“paul k wright”

The bestseller in the field, this classic textbook depicts the broad field of highway engineering as it is currently practiced today. Focusing on the fundamentals of highway engineering design, this edition contains extended treatment of traffic engineering and a new chapter on roadside design as we... More

The United States and countries throughout the world are facing unprecedented energy challenges in a carbon-constrained world. Rising residential energy consumption and electric power demand play a major role in these energy challenges, and present an environmentally friendly opportunity through dem... More

In this empirically grounded analysis of the world economy during the past 20 years, two eminent economists focus on trade, financial flows and foreign direct investment. They find that the economic forces presumed to be crucial for spreading the benefits of globalization have been less than global,... More

Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the Apocalypse. His name was Zarathustra, and his teachings eventually held sway from t... More

Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept a... More