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The Gridlock Economy
Basic Books 2010; US$ 16.95Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These problems have solutions that can jump-start innovation and help save our troubled economy. So,... more...
Ultimate Explanations of the Universe
Springer 2009; US$ 54.99Addresses our attempts to find ultimate explanations using rational argument, mathematics and physical law. This book demonstrates that we have come a long way but that the 'ultimate' may remain elusive. more...
Creative Tension
Templeton Press 2007; US$ 11.99The voice of a renowned professor of philosophy in Poland, who is also a Roman Catholic priest, is introduced to the United States in this collection of his provocative essays on the interplay of science and religion. Michael Heller progressively outlines systematic steps that might lead to a peaceful coexistence of these traditionally separate... more...
Capitalism, Institutions and Economic Development
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 145.00Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Popper, and Parsons, this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously coordinating public institutions that enable durable market-based wealth generation and social... more...
Integrated Microfabricated Biodevices
Marcel Dekker Inc 2002; US$ 239.95This text discusses the new generation of integrated microfabricated devices, including DNA chips, lab-on-a-chip, microcapillary electrophoresis systems, biosensors and microanalytical systems. It traces their development with established and evolving technologies. more...
A Comprehensible Universe
Springer 2008; US$ 47.99Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried to understand the world with the help of reason alone,... more...
Un Universo comprensibile
Springer 2009; US$ 23.99"La cosa più incomprensibile del mondo è il fatto che sia comprensibile", ebbe a dire un giorno Albert Einstein. A ben pensarci, non è stupefacente che l?Universo abbia un?intima essenza razionale e matematica, tale da abilitare la mente umana a indagarlo e a conoscerlo? Questo libro tratta dell?evoluzione storica del concetto di razionalità, dal mondo... more...
BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology
Springer 2007; US$ 169.99Volume 2 of the multi-volume reference, "BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology", includes contributions reporting on fundamental and applied investigations of the material science, biochemistry, and physics of biomedical microdevices with applications to Genomics and Proteomics. Topics include gene expression profiling utilizing microarray... more...
New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics VII
Springer 2010; US$ 249.99This volume contains the contributions to the 16. Symposium of the STAB (German Aero-space Aerodynamics Association). In this association all those German scientists and engineers from universities, research establishments and industry are involved, who are doing research and project work in numerical and experimental fluid mechanics and aerodynamics,... more...









