Author: Michael Oliver
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
Keywords: composers, century, stravinsky, igor
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0714847771
ISBN-13: 9780714847771

From his unhappy childhood in St. Petersburg through his years in Paris and the United States, from The Nightingale through The Owl and the Pussycat, British writer Michael Oliver traces the life and work of Igor Stravinsky. His landmark ballet, The Rite of Spring is thought of as a classic today, but it inspired riots at its Paris premiere in 1913. Oliver follows Stravinsky’s work from juvenilia through modernism and serialism and back to tonalism in an easily accessible biography, part of the Phaidon Press Limited 20th Century Composers series. This book, which never gets too technical

Authors:Oliver D. Crisp, Michael C. Rea,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: theology, philosophy, essays, new, analytic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0199203563
ISBN-13: 9780199203567

Philosophy in the English-speaking world is dominated by analytic approaches to its problems and projects; but theology has been dominated by alternative approaches. Many would say that the current state in theology is not mere historical accident, but is, rather, how things ought to be. On the other hand, many others would say precisely the opposite: that theology as a discipline has been beguiled and taken captive by ’continental’ approaches, and that the effects on the discipline have been largely deleterious. The methodological divide between systematic theologians and analytic

Authors:Michael J. Oliver, Derek H. Aldcroft,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: century, twentieth, disasters, economic
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2007-05-07
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 184064589X
ISBN-13: 9781840645897

’Here is a book to warm the cockles of George Santayana’s heart. Can policy makers and, especially, economists learn from their mistakes? If they can, then they should start by reading Oliver and Aldcroft’s gripping collection of the great economic policy mistakes of the twentieth century.’- Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, USHow do we define an economic disaster? A difficult question. Most centuries would claim that they have had their share of disasters, but the twentieth century certainly seems to have been more prone to them than

Authors:Michael Rabinovich, Oliver Spatscheck,
Publisher: Pearson Educatio
Keywords: replication, caching, web
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-12-21
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0201615703
ISBN-13: 9780201615708

Authors report a wealth of detailed information about how to implement Web caching and replication mechanisms, but more importantly, they teach one how to think about the general problem of content distribution. Softcover.

Authors:Gordon Pepper, Michael Oliver,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: finance, series, wiley, prices, theory, asset, liquidity
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2006-06-05
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0470027398
ISBN-13: 9780470027394

Professional investors are bombarded on a day to day basis with assertions about the role liquidity is playing and will play in determining prices in the financial markets. Few, if any, of the providers or recipients of such advice can truly claim to understand the well–springs of such liquidity and the transmission mechanisms through which it impacts asset prices. This groundbreaking new book explores the belief that at the core of liquidity there is a force which exerts individuals to effect a financial transaction when they would not otherwise do so.  Understanding this force of compuls

Authors:Michael J. Oliver, Derek H. Aldcroft,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: century, twentieth, disasters, economic
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1848441584
ISBN-13: 9781848441583

`The book would make a good text or supplemental reading for a course in the economic history of the twentieth century, either at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Students love disasters. . . all the essays reach a high level of quality. Each of the authors is a well-regarded expert in his field and clearly capable of producing a well-crafted essay. . . The authors and editors are to be congratulated.’ - Hugh Rockoff, EH.Net `. . . a compelling interpretation of the twentieth century as one of the economic disasters. . . many of the individual contributions will undoubte

Authors:Gordon T. Pepper, Michael J. Oliver, Institute of Ec
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: future, lessons, thatcher, monetarism
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 2001-09
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1840646373
ISBN-13: 9781840646375

This authoritative book analyzes the recent problems associated with the UK’s monetary system and suggests a long-term solution to control bank lending in the future. It draws on extensive historical material, discussions with former senior officials and politicians, and the perceptive insights of Gordon Pepper, an advisor to Margaret Thatcher when the foundations of monetary control were being laid, to revisit and re-examine the monetarist experiment of the 1980s.