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Early FM Radio

Incremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America

By: Gary L. Frost

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Early FM Radio

Incremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America

By: Gary L. Frost

The commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century’s iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), convinced that Armstrong’s system threatened its AM empire, failed to develop the new technology and refused to pay Armstrong royalties. Armstrong sued the company at great personal cost. He died despondent, exhausted, and broke. But this account, according to Gary L. Frost, ignores the contributions of scores of other individuals who were involved in the decades-long struggle to realize the potential of FM radio. The first scholar to fully examine recently uncovered evidence from the Armstrong v. RCA lawsuit, Frost offers a thorough revision of the FM story. Frost’s balanced, contextualized approach provides a much-needed corrective to previous accounts. Navigating deftly through the details of a complicated story, he examines the motivations and interactions of the three communities most intimately involved in the development of the technology—Progressive-era amateur radio operators, RCA and Westinghouse engineers, and early FM broadcasters. In the process, Frost demonstrates the tension between competition and collaboration that goes hand in hand with the emergence and refinement of new technologies. Frost's study reconsiders both the social construction of FM radio and the process of technological evolution. Historians of technology, communication, and media will welcome this important reexamination of the canonic story of early FM radio.

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JHU Press

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0801899133

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Making Sense of Your World

A Biblical Worldview, Second Edition

By: W. Gary Phillips,William E. Brown,John Stonestreet

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Making Sense of Your World

A Biblical Worldview, Second Edition

By: W. Gary Phillips,William E. Brown,John Stonestreet

Making Sense of Your World offers a basic, accessible introduction to biblical worldview that covers all of these aspects of world-view thinking. Part One compares the basic worldviews, Part Two contrasts (and seeks to defend) the biblical worldview with the others, and Part Three constructs a biblical worldview in four key areas. This book is an overview; the Christian thinker is invited to continue his or her study through the recommended readings at the end of each chapter--an ongoing task Paul labels the 'renewing' of our minds (Romans 12:2).

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Sheffield Publishing

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1879215810

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9781879215818

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

By: Gary Schmidgall

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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

By: Gary Schmidgall

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813117062

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9780813117065

The Shape of a Swiss-US Free Trade Agreement

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Richard E. Baldwin

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The Shape of a Swiss-US Free Trade Agreement

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Richard E. Baldwin

At first sight, a free trade agreement (FTA) between Switzerland and the United States seems implausible, but this important new study concludes that an FTA between the two countries would be highly worthwhile to both. As leading advocates of market capitalism, Switzerland and the United States are well situated to conclude an FTA that breaks new ground in dismantling barriers. The study finds that the annual GDP gains to each partner from expanded trade could be on the order of $1.1 billion.

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Peterson Institute

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0881323853

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9780881323856

NAFTA and the Environment

Seven Years Later

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer

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NAFTA and the Environment

Seven Years Later

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer

Air and water pollution blighted northern Mexican cities long before the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a glimmer on the political horizon. Not surprisingly, when NAFTA became a political reality, environmentalists argued that commercial competition would weaken environmental standards in Canada and the United States and industrial growth in Mexico would further damage its weak environmental infrastructure. NAFTA's huge success in expanding free trade has concentrated population and environmental abuse at the US-Mexico border where it is most visible to Americans. Many environmental groups blame NAFTA and, drawing on its experience, now oppose new trade initiatives.Does the NAFTA record on the environment since 1994 justify its criticism? In this seven-year analysis, the authors review NAFTA's environmental provisions, including a side accord--the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the situation at the US-Mexican border, and the trends in North American environmental policy. They emphasize that the environmental problems of North America were not the result of NAFTA and the NAAEC was not devised to address all of them. The authors recommend ways to better NAFTA's environmental dimension in all three countries, and improve living conditions where economic growth is greatest--at the US-Mexican border. It makes more sense to tackle the shortcomings than to lament NAFTA and the economic growth it promotes.

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Peterson Institute

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0881322997

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9780881322996

The Benefits of Price Convergence

Speculative Calculations

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Erika Wada,Tony Warren

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The Benefits of Price Convergence

Speculative Calculations

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Erika Wada,Tony Warren

Price divergence is readily apparent to anyone who shops. Travelers from Manchester to London, or from Chicago to Paris, are hit by sticker shock. Products ranging from London Fog raincoats to Viagra are available over the Internet at half their retail store prices. Common experience tells us that prices for identical products differ between countries, between cities, even between neighboring shops. On the other hand, common experience also tells us that open markets and greater competition will force a degree of price convergence, if not identical prices. This monograph presents speculative calculations that illustrate potential benefits from price convergence between countries. The authors take a fresh look at global economic integration by examining existing price divergence, and possible price convergence, across a range of consumer goods and then calculate the potential benefits of price convergence on a country-by-country basis and for the world as a whole. This study examines the potential benefits from price convergence resulting from more competition and market integration, not perfect competition and market integration. The authors calculate these benefits assuming that the world economy can attain the same degree of competition and market integration-and hence price convergence-as exists within the United States.

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Peterson Institute

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0881323330

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9780881323337

Infectious Disease and National Security

Strategic Information Needs

By: Gary Cecchine,Melinda Moore

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Infectious Disease and National Security

Strategic Information Needs

By: Gary Cecchine,Melinda Moore

The pace of global travel, migration, and commerce has brought about an increased risk of a worldwide infectious disease outbreak. This report examines infectious disease within the context of national security and assesses the need for and adequacy of information that will enable U.S. policymakers to prevent and respond to such threats.

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Rand Corporation

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0833041169

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9780833041166

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Nonpasserines - Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael McNall

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Nonpasserines - Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael McNall

This first volume of a remarkable four-volume set on the birds of British Columbia covers eight-six species of nonpasserines, from loons through to waterfowl. Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns. Introductory chapters look at the province’s ornithological history, its environment and the methodology used in the volumes.

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UBC Press

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0774844434

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9780774844437

Local Content Requirements

A Global Problem

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Jeffrey J Schott,Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs

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Local Content Requirements

A Global Problem

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Jeffrey J Schott,Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs

In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008–09, economists feared that protectionist policies might sweep the world economy, echoing the wave of tariff escalations during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To some surprise, officials were more restrained and largely avoided traditional forms of protection (tariffs and quotas). As a result, economists underestimated the incidence of new protectionism because policymakers increasingly turned to more opaque behind-the-border nontariff barriers (NTBs). Using a combination of statistical analysis and case studies, the authors show that local content requirements (LCRs), a form of NTB, have become increasingly popular. How much was global trade actually reduced on account of LCRs? A conservative estimate might be $93 billion. Case studies featured cover the healthcare sector in Brazil, wind turbines in Canada, the automobile industry in China, solar cells and modules in India, oil and gas in Nigeria, and "Buy American" restrictions on government procurement.

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Columbia University Press

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088132681X

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9780881326819

Sustaining Reform with a US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Shahid Javed Burki

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Sustaining Reform with a US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Shahid Javed Burki

This Policy Analysis previews the case for more decisive US economic engagement of Pakistan and suggests that a US-Pakistan FTA could reinforce existing reforms and push the envelope in economic areas where Pakistan (and South Asia more generally) have lagged. In keeping with the Institute's extensive research agenda on prospective US FTAs, we present a detailed analysis of the costs and benefits of a US-Pakistan FTA for the signatory countries, for regional integration, and for the world trading system."--Preface.

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Peterson Institute

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0881323950

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9780881323955

Outward Foreign Direct Investment and US Exports, Jobs, and R&D

Implications for US Policy

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Theodore H Moran,Lindsay Oldenski

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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and US Exports, Jobs, and R&D

Implications for US Policy

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Theodore H Moran,Lindsay Oldenski

It is not in the US interest to adopt tax and regulatory policies that would discourage global engagement by US multinational corporations (MNCs). Research presented in this book shows that the expansion of foreign affiliates of US MNCs is positively associated with more production, greater employment, higher exports, and more research and development (R&D) in the United States. These findings suggest that less investment abroad by US firms would weaken—not strengthen—the US economy. This analysis by no means implies that there are only winners and no losers from outward investment. Changing patterns of MNC investment, like changing patterns of technology and production more generally, contribute to job losses and dislocations for some workers and to new opportunities for others. To benefit the US economy and US workers most broadly, the United States will want to search for ways to strengthen the appeal of the United States as a base for the operations of international firms. High among the recommendations to accomplish this, the United States should adopt a territorial tax system, like the great majority of developed countries.

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Columbia University Press

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0881326690

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9780881326697

Economic Normalization With Cuba

A Roadmap for US Policymakers

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Barbara Kotschwar

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Economic Normalization With Cuba

A Roadmap for US Policymakers

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Barbara Kotschwar

Will the Obama administration's decision to normalize relations with Cuba usher in a new era of economic cooperation, trade, and investment between the two countries? This prescient book, published only eight months before President Obama's historic announcement at the end of 2014, provides answers to that question and offers a roadmap for a sequenced lifting of the Cold War era economic sanctions against Cuba. The authors, Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Barbara Kotschwar, lay out the difficulties of achieving a dynamic economic relationship. They caution that a unilateral dismantling of US sanctions without insuring that proper institutions are in place in Cuba could squander this golden opportunity for US companies and hurt Cubans. They argue that US policies should encourage Cuba to liberalize its economy and adopt democratic institutions, so that it does not transition from a Communist dictatorship to a corrupt and authoritarian oligarchy. This farsighted book, produced in anticipation of an opening with Cuba that seemed impossible to some skeptics, is a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of a historically contentious relationship that promises to evolve productively if the right policies are pursued.

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Columbia University Press

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0881326836

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9780881326833

Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America

By: Gary S. Cross

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Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America

By: Gary S. Cross

Discussed how Americans spend their free time and entertain themselves. Essays present perspectives in the fields of American and cultural studies, sociology, recreation, sports, leisure studies, auctions, bloodsports, shopping malls, and theme parks.

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Gale Cengage

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0684312670

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9780684312675

Book's by Gary L. Frost

Early FM Radio

Early FM Radio

Making Sense of Your World

Making Sense of Your World

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

The Shape of a Swiss-US Free Trade Agreement

The Shape of a Swiss-US Free Trade Agreement

NAFTA and the Environment

NAFTA and the Environment

The Benefits of Price Convergence

The Benefits of Price Convergence

Infectious Disease and National Security

Infectious Disease and National Security

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Local Content Requirements

Local Content Requirements

Sustaining Reform with a US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement

Sustaining Reform with a US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement

Outward Foreign Direct Investment and US Exports, Jobs, and R&D

Outward Foreign Direct Investment and US Exports, Jobs, and R&D

Economic Normalization With Cuba

Economic Normalization With Cuba

Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America

Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America

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