The study of government policy and public decision-making has experienced a renaissance in recent years as economists and political scientists have come together to form the new field of collective, or public, choice. The Economics of Colletive Choice is a breakthrough text in this field. It is the first to approach the public policy process with a sophisticated understanding of both economics and government and to present these ideas with a grace and accessibility entirely appropriate to undergraduates. Collective choice economics as presented by Professor Stevens is a mix of applied welfare economics and public choice analysis and does not presuppose a knowledge of intermediate microeconomics. Professor Stevens credits both the conservative insight that government intervention is often worse than what it is intended to cure and the liberal view that efficiency and justice are sometimes best served by intervention. This approach allows students to find their own balance between these ideological views. This unique book is designed as a core text for courses on public choice and public policy analysis. It will also find wide use in courses on public administration or public affairs and as a supplementary text in courses on public sector economics and public finance.
Brooklyn, N.Y. in the 1940's and 1950's. Gravesend, one of the six original towns of Brooklyn, became New York City's largest settlement of Italian immigrants in the first half of the 20th century. Introduce to this bi-lingual ethnic community, a Protestant minister's son a small town boy from upstate New York, and what emerges is the familiar immigrant story seen from an unusual perspective. Profusely illustrated with personal photos and over 50 antique postcards, the story is rich in details of a unique time and place.
In recent years Nietzsche has emerged as a presiding genius of our intellectual epoch. Although scholars have noted the influence of Nietzsche's thought on Wallace Stevens, the publication of Early Stevens establishes, for the first time, the extent to which Nietzsche pervades Steven's early work. Concentrating on poems published between 1915 and 1935--but moving occasionally into later poems, as well as letters and essays--B.J. Leggett draws together texts of Stevens and Nietzsche to produce new and surprising readings of the poet's early work. For instance, "Peter Quince at the Clavier" is read in the light of Nietzsche's discussion of Apollonian and Dionysian art in The Birth of Tragedy; Stevens' early poems on religion, including principally "Sunday Morning," are seen through the perspective of Nietzsche's doctrines of the transvaluation of values, genealogy, and the innocence of becoming; Stevens' notions of femininity, virility, and poetry are examined in relation to Nietzsche's texts on gender and creativity. This intertextual critique reveals previously undisclosed ideologies operating at the margins of Stevens' work, enabling Leggett to read aspects of the poetry that have until now been unreadable. Early Stevens also considers such issues as Stevens' perspectivism, his aphoristic style, the Nietzschean epistemology of his poems of order, and the implications of notions of art, untruth, fiction, and interpretation in both Stevens and Nietzsche. Though many critics have discussed the concept of intertextuality, few have attempted a truly intertextual reading of a particular poet. Early Stevens is an exemplary model of such a reading, marking a significant advance in both the form and substance of our understanding of this quintessential modern poet.
Take an unhealthy fascination with Hunter S. Thompson, the twisted minds of four individuals trapped on a submarine, add a splash of rum and you will get the Rumonauts. Their story takes you on a wild adventure full of mustache wielding tyrants, evil space monkeys, deranged robots, and four of the most unlikely of heroes. If you enjoy a good laugh and have an overactive imagination this is the book you have been waiting for. Join the Rumonauts in their self-proclaimed crusade to save the world.
This illustrated biography of the rock group Kiss, tells their story over three decades. Captures by words and pictures, it focuses on how four men in black and white paint changed the world of rock and roll. It includes interviews with the members - who tell of the triumphs, and tragedies, the fights, the personal changes and the reconciliations. It provides an insight into the band as they played the stadiums and arenas around the world including the 1996 tour with a full Kiss discography with over 100 photographs.
As a newly acquired parcel, National Park Service (NPS) Southern Plains Network initiated a vegetation classification and mapping project as one of many on-going projects to gather baseline data to inform land management decisions and planning. Following the protocols of the USGS – NPS Vegetation Mapping Program, the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) performed a two-year project to classify and map the vegetation at SAND. The project was initiated in the spring of 2005 and vegetation data for classification and mapping were collected during late summer of 2005. The vegetation classification, field key, and local plant association descriptions were completed and written during the winter of 2005 - 2006. Accuracy assessment data were collected over the summer of 2006 and assessment of the vegetation map accuracy was completed in the winter of 2006.
An oral history of the UK's soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others. In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK's soundsystem culture would become the most important influence on contemporary pop music since rock and roll. Pumped through towering, home-built speakers, often directly onto the thronged streets of events like the Notting Hill Carnival, the pulsating bass lines of reggae, dub, rave, jungle, trip hop, dubstep, and grime have shaped the worlds of several generations of British youth culture but have often been overlooked by historians obsessed with swinging London, punk, and Britpop. This oral history, consisting of new interviews conducted by respected dance music writer Joe Muggs, and accompanied by dramatic portraits by Brian David Stevens, presents the story of the bassline of Britain, in the words of those who lived and shaped it. Features interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Norman Jay MPE, Youth, Adrian Sherwood, Skream, Rinse FM's Sarah Lockhart and many others.
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