"Artful scenario spinning is a form of convergent thinking about divergent futures. It ensures that you are not always right about the future but—better—that you are almost never wrong about the future. The technology is powerful, simple, and enjoyable, and so is Schwartz’s book." â�[...]

An excellent financial research tool, this celebrated classic focuses on the methods of solving continuous time problems. The two-part treatment covers the calculus of variations and optimal control. In the decades since its initial publication, this text has defined dynamic optimization courses tau[...]

Published to coincide with the major exhibition at the National Gallery this autumn, here is the ultimate book on Rembrandt's art and life his work as an artist, his family, friends and patrons, his place in European culture by one of the worlds best-known writers on Dutch art. Designed to be the Re[...]

One of the most important questions facing urban centres today is how to keep people attracted to live in, invest in, and participate in the city. Working on the premise that places that resonate with people are sustainable places, Martha Schwartz creates spaces that aim to make people feel emotiona[...]

This text examines the popularity in Paris of phenomena such as boulevards, the mass press and wax museums during the second half of the 19th century. It argues that "spectacular realities" helped create modern mass society and that instead of leading to alienation they united crowds in pleasure.[...]