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Red Arctic tells the history of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. McCannon tells the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions - conducted by foot, ship, and plane - which were the pride of Stalinist Russia, to expose the reality behind them: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic...

Based on the author's Clarendon Lectures in Finance, this book develops and implements statistical methods for modelling corporate credit risk....

This handbook, arranged in seven thematic sections, is unique in drawing together        many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the        state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic,        and interpretive research....

If the global economy seems unfair, how should we understand what a fair global        economy would be? What ideas of fairness, if any, apply, and what significance do        they have for policy and law?Working within the social contract tradition, this book        argues that fairness is best seen as a kind of equity in practice. The...

Nathan Salmon presents a selection of nineteen of his essays from the early 1980s to 2006, on a set of closely connected topics central to analytic philosophy. The book is divided into four thematic sections, on direct reference, apriority, belief, and the distinction between semantics and pragmatics....

Geostatistical Analysis of Compositional Data provides a comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of analysis of data that have both spatial and compositional dependence, characteristics of most earth science and environmental measurements. No other publication covers this combination of subjects....