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Looks at ways to increase the scope and power of institutional economics. Different approaches to economic methodology are considered and the broader notions of rationality offered by institutional economics are discussed.

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Explores the diverse roles and attitudes to women in ancient societies: women as witches, as courtesans, as mothers, as priestesses, as nuns, as heiresses, and typically as deranged.

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The Maya are the group of indigenous people living in North and Central America. This ethnography of Mayan immigrants who settled in Indiatown, a small agricultural community in south central Florida, presents the experiences of these traditional people, their adaptations to life in the US, and the ways they preserve their ancestral culture.

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Originally published in 1967, this work offers a reconstruction of government borrowing during the first half of the 18th century. Utilizing a range of documentary sources, the author defines the nature of financial problems faced in the period and analyzes the methods adopted to overcome them.

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Concerned with the general area of practical ethics, this work consists of seven independent and humorous philosophical analyses of common moral situations, occurrences and confrontations. The idea of moralising is discussed in the introduction. Readers may be at any stage of philosophic interest.

The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long been established as being at the forefront of media studies. This collection is an ideal introduction to their recent work.

This biography traces the development of Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with women.

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Planning is a critical process when starting a new business or introducing a new product. This book shows how to execute a feasibility study to enable more effective planning - presenting a systematic approach to feasibility analysis based on strategic management.

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William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960s. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. First published in 1961 and out of print for several years, Taylor's classic study remains essential to the study of the pre-Civil War South.

Nonlinear programming provides an excellent opportunity to explore an interesting variety of pure and solidly applicable mathematics, numerical analysis, and computing. This text develops some of the ideas and techniques involved in the optimization methods using calculus, leading to the study of convexity. This is followed by material on basic numerical methods, least squares, the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker theorem, penalty functions, and Lagrange mu...

John Burningham studied illustration and graphic design at the Central School of Art, graduating with distinction in 1959. Many illustration commissions followed including iconic posters for London Transport, before the publication of Borka: the Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers, John¿s first book for children (Cape, 1963) which won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration and heralded the beginning of an extraordinary career...

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