Our world has been radically transformed during the past 200 years with the industrial revolution and development of mass production techniques and recently the plethora of technological advancements in medicine, engineering, computation, communication and entertainment products. These have made major changes in the ways that we live our worlds and in our expectations of the future. Science and Technology Ethics re-examines the ethics by which...

What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men—and occasionally women—who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists,...

"The Balance Sheet Pocketbook" begins by contructing a model that examines how money works within a business - where funds come from and how they are used. The structure of the balance sheet and profit and loss reports are then examined and explained within the context of this model.

This book, written by international experts in the Asian and world economies, provides a timely, comprehensive and authoritative assessment on the likely causes and potential impact of the Asian financial crisis. The countries covered include Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam in the ASEAN, Korean and China in Asia, and the major countries in North America and the European Community.