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The book has many photos of many different fish species, that they permit easily identifying what disease your fishes are inffected.

Is there anything better than Madonna in denim? Don't be ridiculous! But "Officially Supported Export Credits" comes darn close. The editors here are like Kafka and William S. Burroughs rolled into one. The prose reads like a cross between "Metamorphosis" and "Naked Lunch." What power! What bugs! It's exportalicious!

If you ever wondered if organic farming can really be as productive as chemical farming, or if it is really better for the environment, then read this book. The author manages to include a lot of scientific data and theory, yet keep everything readable and entertaining, and it will convince you. Beyond addressing the organic farming debate, the book tells the fascinating story of how coffee is grown, and of the indigenous people who grow it. This would be an excellent text for college courses, and also for graduate seminars.

I must have read this book three times. It is as billed: a very good general review of contract law, and a very clear overview of the CISG. As such, it is great for students who have studied contracts but not the CISG.
The book is around 150 pages long. It has a quite helpful CISG index, relating the various CISG provisions to the pages of the book where they are explicated. It also contains the text of the CISG for easy reference.
The author is not an American and his text helps highlight certain differences between American and CISG law, especially in regard to force majeure, and therefore a close reading is most instructive to American lawyers. As these types of hornbooks go, this one is pretty darn good.

Excellent book for people new to the United States. Faster read than similar books like Culture Shock and to the point. Offers information on a variety of topics that is very easy to understand and put into practice.

Batra explains clearly why free trade has not been as beneficial as advertised. Though tariff cuts are generally seen as a tonic for the economy, Batra reviews statistics which show that real wages have fallen during the same era in which tariffs have been cut. In fact, Dr. Batra makes it clear that free trade can make the real GDP rise -- while simultaneously leading to the impverishment of the working class. Like a good economist, Dr. Batra realizes that tariffs are not a cure all. He intelligently points out that domestic competition behind tariff walls has historically been more important than international competition in spurring innmovation and productivity increases. In this light, he combines recommendations for tariffs with recommendations for an aggressive anti-trust and anti-merger policy. Even more interesting is Batra's focus on trade's negative environmental effects. By making necessary the extensive use of transport and shipping, trade encourages oil use and resource waste. Thus, encouraging consumers to buy things near their production site is both sound economics and sound ecology. A great book. I just graduated with honors as an undergrad with degrees in economics and history. Reading Dr. Batra got me started in economics. Now I want to get a master's in econ. Batra is truly an inspiring, intelligent vioce for an economy that is both humane and efficient. Its been five years since i read this book, and i still regard it as a vital source of heretical wisdom on the trade issue.

Gentle nursery rhymes with age old wisdom that envelope babies, young children, and parents alike greet you in this classic collection of eight children's nursery rhyme's.

The softly washed water color world of Beatrix Potter's pallet coaxes you into the imaginary world of Ceclily Parsely, a mouse who, "...lived in a pen and brewed good ale for gentlemen; Gentlemen came every day Till Cecily Parsley ran away."

There are other known characters in this collection as well. Goosy Goosy Gander also wanders through the pages acommpanied by those five little fingertip-pigs who go to market, stay at home, eat meat,have none, and the littlest one who goes crying all the way home, wee wee wee! The Three Blind Mice and Ninny Nanny Netticoat, the first riddle every child should hear and know, also bring life to this delightful 4"x5.5" (approximate size) child-sized book.

The innoncence of childhood is captured in Potter's muted tones while the rhythm and rhymes of the poems encourage and develop the young child's delight in language-play while it also encourages the love of language. For the sheer pleasure of hearing a young child's laughter, cuddle up and read this book to him or her.

In this little tale we meet Miss Moppet, a cat who thinks she hears a mouse. The chase is on as the mouse declares that he is not afraid of a kitten. Nice illustrations in this book, the kitten and the mouse are very life-like and the story is very cute. A nice read to share with the little ones.
Shirley Johnson

Edward Mansfield argues in this book that there is a curvilinear relationship between the concentration of power and war at the level of the international system, based on data for 5-year periods between 1825 and 1964. That is, war is most likely at intermediate levels of power concentration, least likely at either high or low levels. He also argues that war is more (less) likely when there are relatively low (high) levels of international trade flows. The two variables -- power concentration and trade -- explain a high percentage of variance in the war data. Thus, Mansfield concludes that a combination of neo-realist and political economy perspectives is needed to explain war at the level of the international system.

The path to these conclusions is lengthy and difficult, given the disparate approaches to measuring war, but Mansfield does an excellent job of explaining his steps along this tortuous route. An entire chapter (Chapter 2) is devoted to describing and comparing war data collections by previous scholars. Five different definitions of war and nine data sets derived from them are discussed in this chapter. It is interesting and somewhat disheartening that the correlations between system war measures in the different data sets is low. According to the author: "Given the low correlation between these data sets, analysts should be hesitant to use them interchangeably. This is not to imply that any of [them] is "wrong" or misleading. Each is useful contingent on the objectives of the particular analysis." [p. 43]

One of the major subsidiary arguments of the book is that scholars have paid too much attention to "polarity" -- the number of poles (sometimes equated with the number of great powers) in the system. Mansfield agrees with these authors that the distribution of power is a key potential causal variable but disagrees with their contention that polarity is the best way to measure that distribution. He argues instead for using a measure of concentration which takes into account both the number of great powers and the relative distribution of power across them. This argument is made quite persuasively.

Mansfield also suggests that other scholars have erred in testing only monotonic relationships between the distribution of power and war, demonstrating that a curvilinear model explains more variance. Again, I found this demonstration convincing.

Finally, Mansfield shows that multivariate models which combine economic variables (trade levels in particular) with political ones (the concentration of power) explain a higher percentage of variance in systemic war levels than models that do not. This suggests to him that "interdisciplinary research between political scientists and economists needs to be conducted, and is likely to foster a fuller understanding of the relationships among power, trade, and war." [p. 253] Again, the argument was quite convincing.

There is only a short discussion in the book of its implications for current policy. Mansfield implies that the breakup of the Soviet empire "bodes poorly for the avoidance of war in Europe," but that "continued expansion of international trade offers an avenue for improving political relations while, at the same time, increasing global welfare." [pp. 252-3]

What is missing here, unfortunately, is a careful discussion of how far one can generalize or extrapolate from the type of systemic data used in the various data analyses. For example, Mansfield mentions briefly that there are reasons to believe that the introduction of nuclear weapons may have changed the relationship between the distribution of power and war, but does not go on to explain why he fails to take the argument seriously.

Still, Mansfield should be praised for the care and skill he demonstrates in dealing with a wide variety of theories, data sets, and statistical methods. The prose is a bit tortuous, and therefore not suited to use in introductory courses, but as an example for graduate students about to undertake their own empirical quests, it would be hard to find a better exemplar.

This is not just an exploration of Japan's antimonopoly policy, it is an exploration of life. We are exposed to a society's search for it's own conscience. Dr Beeman presents the Fair Trade Commission as a fully developed character who's trial and tribulations truley engross the reader. I was left with not just a greater knowledge of antimonopoly policy in Japan, but with a renewed zest for life. The world is a better place with this publication of Dr. Beeman's life work - we can only hope that more people will adhere to the principles presented here.