The debate over environmental, health, and safety regulation has reached a new crescendo in the 104th Congress. So impassioned is the debate on occasion, and so high the feelings, that even the tools of regulatory analysis have become part of the combat. To some, the term cost-benefit analysis, for example, is virtually a swearword, a nefarious tool used by big business to undermine regulations aimed at benefiting the people at large. To others, it is the mechanism for achieving more effective regulation at less cost. This new book on the subject of reforming regulation is aimed at increasing the light and turning down the heat. It consists of an introduction and nine chapters written by scientists, public policy analysts, and economists on various aspects of regulation and regulatory analysis. The book advances the latest knowledge and evidence on risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and related techniques for improving regulation--all based on experience and data accumulated over the quarter century since regulation in the areas of environment, health, and safety became a major player on the governmental stage. The strengths and limitations of those analytical tools are an important part of the portrait that is painted, but a common thesis is that, properly used, the tools can be helpful in getting better regulatory results.

Risks, Costs, and Lives Saved: Getting Better Results from Regulation

Business & Money

Economics

Hodder Education Publishers

This is the first major review of the history, theory, and methodology of historical geography. Written by a leading expert in the field, it provides a fascinating and erudite analysis of this powerful and influential intellectual tradition. Using case studies and examples drawn from around the world--and from numerous historical periods--Butlin surveys the many different approaches to reconstructing the geographies of the past. Major sections are devoted to the sources of evidence and data used by historical geographers; the methods deployed in recreating the physical environments and human landscapes of the past; and the importance of geographical perspectives in considering the economic, social, and political histories of power and control, of rural change, of industrial and urban development, and of changing patterns in trade, transport, and communications.

Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

Butlin, Robin A.

History

Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945 (Studies in Russian and East European)

Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945

Moore, Bob

World

Martin Pugh's volume offers a vigorous new interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era. With the skill and insight that characterize his earlier books, he explores as his central theme the relationship between the British state and its citizens.

State and Society: British Political and Social History, 1870-1992

Pugh, Martin

Our knowledge of modern Russian society has been greatly enriched by the research of recent decades. But while the politics of the period has been exhaustively documented, the social history remains less familiar. Vladimir Andrle's book is the first to draw together the findings and insights of this research to give us a comprehensive view of Russia's social history, starting at a time when the tsarist state seemed unassailable, and ending with the disintegration of the Soviet system.

A Social History of Twentieth-Century Russia

Andrle, Vladimir

Russia

The bedrock of every good clinician's success is the ability to obtain correct history and elicit all the abnormal physical signs from a patient. Professor Browse's highly successful text takes the student step by step through the systematic application of the principles of history taking and clinical examination. The revised and updated second edition contains a description of the techniques of history taking and clinical examination, and a detailed account of the symptoms and signs of the commn surgical diseases. These descriptions are presented under the same headings used to describe the methods of examination. This is done to emphasize and impress upon the reader the importance of a systematic approach. The symtoms and signs are then analysed and interpreted to show the reader how to deduce the diagnosis

An Introduction to the Symptoms and Signs of Surgical Disease (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

Medical Books

Browse, Norman L.

Medicine

Japan and the World Since 1868 (International Relations and the Great Powers)

By the mid-nineteenth century Japan had given up the technology of firearms and not a single steam engine existed in the country. By 1906 it had taken on and defeated Russia in war; by 1942 its empire spanned almost a fifth of the globe. Only three years later the empire had gone and Japan, devastated by bombing (conventional and atomic), was under American occupation. From that nadir in its fortunes, Japan has risen to become the second greatest economy in the world, with a level of prosperity to match. In no small part the economic 'miracle' was aided by Japan's foreign policy choices since 1945, just as those choices before that year led to security, aggrandizement, and eventually disaster. How to account for this progress from prudence, through folly, to present success is the enquiry at the core of Michael Barnhart's new study. He provides a masterly account of the domestic pressures that often helped shape foreign policy, as well as an evaluation of the changing world order itself. One of the book's central themes is the absence of a sustained national consensus in Japan's foreign-policy making, particularly before - but also after - 1945. The international environment for Japan from 1960 to the early 1990s was a tranquil one, in stark contrast to every prior period, but the end of the Cold War order has renewed divisions and acrimony in the debate over the country's proper role in the world. It may be that the history of Japan's foreign relations before those halcyon decades will have more contemporary usefulness than is commonly supposed or, perhaps, may be desired.

Japan and the World since 1868 (International Relations and the Great Powers)

Arts & Photography

Barnhart, Michael A.

History & Criticism

Japan's position as a major power in international affairs is recent, but the changes it has gone through during even so short a time have been immense. How to account for its progress from prudence, through folly, to present success is the enquiry at the core of Michael Barnhart's study. He provides a masterly account of the domestic pressures that often helped shape foreign policy, as well as an evaluation of the changing world order itself.

Children's Books

Collaborations between statisticians and behavioral scientists can benefit both the design and analysis of a practical research project. In this refreshing book, Brian Everitt and Dale Hay employ a case-oriented approach to demonstrate how such a collaboration works. A case-study drawn from child psychiatry is used to show the statistical techniques available to tackle a range of questions and data.

Talking about Statistics: A Psychologist's Guide to Design and Analysis

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Everitt, Brian S.

Hay, Dale F.

Psychology & Counseling

The Bayesian approach to statistics is now widely accepted as theoretically sound and practically viable. Enormous advances in Bayesian methodology in recent years have resulted in a great expansion of applications of Bayesian statistics in a wide variety of fields. This important addition to the series provides a comprehensive and readable treatment of modern Bayesian theory.

The Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 2B: Bayesian Inference

O'Hagan, Anthony

Education & Reference

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