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Poltergeists
A History of Violent Ghostly Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The story of violent ghost phenomena through the ages. The poltergeist of 'noisy ghost' phenomenon is commonly thought to be the result of a dead person's angry spirit expressing that anger by violence in the physical world, or the projected energies of an emotionally volatile human being, often a...
The British Witch
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
For over 500 years witches, male and female, practised magic for both harm and good in their communities. Most witches worked locally, used by their neighbours to cure illness, create love, or gratify personal spite against another. Margaret Lindsay from Northumberland was prosecuted for making men...
by Kenneth J. Arrow, G. Constantinides, H.M Markowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Edited by Rajnish Mehra, this volume focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory.
by A. Borghi - P. Criso - G. Farneti
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Enti Locali 2011 - Bilanci - Gestione - Controllo - Servizi
Culture, Space, and Power
Blurred Lines
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The essays range from the general to the specific: the first section will explore...
Financing High-Tech Startups
Using Productive Signaling to Efficiently Overcome the Liability of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors’ decision making. It suggests mitigating those effects using appropriate and matching signals, and analyzes a sample of 903 German startups to quantitatively highlight the...
The Children of Eve
Population and Well-being in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizes the commonality of human experience.
The first...
The The Social Construction of Technological Systems
New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape...
Fatherhood
40 Life Lessons for Extraordinary Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Are you a Father in Passionate Pursuit of your Families Soul? Do you want to connect with purpose on an Exceptional level? John’s remarkable insights will be a powerful manifesto for any Father wanting to play at extraordinary with his life. This book contains 40 powerful and explosive life impacting...
Synchronization of Integral and Fractional Order Chaotic Systems
A Differential Algebraic and Differential Geometric Approach With Selected Applications in Real-Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This book provides a general overview of several concepts of synchronization and brings together related approaches to secure communication in chaotic systems. This is achieved using a combination of analytic, algebraic, geometrical and asymptotical methods to tackle the dynamical feedback stabilization...
by W R Owens, N H Keeble, G A Starr
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Daniel Defoe is known as the father of the English novel. This is the modern critical edition of Defoe's novels. It brings together all three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship. The editorial material includes an introduction to each novel, explanatory endnotes, textual notes, and a consolidated index in volume 10.
by P. G. Wodehouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2019
Go back to the beginning with one of the masters of English humor writing. Wodehouse's first published novel, The Pothunters is also one of several of the author's works that centers on the fictional public school known as St. Austin's. The book recounts the daily comings and goings of the students,...
by P. G. Wodehouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This collection includes: My Man Jeeves, Not George Washington, Picadilly Jim, The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories, The Pothunters, A Prefect's Uncle, The Prince and Betty, Psmith in the City, Psmith Journalist, and Right Ho Jeeves. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Pelham Grenville...
by P. G. Wodehouse
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Fans already familiar with Wodehouse the Connoisseur of Country Houses or Wodehouse the Golfing Enthusiast have a real and unexpected treat in store for them in this remarkable anthology, which highlights a previously overlooked Wodehouse — the Keen Animal Observer, a Wodehouse worthy of a special...