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  • A Capital’s Capital

    Two Hundred Years of Wealth and Inequality in Paris

    by Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfareSuccessful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth. In this book, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal map the fluctuations in wealth and its ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Curves and Surfaces

    Edited by Pierre-Jean Laurent, Alain Le Mehaute, Larry Schumaker ...
    This volume documents the results and presentations, related to aspects of geometric design, of the Second International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, held in Chamonix in 1993. The papers represent directions for future research and development in many areas of application. From the table of contents: - Object Oriented Spline Software - An Int ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Before and Beyond Divergence

    The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe

    by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, R. Bin Wong ...
    China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Wavelets, Images, and Surface Fitting

    Edited by Pierre-Jean Laurent, Larry Schumaker, Alain Le Mehaute ...
    This volume documents the results and presentations relating to the use of wavelet theory and other methods in surface fitting and image reconstruction of the Second International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, held in Chamonix in 1993. The papers represent directions for future research and development in many areas of application. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Fluid Mechanics

    by Jean-Laurent Puebe ...
    This book examines the phenomena of fluid flow and transfer as governed by mechanics and thermodynamics. Part 1 concentrates on equations coming from balance laws and also discusses transportation phenomena and propagation of shock waves. Part 2 explains the basic methods of metrology, signal processing, and system modeling, using a selection of examples of fluid and thermal mechanics. ... Read more

    $285.00 USD

  • Analytic Narratives

    by Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast ...
    Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes

    Edited by Carol J Pierce Colfer, Jean-Laurent Pfund ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests and protected areas. It focuses attention at the interface between communities and the landscape level, building on interdisciplinary research conducted in five countries (Cameroon, Indonesia, Laos, Madagascar and Tanzania). In each country, the research ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Adapting Cities to Climate Change

    Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

    Edited by David Dodman, Jane Bicknell, David Satterthwaite ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Towards Principled Oceans Governance

    Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges

    Edited by Donald R. Rothwell, David L. VanderZwaag ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Maritime Research
    Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations.This key book focuses on principles of marine environmental conservation and management, maritime regulation and enforcement, and ... Read more

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  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

    Landscapes, People and Power

    by Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow, Sally Jeanrenaud ...
    'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Haves and the Have-Nots

    A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

    by Branko Milanovic ...
    Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why -- beyond the idle curiosity -- do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD