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IN the early years of the sixteenth century the extraordinary power, wealth, and imagination of
the Pope, Juhus II della Rovere made Rome the artistic centre of Italy and of Europe and attracted there the most distinguished artists ofhis age.…

After using our book for courses in a variety of locations, we have been
gratified by the positive responses to the first edition. Moreover, the book
had been used by quite a few practitioners in the way as we had hoped for
when we wrote the first…

i DID NOT SET OUT TO BECOME A CHRONICLER of lost Minnesota properties. The opportunity
arrived unexpectedly in 1990, when the editor of Architecture Minnesota magazine called and asked if
I would be interested in taking over its well-established…

This textbook is based on an extended collection of handouts I distributed to the graduate
students in economics attending my summer mathematics class at the Center for Economic
Research and Graduate Education (CERGE) at Charles University in…

This book is dedicated to our parents, Roger and Frances Johnson, who discouraged inappropriate competition and taught us to cooperate.

On March 31st, 2014, the United Nations report
entitled “Climate Change 2014, Impacts Adaptation
and Vulnerability” was published by the Working Group
II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC). The panel, meeting in Yokohama,…

In the 1990s, project management moved from a little-used industrial engineering
discipline to the engine of managing America’s work. Prior to 1990, project
management techniques were unknown to most corporate managers who considered
projects to…

My heart tells me there is a god. Yours may tell you something different. I am okay with that.
Fundamentalists are not. This defines the greatest complaint I have with fundamentalism as a
whole. They are dissatisfied with and unable to accept the…

For me, this book began more than 10 years ago as a post-J.D.
student in a semester-long capstone course at George Washington
University’s National Law Center. Professor James M. Brown,
who had mastered simulation teaching, taught this…

Quotes are valuable. they are knowledge, and wisdom and insight. they offer us the opportunity to learn through others. and they are great tools to reinforce and
reaffirm what we already understand. sometimes hearing the words of a famous or…