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Economic Parables and Policies

Economic Parables and Policies

Laurence S. Seidman

Routledge
2004
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This work includes sections on combating recessions and the free market, as well as updated material on the pros and cons of establishing new individual accounts under Social Security. It also includes a discussion of the tax-credit approach to encourage the purchase of health insurance.
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Automatic Fiscal Policies to Combat Recessions

Automatic Fiscal Policies to Combat Recessions

Laurence S. Seidman

Routledge
2003
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Drawing on the most prominent research in the field, this timely book offers bold new fiscal policies that can complement current automatic stabilizers and counter-cyclical monetary policy to help combat recessions. Dr. Seidman argues for an independent fiscal policy board or the Federal Reserve to decide changes in the magnitude of Congress's fiscal policy package of stimulus or restraint, with recommendations going into effect immediately, subject only to Congressional override.
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Automatic Fiscal Policies to Combat Recessions

Automatic Fiscal Policies to Combat Recessions

Laurence S. Seidman

Routledge
2003
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Drawing on the most prominent research in the field, this timely book offers bold new fiscal policies that can complement current automatic stabilizers and counter-cyclical monetary policy to help combat recessions. Dr. Seidman argues for an independent fiscal policy board or the Federal Reserve to decide changes in the magnitude of Congress's fiscal policy package of stimulus or restraint, with recommendations going into effect immediately, subject only to Congressional override.
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Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

Laurence Bergreen

Crown Publishing Group (NY)
1998
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Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told. Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the prostitutes, pimps, and rag-and-bone merchants of New Orleans. He married four times and enjoyed countless romantic involvements in and around his marriages. A believer in marijuana for the head and laxatives for the bowels, he was also a prolific diarist and correspondent, a devoted friend to celebrities from Bing Crosby to Ella Fitzgerald, a perceptive social observer, and, in his later years, an international goodwill ambassador. And, of course, he was a dazzling musician. From the bordellos and honky-tonks of Storyville--New Orleans's red light district--to the upscale nightclubs in Chicago, New York, and Hollywood, Armstrong's stunning playing, gravelly voice, and irrepressible personality captivated audiences and critics alike. Recognized and beloved wherever he went, he nonetheless managed to remain vigorously himself. Now Laurence Bergreen's remarkable book brings to life the passionate, courageous, and charismatic figure who forever changed the face of American music.
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Telecom Nation

Telecom Nation

Laurence Mussio

McGill-Queen's University Press
2001
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Laurence Mussio examines how federal and provincial public policy tried to keep pace with the diffusion of telecommunications, consumer demand, and a rising tide of technological innovation. Telecommunications regulation struggled to maintain a balance between producer and consumer in an increasingly complex field and policy makers were compelled to defend the national interest in international telecommunications arrangements or by making far-reaching decisions about transcontinental microwave systems and satellites. By the late 1960s national policy makers had embraced the arrival of the computer - especially once it began to be wired into Canada's communications infrastructure. Telecom Nation explores the impact of the computer on government policy and the first attempts to build a "national computer utility" - the beginnings of the Internet - twenty-five years before it became a reality. Based primarily on the rich and largely untapped sources at the National Archives of Canada, Cabinet records, provincial archives, and private sector repositories, Telecom Nation provides an essential background to contemporary public policy issues by examining how governments reconciled technological change, private enterprise, consumer demand, and the public good in communications. It will be required reading for students and specialists interested in telecommunications, public policy, and technological change.
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Un destin plus grand que soi

Un destin plus grand que soi

Laurence B. Mussio

McGill-Queen's University Press
2016
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Au cours des deux derniers siecles, la Banque de Montreal s'est trouvee au c/ur du developpement economique et financier du Canada. Publie a l'occasion du bicentenaire de la premiere banque canadienne, Un destin plus grand que soi puise dans l'iconographie de cette institution financiere pour raconter son histoire de ses origines jusqu'a nos jours. Retracant le passe de la Banque de Montreal grace a des images d'objets, de ses dirigeants, de documents essentiels et de publicites aujourd'hui tombees dans l'oubli, Laurence B. Mussio illustre son emergence progressive. En devoilant petit a petit sa perception de sa direction, sa culture, la communaute, ses triomphes et ses difficultes, il offre un apercu de la personnalite de cette banque, de ses innovations, de ses technologies, de ses projets d'edification de la nation et de son heritage architectural. La mosaique qui en resulte jette un eclairage unique sur l'experience vecue par la Banque de Montreal au fil des ans. Si chacun des elements visuels evoque un episode particulier aussi divertissant qu'extraordinaire, collectivement, ces objets revelent une histoire beaucoup plus complete. De la lecture de ce livre se degage l'image d'une banque qui a faconne l'univers canadien et nord-americain tout en se laissant modeler par lui. A partir d'une gamme incroyablement vaste de documents, Un destin plus grand que soi celebre l'evolution d'une banque et la maniere dont elle a laisse sa marque.
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A Vision Greater than Themselves

A Vision Greater than Themselves

Laurence B. Mussio

McGill-Queen's University Press
2016
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For the past two centuries, the Bank of Montreal has been at the centre of Canada's economic and financial development. Marking the bicentennial of Canada's first bank, A Vision Greater than Themselves tells the story of the financial institution from its origins to the present through its iconography. Exploring the Bank of Montreal's past through images of objects, its leaders, key documents, and forgotten advertisements, Laurence Mussio illustrates how the Bank of Montreal emerged over time. He shares perspectives on leadership, culture, community, triumphs, and challenges to offer a glimpse into the bank's personality, innovations, technologies, nation-building projects, and architectural legacy. The mosaic that emerges provides a unique understanding of the Bank of Montreal's experience over the years. Individually, each visual reveals a self-contained story that is both entertaining and extraordinary. Collectively, these objects impart a much larger story. Throughout this volume's pages, a picture emerges of a bank that has shaped and been shaped by Canada and the North Atlantic world. Examining an astonishing range of material, A Vision Greater than Themselves celebrates the evolution of one bank and how it made its mark.
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Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960

Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960

Laurence Raw

McFarland Co Inc
2012
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This biographical dictionary presents a stellar lineup of talented, versatile character actors who regularly appeared in horror and science fiction films during Hollywood's golden age. Many are well known by genre buffs and casual fans--they include Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, Dwight Frye, Rondo Hatton, Dick Miller, J. Carroll Naish, Maria Ouspenskaya, Glenn Strange, Edward Van Sloan, and George Zucco. Some are perhaps not so well known but equally at home in the horror and science fiction films--such as Anthony Carbone, Harry Cording, Rosemary La Planche, Dick Purcell, Elizabeth Russell and Mel Welles. The 96 entries are complete with a biography and in-depth analyses of the actor's best performances--demonstrating how important these personalities were to the success of their genre films.
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Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation

Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation

Laurence B. McCullough

Springer
1996
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Leibniz's earliest philosophy and its importance for his mature philosophy have not been examined in detail, particularly in the level of detail that one can achieve by placing Leibniz's philosophy in the context of the sources for two of the most basic concerns of his philosophical career: his metaphysics of individuals and the principle oftheir individuation. In this book I provide for the first time a detailed examination of these two Leibnizian themes and trace its implications for how we should interpret other major Leibnizian themes and for how we should read Leibniz and other philosophers of the sixteenth and later centuries as 'modem' philosophers. Leibniz began his philosophical career more than 300 years ago, a fact that shapes fundamentally my attempt in the pages that follow to come to terms now with the texts that he left us. Leibniz's did not do philosophy in a way wholly congenial to twentieth century philosophical methodologies, especially those that have enjoyed some prominence in recent Anglo-American philosophy. Moreover, as we shall see, Leibniz is not a modem philosopher, when 'modem' is understood to mean making a sharp break with medieval philosophy. Indeed, I shall argue, scholars should discard such terms as 'modem' from historical philosophical scholarship, so that old texts can be allowed to remain old - to stand on their own in and from times now long past.
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John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine

John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine

Laurence B. McCullough

Springer
1998
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The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 's, research assistant at the Institute for the Medical Humanities in the University of Texas Medi­ cal Branch at Galveston, Texas, in 1974, on the recommendation of our teacher at the University of Texas at Austin, Irwin C. Lieb. During that summer Tris "lent" me to Chester Bums, who has done important schol­ arly work over the years on the history of medical ethics. I was just finding out what bioethics was and Chester sent me to the rare book room of the Medical Branch Library to do some work on something called "medical deontology. " I discovered that this new field of bioethics had a history. This string of accidents continued, in 1975, when Warren Reich (who in 1979 made the excellent decisions to hire me to the faculty in bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and to persuade Andre Hellegers to appoint me to the Kennedy Institute of Ethics) took Tris Engelhardt's word for it that I could write on the history of modem medical ethics for Warren's major new project, the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Warren then asked me to write on eighteenth-century British medical ethics.
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The Course of Industrial Decline

The Course of Industrial Decline

Laurence F. Gross

Johns Hopkins University Press
2000
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Studies of American industry frequently cite Lowell, Massachusetts, as an early model for business practices. Scholars have sought to explain the city's rise to prominence, the impact of its textile mills on workers and on commerce, and its part in regional development and American prosperity. Laurence Gross looks beyond these issues. Focusing on Lowell's Boott Cotton Mills, he examines the industry's struggle to maintain its prominence, the causes of its decline, and its ultimate flight south. Gross puts much of the blame for the pattern of events on the mill-owners themselves. They resisted reinvestment, so their operations became less efficient. They kept antiquated machinery running long after it was safe to do so, and they were slow to respond to issues of worker safety. The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.
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Manuscript Diversity, Meaning, and Variance in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor

Manuscript Diversity, Meaning, and Variance in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor

Laurence de Looze

University of Toronto Press
2006
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Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor was arguably one of the great masterworks of early modern Spain. Although the work appears in five very different manuscript versions from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, most modern editions of El Conde Lucanor have neglected to account for the fact that it was part of a manuscript tradition, and that its meaning is substantially affected when its original forms are not taken in to account.With Manuscript Diversity, Meaning, and Variance in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor, Laurence de Looze demonstrates how the meaning of Juan Manuel's work changes depending on how the work is 'performed' in particular manuscripts. This study proceeds from the assumption that, in a pre-printing press world, each new copy or 'performance' of a work creates new meaning. By adopting this approach and by focusing on Parts II-V of the texts, de Looze argues that El Conde Lucanor raises questions about the interretation, intelligibility, and the production of knowledge. De Looze's complex and nuanced reading sheds new light on an important work and makes a significant contribution to medieval studies, Spanish studies, and the history of the book.
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Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered

Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered

Laurence McFalls

University of Toronto Press
2007
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The German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) is without question one of the founders of modern social science. In his methodological writings, notably his essay "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Science and Policy" (1904), Weber sought reflexively to establish a trans-culturally valid basis for the historical and cultural sciences. Over the past century, however, his work has given rise to divergent interpretations and practical applications within different disciplinary and cultural contexts. In Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered, Laurence H. McFalls and a distinguished group of contributors explore the fragmented reception of Weber's work and the legacies of his methodological writings for contemporary social science, offering their appraisals of Weber's successes and failures in laying the groundwork for an 'objective' social science. They develop a 'Weberian' theory of his reception and evaluate the possibility of an 'objectively' valid Weberian social science today. This essential volume not only contributes to the resurgence of interest in Weber's oeuvre but goes beyond the exegetic and polemical debates of the burgeoning 'Weberological' literature in offering a coherent theoretical explanation for the proliferation of interpretations that Weber's writings continue to elicit.
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The First 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

The First 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

Laurence Matthews; Alison Matthews

Tuttle Publishing
2017
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The First 100 Chinese Characters book adopts a structural approach that helps students to learn, recognize and write 100 Chinese characters. Intended for beginning students, the characters listed have been carefully selected and sequenced for rapid and effective learning.For effective learning, memorization and practice, each Chinese character is shown separately on a single page, along with its English definitions, pinyin romanization, alternate form (if any), a stroke-order guide and ample space for writing practice. Printed in gray lines, the stroke-order guides introduce the student to the standard stroke sequence used in writing the characters, by tracing them. After learning the correct stroke order, the student can then practice writing the characters on their own, thus reinforcing the recognition and memorization. Large boxes with grid lines for correct proportions are provided.Related compounds and phrases containing each character are also included to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes—alphabetically arranged by the English meanings, by pinyin romanization, and by radicals—are provided at the back of the book for quick and easy reference.Features:The first 100 most frequently-used charactersFoundation characters for HSK Level 1 testStandard pinyin romanizationsStep-by-step stroke order guides and ample space for writing practiceSpecial practice boxes with grid linesLots of extra practice sheetsOver 500 words and phrases containing the basic charactersConcise English definitions
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The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

Laurence Matthews; Alison Matthews

Tuttle Publishing
2016
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This book is a quick and easy way to learn the second 100 basic Chinese traditional characters. The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. A working knowledge of characters is essential for any student wishing to learn Chinese. The Second 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach that helps students to overcome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters that are fundamental to this language. This book contains characters that have been carefully selected and sequenced for rapid and effective learning. For effective learning, memorization and practice, each Chinese character is shown separately on a single page, together with its English definitions, hanyu pinyin romanization, alternate form (if any), a stroke order guide and ample space for writing practice. The stroke order guides introduce the student to the standard stroke sequence used in writing the characters, by tracing over them. After learning the correct stroke order, the student can then practice writing the character on their own, thus reinforcing recognition and memorization. Large boxes with grid lines for correct proportions are provided. Related compounds and phrases containing each character are also included to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes (alphabetically by the English meanings and the pinyin romanization, and by radicals) are provided at the back of the book for quick and easy reference, along with extra sheets of blank boxes for writing practice. This book features The second 100 most frequently-used Chinese characters. Foundation characters for the HSK A level language proficiency test. Standard hanyu pinyin romanizations. Step-by-step stroke order guides and ample space for writing practice. Over 500 words and phrases containing the basic characters. Concise English definitions.
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Mandarin Chinese Characters Fast Finder

Mandarin Chinese Characters Fast Finder

Laurence Matthews

Tuttle Publishing
2018
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Ever wished for a resource to look up Chinese characters from their shape alone?Mandarin Chinese Characters Fast Finder is a study aid that lets you look up Chinese characters quickly and intuitively from their appearance alone, without knowing their pronunciation, radical or stroke count. This reference book has been designed for dedicated learners of Chinese, as well as general readers with interest in the written Chinese language. Mandarin Chinese Characters Fast Finder features: A thumb-index allowing rapid access to all of the characters by shape rather than etymological radical Clear and easy-to-read layout to facilitate speedy scanning Covers 3,200 characters, including those prescribed for all levels of the HSK Proficiency test Comprehensive information for each character, including: traditional forms, pronunciation, core English meaning, radical, stroke count, HSK grade
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The First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition

The First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition

Laurence Matthews; Alison Matthews

Tuttle Publishing
2017
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This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters.All beginning Chinese language learners struggle to memorize and learn to write Chinese characters. The First 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach which helps students to quickly master the basic characters that are fundamental to this language. This character book is intended for beginning Chinese students. It presents characters that have been carefully selected for rapid and effective learning. The English meanings, pronunciations in hanyu pinyin and alternate forms (if any) for each Chinese character are presented along with a stroke order guide and spaces for writing practice. Printed with gray guidelines, the stroke order guides are designed to be traced over to teach students the standard sequence of strokes used to write the character. Related compounds and phrases are given to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes at the back allow the characters to be looked up by their English meanings, hanyu pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. Extra practice sheets are also provided. This Chinese character book contains: Step-by-step stroke order diagrams show you how to write each character. Special boxes with grid lines help you practice writing them correctly. Compounds and sample sentences provide easy vocabulary building.Hanyu pinyin romanizations identify and help you pronounce every word.
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The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

Laurence Matthews; Alison Matthews

TUTTLE PUBLISHING
2025
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Master Chinese characters the quick & easy way!Learn the Second 100 Basic Chinese Traditional CharactersCracking the code of Chinese characters can be tough, but with this book, it becomes much easier. Perfect for beginners, this guide helps you quickly recognize, read, and write essential characters.Why This Book Works:Easy-to-follow Structure: Characters are carefully selected and sequenced for rapid learning.Comprehensive Pages: Each character gets its own page with: English definitionsHanyu pinyin romanizationAlternate forms (if any)Stroke order guidePlenty of space for practiceHighlights:Stroke Order Guides: Trace characters to learn the correct stroke sequence, then practice on your own.Grid Lines: Keep your characters proportionate and neat.Vocabulary Building: Related compounds and phrases for each character.Quick References: Three indexes for English meanings, pinyin, and radicals.Extra Practice: Additional sheets with blank boxes for more writing practice.What's Inside:The second 100 most frequently used Chinese characters.Foundation characters for the HSK A level language proficiency test.Standard hanyu pinyin romanizations.Step-by-step stroke order guides.Over 500 words and phrases.Concise English definitions.
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