370 results for '"Graham MacDonald'

A selection of literary criticism and cultural commentary that provides a broad assessment of the American "brat pack" writers such as Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz - authors who...

A comprehensive and integrated approach to economic forecasting problemsEconomic forecasting involves choosing simple yet robust models to best approximate highly complex and evolving data-generating...

Did you know that Bell's amazing invention--the telephone--stemmed from his work on teaching the deaf? Both his mother and wife were deaf. Or, did you know that in later years he refused to have a...

One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesisIn the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation-formation, and...

Germany's rise to power before World War I from a Chinese persective, and the geopolitical lessons for today.A series of solemn anniversary events have marked the centenary of World War I. Could...

Karel Leden falls for the bikini-clad Lenka Silver only to be rebuffed by her for his State publishing house boss

Few historical epochs have influenced the development of civilization to the extent that those of ancient Greece and Rome have. This Guide, with over 1700 entries and 500 illustrations, is a key...

Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that...

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...

This book examines the social impact of intellectual property laws. It addresses issues and trends relating to health, food security, education, new technologies, preservation of bio-cultural...