Tag: Essays

Free Download International Trade and Economic Dynamics: Essays in Memory of Koji Shimomura By Takashi Kamihigashi, Laixun Zhao (auth.), Takashi Kamihigashi, Laixun Zhao (eds.)
2009 | 532 Pages | ISBN: 3540786759 | PDF | 6 MB
Renowned trade theorist Koji Shimomura passed away in February 2007 at the age of 54. He published nearly 100 articles in international academic journals. The loss of this extremely productive economist has been an enormous shock to the economic profession. This volume has emerged from the great desire on the part of the profession to honor his contributions to economic research.Contributors include authoritative figures in trade theory such as Murray Kemp, Ronald Jones, Henry Wan, and Wilfred Ethier, world-renowned macroeconomists such as Stephen Turnovski and Costas Azariadis, and leading Japanese economists such as Kazuo Nishimura, Makoto Yano, Ryuzo Sato, and Koichi Hamada. This broad range of contributors reflects Koji Shimomura’s many connections as well as the respect he earned in the economic profession. This volume offers the reader a rare opportunity to learn the views of so many renowned economists from different schools of thought.

Free Download Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1668055600 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 4.6 MB
Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America-featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction.

Free Download Susan Gross Solomon, "Beyond Sovietology: Essays in Politics and History"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1563242214 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 1.0 mb
This volume – a product of the Soviet Domestic Politics workshop sponsored by the Social Science Research Council – marks an end and a new beginning. The end, of course, is that of Sovietology, now permanently "overtaken by events". The beginning encompasses not only a radical multiplication of subjects for analysis – the post-Soviet states – but also the arrival of a new generation of scholars entering the field at its turning point. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, they bring fresh contemporary social scientific questions and methods to an unprecedentedly accessible universe of diverse social groups and societies once subsumed under the Soviet rubric. Their work enriches not only post-Soviet studies but the entire range of comparativist work in the social sciences. Among the authors included here are Jane Dawson, Ellen Hamilton, Joel Hellman, Mark Saroyan, Joseph Schull and Michael Smith.

Free Download Tim Flannery, "An Explorer’s Notebook: Essays on Life, History, and Climate"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0802122973 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 3.3 mb
Best known for his #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn’t come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past thirty years, An Explorer’s Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations into the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming. In these thirty pieces, Flannery writes about his journeys in the jungles of New Guinea and Indonesia, about the extraordinary people he met and the species he discovered. He writes about matters as wide-ranging as love, insects, population, water, and the stresses we put on the environment. He shows us how we can better predict our future by understanding the profound history of life on Earth. And he chronicles the seismic shift in the world’s attitude toward climate change. An Explorer’s Notebook is classic Flannery-wide-ranging, eye-opening science, conveyed with richly detailed storytelling.

Free Download Dr. Einat Wilf, "We Should All Be Zionists: Essays on the Jewish State and the Path to Peace"
English | ASIN : B0B92HRP2M | 2022 | 225 pages | PDF | 978 KB
"We Should All Be Zionists" is the third volume in Dr Einat WIlf’s trilogy, after "Winning The War of Words" and "Telling Our Story". It brings together her essays on Israel, Zionism and the path to peace, which were published in a wide range of publications over the past four years. They present Wilf’s key insights on the Jewish State, the essence of the conflict, and the hope for peace that is to be found in the Abraham Accords and changes in the Arab world.

Free Download Mary Lindemann, "Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0391041843 | PDF | pages: 243 | 30.7 mb
"Knowing" itself is a problematic concept and what was once seen as the clear objective of "knowing," that is to discover "truth" or "reality," has become increasingly less certain. This is even more the case when scholars move from the present to examine epistemology in the past. Two fundamental questions arise: What constituted knowledge in the context of early modern Germany and how was knowledge gathered, assembled, organized, deployed, and interpreted? Ways of Knowing seeks to answer these questions. Taking their cues from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including art, German literature, social, political, medical, and religious history, the contributors offer readers a rich and insightful portrait of knowing and knowledge in early modern Germany. Investigators look at what people "knew" in early modern Germany and how they "knew" it. Four essays in part one consider how knowledge was created and organized. In part two, six authors examine how knowledge was evaluated and how it functioned, especially in the realms of belief, law, politics, and medicine.

Free Download Paulo de Assis, "Virtual Works―Actual Things: Essays in Music Ontology "
English | ISBN: 9462701407 | 2018 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 922 KB
What are musical works? How are they constructed in our minds? Which material things allow us to speak about them in the first place? Does a specific way of conceiving musical works limit their performative potentials? Which alternative, more productive images of musical work can be devised?

Free Download Peter Paret, "Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power"
English | 1993 | ISBN: 0691000905 | EPUB | pages: 252 | 1.0 mb
These essays provide an authoritative introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with intellectual biography.

Free Download Yves Porter, "Under the Adorned Dome: Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India "
English | ISBN: 9004549714 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 96 MB
These four essays are the updated version of the Yarshater Lecture Series (SOAS, London, 2013). They concern Persian illustrated manuscripts, the iconography of Kashan wares, luster tiles in Ilkhanid Iran, and the glazed tiles made in three Indian sultanates.

Free Download The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis
English | 7 Mar. 2002 | ISBN: 0099422220 | True EPUB | 528 pages | 0.5 MB
Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation. This remarkable collection of essays and reviews spans over three decades of his literary career.