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The Intellectual Follies

Abel, Lionel
The Intellectual Follies
A member of that distinctive group of New York intellectuals who came of age during the thirties, Lionel Abel chronicles a half-century of ferment in politics, the arts, and the world of ideas. Along with his spirited analysis of issues and movements, he gives us vivid accounts of his talented contemporaries.

CHF 30.50

The News of the World

Carlson, Ron
The News of the World
Whether it is a husband trying to bring his marriage back together or Bigfoot finally coming forward, Carlson's characters speak with radical honesty that is disarming. They are the men and women all around us who open the refrigerator at two in the morning and see the faces of missing children on the milk carton. The world is a large dose sometimes, and they wonder whether they can measure up to its danger and its magic.

CHF 23.50

A Singing Faith

Huber, Jane Parker
A Singing Faith
A Singing Faith" is a book of inspiring hymns composed by renowned hymn writter Jane Parker Huber. It includes an introduction in which Huber discusses her songwriting process, commentaries on the hymns, and a topical index.

CHF 33.50

Forecasting Aggregated Vector ARMA Processes

Lütkepohl, Helmut
Forecasting Aggregated Vector ARMA Processes
This study is concerned with forecasting time series variables and the impact of the level of aggregation on the efficiency of the forecasts. Since temporally and contemporaneously disaggregated data at various levels have become available for many countries, regions, and variables during the last decades the question which data and procedures to use for prediction has become increasingly important in recent years. This study aims at pointing ...

CHF 69.00

Power Through Discourse

Kedar, Leah
Power Through Discourse
This volume represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and behavior in both formal public negotiation, as well as less formal communicative interaction settings. Its central theme is that language use plays a crucial role in the attainment and/or exercise of power. The notion of power, in this context, is seen as the measure of one's ability or inability to obtain or maintain personal objectives through discourse. The co...

CHF 106.00

Political Murder

Ford, Franklin L.
Political Murder
Franklin Ford's unprecedented inquiry into assassination traverses civilizations, cultures, religions, and modes of social behavior to locate the common threads of this often mysterious and always shocking phenomenon. Are there similarities between the killings of the Gracchi brothers and the Kennedy brothers? Does the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang have roots in the rightist murder teams of Weimar Germany? Was political context as important to...

CHF 75.00

Stability Problems for Stochastic Models

Kalashnikov, Vladimir V. / Zolotarev, Vladimir M / Penkov, Boyan
Stability Problems for Stochastic Models
The subject of this book is a new direction in the field ofprobability theory and mathematical statistics which can becalled "stability theory": it deals with evaluating theeffects of perturbing initial probabilistic models andembraces quite varied subtopics: limit theorems, queueingmodels, statistical inference, probability metrics, etc. Thecontributions are original research articles developing newideas and methods of stability analysis.

CHF 49.50

Numerical Analysis

Hennart, Jean-Pierre
Numerical Analysis
A global zero residual least squares method.- Efficient primal algorithms for strictly convex quadratic programs.- Location of multiple equilibrium configurations near limit points by a double dogleg strategy and tunnelling.- Considerations of numerical analysis in a sequential quadratic programming method.- Remarks on a continuous finite element scheme for hyperbolic equations.- An efficient modular algorithm for coupled nonlinear systems.- O...

CHF 49.50

In Search of the Paper Tiger

Hoppenstand, Gary
In Search of the Paper Tiger
The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience o...

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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

Sampson, Robert
Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3
More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more!

CHF 25.50