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  • The Rain Forests of Home

    Profile Of A North American Bioregion

    Edited by Peter Schoonmaker, Bettina Von Hagen, Edward C. Wolf ...
    Stretching from the redwoods of California to the vast stands of spruce and hemlock in southeast Alaska, coastal temperate rain forests have been for thousands of years home to one of the highest densities of human settlements on the continent. Given its mild climate, magnificent scenery, and abundant natural resources, the region should continue to support robust economies and vibrant communities ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Josephson Junctions

    History, Devices, and Applications

    Edited by Edward L. Wolf, Gerald B. Arnold, Michael A. Gurvitch, John F. Zasadzinski ...
    This book summarizes the history and present status and applications of Josephson junctions. These devices are leading elements in superconducting electronics and provide state-of-the-art performance in detection of small magnetic fields and currents, in several digital computing methods, and in medical diagnostic devices and now provide voltage standards used worldwide. Astronomical infrared (IR) ... Read more

    $149.99 USD

  • Does Education Really Help?

    Skill, Work, and Inequality

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence that the growth of skills or educational attainment has any statistically significant relation to ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Inheriting Wealth in America

    Future Boom or Bust?

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Inheritances are often regarded as a societal "evil," enabling great fortunes to be passed from one generation to another, thus exacerbating wealth inequality and reducing wealth mobility. Discussions of inheritances in America bring to mind the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and "trust fund babies"---people who receive enough money through inheritances or gifts that they do not have any need to work ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Productivity Convergence

    Theory and Evidence

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Series series Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature
    A vast new literature on the sources of economic growth has now accumulated. This book critically reviews the most significant works in this field and summarizes what is known today about the sources of economic growth. The first part discusses the most important theoretical models that have been used in modern growth theory as well as methodological issues in productivity measurement. The second ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Transformation of the American Pension System

    by Edward N Wolff ...
    The share of Americans with defined contribution pension plans now exceeds the share of those with defined benefit plans. Wolff refers to this as the &quote;great transformation&quote; and it leads him to examine recent evidence to see whether there are winners and losers resulting from this switch away from traditional pension plans. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Century of Wealth in America

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Understanding wealth in the United States—who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world’s great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    A Century of Wealth in America

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 38 min

    Understanding wealth in the United States—who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law

    A Comparative and Functional Approach

    by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda, Mariana Pargendler, Wolf-Georg Ringe, Edward Rock ...
    This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance practices that have taken place since the previous edition. These include numerous regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the changing landscape of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Taking Parenting Public

    The Case for a New Social Movement

    by Enola G. Aird, Allan C. Carlson, David Elkind, S Jody Heymann, Wade F. Horn, Bernice Kanner, Raymond Seidelman, Theda Skocpol, Peter Winn0, Edward Wolff1, Ruth A. Wooden2, William A. Galston3, Juliet B. Schor4, Ruy Teixeira5, Cornel West6 ...
    Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment-both personal and public-into the work of raising children and argues that we are all "stockholders" in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Secluded Mansion Nights

    by Edward H’ Wolf ...
    Ambers of time flow through the asylums of life. As one embarks on a journey set behind the padded cells of imagination, only those embers of true sanity will prevail in the many adventures to survive the deity of life. Eddie goes on such adventures through the corridors of time within the chamber walls of the secluded mansion to discover what life is really like in the realm of the padded cells ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Can Physics Save Miami (and Shanghai and Venice, by Lowering the Sea)?

    by Edward Wolf ...
    Series series IOP Concise Physics
    The sea is steadily rising, presently at ~3.4 per year, and it is already costing billions in Venice, on the Thames river and in New York City, to counter sea-level-related surges. Experts anticipate an accelerated rise, and credible predictions for sea-level rise by the year 2100 range from 12 inches to above six feet. Study of the Earth’s geologic history, through ice-core samples, links sea ... Read more

    $23.99 USD