Freeman Books

This is a very complete reference for communications engineers and other technical people involved with radio systems. This book is not a dust catcher - it will get used!

This is my second copy...evidently one of my colleagues thought the book was as indispensible as I did. LOL

This book ws great. If you don't like Mysteries i would try this becasue, i didn'tlike mysteries either. And i tohught the book was great thamks byw

This book was one of the required text books in a Social Psychology class I took. The requirement was only a selection of experiments, but because of the interesting collection, and the supurb organization I read the entire book. Very worthwhile!

Cheese addicts know that some of the best cheeses available are made in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sarah Freeman has visited almost all of the artisan cheesemakers at their farms, and tells their individual stories. She also discusses each cheese in detail and tells how it is made. As an added bonus, there are numerous intriguing recipes for which quantities of ingredients have thoughtfully been given both in metric units and in American ounces/pounds. There aren't many pictures, but the descriptions of the cheeses are so good that you'll want to give them all a try!

Richard Harries, the long-time bishop of Oxford, has been writing on Christianity for a quarter of a century now. This slim book is a defence of traditional Christianity against post-modern deconstruction by the Sea of Faith movement in theology. Whereas Sea of Faith theologians maintain that God can have no reality and is, in fact, no more than a means of talking about human values, Harries firmly maintains the reality and constancy of God, even in a world that has changed so radically since the time of Jesus. Whilst he concedes that the existence of God can never be proved, he argues persuasively that Christianity is a coherent and meaningful response to the world we know and that there are good reasons why we should believe that God is real and the Christina message true. This book represents Christian apologetics at its best: it is gentle, broad-minded, and it radiates the joy that its writer finds in the world and in the God which he sees behind everything in it.

This book is the most condensed, accessible discussion of genetic manipulation techniques and methods around. Armed with this, one can move on and understand any other text in the area.

Beautifully written and thought-provoking, _Reinventing Marriage_ tackles the large and complex issues of gender equality, the history of American attitudes towards love, romance, marriage, and work, the complicated interplay of idealism and reality, and the peculiar burdens of a privileged life lived in the public eye; and does so all through the examination of one particular late nineteenth century marriage of two intelligent, appealing, and literate partners. Their letters to one another are a joy to read, and Kenschaft's thoughtful commentary consistently frames the relevant issues in ways that make them always accessible -- and never oversimplified. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book, and wish for others to have the same pleasure.

Even though I have read many books and short stories by great authors and is dazed, and full of admiration of their work, it happens once in a while, that a book or a story, that one has never heard mentioned goes right in to your heart and won't let go. That is what Mary Wilkins Freeman's stories did to me. I felt as if I had found a friend. There is such a pleasure to be found in her stories, the fluent and smooth style, easily understood by all, as well as a lesson in living your life at your own pace. She is so unaffected and natural in her storytelling, that these stories, which easily could have taken place, are sweet, tender, bitter and then full of resistence. Her character do not always behave. The stories are mostly about New England country women, for whom Freeman has obviouly a great sympathy for and she writes about them with respect and affection

The stir that Piero Sraffa's classic "Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities" (1960) caused within the predominant neoclassical paradigm seems to pale in comparison to the turbulent discussions that have arisen from the implicit critique the book also had on marxist thought. Given that Marx himself expressed that "profits are the motor behind capitalism", the sraffian model gave us the determination of the rate of profit and prices of production from the technical conditions of production with no mention at all of labour values. This was interpreted by some marxists as a step ahead of Marx in the sense that labour values were simply "redundant" in the determination of the rate of profit and of prices of production. Ian Steedman's 1977 classic "Marx after Sraffa" pretty much summarized this point of view that would eventually constitute what is known today as Neo-Ricardian economics. After some sporadic answers to the neo-ricardian conclusions, it would take 7 years for a definite and comprehensive reaction from the marxist side. "Ricardo, Marx, Sraffa: The Langston Memorial Volume" provides us with a collective and international response to the above mentioned accusations. With contributions from leading marxist economists such as Anwar Shaikh, Ernest Mandel, Robert Langston and Jesús Albarracín among others, the reader is guided to the conclusion that neo-ricardian economics is simply another manifestation of bourgeois economics given that their argument of the determination of profits and prices is developed along the "technical conditions" of production rhetoric, which brings us yet again to the question of what is it that economics should study. Is it relations between persons or relations between persons and things or even worse, between things, as the title of Sraffa's book suggests?

The whole issue of the "Transformation Problem" is mainly tackled on the neo-ricardian field of linear algebra models, where it seems that they have accessed the formality that supposedly should characterize all sciences. The assumptions that underlie the whole post-sraffian project are put to mathematical and empirical tests, as is the whole logic of their exposition which is mainly focused on the quantitative side of the labour theory of value controversy, that is, the conception of the labour theory of value as being only a theory of the determination of relative prices. Even when the model distinguishes that there is a distribution of the surplus between "classes" in the form of wages and profits, it unfortunately fails to understand why the distribution variables came to be.

Neo-ricardian economics at first sight seems to be Marxian economics without the labour theory of value, but on closer inspection the reader will realize through this book that it actually shares more in common with neoclassical thought in trying to hide the social relations that ultimately determine what happens before, during, and after production process.

This book provides answers to some of the key questions about creating sustainable competitive advantage. It goes beyond the often destructive one-time efforts of reengineering to focus on behaviors that support ongoing customer satisfaction. This is an excellent field guide for management teams who want to create a process based management approach!