The Economics of Risk and Time

This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…

The sevenfold law of ministerial training : an address delivered to the stude…

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Educating all children: A global agenda

Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face major problems. In Educating All Children (which grew out of a multidisciplinary project undertaken by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), leading…

Rondeau : a windy day

Earliest known poem by Elinor Wylie; one hundred copies issued for Harvey Taylor

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What We Know About Climate Change (Second Edition)

An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere--most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this updated edition of his au…

Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U. S. Intervention

A compelling account of the diplomatic and military actions that led to Kosovo's independence and their implications for future U.S. and UN interventions.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddle…

Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain

"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V?aliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V?aliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies--the ways that images animated on console game platforms, virtual reality technologies, and computer screens capture human…

Infidel death-beds

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