Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and European Cinema

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During the first half of this century, motion pictures were often considered disposable once their circulations were over. The recycling of used film and the use of components for war efforts contributed to the loss of many movies, as did the unstable nature of the nitrate film itself. The loss of extant works has created gaps in the national cinematic history of the United States and most European countries. Eighty percent of all Western-made films produced before World War I are considered lost, while 15 percent of the films made from 1930 to 1950 are also missing.
Here are descriptions of nearly 1,000 of the lost American and European films produced between 1900 and 1950, featuring the talents of the still famous as well as the now obscure. The films are arranged by country and reveal the remarkably prolific early filmmaking in countries like the Netherlands and Sweden. Each entry includes production information, cast, synopsis, history, and insights from reviews when available. Photographs from these films provide glimpses of what once was. An extensive index is included.

Land of a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock 'n' Roll from Southern California

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SALESIAN
Chicano Music Influences on Culture
Very entertaining and interesting background material

Land of a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock 'n' Roll from Southern California
David Reyes , and Tom Waldman
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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ASIN: 0826318835

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Evolving from blues, R&B, boleros, funk, punk, and the British invasion, Chicano rock 'n' roll out of Southern California has enriched the music scene forever with the likes of Ritchie Valens, Thee Midniters, Cannibal and the Headhunters, El Chicano, The Brat, and Los Lobos, to name a few.

Land of a Thousand Dances tells the story of this uniquely American sound beginning with Lalo Guerrero and Chico Sesma--musical forefathers in East LA--and the white DJs and black musicians who in the 1950s first recognized Mexican Americans as a powerful market. Next came the producers who traveled the garage circuit looking for new talent, and, of course, the kids who sang and composed their way to record labels. The constant through it all has been the Chicano fans who to this day hand down oldies like cherished heirlooms.

Through interview and anecdote, Land of a Thousand Dances formally installs Chicanos in the history of rock 'n' roll.

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SALESIAN.......2002-03-03

Many of the groups mentioned had their beginnings in the Salesian High School Rock n' Roll shows of the late 60's. Thee midnighter, Thee Enchantments, The Pharoahs, The Nightdreamers, Art and the Fabulons,Lil Art, the Counts, The Blue Satins, the impalas, The 4 x 4's, the Celestials, and many more. They grew into the Battle of the Bands of East L.A. The Showmen and The Majestics,who I roadied for, in the LATE 60' to the early 70's. Hank Castro of the Majestics still sings today at the Hop. An album, if you can get it, is the "East Side Revue" it was in yellow vinyl and black vinyl. It's a classic album.

Chicano Music Influences on Culture.......2000-02-06

"Land of a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock 'N' Roll from Southern California" traces the roots and influences on the Chicano/Latino music scene today. The book is well researched including dozens of interviews with early performers from East L.A. and all around the Southland.

Mr. Reyes' and Waldman's rich photo archives accompany a history that may well have been lost had they not carefully documented it for us. The musical influences of artists like Richie Valens, Thee Midnighters, Cannibal and the Headhunters, Mark Guerrero, "Grammy Award" winning musician Carlos Santana, El Chicano, Tierra, and Malo are particularly interesting. Future generations of Hispanics and non-Hispanics will be blessed with the memories and experiences that the pioneers of Chicano Rock-n-Roll had with this enchanted cruise with sounds of the barrio, a magical blend of cultures that brought forth these "Oldies but Goodies"!

Very entertaining and interesting background material.......1999-11-04

I found this to be a very joyful experience back into a musical era (1960') when I was teenager. I grew up with people like the Salas's Bros. (my cousins) El Chicano, the Premiers ( I went to grade school and High school with them), Thee Enchantments, played football with Willie Garcia of the Midnighters. Knew members of Yaqui, and Art Brambila, my uncle. I saw most of these groups that you mentioned in your book live throuhout my teenage years. Alot of these people were my friends. One dear friend that was never mentioned in your book was Eddie Serrano, former singer of Yaqui, Thee Enchantments and most currently, Cannibal and the Headhunters. Eddie passed away early this year from a bicycle accident. We grew as neighbors,more like brothers in Lincoln Heights. He contributed a lot to East La Music and entertainment in general. I was hoping he would be mentioned so his family and close friends could see his accomplishments written for legacy.

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Beautiful.......2005-06-27

With Waldman's ability to capture even the slightest nuance of emotion, his photographs exquisitely convey a full range of movement as it flows through the dancer's form.

The Art of Magic: The Companion to the Pbs Special

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Made for the serious knowledge-seeker of Magic.
Impressive and very comprehensive book.

The Art of Magic: The Companion to the Pbs Special
Carl Waldman , Jamy Ian Swiss , and Joe Layden
Manufacturer: Stoddart
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ASIN: 1575440369

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Made for the serious knowledge-seeker of Magic........1998-08-24

Richly informative and easily able to hold the attention of the modern-day reader while acquainting him with the fully illustrated history of this continuing marvel right up to the present day. A must for magic fanatics and historians alike.

Impressive and very comprehensive book........1998-08-01

This book offers wonderful photos and a look into magic's marvelous history. Also covers the masters of the art today, such as Lance Burton, David Copperfield, and Siegfried & Roy. Highly recommended!

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Beyond Hollywood's Grasp
Harry Waldman
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810828413

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Recounts the period in which American directors, stars, and technicians ventured beyond America's shores to first make films abroad. But out of sight, they were quickly forgotten, or worse, ignored back home, though as a group they produced more than 200 films in 30 years.This is the story of those films--illustrated with 60 rarely seen stills--and the filmmakers who created them.

The Dance of the Flying Gurnards: America's Coastal Curiosities and Beachside Wonders

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Sea life and it's small treasures

The Dance of the Flying Gurnards: America's Coastal Curiosities and Beachside Wonders
John Waldman
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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A fascinating guide to the strange and beautiful life of coastal waters.

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Sea life and it's small treasures.......2003-04-05

Anyone who loves to run their toes through sand and surf at shorelines, now may be able to find, identify, and be in awe of many treasures found at beach turfs and inshore waters. Frankly, this book offers more than just that, it will forever become a foremost, understandable, and alluring reference for the entire family and their sea shore outings. Waldman knows his topic, and offers The Dance of the Flying Gurnards with a purity his seashore subjects deserve.

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Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films
Harry Waldman
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786409576

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Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961), the French and American director, actor, and theatrical manager, is the focus of this work that takes a look at his life and career in the film industry. He began in France during the years 1912 to 1914, making a number of silents of which the subject was often gamin and orphan seeking shelter and love. Tourneur spent 1914-1926 in New Jersey and Hollywood, directing more than 50 films, using his French interests and talents to help shape the industry, and bringing "stylization" to the screen. He was known in America for his mastery of lighting, design, and atmosphere. Tourneur worked in many genres, but one theme that ran throughout his work dealt with the tricks and ruses of love that women often faced-and sometimes used-to find happiness. While special attention is paid to facts about his films, a notable feature of this work are the photographs of Tourneur and his film subjects.

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Max Waldman on Dance
Max Waldman
Manufacturer: Books Nippan
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Binding: Paperback

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Waldman On Dance

Waldman on dance
Max Waldman
Manufacturer: Morrow
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0688032273

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Waldman On Dance.......2003-05-27

Max was one of the great photographers of the mid 20th century and surely the best at capturing dance.

Word Dance: The Language of Native American Culture

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Word Dance: The Language of Native American Culture
Carl Waldman
Manufacturer: Replica Books
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Fantastic! Extremely Helpful for Any Network Marketer

Very illuminating!

Very little info

The MLM Binary Plan
Ray H. Duncan
Manufacturer: Double Diamond publishing
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The New Professionals: The Rise of Network Marketing As the Next Major Profession

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A Comprehensive look at Network Marketing's Most Controversial Distributor Compensation Plan.

Here are the complete Facts and Fictions behind Network Marketing's most misunderstood compensation plan.

Includes: Legal History - Pay Out Comparisons - Myths and Misconceptions - Building and Structuring Tips

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Fantastic! Extremely Helpful for Any Network Marketer.......2005-09-13

This book is a non-biased, helpful book explaining the binary plan of network marketing. I am brand new in the business of network marketing and am not familiar with the different plans that are out there. This book helped me to review each plan and see that the binary plan is the best one for me. Thanks Amazon for having this book in supply.

Very illuminating!.......2003-11-16

I just joined my first MLM Company. Having heard about binary plans I was confused. This book take the confusion out and gives a thorough explanation on how binary plans work.

Before reading Binary Plans, I was considering another company with an unlimited front line sponsorship. Now I would never go with anything but binary. It's the only way and this book explains why.

Obviously the author has a lot of experience in MLM and is an excellent writer too.

Very little info.......2003-11-08

This book has very little useful information.

It does not do a good job of explaining how to design a binary system or in comparing the binary system to other MLM compensation systems.

The author states that he is very knowledgeable about the industry, however the content is not well thought ought and the writing is poor which destroys the credibility of the little information that is in this book.

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Where's the Beef?

An original and persuasive argument for a true Third Way.

This clarification of Binary Theory is of historic import.

A New Approach to Economic Justice and Efficiency

Binary Economics: The New Paradigm
Robert Ashford , and Rodney Shakespeare
Manufacturer: University Press of America
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ASIN: 0761813217

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Binary Economics presents a new paradigm which founds a practical new economics and a unifying new politics that enable people to understand and realize their essential rights and responsibilities in a market economy. This paradigm recognizes that capital has a potent productive and distributive relationship to growth, and by democratically extending the efficient means to acquire capital to all people using the earnings of capital on market principles, binary economics offers many important benefits beyond those provided by conventional economics. The authors present this concept as new hope for solving seemingly intractable problems of economic efficiency, distribution, and justice not solved by conventional economic theories and practices, while enabling people to understand and realize their essential rights and responsibilities in a market economy. The binary paradigm allows cooperation with governments to make modest reforms to existing capital markets so that all people can acquire capital using the earnings of capital and offering the market foundation for many important benefits, including substantial, sustainable growth; more equal opportunity and social justice; increased earning power for the poor, working and middle class people; a greener environment; individual autonomy; strong families and communities; strengthened democracy; and voluntary control of population levels.

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Where's the Beef?.......2004-12-28

Will this be able to be applied without damaging social security? If not, it may become a cover for a new method of Bushwah theft of social secrity aimed at delivering it to Wall Street! I met Kelso in the 60s & Adler before that, and I gave Kelso a platform, too, so I have heard it all before. If you can't say how it goes into effect without hurting seniors FORGEDDA BOUT IT! Get to the POINT FASTER!!! ~~~ Matt Clarke in Rockland Maine 594-6453

An original and persuasive argument for a true Third Way........1999-07-24

If anyone deserves a Nobel Prize for Economics, Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare do for their original, scholarly and persuasive case in support of the late Louis Kelso's binary theory of economics. Many other writers on "worker ownership," "broad-based capital ownership," and "participatory economics" have trivialized and marginalized Kelso as "the inventor of the ESOP" and as merely another advocate of "the ownership solution" to the flaws of global capitalism. (One notable exception is William Greider, who gives an undistorted description of Kelso's paradigm in his 1997 best-seller ONE WORLD, READY OR NOT: THE MANIC LOGIC OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM.)

Ashford and Shakespeare should be congratulated for recognizing Louis Kelso as a major contributor to economic theory and the architect of a unified system of economics. Kelso's system, first articulated in his 1958 classic THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO co-authored with philosopher Mortimer Adler, combines the elegance of classical market theory and moral philosophy with the highest spiritual values. Ashford and Shakespeare pinpoint where Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes fell short theoretically by not recognizing the increasing productiveness of capital as the main source of economic growth and the most logical source of widespread income distribution. This conceptual omission is embedded in all conventional schools of economic thought, from left to right. Consequently, few economic theorists can ever make accurate predictions about the future or offer sound long-range solutions to meet the dangers of economic globalization.

Binary economics states that in a genuinely free market economy, people should be able to contribute to and gain their incomes from the economic process, based on both their labor and their capital inputs. Most neo-classical and Keynesian economists would dismiss this postulate as absurd, asserting that capitalism already operates this way. Louis Kelso and the authors of BINARY ECONOMICS, however, show that institutional barriers to broad-based ownership limit most people to earning their incomes through their labor alone. Consequently the market system breaks down, as government is forced to interfere with the market mechanism and redistribute incomes to non-owning working people and the unemployed.

The authors explain why neither Wall Street capitalism nor the many versions of socialism can ever achieve economic or social justice. Ashford and Shakespeare argue that so-called "free market" policies alone cannot achieve sustainable growth, and explain why the wealth gap continues to widen dangerously between nations and between the rich and poor within all nations. They point to a system beyond capitalism and socialism that provides every person, as a fundamental right of citizenship, with equal access to capital credit and other "social goods" needed to become owners of capital. Their new paradigm provides:

--a new understanding of the relationship between humans and things as they work together to produce goods and services;

--a new explanation for industrial growth, poverty and affluence; and

--a new strategy for achieving general affluence for all people on free market principles.

Few people would disagree with the authors that the so-called "free market" would be better termed the "un-free market." As they point out, a free and open market cannot work efficiently or justly under conditions where (1) workers have only their labor to sell in a free global marketplace, (2) ownership of productive capital globally is concentrated into the hands of a small ownership class, (3) the productive efforts and labor incomes of propertyless workers remain threatened globally by labor-displacing technology and by workers willing to accept lower wages, and (4) exclusionary barriers to more equal ownership opportunities remain in our laws and institutions.

The strength of this readable book is its sharp focus on economic theory. The book touches only lightly on the moral and political dimensions of binary economics. For a deeper discussion on those issues, the reader should turn directly to Kelso's writings and to the compendium of articles (including one by Kelso and another by Ashford) presented in the book, CURING WORLD POVERTY: THE NEW ROLE OF PROPERTY, John H. Miller, ed., published in 1994 by Social Justice Review (St. Louis).

To move toward the goal of general affluence within the new ownership paradigm, the authors advocate a "binary infrastructure" including principled yet practical social policies and "social tools," such as:

--"constituency" vehicles, like ESOPs, using tested principles of corporate finance to connect all citizens to capital credit as a new and fundamental right of citizenship;

--a tax system and corporate policies that encourage the full payout of corporate profits;

--capital credit insurance and re-insurance as a substitute for collateral; and

--a flexible but disciplined monetary policy which liberates future growth from the slavery of past savings.

I wholeheartedly endorse this book as required reading for all serious and open-minded students of economics. It is especially valuable for all policymakers who have not yet become, in the words of Keynes, unwitting "slaves of some defunct economist."

ABOUT THE REVIEWER: Mr. Kurland, a lawyer-economist and president of the Center for Economic and Social Justice was Louis Kelso's Washington-based political strategist for 11 years, following years of work in civil rights and the War on Poverty. In 1974, he and Kelso persuaded Senator Russell Long to champion legislation to promote employee stock ownership plans or "ESOPs." Among the expanded ownership models Kurland designed was the world's first 100% leveraged ESOP buyout, and the first ESOP in a developing country. Mr. Kurland was appointed by President Reagan in 1985 as deputy chairman of the bipartisan Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice, formed to promote Kelsonian reforms in US assistance programs to developing economies.

This clarification of Binary Theory is of historic import........1999-06-30

The second chapter of Dr. Brian Greene's wonderful recent book, THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE, begins with the following passages. "In June 1905, twenty-six-year old Albert Einstein submitted a technical article to the ANNALS OF PHYSICS in which he came to grips with a paradox about light that had first troubled him as a teenager, some ten years earlier. Upon turning the final page of Einstein's manuscript, the editor of the journal, Max Planck, realized that the accepted scientific order had been overthrown." If one completes a thorough reading of BINARY ECONOMICS:THE NEW PARADIGM without a very similar sense of historic import, a second reading, at the very least, is likely in order. As an independent researcher with pronounced interests in some of the more rarified limits of current scientific inquiry such as superstring theory, complex adaptive systems, nanotechnology, genome studies, biophysics and significant recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, I am often led to contemplate the longer term social and economic implications of the often breath taking advances being quietly but incessantly developed in the academic, corporate and government research labs of this country and around the world. Perhaps because of the persistent background hum of these ruminations, a somewhat more than avocational, but less than career specialized interest in history and economic theory has been cultivated between the previously mentioned preoccupations. I mention all of this by way of attempting to place in some context why I regard the subject of this new book to be SO enormously important. Again, the book to which I refer is entitled, BINARY ECONOMICS:THE NEW PARADIGM, by Robert A. Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare. In doing considerable associated reading in the Binary literature, it becomes stunning and disturbing to learn that a conceptual breakthrough of the absolutely transparent significance of both the Kelsonian distinction between productivity, traditionally defined, and binary productiveness, AND the insight that capital is INDEPENDENTLY productive, with all of the profound distributive, legal, social, economic institutional implications attendant to this insight, has apparently been marginalized by the prevailing academic and policy priesthood for so long and so lamely. One cannot help but be reminded of other work of historic importance originally dismissed and ignored; reminded that Mendel's work in heredity had to be revived from the void of indifference and inattention long after his death; more recently, in the field of biophysics, one is reminded of how the brilliant, profound and almost certainly far prescient work of the great Russian scientist, Alexander Gurwitsch, has been lost in the same void. Historians of science would undoubtedly enumerate scores of other cases, with, however, a significant difference, in my opinion. Rarely, I would venture, has there ever been such a high risk in the benefits denied to society for such instances of bias, academic politics, and/or insight envy as there is now for continuing to dismiss outright or trivialize as 'fadish' (as Professor Samuelson apparently once did with respect to Binary Theory) the core theoretical insights and institutional prescriptions of this theory. Messrs. Ashford and Shakespeare set out to redress such oversight with respect to Binary Theory in this book and compellingly succeed. In fact, I would go further than this. When one considers the technologies arising, or likely to arise from many of the areas of research alluded to earlier, the natural, indeed the blatantly obvious, resonance with the Binary concept of the independent productiveness of capital is SO pronounced that there begins to emerge a sense of near historical inevitability to an ultimate recognition of legitimacy, and policy implementation of a Binary adapted market system. In such a context, one finds oneself not merely inspired by the possibilities, but increasingly incensed at the obdurate clinging to denial that threatens the sooner fulfillment of such potentially overwhelming social and economic benefits,which there is no good reason to short circuit. Upon completing this work, one is left feeling that it is time to join Messrs. Ashford and Shakespeare in intellectually rolling up our sleeves, as it were, and energetically getting about the business of transcending the complacency that rings its hands over issues of distributional inequity but can't imagine any policy alternative not sanctioned by the big daddy of conventional REdistributional wisdom. One is left with a powerful conviction that the late Louis Kelso has provided us with the fundamental conceptual breakthroughs that many have long intuitively sensed were needed to elevate distributional mechanisms to a more complete level of theoretical comprehensiveness and institutional efficacy that, I believe, the rarified technologies of the future will nearly compel. In BINARY ECONOMICS:THE NEW PARADIGM, I believe that Messrs. Ashford and Shakespeare have thrown down a gauntlet of challenge that will place a very weighty scholastic burden on the equivocators for the conventional wisdom. Finally, I believe that this work is FAR too important to merely leave to the vagaries of a salvaging retrieval from the void by some hopefully more attentive future. Especially at a time when major national elections loom, and issues of real substance are all too often AWOL, this work deserves the most attentive consideration by every interested citizen, theoretician, and politico.

A New Approach to Economic Justice and Efficiency.......1999-06-02

Binary Economics: The New Paradigm, by Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare deserves a careful reading by anyone concerned with growth and economic justice. In so-called free market economies, as they are presently constituted, the great benefits of economic growth (which are in turn the consequence of the pace of technological advance) do not accrue to most poor and working people, though it is poor and working people who bear the cost of such technological advance in the instabilities and displacement it engenders. Rather, the great benefits of that economic growth go primarily to the wealthy few who, through their ownership of stock, exercise a claim on corporate earnings. The result is a growing disparity in wealth and opportunity that is doing great harm to society. Many have tried to address this problem; but as yet, conventional thinking has failed to produce a working consensus on what can and should be done to create a more just and efficient economic playing field. In Binary Economics: The New Paradigm, in very readable prose, Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare carefully advance a wholly voluntary means of enabling increasing numbers of poor and working men and women also to exercise a viable claim on the growing benefits of technological advance (and hence of economic growth) as a normal function within the framework of a market economy. Their proposed system builds on existing principles of corporate finance, insurance and monetary policy, making only modest and wholly democratic changes intended to facilitate capital acquisition for all people. Whether the voluntary operation of a binary economy will produce the growth, distributive justice, and other benefits predicted by binary economists remains to be seen; but the binary proposals and predictions cannot be responsibly dismissed on the strength of conventional economic theory, which itself has yet to solve, let alone explain, the problem that Ashford and Shakespeare address. Theirs is a noble goal, and the new discourse they seek to initiate, focused on achieving a more equitable distribution of wealth by way of voluntary transactions and without distribution, is of the utmost importance. People concerned about economic justice and efficiency cannot credibly claim to be open to new solutions and yet ignore this book.

Binary Decision Diagrams - Theory and Implementation

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Binary Decision Diagrams - Theory and Implementation
Rolf Drechsler , and Bernd Becker
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ASIN: 0792381939

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Within the last 10-13 years Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) have become the state-of-the-art data structure in VLSI CAD for representation and manipulation of Boolean functions. Today, BDDs are widely used and in the meantime have also been integrated in commercial tools, especially in the area of verification and synthesis.
The interest in BDDs results from the fact that the data structure is generally accepted as providing a good compromise between conciseness of representation and efficiency of manipulation. With increasing numbers of applications, also in non-CAD areas, classical methods of handling BDDs are being improved and new questions and problems evolve and have to be solved.
Binary Decision Diagrams: Theory and Implementation is intended both for newcomers to BDDs and for researchers and practitioners who need to implement them. Apart from giving a quick start for the reader who is not familiar with BDDs (or DDs in general), it also discusses several new aspects of BDDs, e.g. with respect to minimization and implementation of a package. It is an essential bookshelf item for any CAD designer or researcher working with BDDs.

Binary Functions and their Applications (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

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Binary Functions and their Applications (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
Horand Störmer
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In this book binary functions and their representation by implicants or implicates are described. In particular minimal representations by prime implicants or prime implicates are given. Such representations generalize the minimal representations of the usual Boolean functions. It is shown that implicants (implicates) of discrete functions may be constructed with the help of implicants (implicates) of binary functions. One substantial application is the description of the reliability structure of technical systems, another is the use of binary respectively discrete functions to classify objects which are described by the grades of certain attributes. Finally a class of Boolean algebras of practical importance (set algebras, indicator algebras, algebras of classes of propositions) are considered. The elements of such algebras have representations which are strongly connected with the representations of binary functions.

Detection of Binary Phase-Shift Keying Signal in Multipath Propagation

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Detection of Binary Phase-Shift Keying Signal in Multipath Propagation

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423509307

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A459404. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Time-varying dispersion and multipath propagation in a shallow underwater environment causes intersymbol interference in underwater communication. This thesis investigates a mitigation procedure for communication using a Binary Phase-Shift Keying (BPSK) signal. The method employed uses the time-reversed ocean impulse response to mitigate the degradation of the bit error rate performance. All results were achieved by the use of computer simulation of typical shallow water environments.

A Direct Sequence - Code Division Multiple Access/Binary Phase Shift Keying (DS-CDMA/BPSK) Modem Design

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A Direct Sequence - Code Division Multiple Access/Binary Phase Shift Keying (DS-CDMA/BPSK) Modem Design

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A464133. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In this thesis, the design of a direct sequence - code division multiple access/binary phase-shift keying (DS-CDMA/BPSK) modem is examined. In this prototype modem design, a short maximal length sequence of 31 chips is used to spread the information data. The design can be extended to longer codes which would provide greater capacity and processing gain. The hardware used in the functional realization of a working design is also discussed, the preliminary operational characteristics of a spread spectrum BPSK modem are achieved. The multi-user performance analysis is conducted using Bit Error Rate (BER) test equipment (HP1645A). The development of the final version of the modem operating at radio frequency (RF) is not conducted, but proof of concept is provided.

An Economic Evaluation of Binary Cycle Geothermal Electricity Production

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An Economic Evaluation of Binary Cycle Geothermal Electricity Production

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Estimation of a binary choice model with grouped choice data [An article from: Economics Letters]

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Estimation of a binary choice model with grouped choice data [An article from: Economics Letters]
L.A. Kurkalova , and S.S. Rabotyagov
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Estimation of panel data models with binary indicators when treatment effects are not constant over time [An article from: Economics Letters]

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Estimation of panel data models with binary indicators when treatment effects are not constant over time [An article from: Economics Letters]
A. Laporte , and F. Windmeijer
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This digital document is a journal article from Economics Letters, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We show that two commonly employed estimation procedures to deal with correlated unobserved heterogeneity in panel data models, within-groups and first-differenced OLS, can lead to very different estimates of treatment effects when these are not constant over time and treatment is a state that only changes occasionally. It is therefore important to allow for flexible time varying treatment effects when estimating panel data models with binary indicator variables as is illustrated by an example of the effects of marital status on mental wellbeing.

Fuzzy Decision Procedures with Binary Relations: Towards a Unified Theory (Theory and Decision Library D:)

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Fuzzy Decision Procedures with Binary Relations: Towards a Unified Theory (Theory and Decision Library D:)
Leonid Kitainik
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This book presents new ideas in the synthesis, analysis, and quality estimating of choice and ranking rules with crisp and valued preference relations of arbitrary type (non-transitive, non-antisymmetric, etc.). A regular structure of rationality concepts underlying conventional and modern choice rules is discovered, giving rise to a notion of a `fuzzy decision procedure'. Quality estimates for decision procedures (contensiveness and efficiency criteria) differ from the paradigm of choice theory; they are derived from the conjectures on continuous preferences, and of acceptability of multifold choice. This method results in an `extended choice logic', with uncertainty being organically absorbed by decision rules. Paradoxically, in this `softer' logic, the list of well-defined decision rules is considerably reduced, and revision of acknowledged rules is motivated. Applications to decision support systems and multicriteria decision-making are discussed and explained. Two relatively independent topics of the book are the axiomatic study of fuzzy implications and inclusions, and the general technique for fuzzy relational systems. The book is addressed to researchers, professionals and students working in fuzzy set theory, decision-making, management science.

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