Praise for "The Financial Numbers Game": 'So much for the notion 'those who can, do-those who can't, teach'. Mulford and Comiskey function successfully both as college professors and real-world financial mercenaries. These guys know their balance sheets. The Financial Numbers Game should serve as a [...]

In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius inundated Pompeii with a combination of gases, pumice, and rocks, killing thousands of people and animals and burying them in ash and mud. During excavations of the town in 1863, Giuseppe Fiorelli, the director of the dig, poured plaster into a cavity under the soil revealed b[...]

Instructions, over 300 illustrations for creating boards and playing pieces for 39 games -- many over 5,000 years old. Directions for Pachisi, Alquerque, Solitaire, Queen's Guard, 35 others. Lexicon of game terminology, rules of gamesmanship, suggested strategies, list of tools and supplies, more.[...]

This first volume in the series "History of the Theory of Numbers presents in twenty chapters the material related to the subjects of divisibility and primality. At the end of the volume is a separate index of authors for each of the chapters. Volume II: Diophantine Analysis (0-486-44233-0)and Volum[...]

Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies.[...]

This definitive biography offers a new critical assessment of the life, works, and ideas of Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953), a leading historian of the American West, Mexico, and Latin America. Bolton, a famous pupil of Frederick Jackson Turner, formulated a concept - the borderlands - that is a found[...]

This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links communication to fundamental biological processes instead. It offers a conceptual framework - assessment/management - that [...]