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Excerpt from Art in Boston CollegeWith Boston as one of the leading centers of the country, we should expect to find in every resident of this Athens of America, a conversational knowledge of the masterpieces of which the Hub is possessed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books us...

Excerpt from Highway Cost KeepingThe units selected must, so far as possible, be expressive of definite operations. Thus, while in engineering construction the cubic yard is a very common unit upon which contract prices are based, it ire quently is a very uncertain unit of performance, as it is a composite of other units. For example, in rock excavation there are involved the following operations: (1) Drilling, (2) blasting, (3) breaking large...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Volume 2 of James Tobin's Essays in Economics brings together twenty papers published between 1940 and 1972.

Volume 2 of James Tobin's Essays in Economics brings together twenty papers published between 1940 and 1972. These cover macroeconomics, particularly the theory of the relationship between unemployment and inflation and the dilemma their connection poses for policy, consumption function, which is also related to macroeconomic theory and to the theory of individual behavior, consumer theory and statistical method applied to the problem of ratio...

In this work James Tobin discusses two major issues of macroeconomics: the strength of automatic market forces in maintaining full employment equilibrium and the efficacy of government fiscal and monetary policies in stabilizing the economy.

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With a searching new analysis of primary sources, NBCC Award winner James Tobin reveals how FDR's fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II.

This book of essays is devoted to a discussion and elaboration of Arthur M. Okun's theories and policy prescriptions as outlined in his posthumously published Prices and Quantities: A Macroeconomic Analysis. Okun hoped that his work would stimulate just such discussions on both macroeconomics and microeconomics and specifically on methods of fighting stagflation. The essays follow the general pattern of Okun's book. Martin Neil Baily and John ...

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Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion, and myth—Franklin Roosevelt's ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House.In 1921, at the age of thirty-nine, Roosevelt was the brightest young star in the Democratic Party. One day he was racing his children around their summer home. Two d...

From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant movements in American music. Today this music is largely in eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of music history, in spite of-and initially because of-its adherence to an expanded tonality. No previous book has focused on the nature and scope of this musical tradition. Neoclassical Music in America: Voices of Clarity and Restraint makes clear what neocl...

Superconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at extremely low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect). The electrical resistivity of a metallic conductor decreases gradually as the temperature is lowered. However, in ordinary conductors such as copper and silver, impurities and other defects impose a lower limit. Even near absol...

Excerpt from Highway Cost KeepingThe units selected must, so far as possible, be expressive of definite operations. Thus, while in engineering construction the cubic yard is a very common unit upon which contract prices are based, it ire quently is a very uncertain unit of performance, as it is a composite of other units. For example, in rock excavation there are involved the following operations: (1) Drilling, (2) blasting, (3) breaking large...

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In 1996, the United States and more than 180 world leaders pledged to halve the number of undernourished people globally by 2015 from the 1990 level. The global number has not decreased significantly -- remaining at about 850 million in 2001-2003 -- and the number in sub-Saharan Africa has increased from about 170 million in 1990-1992 to over 200 million in 2001-2003. On the basis of analyses of U.S. and international agency documents, structu...

WINNER OF A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDErnie Pyle, better than any other World War II journalist, conveyed the triumphs and tribulations of the common soldier trying to survive a brutal conflict. From North Africa and Normandy, Anzio and Okinawa -- where he died -- Pyle brought the war home to America. James Tobin's "superbly documented and compassionate account" ("Publishers Weekly") is a classic biography of an American icon.

Since the earliest days of the republic, great engineering projects have shaped American landscapes and expressed American dreams. The ambition to build lies as close to the nation's heart as the belief in liberty. We live in a built civilization, connected one to another in an enormous web of technology. Yet we have all too often overlooked the role of engineers and builders in American history. With glorious photographs and epic narrative sw...