Robert E : 1478 books
In the Wake of the Crisis
Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.
In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures...
Financing the New Federalism
Revenue Sharing, Conditional Grants and Taxation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Financing the New Federalism is the fifth in a series on the governance of metropolitan areas which aimed to improve the political organisation of metropolitan regions in America. Originally published in 1975, this particular study focusses on federal revenue sharing exploring its effects and implications...
Entrepreneurial Finance
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
A practical approach for entrepreneurs and investors
Entrepreneurial Finance provides readers with the fundamental knowledge to finance, start, grow, and value new ventures, without the complex finance terms and calculations. This comprehensive yet practical approach incorporates a global perspective...
Tomorrow's Cthulhu
Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.
This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.
Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise...
by Herman E. Daly, Robert Costanza, Thomas Prugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The mdifficult questions of sustainability are not about technology; they are about values. Answers to such questions cannot be found by asking the "experts," but can only be resolved in the political arena. In The Local Politics of Global Sustainability, author Thomas Prugh, with Robert Costanza...
Tissue Economies
Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns...
by Neil Clarke, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their ninth year. Includes stories by Aliette...
Learn French with Bilingual Books
Bilingual Edition (English - French)
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Sometimes you want to read in French. Sometimes you want to read in English.
There’s a great option: bilingual books!
Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the French books to enjoy since you can...
Building the Wall
The Play and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In the tradition of Hamilton and Angels in America, a powerful, politically charged, dystopian drama that couldn’t be more timely.
Written in a “white-hot fury” on the eve of the 2016 election, the stunning new play by Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan...
Around Quitting Time
Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this atonce hopelessly ideological and breathlessly...
Communication and Control
Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons,...
by Howard Pyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the greatest Pirate novels ever written, as well as a number of wonderful short stories. You'll go in search of adventure with 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Captain Blood' by Rafael Sabatini, 'Ghost Pirates' by William Hope Hodgson....
by Robert Louis Stevenson, E. La Chesnais.
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Sir Daniel et ses hommes passèrent cette nuit-là à Kettley, logés chaudement et bien gardés. Mais le chevalier de Tunstall était un homme en qui jamais ne se reposait le désir du gain ; et même à ce moment où il allait...
by Robert Schrage, David E. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Northern Kentucky has a unique location as the gateway between the North and the South. Many of its historic businesses, religious structures, homes and buildings were lost to time. Just after the Civil War, Daniel Henry Holmes purchased a large Victorian-Gothic house he named Holmesdale, better known...