LIBROS DEL AUTOR: julian simon

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  • Marie Duval
    Julian Waite / Roger Sabin / Simon Grennan
    Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century.It discusses key themes and practices of Duval’s vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic enviro...
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    44,16 €

  • Sharing Power, Securing Peace?
    Julian Wucherpfennig / Lars-Erik Cederman / Simon Hug
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    43,98 €

  • The Economics of Population Growth
    Julian Lincoln Simon
    Comparison with stationary and very fast rates of population growth shows modern population grwoth to have long-run positive effects on the standards of living. This is Julian Simon’s contention, and he provides support for its validity in both more and less-developed countries. He notes that since each person constitutes a burden in the short run, whether population growth is ...
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    153,61 €

  • The Economics of Population
    Julian Simon
    Thomas Molnar’s Bernanos is an illuminating study of the personal evolution of the French Catholic novelist Georges Bernanos from a reactionary royalist to a religiously principled anti-fascist. It also provides a detailed account of the intellectual divisions within the French Catholic Right and suggests a number of parallels with intellectual and literary figures on the secul...
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    104,35 €

  • Jean Le Rond D’Alembert
    Julián Simón Calero
    In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d’Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how he tries to reduce the resistance of a moving body, which is a change of its momentum,...
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    47,79 €

  • Population and Development in Poor Countries
    Julian Lincoln Simon
    Making the case that population growth does not hinder economic progress and that it eventually raises standards of living, Julian Simon became one of the most controversial figures in economics during the past decade. This book gathers a set of articles--theoretical, empirical, and policy analyses--written over the past twenty years, which examine the effects of population inc...
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    109,81 €

  • Revelations of Divine Love
    Julian of Norwich / Simon Parke
    ’Revelations of Divine Love’ by Julian of Norwich is the first book written in English by a woman. But the work is read now not for historical interest but for the God she describes and the optimism she exudes; an optimism all the more remarkable for the setting in which she wrote.Julian lived in Norwich from 1342 - 1416; but 14th century England was far from the Merry Old Engl...
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    14,23 €

  • The Genesis of Fluid Mechanics 1640-1780
    Julián Simón Calero / V.H.A. Watson
    Fluid Mechanics, as a scientific discipline in a modern sense, was established between the last third of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. This book analyses its genesis from two lines: resistance and discharge. This approach highlights the existence of a remarkable experimental aspect in the aforementioned research lines, toget...
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    243,43 €

  • Hoodwinking the Nation
    Julian Simon
    Most people in the United States believe that our envi- ronment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth in the world is a burden and a threat ...
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    91,37 €

  • The Banality of Denial
    Julian Simon / Yair Auron
    The Banality of Denial examines the attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide ...
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    87,59 €

  • The Art of Empirical Investigation
    Julian Simon
    Julian Simon was known for his methodical, and often controversial, writings challenging conventional beliefs about overpopulation, pollution, disappearing farmland, and the scarcity of energy sources and raw materials ...
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    86,53 €

  • Who Paints the Sky?
    Julian Simon Schlusberg
    Seasonal changes provide the backdrop for Who Paints the Sky?, the story of a young boy’s growing awareness and the adventures he shares with his grandfather. Their loving relationship is evident as they experience the silent beauty and poetry of Nature, visiting a series of idyllic locations ranging from a mountain chain that resembles a sleeping giant to a serene lake sur...
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    15,19 €

  • The Ultimate Resource 2
    Julian Lincoln Simon
    Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of immigration, and the 'perils of overpopulation.' The comprehensive data, careful quantitative research, and economic logic contained in ...
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    100,59 €

  • Scarcity or Abundance?
    Julian L. Simon / Julian LSimon / Norman Myers
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    17,32 €