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Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Leon of Juda
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McGraw-Hill Education Microeconomics and Behavior 2024 Release ISE
Robert Frank''s Microeconomics and Behavior covers microeconomic topics while exploring the relationship between economic analysis and human behavior. Written in a way that is intellectually challenging, but also accessible and engaging to students. Earlier revisions of Microeconomics and Behavior focused on updating its examples and enriching its set of learning aids. This 2024 release marks a departure from that pattern. Although the author has long believed that the economic decisions that govern energy use have been a fruitful way to introduce basic microeconomic concepts, these received only limited attention in earlier editions. Now, with the climate crisis having become the defining issue of our era, the author has focused more intensively on how basic microeconomic concepts can help students think more clearly about, and respond more effectively to, the climate challenges we face. Core analytical tools are embedded in a diverse collection of examples and applicati
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Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Pangnirtung
In August 1992 Robert Frank’s good friend and antique dealer Reginald Rankin invited Frank on a trip to Pangnirtung, a village of around 1,300 Inuit inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. This book is Frank’s documentation of the five-day sojourn. Curiously Frank depicts Pangnirtung void of its people: the still harbour, public housing, a convenience store, a telephone post. Sincere without being sentimental, the photos are shaped by a short text from Frank himself, “Prefabricated homes along the main road in Pangnirtung. At times a decorated window – reflections inside or outside. Stones – maybe the balance of a big sky above…” Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in 1958, which gave rise to a distinct new form in the photo-book, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy, made in 1959. Frank’s other important projects include the books Black White and Things, 1952, and The Lines of My Hand, 1972, and the film Cocksucker Blues for the Rolling Stones, 1972. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.
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McGraw-Hill Microeconomics and Behaviour, 3e
Microeconomics and Behaviour, third edition, is an accessible yet intellectually challenging and engaging textbook for students.It develops core analytical and technical tools and embeds them in a collection of real-world examples and applications to illuminate the power and versatility of the economic way of thinking.With this approach, students develop economic intuition and are stimulated to think more deeply about the technical tools they learn, and to find more interesting ways to apply them. This enables students to not just understand microeconomics, but to think like economists themselves, and to develop a lasting interest in the discipline.Key Features• Fully updated chapters, including new and expanded material on international labour markets, the gig economy,behavioural game theory and nudge theory.• Extensive pedagogical features such as examples, key terms and definitions, in-chapter exercises, chapter summaries,and review questions and problems.• Economic Naturalist examples that show how economic principles can be used to explain experiences and observations of everyday life. New examples include: “Why do firms benefit from the gig economy?”, “Why is self-checkout becoming the norm in shops?”, and “Why do online retailers have flagship stores?”.Connect® ResourcesAvailable with McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect®, the well-established online learning platform, which helps faculty and institutions improve student outcomes and course delivery efficiency. In addition to math's tutorials and SmartBook, the award winning adaptive reading experience, the new Connect® features for this edition include:• Economic Application Based Activities that provide students with valuable practice, using problem solving skills to apply their knowledge to realistic scenarios. Students progress from understanding basic concepts to using their knowledge to analyse complex scenarios and solve problems.• Economic Naturalist graphing questions which have been newly developed to complement this key pedagogical feature from the textbook.• Interactive Graphs that help students see the relevance of the subject matter by providing visual displays of real data for students to manipulate. All graphs are accompanied by assignable assessment questions and feedback for students.NEW TO CONNECT FOR 2023In response to customer needs, 58 brand new Problems have been added to Connect to further develop students practical application skills and cement theoretical understanding.To learn more, visit mheducation.co.uk/connect
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