Scott Benjamin: 19 books
Reforming U.S. Financial Markets
Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.
Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence...
by Scott Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
A 14 year old girl with extreme musical talent is dying of cancer. Her father (a special government agent), a strange visitor from another planet simply calling himself the Music Man and four powerful beings who accompany him converge on Earth to thwart a pending attack in our future. But can they...
by Benjamin H. Bratton, Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger or two. Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment. The array of...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Matthew C. Eshleman, Scott M. James, Vladamir Jankovic
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world)...
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations...
Politicizing the Bible
The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture 1300-1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Resisting the typical, dry methods of contemporary scholarship, this powerful examination revisits the biblical days of life-and-death conflict, struggles for power between popes and kings, and secret alliances of intellectuals united by a desire to pit worldly goals against the spiritual priorities...
Employee Engagement
Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Providing both practical advice, tools, and case examples, Employee Engagement translates best practices, ideas, and concepts into concrete and practical steps that will change the level of engagement in any organization.
Explores the meaning of engagement and how engagement differs significantly...
Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy
Fifteen Contentious Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy...
The National Politics of Nuclear Power
Economics, Security, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.
The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary...
by Kristen Whissel, Scott Higgins, Dan North
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle and almost invisible, whereas special effects frequently call attention to themselves. Yet, film editors...
by Kenneth Schaefer, Jeff Cochran, Scott Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Stellar author team of Microsoft MVPs helps developers and administrators get the most out of Windows IIS 8
If you're a developer or administrator, you'll want to get thoroughly up to speed on Microsoft's new IIS 8 platform with this complete, in-depth reference. Prepare yourself to administer...
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...
Designer Biology
The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached...
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