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Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (Global Perspectives (Stanford University Hardcover))

Published in Hardcover by Stanford University Press (2004-10-30)

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good account of global immigration

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2005-01-04

The editors of 'Controlling Immigration' have provided a detailed account of how various countries have dealth with immigration through assimilation, policy, legislation and why immigrants choose certain countries.

The book is split up into 3 categories 1) contries of immigratino (U.S, Canada, and Australia) 2) Reluctant countries of immigration ( France, Germancy, Netherlands, and Britain) andd 3) latecomers to immigratin (Italy, Spain, Japan and South Korea.

The book does provide a great deal of background to contemporary immigration.

Published in Hardcover by Vanderbilt University Press (1968-06)

Author: L. Ray Patterson

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a founding text

Helpful Votes: 73 out of 74 total.
Review Date: 2003-11-09

This is an extraordinarily important book for understanding our current copyright mess. It is not a trade book -- it was written as an academic's text. But it is beautifully and clearly written, and it shows as plainly as possible just how radically copyright law has changed. That point alone is not terribly original -- except that Patterson made the point in 1968. He is, and this book is, the founding text of a movement designed to restore rationality to the regulation of speech that we call copyright law. If you haven't read this, then shut up until you have.

Cork: Historical Perspectives

Published in Hardcover by Four Courts Press (2004-11-30)

Authors: Henry A. Jefferies, Gerard O'Brien, and Eilis C. Stack

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V Good Read

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Review Date: 2005-11-03

excellent book. well worth a read to learn about this great city of Cork in Ireland. credit to the author

Corporate and Organizational Identities: Integrating Strategy, Marketing, Communication and Organizational Perspectives

Published in Hardcover by Routledge (2002-09-13)

Author: B. Moingoen

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Identity: the name of the game!

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Review Date: 2005-08-26

Very interesting review of up-to-date insights on these matters.

Corporate Financial Reporting: A Global Perspective

Published in Paperback by Cengage Lrng Business Press (2002-05-02)

Authors: Herve Stolowy and Michel J. Lebas

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clearest book on financial accounting in the market

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2003-02-17

This book is ideal for managers of internationally oriented businesses who want to get a grip of the financial accounting statements produced by accountants and auditors.

The positive message that the authors send out is that accounting is not that difficult. This book is clear in its structure and language. The reader is gently taken by the hand and shown how to dissect any financial report, whatever its underlying accounting methods.

Readers have to be aware that because of its international perspective, the prime focus is on analysis and not on writing a financial statement.

Correctional Perspectives: Views from Academics, Practitioners, and Prisoners

Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press, USA (2001-10-22)

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Various perspectives are helpful

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2003-06-06

All too often, books are written from one perspective, and it is rare that you find a book that contains three different viewpoints on the same topics--from prisoners and ex-prisoners, people who work in the correctional field, and academic experts. The editors have also chosen works by and about both male and female prisoners.

This book is meant to be used mainly for higher education purposes, but it is one of the most interesting books you'll ever read for class. In addition, it's a great book for the general public who want a better understanding of challenges facing our jails and prisons today.

Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective

Published in Paperback by Dell Publishing (1975-04)

Author: Carl Sagan

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A startling look at our universe and our feelings toward it

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 1997-07-17

In this revolutionary book Carl Sagan explores our universe's recent past, it's present, and it's possible future. He also discusses how our feelings and attitudes about society, the universe, space travel, and ourselves have changed and how they have helped to form our views of the universe. He also comments on how we are connected to the universe physically, mentally, and spiritually.

This book is definatelly a must read if you are intersted in our feelings toward the universe, where do we belong and why are here, our future in the universe, or if you just have a little free time.

The Cosmic Perspective: Stars Galaxies and Cosmology

Published in Paperback by Addison Wesley (2006-02-14)

Authors: Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, and Mark Voit

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The Best Introductory Astronomy Book I've Ever Read

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-04-20

The best astronomy book I've ever read. Even more than that, this is the best science book I've ever read. The writing style combined with the excellent illustrations make even fairly complex subject simple and understandable. Even their descriptions of things like relativity are so simple that anyone can understand them.

Now the book is in its fourth edition, bringing it up to date with:

the discovery of an object larger than Pluto in our own solar system
the latest results from the rovers and orbiters studying Mars
the latest Cassini results from Saturn and Huygens results from Titan
the Deep Impace mission to Comet Tempel 1
supernovae observations providing stronger evidence for dark energy
recent results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Mastering Astronomy -- the book includes a one-year subscription to this web based interactive media that has been used by over 100,000 students.

Note that this book comes in three versions: This version on Stars, Galazies and Cosmology does not include Part III, Learning from Other Worlds that is included in the complete text.

Cosmopolitan Modernisms (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)

Published in Paperback by The MIT Press (2005-09-01)

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An Insightful Look at One Artist's Enuring Contribution

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Review Date: 2007-08-03

Kobena Mercer has long been a strong presence in the ongoing debate and discourse around issues of race and representation in the practice of artists of color. Much of his work has focused on the postmodern moment. With this important book Mercer now brings his incisive intelligence to bear on one of the premier African American modernists, Romare Bearden. It is no surprise that Mercer has brought the same high level of intellectual acuity and observation to Bearden's work, casting him in a new and exciting light. Mercer is joined here by a host of other art historians and theorists, each taking a moment out from the continuing din of Postmodernism to reflect on how we might bring a seemingly moderninst artist into the current discussion. In doing so they rescue Bearden from the dustbin of history, and make him once again an artist worthy of continued--and renewed--attention.

This book is an important and valuable addition to the ongong discourse around the place of African American artists within both the modernist and postmodern canon. That this work was undertaken by Mercer--with his impeccable Postmodernist pedigree--makes it that much more impressive.

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Economic, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives

Published in Paperback by University of Chicago Press Journals (2001-01-01)

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Good overview

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Review Date: 2007-08-27

An excellent collection of helpful and challenging discussions of cost-benefit analysis, covering both strengths and weaknesses from a variety of perspectives. Some major names in the fields (such as Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Posner, and Cass Sunstein) are included.