Born in Pieve di Soligo (Treviso) in 1921, Andrea Zanzotto is the author of five books of poetry, a number of critical essays, and a book of prose. His work has been described as innovative, intellectual, and elegant....

Psychology Matters. Robert Feldman’s Psychology and Your Life 2e draws students in immediately by connecting psychology to their professional and personal lives....

This book presents applied probability and stochastic processes in an elementary but mathematically precise manner, with numerous examples and exercises to illustrate the range of engineering and science applications of the concepts....

The potential failure of a large bank presents vexing questions for policymakers. It poses significant risks to other financial institutions, to the financial system as a whole, and possibly to the economic and social order. Because of such fears, policymakers in many countries?developed and less developed, democratic and autocratic?...

Health economist Roger Feldman argues that a radical shift in Medicare policy is not only possible but imperative. Under Feldman\'s medical indemnity proposal, Medicare would pay each patient a fixed amount of money, reserving larger subsidies for sicker people....

Book DescriptionWhen told she had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball, Eleanor said, \"I never did like golf.\" This was the beginning of her five-month battle with brain cancer fought with the weapons of sharp wit and a will to win....

This volume contains a unique collection of mathematical essays which present a battery of techniques and approaches for the statistical analysis of heavy tailed distributions and processes....