A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful ...

An analysis of the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice of its exchange rate regime, between government-managed fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has significant implications for monetary policy, trade, and macroeconomic outcomes, and is the subject of both academic and po...

In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies r...

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters focus on classical thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith, while later chapters provide analyses of present-day classical liberals, focusing especially on F.A. Hayek, Thomas Sowell, and Larry Ar...

Mit Vehemenz und Sprachwitz – Unbekannte Glanzstücke von Charles Dickens // „Zwischen uns beiden sei’s gesagt: bewunderungswürdig!“, frohlockt Charles Dickens in einem Brief an einen Freund und kann sich in dieser Äußerung der Begeisterung über einen eigenen Text, den er gerade für seine Zeitschrift „Household Words“ geschrieben hat, nicht enthalten. Dickens war zeitlebens ein journalistischer Schriftsteller, verdankte seinen frühen Erfolg den Skizzen und Erzählungen, die er in Zeitungen v...

Garret Jansen is a young introspective infantryman who has just arrived as a Replacement in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in the winter of 1945. He is assigned to the 311th Infantry Regiment of the 78th Infantry Division (aka the 78th Lightning Division). Jansen is a simple farm boy with an 8th-grade education from South Dakota who grew up during The Great Depression. What Jansen does not know is that he was about to be thrust into one of the most pivotal battles of the later st...

In the past two decades, new modeling efforts have gradually incorporated more molecular and structural detail in response to environmental and technical interests. Molecular Modeling in Heavy Hydrocarbon Conversions introduces a systematic molecule-based modeling approach with a system of chemical engineering software tools that can automate the e

Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity (the Imaginary, the Symbolic Order, and the Real), Klein explores how we understand music as both an artistic form created by "the subject" and an artistic expression of a culture that ...

In einem Brief an seine Geliebte, die fern in Rom weilt, gesteht ein vermeintlich wohlhabender Geschäftsmann, dass er vor dem Nichts steht und dass er nur noch einen Ausweg sieht: Selbstmord. Er beginnt, die Umstände eines begangenen Verbrechens zu beschreiben, gerät in Bekenntnisse, lässt Lebenslügen durchscheinen, gibt immer mehr von sich preis, kommt buchstäblich auf Gott, die Welt und den Sinn zu sprechen. Aber was in seinen Bekenntnissen ist echt und was lediglich Pose? Und warum verz...

TMLR is becoming a very popular indirect method of revascularization which will probably become yet another accepted technique for treating coronary artery disease. The articles included in this publication have all been written by experts and not only describe the technique itself but also give the first comprehensive survey on the pathological, physiological, laser technological and surgical basis necessary to understand this approach. Physicians who treat patients with coronary artery d...

This revised and expanded second edition guides users through the many complex issues and controversies surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its growing impact on business, technology, medicine, and everyday activities in America and around the world.This resource explains theories and innovations driving AI research and debate; presents criticisms and defenses of the development, regulation, and real-world implications of AI technology in its many forms; a...

This authoritative reference work will provide readers with a complete overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including its historic development and current status, existing and projected AI applications, and present and potential future impact on the United States and the world.Some people believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize modern life in ways that improve human existence. Others say that the promise of AI is overblown. Still others co...