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His book Field of Schemes is essential reading, and not just for intelligent sports fans.
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In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998), the Yale political scientist James C. Scott has written, "The modern state, through its officials, attempts with varying success to create a terrain and a population with precisely those standardized characteristics that will be easiest to monitor, count, assess, and manage."
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In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998), the Yale political scientist James C. Scott has written, "The modern state, through its officials, attempts with varying success to create a terrain and a population with precisely those standardized characteristics that will be easiest to monitor, count, assess, and manage."
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In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998), the Yale political scientist James C. Scott has written, "The modern state, through its officials, attempts with varying success to create a terrain and a population with precisely those standardized characteristics that will be easiest to monitor, count, assess, and manage."
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In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998), the Yale political scientist James C. Scott has written, "The modern state, through its officials, attempts with varying success to create a terrain and a population with precisely those standardized characteristics that will be easiest to monitor, count, assess, and manage."
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I had to close up the house just to be able to hear myself think - or hear John be smarmy in Schemes.
Why Am I Awake? sidewinder 2002
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(See "Schemes" for the conjunction, the preposition, and the interjection, p. 188.) +To the Teacher+.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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(See "Schemes" for the conjunction, the preposition, and the interjection, p. 188.) +To the Teacher+.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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(See "Schemes" for the conjunction, the preposition, and the interjection, p. 188.) +To the Teacher+.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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For the suggestion revealed the weakness the secretary had long ago divined -- that the practical root of the matter did not really lie in him at all, and Henry Rogers forever dreamed of 'Schemes' he was utterly unable and unsuited to carry out.
A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910
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