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Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economies

MIT Press, 2006

After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the postwar era, Japan plunged abruptly into recession in the early 1990s and since then has suffered a prolonged period of economic stagnation, from which it is only now emerging. Japan's malaise, marked by recession or weak economic activity, commodity and asset...

Africa's Turn? (Boston Review Books)

MIT Press, 2009

In the West, Africa’s image seems forever torn between two false extremes: Politically Correct Positive and Stereotypically Negative. Those who promote the first want to persuade us that poverty and bad government are not as bad as they seem in Africa, so a little bit of outside aid and advice can cause rapid change for the better. Those who...

AppleScript: The Missing Manual

Pogue Press, 2005

From newspapers to NASA, Mac users around the world use AppleScript to automate their daily computing routines. Famed for its similarity to English and its ease of integration with other programs, AppleScript is the perfect programming language for time-squeezed Mac fans. As beginners quickly realize, however, AppleScript has one major shortcoming:...

Electromagnetic Fields and Energy

Prentice Hall, 1989

We are fortunate that electromagnetic aspects of engineering systems are accurately
described by remarkably concise and general laws. Yet, a price paid for the generality of Maxwell's equations is the effort required to make these laws of practical use to the engineer who is not only analyzing, but synthesizing and inventing. Key to the...

Kompendium multimediales Lernen (X.media.press) (German Edition)

Springer, 2008

Multimedia ist aus modernem Lehren und Lernen nicht mehr wegzudenken. Wie lässt sich die Qualität neuer multimedialer Angebote sicherstellen? Welche Standards gibt es? Welche didaktischen Ansätze sind effektiv? Welche aktuellen lehr- und lernpsychologischen Theorien und Befunde sind hilfreich bei der Konzeption, welche...

Concepts and Fuzzy Logic

MIT Press, 2011

The classical view of concepts in psychology was challenged in the 1970s when experimental evidence showed that concept categories are graded and thus cannot be represented adequately by classical sets. The possibility of using fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic for representing and dealing with concepts was recognized initially but then...

The Discipline of Organizing

MIT Press, 2013

Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things--books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers--and digital things--Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions of people create and browse Web sites, blog, tag, tweet, and upload and download content...

Managing Successful IT Outsourcing Relationships

IRM Press, 2005

Even though the IT outsourcing market has grown tremendously over the past years, many organizations do not have a reflective understanding of the complex process of IT outsourcing. The process does affect both technological and business goals and activities, and companies must establish both strategies and structures adjusted to their degree of...

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere

MIT Press, 2003

In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman...

The Myths of Innovation

O'Reilly, 2010

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A Guide to Physics Problems : Part 2: Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics

Springer, 1997

In order to equip hopeful graduate students with the knowledge necessary to pass the qualifying examination, the authors have assembled and solved standard and original problems from major American universities – Boston University, University of Chicago, University of Colorado at Boulder, Columbia, University of Maryland, University of...

Partial Differential Equations in Fluid Dynamics

Cambridge University Press, 2008

This book is concerned with partial differential equations applied to fluids problems in science and engineering. This work is designed for two potential audiences. First, this book can function as a text for a course in mathematical methods in fluid mechanics in non-mathematics departments or in mathematics service courses. The authors have taught...

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