Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul sherman

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  • PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS
    HOWARD J. SHERMAN / MICHAEL A. MEEROPOL / PAUL D. SHERMAN
    In the years since 2007 the U.S. economy has endured a severe financial crisis, a Great Recession, and continuing heavy unemployment. These events have led to increasing discontent among many people contributing to a substantial vote for Bernie Sanders and the election of Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Europe has witnessed the rise of nationalist parties and Brexit. In the face of th...

    $1,800.00

  • INEQUALITY, BOOM, AND BUST
    HOWARD J. SHERMAN / PAUL D. SHERMAN
    There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the richest 1 percent and all other Americans. While the top 1 percent own 42 percent of all wealth in America, the lower half on the income ladder has only 2 percent of all of the wealth. This book develops a viewpoint contrary to the prevailing conservative paradigm, setting out both reasons for this inequality and...

    $1,160.00

  • USABILITY SUCCESS STORIES
    SHERMAN, PAUL
    People spend increasing amounts of time and effort interacting with complex hardware and software products. Some of the products we interact with are easy to learn and easy to remember. Some are even a pleasure to use. Others are hard to learn, hard to use, and frustrate us at every turn. But it is not just the user that pays the cost in such cases. Poor usability also imposes ...

    $1,120.00

  • ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
    JOHN DIXON / LOUISE SCURA / RICHARD CARPENTER / PAUL SHERMAN
    This revised and updated guide to the environmental economics of development projects demonstrates how the environmental impacts of projects can be translated into monetary values. The theoretical bases are examined, and the techniques themselves given detailed exposition, supported by extensive case studies illustrating a wide range of applications. The text should become a us...

    $1,600.00

  • DRYLAND MANAGEMENT: ECONOMIC CASE STUDIES
    JOHN A. DIXON / DAVID E. JAMES / PAUL B. SHERMAN
    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation. Following their successful and innovative work The Economics of Dryland Management the editors have a...

    $1,320.00

  • ECONOMICS OF DRYLAND MANAGEMENT
    JOHN A. DIXON / DAVID E. JAMES / PAUL B. SHERMAN
    We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20 per cent of the world's population lives in dryland areas, and unless action is taken drylands will increase dramaticall...

    $1,480.00

  • ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
    JOHN A. DIXON / RICHARD A. CARPENTER / LOUISE A. FALLON / PAUL B. SHERMAN / SUPACHIT MANIPOMOKE
    It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose a means of constructing useful economic evaluations of the impacts of development...

    $1,320.00

  • FOR LOVE OF THE WORLD
    SHERMAN PAUL
    Along with poets, philosophers, and deep ecologists, nature writers—who may be something of all three—address the world alienation of Western civilization. By example as well as with words, they teach us to turn from the self to the world, from ego to ecos.In these deeply felt meditative essays, Sherman Paul contemplates the cosmological homecoming of nature writers who show us...

    $625.86

  • HEWING TO EXPERIENCE
    SHERMAN PAUL
    Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, on criticism and poetry, sets out many of the insistences that give this valuable collection of essays and revie...

    $536.32