Product Description: The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

Product Description: DON'T EVER GET OLD was one of mystery-publishing's biggest critical successes last year, earning starred reviews from every major trade publication, garnering nominations for the Edgar, Thriller, and Anthony awards, and winning the Macavity Award for Best First Novel...read more

Product Description: When Buck Schatz, senior citizen and retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck's investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a very motley (and murderous) crew in Daniel Friedman's Don't Ever Get Old, nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel...read more

Product Description: "Saving Our Children" is a book that discusses the issue of gun control, with a focus on violent youth crime. The book begins with the history of the gun culture in America, and touches on various reforms that were made in the past...read more

Laboratory experiments with human subjects now provide crucial data in most fields of economics and there has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in this relatively new field of economics. This textbook introduces the student to the world of experimental economics. Contributors including Reinhard Selten and Axel Leijonhufvud that sketch the history of experimental economics before moving on to describe how to set up an economics experiment and to survey selected applications and the latest methods. This user-friendly book demonstrates how students can use the lessons to conduct original research.With their freeflowing, discursive yet precise style, Friedman and Cassar have created a book that is essential to students of experimental economics across the world. On account of its authoritative content, Economics Lab will also find its way on to the bookshelves of leading researchers in all fields of economics. (view table of contents)

A highly acclaimed new illustrated guide to early American Postcards which offers a revealing historical account of our murky past by drawing from the fields of deltiology, philately, postal history, printing, and illustration. Detailed explanations and hundreds of illustrations clarify the development of various types of Pioneer Postcards including business advertising, correspondence, expositions, souvenir views, and topicals. The role of the U.S. Postal Service is critically examined. Original.

Product Description: "It may fairly be said that religion plays virtually no part in the lives of most American Jews." So begins Daniel Friedman's provocative discussion of American Judaism. Friedman, a rabbi for almost forty years, has counseled thousands of Jews on the meaning of being Jewish...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Experimental economics is a rapidly growing field of inquiry, and there currently exist several textbooks and surveys describing the results of laboratory experiments in economics. This primer, however, is the first hands-on guide to the physical aspects of actually conducting experiments in economics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Great book featuring movie theaters that have been restored and reused. 80 blacka white illustrations / photographs of movie theater architecture, interior and exterior views, historical photographs, architectural drawings and floor plans, architectural details...read more