3725 results for '"Wilkinson, Jeffrey S.'

Thomas Chatterton's fabrications―or "forgeries"―of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of...

When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans—such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses infect single-celled microbes. Diverse and...

The essential reference book on matrices—now fully updated and expanded, with new material on scalar and vector mathematicsSince its initial publication, this book has become the essential reference...

Kenya has been the object of much controversy among students of African politics. Some view it as one of the greatest "successes" of the post-independence period; others see it as an example of all...

A sweeping look at the evolution of commercial banks over the past two centuriesCommercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice;...

The electronic computer, argues Douglas Robertson, is the most important invention in the history of technology, if not all history It has already set off an information explosion that has changed...

Authoritative coverage presents a framework to how constitutional liberty, as it relates to governmental power, is manifested in our system through the role played by the U.S. Supreme Court. Text...

Oxford University Press [Published Date: 1982]. Soft cover, 218 pp. 1991 Reprint. [ From Publisher's Summary] This book attempts an analysis of the nature of promissory obligations. The subject is...

Now in its second edition, this popular text both develops a theoretical framework and provides mathematical and computational methods for understanding electromagnetic wave propagation. Topics...

Mainstream notions of the “American Dream” usually revolve around the ownership of private property, a house of one’s own. Yet for the past 400 years, a large number of Americans have dared to dream...