2012 results for '"Porter, Charles A.'

A small but increasing number of economists have begun to use laboratory experiments to evaluate economic propositions under carefully controlled conditions. Experimental Economics is the first...

Originally published in London in 1816, The Narrative of Robert Adams is an account of the adventures of an African American seaman who survives shipwreck, slavery, and brutal efforts to convert him...

This book develops and applies a theory of the ambient metric in conformal geometry. This is a Lorentz metric in n+2 dimensions that encodes a conformal class of metrics in n dimensions. The ambient...

Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French...

Text: French

A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTYProbing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous,...

Discusses the wide-ranging works of the controversial French social writer and explains some of his major philosophical concepts

C.a. Coulson. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [88]-89.

Why stable banking systems are so rareWhy are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has...

A gentle blend of spooky and sweet, I Will Read to You is a unique rhyming bedtime tale about empathy, storytime...and monsters. Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved stories--scary ones...

Prophesies of Godlessness explores the surprisingly similar expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American thinkers from the time of the Puritans to today. These predictions of...

A philandering professor on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in this Edgar Award-winning classic from 1946.The...

Now in paperback, the third and final entry in Barbara Sleigh's enchanting Carbonel trilogy.“There are many kinds of magic. . . And once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal...

Hardcover. No jacket. Library sticker on spine, presentation sticker on FEP, stamp on inside cover and title page, library name written on page block