revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and...... more

Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration...... more

From the back cover: During a soul’s journey, questions arise. What happens when a soul wishes to na... more

A cookbook, journal and guide to help you learn to manage stress, low mood and anxiety. This little ... more

Coastal Management: Global Challenges and Innovations focuses on the resulting problems faced by coa... more

This text presents the classical theory of conics in a modern form. It includes many novel results t... more

A new interdisciplinary reference handbook covering all aspects of the use of Open Geometry GL softw... more

The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960... more

After World War II the United States Congress wrote laws to prohibit homosexuals from openly serving... more

This classic text discusses the use of advanced surface science characterization techniques in frict... more

Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany’s unexpected...... more

The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960... more

This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, an... more

Bobo is a little dog with big adventures. Beaumont is his real name, but that s too hard to say, whe... more

When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit... more

Affordable, Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko explain why housing is so expensive in some areas and outline a plan for making...... more

This book provides a complete introduction to both the practical details and the theoretical foundat... more

Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy, but little attention is p... more

In this timely study of the different approaches of America and Europe to the problems of domestic i... more

A new interdisciplinary reference handbook covering all aspects of the use of Open Geometry GL softw... more

This book is about graphics programming using Open GL. It presents both a programming course that em... more

Summarising the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation, this text defines the term and... more

This book is a synopsis of sixteen original articles on English in Science and Technology/ESP writte... more

No detailed description available for "Ecodevelopment in Tanzania".... more

We live in the ’urban century’. Cities all over the world - in both developing and developed countri... more

We live in the ’urban century’. Cities all over the world - in both developing and developed countri... more

底特律為何一墜千里、紐約為何浴火重生? 從經濟學角度剖析都市， 挑戰你對郊區生活完美的迷思， 揭開為何都市才是歷史上引領創新、繁榮、技術與民主之地 ★《經濟學人》非文學類年度好書、《金融時報》商業... more

底特律為何一墜千里、紐約為何浴火重生? 從經濟學角度剖析都市， 挑戰你對郊區生活完美的迷思， 揭開為何都市才是歷史上引領創新、繁榮、技術與民主之地 ★《經濟學人》非文學類年度好書、《金融時報》商業... more

A visual tour of mathematics More than 1000 coloured illustrations Striking and surprising topics fr... more

the biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea at the University of Vienna, and the photographs of Georg Glaeser, the master...... more

Der Mond übt seit jeher eine gro e Faszination auf uns aus - und das nicht nur am Nachthimmel. Mit s... more

cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous...... more

The Universe of Quadrics This text presents the theory of quadrics in a modern form. It builds on th... more

The Universe of Quadrics This text presents the theory of quadrics in a modern form. It builds on th... more

This book will take you on an exciting journey made up of texts and images. Spectacular, large-scale... more

Includes numerous thought-provoking examples Demonstrates the connection between mathematics and the... more

This book will take you on an exciting journey made up of texts and images. Spectacular, large-scale... more

than limiting the activities they can undertake; Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote, who study the social dynamics of...... more

This text presents the classical theory of conics in a modern form. It includes many novel results t... more

With fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, the book piques readers curiosity about the diver... more

For most of human history, people lived on the edge of survival. In the past two centuries, we have ... more

Die Geometrie und ihre Anwendungen ist f r Personen geschrieben, die von relativ einfachen Problem... more

Mathematicians with special interest in biology, physics, geography, astronomy, architecture, design... more

Sehen und Gesehen werden Spektakuläre, gro formatigen Fotos auf Doppelseiten mit einem Erklärungstex... more

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn t fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the... more