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Food Stamps and the Working Poor

By: Peter Mueser,David Ribar,Erdal Tekin

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Food Stamps and the Working Poor

By: Peter Mueser,David Ribar,Erdal Tekin

The authors show that many households that are eligible for food stamps do not receive them, and that eligible individuals' enrollment is influenced by the states' administrative requirements. Highlighted are the procedures for certifying applicants and recertifying recipients, and policies for treatment of able-bodied adults without dependents.

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W.E. Upjohn Institute

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0880996609

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Ally Betrayed

The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich

By: David Martin

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Ally Betrayed

The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich

By: David Martin

David Martin, a distinguished journalist, political analyst and staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, first published his book ALLY BETRAYED in 1946. Having devoted his life to uncovering the truth and to defending Mihailovich, Martin’s book asks the crucial questions: 1. Why did the Allied press which had made a great hero of Mihailovich as a resister of Axis invaders of Yugoslavia begin to play him down after 1942? 2. What was Tito’s past? And where was the radio station located that heralded his appearance in Yugoslavia? 3. What decision was reached at Teheran with respect to Tito and Mihailovich? 4. How was the ALLIED military intelligence about Yugoslavia falsified? 5. Why did Churchill say of Yugoslavia, “I was deceived and badly informed.” David Martin was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1914. Before World War II, he wrote on Canadian affairs for Current History, The Nation, The New Republic, the New Leader, and other journals. He joined the Canadian Air Force in October 1942, became a pilot, and flew on the Burmese frontier. He was honorably discharged in 1946. With a Foreword by Dame Rebecca West, one of Mihailovich’s most avid supporters. “Solid reading”—Kirkus Review

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789122686

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9781789122688

The Heroes of Treća Gimnazija

A War School in Sarajevo, 1992-1995

By: David M. Berman

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The Heroes of Treća Gimnazija

A War School in Sarajevo, 1992-1995

By: David M. Berman

Shelled into ruins at the onset of the Bosnian War (1993), Treca Gimnazija, a high school in central Sarajevo, became a Owar school, O adapting to wartime conditions by conducting classes in the dispersed basement classrooms in neighborhoods across the city. Education scholar David M. Berman, who interviewed many of Treca GimnazijaOs students, teachers, and administrators during the siege of Sarajevo, 1992-1995, as well as after the war, chronicles the human drama of everyday life in a high school operating under the constant threat of enemy guns and mortar fire. The real story of the siege of Sarajevo, put in educational terms, is the localized adaptation of the staff and students of the school who implemented administrative resolutions and directives to keep the physically damaged school open. These educators and students of Treca Gimnazija, one of 13 secondary schools that were destroyed during the siege, tell the stories of their own personal war in the Obattle for the mindO and chronicle their shared experience in this important and inspiring book

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847695689

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9780847695683

Child Care Problem

An Economic Analysis

By: David M. Blau

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Child Care Problem

An Economic Analysis

By: David M. Blau

The child care system in the United States is widely criticized, yet the underlying structural problems are difficult to pin down. In The Child Care Problem, David M. Blau sets aside the often emotional terms of the debate and applies a rigorous economic analysis to the state of the child care system in this country, arriving at a surprising diagnosis of the root of the problem. Blau approaches child care as a service that is bought and sold in markets, addressing such questions as: What kinds of child care are available? Is good care really hard to find? How do costs affect the services families choose? Why are child care workers underpaid relative to other professions? He finds that the child care market functions much better than is commonly believed. The supply of providers has kept pace with the number of mothers entering the workforce, and costs remain relatively modest. Yet most families place a relatively low value on high-quality child care, and are unwilling to pay more for better care. Blau sees this lack of demand—rather than the market's inadequate supply—as the cause of the nation's child care dilemma. The Child Care Problem also faults government welfare policies—which treat child care subsidies mainly as a means to increase employment of mothers, but set no standards regarding the quality of child care their subsidies can purchase. Blau trains an economic lens on research by child psychologists, evaluating the evidence that the day care environment has a genuine impact on early development. The failure of families and government to place a priority on improving such critical conditions for their children provides a compelling reason to advocate change. The Child Care Problem concludes with a balanced proposal for reform. Blau outlines a systematic effort to provide families of all incomes with the information they need to make more prudent decisions. And he suggests specific revisions to welfare policy, including both an allowance to defray the expenses of families with children, and a child care voucher that is worth more when used for higher quality care. The Child Care Problem provides a straightforward evaluation of the many contradictory claims about the problems with child care, and lays out a reasoned blueprint for reform which will help guide both social scientists and non-academics alike toward improving the quality of child care in this country.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610440595

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9781610440592

Belgrade A Cultural History

By: David A Norris

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Belgrade A Cultural History

By: David A Norris

Perched above the confluence of two great rivers, the Sava and Danube, Belgrade has been home to many civilizations: Celts, Romans, Byzantines, Bulgars, Magyars, Ottomans and Serbs. A Turkish fortress, the focus for a Serbian principality, an intellectual and artistic center, the city grew until it became capital of Yugoslavia. Now it is one of the largest cities in south-eastern Europe and capital of the Republic of Serbia. Despite many challenges, Belgrade has resisted assimilation and created a unique cultural identity out of its many contrasting sides, sometimes with surprising consequences.

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Oxford University Press

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0199888493

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Belgrade

A Cultural History

By: David A. Norris

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Belgrade

A Cultural History

By: David A. Norris

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Mission Possible

By: David E. Wright

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Mission Possible

By: David E. Wright

If you are like most people, you may find it hard to diges and implement the lessons of a dozen books from a dozen unique authors. Wouldn't it be great to simply sit down and chat with a group of leaders who have proven that anyone can overcome life's obstacles and to hear the simple unadulterated truths behind their life lessons? Now you can.Mission Possible! should be required reading for anyone wanting to grow and succeed. Reagrdless of which life area you are trying to impact, these twelve personalities offer hope, encouragement, and practical advice that really works! You will feel as if they are all talking right to you, giving you a leg up on the competition and a pat on the back to help you succeed.

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Insight Publishing Company

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1885640145

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Developmental Cascades

Building the Infant Mind

By: Lisa M. Oakes,David H. Rakison

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Developmental Cascades

Building the Infant Mind

By: Lisa M. Oakes,David H. Rakison

Developmental Cascades proposes a new framework for understanding development by arguing that change can be explained in terms of the events that occur at one point in development, which set the stage or cause a ripple effect for the emergence or development of different abilities, functions, or behavior at another point in time. This framework is applied in detail to three domains within infant cognitive development--namely, looking behavior, object representations, and concepts for animacy.

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A Cultural History of Serbia

Tradition and Change

By: David A. Norris

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A Cultural History of Serbia

Tradition and Change

By: David A. Norris

This volume focuses on Serbia’s need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony. Traditions only function if they are allowed to bend to the necessary modifications demanded by a community’s changing historical circumstances. Tradition and change are two sides of the same coin which Serbia, in its many different incarnations, has experienced over the centuries, protecting its national heritage while borrowing and adapting intellectual and other trends from Byzantine, Ottoman and Western sources. Outside influences have been imposed as a direct result of foreign rule or through more friendly channels of communication, leading to a complex relationship between autochthonous and alien elements in Serbian society and culture. This book argues that the division between the national and international frameworks has often been a false dichotomy, with outside features embedded in domestic symbolic capital and Serbian culture simultaneously determined on local, national, regional and global levels. David A. Norris’s approach offers a new perspective to students, academics and general readers interested in the history of Serbia’s participation in the broad networks of cultural exchange.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429797974

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Kinshasa in Transition

Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility

By: David Shapiro,Oleko Tambashe

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Kinshasa in Transition

Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility

By: David Shapiro,Oleko Tambashe

After decades of tremendous growth, Kinshasa-capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-is now the second-largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa. And as the city has grown-from around 300,000 people in the mid-1950s to more than five million today-it has experienced seismic social, economic, and demographic changes. In this book, David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe trace the impact of these changes on the lives of women, and their findings add dramatically to the field's limited knowledge of African demographic trends. They find that fertility has declined significantly in Kinshasa since the 1970s, and that women's increasing access to secondary education has played a key role in this decline. Better access to education has also given women greater access to employment opportunities. And by examining the impact of such factors as economic well-being and household demographic composition on the schooling of children, Shapiro and Tambashe reveal how one generation's fertility affects the next generation's education. This book will be a valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand the complex and ongoing social, demographic, economic, and developmental changes in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226750574

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A History of Literacy Education

Waves of Research and Practice

By: Robert J. Tierney,P. David Pearson

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A History of Literacy Education

Waves of Research and Practice

By: Robert J. Tierney,P. David Pearson

In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with particular attention to what they consider the central goal of literacy—making meaning. Each section describes a specific epoch, including a brief snapshot of how the reader of that period is envisioned and characterized by researchers and teachers, as well as a deep discussion of the ideas and contextual events of that era. These developmental waves are organized in rough historical sequence by a series of shifts in underlying theoretical and scholarly lenses—from the behavioral to the psycholinguistic to the cognitive to the sociocultural to the critical to the multimodal to the global. The book closes with a discussion of the various research frames and methodological approaches that paralleled these developments. Throughout, there is a profound recognition that all research and practice are ultimately directed toward how students make meaning, from sound to letter to word, to ideas and images. Book Features: Animates some of the revolutionary developments related to reading education and literacy in modern times. Each development is accompanied by a discussion of the aspirational reader that sets the stage for contemplating these shifts and their significance.Traces the research and theoretical developments to illustrate the origins of the shifts and their influences. Supported by a website with video lectures and conversations tied to the various waves of development.

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0807779687

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Vital Signs

Perspectives on the Health of American Campaigning

By: David A. Dulio,Candice J. Nelson

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Vital Signs

Perspectives on the Health of American Campaigning

By: David A. Dulio,Candice J. Nelson

It was the best of elections; it was the worst of elections. The 2004 presidential contest mobilized a record number of voters, with 121 million Americans showing up at the polls. But in many eyes, the 2004 race also plumbed new depths. It was the most expensive presidential election in history, with a price tag of $2.2 billion. It was also marked by unprecedented negativity—for example, both George W. Bush and John Kerry came under fire for their activities during the Vietnam War, which ended three decades ago. In V ital Signs, David Dulio and Candice Nelson analyze the Bush and Kerry campaigns and use them as the springboard for a broader exploration of the current U.S. campaign system and its strengths and weaknesses. The book addresses four key issues: Who's in charge of modern campaigns? How effective are the key players? What role does money play? And are campaigns being conducted in an ethical manner? In answering these questions, Dulio and Nelson draw on a wide range of sources, including focus groups, interviews with campaign professionals, and a unique dataset based on multiple surveys of political consultants, party operatives, and the public. The culmination of the seven-year "Improving Campaign Conduct" project, Vital Signs should become an integral part of the debate about American campaigns and elections.

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0815797907

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Illinois Evidence with Objections and Responses

By: Gino L. DiVito,James P. Carey,Martin Snyder,Anthony J. Bocchino,David A. Sonenshein

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Illinois Evidence with Objections and Responses

By: Gino L. DiVito,James P. Carey,Martin Snyder,Anthony J. Bocchino,David A. Sonenshein

Illinois Evidence with Objections and Responses, Sixth Edition

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Aspen Publishing

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1601569009

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Early Category and Concept Development

By: David H. Rakison,Lisa M. Oakes

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Early Category and Concept Development

By: David H. Rakison,Lisa M. Oakes

Whether or not infants' earliest perception of the world is a "blooming, buzzing, confusion," it is not long before they come to perceive structure and order among the objects and events around them. At the core of this process, and cognitive development in general, is the ability to categorize--to group events, objects, or properties together--and to form mental representations, or concepts, that encapsulate the commonalities and structure of these categories. Categorization is the primary means of coding experience, underlying not only perceptual and reasoning processes, but also inductive inference and language. The aim of this book is to bring together the most recent findings and theories about the origins and early development of categorization and conceptual abilities. Despite recent advances in our understanding of this area, a number of hotly debated issues remain at the center of the controversy over categorization. Researchers continue to ask questions such as: Which mechanisms for categorization are available at birth and which emerge later? What are the relative roles of perceptual similarity and nonobservable properties in early classification? What is the role of contextual variation in categorization by infants and children? Do different experimental procedures reveal the same kind of knowledge? Can computational models simulate infant and child categorization? How do computational models inform behavioral research? What is the impact of language on category development? How does language partition the world? This book is the first to address these and other key questions within a single volume. The authors present a diverse set of views representing cutting-edge empirical and theoretical advances in the field. The result is a thorough review of empirical contributions to the literature, and a wealth of fresh theoretical perspectives on early categorization.

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Oxford University Press

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0199724121

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Barriers or Benefits?

Regulation in Transatlantic Trade

By: David Vogel

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Barriers or Benefits?

Regulation in Transatlantic Trade

By: David Vogel

Government health, safety, and environmental standards have, in the past two decades, often created barriers to international trade. These non-tariff barriers have become the focus of trade disputes, negotiations, and agreements. This book explains the dynamics of conflict and cooperation over consumer and environmental regulation between the European Union and the United States. It explores the most celebrated cases of transatlantic conflicts over regulatory standards—the EU's beef hormone and legtrap bans, and America's fuel economy regulations—as well as the successes of the two partners in coordinating rules for chemical and drug testing, animal inspection, and the reduction of ozone-depleting chemicals. David Vogel argues that transatlantic regulatory conflict has less to do with protectionism and more to do with deeply rooted differences in cultural values and political priorities in Europe and the United States. These differences, he explains, constitute a fundamental and ongoing source of trade conflict between the EU and the U.S. The pattern of EU-U.S. regulatory relations has important implications, not only for the United States and Western Europe, but for the entire global economy. Whatever regulatory standards both adopt become de facto global standards. According to Vogel, the most important challenge for the U.S. and the EU is to promote and strengthen international regulatory cooperation. Each needs to pay more attention to their common interests in promoting international trade and improving global standards than to their often heated differences over particular consumer and environmental policies.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815705778

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Advanced and Business Tort Law

Cases, Statutes, and Problems

By: Arthur Best,David W. Barnes,Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

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Advanced and Business Tort Law

Cases, Statutes, and Problems

By: Arthur Best,David W. Barnes,Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

Casebook with problems for law school students enrolled in Advanced Torts or Business Torts courses"--

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Illinois Rules of Evidence with Objections

By: Gino L. DiVito,James Patrick Carey,Anthony J. Bocchino,David A. Sonenshein

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Illinois Rules of Evidence with Objections

By: Gino L. DiVito,James Patrick Carey,Anthony J. Bocchino,David A. Sonenshein

At 4-by-6 inches, this complete reference guide to Illinois evidence travels easily to the courtroom or classroom. NITA's handy guide enables you to quickly reference objections and responses during trial. Objections, followed by their accurate responses, are listed alphabetically with thumb tabs for quick identification. The Illinois Rules of Evidence, updated through December 2019, is reproduced in its entirety in the last section of the book. Gain insight from crucial practice tips and legal interpretations and access the rules when you need them most-this pocket-size guide is always at hand"--

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Enterprise Architecture As Strategy

Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

By: Jeanne W. Ross,Peter Weill,David Robertson

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Enterprise Architecture As Strategy

Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

By: Jeanne W. Ross,Peter Weill,David Robertson

Does it seem you’ve formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can’t get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution—an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company’s core capabilities. In Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson show you how. The key? Make tough decisions about which processes you must execute well, then implement the IT systems needed to digitize those processes. Citing numerous companies worldwide, the authors show how constructing the right enterprise architecture enhances profitability and time to market, improves strategy execution, and even lowers IT costs. Though clear, engaging explanation, they demonstrate how to define your operating model—your vision of how your firm will survive and grow—and implement it through your enterprise architecture. Their counterintuitive but vital message: when it comes to executing your strategy, your enterprise architecture may matter far more than your strategy itself.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422148173

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Building Experiments

Testing Social Theory

By: David Willer,Henry A. Walker

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Building Experiments

Testing Social Theory

By: David Willer,Henry A. Walker

Ranging from abstract theory to practical design solutions, this book provides the reader with the understandings needed to design and run cutting edge experiments.

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Stanford University Press

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080475246X

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Private Security Law

Case Studies

By: David Maxwell

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Private Security Law

Case Studies

By: David Maxwell

Private Security Law: Case Studies is uniquely designed for the special needs of private security practitioners, students, and instructors. Part One of the book encompasses negligence, intentional torts, agency contracts, alarms, and damages. Part Two covers authority of the private citizen, deprivation of rights, and entrapment. The factual cases presented in this book touch on the everyday duties of persons associated with the private security industry. Private Security Law: Case Studies provides a basic orientation to problems capable of inciting litigation. The information presented through case laws comes from cases chosen for their factual, realistic, and practical connection to the private security industry. This focused approach addresses specific problem areas of the industry and provides information necessary to a security manager to avert future loss.Specially designed for private security practitioners, instructors, and students.Examines cases that are practical, realistic and relevant to specific areas of private security.Provides the information security managers need to avoid future problems.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0080571379

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Inside Game/Outside Game

Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America

By: David Rusk

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Inside Game/Outside Game

Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America

By: David Rusk

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline. According to David Rusk, focusing on programs aimed at improving inner-city neighborhoods--playing the "inside game"--is a losing strategy. Achieving real improvement requires matching the "inside game" with a strong "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty, and urban sprawl. In this persuasive book filled with personal observations as well as his trademark mastery of census statistics, Rusk argues that state legislatures must set new "rules of the game." He believes those rules require regional revenue or tax base sharing to reduce fiscal disparity, regional housing policies to ensure that all new developments have their fair share of low- and moderate-income housing to dissolve concentrations of poverty, and regional land-use planning and growth management to control urban sprawl. State government action, Rusk argues, is particularly crucial where regions are highly fragmented by many competing city, village, and township governments. He provides vivid success stories that demonstrate best practices for these regional strategies along with recommendations for building effective regional coalitions. A Century Foundation Book

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0815716761

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The A to Z of Marxism

By: David Martin Walker,Daniel Gray

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The A to Z of Marxism

By: David Martin Walker,Daniel Gray

Marxism, one of the few philosophies that turned into an effective movement, was not so long ago the official ideology (in one form or another) of much of humanity. It was initially promulgated by the Soviet Union, then imposed on Central and Eastern Europe, later emerged in the People's Republic of China, and gradually spread to other parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Although declining in popularity, the movement still remains in power in several countries and is supported by numerous parties and countless individuals around the world." "The A to Z of Marxism covers, in a comprehensive manner, the history of Marxism and its philosophers and schools of thought. It contains a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on basic terms and concepts as well as significant people, parties, and countries." --Book Jacket.

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0810868520

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Complementarity Modeling in Energy Markets

By: Steven A. Gabriel,Antonio J. Conejo,J. David Fuller,Benjamin F. Hobbs,Carlos Ruiz

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Complementarity Modeling in Energy Markets

By: Steven A. Gabriel,Antonio J. Conejo,J. David Fuller,Benjamin F. Hobbs,Carlos Ruiz

This addition to the ISOR series introduces complementarity models in a straightforward and approachable manner and uses them to carry out an in-depth analysis of energy markets, including formulation issues and solution techniques. In a nutshell, complementarity models generalize: a. optimization problems via their Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions b. on-cooperative games in which each player may be solving a separate but related optimization problem with potentially overall system constraints (e.g., market-clearing conditions) c. conomic and engineering problems that aren’t specifically derived from optimization problems (e.g., spatial price equilibria) d. roblems in which both primal and dual variables (prices) appear in the original formulation (e.g., The National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) or its precursor, PIES). As such, complementarity models are a very general and flexible modeling format. A natural question is why concentrate on energy markets for this complementarity approach? s it turns out, energy or other markets that have game theoretic aspects are best modeled by complementarity problems. The reason is that the traditional perfect competition approach no longer applies due to deregulation and restructuring of these markets and thus the corresponding optimization problems may no longer hold. Also, in some instances it is important in the original model formulation to involve both primal variables (e.g., production) as well as dual variables (e.g., market prices) for public and private sector energy planning. Traditional optimization problems can not directly handle this mixing of primal and dual variables but complementarity models can and this makes them all that more effective for decision-makers.

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1441961232

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Historical Dictionary of Marxism

By: Elliott Johnson,David Walker,Daniel Gray

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Historical Dictionary of Marxism

By: Elliott Johnson,David Walker,Daniel Gray

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Marxism covers of the basics of Karl Marx’s thought, the philosophical contributions of later Marxist theorists, and the extensive real-world political organizations and structures his work inspired—that is, the myriad political parties, organizations, countries, and leaders who subscribed to Marxism as a creed. This text includes a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, both thinkers and doers; political parties and movements; and major communist or ex-communist countries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Marxism.

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Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems

Cases, Statutes, and Problems

By: David W. Barnes,Arthur Best,Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

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Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems

Cases, Statutes, and Problems

By: David W. Barnes,Arthur Best,Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. Basic Tort Law is a comprehensive introduction to intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability including the fundamental issues of duty, breach, causation, and compensation. Offering comprehensive coverage that is suitable for one or two semester torts courses,Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems, Sixth Edition’s flexible organization accommodates courses that begin either with coverage of intentional torts in Chapter 2 or negligence, beginning with Chapter 3. Chapters 9-16 allow teachers to select additional topics that fit best with their curriculum and interests. New to the Sixth Edition: Thoroughly updated with new cases, problems, and notes, including: a new subsection on potential strict products liability for online marketplaces like Amazon that facilitate sales by third-party vendors; a new subsection comparing liability under trespass and nuisance theories; a contemporary case on but-for causation; two recent cases addressing market share liability; two new cases and a problem on the Restatement (Third) approach to duty; and a new case on the economic loss doctrine. Professors and students will benefit from: These general features help first-year teachers and students achieve their goals: Cases are edited to moderate length, so professors can help students analyze judicial reasoning and treatment of policy implications. Many statutes are included to allow students to learn to read statutes and to see how important statutes are in tort issues. Students find the book easy to learn from, because each case has clear introductory text and is followed by clear, and not too numerous, notes. There are many problems, mostly in essay format, to test student understanding of every topic in the book. For each topic, there is at least one practice-oriented problem designed to illustrate the variety of contexts in which lawyers confront doctrinal issues. Problems are usually drawn from reported decisions and include citations to those decisions.

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When Computers Went to Sea

The Digitization of the United States Navy

By: David L. Boslaugh

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When Computers Went to Sea

The Digitization of the United States Navy

By: David L. Boslaugh

When Computers Went to Sea explores the history of the United States Navy's secret development of code-breaking computers and their adaptation to solve a critical fleet radar data handling problem in the Navy's first seaborne digital computer system - that went to sea in 1962. This is the only book written on the United States Navy's initial application of shipboard digital computers to naval warfare. Considered one of the most successful projects ever undertaken by the US Navy, the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) was the subject of numerous studies attempting to pinpoint the reason for the systems inordinate success in the face of seemingly impossible technical challenges and stiff resistance from some in the military. The system's success precipitated a digital revolution in naval warfare systems. Dave Boslaugh details the innovations developed by the NTDS project managers including: project management techniques, modular digital hardware for ship systems, top-down modular computer programming techniques, innovative computer program documentation, and other novel real-time computer system concepts. Automated military systems users and developers, real-time process control systems designers, automated system project managers, and digital technology history students will find this account of a United States military organization's initial foray into computerization interesting and thought provoking.

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Old Spain and New Spain

The Travel Narratives of Camilo José Cela

By: David Henn

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Old Spain and New Spain

The Travel Narratives of Camilo José Cela

By: David Henn

This is the first, book-length study of the six travel narratives published by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literatures. Preliminary chapters focus on technical and thematic aspects of travel-writing, and on the author's approach to the genre. Cela's travel works, which appeared between 1948 and 1986, are examined in turn, with a focus on the construction of the narratives and also on the themes that are developed in each of them. There is an assessment of the author's treatment of topographical, cultural, historical, and social material in his accounts of the journeys he made through various areas and regions of Spain, as well as a consideration of the way in which these narratives reflect changes taking place in Spain during the Franco regime and in the decade following the dictator's death. David Henn teaches modern Spanish fiction, drama, and travel literature at University College London.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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083864015X

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The Life of Haydn

By: David Wyn Jones

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The Life of Haydn

By: David Wyn Jones

Presenting a fresh perspective on the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this biography probes the darker side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.

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Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems

Cases, Statutes, and Problems

By: Arthur Best,David W. Barnes,Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

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Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems

Cases, Statutes, and Problems

By: Arthur Best,David W. Barnes,Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

Buy a new version of this Connected Casebook and receive access to the online e-book, practice questions from your favorite study aids, and an outline tool on CasebookConnect, the all in one learning solution for law school students. CasebookConnect offers you what you need most to be successful in your law school classes—portability, meaningful feedback, and greater efficiency. Offering comprehensive coverage that is suitable for one or two semester torts courses, Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems, Fifth Edition’s flexible organization accommodates courses that begin either with coverage of intentional torts in Chapter 2 or negligence, beginning with Chapter 3. Chapters 9-17 allow teachers to select additional topics that fit best with their curriculum and interests. Key Features: Cases edited to moderate length, so professors can help students analyze judicial reasoning and treatment of policy implications. Practice-oriented problems in each chapter. A new section on the intentional tort of false imprisonment, covering the concepts of confinement, consent, intentionality, and the shopkeeper’s privilege. A new case addressing whether strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities applies to fracking, which, juxtaposed with another featured case, illustrates the differing ways courts have approached the Restatement factors. A new case discussing joint and several liability, offering a straightforward introduction that enhances or may be substituted for a more detailed treatment of this complicated area. CasebookConnect features: ONLINE E-BOOK Law school comes with a lot of reading, so access your enhanced e-book anytime, anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics. PRACTICE QUESTIONS Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time. OUTLINE TOOL Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.

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The Big Book of Design Ideas

By: David E. Carter

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The Big Book of Design Ideas

By: David E. Carter

This is a book that many have described as a must have for every designer's bookshelf. Finally available in paperback, this invaluable compendium offers more than 900 examples of graphic design projects of all kinds -- promotional materials, letterheads, editorial layouts, exhibits, packaging, posters, annual reports, T-shirts and more -- culled from the work of leading professionals in every area of the graphic design field.

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