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Monetary Policy in Interdependent Economies: A Game-Theoretic Approach
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Monetary Policy in Interdependent Economies provides the first comprehensive overview of the implications of using game theory to analyze interactions among national monetary policymakers. It synthesizes the pessimistic view of sovereign policymaking that results from the analysis of one-shot games with the optimistic view derived from the analysis of quid pro quo strategies in repeated games.
Good outcomes, the authors conclude, require coordination among noncooperative policymakers, and that sometimes policymakers, must be forced to cooperate. They suggest two roles for supranational institutions such as the International Monetary Fund: the IMF can provide a forum where noncooperative policymakers, can work to achieve good outcomes, and it can police agreements among cooperative policymakers
Canzoneri and Henderson take clear stands on controversial issues and make recent advances in game theory accessible by using a single unified framework to explain a wide range of concepts. They begin by analyzing one-shot interactions between two policymakers, In subsequent chapters they extend their analysis to allow for more policymakers, and coalitions, for repeated interactions among policymakers, and for the possibility of time inconsistency.
Matthew B. Canzoneri is Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. Dale W. Henderson is Assistant Director, Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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From the author: This article reviews the recent book by Matthew Canzoneri and Dale Henderson on international monetary policy. The review discusses the basic model used by the authors to illustrate the welfare losses that arise as a result of non-cooperative behavior and the proposed solutions for moving closer to the socially optimal cooperative solutions. The proposed solutions are then examined in detail and the reviewer asks whether these solutions accurately describe the way he believes cooperation has occurred in the last two decades. Finally, this work is compared to recent research on policy cooperation that does not have game-theoretic foundations.
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Title: Monetary policy in interdependent economies: a game theoretic approach.
Author: Christopher J. Waller
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Date: December 1, 1994
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Nitrate, Agriculture and the Environment
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There is widespread public concern about the effects of nitrate derived from the use of fertilizers in farming on water quality and public health. But research on nitrate during the past decade has revealed wide discrepancies between public perceptions and reality. The main problems from nitrate are in fact ecological changes in coastal and estuarine waters and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. This gas, largely derived from nitrate, is a threat to the ozone layer in the stratosphere and is also a greenhouse gas. This book builds on Farming, Fertilizers, and the Nitrate Problem (CABI, 1991) by Addiscott, Whitmore, and Powlson, but has been restructured to take into account these new developments and to bring out more clearly the role of politics and economics in the "nitrate problem."
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Aquatic pollution associated with agriculture is a problem that has been receiving increasing attention in the European Union (EU). The EU's Nitrates Directive (91/676EC) and its associated Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) legislation were extended in Scotland in 2003, requiring more farmers to adopt more sustainable land management practices. This paper presents results from a qualitative socio-economic study of the motivations and management practices of 30 farmers located within the Strathmore and Fife NVZ. It was found that these farmers rarely consider environmental issues beyond the boundaries of their farms unless the productive capacity and economic viability of their farms are affected. Despite contrary evidence, the farmers did not believe that they were responsible for any water quality problems, nor is the intrinsic linkage between catchment and coastal zone management established in their minds. They were suspicious of agri-environmental funding opportunities, and tend to regard the bureaucracy involved in applying for funding as more of a problem than it is worth. Experience of environmental regulations has left many with concerns about rules changing in unfavourable ways. Many of the farmers are dependent on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidy support, and the proposed de-coupling of direct payments from production is regarded with suspicion. Current NVZ regulations will impact most on milk and intensive livestock producers but our results indicate that even if the legislation is followed exactly, the desired environmental benefits are unlikely to be realised because most farmers claim already to be managing nutrients within allowable limits.
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A software package is presented here to predict the fate of nitrogen fertilizers and the transport of nitrate from the rooting zone of agricultural areas to surface water and groundwater in the Seine basin, taking into account the long residence times of water and nitrate in the unsaturated and aquifer systems. Information on pedological characteristics, land use and farming practices is used to determine the spatial units to be considered. These data are converted into input data for the crop model STICS which simulates the water and nitrogen balances in the soil-plant system with a daily time-step. A spatial application of STICS has been derived at the catchment scale which computes the water and nitrate fluxes at the bottom of the rooting zone. These fluxes are integrated into a surface and groundwater coupled model MODCOU which calculates the daily water balance in the hydrological system, the flow in the rivers and the piezometric variations in the aquifers, using standard climatic data (rainfall, PET). The transport of nitrate and the evolution of nitrate contamination in groundwater and to rivers is computed by the model NEWSAM. This modelling chain is a valuable tool to predict the evolution of crop productivity and nitrate contamination according to various scenarios modifying farming practices and/or climatic changes. Data for the period 1970-2000 are used to simulate the past evolution of nitrogen contamination. The method has been validated using available data bases of nitrate concentrations in the three main aquifers of the Paris basin (Oligocene, Eocene and chalk). The approach has then been used to predict the future evolution of nitrogen contamination up to 2015. A statistical approach allowed estimating the probability of transgression of different concentration thresholds in various areas in the basin. The model is also used to evaluate the cost of the damage resulting of the treatment of drinking water at the scale of a groundwater management unit in the Seine river basin.
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Evidence is provided that fertilizer use increased markedly from the 1960s in New South Wales (NSW), south-eastern Australia. The agrochemicals probably accumulated on agricultural land until 1974, when they were washed or leached after heavy rains into waterbodies that may have been occupied by the endangered green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea). The numbers of annual sightings suggest that the range of this species contracted in 1975, following the suspected pulse of fertilizers into aquatic habitats. There was no such decline for the common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera) and the striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii), which commonly occur in many agricultural waterbodies. A laboratory study showed that L. aurea, C. signifera, and L. peronii tadpoles exposed to ammonium nitrate and calcium phosphate fertilizers over 150, 21, and 91 days differed in survivorship. Significantly few L. aurea tadpoles survived to metamorphosis in 10 and 15mg/l ammonium nitrate, and 15mg/l calcium phosphate, which had no effect on the survivorship of C. signifera and L. peronii tadpoles. Historical and experimental evidence suggests that the elevated nitrate and phosphate concentrations in waterbodies in 1974-1975 contributed to the decline of L. aurea in its former range.
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Nitrogen-fixing species can increase both the availability and cycling of nitrogen (N) in ecosystems. Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata Thunb.) is an exotic woody shrub associated with N"2-fixing actinomycetes that forms dense patches in disturbed landscapes (i.e., riparian zones adjacent to crop systems, old fields and agricultural grasslands) throughout the midwestern United States. We used paired plots dominated by either E. umbellata or C"3 grassland to test whether the shrub encroachment altered pools and fluxes of nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) in the soil. Annual mean of NO"3-N concentrations in soil water collected from porous cup tension lysimeters every 2 weeks for 1 year was 20 times higher in soil beneath E. umbellata compared to grassland vegetation. Temporal variation in NO"3-N leaching occurred in the shrub-encroached plots, with more nitrate leaching in the dormant season relative to the growing season. Potential net N mineralization, nitrification rates, and extractable N in the surface 10cm of soil were also higher below E. umbellata. Following establishment of N"2-fixing shrub patches for 7-13 years, the soil C:N ratio showed a declining trend due to lower total soil C rather than an increase in N. Labile carbon pools (i.e., microbial biomass C (MBC) and soil respiration rates) were lower in surface soil below E. umbellata, which demonstrated an additional positive feedback between encroachment of E. umbellata and N export. Less demand for mineralized N due to associated N"2 fixation, coupled with higher rates of nitrification and lower microbial demand for N collectively contributed to higher export of N below the E. umbellata patched relative to the grassland system. Thus, areas invaded by this exotic N"2-fixing species may function as N sources rather than the N conserving systems typically expected early successional communities following agricultural abandonment.
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Quantification of nitrate losses is important for devising measures to ensure sustainability of soil fertility and groundwater resources and for the development of crop nutrient management protocols. Hence, in the present study a simple model for assessing concentration of nitrate in water percolating out of the flooded rice (Oryza Sativa) fields is presented. The model considers all the important nitrogen (N) transformation processes that take place in flooded rice fields such as urea hydrolysis, volatilization, nitrification, mineralization, immobilization, denitrification, crop uptake and leaching. It is based on coupling of soil water and N-balance models. The coupled model also accounts for weather, and timings and amounts of water and fertilizer applications. All the N-transformations except plant uptake and leaching are considered to follow first-order kinetics. A heuristic procedure is developed for selection of the rate constants of the transformation processes for different soil and environmental conditions. The model is evaluated by comparing simulation results with published data of three field experiments conducted at two locations namely G.B. Pant University Farm, Pantnagar, UP and IARI Research Farm, New Delhi of India, respectively. The simulation results show that urea hydrolysis is completed within 7 days of fertilizer application. It was also observed that the volatilization loss of N varies from 25 to 33% of the applied fertilizer and 75% of the total volatilization loss occurs within 7 days of urea application. The modeled leaching losses from the field experiments varied from 20 to 30% of the applied N. The N-uptake by the crop increased immediately after the application of fertilizer and decreased at 60 days after transplanting. The model is sufficiently general to be used in a wide range of conditions for quantification of nutrient losses by leaching and developing water and fertilizer management strategies for rice in irrigated areas.
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Irrigated agricultural areas are particularly susceptible to groundwater pollution because irrigated crops are abundantly fertilized and occasionally overwatered. Our goal was to evaluate the close link between crop production and groundwater protection. The specific objective of our research was to quantify the effect of three irrigation strategies on yield, drainage and nitrate leaching in processing tomato grown using drip irrigation and plastic mulch. We also assess the effect of high soil mineral N content on nitrate leaching. The study was conducted in a field cropped with tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill), cultivated under three different irrigation strategies during 2001 and 2002 in the Ebro Valley. The strategies were combinations of two rates and two frequencies of water application. During the establishment period, water was either applied continuously for 8h, or as 8 applications of 15min. During the growth period, water was applied either as a one single daily irrigation of 100% ET"c, or as 4-8 daily irrigations to 80% ET"c. Monitoring transects, composed of 6 TDR probe access tubes inserted into the soil, provided measurements of soil water content in each treatment. Drainage was calculated weekly by applying the water balance to all tubes located in each transect. Nitrate leaching was evaluated as the drainage volume multiplied by the nitrate concentration of the soil solution extracted in 6 porous ceramic cups located in each treatment. At harvest, total and marketable production were recorded for each plot, and the dry weight of the component aboveground plant parts (stems, leaves and fruits) were determined. Crop N uptake for the plant parts was calculated as the product of total biomass and N concentration. Our results showed that excessive irrigation during the crop establishment period may cause large nitrogen losses. High irrigation frequency ensured appropriate soil water content at planting, and reduced both the amount of water applied and lost by drainage. Treatments receiving water at 80% of ET"c, recorded almost no drainage during the growth period and no reduction in crop yield. This suggests that further studies are required to adjust crop coefficients to the actual needs of drip-irrigated tomato under plastic mulching conditions. When soil mineral N content before planting is high, nitrate leaching during the growth period can be relevant due to occasional rain events, even if water application is adjusted to crop requirements.
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Water contamination by nitrates has increased international awareness. It is widely accepted that massive fertilizer application is the principal factor responsible for water nitrate contamination. During the last years, Argentina has extraordinarily increased the use of fertilizers, particularly on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). However, few studies have quantified nitrate losses. Here we report N dynamics in soil fractions and N balance in wheat crops in Marcos Juarez, province of Cordoba (Argentina) with the aim of determining nitrate loss and its possible influence on water contamination. Four treatments were studied to evaluate the combined effect of tillage systems and N fertilizer doses on N losses in soil 0-20cm in depth. The treatments analyzed were: (a) conventional tillage, non-fertilized (CT 0N), (b) no-till and 25kgNha^-^1 (NT 25N), (c) no-till and 50kgNha^-^1 (NT 50N), and (d) no-till and 140kgNha^-^1 (NT 140N). Determinations were: soil total N, NO"3^--N, NH"4^+-N, microbial biomass N, crop residue biomass, crop residue N, and grain N. N balance was calculated as the difference in N fractions between harvest and sowing samples. N balance was negative in all treatments evaluated; the highest N loss (-1075kgNha^-^1) occurred with the highest fertilization rate (140kgNha^-^1). Losses of microbial and soluble N fractions were significant at the end of the crop cycle in all the treatments analyzed (15 and 40%, respectively), probably due to leaching by high precipitations (250mm). Much of the N lost was soil organic matter N, a fact seldom considered in other N balances. Furthermore, it was observed that neither yield efficiency nor the remaining N increased significantly with the highest fertilization dose (140N). Our data show that high doses of nitrogen fertilizer result in low N utilization efficiency and a high risk of water contamination by nitrates.
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Accumulation of nitrate in soil increases the risk of nitrate leaching and hence ground-water nitrate pollution. The impact of intercropping on nitrate accumulation in soil has been little studied in China. This field study integrated wheat (Triticum aestivum)/maize (Zea mays) and maize/faba bean (Vicia faba) intercropping systems to assess effects of intercropping on nitrate accumulation in the profile of an alkaline soil under various application rates of N and P fertilizers in 2000. The study was conducted in Gansu Province, China. Grain yields of wheat were significantly enhanced by P fertilizer and intercropping. In the maize/faba bean system, grain yields of maize were enhanced by N fertilizer while those of maize intercropped with wheat were improved by both N and P fertilizers. Grain yields of faba bean were not affected by fertilization or cropping system. Nitrate accumulation in soil was positively related with application rates of N fertilizer. The amounts of NO"3^- present in soil after wheat harvest was greatest under wheat planted alone, followed by intercropped wheat, faba bean planted alone, intercropped faba bean, maize intercropped with faba bean, and least under maize intercropped with wheat. Amounts of NO"3^- in soil after maize harvest was in the order of wheat or faba bean planted alone, intercropping wheat and faba bean, maize intercropped with faba bean and wheat. The results suggest that intercropping decreases the accumulation of nitrate in the soil profile. The study also showed that combined application of organic materials and N fertilizer decreased nitrate accumulation compared with application of N fertilizer alone.
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Ecoregions applies the principles described in Bailey's Ecosystem Geography to describe and characterize the major terrestrial and aquatic ecological zones of the Earth. Robert Bailey's system for classifying ecoregions has had a major influence, and has been adopted by major organizations such as the US Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy. This book includes numerous photographs of representative ecoregions, and outstanding color figures are complemented by two full-color maps showing the major ecoregions of the continents and of the oceans.
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Title: Ecoregions: the Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents.(Review)(Brief Article)
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Amazing photographs and wonderfully informative........1998-08-25
Tillett takes us through the seasons of the magnificent bighorn mountain sheep with an informative grace and easy style. Detailed without becoming swamped in academia, this is a must read title for any North American wildlife or sports enthusiast. Amazing photography by Serle Chapman. A wonderfully informative book.
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In the bestselling tradition of The Boys of Summer and Wait ‘Til Next Year, The Last Good Season is the poignant and dramatic story of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ last pennant and the forces that led to their heartbreaking departure to Los Angeles.
The 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers were one of baseball’s most storied teams, featuring such immortals as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, and Roy Campanella. The love between team and borough was equally storied, an iron bond of loyalty forged through years of adversity and sometimes legendary ineptitude. Coming off their first World Series triumph ever in 1955, against the hated Yankees, the Dodgers would defend their crown against the Milwaukee Braves and the Cincinnati Reds in a six-month neck-and-neck contest until the last day of the playoffs, one of the most thrilling pennant races in history.
But as The Last Good Season so richly relates, all was not well under the surface. The Dodgers were an aging team at the tail end of its greatness, and Brooklyn was a place caught up in rapid and profound urban change. From a cradle of white ethnicity, it was being transformed into a racial patchwork, including Puerto Ricans and blacks from the South who flocked to Ebbets Field to watch the Dodgers’ black stars. The institutions that defined the borough – the Brooklyn Eagle, the Brooklyn Navy Yard – had vanished, and only the Dodgers remained. And when their shrewd, dollar-squeezing owner, Walter O’Malley, began casting his eyes elsewhere in the absence of any viable plan to replace the aging Ebbets Field and any support from the all-powerful urban czar Robert Moses, the days of the Dodgers in Brooklyn were clearly numbered.
Michael Shapiro, a Brooklyn native, has interviewed many of the surviving participants and observers of the 1956 season, and undertaken immense archival research to bring its public and hidden drama to life. Like David Halberstam’s The Summer of ’49, The Last Good Season combines an exciting baseball story, a genuine sense of nostalgia, and hard-nosed reporting and social thinking to reveal, in a new light, a time and place we only thought we understood.
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Amazingly Good.......2007-07-30
Wow. First let me say that I'm not a Brooklyn resident or a Dodger fan and picked this book up without knowing anything about it. The book turned out to be one of the best baseball books I've read in quite some time.
I was drawn into the book immediately. It is clear in the Prologue that Shapiro is a very good writer and that the book is as much about the fifties and Brooklyn as it is about a pennant race. The book is enjoyable on both fronts.
Shapiro does a great job of weaving a portrait of the changes going on in Brooklyn in the mid-fifties and giving younger readers a good idea of what it was like to grow up in that era. It is clear that Shapiro has done quite a bit of research and I think the reader really gets a good look into the personalities of the players and other characters in the story.
Any fan of baseball history will do himself a favor in buying this book. It truly deserves more acclaim than it has received.
Completely Satisfying.......2007-07-22
This book probably doesn't get the sales or the attention it deserves, because the title and the cover make it look as if it's intended just for baseball junkies. But it's far more than that. In just 332 pages, Shapiro tells four stories:
1. The story of the National League pennant race in 1956.
2. The story of why the Dodgers (and therefore the Giants as well) decided to move to California in 1958.
3. The social, demographic, and economic changes that Brooklyn (and, by extension, much of urban America) experienced in the post-World War II era.
4. Thumbnail sketches of the personal lives of the core players in the Brooklyn Dodger lineup from 1947 through 1956.
None of these four themes is given short shrift. Furthermore, Shapiro has organized this book beautifully. He seems to have done a perfect job in choosing exactly where to break the narrative of the Dodgers' wins and losses, and insert a section about the changing character of a neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Not only that, but Shapiro's writing is superb. Here is his account of the last pitch of the last Dodger game of the regular season - a game they had to win in order to clinch the championship, with Dodger Don Bessent pitching to Pittsburgh's Hank Foiles:
*****
Don Bessent went into his windup. The last thing he thought before releasing the ball was, he later said, "Tight, keep it tight."
Hank Foiles swung. The next thing he heard was the thud of the ball in Roy Campanella's mitt.
*****
You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy this book. You just have to enjoy good writing and a wonderful story, wonderfully told.
Book Marred By Misleading Revisionism On O'Malley.......2007-07-15
The three stars I will give for what Shaprio tries to do in recreating the story of the last Brooklyn pennant drive. But this book deserves no more than that for its promotion of an appalling bit of revisionist history that tries to take the blame off Walter O'Malley for moving the Dodgers, and transferring it instead to Robert Moses. Neal Sullivan in "The Dodgers Move West" was the first to push this idea, but Shapiro takes it to new heights, declaring boldly that "Robert Moses is the bad guy in this story" for not in effect giving O'Malley what he wanted at an Atlantic Avenue site.
One could say that Shapiro's analysis is really the flip-side emotional argument against Moses, the same way so much of the old arguments against O'Malley from Brooklynites were rooted in emotion. And in Shapiro's case, the blunt facts are that on an emotional AND economic level, his attempt to paint Moses as the real villain has absolutely no validity.
On an emotional level, the argument fails because O'Malley was ultimately the one who had to make the final call, and it was O'Malley who failed to understand the depth of meaning the team had to a community that made it ethically dubious (though perfectly legal) to decide he, a man who had owned the team outright for only seven years, had the right to take a 67 year civic institution 3000 miles away for his own personal edification. If O'Malley suffered from a genuine financial hardship case (which he did not), then he should have sold the team. The argument that Shaprio makes "O'Malley had not spent all his time and energy and divested himself of all his holdings but his baseball team in order to take Robert Moses' on-the-cheap-deal in Flushing Meadows" is somehow designed to make us feel sorry for O'Malley in the sense that as a businessman he had no choice but to do what he did. That is simply nonsense.
Fortunately, Henry Fetter's "Taking On The Yankees" written after Shapiro's book, has offered some much needed post-revisionism to this story by offering the kind of full-blown economic analysis of O'Malley's Atlantic Avenue plan that one will not find in Shapiro's book. What Fetter points out, and what Shapiro neglects to do is note that O'Malley was only prepared to pay the city $1 million for the land he expected the city to condemn at Atlantic Avenue in order for him to build his stadium. The true value of the land, given the costs of relocation of a major meat market and a rail terminal though, would have been more on the order of $9 million, meaning in effect O'Malley wanted a sweetheart deal of a kind that would have represented civic extortion at its worse. Robert Moses offered a perfectly legitimate site in Flushing Meadow that would in time prove to be a profitable draw for the ex-Dodger fanbase who became Met fans, and which answered all the concerns over parking and transportation access that supposedly made Ebbets Field obsolete at this point (though Fetter's analysis notes that the complaints about Ebbets Field were almost identical to ones being sounded a decade later about Fenway Park in Boston, and Fenway as we know, still survives in a bad neighborhood and the same low capacity that Ebbets Field had). O'Malley rejected the offer because he wasn't going to get a big cash cow for himself, which he tried to paper over with the dubious argument that moving the Dodgers to Queens would be no different than moving to Los Angeles.
O'Malley might have been a man who loved his family, but as a sports owner, he was as ethically dishonest as Art Modell was to Cleveland Browns fans a generation later and as such, should not be given Hall of Fame recognition, ever. It's really a sad comment that because of the impact of Robert Caro's "The Power Broker", Robert Moses has become a convenient whipping boy for revisionist authors like Shapiro and Sullivan who believe in rehabilitating O'Malley no matter what. But while Moses was a man whose faults should be duly documented, he is totally blameless on the matter of why the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles.
Let's Not Forget Neil J. Sullivan.......2007-07-14
Other reviewers on this site have done a good job in giving the reader a sense of what this outstanding Brooklyn Dodgers book is about. I have many Dodgers books, & this is one of the best. I would just like to call attention to something that is lacking in all the previous reviews, & that is the fact that Neil J. Sullivan wrote a book called "The Dodgers Move West" in 1987. In a lot of detail & with dozens of references, Sullivan explored the Robert Moses factor (in terms of the Dodgers not staying in Brooklyn). I was reminded of this omisssion after recently watching the HBO special, "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," in which author Shapiro is (appropriately) interviewed, but again, this special program makes nary a mention of Sullivan's earlier, pioneering work in this area. Mr. Shapiro himself fully acknowledges Mr. Sullivan's book, on p. 337 of "The Last Good Season..." So my comments are "just for the record..."
Great Story.......2007-01-15
Michael Shapiro manages to find a new, informative, and well-argued story in the timeless tail of 1950s baseball in New York. His argument shows the changes in NYC during the time period, with the growth of the suburbs leading Robert Moses to believe that the future of pro sports and high society in general are outside the cities. But this only leads to Brooklyn having one of its few identities ripped away, while the likes of Shea Stadium (Moses' master plan) portends one of the more dismal eras in stadium building and location.
On the other hand, Shapiro discusses how even after the Dodgers became in interested in moving, their dream deal at Chavez Ravine could easily have collapsed.
Meantime, there is a game on the field and Shapiro details how the Dodgers, despite the age/physical breakdown of most of their stars, and all sorts of other problems, fight for one more National League pennant, leading to the last and probably best of the Subway Series'.
Definitely worth reading.
Customer Reviews:
Every student needs the Everyday Writer.......2006-07-25
This book is an ideal tool for anyone who has to write for school, work, or as a hobby. The easy access tabs and extensive menus help you find what you are looking for quickly and the spiral binding lets you lay the book open while you type. The coverage of the writing process and argumentative writing really set this book apart. Anybody can write up grammar rules or documentation standards, but Lunsford's coverage of writing at the start of the book is wonderful. Buy this book and don't sell it back to the bookstore, this is a keeper. Also, for the teacher that wants one for every student, try "Easywriter" which is the smaller version of this text that only costs about fifteen bucks.
I wish I could buy it for all of my students.......2004-03-22
A good friend who must really love me gave me this book when I headed to grad school. It answered all of my APA citation questions and many of the little grammatical quandries one encounters at 3 a.m.
I only wish I had the budget to buy this book for all of my high school students. Every young writer should have a guide like this to tidy up their work. Alas, at about $50 a pop, with a school of 350 students, this book is out of our range. If you can pick one up used or can afford a new copy you won't be sorry.
A student's perspective.......2000-06-01
As one of Andrea's former students, I've had to read this book and use it extensively. Not only did it get me through her class, but every class I had after that (and I've had a large number of English and History classes). If you're looking for a book to help you with MLA style, Professor Lunsford covers everything you can possibly hope to draw info from, including lectures, interviews, and even MUDs online.
This is a must have for any college student!.......1999-01-22
The Everyday Writer is a wonderful asset to any college English student. It contains all the essentials for writing term papers. I suggest that everyone who needs help in English should pick up this book.
Book Description
What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Concise and readable explanations of
the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable format. With numerous illustrations, many of them in color, this volume will be invaluable to all readers wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts.
Customer Reviews:
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms .......2007-09-07
Explains in lay terms the processes used in illuminated medieval manuscripts. Still a bit complicated, but a good resource.
A glorious elucidation of the handwritten book.......2007-01-10
This publication using a lexiconary form lavishly displays an art form too long ignored. Extraordinary effort and expense has created a book that shows and explains the accomplishments of a lost art. Any bibliophile, any artist will devour this book.
Outstanding resource for anyone!.......2006-04-26
I used this book and the Christopher De Hamel book while I was taking a graduate course on Illuminated Manuscripts. The information was indispensable for the entirety of the course, but it also helped me in future courses I took. It is wonderful to find an academic book that is fun to read! I would heartily recommend it to anyone, and especially to students who are studying manuscripts or merely the art history of the period! It is a most worthwhile investment!
A Bible for beginning codicologers.......2001-03-15
This slim volume by Michelle Brown is an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in the study of books and manuscripts (codicology). In a succinct dictionary format, Brown gives definitions of all of the major terms that may give trouble to someone visiting a museum or reading a work by such major writers in the field as Chris DeHamel. Suitable as both a textbook and a companion to books on manuscripts, this book is nearly indispensible to the beginner and the intermediate in allowing some understanding into the complex technical and art-historical vocabulary used in the field.
A great little dictionary of illumination........2000-07-14
This little volume provides brief definitions of all the important phrases and terms used in the study of illuminated manuscripts including forms, techniques, themes, and periods.
Great for understanding the differences between an historiated initial and an inhabited initial - or between an antiphonal and a gradual.
Most of the representative images are in color and are well chosen to illustrate the definitions. Perhaps their only drawback is their small size due to the size limitations of the book itself.
A great companion while reading to "Medieval Illuminators & their Methods of Work" by Jonathan J.G. ALexander or "A History of Illuminated Manuscripts" by Christopher De Hamel.
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