Presenting emphases on and approaches to issues such as government spending, reporting, pricing and fiscal federalism, the Handbook of Public Finance demonstrates the utility of integrating public finance theory with actual public policy practices. It discusses applications in major subfields of public finance, including public education, environmental regulation, energy policy, social welfare programs, and local and state politics. Other topics of discussion include the theory and practice of tax incidence analysis; the marginal costs of taxation and regulation, the economics of expenditure incidence, discounting and the social discount rate; passive use benefits, and public sector pricing.

Full Bloom offers an unflinching accounts of the rapturous highs and despondent lows of someone afflicted with bipolar disorder. Certainly readers who've been diagnosed as falling within the bipolar spectrum, as well as their friends and loved ones, can experience a resonance in the pages of this forthright manuscript. While that familiarity may sometimes be uncomfortable-these stories don't make for easy reading-the close of each story offers comforting and admirable hope.

As in Mark Greene's first book, "Under the Fan," this writer rips away the pretense from the first word of a poem and goes right to the heart of the message. Your voice...Like a drug...Like an addiction...When you say it that certain way... That familiar way...And I know...I've lost myself. And so goes this unusual and compelling collection of poetry and prose in which the author/poet/songwriter probes into the everyday struggles faced by everyman and the demons in his life.