This book offers a hypothesis centering around the concept of the "Fantasy Bond," an illusion of connection formed with the mother and later with significant others in the individual's environment.

This text progressively develops the mathematical tools students need to perform economic analysis and assumes the student has a knowledge of calculus and intermediate microeconomic skills. There is a careful integration of the mathematics with the presentation of economics, with emphasis on those techniques most widely used by economists. Examples clearly illustrate the crucia...(展开全部)

A clash of economic theories continues to dominate into the twenty-first century. The battle lines are drawn between the Keynesian model of aggregate demand and consumer spending, and the supply-side model of capital investment and saving. Which best reflects the dynamics of the booming global economy? Does aggregate demand determine business activity, new technology, and job c...(展开全部)

In 1949 the town of Winchingham was rocked by a series of three astonishing disappearances: a man on his way to being married; a room from 100 years ago; and a narrow street. All three disappearances have overtones of the supernatural, and that's something that local citizen Jimmy Melrose thrives on. But for Detective-Inspector Lancelot Carolus Smith, the supernatural simply wo...(展开全部)

In 1949 the town of Winchingham was rocked by a series of three astonishing disappearances: a man on his way to being married; a room from 100 years ago; and a narrow street. All three disappearances have overtones of the supernatural, and that's something that local citizen Jimmy Melrose thrives on. But for Detective-Inspector Lancelot Carolus Smith, the supernatural simply wo...(展开全部)

The expanded and revised edition of Community tackles the hysteric rise of isolation and fear in a digitally interconnected world.Block draws on a decade of putting these ideas into practice to emphasize what has worked and extract those thoughts that were nice but had no durability.

Since the publication of this book in 1962, Kuhn's writings (and many of his ideas, such as "paradigm shift") have been highly influential in academic and popular discourse. This book is must-reading for anyone studying the history and philosophy of science specifically, or cultural or technological change generally. Since Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scienti...(展开全部)