R John: 1297 books
by John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands,...
by John R.W. Speller
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary...
Confronting Urban Legacy
Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. Focusing on the dynamic urban/global legacy of Hartford, Connecticut, the volume is bolstered by comparative chapters on Portland,...
by John R. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This book examines the different ways in which order has been achieved in world affairs with a view to understanding current political dilemmas and opportunities.
International Ordersbegins by distinguishing between world order and international order in the spirit of Hedley Bull. This leads...
Sell Now!
The End of the Housing Bubble
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
How Far Can Home Prices Fall?
What Can You Do to Protect Yourself?
Home prices are seriously overvalued in many regions of the United States. The question is no longer if, but rather how far, home prices will fall and over what time frame this bubble will deflate. Home values have been escalating...
by John Mr. Abbott, R. Mr. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Assessing financial systems' stability has required the IMF to dig deeper into financial sector issues and to include financial integrity elements in its assessments. Integrity elements are increasingly being addressed by international standards. More progress is needed, however, to prepare a comprehensive...
Nationalism, Law and Statelessness
Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000 of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism, Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions...
The Organization of Cities
Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within...
Antiquity and Capitalism
Max Weber and the Sociological Foundations of Roman Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
This ambitious book addresses questions concerning an old theme - the rise and fall of ancient civilization - but does so from a distinctive theoretical perspective by taking its lead from the work of the great German sociologist Max Weber.
Chasing Shadows
A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his...
The Geography of Competition
Firms, Prices, and Localization
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm’s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space? When...
by John R. Fanchi, Richard L. Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Presents key concepts and terminology for a multidisciplinary range of topics in petroleum engineering
Places oil and gas production in the global energy context
Introduces all of the key concepts that are needed to understand oil and gas production from exploration through abandonment
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by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
Architecture for Hiring
A Design/Build Process to Help in Hiring Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Architecture for Hiring is a practical tool for those tasked with hiring for the church or para-church organization.It carries an unambiguous message that interviewing is first intentional and then spiritual/intuitive.The book offers tools that will help any interviewer improve and increase the intentionality...