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Strategic modelling and business dynamics

a feedback systems approach

Modelling and simulation of dynamic systems for better business strategy The performance of firms and industries over time rarely unfolds in the way management teams expect or intend. By modelling and simulating the relationships among the parts of an enterprise it is possible to anticipate ...

Who gets what-and why

A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities — both mundane and life-changing — in which money may play little or no role. If you’ve ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child ...

The little big number

how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it

n one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by ...

Henry George and the crisis of inequality

progress and poverty in the Gilded Age

America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical ...

Quantitative risk management

concepts, tecniques and tools

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques of quantitative risk management. Whether you are a financial risk analyst, actuary, regulator or student of quantitative finance, Quantitative Risk Management gives you the practical tools you need to solve real-world ...

Lectures on public economics

This classic introduction to public finance remains the best advanced-level textbook on the subject ever written. First published in 1980, Lectures on Public Economics still tops reading lists at many leading universities despite the fact that the book has been out of print for years ...

Life and early travels

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 65)

Cyriac of Ancona (1391 1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year 1435 by ...

¡Oh diabólica ficción!

¿Un pajarraco desgarbado, bufo y charlatán que se las da de diablo y que asegura ser la fuente de inspiración de todos los autores de ficciones desde el principio de los tiempos? ¡Anda ya! Max organiza en estas páginas, la mayoría de ellas publicadas en ...

On Dionysius the Aeropagite. Volume 2: The divine names, Part II

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 67)

In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the ...

On Dionysius the Aeropagite. Volume 1: Mystical theology and the divine names, Part I

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 66)

In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the ...

Maimonides

life and thought

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing ...

The hammer of the Scots

Edward I and the scottish wars of independence

Known to posterity as Scottorum Malleus - the Hammer of the Scots - Edward I was one of medieval England's most formidable rulers. In this meticulously researched new history, David Santiuste offers a fresh interpretation of Edward's military career, with a particular focus on his ...

Young Islam

the new politics of religion in Morocco and the Arab World

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself. Drawing on extensive ...

Drones and the future of armed conflict

ethical, legal, and stretegic implications

During the past decade, drones have become central to American military strategy. When coupled with access to accurate information, drones make it possible to deploy lethal force across borders while keeping one's own soldiers out of harm's way. The potential to direct force ...

Erasmus, Man of Letters

the construction of charisma in print

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central ...

Out of ashes

a new history of Europe in the Twentieth Century

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material ...

Exiles in Sepharad

the jewish millennium in Spain

The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad . Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and ...

La Crònica de Ramon Muntaner

edició i estudi (pròleg - capítol 146). Volum 1

Ramon Muntaner (1265-1336), guerrer i cronista que va servir diversos sobirans del casal de Barcelona, nascut a Peralada i ciutadà de València, fou un testimoni privilegiat dels fets esdevinguts a la Corona d’Aragó del seu temps. A la seva Crònica, sens dubte un dels ...

La Crònica de Ramon Muntaner

edició i estudi (pròleg - capítol 146). Volum 2

Ramon Muntaner (1265-1336), guerrer i cronista que va servir diversos sobirans del casal de Barcelona, nascut a Peralada i ciutadà de València, fou un testimoni privilegiat dels fets esdevinguts a la Corona d’Aragó del seu temps. A la seva Crònica, sens dubte un dels ...

Història de la moneda de la Corona Catalano-Aragonesa medieval

(excepte els Comtats Catalans) (1067/1162 - 1516)

Història raonada de la moneda medieval catalana emesa, de primer a Occitània i, des d'Alfons I (1162-1196) a tots els territoris de la Corona Catalano-Aragonesa, fins a Ferran el Catòlic (1479-1516), que també inclou les branques laterals de Mallorca, Sicília, territoris grecs i Nàpols ...