Research in Law and Economics is a highly respected source of proactive, original perspectives on law and economics. For the researcher, this latest volume offers a diverse set of papers, each one a constructive contribution. The papers address: how the Supreme Court can clarify and rationalize the payment of pre-judgment interest; what is meant or should be meant by economic efficiency; the length of various statutes of limitations for accident cases; the efficiency of medical malpractice insurance; a.o.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 29 August 2008
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The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages: the urban civilization of Italy. After a general introduction, the book is divided into five sections on physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Each document is individually introduced and set in its own context.
To be able to see and enjoy what you are seeing is much to be gratful for. But even more, being able to reproduce and convey to others, by drawing, what you see or imagine provides greater satisfaction. As in all my books, my purpose and pleasure are to show others, like yourself, a way to construct drawings.
Metaphor and Knowledge offers a history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science. He argues that metaphors function as musical notes, which sound "harmonics" in the process of transferring ideas from one term to another.
The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing
Added by: robhel74 | Karma: 209.44 | Non-Fiction, Science literature | 29 August 2008
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This Handbook, both in its content and construction, is one of the most effective Technical Writing guides I've found. It is convenient to use, and each covered topic area is easily found. It is broadbased enough so that it generally is the only tech writing reference one needs at hand, and in itself is a fine example of what technical writing is all about.
