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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
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edition identification: ++++British LibraryW020724Attributed to
Daniel Leonard in the Dictionary of American biography. Imprint
suggested by Evans. Boston: Printed by Mills and Hicks, 1775]
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"An original and insightful exploration of a major component of
contemporary American culture." -H. Bruce Franklin, author ofWar
Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination "Bernardi
boldly goes where no scholar has gone before and discovers racial
anxiety at the center of the Star Trek story. This careful reading
of commercial culture's quintessential mega-text provides
invaluable insight into how mass media productions help shape us
into the people we are." -George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages
"Bernardi's thoughtful and provocative analysis of race in Star
Trek is wholly original; it challenges viewers to see the series in
a new light, and challenges its creators to be more mindful of the
implicit messages in their work." -Rene Echevarria, co-supervising
producer, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Daniel Bernardi has dissected
the history of a myth. If we are ever to track down and expose our
semi-conscious racist evasions and dissemblings, we need more books
like this one." -Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University "I would
have sworn that there was little new any scholar could say about
Star Trek. I was wrong. Bernardi opens up a rich new set of issues
for scholarly examination, centering around the contradictory
expression of race within the series and the fan culture that
surrounds us. His analysis is bold, provocative, and challenging,
yet consistently fair-minded. He combines a fan's detailed
knowledge of the program's universe with the theoretical
sophistication necessary to make this book a cutting-edge
contribution to the cultural studies of race." -Henry Jenkins,
author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory
Culture Star Trek and History examines the representational and
narrative functions of race in Star Trek and explores how the
meaning of race in the science fiction series has been facilitated
and constrained by creative and network decision-making, by genre,
by intertextuality, and by the audience. The author interprets how
the changing social and political movements of the times have
influenced the production and meaning of Trek texts and the ways in
which the ongoing series negotiated and reflected these turbulent
histories. Most significantly, he tells us why is it important for
readers to better understand the articulation of race in this
enduring icon of American popular culture. Daniel Leonard Bernardi
is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Film and
Television at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the
editor of The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of United
States Cinema.
Optimal control theory is a technique being used increasingly by
academic economists to study problems involving optimal decisions
in a multi-period framework. This textbook is designed to make the
difficult subject of optimal control theory easily accessible to
economists while at the same time maintaining rigour. Economic
intuitions are emphasized, and examples and problem sets covering a
wide range of applications in economics are provided to assist in
the learning process. Theorems are clearly stated and their proofs
are carefully explained. The development of the text is gradual and
fully integrated, beginning with simple formulations and
progressing to advanced topics such as control parameters, jumps in
state variables, and bounded state space. For greater economy and
elegance, optimal control theory is introduced directly, without
recourse to the calculus of variations. The connection with the
latter and with dynamic programming is explained in a separate
chapter. A second purpose of the book is to draw the parallel
between optimal control theory and static optimization. Chapter 1
provides an extensive treatment of constrained and unconstrained
maximization, with emphasis on economic insight and applications.
Starting from basic concepts, it derives and explains important
results, including the envelope theorem and the method of
comparative statics. This chapter may be used for a course in
static optimization. The book is largely self-contained. No
previous knowledge of differential equations is required.
Optimal control theory is a technique being used increasingly by academic economists to study problems involving optimal decisions in a multi-period framework. This book is designed to make the difficult subject of optimal control theory easily accessible to economists while at the same time maintaining rigor. Economic intuition is emphasized, examples and problem sets covering a wide range of applications in economics are provided, theorems are clearly stated and their proofs are carefully explained. The development of the text is gradual and fully integrated, beginning with the simple formulations and progressing to advanced topics. Optimal control theory is introduced directly, without recourse to the calculus of variations, and the connection with the latter and with dynamic programming is explained in a separate chapter. Also, the book draws the parallel between optimal control theory and static optimization. No previous knowledge of differential equations is required.
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