Author: Richard Epstei
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: world, complex, rules, simple
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1998-03-17
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0674808207
ISBN-13: 9780674808201

Too many laws, too many lawyers--that’s the necessary consequence of a complex society, or so conventional wisdom has it. Countless pundits insist that any call for legal simplification smacks of nostalgia, sentimentality, or naiveté. But the conventional view, the noted legal scholar Richard Epstein tells us, has it exactly backward. The richer texture of modern society allows for more individual freedom and choice. And it allows us to organize a comprehensive legal order capable of meeting the technological and social challenges of today on the basis of just six core principle

Author: Slava S. Epstei
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: monographs, microbiology, microorganisms, uncultivated
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-07-24
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 3540854649
ISBN-13: 9783540854647

The number of existing microbial species may be in the millions, but only a few thousand have been isolated in pure culture and described. The principal reason for this tremendous disparity is that, mysteriously, over 99% of all environmental microorganisms refuse to grow in the laboratory. The phenomenon of microbial uncultivability has been recognized as one of the main challenges for basic and applied microbiology, and finding a way to access this uncultivated microbial majority may change many aspects of biology and biotechnology as we know them today. This volume describes the discovery o

Author: Lita Epstei
Publisher: Adams Media
Keywords: foreclosures, buying, everyone, questions
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1598695835
ISBN-13: 9781598695830

Whether you’re looking to buy foreclosed property as an investment-or as your dream home, The 250 Questions Everyone Should Ask About Buying Foreclosures provides you with the essential questions and answers including how to:Decide if a foreclosure purchase is right for youLearn the foreclosure rules particular to your stateFind thousands of property listings before anyone elsePlace the perfect bid at auctions Buy properties during various stages of the foreclosure processGet an initial investment together This one-of-a-kind guide will explain everything you need to know to get in on-and

Author: Robert Epstei
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: creativity, workplace, mcgraw, training, series, jumpstarting, activities, games, trainers, handbook, group
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0070213631
ISBN-13: 9780070213630

Games to Jumpstart workplace creativity. Dr. Robert Epstein’s Creativity Games for Trainers arms you with 30 innovative, entertaining games guaranteed to enhance creativity in any organizational setting. Use them to develop creativity workshops or to breathe life into any training sessions. Each ready-to-use activity comes complete with lists of required and optional materials, time recommendations, reproducible handouts, follow-up discussion questions, and other essential information. You’ll also find simple instructions for customizing exercises to different settings. . .data col

Author: Steven A. Epstei
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: studies, university, historical, political, science, hopkins, johns, transgressing, lost, boundaries, eastern, mediterranean, purity
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-12-18
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 0801884845
ISBN-13: 9780801884849

Purity Lost investigates the porous nature of social, political, and religious boundaries prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean -- from the Black Sea to Egypt -- during the Middle Ages. In this intriguing study, Steven A. Epstein finds that people consistently defied, overlooked, or transcended restrictions designed to preserve racial and cultural purity in order to establish relationships with those different from themselves. These mixed relationships -- among people who did not share language, creed, or skin color -- undermined the pervasive claims of purity. They forced people to reflect o

Author: Joshua M. Epstei
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: studies, modeling, princeton, complexity, computational, agent, social, science, generative, based
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-01-08
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0691125473
ISBN-13: 9780691125473

Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In Generative Social Science, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents: heterogeneous, boundedly rational actors, represented as mathematical or software objects. After elaborating this notion of generative explanation in a pair of overarching foundational chapters, Epstein illustrates it with examples chosen from such far-flung f

Author: Seymour Epstei
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: intelligence, emotional, key, thinking, constructive
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-08-27
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0275958841
ISBN-13: 9780275958848

most people believe their emotions are automatic reactions to events. Few realize that their emotions are determined by what they think, by how they interpret events, and not by the events themselves. This book provides a theory of automatic processing and its implications for controlling emotions. Epstein was motivated to write the book by the success of a course he taught based on his theory. Students reported obtaining an understanding and control of their emotions that they never thought possible and that they said changed the course of their lives. The book can be used as a primary or sup