Lend me your ears : great speeches in history / / selected and introduced by William Safire

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464629603321
• Autore: Safire William <1929-2009, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified] : , : RosettaBooks, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-7953-3659-4; 0-7953-3661-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (825 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.85
• Soggetti: Speeches, addresses, etc; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""An Introductory Address""; ""I. Memorials and Patriotic Speeches""; ""Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons""; ""Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee""; ""Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness""; ""Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument""; ""Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day""; ""Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg""; ""Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July""; ""President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts""""Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists""; ""Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty""; ""Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Groupâ€?s Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel""; ""Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism""; ""General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country""; ""II. War and Revolution Speeches""; ""Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights""; ""Pope Urban II Launches the First Crusade""; ""Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada""""Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution""; ""An Indian Chief Pledges Help""; ""General Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection""; ""Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions""; ""Revolutionist ; Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish""; ""Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against Franceâ€?s Enemies""; ""Garibaldi Prepares Italyâ€?s Guerrillas for Battle""; ""Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate""; ""Chief Joseph Surrenders""; ""President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress""""Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship""; ""Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia""; ""Hitler Declares Germanyâ€?s Intentions""; ""Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task""; ""Churchill Rallies the British People after the “Miracle of Deliveranceâ€? at Dunkirk""; ""Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitlerâ€?s Troops""; ""President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan""; ""General Montgomery Takes Command and Draws the Line at El Alamein""; ""Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands""""Israelâ€?s Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy""; ""III. Tributes and Eulogies""; ""Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar""; ""Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette""; ""Henry Lee Remembers George Washington""; ""Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams""; ""Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog""; ""Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns""; ""Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man""

Mathematical demoeconomy : integrating demographic and economic approaches / / Yuri S. Popkov

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806166303321
• Autore: Popkov Yuri S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-11-037084-0; 3-11-033916-1; 3-11-033917-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (514 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.601/5195
• Soggetti: Population - Economic aspects; Demography - Economic aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: General principles of demoeconomics -- 1. The population-economy system -- 2. Probabilistic techniques in demoeconomic forecasting -- Part II: Foundations of spatial demography -- 3. The population system -- 4. Demographic characteristics of fertility -- 5. Demographic characteristics of mortality -- 6. Demographic characteristics of migration -- 7. Macrosystem models of population dynamics -- Part III: Foundations of spatial economics -- 8. Modeling economics -- 9. Evolutionary economics -- 10. Self-organization in economic systems -- 11. Spatial interaction of economic systems -- 12. Selected models of spatial macroeconomics -- 13. Fluctuations in models of spatial economics -- Part IV: Macrosystem models of demoeconomics -- 14. Macrosystems concept in demoeconomics -- 15. One-sector macrosystem demoeconomic model (MSDEM) -- 16. Macrosystem demoeconomic model with regional localization of sectors (branches) Ns −MSDEM -- 17. Macrosystem model of labour market -- 18. Probabilistic macrosystem demoeconomic model -- Part V: Mathematical appendices -- A. Some theorems of implicit functions -- B. Estimating the local Lipschitz Constant of the entropy operator Bv,q ; -- C. Estimating the local Lipschitz Constant of the entropy operator Fv,q -- D. Zero-order multiplicative algorithms for positive solutions to nonlinear equations -- E. Multiplicative algorithms for positive solutions to entropy-quadratic programming problems -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph aspires to lay the foundations of a new scientific discipline, demoeconomics, representing the synthesis of demography and spatial economics. This synthesis is performed in terms of interaction between population and its economic activity. The monograph appears a unique research work having no analogs in scientific literature. Demoeconomic systems are studied involving the macrosystems approach which combines the generalized entropy maximization principle and the local equilibria principle. Demoeconomic systems operate in an uncertain environment; thus and so, the monograph develops the methodology and technique of probabilistic modeling and forecasting of their evolution.