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21 produkter
Recreating First Contact
Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture
Av Robert J. Gordon, Alison K. Brown m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
586 kr
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Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly …
Economics of New Goods
Av Robert J. Gordon, Timothy F. Bresnahan
E-bok, 2008
2252 kr
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New goods are at the heart of economic progress. The eleven essays in this volume include historical treatments of new goods and their diffusion; practical exercises in measurement addressed to recent and ongoing innovations; and real-world methods of devising quantitative adjustments for quality …
American Business Cycle
Continuity and Change
Häftad, 1990
932 kr
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In recent decades the American economy has experienced the worst peace-time inflation in its history and the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. These circumstances have prompted renewed interest in the concept of business cycles, which Joseph Schumpeter suggested are "like the …
American Business Cycle
Continuity and Change
E-bok, 2007
2049 kr
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In recent decades the American economy has experienced the worst peace-time inflation in its history and the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. These circumstances have prompted renewed interest in the concept of business cycles, which Joseph Schumpeter suggested are "like the …
Measurement of Durable Goods Prices
E-bok, 2007
2868 kr
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American business has recently been under fire, charged with inflated pricing and an inability to compete in the international marketplace. However, the evidence presented in this volume shows that the business community has been unfairly maligned—official measures of inflation and the standard of …
Companion to Angular Momentum
Av Valeria D. Kleiman, Hongkun Park m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
1192 kr
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Angular momentum is a basic concept used in classical physics. Examples of phenomena that are related to angular momentum are: 1) Why a moving bicycle does not fall over and 2) why the currents in the ocean of the rotating earth tend to follow circular motions. Designed as a learning tool for those …
Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment
The Collected Essays of Robert J. Gordon
Häftad, 2003
1643 kr
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The seventeen seminal essays by Robert J. Gordon collected here, including three previously unpublished works, offer sharply etched views on the principal topics of macroeconomics - growth, inflation, and unemployment. The author re-examines their salient points in a uniquely creative, accessible …
Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment
The Collected Essays of Robert J. Gordon
Inbunden, 2003
3036 kr
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The seventeen seminal essays by Robert J. Gordon collected here, including three previously unpublished works, offer sharply etched views on the principal topics of macroeconomics - growth, inflation, and unemployment. The author re-examines their salient points in a uniquely creative, accessible …
Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Inbunden, 2016
430 kr
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to …
Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Häftad, 2017
263 kr
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to …
Enigma of Max Gluckman
The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa
Inbunden, 2018
964 kr
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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Enigma of Max Gluckman examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African–born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a key figure in the …
Macroeconomics
Pearson New International Edition
E-bok, 2013
820 kr
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Macroeconomics is widely praised for its ability to present theory as a way of evaluating key macro questions, such as why some countries are rich and others are poor. Students have a natural interest in what is happening today and what will happen in the near future. Macroeconomics capitalises on …
Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
E-bok, 2017
356 kr
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How America''s high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television …
Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist
...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
Av Robert J. Gordon, Luis Vivanco
E-bok, 2006
319 kr
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Adventure is currently enjoying enormous interest in public culture. The image of Tarzan provides a rewarding lens through which to explore this phenomenon. In their day, Edgar Rice Burrough’s novels enjoyed great popularity because Tarzan represented the consummate colonial-era adventurer: a white …
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Inbunden, 2021
1979 kr
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In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how …
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Häftad, 2024
543 kr
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In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how …
Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist
...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
Av Luis Vivanco, Robert J. Gordon
Inbunden, 2006
1921 kr
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Adventure is currently enjoying enormous interest in public culture. The image of Tarzan provides a rewarding lens through which to explore this phenomenon. In their day, Edgar Rice Burrough’s novels enjoyed great popularity because Tarzan represented the consummate colonial-era adventurer: a white …
Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist
...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
Av Luis Vivanco, Robert J. Gordon
Häftad, 2006
527 kr
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Adventure is currently enjoying enormous interest in public culture. The image of Tarzan provides a rewarding lens through which to explore this phenomenon. In their day, Edgar Rice Burrough’s novels enjoyed great popularity because Tarzan represented the consummate colonial-era adventurer: a white …
Picturing Bushmen
The Denver African Expedition of 1925
Inbunden, 1997
900 kr
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The Denver African Expedition of 1925 sought "the cradle of Humanity." The explorers returned claiming to have found the "Missing Link" in the Heikum bushmen of the Kalahari—and they proceeded to market this image. As Robert J. Gordon shows in Picturing Bushmen, the impact of the expedition lay not …
