Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, ISBN-13: 978-0262631594 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: The MIT Press; Reprint edition (October 20, 1994) Language: English 389 pages ISBN-10: 0262631598 ISBN-13: 978-0262631594 Terms and phrases such as “the global village” and “the medium is the message” are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan’s theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. This reissue of Understanding Media marks the…
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Econometrics by Fumio Hayashi, ISBN-13: 978-0691010182 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Princeton University Press; unknown edition (December 15, 2000) Language: English 690 pages ISBN-10: 0691010188 ISBN-13: 978-0691010182 Hayashi’s Econometrics promises to be the next great synthesis of modern econometrics. It introduces first year Ph.D. students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective. It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics from ordinary least squares through cointegration. The book…
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Economic Growth 2nd Edition by Robert J. Barro, ISBN-13: 978-0262025539 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: The MIT Press; 2nd edition (October 10, 2003) Language: English 672 pages ISBN-10: 0262025531 ISBN-13: 978-0262025539 The long-awaited second edition of an important textbook on economic growth—a major revision incorporating the most recent work on the subject. This graduate level text on economic growth surveys neoclassical and more recent growth theories, stressing their empirical implications and the relation of theory to…
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The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, ISBN-13: 978-0394703909 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Vintage Books; Extensive Underlining edition (January 1, 1964) Language: English 449 pages ISBN-10: 0394703901 ISBN-13: 978-0394703909 A penetrating analysis of our technical civilization and of the effect of an increasingly standardized culture on the future of man. As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying…
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The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom? ISBN-13: 978-0738201443 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Basic Books; 1st edition (June 1, 1999) Language: English 384 pages ISBN-10: 0738201448 ISBN-13: 978-0738201443 In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view,…
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, ISBN-13: 978-0684811642 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (1 Feb. 1997) Language: English 367 pages ISBN-10: 0684811642 ISBN-13: 978-0684811642 Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global…
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A Short Guide to Writing About Art 11th Edition by Sylvan Barnet, ISBN-13: 978-0205886999 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Pearson; 11th edition (January 15, 2014) Language: English 384 pages ISBN-10: 9780205886999 ISBN-13: 978-0205886999 The best-selling guide to writing about art. Sylvan Barnet’s A Short Guide to Writing About Art guides students through every aspect of writing about art. Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the…
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Ethnic Groups in Conflict by Donald L. Horowitz, ISBN-13: 978-0520058804 [Brand New, Printed in black and white pages, NOT PDF eTextbook] Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition (February 24, 1987) Language: English 712 pages ISBN-10: 0520058801 ISBN-13: 978-0520058804 Change the way you look at the world. Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. A…
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Methods in Cilia and Flagella 1st Edition by Renata Basto, ISBN-13: 978-0128024515 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (April 8, 2015) Language: English 614 pages ISBN-10: 0128024518 ISBN-13: 978-0128024515 Cilia are tiny cellular structures made of microtubules that play a variety of essential functions in many eukaryotic cells. Initially, electron microscopy studies identified and described a remarkable organization of the ciliary microtubule axoneme that resembled the structure of basal bodies and flagella. This…
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Knowing the Odds: An Introduction to Probability by John B. Walsh, ISBN-13: 978-0821885321 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: American Mathematical Society (September 6, 2012) Language: English 421 pages ISBN-10: 0821885324 ISBN-13: 978-0821885321 This book covers in a leisurely manner all the standard material that one would want in a full year probability course with a slant towards applications in financial analysis at the graduate or senior undergraduate honors level. It contains a fair amount of measure…
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Fundamentals of Differential Equations 9th Edition by R. Kent Nagle, ISBN-13: 978-0321977069 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Pearson; 9th edition (January 1, 2017) Language: English 720 pages ISBN-10: 9780321977069 ISBN-13: 978-0321977069 For one-semester sophomore- or junior-level courses in Differential Equations. An introduction to the basic theory and applications of differential equations. Fundamentals of Differential Equations presents the basic theory of differential equations and offers a variety of modern applications in science and engineering. This flexible text…
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Linear Algebra with Applications 9th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0321962218 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Pearson; 9th edition (August 9, 2014) Language: English 528 pages ISBN-10: 0321962214 ISBN-13: 978-0321962218 This book is for sophomore-level or junior/senior-level first courses in linear algebra and assumes calculus as a prerequisite. This thorough and accessible text, from one of the leading figures in the use of technology in linear algebra, gives students a challenging and broad understanding of the subject. The author infuses…
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