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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of ...

38 reviews
Alan Taylor

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Excellent history
Extremely entertaining and informative. The settlement of the north American continent has more chapters than Americans are provided in their schools, and this series from Penguin may change that. This should be required course reading in many topics: US history, government, ecology, politics, idigenous peoples and plants. It is a marvel. I look forward to the next installents. Anxiously!

The Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded (Exalted Second Edition)

3 reviews
Alan Alexander, Kraig Blackwelder, ...

White Wolf Publishing, 2006

A great book
All in all, I'm enjoying the 'recasting' of Exalted, and this book is no exception. This book greatly expands on the first edition book, and with the Realm setting shunted off into a companion volume (Compass of Celestial Directions 1: the Blessed Isle), the extra room is well-used in presenting Dragon-Blooded society, along with great ideas on how to run a DB-based campaign, as well as how to ...

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe)

10 reviews
Alan J. P. Taylor

Oxford University Press, USA, 1980

A great book in order to understand Europeýs history
A. J. P. Taylor's The Struggle for Mastery in Europe is the book to start reading about those 70 crucial years in Europe's history. The book begins with the Revolutions of 1845, that's why it would be a good thing to have some knowledge regarding the Napoleonic Wars and its outcome (Treaty of Metternich). Taylor analyses the out coming system of the Balance of Power that governed European ...

The Minutemen and Their World (American Century Series)

20 reviews
Robert A. Gross

Hill and Wang, 2001

a pleasure to read? absolutely
I agree wholeheartedly with editorial reviewer David Hackett Fisher. This book reads almost like a novel, and yet it is a work of history--with solid research and scholarship, at that. Gross argues that the Revolution provided Concord an opportunity to re-assert control over the community and its destiny. In the years preceding 1775-1776, great changes were sweeping across the colonies, ...

International Economics

1 review
Robert C. Feenstra, Alan M. Taylor

Worth Publishers, 2007

A survival text for Trade economics
This book covers several models of international trade: The Ricardian Model, Heckscher-Ohlin model, Specific Factors model, and The Gravity Model (briefly). It also examines the effects of limited competition, tariffs, quotas, and subsidies. Overall, the content is very well explained and could easily replace a professor who is only teaching topics from the book. The major drawbacks of this ...

International Trade

1 review
Robert C. Feenstra, Alan M. Taylor

Worth Publishers, 2007

International Trade
Was not made clear it was just a "study guide" and not the actual text book. Complete waste of money.

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

9 reviews
Alan Taylor

Vintage, 1996

The Struggle for Gentility on the Frontier
William Cooper lived through the most prolific time of change in American history. And in telling the story of his time and life Alan Taylor has delivered to his audience a compelling documentation and narrative of how this period of remarkable transformation affected one individual and his family, the settlement of the New York frontier, and the political landscape of the frontier. William ...

The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

9 reviews
Alan Taylor

Vintage, 2007

A very forthright view of the Native American and their treatment
Without being "preachy" or trying to be "politically correct" this account of the native American and their plight against the early settlers in North America is an eye opener. Very well written without the "pretext" of trying to explain it away, the author descibes a people desparately trying to save their culture against the "inevitable" being betrayed every step of the way. "Food for thought" ...

Catatonia: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

1 review
Max Fink, Michael Alan Taylor

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Practical, informative, helpful
Have not read the entire book, but found and perused excellent selected preview content (significant sections, on another website). Expect to order this book soon. I am not a physician, clinician, nor mental health professional. However, due to dire circumstances, I needed good sound practical information about the illness, precipitating factors, metabolic issues, differential diagnosis, ...

The Win-Win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody

2 reviews
Steven J. Brams, Alan D. Taylor

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Advance in Dispute Resolution
In a broad perspective, we see a strong desire in society to understand dispute and simplify the process of closure. In one camp, there have always been those who have worked toward addressing the underlying reality of disputes through logic and wisdom (Solomon for example). In another camp, there have always been those who have arbitrarily simplified dispute resolution leading to forced, ...

Writing Early American History
Alan Taylor

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

"Whoever reads these essays--and whether they follow the book from cover to cover, or dip into chapters at random--will find the rich abundance and variety of early American scholarship set out before them. Readers new to the field will grasp a sense of its expansiveness and possibilities, but seasoned scholars, too, will find here a feast of insights and possibilities that will engage, provoke, and inspire them."--from the Foreword, by ...

Liberty Men and Great Proprietors (Institute of Early American History & Culture)

4 reviews
Alan Taylor

The University of North Carolina Press, 1990

Liberty Men and Great Historian!
This is not only a fascinating book on a well-kept historical secret (even from those of us who hail from mid-Maine), it is well written and lively.

Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution

3 reviews
Steven J. Brams, Alan D. Taylor

Cambridge University Press, 1996

A comprehensive resource, easily read
This was easily the book I referred to most in my Master's paper on fair division. It covers a lot of topics, including envy-free and equitable division, fair division by auctions, and fair division by elections. The authors devote a chapter to their favorite method, the so-called "combined procedure" that is equitable, envy-free, and Pareto-optimal for two players and would be invaluable to ...

Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof (Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences)

1 review
Alan D. Taylor

Springer, 1995

Very good read, with some fascinating insights
Lucidly written exposition with stress on concepts rather than notation manipulation. Dollar auctions, Arrow's theorem, Power indices were especially interesting reading. Probably the best place for a layman to get the dope on Arrow's impossibility theorem. Does get a bit tedious in some spots with some numerical permutations, but on the whole, I recommend it highly.

Globalization in Historical Perspective (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

As awareness of globalization grows, so too does our need to understand it historically. This volume is one of the few to consider globalization in the context of the history of international trade. Its eleven papers explore a synthesized variety of topics, including how the process of globalization can be measured by the long-term integration of markets, what trends and questions develop as markets converge and diverge, what roles technology ...

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