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by Steven L. Hilty
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1,381 known species, many of them found nowhere else in the world. This spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide brings together under one cover much of what is known about these species. Its users can identify all the birds in...
Functional Analysis
Introduction to Further Topics in Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
This is the fourth and final volume in the Princeton Lectures in Analysis, a series of textbooks that aim to present, in an integrated manner, the core areas of analysis. Beginning with the basic facts of functional analysis, this volume looks at Banach spaces, Lp spaces, and distribution theory,...
JSTOR
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Ten years ago, most scholars and students relied on bulky card catalogs, printed bibliographic indices, and hardcopy books and journals. Today, much content is available electronically or online. This book examines the history of one of the first, and most successful, digital resources for scholarly...
by Jeff Nunokawa
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I’ve ever really known."—Note Book
Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted...
Closing the Shop
Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press? Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan? Who benefits from the press club system? And who loses? Here Laurie...
The Price of Everything
A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby mega-store hikes its prices the night of an earthquake. He crosses paths with provost and economics professor Ruth Lieber when he plans a campus protest against the price-gouging retailer--which...
Locus of Authority
The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Do higher education institutions have what it takes to reform effectively from within? Locus of Authority argues that every issue facing today's colleges and universities, from stagnant degree completion rates to worrisome cost increases, is exacerbated by a century-old system of governance that desperately...
Universities in the Marketplace
The Commercialization of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2009
Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts...
by Christopher D. Sogge
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Based on lectures given at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and Johns Hopkins University, this book introduces eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. Christopher Sogge gives a proof of the sharp Weyl formula for the distribution of eigenvalues of Laplace-Beltrami operators, as well as an improved...
by Ben Wildavsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly...
by R. Douglas Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions...
Karl Marx
Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly...
by Ben S. Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important...
The Undiscovered Self
With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
These two essays, written late in Jung's life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, "The Undiscovered Self" is a plea for his generation--and those to come--to continue the individual work of self-discovery...