'Thinking Literature across Continents' finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of literature; rather, they allow their different backgrounds and lively disagreements to stimulate…
This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with serious crises? Do they work? Is China a new trend setter? Do values matter? Are global democratic r…
Virginia Claypool Meredith's role in directly managing the affairs of a large and prosperous farm in east-central Indiana opened doors that were often closed to women in late nineteenth century America. Her status allowed her to campaign for the education of women, in general, and rural women, in particular. While striving to change society's expectations for women, she also gave voice to the i…
Jika kita melihat sejarah kimia lingkungan dari sekitar tahun 1970, masa-masa awal terutama disibukkan dengan upaya mengidentifikasi polutan dalam berbagai media. Pada saat itu alat analisis sangat lambat dan jauh lebih tidak presisi dibandingkan saat ini. Sebagian besar polutan seperti senyawa polar, senyawa yang muncul sebagai jejak, dan senyawa yang muncul di media alami yang kompleks, misal…
"Politik di Asia Selatan: Budaya, Rasionalitas, dan Aliran Konseptual" adalah sebuah buku yang kemungkinan besar mengeksplorasi lanskap politik di Asia Selatan, meneliti interaksi antara budaya, pengambilan keputusan rasional, dan aliran konsep-konsep politik di wilayah tersebut. Meskipun saya tidak memiliki informasi spesifik mengenai buku ini, saya dapat memberikan gambaran umum mengenai tema…
This is the seventh book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of financial decisions and markets, this seventh book describes how econometrics developed and how its underlying assumptions created the underpinning of much of modern financial theory. The author shows tha…
Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people This book offers an exploration to this fundamental question by examining what three core disciplines – ecology, economics, and ecumenism – have in common. These disciplines have roots in the ancient Greek notion of the household (oikos). By examini…
This monograph explores the early development of the calculus of variations in continental Europe during the Eighteenth Century by illustrating the mathematics of its founders. Closely following the original papers and correspondences of Euler, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and others, the reader is immersed in the challenge of theory building. We see what the founders were doing, the difficulties …
By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siècle British crime narrative
This is the second edition of a popular book on combinatorics, a subject dealing with ways of arranging and distributing objects, and which involves ideas from geometry, algebra and analysis. The breadth of the theory is matched by that of its applications, which include topics as diverse as codes, circuit design and algorithm complexity. It has thus become essential for workers in many scienti…