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Exploring Borders
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 34.95In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making, and forming a repertory of... more...
Money, Uncertainty and Time
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95This excellent new book from one of the brightest young economists, Giuseppe Fontana, involves a compendium of issues surrounding uncertainty, money and time. Fontana shines a post Keynesian light onto statements and claims made by well-known neo-classical authors and as such leaves readers with an interesting and informative book to be read and re-read... more...
Intertemporal Macroeconomic Models, Money and Regional Choice
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 185.00Intertemporal macroeconomics links microeconomics and growth theory methods. The effects of policies are examined as the dynamic interaction between decisions of agents and policy interventions. The book explores the two basic approaches of models of infinitely-lived agents (Cass-Ramsey-Koopmans approach) and models of overlapping-generations (Allais-Fisher-Samuelson... more...
Cultural Differences Between the Military and Parent Society in Democratic Countries
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 120.00This book is a report of cross-national research on the civil-military cultural differences in democratic societies, particularly centred on the attitudes of national elites, here considered as being mainly composed of professionals. The research studies the question: What are the differences between the values, opinions and attitudes of military... more...
Spatial Econometrics
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 119.99The new economic geography and the debate on regional economic convergence have drawn increasingly the interest of economists in the empirical analysis of regional and spatial data. However, even if the methodology for the econometric treatment of spatial data is well developed, there does not exist a book without strong pre-requisites that is easily... more...
Social Sciences & the Military,, Caforio
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This innovative book presents the reader with a clear international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. In this first title on its subject, leading expert Giuseppe Caforio offers a thorough analysis of the new aspects and trends of the social sciences in studying the military. Since... more...
EU Digital Copyright Law and the End-user
Springer 2008; US$ 139.99To what extent is the user of a copyrighted digital work entitled to make a copy for personal use of the work without the copyright holder??'s consent? Are file-sharers shielded from copyright liability under the exception of private copying when they download music files from peer-to-peer networks for free? May Digital Rights Management (DRM)... more...
Information and Knowledge
Springer 2007; US$ 189.99This book develops a philosophical and logical interpretation of the concept of information within the formal structure of Constructive Type Theory (CTT), in a manner concurrent with a diverse range of contemporary perspectives on the philosophy of information. On the basis of this conceptual framework, the problem of analyticity for logical derivations... more...
Social Multi-criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy
Springer 2007; US$ 109.99This work is among the first treatments to account for the complexity of social decisions and sustainability problems by using the methodological framework of multi-criteria decision analysis. The author proposes the new concept of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) as a policy framework for the analysis of sustainability issues in which concerns... more...
Born Twice
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00When a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his son?s condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolo?s handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting episodes,... more...









