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George Benston, professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Emory University and an impassioned advocate for corporate integrity, died unexpectedly in January 2008. His colleagues have selected and organized his most important papers into two volumes. This first volume consists of his research in the banking and financial services industry....

This book offers an extensive analysis of carbon-energy taxation that addresses the interplay between carbon-energy taxation and emissions trading, as well as the implications for future international climate policy....

Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a detailed reading of a series of sophisticated medieval narratives, the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas. It shows how saga authors achieved a wide range of stylistic and psychological effects through the interplay of prose and verse: bringing history to life, presenting fiction as if it were history,...

The field of cognitive modelling has progressed beyond modelling cognition in the context of simple laboratory tasks and begun to attack the problem of modelling cognition in more complex, realistic environments, such as those studied by researchers in the field of human-factors. The problems that the human-factors community is tackling focus on...