Curtis Books

I like the learning methodology of this book. Uses visual paradigm uml modeling tool ( community version included with book's cd )to teach object-oriented analysis,design and implementation. Each chapter has theory as well as practical application and examples. takes you through complete design cycle of mini-case study using lots of uml model diagrams and some java code. great way to learn uml modeling with a real uml tool.

Wondering why you're coaching? Wondering how you should approach the job? Coach Tong draws on his 30 years of collegiate teaching, coaching and parenting to contribute this very thoughtful and inspirational extended essay on the various aspects of what it really means to be a good athletic coach. He explores all the tough issues -- how much to emphasize winning, how to inspire responsibly, the relationship of modern American athletics to issues such as racism, sexism, and drugs ... all with the aim of presenting what is essentially a philosophy for improved coaching in these days of big money and high pressure college athletics. What comes through loud and clear is Coach Tong's commitment the athlete's full development, both on and off the field. Instead of just extracting what we can from the athletes that play for us, he shows how to create an athletic environment that provides lasting lesson's for the athlete's entire life.

This is a large, excellent, very diverse collection of therapists' essays on losses and life changes, including their own. Thought-provoking and curative, an excellent guard against any oversimplified account of adjusting to some of life's major challenges.

Richard G. Lipsey, Microeconomics, Growth and Political Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 480.

Richard G. Lipsey, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 429.

Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Lipsey, On the Foundations of Monopolistic Competition and Economic Geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 314.

Curtis Eaton and Richard Harris (eds), Trade Technology and Economics: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Lipsey. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 340.

It is hard to imagine any major area of economic theory and policy in which Richard G. Lipsey has not been an important contributor. Several of his six textbooks had over a dozen editions (some have been sold in the millions) and they have been translated into 15 languages. These, along with 11 monographs and over 130 articles, in total around 80,000 pages, have influenced the education, further research and thoughts of around 15 million economists throughout the world over the past four decades.

Each of the first three volumes published by Edward Elgar provides a reprint of around 20 articles or chapters written or co-authored by Lipsey. The last volume, edited by Eaton and Harris, is a festschrift in which some prominent economists discuss and attempt to build on Lipsey's contribution. Even though no selection of already published articles and chapters can do full justice to the extent, nature and significance of Lipsey's contribution to economic theory and policy, the selection of pieces may serve at least two useful purposes. First, the books may remind practicing economists of Lipsey's contribution to economics and, second, others will have a handy selection of classical pieces and learn some important things.

The first volume on microeconomics has five parts. The first deals with economic growth from a microeconomic vantage point. Basically, technological change (innovation, accumulated knowledge) set in an historical time dimension is the principal (although not the only) driver of growth. The second contains the value theory. Lipsey's and Lancaster's theory of the second best has had the most profound influence on all social sciences. In a world where optimality requires satisfaction of many conditions, a move from a given sub-optimal situation that satisfies only some of these conditions does not necessarily improve welfare (neither does an addition of one or more imperfections necessarily worsen the given sub-optimal situation). This theory had a revolutionary effect on welfare economics and was, unfortunately, avoided by those that did not have the nerve to consider alternative approaches to their own. Writings on international trade are in the third part. One of the most frequently reprinted articles is on customs unions. Lipsey demonstrates that a trade-diverting customs union may be beneficial for the participating countries. Fourth is the part on the political economy. Lipsey analyses and evaluates issues which include the merits and flaws of the free price system and government intervention, American savings and the trade imbalance, as well as the British participation in European integration. Finally, in a consideration of methodology, Lipsey argues that theories should not be evaluated according to their intuitive plausibility (Austrian-Robbinsian) or political acceptability but rather on how well they meet the facts. That was the reason for naming his basic economic text Positive Economics.

The tome on macroeconomic theory and policy, organized into five parts, brings together articles on inflation, anti-inflationary policy, the Phillips curve and the Keynesian economic model. Although controversies about inflation are here to stay, there is quite an accumulated body of knowledge on how to handle the problem. The impact of powerful groups such as labour unions that can push prices upwards (their existence in Europe and their non existence in the United States) has a significant effect on differences in employment levels in the two regions. In such cases the authorities can either accept unemployment or accommodate price increases with new money creation. Another frustration to anti-inflationary policy may come from trade credits among firms that are ready to accept some of their balances in this way. Incomes control as an anti-inflationary policy tool may be used only in exceptional situations. As it usually stays much longer after the need for such intervention has expired, it may `do a lot of harm by trying to do a little good'. In addition, there is still the largely debatable issue of whether high employment is compatible with zero inflation. One has also to keep in mind that Lipsey was one of the instigators of the currently popular approach that macroeconomic relations need to be derived from microeconomic behaviour.

The volume on monopolistic competition and economic geography includes Lipsey's articles with Eaton mainly published during the period of the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, which are perhaps more relevant now than at the time of their publication. The reason is that one can hardly imagine a more exciting area of contemporary economics than the new economic geography. The study of the location of production has a long, although somehow meagre history in spite of the fact that economic activity is unevenly distributed geographically. The neglect of the geography of production was not because the research field was uninteresting, but because the issues were regarded as intractable. New research tools such as monopolistic competition, production linkages and multiple equilibria have been introduced. Sixteen articles reproduced in this volume were a crucial (although not yet fully recognized) contribution to this field.

Eaton and Lipsey reject the neoclassical economic model as it cannot easily accommodate key elements that are relevant in modern economy. First is the neoclassical assumption that all inputs are perfectly divisible. This is not the case as both capital goods and knowledge are `lumpy'. The second reason for the rejection stems from production inputs (labour and capital). These inputs are activity-specific, rather than non-specific as is in the neoclassical case. The final rationale for the rejection is that there is a diversity of tastes. Consumers in similar situations make different choices (recall the diversity of breakfast cereals, painkillers, cigarettes, cars or bicycles). A combination

Liz curtis Higgs uses a great mixture of humor and witt. A great end to a bad day. Just put on some fuzzy, pink bunny slippers (come on, I know you have them)and snuggle up in for favorite chair with a big mug of hot chocolate. This is one of those books you buy 50 of for all of your friends. if you haven't read it, you don't know what you're missing! I laughed until tears were rolling down my face!

This is actually from a Pulp Magazine popular in the 30's, 40's, and early 50's. Our country was in crisis. The Great Depression. World War II. Rationing. But these cheaply printed (on pulpwood paper, hence the name) Pulp Magazines were a way of helping distract the public from the horrors of day-to-day life. The characters and plot were "larger than life" as many term them, and read today may seem a bit overdone. But I fell in love with the Pulps with the reprints of Doc Savage, The Shadow, and The Avenger when I was a boy, and I find them very enjoyable. Take a walk though yesteryear with one of these stories. They transcend time. And by the way, Tarzan, Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and Conan first appeared in these pulps, so you may owe more to them than you know! Quoth the Raven...

This is actually from a Pulp Magazine popular in the 30's, 40's, and early 50's. Our country was in crisis. The Great Depression. World War II. Rationing. But these cheaply printed (on pulpwood paper, hence the name) Pulp Magazines were a way of helping distract the public from the horrors of day-to-day life. The characters and plot were "larger than life" as many term them, and read today may seem a bit overdone. But I fell in love with the Pulps with the reprints of Doc Savage, The Shadow, and The Avenger when I was a boy, and I find them very enjoyable. Take a walk though yesteryear with one of these stories. They transcend time. And by the way, Tarzan, Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and Conan first appeared in these pulps, so you may owe more to them than you know! Quoth the Raven...

Although this small book was written as part of a Yale doctoral dissertation in 1925, it has long survived the test of time as probably the definitve word on British military organization in North America during the Revolutionary War. This book is a "must have" for scholars, students and armchair historians of the American Revolution. Its many poignant and interesting observations written in a scholarly yet engaging and highly digestable style is still a delight to read. Author and eminent American historian, Dr. Edward Curtis characterizes the failure of British arms from 1777-1781 partly due to inept generalship, partly to natural difficulties and partly to maladministration. The study points out in interesting detail the divided authority, interdepartmental friction, clumsy business practices and just plain bad judgement that plagued the home government and its veteran professional military since the French and Indian War. The book is intelligently divided into five thematic subtexts: a general survey of the situtaion that the British Army found itself in 1777; administrative machinery; a fascinating chapter on recruiting the army, an equally eye opening chapter on provisioning it and finally, the problem of transportation. Interesting revelations await the Rev War reader on nearly every page: Who knew the British Army in America was provisioned mainly from Cork,Ireland and not from the fields of New England or the Middle Colonies or that the British Army field medicine and organization was light years ahead of its Continental Army counterpart? This book certainly demonstrates that well written history is truly timeless.

Pete McGowan really is a Chesapeake Bay hero, who has saved many ospreys by educating people about the dangers of fishing line in osprey nests. This very entertaining book is great for kids who love nature and want to learn more about helping wildlife survive the perils of the modern world.

An excellent tracing of an entire family lineage with an abundance of information as well as accuracy!!!