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Why the Earth Quakes

By: Matthys Levy,Mario Salvadori

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Why the Earth Quakes

By: Matthys Levy,Mario Salvadori

Discusses origins, causes, and historical occurrences, of earthquakes and volcanoes and how to prepare for them.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393315274

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9780393315271

Why Buildings Fall Down

How Structures Fail

By: Matthys Levy,Mario Salvadori

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Why Buildings Fall Down

How Structures Fail

By: Matthys Levy,Mario Salvadori

About the reasons for structural collapse, including earthquakes, metal fatigue, and terrorism.

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372

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039331152X

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9780393311525

Why Buildings Stand Up

The Strength Of Architecture

By: Mario Salvadori

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Why Buildings Stand Up

The Strength Of Architecture

By: Mario Salvadori

Here is a clear and enthusiastic introduction to building methods from ancient time to the present day, illustrated throughout with line drawings. In addition, Mr. Salvadori discusses recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the planning and construction of buildings.

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326

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393306763

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9780393306767

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

Projects and Principles for Beginning Geologists

By: Matthys Levy,Mario Salvadori

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Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

Projects and Principles for Beginning Geologists

By: Matthys Levy,Mario Salvadori

Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis don't happen every day, so how can budding scientists study how they work? Through experiments, models, and demonstrations. This in-depth resource will teach readers how to build a seismograph to record a simulated earthquake, compare pressure waves and shear waves—the two types of ground shocks—using a Slinky, and replicate a tsunami's destructive effect on a &“coastline&” built in a bathtub. Authors Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori even discuss issues of modern architecture and civil engineering: how science can be used to protect buildings and property in earthquake-prone areas. Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis answers a wide array of questions about these phenomena. Can animals &“predict&” earthquakes? How have various cultures explained the movement of the earth throughout history? What is the Richter scale, and what does it tell us about the strength of a quake? And most important, readers will learn how to earthquake-proof their homes, and how to protect themselves should they experience a tremor.

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146

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Chicago Review Press

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1613741642

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9781613741641

Galileo Courtier

The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism

By: Mario Biagioli

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Galileo Courtier

The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism

By: Mario Biagioli

Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science—the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusions. Galileo, Courtier is a fascinating cultural and social history of science highlighting the workings of power, patronage, and credibility in the development of science.

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University of Chicago Press

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022621897X

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9780226218977

Why Buildings Stand Up

The Strength Of Architecture

By: Mario Salvadori

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The Strength Of Architecture

By: Mario Salvadori

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0393306763

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The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe

A Lasting Heritage

By: Mario Biagioni

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The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe

A Lasting Heritage

By: Mario Biagioni

In The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe, Mario Biagioni presents an account of the lives and thoughts of some radical reformers of the sixteenth century (Bernardino Ochino, Francesco Pucci, Fausto Sozzini, and Christian Francken), showing that the Radical Reformation was not merely a subplot of heretical history within the larger narrative of the Magisterial Reformation. Religious radicalism was primarily an extraordinary laboratory of ideas, which played a pivotal role in the rise of modern Europe: it influenced the intellectual process leading to the cultural revolution of the Enlightenment. Secularism, toleration, and rationalism ― three basic principles of Western civilization ― are part of its cultural heritage.

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192

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BRILL

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9004335781

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9789004335783

Money and Macrodynamics

Alfred Eichner and Post-Keynesian Economics

By: Marc Lavoie,Louis-Philippe Rochon,Mario Seccareccia

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Money and Macrodynamics

Alfred Eichner and Post-Keynesian Economics

By: Marc Lavoie,Louis-Philippe Rochon,Mario Seccareccia

Alfred Eichner's pioneering contributions to post-Keynesian econmics offered significant insights on the way modern economies and institutions actually work. Published in 1987, his "Macrodynamics of Advanced Market Economies" contains rich chapters on dynamics and growth, investment, finance and income distribution, a timely chapter on the State and fiscal policy, and two analytical chapters on endogenous money that are years ahead of their time. Featuring chapters by many of Eichner's disciples, this book celebrates his rich contributions to post-Keynesian economics, and demonstrates that his work is in many ways as valid today as it was over two decades ago.

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220

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Routledge

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1317464478

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9781317464471

What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality?

Dialogues on Disputed Issues and Conflicting Theories

By: Mario Morroni

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What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality?

Dialogues on Disputed Issues and Conflicting Theories

By: Mario Morroni

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007–8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures? If so, this book is for you. Using imagined dialogue between three economists with contrasting theoretical perspectives and a student who knows little about economics, different interpretations are compared in straightforward, jargon-free language. The book explores both the consequences of neoliberal economic policies based on the belief in efficient, self-regulating markets and the implications of alternative economic visions formulated in response to the Great Recession. In all, nine dialogues are presented, each of which focuses on a key theme: increasing inequality, the failure of economists to predict the crash, the reasons for fiscal austerity, the rolling back of the welfare state, the roles of the state and the market, the repercussions of the German trade surplus and the Eurozone crisis, policies to confront the crisis, environmental degradation, and the need for an industrial policy appropriate to the present day. The book will be ideal for both general readers and those embarking on the study of economics.

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Springer

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331998621X

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9783319986210

The Paretian Tradition During the Interwar Period

From Dynamics to Growth

By: Mario Pomini

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The Paretian Tradition During the Interwar Period

From Dynamics to Growth

By: Mario Pomini

The years in-between the two World Wars were a crucial period for the building of economic dynamics as an autonomous field. Different competing research programs arose at international level. Great progress was achieved by studies on the business cycle, with the first statistical applications. Outside the theory of the business cycle, a significant line of inquiry was that pursued at the end of the 1930s by Hicks and Samuelson. This period also saw the formulation of another approach to formal economic dynamics which in the 1930s represented the frontier of research from the analytical point of view. It was an approach which set the notion of equilibrium at the basis of dynamics, exactly as in the case of statics, thus leading to the definition of a dynamic equilibrium approach. The aim of this volume is to take into consideration this original research field sparked from Pareto’s works and initially developed during the 1920s in the United States by two American mathematicians, G. Evans and C. Ross. In the 1930s, the concept of dynamic equilibrium became the main research field of the Pareto school which gave its most important contributions in this field. The Paretian economists as Amoroso, de Pietri Tonelli, Sensini, and the younger, such as Bordin, Palomba, La Volpe, Fossati and Zaccagnini, for the most part students of the former, developed this approach in many directions. The theory of dynamic equilibrium reached remarkable results from an analytical viewpoint through the wide application of the functional calculus, thus anticipating a perspective which was taken into consideration in the 1960s with the theory of optimal growth. Despite the Pareto school’s relevance, it remained widely unknown, not only at international level, but also in Italy. Recently, it has been object of renewed interest. This present work aims at reconstructing the fundamental contributions offered by the Pareto school in forming the economic dynamics theory.

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180

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Routledge

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131769063X

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9781317690634

Processes of Emergence of Systems and Systemic Properties

Towards a General Theory of Emergence : Proceedings of the International Conference, Castel Ivano, Italy, 18-20 October 2007

By: Gianfranco Minati,Mario R. Abram,Eliano Pessa

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Processes of Emergence of Systems and Systemic Properties

Towards a General Theory of Emergence : Proceedings of the International Conference, Castel Ivano, Italy, 18-20 October 2007

By: Gianfranco Minati,Mario R. Abram,Eliano Pessa

This book contains the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of emergence, considering theoretical aspects and applications from physics, cognitive science, biology, artificial intelligence, economics, architecture, philosophy, music and social systems. Such an interdisciplinary study implies the need to model and distinguish, in different disciplinary contexts, the establishment of structures, systems and systemic properties. Systems, as modeled by the observer, not only possess properties, but are also able to make emergent new properties. While current disciplinary models of emergence are based on theories of phase transitions, bifurcations, dissipative structures, multiple systems and organization, the present volume focuses on both generalizing those disciplinary models and identifying correspondences and new more general approaches. The general conceptual framework of the book relates to the attempt to build a general theory of emergence as a general theory of change, corresponding to Von Bertalanffy's project for a general system theory.

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World Scientific

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9812793461

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9789812793461

The Valuation of Financial Companies

Tools and Techniques to Measure the Value of Banks, Insurance Companies and Other Financial Institutions

By: Mario Massari,Gianfranco Gianfrate,Laura Zanetti

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The Valuation of Financial Companies

Tools and Techniques to Measure the Value of Banks, Insurance Companies and Other Financial Institutions

By: Mario Massari,Gianfranco Gianfrate,Laura Zanetti

This book presents the main valuation approaches that can be used to value financial institutions. By sketching 1) the different business models of banks (both commercial and investment banks) and insurance companies (life, property and casualty and reinsurance); 2) the structure and peculiarities of financial institutions’ reporting and financial statements; and 3) the main features of regulatory capital frameworks for banking and insurance (ie Basel III, Solvency II), the book addresses why such elements make the valuation of financial institutions different from the valuation of non-financial companies. The book then features the valuation models that can be used to determine the value of banks and insurance companies including the Discounted Cash Flow, Dividend Discount Model, and Residual Income Model (with the appropriate estimation techniques for the cost of capital and cash flow in financial industries). The main techniques to perform the relative valuation of financial institutions are then presented: along the traditional multiples (P/E, P/BV, P/TBV, P/NAV), the multiples based on industry-specific value drivers are discussed (for example, P/Pre Provision Profit, P/Deposits, P/Premiums, P/Number of branches). Further valuation tools such as the “Value Maps” or the “Warranted Equity Method” will be explained and discussed. The closing section of the book will briefly focus on the valuation of specific financial companies/vehicles such as closed-end funds, private equity funds, leasing companies, etc.

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260

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118617266

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9781118617267

Corporate Valuation

Measuring the Value of Companies in Turbulent Times

By: Mario Massari,Gianfranco Gianfrate,Laura Zanetti

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Corporate Valuation

Measuring the Value of Companies in Turbulent Times

By: Mario Massari,Gianfranco Gianfrate,Laura Zanetti

Risk consideration is central to more accurate post-crisis valuation Corporate Valuation presents the most up-to-date tools and techniques for more accurate valuation in a highly volatile, globalized, and risky business environment. This insightful guide takes a multidisciplinary approach, considering both accounting and financial principles, with a practical focus that uses case studies and numerical examples to illustrate major concepts. Readers are walked through a map of the valuation approaches proven most effective post-crisis, with explicit guidance toward implementation and enhancement using advanced tools, while exploring new models, techniques, and perspectives on the new meaning of value. Risk centrality and scenario analysis are major themes among the techniques covered, and the companion website provides relevant spreadsheets, models, and instructor materials. Business is now done in a faster, more diverse, more interconnected environment, making valuation an increasingly more complex endeavor. New types of risks and competition are shaping operations and finance, redefining the importance of managing uncertainty as the key to success. This book brings that perspective to bear in valuation, providing new insight, new models, and practical techniques for the modern finance industry. Gain a new understanding of the idea of "value," from both accounting and financial perspectives Learn new valuation models and techniques, including scenario-based valuation, the Monte Carlo analysis, and other advanced tools Understand valuation multiples as adjusted for risk and cycle, and the decomposition of deal multiples Examine the approach to valuation for rights issues and hybrid securities, and more Traditional valuation models are inaccurate in that they hinge on the idea of ensured success and only minor adjustments to forecasts. These rules no longer apply, and accurate valuation demands a shift in the paradigm. Corporate Valuation describes that shift, and how it translates to more accurate methods.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119003350

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9781119003359

John Locke: On Toleration and the Unity of God

By: Mario Montuori

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John Locke: On Toleration and the Unity of God

By: Mario Montuori

Latin and English texts revised and edited with variants and an introduction by Mario Montuori.

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BRILL

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900446395X

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9789004463950

Building

The Fight Against Gravity

By: Mario Salvadori

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Building

The Fight Against Gravity

By: Mario Salvadori

An introduction to the basic principles of architecture and engineering including a discussion of structural materials and their properties and such problems as how skyscrapers are kept from swaying excessively and buildings prevented from sinking into the ground.

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0689710399

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9780689710391

Math Games for Middle School

Challenges and Skill-Builders for Students at Every Level

By: Mario Salvadori,Joseph P. Wright

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Math Games for Middle School

Challenges and Skill-Builders for Students at Every Level

By: Mario Salvadori,Joseph P. Wright

Uses explanations, word problems, and games to cover some mathematical topics that middle school students need to know, including the invention of numerical notations, basic arithmatical operations, measurements, geometry, graphs, and probability.

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185

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Chicago Review Press

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1569767270

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9781569767276

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Why the Earth Quakes

Why the Earth Quakes

Why Buildings Fall Down

Why Buildings Fall Down

Why Buildings Stand Up

Why Buildings Stand Up

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

Galileo Courtier

Galileo Courtier

Why Buildings Stand Up

Why Buildings Stand Up

The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe

The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe

Money and Macrodynamics

Money and Macrodynamics

What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality?

What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality?

The Paretian Tradition During the Interwar Period

The Paretian Tradition During the Interwar Period

Processes of Emergence of Systems and Systemic Properties

Processes of Emergence of Systems and Systemic Properties

The Valuation of Financial Companies

The Valuation of Financial Companies

Corporate Valuation

Corporate Valuation

John Locke: On Toleration and the Unity of God

John Locke: On Toleration and the Unity of God

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Building

Math Games for Middle School

Math Games for Middle School

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