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Wolff and Resnick provide a unique, balanced explication of the differing assumptions, logical structures, and arguments of neoclassical and Marxian economics. They address broader aspects of evaluating or choosing between alternative theories, but their conclusions are nonpolemical. Throughout, math is used simply and sparingly.
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A Theory of Employment Systems: Micro-Foundations of Societal Diversity
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A Theory of Employment Systems considers why there are such great international differences in the way employment relations are organized within the firm. Taking account of the growing evidence that international diversity is not being wiped out by 'globalization', it sets out from the theory of the firm first developed by Coase and Simon, and explains why firms and workers should use the employment relationship as the basis for their economic cooperation. The originality of the employment relationship lies in its flexibility. It gives managers the authority to organize work, but it also establishes limits on employees' obligations. The author argues that these limits are provided by four basic types of employment rule. Which one predominates in a given environment is the source of international diversity in employment relations. Drawing upon evidence from the US, Japan, France, Germany, and Britain, the theory is extended to show why such diversity extends deep into key areas of human resource management, such as performance management, incentive pay, and skill development. It also explains why the open-ended employment relationship continues to dominate work despite the growth of market-mediated work relations.
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High-Tech Harvest: A Look at Genetically Engineered Foods (Impact Books: Science)
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Great book for middle-high schoolers.......2000-05-03
This book is a fantastic book for kids. It Makes the complicated science of genetic engineering seem as clear as possible while giving examples of foods that would capture a teen's attention (such as potatoes that are scientifically engineered to absorb less oil when made into french fries.
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An on-the-ground research biologist tells a clear-eyed story of modern plant genetics, the human manipulation of biology, and the reality of genetically engineered plants worldwide.
Genetically engineered plant products line the shelves of our grocery stores but we don't know which ones they are because no label identifies them. Should we be concerned? Biotech companies claim that engineered corn and canola are safe, but are they telling the truth? Should we, like the Europeans, be engaging in violent protests against biotechnology? In High Tech Harvest, Paul Lurquin answers these questions and more, believing that the public has a right to know and understand how its food is manipulated at the most basic level, that of the DNA itself. With the goal to inform, and a mission to reinforce the importance of the scientific method, Paul Lurquin writes a comprehensive and user-friendly description of the scientific origins, the development, and the applications of genetically modified plants throughout the world today.
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I'm an agronomist.......2007-08-11
I'm a jobless agronomist.I read this good book, here in Brazil.This book is concise and easy to understand.It isn't only for agronomists or farmers.It is also for general public.Even the language is for the general public.
Failures of this book are small.To example, on page 146, this book has this sentence:"For example, the once-powefull insecticide DDT lost its effectiveness a long time ago".In fact DDT didn't lost its effectiveness.The DDT's ban came , because DDT was saving "too much" lifes in Africa, Asia and other places with colored races.
The small chapter about plastics from GMO, tells that they are too expensive compared to oil.Well, when this book was writen, oil had a price smaller than the half , compared to oil's price of today.Even with oil at so big price, plastics from transgenics costs too much; at least for general aplications.Agriculture can produce plastics without the use of GMO.If you have a biodigestor, you will have methan(CH4).Then almost all oil and natural gas plastics can be produced using this gas.
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- Good, but not Anderson's best
- As brilliant in scope and accomplishment as Harvest of Stars
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The Stars Are Also Fire (Harvest of Stars)
Poul Anderson
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Larry Niven called Harvest of Stars "a masterpiece."Now Poul Anderson returns to the same brilliantly conceived future to tell a story of revolution and liberation on the Moon.
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A Major Letdown.......2002-12-30
This was my first foray into Poul Anderson's work, and could well be my last. From other reviews it sounds as though his earlier works are much better, though. Well, this book is the subject at hand...
For about the first two hundred pages, I felt as though I was wading through background and would soon get to the meat of the conflict, but eventually found that the minor element of conflict mentioned early in the story really was the only point of contention. Then by page 500 I was looking for a major revelation to provide a suitable climax. And then the "story" ended.
This kind of seemed like an (excruciatingly) extended "what if?" sci-fi novel, but rather than reach any interesting conclusions, Anderson leaves you wondering why you had to read nearly 600 pages to discover absolutely nothing more than what was provided in the prologue. I was disappointed on so many levels, it's difficult to focus on any one aspect of the book.
The characters were flat, but stretched out to seem larger than life... the story is really just future history, and not even remotely plausible... many actions are taken without any apparent motivation -- or consequences... most ideas in the novel are based on the fad science topics of the time: chaos theory and quantum physics...only Anderson didn't seem to understand chaos theory (it simply must have sounded too cool not to tie it into some aspect of the story every 20 or so pages).
In short, avoid this waste of time at all costs (even the 50 cents I paid for a used copy was too much). Anderson combines the worst trait of bad sci-fi (flat, contrived characters) with that of bad fiction (highly questionable and/or misunderstood science).
Good, but not Anderson's best.......2002-10-21
This book was twice as long as it needed to be. As he got older, Poul Anderson seemed to need more words to say less. This book is like that. Still a good book for those who like science fiction and who like to think.
Late in his career, Anderson seemed to conclude that it is inevitable that eventually humans would become subordinate to man-made creations of artificial intelligence. Many of his books lead to this common conclusion. Anderson plainly views this as depressing, which makes this book a dark and unhappy vision of humanity's destiny. He may be right, but he seemed to be stuck in this groove and unable to think outside of this particular box, at least towards the end.
This book epitomizes another Anderson staple: distrust of government. It compares feudal society (the Lunarians) with the ultimate State (the machine-dominated Earth government or, alternatively, the Avantist government that supplants America's present republican form of government.).
Despite the above, this book is worth reading, especially if (like me) you are a big Poul Anderson fan. This book is entertaining and imaginative, and worth more than just a look.
As brilliant in scope and accomplishment as Harvest of Stars.......1999-07-29
This second installment in Anderson's H.O.S. universe takes place about hundreds of years after the first one. Now the world is controlled by benevolent and caring but stifling machine intelligences. Dagney Beynac, a descendent of Anson Guthrie's, and others go on a round the solar system jaunt searching for an elusive secret that she believes is the key to reigniting the passion for exploration that the majority of now-pacified humans had lost in their centuries of being coddled by AI beings. A secret that the AIs and their conglomerated consciousness, the Teramind, will do anything to protect. Really on par with Harvest Of Stars, which means a lot, unless you haven't read HOS in which case you shouldn't be trying to buy this book, because it is a sequel to an equal or better novel.
High Sociology - Low Science Fiction.......1999-03-18
Poul Anderson's, "The Stars Are Also Fire," is a relatively good book. It's very difficult to give a summary of this book. It covers centuries and jumps back and forth every other chapter. The reason i gave it only 3 stars is because after reading through 600 pages you get to a climax that's not really a climax. It's more of a let down. The Stars Are Also Fire seems less like a science fiction book and more like a book on future sociology. The book is very entertaining- the characters come to life, the story is engrossing, and Anderson's future is intriguing. However, it was not what i thought it would be.
Feudalism is the road to freedom? I think not........1998-04-10
This book should have been split into two stories rather than relating both at the same time in alternating chapters. In such a case, I would have read one book and thrown away the other. The story of Ian Kenmuir and Aleka Kame was mildly enjoyable (if one ignores how improbable it is that humans would create artificial intelligence that they cannot control), but the story of Dagny Beynac infuriated me.
Her Lunarian children grow up completely alienated from her, form a feudalistic society and perpetrate several murders to rebel against their roots. Despite their lack of ethics, Beynac helps her kids rebel against Earth's government (a benevolent democracy) so that they may rule themselves as kings and queens. Whatever motivates her to do this is beyond my comprehension.
Overall, Anderson is unable to move beyond a shallow distrust of government and love for old-fashioned entrepreneurship to find any greater, revelatory truth. There comes a time when political meanderings grow old and a science fiction reader asks for some transcendant meaning or greater message. There is no such message to be found in "The Stars Are Also Fire."
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In the future, one Corporation ("the Corp") will rule America. Religion, reduced to greeting card slogans for the "Godthing," will become an arm of public relations. Food, shelter, and health, will be stressed as an old elite class rises again behind a mask of "universal" opportunity. Wealth will be invested in the production of vaccos: lab-produced (human) "Corporate cadavers," raised on isolated ranches as living sources of organ and tissue transplants. Drugged on numbing "euphorics," vaccos are harvested regularly for a waiting list of patients. One extraordinary vacco, using whatever intelligence has been cloned in him, a valuable "Corp property" known as Hart256043, will escape. At an underground bar specializing in illicit sex and drugs, he meets Edgar Devereaux: successful Corp designer, adopted son of wealthy Joshua Devereaux, member of the Corp Board. But Devereaux has a secret. He was born Chris Turner, a lower-class car thief, hustler, and juvenile delinquent, and he can never shake his roots or a desire to retaste his wild youth. In an atmosphere of tension, violence, and repression, Chris and Hart will bond and discover within each other a compassion and a completeness totally outside "Corp" life. Edgar will reject Joshua's lifestyle, and join with Hart to do anything-including kill-to save the vacco's life. And Hart, one of the most appealing characters to appear in contemporary fiction, will find in Chris Turner the humanity he needs ultimately to survive.
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Low-life hustler proves his worth.......2007-01-05
The Harvest is set around the middle of the twenty first century, at a time when all government and business is in the hands of the omnipotent Corporation (Corps) which exerts an all invasive influence on everyone's life, and whose prime concern is to ensure prosperity by controlling inflation and at the same time keep the population happy by providing quality heath care for those that matter, but at a price. People are classified according to their ability, which in effect means their usefulness to society; those who are of little use being largely ignored. Born into this latter category is the handsome Christopher Turner, son of Steve Taylor; however Chris is also Edgar Morgan Devereaux, the adopted son and heir of Joshua Devereaux, a very wealthy businessman and influential and integral part of the Corps. The circumstances of this adoption become apparent as the story unfolds.
To maintain the health and the prolong life of the people, the Corps uses vaccos, laboratory produced humans which are, at the appropriate time, harvested for their organs which are then used in transplants. Supposedly mindless and incapable of emotion, and suppressed with the use of dugs, one of these vaccos manages to escape; going by the name of Hart256043, this escapee proves the widespread beliefs otherwise. While on the run he encounters Chris, and the two sense an immediate connection. Chris uses his influence to provide cover for and protect Hart while at the same time taking him to his bed, and any other place that they can enjoy one another. Of course it is not quite that simple, and so follows a thrilling adventure as the two lovers try to conceal Hart's identity and freedom, and at the same time secure the drugs necessary to keep him stable and alive.
Chris, who has always enjoyed the gay bars and shallow pretty boys of the low-life area of the city now finds this need replaced by the feelings he has for the supposedly, but clearly not, low-life form of Hart.
Chris is torn between the love for his step-father Joshua, his real father Steve, and his devoted Hart. Never sure who to trust, he uses all his influence, along with his abilities as a teenage thief and hustler acquired before his adoption by Joshua, to try to maintain Hart's freedom and secure a meaningful life for the two of them. This is a tense and unpredictable story, driven by the complete love and devotion Chris and Hart have for each other.
flawed and depressing.......2006-10-06
This will probably be my last Perry Brass novel. Full of basic flaws such as continuos flashbacks and explanations of states of mind, it still retains a good sense of story building and telling. But what kind of story are we faced with? A very depressing one, and the only way one can bear such a thing is through an amazingly good writing, which is not the case here.
Halfway between horror and sf the plot is based on two wrong assumption: such a society as it is described could not care less about the sexual orientation of its members; a society owning such refined genic techniques would certainly not need to breed human-like beings to get spare organs.
I am under the impression that while writing this novel Mr Brass wanted to highlight how de-humanizing our society is becoming and is likely to become even more. Nice try, but a try nonetheless.
"Couldn't put the sucker down." (The Harvest, Perry Brass).......1997-07-21
As a relatively new reader of sci-fi, I have found Perry Brass has a way of keeping the reader on the edge of his seat. His trilogy of Mirage, followed by the sequel Circles and concluded with Arthur were beautifully written, as well as erotically stimulating and his imagination unique. He continues his ability to stimulate, excite, and scare the pants off his reader with his book The Harvest. It's not a book one can review in a few lines, it's a book that needs to be read to be appreciated
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Gravitational lensing is by now sufficiently well understood that it can be used as a tool of investigation in other astrophysical areas. Applications include the determination of the Hubble constant, probing the dark matter context of galaxies and the mapping of the universe to the identification of otherwise invisible large-scale structures. Each chapter of the book covers in a self-contained manner a subfield of gravitational lensing, with the double aim of describing in a simple way the basics of the theory and of reviewing the most recent developments as well as applications foreseen in the near future. The book will thus be particularly useful as a high-level textbook for nonspecialist researchers and advanced students wishing to become familiar with the field all the way up to the forefront of research.
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