Author: Anne L. Alstott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: parents, owes, society, owe, exit, children
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-05-27
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0195162366
ISBN-13: 9780195162363

Having a child, it has been said, is the greatest risk one can take. Marriages may come and go but parenthood endures. There is simply no escape--no exit--from the emotional and practical responsibilities of parenting. Nor should there be. While certain questions swirling around children--What constitutes a ’good’ parent? What is the role of the state in ensuring the welfare of the child?--are endlessly debated, consistency and continuity of care incontrovertibly play a foundational role in the developmental years of a child’s life. Children, everyone agrees, need strong, rel

Authors:Anne Alstott, Bruce A. Ackerman,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: society, stakeholder
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-05
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0300082606
ISBN-13: 9780300082609

Must we resign ourselves to a growing chasm between rich and poor? Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott propose an innovative alternative in this thought-provoking book: an eighty thousand dollar grant for every qualifying young adult. The authors analyze this plan from many perspectives and argue that such a citizen’s stake would open the way to a society that is more democratic, productive, and free.

Authors:Sylvie Huet, Anne Bouvier, Marie-Anne Poursat, Emmanu
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: examples, springer, series, statistics, plus, guide, tools, nonlinear, regression, practical, statistical
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2003-09-12
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387400818
ISBN-13: 9780387400815

This book presents methods for analyzing data using parametric nonlinear regression models. Using examples from experiments in agronomy and biochemistry, it shows how to apply the methods. Aimed at scientists who are not familiar with statistical theory, it concentrates on presenting the methods in an intuitive way rather than developing the theoretical grounds. The book includes methods based on classical nonlinear regression theory and more modern methods such as the bootstrap that have proven effective in practice. The examples are analyzed with the software program nls2 implemented in S-PL

Author: Anne Wagner and Sophie Cacciaguidi-FahyAnne Wagne
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: law, clarity, obscurity
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-08-19
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754671437
ISBN-13: 9780754671435

This book explores how the various disciplines of law and linguistics can help us understand the nature of legal language - both oral and written - and how it might be improved and clarified. It presents and examines the most recent research and theories, along with practical guidance on how to avoid obscurity in legal drafting and legal interpretation at national level and on the international scene.The aims of the book are thus two folds. The first is to critically reach a nexus between the disciplines of law and language with respect to the debates on the use of clarity in legal discourse.

Authors:Carrie Berry, Anne M. Todd, Christy Steele, Anne M. T
Publisher: Blue Earth Books
Keywords: diaries, letters, memoirs, berry, carrie, girl, diary, confederate
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-03
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0736803432
ISBN-13: 9780736803434

Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family’s life in the Confederate south in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities, and a timeline of the era.

Authors:Andy Grundberg, Katy Siegel, Anne W. Tucker, Anne Tuc
Publisher: .A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: prospects, american, sternfeld, joel
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2003-11
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1891024779
ISBN-13: 9781891024771

Originally published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s now-classic view of America is here remastered, redesigned, and reprinted at a larger, brighter, truer scale. Finally, photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld’s eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld’s most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown. A specially-commissioned essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context in which Sternfeld was working and the pivotal role that American Prospec

Authors:Averil Clegg, Anne Woollett, Anne Woolett,
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Keywords: years, five, conception, twins
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1998-04-02
List price: $16.33
ISBN-10: 0711212821
ISBN-13: 9780711212824

Parents of twins must deal with practical arrangements and emotional issues that parents of singly born children never face. Based on detailed research and personal experience, this comprehensive text provides advice and information on every aspect of having twins, including: twin pregnancy and labour; the practicalities of breast- and bottle-feeding two babies; establishing a workable routine; how to encouarge separate identities; special issues for fathers of twins; twins at school; and twins and siblings. This handbook aims to tell parents everything they need to know about how to cope with