Are you curious to know what makes your iPod tick? How about your mobile phone, laptop, stereo system, digital camera, plasma TV – or, well, just about every piece of electronics you use for work or play, in the office, at home or on the move? Perhaps you’ve even thought that you could design and build your own little electronic circuit or gadget to do something you want it to do? If you…
In the Swedish language there is no name for the word management. Instead of using the word management the Swedes use a word that would translate to nursing or caretaking. Rather than trying to control nature the Swedes would like to think of themselves as taking care of nature and what it does best. The Swedes would like to work with nature and not control or change it. This sort of outlook pu…
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Drools is a Business Logic integration Platform (BliP). It is written in Java. It is an open source project that is backed by JBoss and Red Hat, Inc. It is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/ LICENSE-2.0.html). This book will focus on Version 5.5 of this platform that was released in November 2012. Work on Drools (the rule engine) began in 2001. Fr…
We have designed this book to be a supplement to Robert J. Barro’s Macroeconomics, which is the textbook that is used in introductory macroeconomics courses at the University of Chicago. In teaching these courses, we have found that Barro’s treatment of the subject does not make use of the mathematical skills of our students. In particular, Barro relies almost exclusively on economic in…
I started writing articles on such topics in the 1980s and published them in obscure academic journals. Then in January 1996 I began writing the “Spirit of Accounting” col- umn for Accounting Today with my friend Paul Miller. I needed a break in 2000, so I quit the column; Paul Bahnson joined Paul Miller on it. After a year’s respite, I found myself writing “Accounting Annotations” fo…
The first edition of The Companion to Development Studies has been very well received, both critically and in the marketplace. Indeed, the major criticism we encountered suggested that we had made it all too easy for students of development studies – a limitation that we could more than happily live with! Further, the original volume has given rise to at least one other companion to devel…
The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for him essentially to be live…
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riefly summarizes the orthodox a pproach to banking, finance, and money, and then points the way toward an alternativ e based on socioeconomics. It argues that the alternative approach is better f itted to not only the historical record, but also sheds more light on the nature of money in modern economies. In orthodoxy, money is something that reduces transaction costs, simplifyi…