The Metropolitan Frontier
The Metropolitan Frontier

Author: Carl Abbott

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1995-09-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780816515707

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Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the world economy. His survey moves from economic change to social and political response, examining the initial boom of the 1940s, the process of change in the following decades, and the ultimate impact of Western cities on their environments, on the Western regional character, and on national identity. Today, a.

Frontiers Past and Future
Frontiers Past and Future

Author: Carl Abbott

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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"Abbott offers a fruitful new way to read science fiction, one that also greatly enriches our understanding of western history and its impact on our collective imagination. Detailing the overlap of science fiction and western fiction - especially relating to their mutual interest in and concerns about frontier expansionism - he reveals an unsuspected common ground that informs the writings of both camps." "Reviewing the work of many Hugo and Nebula Award winners, as well as drawing upon popular film and television series (like the Buck Rogers serials), Abbott's study journeys across the far reaches of science fiction's universe."

Profits, Deficits and Instability
Profits, Deficits and Instability

Author: Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1349117862

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The papers drawn together in this book seek to make a contribution in the study of an important area in economics - profits. There are insights into the questions of the inter-relationships between profits, corporate investment and financing activity and the causes of government deficits.