Embedded Autonomy
The mechanism of developmental state: This book is regarded as de facto classic in the tradition of developmental state. The strategy of developmental state is the denial of extant hierarchy of comparative advantage. To achieve high growth rate, there [... more]
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
Amazon.com Review: Hang a curtain too close to a fireplace and you run the risk of setting your house ablaze. Drive a car on a pitch-black night without headlights, and you dramatically increase the odds of smacking into a tree. These are matters of [... more]
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Water for Gotham: A History
Amazon.com Review: "The chief disadvantage of New York," observed the Swedish botanist Peter Kalm in the mid-18th century, "is the want of good water." The Dutch farmers who settled on Manhattan in the 1600s found the island, which is [... more]
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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
REALLY BAD PICTURED !!!: This book is a very good way to show who was Frank lloyd Wright because Neil Levine did it very well. But this book has really bad pictures, white and black they are insuficiant in quality and quantity. Because of this, this book [... more]
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A Guide to the Birds of Panama
Strong overall with a few significant flaws: The text in this book is excellent, with good descriptions of the various species and nice writeups of behavioral habits. However if you want to use the book as a field guide to identify the birds you are [... more]
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Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 757.409455109024 EAN: 9780691090573 ISBN: 0691090572 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2001-10-01 [... more]
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Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.
A must read on the relationship of violence and scarcity...: Like most political science books, after I finished this one, I was slightly disappointed. I bought this book in hopes of a masterwork; upon turning its last page, I thought that this book was [... more]
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The Limits of Safety
Sagan and organizational theory: With nuclear technology entering its seventh decade of use, one may have surmised that issues surrounding the safety of this technology would be well agreed upon with a consensus view of the potential pitfalls involved in [... more]
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The Butterflies of Costa Rica and Their Natural History, ...
butterly museum: This book along with the photo essay book "Costa Rica : The Last Country the Gods Made" should be owned by anyone who loves Costa Rica, even if they think they despise nature studies as dry and limited. Buy it just for the [... more]
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The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann - review by F.A.Ware: The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann Herman H. Goldstine A review by Frederick A. Ware This book contains a great deal of computer history, particularly of the period during and shorty [... more]
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Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas (Princeton ...
A must have!: This is probably the most useful book for anyone involved in plant identification, such as Forest Engineers, specially those working in tropical America, where one often encounters many kinds of palms in the field, but until now it was not [... more]
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Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, ...
Important and Worthwhile Read: While a challenging read, Evans offers us an invaluable look at Brazil's shift from "classic dependence" to "dependent development". This is not a look at class struggle but rather an in-depth look at [... more]
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