The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, Vol. 2

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This is the second volume in a three-volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics"--a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal financial institutions that appear as a logical, technological, and institutional necessity, as part of the "rules of the game." Money and financial institutions are assumed to be the basic elements of the network that transmits the sociopolitical imperatives to the economy.

Volume 1 deals with a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. Volume 2 explores the new economic features that arise when we consider multi-period finite and infinite horizon economies. Volume 3 will consider the specific role of financial institutions and government, and formulate the economic financial control problem linking micro- and macroeconomics.

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This book provides an overview of the English law treatment of the internet, which is heavily influenced by the EU, and contrasts it where appropriate to American legal governance. The book examines issues including online contractual formation, privacy law across geographical borders, electronic signatures, online marketing and consumer sales over the internet. The book is essential reading for businesses in both lands.

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The primary purpose of this book is to help you understand what is going on in Fourier Transform (FT) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Modern life is now very largely life with "black boxes" that carry warning labels: "No user-serviceable parts inside." Many find black boxes to be quite acceptable, at least as long as they work. But how willing should we be to accept black-box analyses without some understanding of how those analyses were obtained? NMR spectrometers are like "black boxes" in that they offer many standardized procedures, but it can be dangerous to the quality of your data if you rely slavishly on such procedures without understanding how and why the proper parameter choices are critical. The scope of this book is broad rather than deep with the intention of providing helpful insight. Much can be understood in a more qualitative way and that is the approach taken here. For those few areas where a quantitative approach is needed, ! simple mathematics will usually suffice.

This book has been used as a text for "Basic FT-NMR Spectroscopy" at the California Institute of Technology for the last ten years.

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NMR from a master.......2005-08-13

Jack Roberts (Caltech) is one of the pioneers of the use of NMR in Organic Chemistry. In his memoirs, published by the American Chemical Society, he fondly recalled his initiation and rise in the field. Now in this book, which is a labour of love, one can see that fondness for NMR translated into action. Very few books on NMR (and there are almost hundreds of them) have such an authoritarian and clear, yet informal and engaging tone of presentation. Using the right kind of language at the right time, Roberts guides the reader through the thicket of methods, principles, techniques, and caveats, that make NMR the most important method for structure determination and much more, in Chemistry. The first few chapters are really outstanding, giving the reader a penetrating but simplified insight into the basic workings of magnetic resonance. In later chapters, advanced topics and 2D methods are tackled with the same kind of gusto and determination. Throughout the book, the focus is chemical, as it's the chemist who has always been the greatest beneficiary of this technique. Problems at the end of every chapter illuminate concepts, and ballpark estimates of parameters present a comprehensive picture of every technique and process. My only gripe, if any, is that I would probably prefer other books (Claridge, Derome, Lambert) for more detailed discussions of NOE and NOESY.
Roberts's book is one of the few NMR books that will completely do the job of teaching the basics of NMR to interested students and scientists. And it's worth it. After all, he is a master.

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In recognition of the fundamental control exerted by weathering on landscape evolution and topographic development, the 35th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium was convened under the theme of Weathering and Landscape Evolution. The papers and posters presented at the conference imparted the state-of-the-art in weathering geomorphology, tackled the issue of scale linkage in geomorphic studies and offered a vehicle for interdisciplinary communication on research into weathering and landscape evolution. The papers included in this book are encapsulated here under the general themes of weathering mantles, weathering and relative dating, weathering and denudation, weathering processes and controls and the 'big picture'.

* Contains 15 papers on the techniques and methodologies of research
* Provides an up-to-date overview of various aspects of weathering and landscape evolution complemented by a number of excellent case studies
* Contains a wealth of basic field data and relevant information

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Really great!.......2005-05-28

This is indeed a beautiful collection of short stories by Daniel Rabinovich who shows again what a great story teller he is. A funny and surprising reading, you will enjoy it a lot.

El Final del silencio: Documentos indigenas de Mexico (La Red de Jonas)

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El Final del silencio: Documentos indigenas de Mexico (La Red de Jonas)

Manufacturer: Centro Cultural Mazahua
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Kampfflieger: Bomber Crewman of the Luftwaffe 1939-45 (Warrior)
Robert Stedman
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 184176907X
Release Date: 2005-12-10

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The Kampfflieger are relatively unknown within aviation circles, although many of them had careers as distinguished as those of their fighter-pilot counterparts. The men of the bomber crews did not enjoy the luxury of combat tours – they flew until they died or became unfit for combat duty. This book studies the attitudes, beliefs and motivation of the average crewman, following him through recruitment and training to experience on campaign in western Europe, Africa and the Russian front, detailing the exploits and trials of the famous Ju 87 'Stuka' dive-bomber crews and their own crucial part in Germany's war effort.

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Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theory—its implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself.

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Sanity confronts chaos theory.......2002-10-27

The author investigates the question: with all the research (and hype) in chaos theory, what has been the actual impact on our understanding of the world? I give the book 5 stars for completing it's stated mission, being readable and enjoyable, and for not pandering to a lcd.

Kellert approaches this question from a philosophical, but down-to-earth, view. From the start, this is certainly not a "gee-whiz" hop-on-the-bandwagon book. In fact, the prologue begins: "Chaos theory is not as interesting as it sounds. How could it be?"

Yet, Kellert is not out to dismiss chaos theory, but rather to make sense of what the implications of chaos theory are. Unpredictability and determinism are two such topics potentially affected by chaos theory. Quantum mechanics is another topic influenced by chaos theory. And later in the book he ponders the historical question: why did it take so long for nonlinear dynamics (chaotic systems) to come under study?

There is very little math. The intended audience seems to be those who have some notion of chaos theory already, and although an introductory chapter is included, it would be helpful to understand conceptually what a Lyapunov exponent is and what bifurcation means.

The book is footnoted sufficiently but not overdone. It is heavily (but not annoyingly) referenced with everyone from Poincare to Prigogine. Despite the years that have passed since initial publication, I do not think this book has become obsolete. Another way to say this is: chaos theory (and it's results) is still not the mind-shattering revolution that some have made it out to be.

If you have some science and math background and have been asking yourself "So, just what the heck does all this talk about chaos theory really mean??", then this book is for you.

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In the Wake of Chaos : Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations Ser.)
Stephen H. Kellert
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPUG1O

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A Monument to Environmental Activism, Struggles and Successes

The Reasons Behind Environmentalism

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American Environmentalism

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The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
John Cronin , and Robert Kennedy
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How to Save a River: A Handbook For Citizen Action

ASIN: 068484625X

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In the 1960s the Hudson River, under threat from polluters and energy concerns but beloved by its shoreline residents and local fishermen, became one of the United States' first major environmental battlegrounds. Out of those early legal wrangles emerged some important environmental legislation, and also the Soundkeeper organization, with a mandate to fight for the health of this historic New York river.

This book reveals something about the organization, and even more about the history of the Hudson and environmentalism in America, from John Winthrop to Newt Gingrich, and quite a bit, too, about the upbringings--glamorous (who'd have thought keeping a pet seal in your swimming pool would lead to activism?) and not-so-unusual--of its authors. Promising early chapters sketch out the exploitation of the river by industry and describe some of its colorful champions. (One of the most interesting here is Robert H. Boyle, the writer of a seminal account of the Hudson, The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History, who comes off as a hero.) A terrific final section explains in accessible terms the basis for environmental law in the founding of our country. In between, this book sometimes falters under the weight of too much information. You can't fault these writers for the work they've done, or for the scattered gems of thoughtful information on the modern environmental movement, which make this book worth reading. Just be prepared to pick through some irrelevancies (did Bobby Shriver really bring a leopard tortoise home for Robert Kennedy Jr. from Kenya in a suitcase?) to get to the heart of this unusual book. --Maria Dolan

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A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River. John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., tell us how we too can fight for our fundamental right to enjoy our invaluable natural resources.

Revealing shocking stories of commonplace environmental crime -- from drinking water tainted with hospital waste to fish populations contaminated by freely dumped PCBs -- Cronin and Kennedy describe their dramatic confrontations with more than ninety environmental lawbreakers. The Riverkeepers is a timely call to action that will resonate across America as the backlash spearheaded by congressional leaders and their major corporate allies threatens to reverse the hard-won victories in environmental law and policy.

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A Monument to Environmental Activism, Struggles and Successes.......2006-06-17

"The Riverkeepers" is one of the most potent calls for environmental awareness and action I have ever read. It is an inspiration for all those interested in becoming serious advocates of a clean world. It stands right along side Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" with it's eye-opening accounts environmental havoc created by thoughtless, greedy, untreated sewage spewing municipalities, chemical companies, power generating plants and manufacturing facilities.

It is the story of how the Hudson River "Riverkeepers" came to be- spawned from a small group of sport and commercial fishermen, the Hudson River Fishermen's Association with their ardent yet eloquent spokesman, Robert H. Boyle, author of "The Hudson River: A natural and unnatural history" and a contributing writer to "Sports Illustrated", all of whom were fed-up with the river being used as toxic waste dump, poisoning the fish, fouling the drinking water and seriously endangering the health and lives of literally millions of people who live both in the Hudson Valley where the headwaters begin at Lake Tear in the Adirondack Mountains and runs South 315 miles down to New York City Harbor where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean and where most of the pollution is concentrated. A sad commentary on one of America's most productive bodies of water.

Significantly and appropriately, this is where the birth of America's first well organized environmental legal challenges to the desecration of America's waterways started. It is the personal stories of those who chose to take a stand and fight seemingly undefeatable corporate giants like General Electric, Con Ed, et al. By combining forces, such groups as the NRDC; Pete Seeger's group, Clearwater; Scenic Hudson, et al., have been able to rectify many wrongs to the environment.

The personal stories of author's John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are inspiring and heartwarming- their trials, tribulations and success' in fighting for environmental justice are a profound demonstration of courage and dedication.

The success of Riverkeepers has replicated itself all over America with separate, but associated groups under the umbrella of the National Alliance of River, Sound & Bay Keepers and most every major body of water in America now has a program.

This is a top choice manual for environmental activism. Highly recommended!

The Reasons Behind Environmentalism.......2005-04-19

I spent most of my younger years in the Hudson Valley, and the work of the Riverkeepers has made a profound and positive impact on our local environment. The story of how they have stood up to the corporate and government polluters is outlined here and is inspiring.

The real story of The Riverkeepers is outlining why they do what they do - our right to clean air, water, and an unspoiled environment. These are not priviliges, they are rights.

For years, anti-environmental hacks have been trying to convince us that to be for the environment is to be anti-property rights, anti-growth, and, as Rush Limbaugh calls us, "wackos." The Riverkeepers points out that these people are motivated by at best a misunderstanding of the issues, and at worst motivated by pure profit.

To be an environmentalist, The Riverkeepers points out, is to be for the very essence of American democracy: the rights of the people to stand up and protect our children, property, livelihoods, and future. The Riverkeepers will not only inspire you, it will make you feel at home in your caring for the environment, by showing you your place in the traditions and philosophy behind the environmental movement.

More than I bargained for.......2004-08-05

I bought this book thinking it would offer a profile of environmental activism that could be turned into action by others- I wanted to see how they did what they did. This I got, but also much more. This a most enlightening book, superbly written, difficult to put down. You get not only a history of environmental activism on the Hudson River, but a brief history of same in the U.S., complete with philosophical underpinnings. If you don't know how corporations act in the U.S., or how government complicity coddles them, read this book. If you THINK you know, read this book. If you are at all concerned about your rights as a citizen, and how they relate to the environment, read this book! An important, gripping work, at once hopeful and dismaying- and certainly inspiring.

American Environmentalism.......2004-04-03

Cronin and Kennedy offer a hopeful and reasonable approach to environmentalism by documenting the great strides that citizens have made along the Hudson River. One of the most common critisims of environmentalism is that it fails to take the livelihood of workers into account. The authors show that this doesn't have to be the case and that protecting our environment can actually ensure better job security.
Along with the specific example of the Hudson River, the authors go through the variety of federal laws that have been put in place to protect communities and show how they were able to use those laws to go up against some of the most powerful industries in the country.
Anyone doubtful of the power of regular citizens in this country would find "The Riverkeepers" a refreshing read.

Great service, best yet.......2004-01-16

I'd order all my books from them if i could, plus it supports a charity. It got here quickly and in good condition. Completely satisfied

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Schwiebert's collection of fishing stories.

Death of a Riverkeeper
Ernest George Schwiebert
Manufacturer: Creative Arts Book Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0916870723

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Schwiebert's collection of fishing stories........1998-10-26

Schwiebert writes of the total experience of fishing different rivers and streams. He draws and records the history of the area, the environment of the stream, and the character of the fishing that draws him to each stream. Then each story retells an experience of all the elegant and alluring aspects of flyfishing: the weather, the personalities of various fishing companions, the gourmet wine and food of the region, the tackle used, and finally the artful dance of prey and predator between the fish and the angler. The final story "Death of a River Keeper" is an honest and loving testament to not just one multifaceted fisherman, but to the rich culture of flyfishing. Reading Schwiebert's stories is to experience flyfishing at its best.

The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee River

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Very Informative
Comprehensive!

The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee River
Fred Brown , and Sherri M. L. Smith
Manufacturer: Menasha Ridge Press
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ASIN: 1580720005

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From its origin at Chattahoochee Gap to where it flows into Apalachicola Bay - one of the most productive estuaries in North America - the Chattahoochee is a prototypical American River. Understand it, and you will know more about all the waterways of this country.

This guidebook is full of great tips on where to boat, fish and hike as well as information on the importance of preserving and protecting the future of the river.

Established in 1994, the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper is a nonporfit environmental advocacy organization dedicated solely to protecting the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed.

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Very Informative.......2006-03-13

I purchased this book for research -- and wasn't disappointed. Detailed maps, geographical information, history and folklore blend to make this the perfect "bible" for anyone writing or reporting on this major geological riparian feature in north central Georgia.

Comprehensive!.......2000-01-07

An excellent reference for anyone planning activities along or near the Chattahoochee. Only shortcoming is general lack of river section and lake maps. The extensive narrative descriptions of noteworthy sites and interesting areas are great and the provided directions help, but some more maps would be very beneficial.

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Endsleigh the Memoirs of a Riverkeeper
Horace Adams
Manufacturer: Brick Lane Books
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Our Riverkeeper (Leveled Books)

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0022785795

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Riverkeeper
Ancona
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Riverkeeper
Alec Wilkinson
Manufacturer: Vintage
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ASIN: 0679741348
Release Date: 1992-12-01

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The Riverkeeper.

Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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ASIN: B000GPR7QO

Group threatens suit over Willamette's fish.(Environment)(Willamette Riverkeeper, which has worked closely with the Army Corps of Engineers, says progress ... from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Group threatens suit over Willamette's fish.(Environment)(Willamette Riverkeeper, which has worked closely with the Army Corps of Engineers, says progress ... from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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ASIN: B000OT7OFQ
Release Date: 2007-03-21

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on March 15, 2007. The length of the article is 544 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Group threatens suit over Willamette's fish.(Environment)(Willamette Riverkeeper, which has worked closely with the Army Corps of Engineers, says progress has been too slow)
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Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: March 15, 2007
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Riverkeeper reaps sweet benefit from caustic spill.: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal

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Riverkeeper reaps sweet benefit from caustic spill.: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal
Rick Archer
Manufacturer: Westfair Communications, Inc.
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096YNSA
Release Date: 2005-04-19

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on February 7, 2005. The length of the article is 398 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Riverkeeper reaps sweet benefit from caustic spill.
Author: Rick Archer
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 7, 2005
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 44 Issue: 6 Page: 10(1)

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