Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, c...
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The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820–1960
Jon Cohen; Giovanni Federico · ISBN 9780521666923
Julkaistu 2001 Kieli englanti pokkari
This volume in the New Studies in Economic and Social History series examines Italy’s transformation from a largely rural state in the nineteenth century to today’s industrial p...
The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens
Jon Mee · ISBN 9780521676342
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti pokkari
Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptati...
Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers ba...
From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to s...
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
Jon Elster · ISBN 9780521740074
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti pokkari
The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earli...
A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization
Jon Lee · ISBN 9780521811514
Julkaistu 2004 Kieli englanti sidottu
A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization is a text for a one-semester introductory graduate-level course for students of operations research, mathematics, and computer scien...
Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems
Jon E. Keeley; William J. Bond; Ross A. Bradstock; Juli G. Pausas; Philip W. Rundel · ISBN 9780521824910
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli englanti sidottu
Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire...
Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered
Jon Stewart · ISBN 9780521828383
Julkaistu 2003 Kieli englanti sidottu
Jon Stewart’s groundbreaking study is a major re-evaluation of the complex relations between the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Hegel. The standard view on the subject is that...
An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. Part I, ‘The Universe o...
Since the momentous events of the late 1980s, democratic transition has been a widely studied phenomenon. Most scholars who have investigated the causes and implications of the...
A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely regarded as the most important twentieth-century work of Anglo-American political philosophy. It transformed the field by offering...
Quantitative Modeling of Earth Surface Processes
Jon D. Pelletier · ISBN 9780521855976
Julkaistu 2008 Kieli englanti sidottu
This textbook describes some of the most effective and straightforward quantitative techniques for modeling Earth surface processes. By emphasizing a core set of equations and s...
The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens
Jon Mee · ISBN 9780521859141
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti sidottu
Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptati...
This book deploys the mathematical axioms of modern rational mechanics to understand minds as mechanical systems that exhibit actual, not metaphorical, forces, inertia, and moti...
Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers ba...
Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging...
This second, updated edition of the best-selling Radio-Frequency Electronics introduces the basic concepts and key circuits of radio-frequency systems. It covers the fundamental...
Speaking for the People draws our attention to the problematic nature of politicians’ claims to represent others, and in doing so it challenges conventional ideas about both the...
From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to s...