This book examines the origins of modern corporate finance systems during the rapid industrialization period leading up to World War I. The study leads to three sets of conclusions. First, modern financial systems are rooted in the past, are idiosyncratic to specific countries, and are highly path-dependent. Therefore, to understand current...
There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from
reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This
book is about the latter.
If I take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in New York, then tell you to read the...
Joe Celko has been writing columns for the computer trade press and championing database programming techniques and ANSI/ISO standards via his newsgroup activity for 20 years.
In this complete revision and expansion of his first SQL Puzzles book, he challenges you with his trickiest puzzlesand then helps solve them with a variety of...
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and...
The complete guide to building Eberron(R) characters.
The Eberron Player's Guide presents the film noir world of Eberron from the point of view of the adventurer exploring it. This product includes everything a player needs to create their character for a D&D(R) campaign in...
A frontline account of the social media battles raging between red and blue Americans – and how to find moral clarity in the chaos of digital civil war.
Are rural white Christians the real Americans? Should teachers be armed or should the Second Amendment be repealed? Is abortion murder or...
In Munjed Al Muderis's memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia, and the brutal mandatory detention he faced in the remote north of Western Australia. The book also detailed his early work as a pioneering orthopedic surgeon at...
The aim of Reshaping the Future is to draw international attention to the key role that education can play in both preventing conflict and in reconstructing post-conflict societies. The author also hopes to alert developing countries and donors alike to the devastating consequences of conflict on a country’s education systems and outcomes, as...
The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In...
How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself? In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein describes the theories that made him famous, illuminating his case with numerous examples and a smattering of math (nothing more...
This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the...
