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Скачать книгу (размер 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 148) Аннотация: Papers originally delivered during the 5th International Conference of the Ateneo Center for Asian Studies, held February 2008.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: As the ongoing political and economic transition in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE) moves into the next century, the most advanced countries in the region are preparing to deal with their prospective entry into the European Union. More a process than an event, joining the EU is likely to place heightened demands on public administrations throughout the region. To assist these…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: How can I know something? How can I convince someone of the rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is artistic creativity? What is moral? What is the role of the state? After. three decades in the cross-cultural study of ideas and values, Thomas Kasulis has found that culture influences not only the answers to such questions but how we arrive at the answers. In this…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 936 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 577) Аннотация: Since 1970, Julian Simon has been challenging the doomsayers and their conventional beliefs in a series of controversial popular essays based upon his technical scholarly research. These have been his central message: Raw materials and energy are getting less scarce. The world's food supply is improving. Pollution in the United States has been decreasing. Population growth has long-term benefits,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «A contributors' «who's who» from the academic and policy communities explain and provide perspectives on John Taylor's revolutionary thinking about monetary policy. They explore some of the literature that Taylor inspired and help us understand how the new ways of thinking that he pioneered have influenced actual policy here and abroad.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 900 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 570) Аннотация: By including material from literary, philosophical, and anthropological sources, and by selecting readings which consider educational practice both within and beyond formal educational contexts, this book broadens the character of sociological inquiry in education. The editors bring together material they have found valuable when working with students of education and^sociology at all levels.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 404) Аннотация: A look at the challenges facing education in Central Asia. In many ways, the story of education since the beginning of the transition in Central Asia is integrated with similar processes in other parts of the former Soviet Union. It may not explain everything, but understanding the challenges throughout the 15 former republics is helpful in understanding the progress and setback in the Central…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 702) Аннотация: This book is a multipurpose text that can be used in any class with a focus on comparative legal systems for corporations, taught in the U.S. or abroad. It contains cases, statutes, analysis and readings, the majority of which are from foreign jurisdictions. It also has extensive notes and questions. The focus is primarily on the U.S., U.K., major European continental civil law systems (France,…
Скачать книгу (размер 779 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 154) Аннотация: «This is the English translation of the original Japanese book. In this volume, «Fermat's Dream», core theories in modern number theory are introduced. Developments are given in elliptic curves, $p$-adic numbers, the $\zeta$-function, and the number fields. This work presents an elegant perspective on the wonder of numbers. Number Theory 2 on class field theory, and Number Theory 3 on Iwasawa…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book, the second of three related volumes on number theory, is the English translation of the original Japanese book. Here, the idea of class field theory, a highlight in algebraic number theory, is first described with many concrete examples. A detailed account of proofs is thoroughly exposited in the final chapter. The authors also explain the local-global method in number theory,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into the work of collecting and preserving the nation's natural and cultural resources. Scientists conducting…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: Transaction costs (TC) are the “friction” in an economic system, and their analysis is vital to understanding institutional design and economic performance. Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy is the first volume to collect specific studies from a transaction cost perspective. The volume offers models of this new way of looking at ancient evidence, and suggests ways in which…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 226) Аннотация: This is the third of three related volumes on number theory. (The first two volumes were also published in the Iwanami Series in Modern Mathematics, as volumes 186 and 240.) The two main topics of this book are Iwasawa theory and modular forms. The presentation of the theory of modular forms starts with several beautiful relations discovered by Ramanujan and leads to a discussion of several…