Product Description: Seldom considered is whether markets do an adequate job of shaping our tastes. David George argues that they do not, and that the standard economic definition of efficiency can be used to demonstrate that the market ignores people's desires about their desires...read more

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times, starting in 1900. It is not always obvious how the changes identified necessarily reflect a stronger prejudice toward laissez-faire free market capitalism, and so much of the book seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which the changing language indeed carries with it a political message. This analysis is made through exploration of five major areas of focus: "economics rhetoric" scholarship and the growing "behavioral economics" school of thought; the discourse of government and taxation; the changing meaning of "competition," and "competitive"; changing attitudes toward labor; and the celebration of growth relative to the decline in attention to economic justice and social equality.

Product Description: This monograph describes some of the research that has been conducted on the military combat support system. It identifies the elements of sense and respond combat support and shows what is necessary to implement the concept. The monograph points out the need for both predictive tools and responsive systems working together...read more

Product Description: This collection of valuable new studies explores major figures in twentieth-century Spanish culture such as Antonio Machado, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, and Luis Buñuel, offering a fresh and engaging interpretation of their artistic works...read more

Product Description: Kee Nez, a Navajo boy, finds himself suspended between ancient terrors and the insanities of the White man's world, searching for truth--and belonging. "Do not read this story . . . . . . unless you are willing to have your heart touched in a way that it has never been touched before...read more

Product Description: Between 1892 and 1936 Spanish society witnessed many momentous tansformations, including the reassertion of a Catalan identity and the emergence of Barcelona as a major industrial and cultural centre. At the same time, theatre in Spain underwent significant changes as teatro poetico and the avant-garde challenged both the naturalistic and commercial theatres...read more

Product Description: Pedro Polo se ordena sacerdote movido por el deseo de abandonar la estrechez del medio rural, pero no halla en la vida pastoral cauce para su natural fogoso e imaginativo.

Product Description: In the village of the ghost bells, the church chimes ring—even though the church has no bells. One of the neighbors wants to buy dreams—or is she a dream that someone else is dreaming? Where and why do dreams become nightmares? These are only some of the fascinating questions raised in Village of the Ghost Bells, Edla Van Steen’s second novel...read more

Product Description: Many gifted and talented children are bored and frustrated in the classroom. They simply are not achieving their potential and their talents are going unrecognized. This practical guide, written by an experienced and world renowned author with a wealth of experience, will challenge, excite and inspire teachers and show them how they can identify q gifted and talented child and provide for the needs of these children in their classroom...read more