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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

Michael Meyer

Mariner Books
2023
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The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia--a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin's wager was misused, neglected, and contested--but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin's stake in the "leather-apron" class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.
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Continuous Stochastic Calculus with Applications to Finance

Continuous Stochastic Calculus with Applications to Finance

Michael Meyer

CRC Press
2019
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The prolonged boom in the US and European stock markets has led to increased interest in the mathematics of security markets, most notably in the theory of stochastic integration. This text gives a rigorous development of the theory of stochastic integration as it applies to the valuation of derivative securities. It includes all the tools necessary for readers to understand how the stochastic integral is constructed with respect to a general continuous martingale. The author develops the stochastic calculus from first principles, but at a relaxed pace that includes proofs that are detailed, but streamlined to applications to finance. The treatment requires minimal prerequisites-a basic knowledge of measure theoretic probability and Hilbert space theory-and devotes an entire chapter to application in finances, including the Black Scholes market, pricing contingent claims, the general market model, pricing of random payoffs, and interest rate derivatives. Continuous Stochastic Calculus with Application to Finance is your first opportunity to explore stochastic integration at a reasonable and practical mathematical level. It offers a treatment well balanced between aesthetic appeal, degree of generality, depth, and ease of reading.
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Ibsen

Ibsen

Michael Meyer

Sutton Publishing Ltd
2004
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'Continuously rewarding...the model of what a biography of a great writer should be' Dennis Potter, The Times. Generally acknowledged as the founder of modern prose drama, Henrik Ibsen is now regarded as the first major innovative modern dramatist. Creating new attitudes to theatre, he is credited with being one of the first to write about ordinary people in prose, abandoning traditional theatrical effects in favour of a new style of performance. Michael Meyer is the world authority on Ibsen, and this highly acclaimed biography is regarded as the definitive life of the founding genius of modern European theatre.
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A Dirty, Filthy Book

A Dirty, Filthy Book

Michael Meyer

Ebury Publishing
2024
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London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably – forty-five years before the first woman will be admitted to the English bar – Annie is defending herself. Before Britain’s highest judge she declares it is a woman’s right to choose when, and if, to have children. At a time when women were legally and socially subservient to men, Annie’s defiant voice was a sensation. The riveting trial scandalised newspapers, captivated the British public and sparked a debate over morals, censorship and sex.Drawing on unpublished archives, private papers and courtroom transcripts – and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and London itself – A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a forgotten pioneer who refused to accept the role the Establishment assigned to her. Instead, she chose to resist.
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Dirty, Filthy Book

Dirty, Filthy Book

Michael Meyer

Random House UK
2024
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London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably - forty-five years before the first woman will be admitted to the English bar - Annie is defending herself. Before Britain's highest judge she declares a woman's right to choose when, and if, to have children. At a time when women were legally and socially subservient to men, Annie's defiant voice was a sensation. The riveting trial scandalised newspapers, captivated the British public and sparked a debate over morals, censorship and sex.Drawing on unpublished archives, private papers and courtroom transcripts - and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and London itself - A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a forgotten pioneer who refused to accept the role the Establishment assigned to her. Instead, she chose to resist.
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A Dirty, Filthy Book

A Dirty, Filthy Book

Michael Meyer

Ebury Publishing
2025
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‘Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful’ The Times_________London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably, Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England. At a time when women were expected to be obedient, Annie’s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex, censorship and morality.A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little-known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her, and chose instead to resist.
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Mother-of-Pearl Antiques and Collectibles

Mother-of-Pearl Antiques and Collectibles

Michael Meyer

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2014
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For the first time in the English language, this important book explores the subject of mother-of-pearl (MOP) production and art in depth, and includes over 5,000 photographs of MOP artifacts. The project was undertaken with the express purpose of recording as much information on the historic use of mother-of-pearl, before this information is lost for good. Classifications by use, age, origin, and size make this an indispensable reference for collectors, historians, and tradespeople alike. Mother-of-pearl has been part of humanity's aesthetics for thousands of years, but it was only in the 19th century that artisans reached their height of creativity, producing amazing decorative utilitarian items, presentation pieces, and artwork. This luminous, beautiful, natural material captured the imagination of the public and enjoyed great popularity throughout the 19th century.
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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

Michael Meyer

Mariner Books
2022
sidottu
The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia--a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin's wager was misused, neglected, and contested--but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin's stake in the "leather-apron" class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.
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The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Michael Meyer

Scribner Book Company
2012
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A riveting, eyewitness account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War from the Newsweek Bureau Chief in that region at the time. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Regan, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall ," that brought the Cold War to an end. Michael Meyer disagrees, and in this extraordinarily compelling account, explains why. Drawing together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin, Meyer shows how American intransigence contributed little to achieving such world-shaking change. In his reporting from the frontlines of the revolution in Eastern Europe between 1988 and 1992, he interviewed a wide range of local leaders, including V clav Havel and Lech Walesa. Meyer's descriptions of the way their brave stands were decisive in bringing democracy to Eastern Europe provide a crucial refutation of a misunderstanding of history that has been deliberately employed to help push the United States into the intractable conflicts it faces today.
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The Ancestor

The Ancestor

Michael Meyer

Xulon Press
2019
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A Journey in Time Reveals a Family Mystery When Daniel, a successful writer, tries to escape his midlife crisis and the current stress of a high-tech pace, he's suddenly thrust into the cradle of the Civil War. In this journey in time he discovers a family mystery, one that delights his fancy, brings him to the brink of death, and drives him to question his sanity. Toggling between the characters that intertwine from his past and present teaches him what he's missing, and becomes the key to his future happiness. His elusive mentor is time and his final deliverance is The Ancestor. Who is this Ancestor?
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Continuous Stochastic Calculus with Applications to Finance

Continuous Stochastic Calculus with Applications to Finance

Michael Meyer

CRC Press Inc
2000
sidottu
The prolonged boom in the US and European stock markets has led to increased interest in the mathematics of security markets, most notably in the theory of stochastic integration. This text gives a rigorous development of the theory of stochastic integration as it applies to the valuation of derivative securities. It includes all the tools necessary for readers to understand how the stochastic integral is constructed with respect to a general continuous martingale. The author develops the stochastic calculus from first principles, but at a relaxed pace that includes proofs that are detailed, but streamlined to applications to finance. The treatment requires minimal prerequisites-a basic knowledge of measure theoretic probability and Hilbert space theory-and devotes an entire chapter to application in finances, including the Black Scholes market, pricing contingent claims, the general market model, pricing of random payoffs, and interest rate derivatives. Continuous Stochastic Calculus with Application to Finance is your first opportunity to explore stochastic integration at a reasonable and practical mathematical level. It offers a treatment well balanced between aesthetic appeal, degree of generality, depth, and ease of reading.
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Three Plays About Ibsen and Strindberg

Three Plays About Ibsen and Strindberg

Michael Meyer

Oberon Books Ltd
2001
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Michael Meyer is widely regarded as the leading authority on Ibsen and as one of the leading authorities on Strindberg. The three short plays in this volume have all been widely and successfully performed and they provide intriguing insights into the personalties and often contrasting views of these two formidable figures.
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Ökologische Datensätze — Programme für AOS-Rechner und BASIC-Taschencomputer (TI-58/59, PC-1211/1212)

Ökologische Datensätze — Programme für AOS-Rechner und BASIC-Taschencomputer (TI-58/59, PC-1211/1212)

Michael Meyer

Vieweg+teubner Verlag
1984
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In einer Zeit, in der man den umweltschädigenden Einfluß unserer technologischen Gesell­ schaften immer deutlicher zu spüren bekommt, muß zwangsläufig die "Lehre vom Haus­ halt der Natur", also die Ökologie, an Bedeutung zunehmen. Daß diese Wissenschaft sich nicht nur um die Rettung der vom Aussterben bedrohten Tiere und Pflanzen bemüht, sondern auch die in ihrer Existenzgrundlage sich selbst gefährdende Menschheit in ihre Betrachtung einbezieht, ist eine Tatsache, die bisher leider nicht in weiten Kreisen der Be­ völkerung bewußt gemacht wurde. Man kann wohl getrost behaupten, ökologische For­ schung sei neben einer ausgewogenen Politik und neben akzeptablen Konzepten der Öko­ nomie für den Fortbestand der Menschheit notwendig. Der Ökologe stützt sich bei seinen Untersuchungen auf nur verbal beschreibbare Beob­ achtungen (welche allerdings oft durch Fotos oder Zeichnungen dokumentarisch festge­ halten werden können) und auf (mehr oder weniger) objektive Meßdaten. Liegen nach der Untersuchung letztere vor, müssen diese in irgendeiner Weise in logischen Zusammen­ hang gebracht werden, sie müssen also verarbeitet werden. Bei der Auswahl von nume­ rischen Verfahren muß der Ökologe allerdings größtenteils auf fachfremde Literatur zu­ rückgreifen, d. h. Werke der mathematischen, naturwissenschaftlichen, sozialwissenschaft­ lichen und medizinischen Statistik sowie der praktischen Mathematik für technisch-natur­ wissenschaftliche Disziplinen. Entsprechend muß er sich Taschenrechnerprogramme für die Datenauswertung aus Büchern anderer Fachdisziplinen zusammensuchen. Für eine Wissenschaft, die - wie oben angedeutet - so bedeutungsvoll wurde, ist es allmählich an der Zeit, daß sie ihre eigene Literatur zu diesem Thema erhält.
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Arbeitslosigkeit, Produktion Und Faktorentlohnung in Heterogenen Wirtschaftsraeumen

Arbeitslosigkeit, Produktion Und Faktorentlohnung in Heterogenen Wirtschaftsraeumen

Michael Meyer

Peter Lang AG
1997
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Im Kontext der Harris-Todaro-Modelle sogenannter -dualer Okonomien- lasst sich das Szenario einer um ost- und mitteleuropaische postkommunistische Staaten erweiterten Europaischen Union skizzieren. Fur diese idealtypische Skizze werden drei Modellspezifikationen, die integrationsspezifische Modifikationen des Modellrahmens abbilden (Fallstudien: Protektionismus, Kapitalimport und Einwanderung), in sechs verschiedenen Szenarien analysiert. Die Szenarien unterscheiden sich bezuglich des betrachteten Zeithorizonts, des Grades der Kapitalmobilitat und der Annahmen zur Produktionstechnologie. Es wird analysiert, welche Effekte sich im Hinblick auf Arbeitslosigkeit, Produktion und Faktorentlohnung ergeben."
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Optimale Produktpolitik Im Presseverlag

Optimale Produktpolitik Im Presseverlag

Michael Meyer

Peter Lang AG
1989
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Die Bestimmung optimaler Redaktions-, Anzeigen- und Gesamtseitenzahlen stellt ein wesentliches Problem presseverlegerischer Produktpolitik dar. Die Seitenzahlen mussen so festgelegt werden, dass den Rezipienten des Presseerzeugnisses eine grosstmogliche Befriedigung ihrer Bedurfnisse und den Anzeigenkunden eine Erreichung ihrer werbepolitischen Ziele ermoglicht wird. Dabei sind die Ziele des Presseverlages selbst und seine in- und externen Bedingungen zu beachten. Es werden Handlungsalternativen des Presseverlages erortert und im Hinblick auf ihre Kosten- und Erloswirkungen analysiert. Die zum Teil uberraschenden Ergebnisse der empirischen Uberprufung der Seitenzahlen ausgewahlter Presseerzeugnisse verdeutlichen ebenso wie die Befragung von Anzeigenleitern die besonderen im Rahmen der Produktpolitik zu losenden Probleme. Ein umfassendes Entscheidungsmodell der mathematischen Programmierung zur Bestimmung gewinnoptimaler Seitenzahlen, Exemplar- und Anzeigenpreise sowie Auflagengrossen legt die bei der Planung zu berucksichtigenden angebots- und nachfragemassigen Interdependenzen dar."
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Symbolarme Republik?

Symbolarme Republik?

Michael Meyer

Peter Lang AG
2014
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Diese der Neuen Politikgeschichte verpflichtete Studie untersucht die Reprasentationspolitik der Weimarer Republik anhand der drei Staatsbesuche, die zwischen 1920 und 1933 stattfanden. Durch die umfangreiche Auswertung der einschlagigen deutschen und englischen Archivbestande, sowie die Einbeziehung der nationalen wie internationalen Pressereaktionen wird ihre grosse politische und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung deutlich. Der Mythos von der "symbolarmen Republik" erweist sich in der Analyse als haltlos, da eine das staatliche Selbstverstandnis der Republik betonende Reprasentationspolitik erkennbar wird.
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