Foreword by Christopher Moore. Wonderful collection of the greatest and most popular plays of one of our finest playwrights. Includes Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion, Heartbreak House, and the play on which the[...]

The completely rewritten, revised, and peer-reviewed chapters comprising this edition reflect the latest technologies and applications in the fields of spectroscopy, mass spectometry, and chromatography. It offers in-depth descriptions of procedures, instrumentation, and practices for optimal analyt[...]

World-renowned Bible translator and commentator George M. Lamsa explains nearly one thousand crucial idioms that will enrich reading of the Old and New Testaments for students and general reader alike.Lamsa, who was raised speaking Aramaic in a community that followed customs largely unchanged since[...]

Analyses how and why consumers purchase and consume the way they do. This work outlines both the individual and social factors that influence these processes. It presents a global, behavioral, and multi-disciplinary coverage of consumer behavior. It also provides the developments in the areas of tec[...]

The need for sound corporate governance is the Number 1 item on many people's agendas, from corporate directors and decision makers to investors looking to shield themselves from the next Enron-type disaster. But what exactly constitutes sound governance? This title provides readers with a comprehen[...]

In previous ed. James O'Brian is named as first author.

Exploring the history of dividend payments, this book traces the evolution of academic models on dividend policy. It reviews the models of symmetric and asymmetric information before analyzing academia's accomplishments in solving the dividend puzzle. it also talks about related subjects such as val[...]

Focuses on the relationship between religion and the social and cultural dynamics of American history. The book is organized chronologically but the goal is not simply to cover everything religious in American history but to explore issues of how American religion fits into its civilization.[...]

Only a century ago, almost all state universities held compulsory chapel services, and some required Sunday church attendance as well. In fact, state-sponsored chapel services were commonplace until the World War II era, and as late as the 1950s, it was not unusual for leading schools to refer to th[...]

The dynamics of realistic Hamiltonian systems has unusual microscopic features that are direct consequences of its fractional space-time structure and its phase space topology. The book deals with the fractality of the chaotic dynamics and kinetics, and also includes material on non-ergodic and non-[...]

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an advanced stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. In the first account in English of this fascinating school, George M. Y[...]

Based on Thomas More's penetrating analysis of the folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially challenging exploration of the possibilities and limitations of political action. This Norton Critical Ed[...]