The Lost Equilibrium

The Lost Equilibrium
Author: Bettie Moretz Smolansky
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780934223690

This anthology examines the impact of the end of the cold war on the nature of international relations. The volume is comprised principally of case studies designed to analyze the results of the disequillibrium introduced into international relations by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Finding Equilibrium

Finding Equilibrium
Author: Till Düppe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-07-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691156646

The remarkable story and personalities behind one of the most important theories in modern economics Finding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in 1954 by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu collaboratively, and by Lionel McKenzie separately, and would become widely known as the "Arrow-Debreu Model." While Arrow and Debreu would later go on to win separate Nobel prizes in economics, McKenzie would never receive it. Till Düppe and E. Roy Weintraub explore the lives and work of these economists and the issues of scientific credit against the extraordinary backdrop of overlapping research communities and an economics discipline that was shifting dramatically to mathematical modes of expression. Based on recently opened archives, Finding Equilibrium shows the complex interplay between each man's personal life and work, and examines compelling ideas about scientific credit, publication, regard for different research institutions, and the awarding of Nobel prizes. Instead of asking whether recognition was rightly or wrongly given, and who were the heroes or villains, the book considers attitudes toward intellectual credit and strategies to gain it vis-à-vis the communities that grant it. Telling the story behind the proof of the central theorem in economics, Finding Equilibrium sheds light on the changing nature of the scientific community and the critical connections between the personal and public rewards of scientific work.

Punctuated Equilibrium

Punctuated Equilibrium
Author: Stephen Jay GOULD
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0674037847

In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the controversial idea that the majority of species originates in geological moments (punctuations) and persists in stasis. Now, thirty-five years later, Punctuated Equilibrium offers his only book-length testament on a theory he fiercely promoted, repeatedly refined, and tirelessly defended.

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons
Author: Michael Archer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Pop art
ISBN: 9781846380785

"In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floats in the centre of a glass tank that rests on a simple black metal stand. The work presents what Koons called 'the penultimate state of being' - neither death nor life, but a suspended state of rest. It has been called one of the defining works of the 1980s, but was also described as 'an endgame', 'misleading' and part of a 'repulsive' practice"--Jacket.

The Balance of Nature and Human Impact

The Balance of Nature and Human Impact
Author: Klaus Rohde
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107019613

Explores equilibrium and non-equilibrium in undisturbed and disturbed ecological systems, examining how human activities affect the balance/imbalance of nature.

Equilibrium

Equilibrium
Author: Tiana Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781495157646

Equilibrium searches for that point where there is a balance, even as the poems display a consciousness and self-awareness that belie that balance. The poems negotiate the colossal movement of hearts figuring and being figured by history.

Elric: The Balance Lost Vol. 1

Elric: The Balance Lost Vol. 1
Author: Michael Moorcock
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781608860487

Signs appear throughout the Multiverse that the Cosmic Balance is in peril, and the Eternal Champion is caught in the crosshairs! Across worlds, Elric, Hawkmoon and Corum begin to face the force that threatens to overpower them all, while Eric Beck, a modern-day video game designer, must acknowledge that his reoccurring dreams of a Pale Prince aren’t all in his head... Join New York Times bestseller Chris Roberson as he teams up with legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock to bring Elric back to comic books in an original ongoing series! See why Neil Gaiman called Moorcock “my model for what a writer was” while Warren Ellis said he is one of the “eight core sites in my creative genome.”

Balance of Power

Balance of Power
Author: T. V. Paul
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0804750173

Since the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, many scholars have argued that the balance of power theory is losing its relevance. This text examines this viewpoint, as well as looking at systematic factors that may hinder or favour the return of balance of power politics.

Paradigms Lost

Paradigms Lost
Author: Daniel A. Vallero
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0750678887

Comprehensive guide to modern environmental disasters and how they could have been prevented.

A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance
Author: Rohinton Mistry
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2010-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1551991381

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.