Product Description: Bonar's Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library was originally published at the end of the nineteenth century; and a new and enlarged edition in 1932. Dr Mizuta's researches have now added substantially to the total number of books known to have been in Adam Smith's library, as well as adding information about many of those originally catalogued by Bonar...read more

Product Description: This book is the first to give a comprehensive description of the physics and applications of resonant tunneling diodes. The opening chapters of the book set out the basic principles of coherent tunneling theory. The authors describe in detail the effects of impurity scattering, femtosecond dynamics, non-equilibrium distribution, and intrinsic bistabilities...read more

Product Description: This is a critical bibliography of Adam Smith. It takes as its starting point the Vanderblue Collection of Smithiana held by the Kress Library and its accompanying published catalogue. This bibliography updates the catalogue, which only had a very limited original circulation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adam Smith is considered the founding father of economics. Yet to form an accurate picture of the theoretical basis of his work, it is necessary to know what influenced him. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to all the books which were in Adam Smith's library at the time of his death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection gathers together comments and reviews to all the works of Adam Smith, published and unpublished. All introductions to the later editions of his works, either in English or newly translated, are included as well as the editor's notes, where possible. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The opening of Japan to western influence in the Meiji era is one of the most important subjects in Japanese Studies, and is central to an understanding of modern Japan. There were many dimensions to this transformation including the re-opening of trading and diplomatic links, but the opening of Japan to modern western ideas was at least as important...read more

Product Description: Adam Smith: Early German Responses is a four-volume set which includes Lueder's principal economic work, the 3-volume Nationalindustrie und Staatswirthschaft (3 vols., 1800-04), a paraphrase of Smith's system in which he seeks to illustrate the doctrines of the Wealth of Nations by means of geography and books of travel...read more

Product Description: The Scottish political economist Sir James Steuart (1713-1780) completed the first two books of the "Principles" while living in Tubingen in 1759. One of the most important features of Steuart's career was his extensive knowledge of the Continent...read more

Product Description: This book is the first to give a comprehensive description of the physics and applications of resonant tunneling diodes. The opening chapters of the book set out the basic principles of coherent tunneling theory. The authors describe in detail the effects of impurity scattering, femtosecond dynamics, non-equilibrium distribution, and intrinsic bistabilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adam Smith (1723-90) is well known as the author of The Wealth of Nations and as a champion of free enterprise but he also wrote on moral philosophy and lectured on rhetoric and jurisprudence. This collection reveals a new portrait of the well known economist, not as a simple-minded champion of free trade but as an interdisciplinary social scientist with a moral philosophy for the modern world...read more