Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for reconnection. Are virtual communities 'real' enough to support the kind of personal commitment...

This book is the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Richard F. Kahn. Focusing on the development of his ideas, their cultural and political context, and his influence on academia and economic policy, it presents a complete and representative study of Kahn. Particular attention is paid to his work on the theory of imperfect competition, liquidity preference and speculation, inflation and unemployment, and macroeconomics more generally. Kahn’s connections with Marshallian economic...

This book brings together important essays by Richard F. Kahn, Keynes’s pupil and literary executor and one of the most influential economists in the Cambridge tradition. The essays address issues, including imperfect competition, pricing mechanisms, inflation, unemployment, and the regulation of international trade and finance, that are highly relevant and topical They are addressed from a Keynesian perspective, with the interface between economic theory and policy explored. With the incl...

"This new edition of Active Portfolio Management continues the standard of excellence established in the first edition, with new and clear insights to help investment professionals."-William E. Jacques, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Martingale Asset Management."Active Portfolio Management offers investors an opportunity to better understand the balance between manager skill and portfolio risk. Both fundamental and quantitative investment managers w...

From the leading authorities in their field—the newest, most effective tools for avoiding common pitfalls while maximizing profits through active portfolio managementWhether you’re a portfolio manager, financial adviser, or investing novice, this important follow-up to the classic guide to active portfolio management delivers everything you need to beat the market at every turn.Advances in Active Portfolio Management gets you fully up to date on th...

Jeremiah Barker practiced medicine in rural Maine up until his retirement in 1818. Throughout his practice of fifty years, he documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted from historical to scientific methods. He performed experiments and autopsies, became interested in the new chemistry of Lavoisier, risked scorn in his use of alkaline remedies, studied epidemic fever and approac...

Richard Kahn takes you on a tour of the world in It’s About Time . . . & Travel. Explore destinations and people as Richard shares his unique experiences in some of the hundred nations that he visited for business and pleasure as a travel writer and editor for more than fifty years.Richard was often in the right place at the wrong time. He found himself in Grenada at the time of the coup that led to U.S. Marines landing on that Caribbean island. On another trip, he enjoyed a privat...

The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic power—what the editors refer to as “the power complex”—that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceive...

ll y a vingt ans naissait Player One, le premier magazine d’Europe dédié aux consoles de jeux vidéo. Le succès remporté à la fin des années 1980 par les consoles 8 bits, l’annonce de la sortie de la Mega Drive de Sega et du Game Boy de Nintendo décident l’équipe à lancer Player One en septembre 1990. Dès son premier numéro, il intègre le jeu video dans une vision panoramique de l’entertainment où se bousculent films, bandes dessinées, séries TV, manga et, bien sûr, jeux. Le succès est inst...

L'histoire a principalement retenu Gustave Kahn (1859-1936) pour sa contribution au symbolisme littéraire et pour son œuvre de critique d'art. Or, c'est la nature même de son implication dans la vie culturelle de son époque qui fut exceptionnelle. Les études rassemblées ici développent une vision de l'auteur centrée sur son engagement artistique et social, tout en précisant des questions encore peu approfondies, comme la place de l'écrivain dans les milieux intellectuels de gauche ou encor...

Focusing on an approach of solving rigorous problems and learning how to prove, this volume is concentrated on two specific content themes, elementary number theory and algebraic polynomials. The benefit to readers who are moving from calculus to more abstract mathematics is to acquire the ability to understand proofs through use of the book and the multitude of proofs and problems that will be covered throughout. This book is meant to be a transitional precursor to more complex topics in ...

Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment examines the usage of lithium-ion batteries and cells within consumer, industrial and transportation products, and analyzes the potential hazards associated with their prolonged use. This book also surveys the applicable codes and standards for lithium-ion technology.Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment is designed for practitioners as a reference guide for lithium-ion batteries and cells. Researchers work...