Wing Tang Wong

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A guide for Pros and rookies alike. Detailed info on how to get your creative work published by Open Book Press. This book will walk you through step, by step how to get your book or comic published and how it all works at the publisher that is "Making the World Safe for New Ideas".

First published by George Allen & Unwin in the 1950s, this collection reprints three classic volumes on Jeremy Bentham's economic writings. Also including historical introductions and collections of passages from Bentham's non-economic writings, this is an essential resource for students and researchers alike.Volume 1 covers the period 1787-1795 and contains The Defence of Usury, the Manual of Political Economy in its authentic form, and two financial treaties that reflect Bentham's work to find a way in which government could be carried on without taxation.  read more »

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Write It Right offers the writer and nonwriter alike witty pointers for sharp, effective writing.

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Express Yourself is for those who want to become more effective at communicating their thoughts and ideas, specifically as writers. This book is organized around the four major kinds of writing experienced in high school and college-expository writing, writing for critical analysis, narrative writing, and writing in response to literature. Concepts for mastering these four types drive the bulk of this book's excellent instruction. Designed to help students and teachers alike, this book is a complete course in helping readers to best express themselves.

This authoritative two-volume collection presents a selection of seminal articles investigating the spatial aspect of economic processes and development. Special attention is given to the economics of agglomeration and examining the fundamental issue of the formation and concentration of economic activity in geographical space. These volumes comprise the most important articles published during the last 50 years on the economic modeling of endogenous mechanisms leading to agglomeration. Spatial Economics will be essential reading for students and researchers alike.

"Now there is another excellent resource for those academicians seeking to nurture writing across the curriculum programs on their campuses: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven's detailed guide Writing Across the Curriculum. Indeed, even those directors whose programs are underway will find both interesting ways to expand their efforts and sound advice about pitfalls to avoid. . . . All readers will find user-friendly advice for program development in each chapter. . . .  read more »

No question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insightful collection attempt to provide satisfactory answers to fundamental issues on the use of time in economic theory. These volumes bring together the most important contributions on the subject, ranging from issues about the allocation of time, theory of choice, preference reversal and time in equilibrium to the issues of irreversibility, complex systems and the role of time.  read more »

Public utilities supply a set of goods and services that are central to the workings of a modern economy. Their importance in the economy’s structure is matched by the interest and complexity of the problems they present for economic analysis. This two-volume set includes the most important and influential papers in the development of public utilities economics. It includes early contributions on marginal cost pricing as well as its later extensions dealing with peak loads, financial constraints, indivisibilities, uncertainty, and non linear tariffs.  read more »