Product Description: The field of macroeconomics has always played host to contesting schools of thought, but the recent Global Financial Crisis has exacerbated those differences. In order to fully understand macroeconomics at the introductory level, students need to be aware of these controversies...read more

Product Description: Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the world’s foremost urban areas. This book is an economic history of the Chicago metropolitan area from the 1820s to the present...read more

Product Description: This unique and inexpensive book provides a demographic and economic history of urban America over the last 65 years. The growth and decline of most northern cities is contrasted with the steady growth of western and southern cities...read more

Product Description: "McDonald is an explorer of courage and a writer of immense talent" - The Irish Times "Spirited, vivid, convincing, imaginative and poetic" - St. Petersburg Times "McDonald's prose is rich, thick and magically poetic" - The Sunday Independent "Powerful use of the unspoken, the complete objectivity of his writing has the effect of changing the moral basis for decisions regarding right and wrong" - The Leinster Express "McDonald's insight allows the reader into a different world" - The Belfast Telegraph "The writing is top class and makes putting down his book to get on with life an irritating activity" - The Irish Post "McDonald's language is distinct and attractive - comparable to Chuck Palahniuk, Anthony Burgess and even William Trevor" - Publishers Weekly "Gritty, hard-hitting and cutting edge" - The Writer's New...read more

Product Description: The factors that determine growth at the industry level are different for innovative versus mature industries. Growth industries rely on high-quality workers, access to capital, technical change, and numerous forms of collected economies...read more

Product Description: The demand for high speed Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has always been on the rise. The availability of silicon germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) devices has opened the door for gigahertz FPGAs. The integration of these high-speed SiGe HBTs and low power CMOS gives a significant speed advantage to SiGe FPGAs...read more

This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. Specifically, the book covers 17 cities in the Northeast, 6 in the South, and 6 in the West, decade by decade, with extensive data and historical narrative. The author divides his analysis into three periods - urban growth (1950 to 1970), urban crisis (late 1960s to 1990), and urban rebirth (since 1990). He draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer the first in-depth explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth that took place in the early 1990s. "Urban America" is both a message of hope and a call to action for students and professionals in urban studies. It will inspire readers to concentrate on finding ways and means to ensure that the urban rebirth will continue.

Twenty-eight-year-old Owen McBride tries to find his place in futuristic Manchester, England, torn between his itinerant gypsy roots and the comfortable love of his girlfriend Ann, a middle-class computer programmer.

Product Description: Once considered merely `selfish' or `parasitic' DNA, transposable elements are today recognized as being of major biological significance. Not only are these elements a major source of mutation, they have contributed both directly and indirectly to the evolution of genome structure and function...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In the summer of 1992 a distinguished group of molecular, population and evolutionary geneticists assembled on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, USA to discuss the relevance of their research to the role played by transposable elements (TEs) in evolution...read more

Product Description: Book by Michael E. Lambert, John F. McDonald