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Testing North Korea: The Next Stage in U.S. and ROK Policy

By: Morton I. Abramowitz,Morton Abramowitz,James T. Laney

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Testing North Korea: The Next Stage in U.S. and ROK Policy

By: Morton I. Abramowitz,Morton Abramowitz,James T. Laney

This task force, co-chaired by Morton I. Abramowitz and James T. Laney, argues that successful implementation of the Agreed Framework between the United States and North Korea, which froze Pyongyang's known nuclear program in exchange for two light-water reactors and other economic benefits, faces considerable challenges.

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Council on Foreign Relations

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0876092814

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9780876092811

Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula

Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations

By: Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula,Morton Abramowitz,James T. Laney

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Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula

Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations

By: Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula,Morton Abramowitz,James T. Laney

This report, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, was done by an Independent Task Force on Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula. Noting that the new Republic of Korea government has taken steps to open North Korea to broader contacts with the outside world while asserting that it will brook no military aggression from the North, the Task Force recommends a parallel and supportive approach for U.S. policy.

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0876092334

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9780876092330

Remaking China Policy

U.S.-China Relations and Governmental Decision-making

By: Richard Harris Moorsteen,Morton Abramowitz

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Remaking China Policy

U.S.-China Relations and Governmental Decision-making

By: Richard Harris Moorsteen,Morton Abramowitz

Authors Moorsteen and Abramowitz propose a plan of action for improving U.S.-China relations that should stimulate the American public as well as Washington decisionmakers. Dealing effectively with China requires both a long-term perspective and an approach that faces up to fundamental issues, going beyond "atmospherics" and gestures.

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Harvard University Press

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0674759818

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9780674759817

U.S. Policy Toward North Korea

Next Steps

By: Council on Foreign Relations,Morton Abramowitz

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U.S. Policy Toward North Korea

Next Steps

By: Council on Foreign Relations,Morton Abramowitz

The Korean peninsula remains one of the world's most dangerous places. While North Korea has an army of 1.2 million troops and holds Seoul hostage with its missiles and artillery, Pyongyang is in desperate straits after a decade of economic decline, food shortages, and diplomatic isolation. In 1998, former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry traveled to Pyongyang to propose increasing outside aid from the United States, South Korea, and Japan in exchange for North Korea's promise to reduce military provocations. The third in a series of influential Task Force reports on Korea policy, this study argues that, in spite of tensions, the United States should continue to support South Korea's engagement policy and keep Perry's proposal on the table. The Task Force recommends that, should North Korea increase tensions by testing long-range missiles, the United States and its allies should take a new approach to Pyongyang, including enhancing U.S.-Japan and South Korean deterrence against other North Korean threats, suspending new South Korean investment in North Korea, and placing new Japanese restrictions on financial transfers to the North. By suggesting the possibility of gradually reducing the danger on the Korean peninsula, this report represents a crucial addition to the discussion of U.S.-North Korean economic relations.

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0876092636

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9780876092637

Learning by Voting

Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections

By: Rebecca B. Morton,Kenneth C. Williams

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Learning by Voting

Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections

By: Rebecca B. Morton,Kenneth C. Williams

Does the sequence of presidential primaries affect the choices voters make?

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University of Michigan Press

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0472111299

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9780472111299

Gangland: The Lawyers

By: James Morton

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Gangland: The Lawyers

By: James Morton

While many lawyers are honest, for Gangland figures, the best lawyer is often corrupt – a ‘shyster’ – who will act as a go between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and occasionally organise robberies and burglaries. Sometimes these lawyers even kill or may be killed themselves. Gangland: The Lawyers brings us such lawyers as Frank Ragan, who acted for three mob leaders, and James Sawyer, the barrister and forger involved in the first Great train Robbery. From the amazing story of Gambino crime boss John Gotti (the ‘Teflon Don’) and his attorney Bruce Cutler, to the American judge Joseph Peel, who had his co-judge killed, James Morton presents a worldwide history of these shady individuals and their seedy but compelling stories.

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Random House

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1448133602

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9781448133604

SCAI Interventional Cardiology Review

By: Morton J. Kern,Arnold H. Seto

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SCAI Interventional Cardiology Review

By: Morton J. Kern,Arnold H. Seto

Keep current with recent changes in the field and prepare for certification or recertification with SCAI Interventional Cardiology Review, Fourth Edition. Edited by Drs. Morton J. Kern and Arnold H. Seto, and written by global experts who are Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) members and leaders, coverage includes all topics on the interventional cardiology board exam and revised information throughout.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975212622

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9781975212629

Spherical Radial Basis Functions, Theory and Applications

By: Simon Hubbert,Quôc Thông Le Gia,Tanya M. Morton

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Spherical Radial Basis Functions, Theory and Applications

By: Simon Hubbert,Quôc Thông Le Gia,Tanya M. Morton

This book is the first to be devoted to the theory and applications of spherical (radial) basis functions (SBFs), which is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising techniques for solving problems where approximations are needed on the surface of a sphere. The aim of the book is to provide enough theoretical and practical details for the reader to be able to implement the SBF methods to solve real world problems. The authors stress the close connection between the theory of SBFs and that of the more well-known family of radial basis functions (RBFs), which are well-established tools for solving approximation theory problems on more general domains. The unique solvability of the SBF interpolation method for data fitting problems is established and an in-depth investigation of its accuracy is provided. Two chapters are devoted to partial differential equations (PDEs). One deals with the practical implementation of an SBF-based solution to an elliptic PDE and another which describes an SBF approach for solving a parabolic time-dependent PDE, complete with error analysis. The theory developed is illuminated with numerical experiments throughout. Spherical Radial Basis Functions, Theory and Applications will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in mathematics and related fields such as the geophysical sciences and statistics.

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150

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Springer

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331917939X

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9783319179391

And Sin No More

Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990

By: Marian J. Morton

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And Sin No More

Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990

By: Marian J. Morton

In this compelling study, Marian Morton traces the development of public and private health-care policies for single mothers and identifies the ways in which attitudes about religion, race, and cultural definitions of womanhood affected their treatment. Focusing on the history of the public hospital and four private maternity homes in Cleveland, Morton considers the care of unwed mothers in the context of developing American social policy from the mid-nineteenth century to today. While social policy has taken on a growing responsibility for health care of dependent people, the perception of unwed mothers as "sinful" by the Christian church and "undeserving" because their situation was brought about by moral failure has differentiated them from other dependent populations. Government provides unmarried mothers with the least support, and private maternity homes, run mostly by churches, have remained committed to the nineteenth-century notion of spiritual reclamation. As Morton shows, regardless of the time period, women pregnant out-of-wedlock have been the dependent population most easily disciplined by private agencies and the most resented and politically vulnerable recipients of public assistance. This vital work sheds new light on the current controversies over public assistance and legalized abortion and offers a powerful appraisal of the uncertainties and inequities of American social policy as it applies to women who fail to conform to social definitions of womanhood.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814206026

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9780814206027

Group Theory and Its Application to Physical Problems

By: Morton Hamermesh

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Group Theory and Its Application to Physical Problems

By: Morton Hamermesh

A remarkably intelligible survey . . . well organized, well written and very clear throughout." — Mathematical Reviews This excellent text, long considered one of the best-written, most skillful expositions of group theory and its physical applications, is directed primarily to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics, especially quantum physics. No knowledge of group theory is assumed, but the reader is expected to be familiar with quantum mechanics. And while much of the book concerns theory, readers will nevertheless find a large number of physical applications in the fields of crystallography, molecular theory, and atomic and nuclear physics. The first seven chapters of the book are concerned with finite groups, focusing on the central role of the symmetric group. This section concludes with a chapter dealing with the problem of determining group characters, as it discusses Young tableaux, Yamanouchi symbols, and the method of Hund. The remaining five chapters discuss continuous groups, particularly Lie groups, with the final chapter devoted to the ray representation of Lie groups. The author, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Minnesota, has included a generous selection of problems. They are inserted throughout the text at the place where they naturally arise, making the book ideal for self-study as well as for classroom assignment. 77 illustrations. "A very welcome addition to [the] literature. . . . I would warmly recommend the book to all serious students of Group Theory as applied to Physics." — Contemporary Physics. Index. Bibliography. Problems. Tables.

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Courier Corporation

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0486661814

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9780486661810

Methods and Models

A Guide to the Empirical Analysis of Formal Models in Political Science

By: Rebecca B. Morton

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Methods and Models

A Guide to the Empirical Analysis of Formal Models in Political Science

By: Rebecca B. Morton

At present much of political science consists of a large body of formal mathematical work that remains largely unexplored empirically and an expanding use of sophisticated statistical techniques. While there are examples of noteworthy efforts to bridge the gap between these, there is still a need for much more cooperative work between formal theorists and empirical researchers in the discipline. This book explores how empirical analysis has, can, and should be used to evaluate formal models in political science. The book is intended to be a guide for active and future political scientists who are confronting the issues of empirical analysis with formal models in their work and as a basis for a needed dialogue between empirical and formal theoretical researchers in political science. These developments, if combined, are potentially a basis for a new revolution in political science.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139427733

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9781139427739

The Mammoth Book of Gangs

By: James Morton

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The Mammoth Book of Gangs

By: James Morton

A fresh, new look at gangs in every part of the world which deliberately avoids the stories that have been done to death - about Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde - and focuses on less well-known gangs such as 'Ma' Barker's Boys; the Smaldones of Denver; Scotland Yard's 1960s' Flying Squad, the so-called Firm within a Firm; Dr Death, the Melbourne drug dealer and Andre Stander, the former South African police officer who led a gang of bank robbers before being shot dead in Fort Lauderdale having fled a 17-year sentence.

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C & R Crime

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1780330898

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9781780330891

Dynamic Optimization

The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control in Economics and Management

By: Morton I. Kamien,Nancy Lou Schwartz

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Dynamic Optimization

The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control in Economics and Management

By: Morton I. Kamien,Nancy Lou Schwartz

An excellent financial research tool, this celebrated classic focuses on the methods of solving continuous time problems. The two-part treatment covers the calculus of variations and optimal control. In the decades since its initial publication, this text has defined dynamic optimization courses taught to economics and management science students. 1998 edition"--

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Courier Corporation

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048648856X

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9780486488561

Couples

A Celebration of Commitment

By: Catherine Whitney,Morton I. Hamburg

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Couples

A Celebration of Commitment

By: Catherine Whitney,Morton I. Hamburg

Warm, fuzzy, fun, sweet, irreverent . . . AMP has the right title for the right moment. Celebrate your sweetheart, cast a spell, or ignite a spark with these Valentine favorites.

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