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Fun Inc Fun Inc Tom Chatfield Economically, culturally, societally and even technologically video gaming is altering the world around us. Fun Inc. sets out a debate that's as fascinating as it is controversial.People make many as… OL14992762W
Sport in the City Sport in the City Chris Gratton Sport in the City looks closely at how sport has been used in contemporary cities across the world, and evaluates policies, strategies and management. Five key areas are examined:- sport and urban ec… OL15185814W
Open sources Open sources Richard Stallman,Bob Young,Eric S. Raymond,Larry Wall,Michael Tiemann,Linus Torvalds,Chris DiBona,Mark Stone,Tim O'Reilly,Paul Vixie,Sam Ockman,Scott Bradner,Jim Hamerly,Kirk McKusick,Tom Paquin,Bruce Perens,Brian Behlendorf Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. Now, in Open Sources, for the firs… OL17075731W
The Resourceful earth The Resourceful earth Herman Kahn,Julian Lincoln Simon "We are confident that the nature of the physical world permits continued improvement in humankind's economic lot in the long rung run, indefinitely. Of course there are always newly arising local pr… OL17915728W
The economics of sport The economics of sport Peter Sloane,Mark Rosentraub,Robert Sandy This text, by three distinguished authors, applies the theories and techniques of economic analysis to sport and topics related to the business of sport. It builds on a basis of introductory microeco… OL19668456W
Corporate media and the threat to democracy Corporate media and the threat to democracy Robert Waterman McChesney "McChesney.... has produced a [book] that, in the tradition of Tom Paine, systematically examines and refutes the myths that provide the 'impenetrable ideological armor' protecting corporate media fr… OL2012044W
Health policy and economics Health policy and economics Mark Sculpher,Laura Ginnelly,Peter Smith Health economics has made major contributions to the development of health policy in many countries. This book describes those successes and looks forward to the major contributions that health econo… OL20848466W
The economics of nature The economics of nature G. Cornelis Van Kooten,E. H. Bulte This work takes a "portfolio management" perspective on the worldwide deterioration of the natural environment. The authors see the function of the book as the way to measure environmental services a… OL20902374W
Globalization Globalization Malcolm Waters The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are increasingly occupying the centre of sociological debates. Widely discuss… OL2924383W
The economics of health and health care The economics of health and health care Miron Stano,Allen Goodman,Sherman Folland xxviii, 723 pages ; 26 cm OL3277081W
The Economic Evolution of American Health Care The Economic Evolution of American Health Care David Dranove "The book covers everything from start-up troubles with the first managed care organizations to attempts at government regulation to the mergers and quality control issues facing MCOs today. It also … OL3662060W
The World Is Flat The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of tec… OL3740423W
Las venas abiertas de America Latina Las venas abiertas de America Latina Galeano,Diego López,Eduardo Galeano,Galeano E. Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural… OL698173W