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  • 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

    $39.59 USD

  • Physics and Future of Hurricanes

    by Edward L. Wolf ...
    This monograph is about hurricanes, prompted by a discovery that suggests they will become more powerful with global warming. It provides, at a college physics level, a basic understanding of hurricanes emphasizing the flow of energy into and out of these storms and, as a textbook, covers some material that might be taught in meteorology or atmospheric physics courses. The text is centered on a ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen

    by Simon Wolf, Louis Edward Levy ...
    Example in this ebookIt were an error to suppose that prejudice is always the offspring of ignorance, inasmuch as the reverse is very frequently true. Not seldom is ignorance the result of prejudice, through a willful refusal to recognize such facts as run counter to the latter. A more accurate simile would, therefore, be the likening of prejudice and ignorance to twins, of whom either may be the ... Read more

    $3.99 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

    $91.79 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

    $74.69 USD

  • 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

    $25.49 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

    $28.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society

    by Howard Giles, Shawn L. Hill, Daniel Angus, Caroline Bettinger-López, Brian Blakemore, Scott E. Branton, Chandrika C. Collins, Travis Dixon, Tamar Ezer0, Amy R. Grubb1, J. Brian Houston2, David M. Kennedy3, Joseph B. Kuhns4, Belén Lowrey-Kinberg5, Bernard K. Melekian6, Shannon Messer7, Matea Mustafaj8, Kristina Murphy9, Stephen Owen0, Matthew Radburn1, Cara E. Rabe-Hemp2, Leanne Savigar3, Charlie Scheer4, Michael S. Scott5, Ellen Scrivner6, Amie M. Schuck7, Marisa A. Smith8, Clifford Stott9, David H. F. Tyler0, Jan Van den Bulck1, Joseph B. Walther2, Kristopher R. Weeks3, Jeremy M. Wilson4, Scott Wolfe5, Edward R. Maguire7 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more. By combining research and theory in criminology, psychology, and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Nanophysics of Solar and Renewable Energy

    by Edward L. Wolf ...
    This easy accessible textbook provides an overview of solar to electric energy conversion, followed by a detailed look at one aspect, namely photovoltaics, including the underlying principles and fabrication methods. Ed Wolf, an experienced author and teacher, reviews such green technologies as solar-heated-steam power, hydrogen, and thermoelectric generation, as well as nuclear fusion. Throughout ... Read more

    $115.00 USD

  • The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen

    by Simon Wolf, Louis Edward Levy, Editor ...
    This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index   CONTENTS Dedication      Editor's Preface      Introduction      Jewish Patriots of the Revolutionary Period (Introductory)      A Sketch of Haym Salomon      Other Jewish Contributors to the Colonial Treasury      Incidents Illus... ... Read more

    $3.69 USD

  • Nanophysics and Nanotechnology

    An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience

    by Edward L. Wolf ...
    Long awaited new edition of this highly successful textbook, provides once more a unique introduction to the concepts, techniques and applications of nanoscale systems by covering its entire spectrum up to recent findings on graphene. ... Read more

    $60.00 USD

  • Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution

    by Manasa Medikonda, Edward L. Wolf ...
    A unique introduction for general readers to the underlying concepts of nanotechnology, covering a wide spectrum ranging from biology to quantum computing.The material is presented in the simplest possible way, including a few mathematical equations, but not mathematical derivations. It also outlines as simply as possible the major contributions to modern technology of physics-based nanophysical ... Read more

    $32.50 USD