L'autore affronta in cinquanta voci concise e chiarificatrici i fondamenti dell'economia, ne esplora i luoghi comuni (dalla «mano invisibile» di Adam Smith alla legge della domanda e dell'offerta e al «dilemma del prigioniero») e, ricorrendo a un linguaggio chiaro ed efficace, ne rende accessibili gli aspetti teorici apparentemente più complessi. Conway espone le idee e i concetti essenziali dell'economia mettendo in luce come essa influisca su ogni aspetto della nostra vita quotidiana, fino a illustrare i problemi più scottanti e attuali del momento come la recente crisi finanziaria mondiale.

Presents the adventures of the Avengers as they travel through time, space, and other dimensions doing battle against super villains.

Presents fifty essays that discuss the central theories and topics in the field of economics.

One of the staples of super-heroic sagas is the story in which the hero appears to die -- and even his closest allies believe it. These startling stories from the 1960s, 1970s and beyond, feature the supposed death of The Dark Knight, and the fallout of his demise.

This exciting graphic novel includes appearances by Robin, The Joker, The Riddler, Nightwing, Lex Luthor and more.

Addressing World Christianity in an introductory way, this title serves primarily as a guide to the history of Christianity in the century and as such examines theological issues that have often been at the heart of key historical events and developments. It is the companion reader to the "SCM Core Text: World Christianity in the 20th Century".

Provides a guide to the history of Christianity in the century. This book examines theological issues that have often been at the heart of key historical events and developments. It includes student aids such as case studies, end of chapter questions, web and text lists for further reference, chapter summaries and key study textboxes.

This fully revised and updated third edition of the highly acclaimed Memory in the Real World includes recent research in all areas of everyday memory. Distinguished researchers have contributed new and updated material in their own areas of expertise. The controversy about the value of naturalistic research, as opposed to traditional laboratory methods, is outlined, and the two approaches are seen to have converged and become complementary rather than antagonistic.

The editors bring together studies on many different topics, such as memory for plans and actions, for names and faces, for routes and maps, life experiences and flashbulb memory, and eyewitness memory. Emphasis is also given to the role of memory in consciousness and metacognition. New topics covered in this edition include life span development of memory, collaborative remembering, deja-vu and memory dysfunction in the real world.

Memory in the Real World will be of continuing appeal to students and researchers in the area.

Working memory--the ability to keep important information in mind while comprehending, thinking, and acting--varies considerably from person to person and changes dramatically during each person's life. Understanding such individual and developmental differences is crucial because working memory is a major contributor to general intellectual functioning. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, integrative, and comprehensive approach to understanding variation in working memory by presenting explicit, detailed comparisons of the leading theories. It incorporates views from the different research groups that operate on each side of the Atlantic, and covers working-memory research on a wide variety of populations, including healthy adults, children with and without learning difficulties, older adults, and adults and children with neurological disorders. A particular strength of this volume is that each research group explicitly addresses the same set of theoretical questions, from the perspective of both their own theoretical and experimental work and from the perspective of relevant alternative approaches. Through these questions, each research group considers their overarching theory of working memory, specifies the critical sources of working memory variation according to their theory, reflects on the compatibility of their approach with other approaches, and assesses their contribution to general working memory theory. This shared focus across chapters unifies the volume and highlights the similarities and differences among the various theories. Each chapter includes both a summary of research positions and a detailed discussion of each position. Variation in Working Memory achieves coherence across its chapters, while presenting the entire range of current theoretical and experimental approaches to variation in working memory.

Geared toward single Christians, an encouraging manual covers courtship and dating from a biblical perspective, teaching singles how to make the most out of their single years and prepare themselves for marriage. Original.

This book is dedicated to Martin Gardner, and the influence of his "Mathematical Games" column from Scientific American on this work is considerable. In this third of four volumes, Berlekamp (mathematics and computer science, U. of California at Berkeley), Conway (mathematics, Princeton U.), and Guy (emeritus, mathematics, U. of Calgary) use coin, line drawing, and board games to illustrate mathematical concepts and ways to apply mathematical concepts to winning games. While each chapter is meant to stand alone, the authors caution that the basic ideas set out in volume one are prerequisite. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

How do recent trends toward globalization affect the Caribbean, a region whose suppliers, production, markets, and politics have been globalized for centuries? What is the status of neoliberal development policy in the Caribbean, where the rewards for belt tightening and economic opening have been slow in coming? How have Caribbean policy makers and citizens responded to and resisted the pressures to conform to the new rules of the global economy? Focusing these questions through the lens of political economy, the contributors of this volume explore the interaction among development, trade, foreign policy, the environment, tourism, gender relations, and migration in the Caribbean. With its global implications, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars from all disciplines who are concerned with the impact of development and globalization.

In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Herself, Vol. II represent three generations, four continents, and a range of experience that is equaled only by the diversity with which they transform life into literature.

Here are England's Vera Brittain, commemorating the deaths of the men she loved in the carnage of World War I; Emma Mashinini, who endured imprisonment and torture as a labor organizer in South Africa; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the daughter of Indian aristocracy who became an architect of her country's independence; and Edith Mirante, the wisecracking American whose passion for justice took her to the opium trails of Burma. Collected in this stirring volume, their voices demonstrate the ways in which women strive for power, inclusion, and autonomy-- and never fail to move, inspire, and instruct us.

Contributors include: Margery Perham,Isak Dinesen,Shudha Mazumdar,Vivian Gornick, Vera Brittain, Elspeth Huxley, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Angelica Garnett, Emma Mashinini, Meena Alexander, Edith Mirante, Mary Benson, and Ruth First.

Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary time--te lls the profound story of the challenges that confronted Conway, as she sought to establish her public self.

The third Charleston Junior League cookbook reveals more secrets of the city's legendary hospitality.

The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

This is the ninth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. The letters--the vast majority of which have never before been published--date from the period of January 1817 to June 1820 and illustrate many aspects of Bentham's public and private life. The composition, editing, printing, publishing, and receipt of several of his writings are discussed, while the correspondence with his secretary and protege, John Herbert Koe, gives a unique insight to Bentham's working methods. The proposed Chrestomathic School is the subject of many of the letters of 1820, though even in that year Bentham's involvement in the world of radical politics emerges clearly. The volume also testifies to his burgeoning international reputation, and to his interest in reform in North and South America, Russia, Spain, France, and Geneva.