International Economics: Theory and Policy (6th Edition) by Paul R. Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld
For anybody - but especially students - interested in exploring the subject of international economics, this is the book to start with. It is illuminating (as it is always the case with Krugman's writings) on otherwise technical concepts as comparative advantage, trade policy and exchange rate determinants, but it is also entertaining, with its "reality checks".
In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database.
Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.
A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (such as Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). The authors offer clear critical evaluations of competing formal approaches within theoretical linguistics.
Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed
Since 1988, Professor Geoffrey Wood of the Sir John Cass Business School,
City of London, has written a regular column in the IEA's journal
Economic Affairs, in which he exposes popular economic fallacies. This
book collects fifty of these columns and exposes numerous common
fallacies - for example, about the supposed dangers of free trade, the
abilities of governments to control the economy, the effects of
government regulation, and establishing the "correct" rate at which to
join The Euro.
These lucid and stimulating columns are invaluable to students
struggling to master some of the complexities of economic theory and
its applications, who often find the most effective way to learn
economic analysis is to see such fallacies exposed. It is a text
particularly suitable for first-year economics students, complementing
existing textbooks as it does, and clarifying basic concepts in
economics while demonstrating the practical uses of economic theory.
Conditions for Second Language
Professor Spolsky explores the requirements for a general theory of second
language learning, and considers the relevance of such a theory for language
teaching.
