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The January Effect and Other Seasonal Anomalies : A Common Theoretical Framework
Cataldo II A. J. Cataldo II
Hardcover - $253.95
This book applies John Maynard Keynes' theory of investor liquidity preferences to the examination of the stock market literature on the January effect and other seasonal anomalies. Keynes' theory provides a common theoretical framework and represent ...
Redirecting Science : Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics
Finn Aaserud
Paperback - $92.95
This volume is an important study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars. The focus of the study is on the Institute for Theoretical Physics (l ...
The Riddle of the Compass : The Invention That Changed the World
Amir D. Aczel
Paperback - $21.95
The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of m ...
Science Firsts : From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation
Robert Adler
Hardcover - $39.95
A fascinating collection of stories about key Firsts in science
Pythagoras intuited that the earth was round.
Charles Darwin discovered the source of nature’ s intricate diversity.
Marie Curie traced radioactivity to the atom.
Edwin ...
Turing and the Universal Computer
Jon Agar
Paper Textbook - $16.95
Alan Turning is widely known as the cryptographer extraordinaire of Bletchly Park, the man who broke the Nazi Enigma code. He has also been described as the father of the modern computer, dreaming of a machine that could think adn inaugurating a scie ...
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology : Vol 17
A. W. Ainsworth
Hardcover - $182.95
This annual volume includes papers on: Edwin Cannan, economic theory and the history of economic thought; Gardiner C. Means, the relation of his administered price hypothesis to neoclassical price theory; Alfred Marshall's approach to economics diffe ...
The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Ken Alder
Paperback - $24.95
In this "entirely enthralling and beautifully written book" (Simon Winchester), Alder tells the story of how science, revolutionary politics, and the dream of a new economy converged to produce the world's common language of measurement--the metric s ...
The Naturalist in Britain : A Social History
David Elliston Allen
Paperback - $68.95
The author traces the evolution of natural history from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the 'herbalizings' of apprentice apothecaries to the establishment of national reserves and international societies to the emergence of nat ...