About the Books
Poetry Matters – Write!
Across the world, every autumn, thousands of young people leave their homes to study at a university, and, then, to find work in a city. Most expect to avoid cruelly hard work, with the plough, the spade, or the loom, and to find congenial work, in the air-conditioned office, at meetings, or writing reports. Then there are all the young people who will not make it to college, for one reason or another (usually, poverty). But all of you need learning and understanding, and some of it can come from writing your own poetry, or reading others’.
Call my poems candles in the wind, which have illuminated my life, and others’ too, and may do the same for yours, as we all face up to the realities of our situations and societies. Seeing what is true, in our corner of civilisation, may be more useful to us, and more easily communicated, than creating or analysing verses which conform to a culture’s prevailing values.
Bring your critical faculties to bear on my poetry — ask yourself, what is true in these poems, and what is not? And learn.
An Economics Primer For International Students
The aim of this book is to introduce the essentials of economics, beginning, in Reading 1, with the ideas of resources, scarcity, and choice, both individual and social. The operation of markets is discussed in Reading 2, including the description of the perfect market, leading to a definition of economic efficiency, which informs many policy and investment decisions across the world. Reading 3 explains the operation of Demand and Supply analysis, and the sources of market failure are presented in Reading 4. The need for objectivity is emphasized; economics is the art of making judgements using evidence and logic. The origins and the resolution of the climate change crisis are examined in Reading 5, where re-orientating academic research is considered as the essential problem we have to solve. The Appendix provides answers to the questions provided in the Readings, and provides a Bibliography in support of Reading 5.
Valuing Health In Practice
All of us are faced with the problem of scarcity in the health sector. Taking part in discussion requires an understanding of the main arguments used to justify new procedures, and to discard those existing ones which are not as effective. It is also important to understand the limitations of medical science, particularly the problems posed by the randomised controlled trial, as well as the potential of (for example) lattice analysis in situations where quality of life simply cannot be measured meaningfully.
About the Books
Poetry Matters – Write!
Across the world, every autumn, thousands of young people leave their homes to study at a university, and, then, to find work in a city. Most expect to avoid cruelly hard work, with the plough, the spade, or the loom, and to find congenial work, in the air-conditioned office, at meetings, or writing reports. Then there are all the young people who will not make it to college, for one reason or another (usually, poverty). But all of you need learning and understanding, and some of it can come from writing your own poetry, or reading others’.
Call my poems candles in the wind, which have illuminated my life, and others’ too, and may do the same for yours, as we all face up to the realities of our situations and societies. Seeing what is true, in our corner of civilisation, may be more useful to us, and more easily communicated, than creating or analysing verses which conform to a culture’s prevailing values.
Bring your critical faculties to bear on my poetry — ask yourself, what is true in these poems, and what is not? And learn.
An Economics Primer For International Students
The aim of this book is to introduce the essentials of economics, beginning, in Reading 1, with the ideas of resources, scarcity, and choice, both individual and social. The operation of markets is discussed in Reading 2, including the description of the perfect market, leading to a definition of economic efficiency, which informs many policy and investment decisions across the world. Reading 3 explains the operation of Demand and Supply analysis, and the sources of market failure are presented in Reading 4. The need for objectivity is emphasized; economics is the art of making judgements using evidence and logic. The origins and the resolution of the climate change crisis are examined in Reading 5, where re-orientating academic research is considered as the essential problem we have to solve. The Appendix provides answers to the questions provided in the Readings, and provides a Bibliography in support of Reading 5.
Valuing Health In Practice
All of us are faced with the problem of scarcity in the health sector. Taking part in discussion requires an understanding of the main arguments used to justify new procedures, and to discard those existing ones which are not as effective. It is also important to understand the limitations of medical science, particularly the problems posed by the randomised controlled trial, as well as the potential of (for example) lattice analysis in situations where quality of life simply cannot be measured meaningfully.