Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven, what it really means, claims Peter Garber, is tha…

Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits

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Fatigue as a window to the brain

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Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century. He asks whether human ingenuity can produce enough food to support healthy and vigorous lives for all these people without irreparably damaging the integrity of the biosphere. What makes this book different from other books on the …

The works of James Fenimore Cooper

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32 v. 22 cm,Title vignettes

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The life of Napoleon

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6 v. 23 cm,Includes index,"Limited to one thousand copies for Great Britain and America." No. 34

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The life of Napoleon

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6 v. 23 cm,Includes index,"Limited to one thousand copies for Great Britain and America." No. 34

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Feeling pain and being in pain

"A Bradford book."An examination of the two most radical dissociation syndromes of the human pain experience--pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain--and what they reveal about the complex nature of pain and its sensory, cognitive, and behavioral components.In Feeling Pain and Being in Pain, Nikola Grahek examines two of the most radical dissociation syndromes to be found in huma…

A few good men from Univac

In this personal memoir, electrical engineer David Lundstrom recalls the heyday of early computing, the rise of Control Data out of the Univac division of Sperry Rand, such milestone computer systems as the Univac and the Naval Tactical Data System the exploits of CDC's top designer Seymour Cray, and the gradual corporate shift from the exciting and technically interesting world of computer des…

Fighting words :language policy and ethnic relations in Asia

Project sponsored by the BCSIA Studies in International Security in cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, and the Pacific Basin Research Center.Language policy is a sensitive issue in most countries. In countries where more than one language is spoken--the vast majority--language policies affect the ability of individuals and groups to participate in government, to be trea…