anthology capability literature implications

books:

Japan's Growing Technological Capability: Implications for the U.S. Economy
Committee on Japan, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 1992

The perspectives of technologists, economists, and policymakers are brought together in this volume. It includes chapters dealing with approaches to assessment of technology leadership in the United States and Japan, an evaluation of future impacts of eroding U.S. technological preeminence, an analysis of the changing nature of technology-based global competition, and a discussion of policy options for the United States.

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading & Bubblegum Book

1 review
Brendan C. & Fred C. Harris Boyd

Little Brown & Co (T), 1973

Funny and Enjoyable
This is a book about baseball cards, primarily ones issued during the 1950s and 1960s, and the players on the cards. However, it is not to be confused with a serious baseball card book. Most of the cards/players profiled are rather obscure, yet the book is quite funny and enjoyable. On each page of the book there is an image, or images, of a baseball card, and the authors' commentary about the ...

The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology

1 review

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Better than the Rest!
This is an incredible conpendium of *great* Southern writing. The authors and their works are varied, and, unlike other anthologies I've perused, it is not buried under yards of historic (i.e. boring) documents, sermons, and the like. Even the CD is exceptional. I was very disappointed when I learned Norton no longer published this book, however,since I wanted to adopt it for a new class I was ...

BASEBALL CARD BOOK PA

11 reviews
Fred C. Harris, Brendan C. Boyd

Mariner Books, 1991

I see the boys of summer in their ruin. . .
Each of us occasionally has experiences that are so vivid that they make immediate and permanent imprints upon the memory. For example, I can still remember my excited first day of kindergarten, as well as my first glimpse of Three Rivers stadium, as our family car approached it along the jumbled, congested streets of the North Side. Believe it or not, I can similarly remember my first ...