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William Harvey's Biological Ideas

Selected Aspects and Historical Background

By: Walter Pagel

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William Harvey's Biological Ideas

Selected Aspects and Historical Background

By: Walter Pagel

By his discovery of the circulation of the blood, Harvey laid the foundation of scientific biology and medicine. And yet Harvey was the child of a pre-rationalistic age. He was the life-long thinker on the purpose and indeed the mystery of circular phenomena: the circulation of the blood on the one hand and the cycle of generation on the other, both forming the microscopic copy of a cosmological pattern.

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402

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

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3805509626

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9783805509626

Iron Horses

America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

By: Walter R. Borneman

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Iron Horses

America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

By: Walter R. Borneman

A "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Iron Horses, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines pushed their way across the country. Borneman brings to life the legendary robber barons behind it all and also captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads -- the laborers who did the back-breaking work, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains. From backroom deals in Washington, DC, to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are made vivid in Iron Horses.

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513

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Little, Brown

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0316371793

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9780316371797

Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

By: Walter C. Labys

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Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

By: Walter C. Labys

Recent economic growth in China and other Asian countries has led to increased commodity demand which has caused price rises and accompanying price fluctuations not only for crude oil but also for the many other raw materials. Such trends mean that world commodity markets are once again under intense scrutiny. This book provides new insights into the modeling and forecasting of primary commodity prices by featuring comprehensive applications of the most recent methods of statistical time series analysis. The latter utilize econometric methods concerned with structural breaks, unobserved components, chaotic discovery, long memory, heteroskedasticity, wavelet estimation and fractional integration. Relevant tests employed include neural networks, correlation dimensions, Lyapunov exponents, fractional integration and rescaled range. The price forecasting involves structural time series trend plus cycle and cyclical trend models. Practical applications focus on the price behaviour of more than twenty international commodity markets.

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247

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Routledge

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1351917080

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9781351917087

Joan Baptista Van Helmont

Reformer of Science and Medicine

By: Walter Pagel

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Joan Baptista Van Helmont

Reformer of Science and Medicine

By: Walter Pagel

An intellectual biography of Van Helmont (1579-1644), showing a scholarly appreciation of his creative insights.

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236

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Cambridge University Press

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0521526558

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9780521526555

Book's by Walter Harvey

William Harvey's Biological Ideas

William Harvey's Biological Ideas

Iron Horses

Iron Horses

Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Joan Baptista Van Helmont

Joan Baptista Van Helmont

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