Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Donald M. Borchert

The last and, in fact, the only previous major philosophical reference work in the English language, J.M. Baldwin’s Dictionary of Psychology and Philosophy, appeared in 1901. While it was in many ways an admirable work (it numbered among its contributors men of such caliber as Charles Peirce and G. E. Moore), the scope of Baldwin’s Dictionary was quite limited. The great majority of articles were exceedingly brief, providing concise definitions of technical terms sometimes accompanied by additional information of a historical nature. There were articles about individual philosophers, but these usually amounted to no more than a few lines. Baldwin himself insisted that his work was primarily a dictionary and not an encyclopedia, but he did feature several articles of “encyclopedic character” dealing with important movements in the history of philosophy and the general divisions of philosophy. [download]

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Dividing Lines

Dividing Lines

By: Daniel J. Tichenor

This study is an inquiry into the politics of American immigration control over more than two centuries. The revered historian Oscar Handlin once observed that any adequate treatment of “the course and effects of immigration” on our country “involved no less a task than to set down the whole history of the United States.” Fortunately, my purposes here are much more modest. Few of the leaders of the early republic could have guessed how profoundly immigration would influence U.S.national development. Yet almost every subsequent generation has readily understood the capacity of newcomers to dramatically alter the American society that received them. Each has had at its disposal ample evidence that the demographic transformations introduced by robust immigration often translate into important economic, social, and political change. [download]

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Counselor

Counselor

By: Ted Sorensen

I was born inLincoln,Nebraska, on the morning of May 8, 1928, Harry Truman’s forty-fourth birthday. Harry took no notice of my arrival, being a busy county judge in Missouriat the time. More than twenty years later, I would make my way to Washington, D.C., where my first employer was the federal government over which he presided. I was born in a Catholic hospital, where my Jewish mother, Annis Chaikin Sorensen, valued the loving care of the nuns on the hospital staff. My father, Christian A. Sorensen (“C.A.”), an insurgent Republican making his first run for public office that year, wrote to the head of America’s “Hoover Booster Clubs”: “Our family was increased this morning by another son. I am going to have a Republican club of my own.” [download]

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Emily Murphy: Rebel

Emily Murphy: Rebel

By: Christine Mander

Emily Murphy is a woman for all seasons. I say “is” because I hope, through this book, to keep the spirit of “Janey Canuck” alive that same spirit which Byrne Hope Sanders introduced to the world in her biography many years ago. Emily had no qualms about her place in the world, no problem identifying her aims, and above all no reticence about communicating her strong beliefs and cogent sense of responsibility to her fellow men and women. She was a believer in action; she was persuasive with words; she was a force to be reckoned with in whatever task she undertook, whether it was singing a child to sleep, being a helpmate to her husband, or a hellion on the hustings. Her philosophy on how a woman should best tackle life was characterized by a strong thread of honest-to-goodness common sense which is as apt for the computer age as it was for the “Votes for Women” one in which she grew up. [download]

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First Among Friends

First Among Friends 

By: H. Larry Ingle 

George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, was a significant figure in the history of the Radical Reformation. But he was also more. He sensed a need for, then captured in his movement, the sense of individual responsibility and initiative without which the newly emerging world of capitalism would have had tougher going. His concerns were primarily religious, but he also stressed the secular needs of those left behind by the changing social order. Hence achieving justice, social and economic, was always one of his major intentions, especially in the heady days of the English Revolution. Articulating the spirit of his age, Fox at his most creative pushed the accepted definitions of Christianity to stress new individualistic dimensions and inculcate them in his sect. [download]

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A Survival Guide for Working with Humans

A Survival Guide for Working with Humans 

By: Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.

Today, with a sputtering economy, collapsing and merging companies, corporate scandals, high-tech upheavals, and growing global competition, life in the workplace is more difficult than ever. Trusting in business relationships has become more uncertain, too. It helps to have guidelines on how to maneuver through today’s unpredictable work environment, much like learning to swim through a narrow chasm in a swirling river. That’s what A Survival Guide for Working with Humans is all about. It started with a series of mostly weekly columns in the San Francisco Bay Area on the perils of the workplace and what to do about them. Eventually my editor had to drop the columns to run more advertising and specialty features, but as reader response grew I decided to expand on the idea for these columns and turn them into a book. [download]

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Cool Careers for Dummies

Cool Careers for Dummies 

By: Marty Nemko, Ph.D. 

Anumber of years ago, I heard about a little-known career called child life specialist. When children must go to the hospital for an extended stay, they’re assigned a child life specialist to help them adapt to living without their parents. When I told a client about this career, something happened that had rarely occurred with previous clients: her eyes lit up. That helped me realize what people most want from career counseling: new options. So, I started collecting cool careers. Every time I heard of an interesting career, I added it to the list. I included unusual careers as well as neat niches within the popular careers. One example: lawyers who specialize in outer space issues. Plus, I included low-risk/high-payoff ideas for self-employment. After a few years, my list contained more than 500 careers. [download]

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Balanced Scorecard Strategy for Dummies

Balanced Scorecard Strategy for Dummies 

By: Chuck Hannabarger, Rich Buchman and Peter Economy

There are many reasons for reading a book about implementing Balanced Scorecards in your business. Perhaps you’ve read or heard about Balanced Scorecards, and you want to know more about how they can improve your business processes and enhance the bottom line. Or maybe you have taken a new job and inherited a Balanced Scorecard system that isn’t working right and that is taking far more time to maintain than it’s worth. Or you might have a highly tuned Balanced Scorecard system in place complete with well designed dashboards but you would like to get some advice on how to fine tune your Balanced Scorecards and continually improve them. Balanced Scorecard Strategies For Dummies was written to respond to each of these needs and many more. [download]

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Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky 

By: James E. ST. clair and Linda C. Gugin

In the almost fifty years since his death, the name Fred M. Vinson has all but disappeared from public awareness and consciousness. This work is intended to bring the life and times of a dedicated public servant back to the surface for examination and study by present and future generations of Americans. He was, above all, a true believer in government and public service. Vinson never doubted for a moment that the highest calling for an American was serving in government federal, state, county, or municipal. For more than thirty years, he demonstrated that conviction, starting out as a part-time city attorney for his tiny hometown of Louisa, Kentucky, and rising to the top levels of all three branches of national government, a feat that few have equaled. He obviously enjoyed the fame and acclaim he received from public service, but more pleasing to him than any personal glory was the good that government could do for the “folks back home.” [download]

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America’s Corner Store

America’s Corner Store 

By: John U. Bacon

When I set out to research and write this book about America’s greatest drugstore chain, I quickly realized I faced more obstacles than the average author might have. This is primarily a business book and secondly a historical work, subject that I enjoy and understand. But it’s also a biography of a pharmacy, something I knew little about. To put it bluntly, I did’nt know any mortar from my pestle. Enter Dr. Ara Paul, Dean Emeritus of the Universityof MichiganPharmachy School. He was as patient teaching me about his favorite subject as he was educating thousands of students over his long career. Because he is also a trusted friend of three generations of Walgreens, two of whom graduated from Michigan’s Collegeof Pharmachy, Dean Paul also served as my ambassador of this very private but fiendly family.  [download]

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50 Success Classics

50 Success Classics

By: Tom Butler and Bowdon 

We desire success almost as much as we need to breathe. From the moment we are born we want to do more, get more, be more. While we may have a mental picture of success as striving hard toward perfection, in truth it is more natural. Success can be described as the courage to let out the potent dreams and potentialities already in us, simply to give them air. Most people don’t do this because it seems dangerous, it is not routine. Yet those who have gone this way do see it simply as the normal path of life. It feels more like home, a place that should be everyone’s experience. Sometimes the urge for more is drummed out of us by upbringing or culture, so you may have felt compelled to lower your expectations and settle for a less extraordinary life. If, however, you have recently resurrected your desire to succeed, this book is for you. [download]

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101 More Games for Trainers

101 More Games for Trainers 

By: Bob Pike with Christopher Busse

Like it or not, the age of entertainment in which we live demands that classroom trainers must work hard to capture and hold the interest of participants. If we don’t, we run the risk of being passed by in favor of “sexier” learning methods, such as high-tech computer- or video-based training. Fortunately, trainers have long known that one of the best ways to entertain and engage adult learners is to encourage them to play games in the classroom. And one advantage we have over any of the high-tech mediums that are capturing the attention of “cyber-trainees” is that we’re able to adapt the courses and the games we offer to match precisely the needs of our audience. We can assess participants, decide what kind of exercise is appropriate (and when it’s appropriate), and use games that will ensure that trainees are entertained… and course material is retained. [download]

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Topics in Classical Micro and Macroeconomics

Topics in Classical Micro and Macroeconomics

By: Peter Flaschel

This book on Classical micro- and macrodynamics includes revised versions of papers which were written between 1983 and 2000, some jointly with co-authors, and it supplements them with recent work on the issues which are raised and treated in them. It attempts to demonstrate to the reader that themes of Classical economics, in particular in the tradition of Smith, Ricardo and Marx, can be synthesized into a coherent whole, from the perspective of formal model building. This is accomplished by means of mathematical techniques which, on the one hand, provide a consistent accounting framework (labor values and prices of production) as point of reference for Classical micro- and macro-dynamics and which, on the other hand, attempt to apply these accounting schemes or suitable extensions of them. [download]

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Trade and Human Health and Safety

Trade and Human Health and Safety

By: George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis

This book gathers papers from distinguished experts discussing how health-based, trade restrictive measures have fared in World Trade Organization (WTO) case law. With an analysis of applicable primary law (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT], Technical Barriers to Trade [TBT], and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement [SPS]) and all case law in the area of trade and health, this book offers a comprehensive discussion of the standards established for the regulation of public health and safety issues. Experts in the field answer two important questions How can a country which is a member of theWTO define its policy on health issues? And What are the WTO constraints on the exercise of health policy, if any? The various contributions in this volume aim to demonstrate how the world trading regime has come of age and accepted that trade liberalization cannot take place at the expense of nationally defined social values. [download]

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Understanding Competitive Advantage

Understanding Competitive Advantage

By: Fredrik Nillson and Birger Rapp

This book provides an analysis of ways for the individual firm to create competitive advantage on its own market. Our theoretical starting point is that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm’s chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen arena of competition. The firm is in a better position to concentrate on activities that create value for the customer if its strategies and control systems are mutually consistent and adapted to expected external demands. This book is thus a contribution to the literature that treats competitive advantage on the basis of the match between the environment and internal resources. Our ambition has been to provide additional knowledge in the area through a comprehensive discussion on co-ordination and integration of strategies and control systems. This chapter is intended to introduce the reader to the theories and basic concepts considered in the book. [download]  

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The Life and Work of Gunter Grass

The Life and Work of Gunter Grass

By: Julian Preece

It is enough for a German born before 1945 to give his year of birth in order for his listeners to place him in a likelyhistorical context, even to purport to know his fundamental experiences. While most men born ®ve years either side of 1920 had not much better than an evens chance of reaching 30, those who did so were in evitably deeply marked bythe war and Nazism. Theyhad passed crucial phases of their adult careers under Adolf Hitler, whether or not theysigned up to his creed and party. But anyone born in the mid-1920s, like Gunter Grass, belongs to the so called weiûe Jahrgange (the `white years’), old enough to have played some role in what happened, but young enough not to be seriously implicated in the Nazi extermination machine. [download]  

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Too Good To Be True

Too Good To Be True

By: Erin Arvedlund

On the morning of March 12, 2009, Bernard Lawrence Madoff stood inside courtroom 24-B on the twenty-fourth floor of the Daniel P. Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in downtownManhattan. Outside, a strong, wintry spring wind blew, but inside the air was stuffy and hot with tension. The seventy-year-old Madoff sat just past the wooden barrier that separated the public seating gallery. He did not look at anyone, just stared straight ahead, as everyone in the room and on the closed circuit television watched his every move. Always impeccably dressed, Madoff wore a bespoke business suit in his trademark charcoal gray, paired with a lighter gray silk tie. He was flanked by four attorneys, two on either side of him. His longtime lawyer, Ira Sorkin, was seated on his immediate right, and another attorney, Daniel Horwitz, sat to his left. [download]

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The Michael Jackson Story

The Michael Jackson Story

By: Nelson George

There is a chill in the air as the sun rises over Encino, Califonnia.Outside of Michael Jrckson’s home young people, male and female, lean against the wall, or sit in cars by the gate, or squat in the bushes. Some wear their obsession on their chests in the form of T-shins and buttons bearing Michael’s likeness. They are a vision of adoration, respect, and love. At times they are persistent. Katherine Jackson, Michael’s mother, has often found them climbing a fence or curled. Up asleep in fetal positions on the grounds around the house, their possessions scattered around them on the grass. “They” are so ubiquitous at Michael has developed a sixth sense about their presence; he knows when to roll up his car window at a red light or when not to open a hotel room door. [download]

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The Lost Temple

The Lost Temple 

By: Tom Harper

Legend said this was the first place men flew. Like artificial birds, they had dressed themselves with beeswax and feathers, launched themselves from the lofty palace and soared over the jewelled sea. They had climbed high, ever nearer the sun until one, a boy, flew too close, melted his wings and fell. By the time the last feather settled on the water, the boy had slipped beneath the waves, into myth. Now there were men in the sky again. Instead of feathers they flew on wings of silk, and the webbed harnesses which held them would not melt in the sun. Fallschirmjäger, they called themselves: hunters from the sky. They did not fall, but swooped down to the earth like hungry eagles. Pemberton saw them from his office window. He had known he was in trouble when the bombing stopped. [download]

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The Truest Heart

The Truest Heart

By: Samantha James

“Tell me. What news is there of Ellis of Westerbrook?” The imperious command came from John, king of England, the youngest of the Devil’s brood, as Henry II’s rebellious sons had come to be known, for they had been ever and always at odds with their father … and with each other. Gilbert of Lincoln crushed his cap in his hands and stared up into the black-bearded face of his king. Like so many ofEngland’s people, he, too, was weary of the king’s greed; the grumble of discontent was heard throughout the land. Many of John’s barons were outraged by his ceaseless demands to replenish his treasury that and the call to arms that John might continue his fight to regain his lands across the Channel in Normandyand the Angevin provinces. John had signed the Great Charter in early summer, yet still refused to be humbled. [download]

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The Dragon Emperor

The Dragon Emperor

By: Wang Ping

The Yellow Emperor. In the center of China stands MountTai. Five-colored cloudswrap around the mountain, and rivers of yellow, red, black, blue, and white f low down its sides. Magical animals fill the thick forests that cover the mountain’s slopes. Fantastic birds f ly over the trees, and fish swim in the streams.MountTaiis also home to gods and goddesses. They have the faces of humans and the bodies of snakes with tails coiling all the way up to their heads. They eat the black-and-white jade that is found on the mountain. One night on MountTai, long ago, a mother gave birth to a golden dragon. He had four faces one on the front and one on the back, one on the left and one on the right. The baby was the Yellow Emperor. He started talking in just a few days and grew up quickly. The Yellow Emperor became a great leader in the region. [download]

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Shakespeare-The Biography

Shakespeare-The Biography

By: Peter Ackroyd

William Shakespeare is popularly supposed to have been born on 23 April 1564, or St. George’sDay. The date may in fact have been 21 April or 22 April, but the coincidence of the national festival is at least appropriate. When he emerged from the womb into the world of time, with the assistance of a midwife, an infant of the sixteenth century was washed and then “swaddled” by being wrapped tightly in soft cloth. Then he was carried downstairs in order to be presented to the father. After this ritual greeting, he was taken back to the birthchamber, still warm and dark, where he was laid beside the mother. She was meant to “draw to her all the diseases from the child,” before her infant was put in a cradle. A small portion of butter and honey was usually placed in the baby’s mouth. It was the custom in Warwickshire to give the suckling child hare’s brains reduced to jelly. [download]

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Queen of The Oddballs

Queen of The Oddballs 

By: Hillary Carlip

What do you do when you feel so invisible you can’t sleep without a light on, afraid that in the dark you just might vanish entirely? Simple. Become someone interesting enough to be noticed. And that’s exactly what I did when I was eight years old. I took on different personas the way other kids tried on clothes. I Frugged and Mashed Potatoed incessantly for an entire month when I was being a go-go dancer from Hullabaloo! After that, for several weeks I yanked my short hair into pigtails, wore all black, and skulked around the house and school, acting “creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky,” when I was being Wednesday from The Addams Family. A few months later, hooked on Gerry and the Pacemakers, I sang and spoke only in an English accent. How much more interesting could I get? [download]

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Quantitative Risk Assessment

Quantitative Risk Assessment

By: Terje Aven 

Risk management is all coordinated activities to direct and control an organisation with regard to risk. Two main purposes of the risk management are to ensure that adequate measures are taken to protect people, the environment and assets from undesirable consequences of the activities being undertaken, and to balance different concerns, for example safety and costs. Risk management covers both measures to avoid the occurrence of hazards/threats and measures to reduce their potential consequences. In industries like nuclear and oil & gas, risk management was traditionally based on a prescriptive regulating regime, in which detailed requirements for the design and operation of the plant were specified (Kumamoto, 2007; Aven and Vinnem, 2007). [download]

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Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Optimization

By: Joseph Geunes and Panos M. Pardalos

A supply chain is a group of organizations (including product design, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) that are working together to profitably provide the right product or service to the right customer at the right time. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the study of strategies and methodologies that enable these organizations to meet their objectives effectively. In the past few decades, people have realized that cooperation with other organizations in the supply chain can lead to significantly higher profits. As a result, industrial suppliercustomer relations have undergone radical changes resulting in a certain level of co-operation, mainly in the area of information sharing, that was lacking before. The degree of co-operation varies significantly from one supply chain to another. [download]

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One Hundred Days

One Hundred Days

By: Alan Schom

“It seems to me an historian’s foremost duty to ensure that merit is recorded, and to confront evil deeds and words with the fear of posterity’s denunciations,” Tacitus commented in his Annals of Imperial Rome. If Tacitus is correct, then Napoleon Bonaparte is surely one of the most fortunate of all historical figures, having managed to escape, as he has, such a confrontation with posterity. This is made all the more remarkable, in that most of his “evil deeds and words” are well documented, and recorded, and available for all to see and contemplate. By February 1815 Napoleon had decided to escape from his island prison of Elba and attempt to overthrow the newly restored and internationally recognized Bourbon monarchy in France. The period of his return is generally known as “The Hundred Days,” referring in fact to the period of Louis XVIII’s absence from the French capital, from 20 March to 8 July, in reality a duration of 121 days. [download]

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso 

By: Tim McNeese

At 4:40 on the afternoon of April 26, 1937, shopkeepers, street vendors, and shoppers in the town of Guernica,Spain, were enjoying themselves. On that sunny Mediterranean afternoon, the town’s streets were bustling. It was Monday market day in this otherwise quiet town, situated in northeasternSpain, in the Basque provinceofVizcaya. The weekly shopping day usually brought 2,000 people intoGuernica, swelling the town’s population to 12,000. Suddenly, the skies above the sleepy Basque town were filled with foreign aircraft. Military planes were not unknown to the Basques in the region. The Spanish Civil War was in its second year. The war had become intensely violent, pitting the forces of the Fascist general Francisco Franco against the Nationalist armies of the new but shaky Spanish republican government. [download]

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Paul Keres-The Road to The Top

Paul Keres-The Road to The Top

By: Paul Keres

It is now nearly thirty years since I first entered the international chess arena, on the occasion when I took part in the Chess Olympiad at Warsa as a member of the Estonian team. During these years I have taken part in many different tournaments and played against hundreds and hundreds of players. Many good, but also many bad, games have been played and success and failures have often followed each other. In these years I have often been able to rejoice over good results and equally. I have had the less pleasant experiences of suffering from poor results. The more than 1,000 tournament games that I played in these years best reflect both my chess development and my creative peaks and low points. This collection of games tournament the best that I have so mfar been able to achieve over the chessboard. [download]

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Patriot Spy

Patriot Spy

By: Shannon Zemlicka

A Young American Connecticut, 176. Nathan Hale sat tall and proud on his horse. He was 14 years old, almost a man. This was an important day. He and his brother Enoch were on their way to Yale College. Nathan was lucky. He came from a family that prized learning and could afford to pay for it. Nathan’s parents owned a large farm. They had 12 children to feed. But they had found the money to send Nathan and Enoch to college. Nathan loved going to Yale. He didn’t mind his classes or homework. He read for hours about heroes and warriors of long ago. He even joined a secret club to talk about books. Nathan also spent time outdoors. He could run fast and jump far. He could beat almost anyone at wrestling. With his kind smile, Nathan made friends easily. Just about everyone who knew him liked him. [download]

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Public Relations

Public Relations 

By: Philip Henslowe 

It is not the author.s intention in this introduction to do more than remind the reader of a few basic facts about public relations generally, and of its importance to us in our work and in our lives. Public relations plays a part in a wide variety of ways throughout all our lives. It is always there. We use it all the time, often without realizing, in many different ways, depending on our particular needs at the time. If used properly it can inform, educate, reassure, evoke sympathy, arouse interest in or an acceptance of situations. Similarly, in the world of business, public relations affects all types of organizations, large or small, whether commercial or noncommercial, charitable or in the public sector. It is about communication . in the broadest sense . between an organization and all those with whom it has any form of contact. It cannot be avoided, or ignored. [download]

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On Collective Intelligence

On Collective Intelligence

By: Theo J. Bastiaens, Ulrike Baumol and Bernd J. Kramer 

Collective unintelligence is examined in this paper through considerations of illustrative problems and approaches from economics. The goals are to foster discussion of issues that appear to be important when intelligence is to be applied and to explore approaches with some apparent potential. The underlying position is that effective intelligence involves creative processes and dynamic balances which are inhibited by an overreliance upon formal or prescriptive methods. Examples of collective unintelligence abound in our world with the ongoing global financial and economic crisis probably the most outstanding current example. Not only was this “event” unexpected by most, but importantly not all. Surprisingly little coherence is evident in recovery strategies. [download]

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New Approaches to Macroeconomic Modeling

New Approaches to Macroeconomic Modeling

By: Masanao Aoki

The macroeconomic profession is well aware of the shortcomings of the current state of macroeconomic modeling, and is generally dissatisfied with the models it uses, as documented, for example, in Kirman (1992b) or Leijonhufvud (1993, 1995). The need to improve macroeconomic models is certainly felt widely. To cite a few examples, we do not have a satisfactory explanation of why some macroeconomic variables move sluggishly, or how policy actions affect segments of the economy differently, and we lack adequate tools for treating dynamic adjustment behavior of microeconomic units in the presence of externalities of the kind termed “social influence” by Becker (1990) and others, or in models with multiple equilibria. [download]

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Nevill Mott-Reminiscences and Appreciations

Nevill Mott-Reminiscences and Appreciations

By: E.A. Davis

The death of Sir Nevill Mott at age 90 brought to a close the illustrious ‘life in science’ of a man who stood academically, as well as literally, head and shoulders above his contemporaries, many of whom were awed and inspired by his remarkable powers of intuition, his penetrating insight and his versatile creativity. The staggering length of his scientific career his first paper was published in 1927 during the early days of quantum theory and his last on hightemperature superconductivity in 1996, four months after his death must be unprecedented, and the range of his contributions to physics possibly unequalled. He was the author of at least fifteen books and over three hundred scientific papers, covering a range of topics as diverse as wave mechanics, nuclear physics, the properties of metals, ionic crystals, semiconductors and glasses, and the nature of superconductivity. [download]

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Never Say Never

Never Say Never

By: Geralyn Dawson

My life was on the afternoon’s agenda, I’d have worn something more than a bikini and flip-flops. Torie fought to keep panic at bay. So she was in a spot of trouble. She’d been in trouble before, hadn’t she? What about the time she got arrested by the French gendarmes for taking photographs in the Louvre? Or that time when the Federales nabbed her because of a shot that included a government official frolicking on the Mexican Riviera with a woman who wasn’t his wife? It hadn’t been pleasant, but she’d found her way out of those scrapes, hadn’t she? She could make her way out of this one. Maybe. Possibly. If they caught her, they’d kill her. Oh, God. Ironically, for once the trouble was not of her doing. Her work had nothing to do with her being on the wrong beach at the wrong time. [download]

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Never Can Say Goodbye

Never Can Say Goodbye 

By: Katherine Jackson

Always felt that Michael had talent, but I had no idea that he would achieve the level of success he did. Both myself and my husband Joseph grew up with a great love for music. As a child, I enjoyed singing with my sister, and Joe performed in a band with his brother. Soon after we got married, our home in Gary, Indiana was buzzing to the harmony of country, blues and jazz, all of which our nine children took a liking too. Michael was born with rhythm. As a baby, it was obvious that he loved music and dance. We had a broken down washing machine that made a racketing sound when set to a rinse cycle. Michael would sit on top of the machine with a bottle in his mouth, bopping and grooving to the rhythmic racket. Even before he could say his first words, he responded very well to sound. I knew then that the music was in him. [download]

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Monopsony in Law and Economics

Monopsony in Law and Economics

By: Roger D. Blair and Jeffrey L. Harisson 

Technically, monopsony exists when there is but one buyer of a well Specified good or service. Thought to be rare, until recently monopsony received scant attention in most antitrust casebooks and texts. This changed somewhat in the 1990s and, as a result of a recent decision addressing monopsony conduct by the U.S. Supreme Court, monopsony has been thrust into the forefront of consideration by antitrust academics and lawyers. This is as it should be because monopsony is far more prevalent than many have recognized. Consider the following examples: The owners of professional football teams agree on which players each team will have the exclusive right to negotiate with; the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) regulates both the number of athletic scholarships and the amount of compensation that the athletes can receive. [download]

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Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little

Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little

By: Martin Klubeck, Michael Lengthorne and Donald Padgett

There are more books than anyone can hope to read on how to improve your organization. Our personal book shelves contain dozens, each with a different “powerful” methodology. The latest, and most inspirational books, give examples of leaders and organizations that have created something new, been innovative, or implemented impressive improvements. Feel-good success stories. We personally like these books; they give us hope. Other books on our shelves give prescriptions for leadership. We are hungry for answers and willing to find gems of brilliance anywhere. But why should you read this book? Why should it be on your bookshelf? This book addresses the reason many of the attempts at organizational improvement fail. This book offers a fresh look at the assumptions and misconceptions we unquestioningly follow and function under when it comes to organizational change. [download]  

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The Slave Trade and Culture in The Bight of Biafra

The Slave Trade and Culture in The Bight of Biafra

By: G. Ugo Nwokeji

The human traffi c through which African societies supplied the labor needs of theAmericasinvokes many fundamental questions. Some of the most persistent questions are whyAfricasupplied so many captives; how the trade was organized; what its political, social, and cultural implications were; what the gender and ethnic composition was; and how the trade affected the societies involved. The answers to these questions are the primary focus of this book. They are addressed from the vantage point of the Bight of Biafra, a major exporting region, extending from the Niger Delta (exclusive of the River Nun) in modernNigeriatoCapeLopezin modernGabon. The region supplied an estimated 13 percent of all captives exported between 1551 and 1850, which made it the third most important supply region after West-Central Africa and the Bight of Benin. [download]

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The Rules of Management

The Rules of Management

By: Richard Templar

Strange thing, management. It’s something few of us set out in life to do, yet most of us find ourselves doing at some point. Careers adviser: What would you like to do when you leave school? 16-year-old: I want to be a manager. Did this happen to you? No, me neither. But here you are anyway. As a manager you are expected to be a lot of things. A tower of strength, a leader and innovator, a magician (conjuring up pay raises, resources and extra staff at the drop of a hat), a kindly uncle/aunt, a shoulder to cry on, a dynamic motivator, a stern but fair judge, a diplomat, a politician, a financial wizard (no, this is quite different from being a magician), a protector, a savior and a saint. You are responsible for a whole gang of people that you probably didn’t pick, may not like, and might have nothing in common with and who perhaps won’t like you much. [download]

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Multiset Processing

Multiset Processing

By: G. Goos, J Hartmanis and  J. van Leuween

Membrane computing is a new research field, of a biological inspiration, introduced by Gh. P˘aun in. This new computational paradigm tries to imitate the way nature computes at the cellular level. Any biological system can be viewed as a hierarchical construct where the interchange of materials takes place. This process of material interchange can be interpreted as a computing process. Taking into account this point of view, we can say that membrane computing is a general architecture of “living organisms”, in the sense of Artificial Life. Computing with membranes uses a hierarchical membrane structure in the same sense that it is used in the chemical abstract machine of Berryand Boudol, and the basic ideas of evolution rules as multisets transformation are inspired in Γ systems introduced by Banatre. [download]

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Mapping Women Making Politics

Mapping Women Making Politics

By: Lynn A. Staeheli, Eleonore Kapman and Linda J Peake

This book emerged out of years of discussion among feminists who are interested in political geography.Many of us noted with excitement the research by feminists that cast politics and political geography in a new light. We were thrilled to read the research but were puzzled and somewhat troubled by the sense that feminist perspectives had not been recognized by many in the field. A series of panels at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers in Pittsburghconvinced us it was time to highlight feminism’s contributions to the subdiscipline. Mapping Women, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography is an attempt to recognize the breadth and vitality of feminist contributions in this field.We hope that this volume goes some way to demonstrate the ways in which fundamental concepts within political geography are enriched and in many ways unsettled by feminist perspectives. [download]

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Libraries and Founders of Libraries

Libraries and Founders of Libraries

By: Edward Edwards

OF the Libraries of the Ancients, the accounts that have descended to us are meagre and unsatisfactory. Some of General chathe authors, to whom we owe such knowledge as we have, tie Evidence are either Encyclopaedists, or geographers, or poets, intent on higher or on wider themes, and therefore treating of Libraries in a fashion merely incidental. Others of them derived their own knowledge at second-hand. Living, it may be, in the second or third centuries, and inItaly, we find them more communicative about the Libraries of the Ptolemies and of the Attali, than about the collections which lay almost at their own doors. The usual authorities, in a word, are but rarely bending their main attention to this particular subject. Still more rarely are they eye-witnesses of the facts for which they are made to vouch. [download]  

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Managing Technologies in The Operations Function

Managing Technologies in The Operations Function

By: David Loader and Graeme Biggs

Historically the investment banking community has been slow to automate its administration functions. To take theUKas an example, prior to the ‘Big Bang’ in October 1986 share trading took place within the confines of what has often been described as a ‘cosy honourable gentleman’s club’. With a limited number of jobbers (market makers) and brokers executing trades through the physical exchange of paper slips on the stock exchange floor, transaction volumes were limited by the constraints of the trading mechanism. Add to this the fortnightly account period for settlement which entailed the physical exchange of stock certificates and stock transfer forms for banker’s drafts, one can see this was not a business that readily lent itself to computerization. [download]

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Mergers and Acquisitions Basics

Mergers and Acquisitions Basics

By: Donald DePamphilis

The first decade of the new millennium heralded an era of global megamergers. Like th e mergers and acquisitions (M&As) frenzy of th e 1980s and 1990s, several factors fueled activity th rough mid-2007: readily available credit, h istorically low interest rates, rising equity markets, technological change, g lobal competition, and industry consolidation. In terms of d ollar volume, M&A transactions reached a record level worldwide in 2007. But extended turbulence in the global credit markets soon followed. The speculative h ousing bubble in th e United Statesand elsewhere, largely financed by debt, burst d uring th e second h alf of th e year. Banks, concerned about the value of many of th eir own assets, became exceedingly selective and largely withd rew from financing the highly leveraged transactions that had become commonplace th e previous year. [download]

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The Elgar Companion to Consumers Research and Economic Psychology

The Elgar Companion to Consumers Research and Economic Psychology

By: Peter E. Earl and Simon Kemp

The related fields of consumer research and economic psychology draw principally on two different traditions of research – marketing and psychology which are generally reported in two different sets of journals and books. Hence, the two have largely proceeded independently of each other, although of late and particularly within economic psychology there has been a conscious effort to try to bring them together. We, the editors, rather reflect this division in our backgrounds: Peter Earl initially trained as an economist but during his doctoral studies expanded his interests into marketing and management; Simon Kemp’s training is in psychology. We hope that readers will find this Companion a useful contribution to this task of integration. Certainly we found the task of editing it helped broaden our individual horizons. [download]

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Jane Goodall-A Biography

Jane Goodall-A Biography

By: Meg Greene

In recent polls, Jane Goodall has emerged as the most easily recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with the chimpanzees at Gombe has been renowned as one of the great achievements of scientific research. GoodalPs research and dedication are held in the same regard as Albert Einstein’s. Her approach to field study, once ridiculed and challenged by the scientific world, has now become the model for other ethologists to use. Young girls want to be like her; adults respect her. Children across the world have tried to help her. Throughout it all, Goodall stays steady as she continues to bring her message of peace, hope, and challenge to make the world for all living creatures a better place. Jane GoodalPs childhood dream to live among, study, and write about wild animals in Africaseemed the stuff of which fantasies are made. [download]

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Henry II

Henry II

By: Christopher Harper-Bill and Nicholas Vincent 

Some eight hundred and fifty years ago, a red-haired and fiercely energetic young man succeeded to the throne ofEnglandas King Henry II. Descended on his mother’s side from the Norman kings who had ruledEnglandsince 1066, and on his father’s from the Plantagenet dynasty that had held sway overAngersand theLoirevalley from at least the tenth century, Henry II was vastly to extend this ancestral inheritance. By his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, he had already acquired dominion over the whole of south-western France, stretching from the Loire down to the Pyrenees. Through a process of political coercion, by the mid 1160s he was to project his authority westwards into Brittanyand Walesand northwards to reseize the counties of Westmorland, Cumberlandand Northumberland occupied for the previous twenty years by the kings of Scotland. [download]

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Just A Job

Just A Job

By: George Cheney, Daniel J. Lair, Dean Ritz and Brenden E Kendall

Sometimes a word is worth a thousand words. Or an entire book. “Ethics” is one of those words, with no shortage of book-length treatments. The idea for a communication-centered investigation of ethics and its relationship to professional life arose during the opening session of George’s ethics class in the spring of 2003. Although the students weren’t terribly excited by the idea of ethics, they became much more animated when the discussion shifted to the term “morality.” They saw the latter term as more relevant to their lives, including work. In fact, many of these same students shared an implicit assumption that doing ethics is a kind of work work in a pejorative sense. [download]

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Highland Belle

Highland Belle 

By: Patricia H. Grasso

Drizzle, sheer as a bride’s veil, laced the air; summer had arrived in the south ofEngland.BasildonCastle, the ancestral home of the earls ofBasildon, rose spectacularly out of the mist like a magnificent beast. Upon one of the castle’s tower walks paced a solitary young woman. Her eyes were anxious as she scanned the surrounding countryside, especially the road leading to the castle. Brigette Edwina Devereux, second daughter of the late Earl of Basildon, searched the road below and saw what she dreaded. A troop of men were riding through the light mist towardBasildonCastle. Toward her! She shivered with apprehension. “Lo! The bridegroom cometh!” whispered a voice near Brigette’s ear. She whirled around and faced her younger sister, Heather. “Once I’m wed,” Brigette countered, “the queen’s eyes will turn on you. Then you, obnoxious brat, will be wearing my slippers.” [download]

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In The Warrior’s Bed

In The Warrior’s Bed

By: Mary Wine

“Father writes that the king has given him leave from court.” Bronwyn McQuade flinched. In spite of years of steeling her feelings against her father’s disdain, she still dreaded his return. Her sire was a hard man, and that was thinking kindly about him. Erik McQuade was laird and he enjoyed making sure that every man, woman, and child born on his land knew that bettering the clan was the most important duty they were charged with. As his daughter, she felt the bite of his expectations more than most.  “I hope he has a safe journey home.”  Her brother snorted. Keir McQuade failed to mask his personal feelings completely, too. The parchment in his grasp crinkled when his fingers tightened on it. Born third, Keir was often relegated by their sire to the more mundane tasks of running the estate while their older brothers stood at their father’s sid. [download]

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