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A provocative argument that that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created by modern media and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.

The efficient solution of many important problems in applied geometry relies on the use of effective mathematical and computational tools. This book presents, using a light approach, a sampler of tools that have been adopted in computer graphics, image processing, vision, and geometry in general. The focus is on computational and algorithmic details, without delving too deeply into the underlying theoretical analysis. The book covers a wide ra...

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This riveting account of Hiram Bingham, a man who made some of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century as a real-life Indiana Jones, will fascinate young readers.

Daniel Cohen has vividly reconstructed the life and times of Henry Stanley, the discoverer of the Nile's source, using Stanley's original newspaper reports and writings.

This book for young readers gives an overview of some of the biggest mistakes made throughout history, illustrating the message 'everyone makes mistakes' in a manner both entertaining and fascinating. 20 black and white illustrations.

The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness. In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material gain. Homo economicus has cast aside its rival...

From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the incredible story of Tibor "Teddy” Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor...In 1944, a thirteen-year-old Hungarian boy named Tibor Rubin was captured by the Nazis and sent to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp. The teenager endured its horrors for more than a year. After surviving the Holocaust, he arrived penniless in ...

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Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular philosophies.

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In this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. Pill...

From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniless and barely speaking English. In 1950, he volunteered for service in the Korean War. After numerous act...

Nuestros tiempos modernos , Premio Libro de Economía 2000, patrocinado por la Presidencia del Senado de Francia y la empresa francesa Fimalac, es una reflexión sobreel empleo y cómo ha evolucionado con los cambios en la economía. Motivado, en gran parte, por las proclamas del «fin del trabajo», que rebate vehementemente, la obra de Daniel Cohen es una defensa del capital humano en este convulso momento histórico. No es cierto que estemos cerca...

In this volume, Mark Daniel Cohen offers, in the first part, a fresh and intelligent look at Sophocles, re-writing Antigone almost as a Beckettian version of Tristan and Isolde. The modern-day domestic drama is continued in the second part of the volume, in which selected poems aptly combine the trivial and the sublime, the mark and measure of every great classic. Camelia Elias writes the introduction under a contaminated spell.

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Discusses the physical characteristics, habitat, food, defenses, and extinction of this huge plant-eating dinosaur.