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Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors focuses on the spectacularly successful career of financier Charles Merrill (1885-1956), the founder of Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage and investment firm. Merrill was the most innovative entrepreneur in the U... More

The history of Roman Imperial architecture is one of the interaction of two dominant themes-in Rome itself the emergence of a new architecture based on the use of a revolutionary new material, Roman concrete, and in the provinces the development of interrelated but distinctive Romano-provincial scho... More

Learning science involves learning its language. Many studies have shown that the language barrier is one of the biggest barriers to learning science. This dictionary has been written in order to help learning of all ages, tackle that barrier. Every teacher and every pupil learning science will be a... More

This Shaum's book on Basic Electrical Engineering includes a new chapter on 'Basic Measuring Instruments' discussing different types of instruments like moving, iron, integrating etc. It also presents easy-to-understand explanations of Transient Circuit Analysis, State Variable Analysis, Electromec... More

Is invention really "99 percent perspiration" and "one percent inspiration" as Thomas Edison assured us? Or does invention involve little recognized, often hidden principles that are accessible to most of us? Inventive Minds assembles a group of authors well qualified to address these questions: con... More

In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, "The Yellow Wall-Paper," generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed both as a feminist classic and a key text i... More