This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave tr…
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps igno…
The Lewis chessmen
by Robinson, James, British Museum
fromBritish museum objects in focus
The Lewis chessmen
by Robinson, James, British Museum
fromBritish museum objects in focus
The Lewis chessmen
by Robinson, James, British Museum
fromBritish museum objects in focus
This thesis presents a new family of single-determinantal ab initio electronic structure models ideal for the black-box computational investigation of molecular phenomena. These theories mimic Variational Coupled Cluster and achieve an approximately fulfilled variational upper b…
The science of getting rich was written by New Thought movement author Wallace D. Wattles in 1910. It is his best known work and is based on his concept of the 'Certain (positive) Way of Thinking'. This new trend for using mind over matter was made even more unusual, yet popular…
The Science of Getting Rich was written by New Thought Movement author Wallace D. Wattles in 1910.It is his best known work and is based on his concept of the 'Certain (positive) Way of Thinking'. This new trend for using mind over matter was made even more unusual, yet popular,…