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Political Economy For Beginners Millicent Garrett Fawcett
 Book DescriptionMillicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was the author of the 1870 "Political Economy for Beginners," a brief but wildly successful book. It set a contemporary record as a principles textbook for students, running through ten editions in 41 years. A vigorous promoter of education for women, she helped set up Newham College for women at Cambridge. In 1865 she heard a speech on women's rights made by John Stuart Mill, who deeply impressed her and she became one of his many loyal supporters....
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Monetary Orders: Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitous Politics (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
 Book DescriptionWherever there is money, there is money politics-a subject demanding ever greater attention at a time when monetary policies lead and the real economy follows. A principal defining characteristic of the contemporary global economy, Jonathan Kirshner contends, is the rise and preeminence of monetary phenomena?international financial crises, Central Bank Independence and inflation fighting, the creation of the euro, and monetary reform in emerging economies, to name only a few. Moreover, unlike most debates in political economy (such as those regarding trade policy), which are generally recognized as political, monetary phenomena and macroeconomic policies are typically represented as expressly apolitical. In Monetary Orders, a distinguished group of scholars explores the inescapable political origins of choices about money. The essays in Monetary Orders each address a specific issue or puzzle relating to money and its management. Their authors focus on markedly......
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The State of Working America, 2002/2003 (State of Working America) Lawrence Mishel
 Book DescriptionThe State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people. Praise for previous editions- "The State of Working America has become a fixture on the bookshelves of policymakers and analysts."-Chicago Tribune "Its . . . pages are packed with facts and figures about the U.S. labor market and written up in a challenging and punchy style. No recruitment company or human resource manager should be without a copy."-Robert Taylor, Financial Times "No other publication in America is as valuable in assessing what's happening to working men and women."-John J. Sweeney "Read The State of Working America to appreciate how growth is generating benefits very unequally."-Harvard Business Review...
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Advances in Multivariate Data Analysis
 Book DescriptionThe book presents a range of new developments in the theory and practice of multivariate statistical data analysis. Among the topics are the construction and comparison of classification trees, clustering methods, generalized multivariatedistributions, the analysis of symbolic data, explorative time series analysis, smoothing and dynamic regression models, generalized linear models, and neural networks. Several contributions illustrate the use of multivariate methods in application fields such as economics, medicine, environment, and biology....
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The Cubist Painters (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) Guillaume Apollinaire
 Book DescriptionGuillaume Apollinaire's only book on art, The Cubist Painters, was first published in 1913. This essential text in twentieth-century art presents the poet and critic's aesthetic meditations on nine painters: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque,Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Francis Picabia, and Marcel Duchamp. As Picasso's closest friend and Marie Laurencin's lover, Apollinaire witnessed the development of Cubism firsthand. This collection of essays and reviews, written between 1905 and 1912, is a milestone in the history of art criticism, valued today as both a work of reference and a classic example of modernist creative writing. In addition to a faithful and fluid translation of Apollinaire's text, Peter Read provides his own scholarly analysis of its importance in the history of modernism. He examines Apollinaire's art criticism, his relationship to the Cubist movement, and, more specifically, the genesis of Cubist......
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