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When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This optics of light scattering media prob...

Reviews of Copenhagen. By MICHAEL FRAYN. (Methuen Drama, 1998.) Pp. 116. UK£6.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 413 72490 5. Scope: play. Level: non-specialist. Also published by (Anchor Books, 2000.) Pp. 135. US$12.00 (pbk). ISBN 0 385 72079 3. Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall. Annotated by JEREMY BERNSTEIN. (Copernicus Press, 2001.) Pp. xxx+384. US$20.00 (pbk). ISBN 0 387 95089 3. Sco...

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Online learning now seems to be ‘all the rage’! There has therefore been a substantial increase in research publications and books dealing with this very exciting and challenging topic. Some years ago, Gilly Salmon (2000) produced an interesting and valuable book on ‘e-moderating’ in online learning environments primarily, those that use computer conferencing as a major teaching and learning me...

ers take notes and keep track of their sources. Only chapter 5, " The Use of Archives and Special Collections, " attempts to analyze all eighty interview transcripts. It is curious that, with such a large base from which to draw data, the editors chose to compile only these thin " slices " rather than more comprehensive studies. The worth of the volume is severely limited by the small samples a...

This paper uses a heterogeneous …rms model to scrutinize Fair Trade’s aim to help the most disadvantaged producers in developing countries. Incorporating important aspects of Fair Trade in a two-good heterogeneous …rm model we show that only the most productive …rms will join Fair Trade arrangements. Higher required production standards and entry costs make Fair Trade not viable for low-product...