This important new study aims to explore questions central to current debates over public management. Combining contemporary and historical experience, it employs grid/group cultural theory as an organizing frame and method of exploration.

The classical era of economics opened under Adam Smith with political economy understood as an integral part of a broader system of social philosophy; by the end, it had emerged via J. S. Mill as a "separate science", albeit one still inextricably tied to the other social sciences and to ethics.

All living organisms require information to function. If we want to make meaningful and useful statements about the origin of life, then we first have to explain what information is and how it came about. The author of this book uses many ilustrative and striking examples to clarify this question.

The Geometer's Sketchpad is a dynamic construction, demonstration, and exploration tool that adds a powerful dimension to the study of mathematics. You and your students can use this software program to build and investigate mathematical models, objects, figures, diagrams, and graphs. This guide introduces the basics of using the software.

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate program in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy.

Strategy Development addresses the increasingly valuable roles that modeling and analysis play in the strategic development of an organization. The authors present a framework to help strategists and decision-makers streamline the process and increase effectiveness. This book is based on the latest research available in the fields of strategic management, systems dynamics, and forecasting.

The authors provide new insights into even basic thermodynamic concepts from the view of the Belgian school. Prigogine received a Nobel prize for his work in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and the last two parts of the book are based on this necessary part of modern chemical education.

Examines major challenges to the First Amendment using case studies of the various forms of governmental suppression in U. S. history.

This report is part of the 'facts on' series of evangelical Christian apologetics by the Ankerberg Theological Research Institute. It details the historical reliability of the Bible, and the New Testament in particular.

This report is part of the 'facts on' series of evangelical Christian apologetics by the Ankerberg Theological Research Institute. It details the arrogance and false assumptions behind the Jesus Seminar, and postmodern 'higher criticism' in general.