three propositions.
Chapter One ("The Last Philosophe: `Our God Logos'") advances the notion that Freud was a child of the Enlightenment, a confirmed atheist who rejected all belief in supernatural faith as inconsistent with the scientific method. "Freud appropriated the whole range of the Enlightenment's agenda, its ideals and its methods, its very language." In doing so, Freud saw his mission, like that of the Philosophes who preceded him more than a century earlier, as one of "awaken[ing] the world from the enchantment in which the magicians and priests had held it imprisoned since pagan antiquity."
Chapter Two ("In Search of Common Ground: `A Better Christian Never Was'") examines the antagonistic relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, an antagonism adumbrated by Freud himself: "Analysis produces no new world view. But it does not need one, for it rests on the general scientific world view with which the religious one remains incompatible." It also examines, however, the way in which many religious thinkers (including Freud's friend Pfister and the brilliant Paul Tillich) managed to absorb psychoanalysis into Christianity and Judaism through a syncretic legerdemain that simultaneously exasperates and amuses.
Chapter Three ("The Question of a Jewish Science") explores the relationship between Freud the Jew and Freud the scientist, for while Freud may have denied the existence of God, he never denied that he was a Jew. The question for Gay, then, is not one of Freud's Jewish identity, but "just what share that identity could have had in the making of psychoanalysis." In exploring the way in one may speak of the presence or absence of a "Jewish quality" in psychoanalysis, Gay examines the professional, intellectual, tribal, and sociological meanings of such a quality. It is an interesting, if at times unsatisfying, discussion that fails to provide the reader with a conclusion more definitive than Gay's statement that "Freud was a Jew, but not a Jewish scientist."
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A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis
Peter Gay Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORK8TW |
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A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis
Peter Gay Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OS59PO |
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The Mathematical Theory of the Dynamics of Biological Population II
R. Hiorns Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123487803 |
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Kyudo: The Essence and Practice of Japanese Archery (Bushido--The Way of the Warrior)
Hideharu H. Onuma , Dan De Prospero , and Jackie De Prospero Manufacturer: Kodansha International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 4770017340 |
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Kyudo-the Way of the Bow-is the oldest of Japan's traditional martial arts and the one most closely associated with bushido, the Way of the Warrior. After the Second World War Eugen Herrigel introduced the concept of kyudo to the West in his classic Zen in the Art of Japanese Archery. ButCustomer Reviews:
Great book, fun and an easy read. .......2007-10-08
Art, Tradition and Spirit.......2007-03-12
very good introduction.......2006-07-03
A Must-Have-And-Read book for Kyudo beginners.......2003-06-13
Should be known as the Kyudo Bible........1999-11-12
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Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You
Mardy Grothe Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0142000574 |
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When John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he wasn't just stirring the hearts of millions of young Americans, he was also engaging in a little-known form of wordplay called chiasmus. Dr. Mardy Grothe has plumbed the depths of this form for years and catalogued hundreds of examples from ancient times to the present, in Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You (title courtesy of Joey Adams). All it takes is a repeated statement with two elements transposed between them--e.g., fool and kiss--and you get a powerful, often humorous, rhetorical prop. Collected in chapters like "Chiasmus for Lovers" and "Chiastic Compliments and Insults," the wisdom of the ages shines in gems such as Cicero's "It is as difficult for the good to suspect evil as it is for the evil to suspect good." Even better is Grothe's running commentary on the form and its masters and the often-biting humor found in the classics, for instance Dr. Johnson's "Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." Fortunately for us, the good doctor wasn't referring to Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You, which is as fun to read as a reference as it is to refer to a reader. --Rob LightnerBook Description
What do Mae West, John F. Kennedy, Victor Hugo, and H. L. Mencken have in common? They all indulged in chiasmus-a literary device in which word order is reversed to hilarious or poignant effect. When Mae West said, "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men," she was using chiasmus; when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he was doing the same. Dr. Mardy Grothe has compiled hundreds of examples of chiasmus in this whimsically illustrated collection, bringing this witty and thought-provoking device out of obscurity and into the public imagination.Customer Reviews:
A Super Fun Read.......2007-08-27
Brain candy.......2007-03-09
A surfeit of chiasms.......2007-01-11
Don't miss it!.......2006-07-01
Chiasmus = Absolute Truth ?.......2000-08-16
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Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You
Mardy Grothe Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MU6M00 |
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Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You
Mardy Grothe Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OJK7PA |
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Pride and Pinstripes: The Yankees, Mets, and Surviving Life's Challenges
Mel Stottlemyre , and John Harper Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0061174084 Release Date: 2007-04-10 |
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Long considered one of the most underappreciated Yankee greats, Mel Stottlemyre was only 22 in 1964 when he got signed to the Yankees, and quickly became one of their star pitchers–pitching in the World Series in 1964, his first year out. After retiring in 1974, he went on to work with the Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, and Houston Astros, and finally the New York Yankees in 1996, until his retirement in 2005. Stottlemyre's sons Todd and Mel, Jr. both followed in their father's footsteps, becoming star pitchers themselves, continuing a great Stottlemyre legacy that has made the name synonymous with powerhouse pitching. In this, his first autobiography, Stottlemyre will take us behind the scenes, to the golden age of baseball, through almost five decades of Major League behind–the–scenes stories.
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Wonderful Baseball Book.......2007-09-15
Yankees all the Way.......2007-07-25
Stott Rocks.......2007-07-17
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Players in Pinstripes: New York Yankees
Mark Vancil , and Mark Mandrake Manufacturer: Ballantine Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0345481046 Release Date: 2004-11-02 |
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Players in Pinstripes provides an official look at the greatest players in Yankees history in a lavishly illustrated book with more than 75 photographs, many from the Yankees’ own archives. This winning retrospective captures the unique players who have thrilled millions of fans for more than one hundred years. From such unforgettable players as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Yogi Berra, to today’s superstars such as Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Kevin Brown. This book takes the reader onto the field and into the bull pens and the locker rooms, with essays by award-winning authors such as Robert Creamer and Peter Golenbock.Customer Reviews:
This was a gift for a die-hard Yankee fan, he loves it!.......2007-03-08
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Where Have All Our Yankees Gone?: Past the Pinstripes
Brian Jensen Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1589790596 |
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A revealing ride with a diverse collection of former New York Yankee players and the life stories that followed their baseball playing careers.Customer Reviews:
great read.......2004-06-11
YANKEES ARE METAPHOR FOR AMERICA.......2004-06-08
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A sports library must.......2004-04-15
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New York Yankees: Players in Pinstripes
Mark & MANDRAKE, Mark (Eds.) VANCIL Manufacturer: Ballantine Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OVH0GM |
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