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réf. A9780367535131Hardback. New. Europe has everything to lose from nuclear war and nothing to gain from it. Yet it is nuclear deterrence that we are relying on to shield us from war. In this book originally published in 1983 philosophers go behind the rhetoric of the nuclear debate and analyse the dangers of deterrence. hardcover
réf. A9780198418597Multiple-component retail product. New. When Rip heads into the mountains he doesn't expect to be gone long. But on his return home he finds that everything has changed . TreeTops Greatest Stories is a series of timeless classics for children aged 7-11. This pack provides 6 copies of the same title. unknown
réf. B9780359271719Paperback / softback. New. paperback
réf. B9780470058435Hardback. New. This book provides a secure grounding in the theory and practice of finance insofar as it deals with pension matters. hardcover
réf. B9780199990054Hardback. New. Stock market booms are cause for celebration. But when oil prices soar because supplies are failing to keep up with demand the response is nearly always apocalyptic. Predictions of the end of oil can create anxiety on Wall Street and in Washington stoking fears that production has hit a ceiling and prices will rise in perpetuity. Yet these dire visions have always proven wrong. Market Madness is the story of four waves of American anxiety over the last 100 years about a looming end to oil reserves. Their sweeping pattern-as large price increases lead to widespread shortage fears that eventually dissipate when oil production rises again and prices moderate-has defined the wild price swings in the oil market down to the present day. Blake Clayton a Wall Street stock analyst and adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations makes the case for the need for better information communication and transparency. While these measures will not eliminate volatility and unpredictability completely they would mitigate unnecessary price spikes and improve both investor and government decision-making. Market Madness is the first study to employ Nobel Laureate economist Robert Shiller's "new era economics" beyond the markets to which he famously applied it-the 1990s dot-com equity market and the mid-2000s housing market-in order to better understand the dynamics of speculative bubbles and irrationality in the commodities markets. In so doing it breaks new ground in illuminating how mass beliefs about the future of a vital asset like oil take shape and what the future of energy may hold. hardcover
1948réf. 2323443Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Gilt on spine rubbed rear board lightly soiled. 1948 Hard Cover. xxiv 297 pp. 8vo. Green cloth gilt titles and rules. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates. A biography of the naturalist and geologist University of Rochester professor and founder of Ward's Natural Science a business which collected artifacts to be sold to museums. "Henry Augustus Ward 1834-1906 was an American naturalist and geologist born in Rochester New York. After attending Williams College and the Lawrence Scientific School Harvard where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz he traveled in Egypt Arabia and Palestine and studied at the Jardin des Plantes the Sorbonne and the School of Mines in Paris and at the universities of Munich and Freiberg. Subsequently he traveled in West Africa and the West Indies making natural history collections. In 1860 he returned to Rochester where he was professor at the University of Rochester until 1865. In Rochester he founded Ward's Natural Science a pioneer enterprise of its kind which collected specimens from all parts of the world and then mounted and sold them to colleges and museums. In 1897 he married a widow Lydia Avery Coonley 1845-1924 president of the Chicago Woman's Club in 1895-96 who wrote Under the Pines and other Verses 1895; Singing Verses for Children 1897; Love Songs 1898. He died on July 4 1906 after being struck by an automobile in Buffalo New York becoming Buffalo's first automobile related fatality. His ashes were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery amongst a large boulder he found in Georgian Bay Ontario Canada until they were stolen. Ward's brain was contributed to the Wilder Brain Collection at Cornell University. Rochester Historical Society hardcover
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réf. A9780252041372Hardback. New. J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He uncovers the reasons local disputes and uneven access to government power fostered markedly different reactions by hill people as time went by. Resistance in the earlier period sprang from upland small farmers' conflicts with capitalist elites who held the local levers of federal power. But as industry and agribusiness displaced family farms after World War II a conservative cohort of town business elites local political officials and Midwestern immigrants arose from the region's new low-wage union-averse economy. As Perkins argues this modern anti-government conservatism bore little resemblance to the populist backcountry populism of an earlier age but had much in common with the movement elsewhere. hardcover
réf. B9780333573037Paperback / softback. New. A comprehensive introductory coursebook for English Language 'A' and 'A/S' level students on any of the examination courses and suitable for Introduction to English Language courses at undergraduate level. paperback
réf. B9780393315035Paperback / softback. New. This is a study by Peter Blake which traces the course of modern architecture from its beginnings prompted by social and political idealism to the elitism of the 1960s and finally to a return to its original principles. paperback
réf. B9780333725917Paperback / softback. New. In this study of the grammar of Shakespeare's language a detailed analysis is given. It includes not only traditional features such as the make up of clauses and differing parts of speech but also language in use in various forms of discourse. paperback
réf. B9780393315042Paperback / softback. New. The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in. paperback
réf. B9780071489010Paperback / softback. New. For the large number of nursing pharmacy and nutrition students who must take a course on Vitamins & Minerals and are confronted with having to understand not only what each one does but how they might interact with each other outside factors and other man-made agents help is here in Vitamins & Minerals DeMYSTiFied. paperback
réf. B9780333609842Paperback / softback. New. Unlike other histories of the English language this introduction cuts away traditional divisions into old middle and modern English to chart the rise of and changes in standard English. paperback
réf. B9780470058442Hardback. New. While not attempting to train readers as professional economists Pension Economics aims to provide a secure grounding in the theory and practice of economics insofar as it deals with pension matters. hardcover
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réf. B9780300217131Paperback / softback. New. What is the relationship between poetry and fame What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. paperback
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réf. B9780262518901Paperback / softback. New. Active Vision explores important themes emerging from the active vision paradigm which has only recently become an established area of machine vision. In four parts the contributions look in turn at tracking control of vision heads geometric and task planning and architectures and applications presenting research that marks a turning point for both the tasks and the processes of computer vision. The eighteen chapters in Active Vision draw on traditional work in computer vision over the last two decades particularly in the use of concepts of geometrical modeling and optical flow; however they also concentrate on relatively new areas such as control theory recursive statistical filtering and dynamical modeling. Active Vision documents a change in emphasis one that is based on the premise that an observer human or computer may be able to understand a visual environment more effectively and efficiently if the sensor interacts with that environment moving through and around it culling information selectively and analyzing visual sensory data purposefully in order to answer specific queries posed by the observer. This method is in marked contrast to the more conventional passive approach to computer vision where the camera is supposed to take in the whole scene attempting to make sense of all that it sees. paperback
réf. B9780393034097Hardback. New. A look at the life and accomplishments of the former prime minister presents essays by twenty-nine renowned contributors that examine all phases of Churchill's life-from his youth in the aristocracy to his career in Parliament. hardcover
réf. B9780313214479Hardback. New. Alabama has the largest industrial work force in the South. As a consequence it also has the most significant labor movement in the region a movement created in the face of an unusual combination of obstacles yet as this book shows by the 1970s organized labor had established itself as a major economic and political force in Alabama. hardcover
1962réf. 16170JParis 1962. Special issue of this French magazine focusing on the work of Balke Edwards. Film director Peter Bogdanovich’s copy with his autograph signature and stamp. unknown
1984réf. 021513Toronto: Collector Grade Publications 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dustwrapper is a little crumpled at the edges edges. Collector Grade Publications hardcover
réf. Z1-C-064-00893Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Princeton University Press unknown
