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This digital document is an article from Behavioral Healthcare, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 954 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Making data analysis easier: new tools can help providers make data-driven decisions.(VIEWS ON TECHNOLOGY)
Author: George Epstein
Publication: Behavioral Healthcare (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 27Issue: 2Page: 42(2)

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Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea offreedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. InThe Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in thefields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interestin bargaining freedom.

The 1970s was a decade of regulatory triumphalism in NorthAmerica, marked by a surge in consumer, securities, and environmentalregulation. Legal scholars predicted the “death of contract” andits replacement by regulation and reliance-based theories ofliability. Instead, we have witnessed the reemergence of freebargaining norms. This revival can be attributed to the rise oflaw-and-economics, which laid bare the intellectual failure ofanticontractarian theories. Scholars in this school note thatconsumers are not as helpless as they have been made out to be, andthat intrusive legal rules meant ostensibly to help them often leavethem worse off. Contract law principles have also been very robust inareas far afield from traditional contract law, and the essays in thisvolume consider how free bargaining rights might reasonably beextended in tort, property, land-use planning, bankruptcy, and divorceand family law.

This book will be of particular interest to legal scholars andspecialists in contract law. Economics and public policy planners willalso be challenged by its novel arguments.

Contributors. Gregory S. Alexander, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley,Robert Cooter, Steven J. Eagle, Robert C. Ellickson, RichardA. Epstein, William A. Fischel, Michael Klausner, Bruce H. Kobayashi,Geoffrey P. Miller, Timothy J. Muris, Robert H. Nelson, EricA. Posner, Robert K. Rasmussen, Larry E. Ribstein, Roberta Romano,Paul H. Rubin, Alan Schwartz, Elizabeth S. Scott, Robert E. Scott,Michael J. Trebilcock ... Read more

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Behind the scenes, a revolution is taking place in primary and secondary education.Once thought sacrosanct, the principle of local lay control has come under growing attack.In the 1970s and 1980s, governors sought greater influence by promulgating academic standards and even taking over failing schools.Mayors soon followed, with some wresting control of struggling local school systems.Atop this, the president and Congress greatly extended their reach into U.S. classrooms with enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which requires annual reading and math tests in grades 3 through 8, tougher yardsticks to measure whether pupils are making sufficient progress, and penalties for schools that persistently fall short.

The result is a spider’s web of responsibility. It is difficult, if not impossible, to figure out where accountability lies.Not only have municipal, state, and federal authorities reasserted control over the separate education government that the nation long ago created, but an array of other institutions--including the courts, community-based organizations, and education management companies--are also deeply involved in school decisions.These trends have created a growing gap between those who make education policy and those responsible for the results.What’s more, they have contributed to widespread confusion about how to fix public education.

In Who’s in Charge Here? some of the finest minds in education cut through the confusion to analyze key issues such as the Constitution’s role in allocating responsibility for education, the pros and cons of growing federal control, how to ensure a supply of talented teachers for the underprivileged, the impact of the school-choice movement, and the expanding non-academic role of schools.Other chapters explore the history of U.S. education governance and propose principles for creating a new system that especially benefits the children who are most in need.

The question of who should be in charge of America’s schools is likely to occupy the nation for years to come.Based on extensive scholarship and practical experience, Who’s in Charge Here? is an important contribution to this critical debate.

Contributors include Larry Cuban (School of Education, Stanford University), Linda Darling-Hammond (School of Education, Stanford University), Susan H. Fuhrman (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania and Consortium for Policy Research in Education), Paul T. Hill (Brookings Institution and University of Washington), Michael W. Kirst (Stanford University and Consortium for Policy Research in Education), Henry M. Levin(Teachers College, Columbia University and National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education), James E. Ryan (University of Virginia Law School and American Bar Association's Committee on Public Schools), and Gary Sykes (College of Education, Michigan State University). ... Read more

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Insights regarding the future of public education
This is an excellent book that expresses the current confusion of public school governance.Each article discusses, from a different
perspective, political and legual issues that have changed the face of public schools in America.Should the federal government be involved in public education?What will be the result of such a change?What has happened to local control?What does the constitution tell us about who should govern schools?How are current curricular and personnel policies impacting the success of students.This book provides insights and answers that are critial for anyone interested in public education to read. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 891 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The building blocks to governing for results.(The Bookshelf)(Results That Matter: Improving Communities by Engaging Citizens, Measuring Performance, and Getting Things Done)(Book review)
Author: Christy Sommers
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 23Issue: 2Page: 73(2)

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 392 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Global warming.(The Best Of The Green Guide)
Author: Mindy Pennybacker
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Date: September 1, 2003
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The first of its kind, this laboratory handbook emphasizes diverse methods and technologies needed to investigate C. elegans, both as an integrated organism and as a model system for research inquiries in cell, developmental, and molecular biology, as well as in genetics and pharmacology. Four primary sections--Genetic and Culture Methods, Neurobiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, and Genomics and Informatics--cross disciplines in this volume's integrated approach to C. elegans. Because C. elegans is a simple and malleable organism with a small genome and few cell types, it provides an elegant demonstration of functions fundamental to multicellular organisms. The discipline has expanded manyfold as researchers continue to find this small soil nematode to be the model of choice for studying specific pathways, stages of development, and cell types. By directing its audience not just to tried-and-true recipes for research, but also to databases and other innovative sources of information, this comprehensive collection is intended to guide investigators of C. elegans for years to come.

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I needed a simpler system...
This book explains only double entry bookkeeping.My needs are much simpler...a single-entry system will suffice.Eventually I found the information I needed from books in the local library.

Clear, concise explanations for beginners
This book is extremely well written and geared for novices (as are all Dummies books). The topic organization is logical and provides a terrific overview of accounting and bookkeeping.

Not what I thought
I didn't see anywhere in the description that this was the UK edition!It does me NO good in Kansas!wasted my money

Bookkeeping Concepts Made Easy
This book is a great resource that explains in easy terms how to keep the record keeping straight. This is a great reference book for those who are running their own business and doing their own bookkeeping.

Great Book!
I am a Business Manager and I have read this book myself. I think it is an essential guide for anyone who is apart of a bookkeeping staff. It is a really good book that has the basics of accounting principals, but offers more information on supporting Accountants or Accounting Pros. I have given this book to others who are in Accounts Payable or Receivable positions or those who may want to understand their own personal financials. I highlighted throughout the book. Sometimes you forget the foundation to accounting and finance is bookkeeping. I found it to be a nice refresher/reminder. Worth the $$$ ... Read more

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Looking for Derek Taylor
...
Hello, my name is Heather, I have become enamored of this man.

Derek Taylor, I mean; his work, his manner, his mantality
(Yes, the spelling is correct.)
And I've never met him before.
And I never will. *grin*
But that's not the point, is it? The point is
to enjoy people like this, wherever they
can be found---And you?

And I post this on Valentines' Day. *laugh* Which I do not
believe in. I don't think Derek Taylor did either. The idea of
only ONE day of love expressed...

is abhorent. *grin*

Here, we have, exhibit A: a guy who influenced the Beatles, hung
with them, helped with them, and I find nothing, when I come
looking for him.

Well, guess what? This book rocks. And the prose, and the people
Derek talked about--people, yes, so many people--and the
insights, are as swift and as bright and as deep as a new
thought, in the dark.

Who'd've thought I'd go looking, for the first time, in my life, for the Beatles, and find this guy.

Amazing. You should read him.
As he sure as hell read
all of YOU *grin*

Find this book. Get this man's work seen.

I thank you.

Meanwhile, read this piece, that I wrote, after searching for Derek. You may just like it.

+++

Billions and billions of Beatle pictures. You can't see the fawking ROAD for Beatles pictures. Every once in a while though I'd find Derek. Hiding on a page. Standing so close, so intent, so integral to the mood, you almost wondered why you hadn't seen him more often in all those BLOODY photos. Needless to say, he (and others like him) had been cropped from view. We're here to see the Beatleboys, not the Beatleaides, not the Beatlekeepers, not the Beatle people so essential to the smooth-running operation that most fans didn't even know who the hell they were.

Only that they often stood as a roadblock, a deterrent, a buffer to Beatle-baked people who clamoured for yet another BLOODY photo, yet another autograph, yet another insightful interview, yet another money-making endorsement, yet another banal or boring conversation with their Beatle boygods.

Meanwhile, people like Derek Taylor provided an attempt at clarity, a soothing song in the ever-widening gyre of madness that hurricaned about them; a smoke-festooned-and-Scotch-laced Alka Seltzer to the moptop FabFour sanity and sense of self.

It wasn't just Derek. Without Brian Epstein, Peter Brown, Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall or even George Martin, I don't think the Beatles would have existed.

Oh, they'd be out there somewhere, playing in a dingy Cavernlike club. But I don't believe they would have reached the almost mythic proportions of pop/rock stardom they enjoyed (even to this day) without the incredibly devoted, rational and skilled people backing them up, holding their drunken heads or taking a punch for the Beatle benefit. Less insightful folks might feel otherwise, but if you look close, REAL close, you can see a pattern in the chain of command that surrounded these lovely lads from Liverpool.

And standing close by, cigarette barely dangling from his lips, his expression so dark, so unaffected was Derek. Derek's dark eyes always watching, watching. Exuding calm. (Whether he felt calm or not.) To be found in a photo. More than just a confidante; more than just a majordomo; more than just a father-figure to four cheeky chappies from a small seaport in the British Isles, Derek was their friend. He carried insights into each and every Beatle boy that shown through every press release he ever composed. He'd be on hand for all the cheer and all the paranoid doomsaying. Following George out a flashbulbed front door; standing protectively within shielding distance of any one Beatle that was about; striding through an airport walkway, like a military sergeant in a dark sharp-shouldered Savile row suit, offsetting Paul and John's white ones; leaning against an Apple-rotting rooftop wall, dressed in a caramel-coloured car coat, listening in a reverie to one last let-it-be concert from those Beatle boys he so adored; uncropped from a classic Beatle photo (There is a photo of Paul and his then girlfriend Jane Asher, returning from holiday in the Virgin Islands. I found a photo where Derek is walking along right beside Jane. Ha!)...there he is. Derek Taylor.


You should know this man. And be inspired by his words. As I am.

Derek, speaking, on The Beatles: http://www.beatlesagain.com/bvoices/derek.ram
(from Beatlesagain.com)

Derek, "As Time goes by" excerpt from a sixties memoir http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob19.html
(from "You are the Plastic Ono band" website http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob00.html )

Derek, autobiography, that I have yet to find: http://www.jadebox.com/nilsson/fiftyyrs.gif
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