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Understanding Poverty
$8.93
Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who we..
Understanding Society: A Survey of Modern Social T...
$14.44
Understanding Society: A Survey of Modern Social Theory, Second Edition, introduces the major streams of contemporary social theory and traces their evolution to the present day. This edition features an entirely new chapter on three recent schools of thought centering on the somatic (bodily) aspect..
Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve You...
$10.15
Many writers view style as a dreaded Bermuda Triangle--they have no idea how to improve anything they have written. This book dispels much of that mystery, using the findings of modern linguistics to explore the relationship between written and spoken voices and to uncover little-known ways tocontro..
Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide
$50.58
Mark Twain once derided the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print." Long and complicated, written in the language of the King James version of the Bible, it boggles the minds of many. Yet it is unquestionably one of the most influential books ever written. With over 140 million copies in print, it ..
Understanding the Firm: Spatial and Organizational...
$36.11
Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. This book addresses some of the gaps in the current state of the theory of the firm from an economic geography perspective: issues around the boundaries of the firm; the collective agency of the firm; the political firm, financial markets, and the stat..
Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History ...
$77.87
Women have entered the labor market in unprecedented numbers, yet these critically needed workers still earn less than men and have fewer opportunities for advancement. This study traces the evolution of the female labor force in America, addressing the issue of gender distinction in the workplace a..
Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the La...
$24.81
This broad survey of unemployment is a benchmark summary of the authors position which became hugely influential. This second edition brings the analysis up to date by relating it to recent empirical developments. This book is a major source of reference for both scholars and students. Author: Jackm..
Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhanceme...
$56.92
Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on our urgently finding ways to bring about radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our own human nature. We have rewritten our own moral agenda by the drastic changes we have made to the conditions of life on earth. Advances in ..
Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of ...
$45.89
Emerging conceptualizations of major emotional disorders emphasize their commonalities rather than their differences, including considerable overlap in disorder phenomenology, a common set of vulnerabilities to development of emotional disorders, and generalization of treatment response acrossdisord..
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press f...
$7.51
Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead.The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemin..
Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration: America's Grea...
$30.98
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most s..
Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men's Movement, Gende...
$11.84
The mythopoetic men's movement grew quietly for ten years before Roberts Bly's bestseller Iron John brought the movement to national attention. Reactions to the movement ranged from bemused or dismissive stories appearing in Sunday supplements and magazines, to outrageous lampoons on stage, toharsh ..
Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
$25.79
Nomy Arpaly rejects the model of rationality used by most ethicists and action theorists. Both observation and psychology indicate that people act rationally without deliberation, and act irrationally with deliberation. By questioning the notion that our own minds are comprehensible to us--and there..
Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Ch...
$9.42
Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry. Indeed, the very idea that a..
Urban and Regional Economics
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Urban and Regional Economics is the first textbook to provide an integrated framework for the study of urban and regional economics, emphasizing the importance of spatial and geographical factors. Offering a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the main foundational models,principles,..
Urban Health: Combating Disparities with Local Dat...
$9.07
The 1980s opened a discussion of the varying nature of health in different segments of the United States. Falling under the rubric of "health disparities," a great deal of research has been published demonstrating the substantial differences in health status within a population. The causes of health..
Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries
$20.28
The ability of developing countries to maintain their stock of urban infrastructure and to expand in line with rapid urban population growth depends on administrative capabilities and financial resource management. This book provides a comparative international basis on which urban finance and admin..
Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America
$8.80
The history of intolerance in the United States begins in colonial times. Discrimination on the basis of religion, race, and sexual orientation have been characteristic of our society for more than three centuries. Us and Them illuminates these dark corners of our nation's past and traces itsongoing..
Us and Them?: A History of Intolerance in America
$7.49
The history of intolerance in the United States begins in colonial times. Discrimination on the basis of religion, race, and sexual orientation have been characteristic of our society for more than three centuries. "Us and Them" illuminates these dark corners of our nation's past and traces its ongo..
Ushant: An Essay
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1971 Oxford University Press; Hardcover Author: Aiken, Conrad Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0195014529 ISBN-13: 9780195014525..
Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Improve Healt...
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As health costs in the U.S. soar past $1.5 trillion, much evidence indicates that the nation does not get good value for its money. It is widely agreed that we could do better by using cost-effective analysis (CEA) to help determine which health care services are most worthwhile. American policy mak..
Using the MCS-51 Microcontroller
$59.31
This extensively detailed and comprehensive introduction to the Intel MCS-51 microcontroller covers both theoretical and design and implementation issues. The text begins with the MCS-51 CPU architecture and programming model and then discusses the details of the MCS-51 instruction set and assembly ..
USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills Triage: A Guide to Ho...
$19.26
USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills Triage is the indispensable preparation book for the Step 2 Clinical Skills exam, presenting 40 high-yield patient-encounter cases that simulate the examination experience. Cases are organized for straightforward learning: a sample dialogue that mimics actual doctor-pati..
USMLE Step 3 Triage: An Effective, No-nonsense Rev...
$15.33
USMLE Step 3 Triage emphasizes high yield exposure to relevant facts, clinical tools, and authoritative guidelines that will be tested on the USMLE Step 3 exam. With its concise emphasis on the most tested subjects and no-nonsense approach to disease, this book is the only review you'll need.USMLE S..
Utilitarianism (Oxford Philosophical Texts)
$9.26
Mill's Utilitarianism is one of the most important, controversial, and suggestive works of moral philosophy ever written. Mill defends the view that all human action should produce the greatest happiness overall, and that happiness itself is to be understood as consisting in "higher" and "lower" ple..