John S. Partington's Books

Building Cosmopolis

The Political Thought of H.G. Wells

By: John S. Partington

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building Cosmopolis

The Political Thought of H.G. Wells

By: John S. Partington

Alongside his reputation as an author, H.G. Wells is also remembered as a leading political commentator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Building Cosmopolis presents the worldview of Wells as developed between his student days at the Normal School of Science (1884-1887) and his death in 1946. During this time, Wells developed a unique political philosophy, grounded on the one hand in the theory of 'Ethical Evolution' as propounded by his professor, T.H. Huxley, and on the other in late Victorian socialism. From this basis Wells developed a worldview which rejected class struggle and nationalism and embraced global co-operation for the maintenance of peace and the advancement of the human species in a world society. Although committed to the idea of a world state, Wells became more antagonistic towards the nation state as a political unit during the carnage of the First World War. He began moving away from the position of an internationalist to one of a cosmopolitan in 1916, and throughout the inter-war period he advanced the notion of regional and, ultimately, functional world government to a greater and greater extent. Wells first demonstrated a functionalist society in Men Like Gods (1923) and further elaborated this system of government in most of his works, both fictional and non-fictional, throughout the rest of his life. Following an examination of the development of his political thought from inception to fruition, this study argues that Wells's political thoughts rank him alongside David Mitrany as one of the two founders of the functionalist school of international relations, an acknowledgement hitherto denied to Wells by scholars of world-government theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

381

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351954253

ISBN 13

9781351954259

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

645

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774844361

ISBN 13

9780774844369

Capital Budgeting

Financial Appraisal of Investment Projects

By: Don Dayananda,Richard Irons,Steve Harrison,John Herbohn,Patrick Rowland

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Capital Budgeting

Financial Appraisal of Investment Projects

By: Don Dayananda,Richard Irons,Steve Harrison,John Herbohn,Patrick Rowland

This book explains the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects. The coverage extends from the development of basic concepts, principles and techniques to the application of them in increasingly complex and real-world situations. Identification and estimation (including forecasting) of cash flows, project appraisal formulae, and the application of net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR) and other project evaluation criteria are illustrated with a variety of calculation examples. Risk analysis is extensively covered by the use of risk adjusted discount rate, certainty equivalent, sensitivity, simulation and Monte Carlo analysis. The NPV and IRR models are further applied to forestry, property and international investments. Resource constraints are introduced to the capital budgeting decisions with a variety of worked examples using linear programming technique. All calculations are extensively supported by Excel workbooks on the Web, and each chapter is well reviewed by end of chapter questions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

290

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

113943487X

ISBN 13

9781139434874

Book's by John S. Partington

Building Cosmopolis

Building Cosmopolis

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Capital Budgeting

Capital Budgeting

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email