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Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, UK also 0-85105, 0-86140, 0-901072, 0-905715, 900771 University of Exeter 901072 Colin Smythe Limited Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, UK also 0-85105, 0-86140, 0-900675, 0-905715 901096 Industrial Railway Society: 901115 Railway Correspondence and Travel Society: 901144 Health Protection Agency: Didcot, England ...
ISBN 0-405-07257-0. Ernst, Joseph Albert. Money and politics in America, 1755–1775: a study in the Currency act of 1764 and the political economy of revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973. ISBN 0-8078-1217-X.
The time value of money refers to the observation that it is better to receive money sooner than later. Money you have today can be invested to earn a positive rate of return, producing more money tomorrow. Therefore, a dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future. [1] The time value of money is among the factors considered when ...
The book was first published in 1983 by Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press (hardback ISBN 0-674-76800-0, paperback ISBN 0-674-76802-7) and has been expanded in its second edition, published in 2000: ISBN 0-674-00282-2, copyright 1983, 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity is a book written by Bernard Lietaer, published by Random House in 2001, and currently out of print. It was written as an overview of how money and the financial system works, the effects of modern money paradigms, especially relating to debt and interest, and how it can work to everyone's benefit to solve a wide range of problems, especially with ...
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.
A water clock or clepsydra (from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal' and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water'; lit. ' water thief ' ) is a timepiece by which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel, and where the amount ...
Before the invention of the clock the sundial was the only way to measure time. After the invention of the clock, the sundial maintained its importance, as clocks needed to be reset regularly from a sundial, because the accuracy of early clocks was poor. A clock and a sundial were used together to measure longitude. Dials were laid out using ...