Household Dynamics: Economic Growth and Policy uniquely integrates dynamic decision making by households, the collective implications of those decisions... for economic growth and inequality, and their consequences for policy. Written by a prominent author in the field, Household Dynamics develops intertemporal models of consumption, saving, human capital accumulation, investments in children, intergenerational transfers, division of labor, and fertility. The implications of these models are then assessed intuitively-without econometrics-in terms of the empirical literature. This furthers a rich microeconomic analysis of tax, transfer, and social insurance policies. Household decisions are crucial inputs into the formulation of economic growth models. A variety of general equilibrium growth frameworks are developed, each selecting from among human and physical capital accumulation, population growth, and technical change. These are employed to address earnings inequality, transitional dynamics, and longer-term neoclassical and endogenous growth. Fiscal policy applications include generational accounting, Social Security, and income taxation. Household Dynamics is a clear and accessible text appropriate for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. Although the models are developed in-depth, the analysis presupposes only a solid grounding in intermediate economic theory and exposure to the fundamental concepts of differential calculus. The emphasis on recent results, the depth of analysis, and the breadth of topics integrated also make this book a valuable reference for researchers.

Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the... twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to the United States. The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is one of the principal strategies that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S. border enforcement. Although this strategy is typically portrayed in the press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to an economic model and set of immigration policies in North America that increasingly resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms for them to work in the United States, migrants and coyotes draw on their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their path by government authorities.

In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of... Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littín returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he’d been exiled from for so many years; he also meant to pull off a very tricky stunt: with the help of three film crews from three different countries, each supposedly busy making a movie to promote tourism, he would secretly put together a film that would tell the truth about Pinochet’s benighted Chile—a film that would capture the world’s attention while landing the general and his secret police with a very visible black eye. Afterwards, the great novelist Gabriel García Márquez sat down with Littín to hear the story of his escapade, with all its scary, comic, and not-a-little surreal ups and downs. Then, applying the same unequaled gifts that had already gained him a Nobel Prize, García Márquez wrote it down. Clandestine in Chile is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage.

Clara, a free-spirited prostitute in Buenos Aires who is full of vague plans and dreams, tries to shield herself from an ominous world. Answering only... to her own laws, she reacts with inner strength and may even save herself from certain death. Clara mixes social commentary with tender humor, capturing a segment of humanity in Buenos Aires during the turbulent 1950s.

In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical... anthropology, anatomy, and neuroscience, to provide a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman argues forcibly that the widely influential theories of language's development, advanced by Chomskian linguists and cognitive scientists, especially those that postulate a single dedicated language "module," "organ," or "instinct," are inconsistent with principles and findings of evolutionary biology and neuroscience. He argues that the human neural system in its totality is the basis for the human language ability, for it requires the coordination of neural circuits that regulate motor control with memory and higher cognitive functions. Pointing out that articulate speech is a remarkably efficient means of conveying information, Lieberman also highlights the adaptive significance of the human tongue. Fully human language involves the species-specific anatomy of speech, together with the neural capacity for thought and movement. In Lieberman's iconoclastic Darwinian view, the human language ability is the confluence of a succession of separate evolutionary developments, jury-rigged by natural selection to work together for an evolutionarily unique ability. (20061110)

Clara Lowenburg Moses: Memoir of a Southern Jewish Woman shares the story of one of Natchez’s most interesting residents. Born in 1865 to Isaac and... Ophelia Lowenburg and the granddaughter of Jewish community founders John and Jannette Mayer, Clara grew up in an affluent and influential family. In the 1870s her father served as Natchez’s first Jewish mayor, and her maternal aunts and uncles held important economic, civic, and social leadership positions before, during, and after the Civil War. Clara’s unpublished memoir, from which Machlovitz draws material for her book, reveals a complex and fascinating life. As a Jew in a predominantly Protestant town, Clara struggled to define and maintain her Jewish identity. Born and raised in the late nineteenth-century South, she adopted many of the attitudes and characteristics that make the region unique. Her strong will and independent spirit often put her at odds with Victorian notions of women’s “proper” roles in society. Throughout the book, Machlovitz expertly portrays Clara as a product of her time and place and as a unique and free-spirited individual. An introductory chapter explores Natchez Jewry during Clara’s lifetime and sets the historical context for her life. Subsequent sections detail her trials and tribulations through adolescence, married life, and widowhood. Clara’s world included a “wicked” stepmother, a deeply troubled husband, numerous brushes with death, and many happy days with family and friends.

Über den Autor Geboren am 20.10.1946 in Mürzzuschlag (Steiermark), studierte in Wien Theaterwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und Musik. Ausbildung zur... Organistin, seit 1966 freie Autorin. Für ihr Werk erhielt sie zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, darunter 1989 den Würdigungspreis der Stadt Wien für Literatur, 1998 den Georg-Büchner-Preis, 2002 den Theaterpreis Berlin und den Heinrich-Heine-Preis. Im Oktober 2004 folgte schließlich der Literatur-Nobelpreis.Jelineks Texte zeigen manipulierte Existenzen in entindividualisierender Gesellschaft, bestimmt durch falsche Glücksvorstellungen. "Wir sind Lockvögel, Baby" zeigt das Nebeneinander von Sprach- und Bewusstseinsmustern in der Gesellschaft. Den geschlossenen Zusammenhang des traditionellen Romans parodierend, verwebt Jelinek in einer Pseudohandlung die sprachlich-ideologischen Muster eines Heimatromans mit Porno- , Comic- und Horrorelementen. In "Michael. Ein Jugendbuch für die Infantilgesellschaft" entlarvt sie Schablonen und Stereotypen von Medienhelden, indem sie im Stil scheinbarer Naivität diese der Wirklichkeit derer gegenüberstellt, die aus dem Fernsehen ihre Orientierung und Sehnsüchte beziehen. In "Die Liebhaberinnen" werden in schonungsloser Satire Lebensumstände und Bewusstsein zweier unterprivilegierter «Schicksalsträgerinnen» vorgeführt. "Totenauberg", ein Stück über die Philosophen Martin Heidegger und Hannah Arendt, in dem das «urdeutsche Wortgeklingel» Heideggerscher Dunkelheiten zur Kenntlichkeit entstellt wird. "Oh Wildnis, oh Schutz vor ihr"' ist zugleich eine Absage an modische Naturmystik wie der Versuch einer Satire auf Erscheinungen des Kulturbetriebes. Mit der Erniedrigung der Frau beschäftigt sich der Roman "Lust". Am Beispiel trostloser Sexualität wird die ausbeutende Gewalt von Männern über Frauen geschildert. Ein von der Kritik zwiespältig aufgenommener Roman voller Sprachexperimente, der das große stilistische Können der Autorin dokumentiert.

Melville’s long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century... even the most partisan of Melville’s advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos and almost 18,000 lines about a naive American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions.            But modern critics have found Clarel a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of The Waste Land. It abounds with revelations of Melville’s inner life. Most strikingly, it is argued that the character Vine is a portrait of Melville’s friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Clarel is one of the most complex theological explorations of faith and doubt in all of American literature, and this edition brings Melville’s poem to new life.

In Catharine Maria Sedgwick s third novel, heiress Gertrude Clarence negotiates the marriage market in New York City. Innovative in its incorporation of... British and Caribbean elements alongside the American storyline, Clarence demonstrates Sedgwick s importance as a nineteenth-century novelist. Unlike her historical novels, Clarence is set in the New York City of Sedgwick s own day, and in this novel she proves herself to be an astute observer and critic of the social world of the young nation s most cosmopolitan city. Appendices include selections from Sedgwick s letters and journals, literary representations of the West Indies, and early reviews of the novel.

Clare of Assisi: The Lady provides new translations of Clares writings and related primary sources, revised and new introductions from earlier editions,... as well as previously unpublished documents to chronicle the life of Saint Clare. The first section presents Clares Letters, Testament, and Blessing. The second section includes the papal texts that prompted Clare to write her own Form of Life. The third section contains biographical writings about Clare beginning with Cardinal Hugolinos 1220 letter and ending with the Legend of Saint Clare. The book concludes with a dossier of documents, many translated into English for the first time, from the papacies of Honorius III, Gregory IX, and Innocent IV.

A textbook and workbook introducing several theories of human and mass communication in a straightforward manner. Relying heavily on examples and... exercises, the chapters are relatively short and include a founding or early journal article and reference to a more recent article that can be assigned. Instructors can use the book as a core text supplemented with readings and lectures, or as a supplement.

This disk, along with its companion Clarinet Solos & Duos (HL00220335) comprises the largest collection of clarinet music ever assembled. Includes... solos with piano accompaniment as well as duos, trios, and other ensembles. The disk also includes composer biographies and related articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Works on Mac and PC computers. Uses Adobe Reader® (available for free) and requires no special software or skill!

The advanced clarinetist, eager to improve quickly, often hits a wall on challenging techniques such as rapid tonguing and the precise control of... intonation. Clarinet Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist offers a year-long course in these and other important techniques for clarinet performance, providing a secret for every week of the year. Learn practical and technical secrets about ·Fingering strategies·Circular breathing·High register·Sight-reading and Orchestral repertoire·Mental concentration and memorization·Reed fixing and equipment·Career-planning Discussed in a straightforward way, the concepts are explained clearly and thoroughly and illustrated with photos, diagrams, and musical examples. This newly revised edition contains updated information on harmonics, electronic music and equipment, and expanded techniques for playing Klezmer music. An audio CD with excerpts performed by the author helps to fully demonstrate each concept. Printed with a lay-flat binding for use on music stands, Clarinet Secrets is perfect for all clarinetists, whether students in a class or private situation, professionals searching for technical or musical challenges, or instructors doing pedagogical research.