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A critique of America's cash money system and an argument for replacing it with a cashless system of federal electronic currency. The author emphasizes the benefits of cashlessness, stressing the inefficiency of cash and illustrating the role that cash plays in most crimes.

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.Home to Booker T. Washington's famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and le...

Motor vehicle accidents are still a leading cause of death, even if the trend has somewhat declined over the past 20 years. Indeed, motor vehicle accidents are a significant cause of death in comparison with air and space transport accidents, homicides and even HIV infections, causes which are more often highlighted in the media. As shown in this book, motor vehicle accidents are particularly damaging to very young drivers. The assessment of...

Aimed at undergraduates, Contemporary Ethics presupposes little or no familiarity with ethics and is written in a clear and engaging style. It provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned.

Since its first performances around 1596 and its earliest editions (1597, 1599), Romeo and Juliet has remained one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. The reasons are not far to seek, as the play centers on a subject of perennial interest: romantic love. A mixed genre, the play begins as a comedy and ends as a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet are among Shakespeare's most memorable characters, for he has endowed them with some of his greatest lyric p...

This is a collection of articles on financial and investment issues in emerging capital markets. It offers coverage of major emerging countries as well as topics related to emerging market finance.

Whether painted by artist-warriors depicting their feats in battle or by other Native American artists, 19th and 20th century ledger drawings-drawn on blank sheets of ledger books obtained from U.S. soldiers, traders, missionaries, and reservation employees-provide an excellent visual source of information on the Great Plains Native Americans. An art form representing a transition from drawing on buffalo hide to a paper medium, ledger drawings...

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This text examines how the eastward movement of NATO, led by issues of western financial constraint, the Gulf War, events in the former Yugoslavia, and changing configurations of the major NATO partners, has led to a new organization.

Still Image Compression on Parallel Computer Architectures investigates the application of parallel-processing techniques to digital image compression. Digital image compression is used to reduce the number of bits required to store an image in computer memory and/or transmit it over a communication link. Over the past decade advancements in technology have spawned many applications of digital imaging, such as photo videotex, desktop publishin...

This introduction to Nietzsche's thought is geared to those who approach his work with grave skepticism. Belliotti begins each chapter with a brief exposition of a broad theme in Nietzsche's work, raising important questions of interpretation. He then turns the discussion into a dialogue between two characters who, in the topics they address, exemplify rather than merely explain Nietzsche's broad themes. In this manner, Stalking Nietzsche focu...

Rice is the major staple food in Asia, and food security means rice security for most Asians. By the year 2025, we need to produce about 60% more rice than we do today to meet the growing demand. Efficient use of inputs is vital to safely produce the additional food from limited resources with minimal impact on the environment. This book reviews emerging knowledge-intensive technologies and decision aids for improved nutrient management in ric...

The savings and loan crisis and the banking troubles of the 1980s and early 1990s were not primarily due to fraud, deregulation, inadequate supervision, overly exuberant lending, abrupt changes in tax policies or a host of other short-term causes. All of these factors certainly exacerbated and, in some cases triggered, the problems of depository institutions. But the underlying fundamental reason for the thrift crisis and banking troubles, arg...

...an essential reference for flavor chemists, and also highly recommended for food researchers and sensory scientists. Because it should retain its timely character for many years, the book is also appropriate for use as a graduate-level text.' Trends in Food Science and Technology ...a true reference book of flavor information...invaluable.' Inform

This is an extensive revision of a book that I wrote over ten years ago. My purpose then has remained unchanged: to introduce the concepts and methods of spatial statistics to geologists and engineers working with oil and gas data. I believe I have accomplished more than that, just as I learned the basics of variography and kriging from books for mining engineers, this book could be used by scientists from many fields to learn the basics of th...

When the 50th anniversary of the birth of Information Theory was celebrated at the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Informa­ tion Theory in Boston, there was a great deal of reflection on the the year 1993 as a critical year. As the years pass and more perspec­ tive is gained, it is a fairly safe bet that we will view 1993 as the year when the "early years" of error control coding came to an end. This was the year in which Berrou, Glavieux...

As recent developments have shown, supersymmetric quantum field theory and string theory are intimately related, with advances in one area often shedding light on the other. The organising ideas of most of these advances are the notion of duality and the physics of higher dimensional objects or p-branes. The topics covered in the present volume include duality in field theory, in particular in supersymmetric field theory and supergravity, an...

Benoit, Blaney, and Pier apply the functional theory of political campaign discourse to the 1996 presidential campaign. When a citizen casts a vote, he or she makes a decision about which candidate is preferable. There are only three types of rhetorical strategies for persuading voters to believe a candidate is the better choice: acclaiming or self-praise, attacking or criticizing an opponent, and defending or responding to attacks. As they il...

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Grieves, Maureen -- Summary / Grieves, Maureen -- Current UK and EU Information Policy / Oppenheim, Charles -- Information Policy and the US National Information Infrastructure / Carbo, Toni -- Safe Journey: Copyright, Document Delivery and Publishing in the Electronic Environment / Cornish, Graham -- Information Reliability: or What Should We Do About Quality? / Mahon, Barry -- Policy Issues in Electronic Publish...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einführung / Albrecht, Peter / Hinrichs, Ernst -- Konjunkturen einer illegitimen Disziplin. Entwicklung und Perspektiven schulhistorischer Forschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Zymek, Bernd -- Die Schulreform in den Niederlanden / Boekholt, P. Th. F. ¿. -- Das niedere Schulwesen in Frankreich am Übergang vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert. Schulentwicklung zwischen Reform und Revolution / Harten, Hans-Chri...