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The last decades have witnessed major progress in both monetary policy theory and practice, with broad academic consensus on the desirability of monetary policy rules and ongoing research on their exact specification. Typically, the analysis is carried out in a New Keynesian framework with nominal rigidities and constant capital stock. The latter represents a constraint that this study seeks to overcome by introducing a model with investment a...

1918. Das Deutsche Reich bricht zusammen. Die Revolution schafft sich kraftvoll ein neues Reich, die Weimarer Republik. Die junge Republik bekommt nicht nur eine neue Verfassung, sondern ein weitgehend neues soziales Recht mit Achtstundentag, Tarifautonomie und Betriebsräten - was Arbeiter seit Jahrzehnten gefordert hatten. Wer aber waren die wissenschaftlichen Sprachrohre der Arbeiter? Wer bekräftigte sie in ihrem Kurs oder gebot Einhalt? Es ...

Pragmatism has experienced a renaissance in social theory in recent years. This is no wonder since the so-called classical pragmatists, especially John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, outlined a highly original theory of social life. This book builds on pragmatist ideas and argues that social structures are first and foremost based on habitualized action. Thus, the insights of Dewey and Mead have profound implications for the way in which we th...

This volume is a comprehensive overview of classic and contemporary work on intergroup contact, combining an extensive meta-analysis of 515 published studies on the topic with the authors¿ renowned research. It provides researchers, students and professionals in social psychology and related fields with a rich sourcebook on intergroup contact, at a time of intergroup turmoil around the world.

At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his only copy of a manuscript of his poems from her coffin. Legendary explorer Richard Burton wrote how-to manuals on sex positions and livened up the drawing room with stories of eroticism in the Mi...

Global Visual Cultures is a definitive anthology that provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts.

Since the publication of his mammoth work, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger has remained one of the most influential figures in contemporary thought, and is a key influence for modern literary and cultural theory. This guidebook provides an ideal entry-point for readers new to Heidegger, outlining such issues and concepts as: the limits of 'theory'the history of beingthe origin of the work of artlanguagethe literary workpoetry and the polit...

The doctoral thesis ¿Quasi-spectral finite difference methods: Convergence analysis and application to nonlinear optical pulse propagation¿ by Tristan Kremp addresses the theory and application of so-called quasi-spectral finite differences. Contrary to the common Taylor approach, these are by construction exact for trigonometric instead of algebraic polynomials. With any fixed discretization spacing, this allows for a higher accuracy, e.g., w...

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This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Commonweal wrote of the 1946 edition, "Arciniegas has written a most informative and entertaining book...the student of political and social morals will find in it much to ponder." The New Republic concurred, writing, "Senor Arciniegas has a flair for bits of colorful detail and the kind of gossip whic...

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Unusually accessible introduction to equations used to investigate many physical problems. Detailed, precise coverage of Riemann method, Lebesgue integration, Green's function, many other topics. Only knowledge of elementary analysis required. 1964 edition.

Create a more efficient classroom with over 90 pages of reproducible algebra notes for student math journals. These time-saving notes not only allow you to spend more time on examples and practice problems, they also serve as a year-long resource for your students.

2nd edition. A text that covers a lot of ground but is easy to understand and well-structured. It covers the key issues in child development and psychology, and how teaching assistants can put the theory into practice, to support pupils effectively. Previous edition ISBN: 9780415311083

Historical survey of speeches invoking racism, genocide, anti-Semitism, terrorism, and other hateful, extremist views. Includes orations by Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Andrew Jackson, Joseph R. McCarthy, Jefferson Davis, and others.

Filled with humour, nostalgia, adventure, celebrations of the beauties of nature, and metaphors for the art of living, The Art of Angling is sure to lure anglers and lovers of poetry alike.

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ethics and politics collected together for the first time, focussing particularly on the themes of moral disagreement, moral dilemmas, and truthfulness and its importance. The essays range widely in scope, from Aristotle and Aquinas and what we need to learn from them, to our contemporary economic a...

A close friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens, Collins secured his own fame with sensational novels that feature intricate legal plots, mistaken identities, and complex crimes. Collins was also one of the most unconventional public figures of his day. This biography presents his life story.

Sixteen original case studies explore significant English-speaking performances of a range of Shakespeare's plays, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Information Technology and the Ethics of Globalization: Transnational Issues and Implications discusses the widespread influence of technologies across the globe with particular attention placed on moral consideration.