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A fascinating expose explaining why the government we have bears so
little relation to the government we want-and why the recent
expansion of government programs will only exacerbate the problem.
Idealized views of government lead to bitterly unhappy citizens
posits The Myth of Fair and Efficient Government: Why the
Government You Want Is Not the One You Get. In fact, Michael L.
Marlow says, government is the last place to look for efficiency.
It is, rather, private markets that naturally drive toward
efficient outcomes and it is unreasonable to expect governments to
mimic those effects. This idea will startle many readers,
especially given the widespread belief that private markets caused
the current economic problems. The author's intention is to awaken
readers to the invalidity of that assumption, to make us "pause
before calling upon the government to somehow be efficient and fair
in responding to the supposed collapse of private markets." To that
end, this book demonstrates why romantic views of government
promote a less efficient economy; why so many government programs
are inefficient in practice; and why a more limited role for
government is critical to reviving trust in our institutions.
Mediation, as a procedure to assist couples in dealing with the
problems incident to their separation and divorce, is still
relatively new in the United States. For the would-be practitioner,
that poses certain problems. Divorce mediation cannot provide a
long history of generally accepted procedures. Nor is there even a
body of information to which would-be practitioners can turn for
instruction or guidance. And, of course, there are no established
schools that can train or prepare a practitioner to do this work.
To make matters worse, the situation is likely to remain in this
state for some time to come. Given this fact, it was felt that it
would be useful for practitioners (even for those already engaged
in divorce mediation) to have a handbook which would trace a
typical mediation from its inception to its conclusion and which
would provide them with the substantive informa tion they need to
know in order to do divorce mediation. It is hoped that this
handbook will fill this need. Having said that, however, it must be
acknowledged that the purpose of this book is very much beyond
that. Until now, divorce mediation in the United States has been
shaped principally by such books as O. J. Coogler's Structured
Mediation in Divorce Settlements: A Handbook for Marital Mediators,
1 and John Haynes' Divorce Mediation: 2 A Practical Guide for
Therapists and Counselors."
Mediation, as a procedure to assist couples in dealing with the
problems incident to their separation and divorce, is still
relatively new in the United States. For the would-be practitioner,
that poses certain problems. Divorce mediation cannot provide a
long history of generally accepted procedures. Nor is there even a
body of information to which would-be practitioners can turn for
instruction or guidance. And, of course, there are no established
schools that can train or prepare a practitioner to do this work.
To make matters worse, the situation is likely to remain in this
state for some time to come. Given this fact, it was felt that it
would be useful for practitioners (even for those already engaged
in divorce mediation) to have a handbook which would trace a
typical mediation from its inception to its conclusion and which
would provide them with the substantive informa tion they need to
know in order to do divorce mediation. It is hoped that this
handbook will fill this need. Having said that, however, it must be
acknowledged that the purpose of this book is very much beyond
that. Until now, divorce mediation in the United States has been
shaped principally by such books as O. J. Coogler's Structured
Mediation in Divorce Settlements: A Handbook for Marital Mediators,
1 and John Haynes' Divorce Mediation: 2 A Practical Guide for
Therapists and Counselors."
Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many
pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the
king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly
virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his
power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this
book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian
environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials
representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he
reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time
and place. The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its
historical context. The second volume gives direct access to a
substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary.
Current Topics in Developmental Biology series highlights new
advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting
chapters. Each chapter is written by one or more members of an
international board of authors.
Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many
pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the
king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly
virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his
power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this
book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian
environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials
representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he
reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time
and place. The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its
historical context. The second volume gives direct access to a
substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary.
Descriptions of dreams abound in the literatures of the Near East
and North Africa. The Prophet Muhammad endowed them with a
theological dimension, saying that after him "true dreams" would be
the only channel for prophecy. Dreams were often used to support
conflicting theological and political arguments, and the local
chronicles contain many accounts of royal dreams justifying the
advent of new dynasties.
This volume explores the context of these theological
speculations and political aspirations through the medium of dreams
to present fascinating insights into the social history of the
pre-modern Islamic world in all its cultural diversity. Wider
cultural exchanges are discussed through concrete examples such as
the Arabic version of the Aristotelian treatise "De divinatione per
somnum," Some of the current scholarly assumptions about dreams
being merely stylized expressions of social conventions are
challenged by personal reports that express individual
personalities, self-awareness, and spiritual development.
This is the first volume of the Ilex Series on Themes and
Traditions. The series explores cross-cultural constructs without
losing sight of the rich texture of local variations of traditions
or beliefs.
Eggs of all animals contain mRNAs and proteins that are supplied to
or deposited in the egg as it develops during oogenesis. These
maternal gene products regulate all aspects of oocyte development,
and an embryo fully relies on these maternal gene products for all
aspects of its early development, including fertilization,
transitions between meiotic and mitotic cell cycles, and activation
of its own genome. Given the diverse processes required to produce
a developmentally competent egg and embryo, it is not surprising
that maternal gene products are not only essential for normal
embryonic development but also for fertility. This review provides
an overview of fundamental aspects of oocyte and early embryonic
development and the interference and genetic approaches that have
provided access to maternally regulated aspects of vertebrate
development. Some of the pathways and molecules highlighted in this
review, in particular, Bmps, Wnts, small GTPases, cytoskeletal
components, and cell cycle regulators, are well known and are
essential regulators of multiple aspects of animal development,
including oogenesis, early embryogenesis, organogenesis, and
reproductive fitness of the adult animal. Specific examples of
developmental processes under maternal control and the essential
proteins will be explored in each chapter, and where known
conserved aspects or divergent roles for these maternal regulators
of early vertebrate development will be discussed throughout this
review. Table of Contents: Introduction / Oogenesis: From Germline
Stem Cells to Germline Cysts / Oocyte Polarity and the Embryonic
Axes: The Balbiani Body, an Ancient Oocyte Asymmetry / Preparing
Developmentally Competent Eggs / Egg Activation / Blocking
Polyspermy / Cleavage/ Mitosis: Going Multicellular /
Maternal-Zygotic Transition / Reprogramming: Epigenetic
Modifications and Zygotic Genome Activation / Dorsal-Ventral Axis
Formation before Zygotic Genome Activation in Zebrafish and Frogs /
Maternal TGF- and the Dorsal-Ventral Embryonic Axis / Maternal
Control After Zygotic Genome Activation / Compensation by Stable
Maternal Proteins / Maternal Contributions to Germline
Establishment or Maintenance / Perspective / Acknowledgments /
References
This is a textual and contextual study of an early Arabic mirror
for princes. 'Mirrors for princes' offer advice to rulers on the
ethical and practical aspects of statecraft. Adopting an
interdisciplinary approach to an early Arabic mirror, the 'Counsel
for Kings' of Pseudo Mawardi, this study evokes the mentality of
the distinctive environment - the border region of eastern Iran -
in which, it is argued, the text originated. Exploring the 'Counsel
for Kings' as the product of a specific cultural milieu at a
particular historical moment, as a substantial and influential work
of Arabic literature, and as a critical commentary on the political
and social conditions of the author's time, this book restores this
multi faceted mirror for princes to history. The first volume in
this two part study covers the literary, cultural, political and
historical contexts and their confluence in Pseudo Mawardi's
Nasihat al muluk. The second volume gives direct access to a
substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary.
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