Some of the best general discussions of psychological egoism come in the context of the interpretation of Hobbes, to whom Spinoza is sometimes compared.
In Edmonton, Sather was one of the best general managers of the 1980's.
The best general study of what happened remains that of Franklin Zimring, the Berkeley criminologist, who showed, essentially, that while more policing helped, smart policing helped more, and what helped most was not turning to one thing alone to help.
Having declared the taste almost impossible to describe, he offers "a rich butter-like custard, highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but intermingled with it come wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, brown sherry, and other incongruities".
Indeed, what may have been the most compelling passage in the invitational letter was the declaration that the school "needs a Dean who can persuade a large and influential group of New Yorkers... that the Wagner School offers the best general defense of the entire New York civic enterprise".
Defenses of representative realism have taken a variety of forms, but I will assume here that the best general sort of defense for such a view is one along the lines suggested, albeit not very explicitly, in Locke (and indeed also, though even less explicitly, in Descartes).
In "A New Deal for New York," the urbanologist Mike Wallace -- who with Edwin G. Burrows wrote "Gotham," the best general history of New York City to date -- sets forth a bracingly optimistic program for regenerating not just Ground Zero but the whole metropolitan region.
Among his other books are Napoléon (1935) and Quatre-vingt-neuf (1939; The Coming of the French Revolution), which was written for the nonspecialist and is perhaps the best general picture of the ancien régime available in English.
Scholars have determined something of the mise-en-scène, but not nearly enough, and, while the historians continue their painstaking researches, the best general sense of Shakespeare in his theatre still comes from the little plays within his plays that across the centuries still give us something of the feel of performance in the Elizabethan theatre.
Also, the best general position of particles is searched and tracked.
