The horse racing industry has been a pioneer in interactive media, information networks, and their deployment. The race track and the off-track betting parlor offer interactive media environments that reconfigure the relationships among private and public space and presence and copresence. In this book, Holly Kruse explores how horse racing has used media over the last several decades, arguing …
Christopher Flinn presents an introduction to a search & bargaining model that can be used to assess the welfare effects of minimum wage changes & to determine an 'optimal' minimum wage."The development of the model and the econometric theory underlying its estimation are carefully presented so as to enable readers unfamiliar with the econometrics of point process models and dynamic optimizatio…
Lawrence Badash traces the rise & fall of the concept of 'nuclear winter', played out in research activity, public relations & Reagan-era politics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A militant Marxist atheist and a "Radical Orthodox" Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In this study, Hoy charts the emergence in post-Kantian continental philosopy of a focus on the lived experience of temporality. Drawing upon a broad range of theory, Hoy considers four existential strategies for coping with the apparent flow of temporality.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.