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This text introduces students to the interrelationship of politics
and economics in American public policymaking: how economic
concerns have been legislated into law since Franklin Roosevelt's
time and how politics (e.g., Washington gridlock) affects the
economy and the making of public policy. Students learn how to
measure various indicators of economic performance, how the U.S.
economy works (domestically and with international linkages), and
how and why policymakers act to stabilise an economy in an economic
downturn. Additionally, many social insurance programs (Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid) are explained and the current fiscal
issues concerning current/future costs are treated in some detail.
The book concludes with a full chapter case study on the Obama
administration's response to the Great Recession and its dealings
with Congress; the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is
also discussed.
This text introduces students to the interrelationship of politics
and economics in American public policymaking: how economic
concerns have been legislated into law since Franklin Roosevelt's
time and how politics (e.g., Washington gridlock) affects the
economy and the making of public policy. Students learn how to
measure various indicators of economic performance, how the U.S.
economy works (domestically and with international linkages), and
how and why policymakers act to stabilise an economy in an economic
downturn. Additionally, many social insurance programs (Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid) are explained and the current fiscal
issues concerning current/future costs are treated in some detail.
The book concludes with a full chapter case study on the Obama
administration's response to the Great Recession and its dealings
with Congress; the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is
also discussed.
The NeWS Book leads the technical reader through the discovery of a
revolutionary window system: the Network extensible Window System,
developed by Sun Microsystems. Independent of computer hardware and
systems software, NeWS has been ported to a number of platforms and
licensed to many computer vendors and software developers. NeWS
will be part of the standard UNIX distribution from AT&T in the
future as it is combined with the well-known X Window System from
MIT in the X11/NeWS product. The specifications are in the public
domain. Based on the popular PostScript page description language,
NeWS provides a uniquely extensible interpretive programming
environment for application developers in a networked graphics and
window system environment. Networking is integral to NeWS;
NeWS-based programs may span a heterogeneous set of distributed
sites. NeWS is the first system to extend the PostScript language's
already wide acceptance in printing applications into the realm of
graphics and window-based applications. The NeWS Book is intended
for a technical audience who may or may not have experience with
window system design and programming.It gives practical examples of
how to write PostScript programs, that implement interactive user
interface techniques, while also exploring how the advanced imaging
of the PostScript language model applies to the display as well as
the printer. UNIX, NeWS, and graphics programmers, developers of
graphical applications, computer science students, PostScript
language devotees in desktop publishing, and sophisticated
end-users who want to understand leading-edge solutions in window
system design all will benefit from The NeWS Book.
The NeWS Book leads the technical reader through the discovery of a
revolutionary window system: the Network extensible Window System,
developed by Sun Microsystems. Independent of computer hardware and
systems software, NeWS has been ported to a number of platforms and
licensed to many computer vendors and software developers. NeWS
will be part of the standard UNIX distribution from AT&T in the
future as it is combined with the well-known X Window System from
MIT in the X11/NeWS product. The specifications are in the public
domain. Based on the popular PostScript page description language,
NeWS provides a uniquely extensible interpretive programming
environment for application developers in a networked graphics and
window system environment. Networking is integral to NeWS;
NeWS-based programs may span a heterogeneous set of distributed
sites. NeWS is the first system to extend the PostScript language's
already wide acceptance in printing applications into the realm of
graphics and window-based applications. The NeWS Book is intended
for a technical audience who may or may not have experience with
window system design and programming. It gives practical examples
of how to write PostScript programs, that implement interactive
user interface techniques, while also exploring how the advanced
imaging of the PostScript language model applies to the display as
well as the printer. UNIX, NeWS, and graphics programmers,
developers of graphical applications, computer science students,
PostScript language devotees in desktop publishing, and
sophisticated end-users who want to understand leading-edge
solutions in window system design all will benefit from The NeWS
Book.
Sally Mara’s Intimate Diary, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a
salacious, black humorous and meaningful story by the influential
and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When ‘Sally Mara’
begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives
with her mother, older brother and younger sister in south central
Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is
writing in ‘newly-learned’ French to impress her beloved and
just departed French tutor, a professional polyglot linguist. To
impress him even more, she decides to learn Irish in order to write
a novel of some kind in Irish. However, the action throughout is
determined by Sally’s resolution to overcome her ignorance of the
mysteries of sex and reproduction. The often sensual and dark
humour of Sally Mara’s Journal intime is founded on language and
languages, so this translation, while prioritizing clarity, aims to
maintain ‘Frenchness’, tinged of course with Dublinese.
Surprisingly, for a French author, Irish words and phrases occur
throughout; these are not translated but, like some challenging
French phrases, are supported by footnotes. In 1949, when Raymond
Queneau wrote Journal intime, published anonymously under the
pseudonym Sally Mara, he was, as always, greatly influenced by
James Joyce and fascinated by the limitations of language. He was
also in need of the ready money provided by Éditions du Scorpion,
publishers of erotic and violent pulp fiction, and of Journal
intime.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Pregnancy tests, HIV tests, and tests to confirm heart attacks and many other clinical diagnostic tests are all immunoassays. Without immunoassays a huge variety of biologically important molecules could not be easily detected or quantified. Immunoassays is the first practical volume designed to help any biologist develop an immunoassay of any common format for any suitable analyte. The basic principles are described and the choices of assay types and formats listed.
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