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This volume contains a selection of Anthony Downs' essays, written since the 1950s, on politics and political theory. The articles address such issues as democracy, public choice theory, rational political decision-making and political policy. ... Read more

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"Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy" is an analysis of the relations between multinational corporations and the governments of the industrialized states. The author has written an account of policy development in 15 industrial countries over the past three decades which questions both the motivation and effectiveness of government policy. The text explains how government policies have evolved, comparing the application of specific policies such as restricted sectors, investment review and investment incentives. In conclusion, the author offers an assessment of recent progress towards more liberal and better targeted government policies. ... Read more

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Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society - in its susceptibility to corruption, hypocrisy, and blinkered conservatism - but the Barsetshire novels are no more `ecclesiastical' than his Palliser novels are `political'. It is the behavior of the individuals within a power structure that interests him. In this novel Trollope continues the story of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, adding to his cast of characters that oily symbol of progress Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Dr. Proudie, and the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. The central questions of this moral comedy - Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? - are skillfully handled with that subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative readership.Amazon.com Review
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wrylychronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese ofBarchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishopis Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope,maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers arepart of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the samecharacters recur. ... Read more

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Annoying number of typos makes this "deal" a throw-away
Do not waste your money on this supposed "deal" from General Books in Memphis. Instead, find a used copy from a reputable publisher. I purchased this book not knowing (because it is not obvious from the website) that it is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scanned copy; I had assumed it was a used book that had been typeset and printed in the normal manner. There are so many typos in this OCR copy from General Books, it's annoying to read and I'm giving up after two chapters. I'm going to throw the book away; I wouldn't give it to anyone else to endure. Do not waste your money on this supposed "deal," find a used copy from a reputable publisher.

superior edition
This is a very good edition, for a paperback.It has many helpful features--chronology, notes, character guide, map, biography of author.I recommend it highly.

Should be required reading if your an Episcopalian or Anglican
I became hooked on this Victorian Brit writer after reading The Way We Live Now- excellent read. I laughed my behind off reading Barchester Towers. If your churched Anglican in any way you'll enjoy this novel.

Grace and Favor
Subsequent to his father's death, the archdeacon is not made bishop.Dr. Proudie receives the appointment to that office.Another change in Barchester from the circumstances portrayed in THE WARDEN is the status of Mr. Harding's daughter, Eleanor Bold.She is a widow.Eight months after the death of John Bold, another John Bold is born.

Dr. Grantly and Mr. Harding find themselves disliking the bishop's chaplain, Mr. Slope, and his wife, Mrs. Proudie.If Mr. Proudie is to return to his former position of warden, Mr. Slope claims he must embrace certain conditions.Under the circumstances, Mr. Harding refuses.The position is given to Mr. Quiverful, Mrs. Proudie's candidate.

Dr. Proudie raises the issue of absent clergy, and Dr. Vesey Stanhope returns to England after having resided in Italy for twelve years.Mr. Arabin, the new man recruited by the archdeacon for the living at St. Ewold, has been on the side of the Tractarians at Oxford.(Schism has the advantage of calling attention to religion.)Arabin has become tired of his Oxford room and college life.He is forty.

Mr. Slope and Mrs. Proudie are in a contest to be puppet master to the bishop.In the book's plot,Eleanor Bold, one of the more engaging characters, shoulders an immense burden through a misunderstanding.An added interest is the jockeying of the High Church group, the archdeacon and Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding,and the Low Church enclave, the bishop, Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope, for power.

That said, the larger part of the reading experience is an enounter with comedy, rather than tragedy.Thecharacters are delightful.

A Literary Comic Masterpiece
In 1855, Anthony Trollope came out with his fourth novel, "The Warden," an amusing, but slight piece of social commentary.In 1857, he produced its sequel, "Barchester Towers."What a difference two short years can make to the growth and confidence of a writer!Reading this masterpiece, one can almost feel Trollope finding his voice, allowing his talents to breathe, relax and take glorious shape; the book is a near perfect balance of humor, drama and romance.Obviously, the modest success of "The Warden" gave Trollope the self-assurance to tell a richer, more complicated story, less concerned with ideas, more reliant on plot and character.And what characters!There's the sanctimonious Mrs. Proudie, the unctuous Obadiah Slope, the dangerously flirtatious Signorina Neroni, the pompous and exasperated Archdeacon Grantly...to have them all in one novel is truly an embarrassment of riches.Simply put, "Barchester Towers" is not only Trollope at his best, but a piece of comic brilliance rarely equaled by anyone else in English literature. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1981 by Gill and MacMillan, this is a biography of Edward Carson, who is regarded as the father of Northern Ireland. Carson was a leading barrister of his day, he was the prosecuting counsel in the celebrated trial of Oscar Wilde, but maintaining the Union was the guiding star of his life. ... Read more

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The Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education is based on results from an NSF-supported project (REC 9450510) aimed at clarifying the nature of principles that govern the effective use of emerging new research designs in mathematics and science education. A primary goal is to describe several of the most important types of research designs that:
* have been pioneered recently by mathematics and science educators;
* have distinctive characteristics when they are used in projects that focus on mathematics and science education; and
* have proven to be especially productive for investigating the kinds of complex, interacting, and adapting systems that underlie the development of mathematics or science students and teachers, or for the development, dissemination, and implementation of innovative programs of mathematics or science instruction.

The volume emphasizes research designs that are intended to radically increase the relevance of research to practice, often by involving practitioners in the identification and formulation of the problems to be addressed or in other key roles in the research process. Examples of such research designs include teaching experiments, clinical interviews, analyses of videotapes, action research studies, ethnographic observations, software development studies (or curricula development studies, more generally), and computer modeling studies. This book's second goal is to begin discussions about the nature of appropriate and productive criteria for assessing (and increasing) the quality of research proposals, projects, or publications that are based on the preceding kind of research designs. A final objective is to describe such guidelines in forms that will be useful to graduate students and others who are novices to the fields of mathematics or science education research.

The NSF-supported project from which this book developed involved a series of mini conferences in which leading researchers in mathematics and science education developed detailed specifications for the book, and planned and revised chapters to be included. Chapters were also field tested and revised during a series of doctoral research seminars that were sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's OERI-supported National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science. In these seminars, computer-based videoconferencing and www-based discussion groups were used to create interactions in which authors of potential chapters served as "guest discussion leaders" responding to questions and comments from doctoral students and faculty members representing more than a dozen leading research universities throughout the USA and abroad.

A Web site with additional resource materials related to this book can be found at http://www.soe.purdue.edu/smsc/lesh/

This internet site includes directions for enrolling in seminars, participating in ongoing discussion groups, and submitting or downloading resources which range from videotapes and transcripts, to assessment instruments or theory-based software, to publications or data samples related to the research designs being discussed.
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This collection of poetry by Robert Hahn explores the seams and seamlessness of language and reality. It centres on the circumstances, places and the actions and convictions of historical figures such as John Knox and John Brown. ... Read more

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This collection of poetry by Robert Hahn explores the seams and seamlessness of language and reality. It centres on the circumstances, places and the actions and convictions of historical figures such as John Knox and John Brown. ... Read more

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Rachel Ray offers a masterly and entertaining evocation of a small community living its life in mid-nineteenth-century England.The novel first appeared in 1863, a year in which public reaction against the excesses of the popular sensationalist novel prompted Trollope to state that he was writing about "the commonest details of commonplace life among the most ordinary people." ... Read more

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Rachel Ray
One must make allowences for the occasional sloppiness of Trollope's writing, given the serialized format and the incredible number of novels he wrote while working full-time for the post office. He always has something important to say and usually says it well. This novel is one of his shortest and one of his best. Like George Elliot and Charles Dickens, Trollope was dragged kicking and screaming into industrialized England in the 19th century. And, like them, he saw beneath the glitz and glamor of new-found wealth and the breakdown in social classes that followed the Reform movement in England. He seems at times to be overly preoccupied with the demise of the "lady" and the "gentleman," but this concern reveals a well-founded alarm over the vanishing of such Victorian values as "nobility" and "duty to others."In this novel he expresses many of those concerns while targetting the Evangelicals, an attack that is right-on and timely indeed. He reveals the hypocrisy of so many of those who are filled with resentment and hatred of their fellow humans while professing to bask in the love of Christ.
I would rate this novel, alongside The Warden, as first-rate and excellent ways to come to Anthony Trollope, who is, in my view, a vastly under-rated writer, despite his flaws.

Read anything else by Trollope before this...
Rachel Ray is (IMHO) the least of Trollope's longer works.Set in a pleasant country town, with a terribly pleasant cast of characters, the novel is, well, ..... pleasant ....without ever offering anything more for the reader.I suppose there are some who would say that Trollope's genius was to write a work that was as pleasant as its setting, but after seeing how good he is at social novels (e.g., The American Senator, The Way We Live Now) and more excitingly peopled romances (e.g., The Claverings) this book was, for me at least, a real let-down.The plot involves a young girl who is certain of the affections of her suitor even when (highly contrived) circumstances make it appear to all around her that he is, in fact, a jilt.Don't read this next sentence if you plan on reading the book:Surprise!Little Rachel was right all along and her lover in fact marries her.*YAWN!*

Along the way, there are a lot of fairly typical Trollopian subplots dealing with country families putting on town airs, modernization of the brewing industry, and other fun stuff that does illuminate nineteenth-century country life for the twenty-first-century reader.But none of it is particularly compelling, at least not for me.

Bottom line:I adore Trollope and have read most of his output, but if I were to rank his works Rachel Ray would be near, or even at, the bottom. ... Read more

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The history books are filled with the names of World War II heroes. Among these heroes are Teddy Sheerin and Steve Ryler, who first meet in Iwo Jima, as both face the possibility of death. Their paths cross again later after the war at Matties Tap, where Teddy works as a bartender and Steve feeds his alcoholism. Over the bar, the two seal their friendship and compare war stories. They both decide to become Boston policemen and join the motorcycle force. From here, their lives divergeSteve follows the path of drink, while Teddy thrives on crime and corruption. Teddy has it allfrom lust to love, ethical to corrupt, plus an illegal income of $45,000 a day. A veteran who chooses a different lifestyle than that of his returning fellow veterans, he believes in the adage: Might makes all things right.
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This volume features essays dealing with a range of theoretical, measurement and policy issues in environmental and resource economics. Focusing on the integration of environmental considerations into decisions about extractive resource use, both in theory and practice, the essays range from exercises in the pure theory of resource depletion, to applications of theoretical and empirical techniques and the management of resources. Particular attention is given to uncertainty about environmental values and the irreversibility of certain kinds of resource depletion. The volume should be of interest to researchers, practitioners and policy makers. ... Read more

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This comprehensive and reader-friendly text covers neurology in the context of basic science. Offering a practical outline format to clarify concepts, it presents clinical relationships in chapters on normal structure and function, and devotes extensive coverage to neurology-related material in the chapters on the neurological examination and neurological disorders. Important information is emphasized through the liberal use of tables, information boxes, margin notes and numerous figures, including an MRI-based atlas. Questions at the end of each chapter and a chapter on case-based problem solving exercises provide further reinforcement and emphasis of important concepts. An extensive glossary of nearly 700 items provides convenient access to definitions and descriptions. ... Read more