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Author: Peter Newman
Publisher: Springer
Summary: A great deal of economics is about law - the functioning of markets, property rights and their enforcement, financial obligations, and so forth - yet these legal aspects are almost never addressed in the academic study of economics. Conversely, the study and practice of law entails a significant und...

Author: B. Marsden,C. Smith
Publisher: Springer
Summary: Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural constructio...

Author: B. Marr,J. Creelman
Publisher: Springer
Summary: Public sector organizations are about to enter one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the credit crunch. This timely book shows public sector leaders what they need to understand in order to be able to cope with these challenges....

Author: Robert Gentleman,Vincent Carey,Wolfgang Huber,Rafael Irizarry,Sandrine Dudoit
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Summary: Full four-color book. Some of the editors created the Bioconductor project and Robert Gentleman is one of the two originators of R. All methods are illustrated with publicly available data, and a major section of the book is devoted to fully worked case studies. Code underlying all of the computatio...

Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Summary: With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account ...

Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Summary: With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account ...

Author: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Summary: They are sometimes called storksbills and originated in South Africa. They may be star-shaped or funnel-shaped, and they range in color from white, pink, and orange-red to fuchsia and deep purple. The geranium and its many species, much loved and also much loathed, have developed since the seventeen...

Author: Robert Sardello
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Summary: In this guide to conscious soul practice, a psychotherapist reveals the importance of making one's life open and receptive to the spiritual realms....

Author: Rebecca Garden,William J. Spurlin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Summary: This book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies in order to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. The essays in this v...

Author: Paul Gifford,Johnnie Gratton
Publisher: Rodopi
Summary: What can we currently make of 'the subject'? Under the sway of structuralism and poststructuralism, critical thinking took a distinctly negative turn, effectively disqualifying any form of subjectivity as a reference point in discussions of textual or literary meaning. Since the mid-1970s, however, ...