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The Principles of Practical Cost-Benefit Analysis
This is an introduction, accessible to non-economists as well as to economists, to the practice of cost-benefit analysis. It begins from a discussion of financial appraisal. The distinguishing features of cost-benifit analysis are then introduced progressively. Practical examples are used whenever possible to aid the exposition. Economic theory is introduced only where it is immediately relevant to practice; there is no attempt to give a comprehensive survey of theoretical welfare economics. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461403803
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Working without a Net A Study of Egocentric Epistemology
In this book, Richard Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the outside. It is a matter of making ourselves invulnerable to intellectual self-criticism. Foley also shows how the theory of rational belief is part of a general theory of rationality. He thus avoids treating the rationality of belief as a fundamentally different kind of phenomenon from the rationality of decision or action. His approach generates promising suggestions about a wide range of issues, e.g., the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic reasons for belief; the question of what aspects of the Cartesian project are still worth doing; the significance of simplicity and other theoretical virtues; the relevance of skeptical hypotheses; the difference between a theory of rational belief and a theory of knowledge; the difference between a theory of rational belief and a theory of rational degrees of belief; and the limits of idealization in epistemology. The book runs counter to a tendency in contemporary epistemology to discount the perspectives of individual thinkers. Endorsing a radically subjective conception of rational belief, Working Without A Net will interest students of philosophy, epistemology, and rationality. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508015
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Trade - The Engine of Growth in East Asia
The Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) of the Pacific Basin - Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore - differ in many ways. Each has its own language, culture, political life, and economic system. But there is one crucial characteristic they all hold in common: every has succeeded in defying in what Peter C.Y. Chow and Mitchell Kellman define as a 'vicious circle of poverty' following World War II. In Trade - The Engine of Growth in East Asia, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis of the economic factors which fueled the 'engine of growth'. They combine a detailed body of empirical data with an unusually broad theoretical framework to highlight the factors in every industry and market which contributed to the success of these countries. The work examines and forecasts potential competition from the surrounding geographic area. It also contrasts the development of the NICs with Japan, with 'next tier NICs', and with every other in a variety of markets, including those of the United States and the increasingly unified Europe. Using modern economic theory and sophisticated quantitative techniques, Trade - The Engine of Growth in East Asia will enable scholars, students, policymakers, and professionals to understand the success of these East Asian models of growth. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508020
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Minds and Bodies Philosophers and Their Ideas
In Minds and Bodies, Colin McGinn offers proof that contemporaryphilosophy, in the hands of a consummate reviewer, can be the occasion for not only sharp critical assessment but also writing so clear and engaging that readers with no special background in the subject but simply a taste for challenging ideas can feel welcome. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508099
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The Book of Life Daily Meditations With Krishnamurti
The teveryer probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of personal freedom and mature love. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 460835969
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PENTHESILEA A TRAGIC DRAMA
An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies into a terrified alliance. When Achilles, the pride and mainstay of the Greeks, and Penthesilea ('Pen-te-sil-lay-uh), queen of the Amazons, meet, a chase begins, 'The like of which not even the wildest storms Set loose to thunder across the plain of heaven Have yet presented to the astonished world, and it is the queen who is hunting Achilles, to the uncomprehending horror of the Greeks. Thus begins a tragedy of love in a world governed by the rules of war, on which 'the gods look down but from afar.' For the first time, in this splendidly illustrated book, an English translation recreates the audaity, romance, and poetry of one of the strangest and most beautiful works of Western literature. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 460836249
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Lost
Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades -- some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past. In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's 'Possession, with dark echoing overtones of 'A Christmas Carol, 'Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 460836285
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Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings
This volume is the first of three which will contain all of Locke's extant writings on philosophy which relate to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, other than those contained in other volumes of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke such as the Correspondence. It contains the two earliest known drafts of the Essay, Drafts A and B, both written in 1671, and provides for the first time an accurate version of Locke's text, together with a record of virtually all his changes, in notes placed at the foot of every page. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717930
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Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This book provides the first serious look at the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. Looking at how the model was first developed in France and then exported across Europe, Emsley argues that gendarmes played a significant role in establishing the state, particularly in rural areas. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461403527
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Themes in Hume The Self the Will Religion
Since the 1950s, Terence Penelhum has been a leading contributor to studies on the thought of David Hume. In this collection, he presents a selection of the best of his essays on Hume. Most of the essays are quite recent and three are previously unpublished. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461403557
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Centre and Provinces China 1978-1993 Power as Non-Zero-Sum
This book constructs an interactive model of power to explain the relations of the central and provincial governments in reform China. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461403623
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Statistics and Public Policy
The purpose of this book is to provide information about connections between statistics and public issues and decision making, public administration, law, and public debate. The book describes examples of statistics in public policy areas as disparate as national defense, AIDS diffusion, DNA fingerprinting, human rights violations, scientific manpower, population registers and censuses, and individuals with disabilities. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461508456
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