Author: Professor Richard M. Cook
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: biography, kazin, alfred
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300115059
ISBN-13: 9780300115055

Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America’s last great men of letters. Biographer Richard M. Cook provides a portrait of Kazin in his public roles and in his frequently unhappy private life. Drawing on the personal journals Kazin kept for over 60 years, private correspondence, and numerous conversations with Kazin, he uncovers the full story of the lonely, stuttering boy from Jewish Brownsville who became a pioneering criti

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Professor Thomas Cook
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, spinoza, knowledge, baruch
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0786169397
ISBN-13: 9780786169399

A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God. Spinoza wrote in the rationalist style of a geometric proof to develop his idea of God as the infinite, indwelling cause of all things, a unified causal system that is virtually synonymous with nature. In this system, there is no free will, for all things are necessary and inevitable, and all objects, including humans, are part of God’s active self-expression. Our minds can participate in the eternity of God by focusing on natural laws and the way all things follow from God or na

Authors:Professor Paul J Cloke, Dr Ian Cook, Dr Philip Crang
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: geography, human, practising
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2004-05-25
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 0761973001
ISBN-13: 9780761973003

Practising Human Geography is critical introduction to disciplinary debates about the practise of human geography, that is informed by an inquiry into how geographers actually do research. In examining those methods and practices that are integral to doing geography, the text presents a theoretically-informed reflection on the construction and interpretation of geographical data - including factual and ‘fictional’ sources; the use of core research methodologies; and the interpretative role of the researcher. Framed by an historical overview how ideas of practising human geography have ch

Author: Professor Richard S KatzProfessor William J Crott
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: politics, party, handbook
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2005-12-31
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0761943145
ISBN-13: 9780761943143

The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship. This major new work brings together the world’s leading party theorists to provide an unrivalled resource on the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today.

Authors:Professor Nancy Birdsall, Professor Richard Sabot,
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Keywords: american, development, bank, inter, brazil, foregone, education, opportunity
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 1886938032
ISBN-13: 9781886938038

Fundamental changes in Brazilian economic policy in the mid-1990s have increased growth and dramatically slowed inflation. Just as important, they provide the opportunity to address social issues such as educational reform that were overshadowed for years by the country’s macro economic problems.Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil examines how to improve the achievement level of Brazilian school children and increase the efficiency of the educational system. It also offers a frank assessment of why education levels in Brazil have lagged behind other countries and examines the barri

Author: Professor Winston HarringtonProfessor Richard D.
Publisher: RFF Press
Keywords: united, states, europe, outcomes, instruments, environmental, policy, comparing, choosing
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2004-09-16
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1891853880
ISBN-13: 9781891853883

The two distinct approaches to environmental policy include direct regulation -- or "command and control"policies -- and regulation by economic, or market-based incentives. This book is the first to provide real-word comparisons of the costs and outcomes of these strategies. In a unique format, case studies contrast direct regulation on one side of the Atlantic with an incentive policy on the other. For example, Germany’s direct regulation of SO2 emissions is compared with an incentive approach in the U.S. Direct regulation of water pollution via the U.S. Clean Water Act is contrasted wi

Author: Professor Richard G. NiemiAssistant Professor Jan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: learn, students, makes, education, civic
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2005-05-11
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0300107447
ISBN-13: 9780300107449

This important book takes a fresh look at what America’s high school seniors know about government and politics and how they learn it. "In this timely and persuasive book, Niemi and Junn provide the best evidence to date that civic education does make a difference in political learning and that certain curricular aspects facilitate that learning. First rate." - M. Kent Jennings, UCSB