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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Focus on a special case of moral hazard: the principal-agent problem, in which an agent is appointed to handle a matter beyond the expertise of the person doing the hiring (the principal). The agent may easily take unfair advantage of this situation, which covers everything from home repair to government contracting..
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating...
6) Redwall
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Redwall is a spectacular animated series based on the top-selling book series by British author Brian Jacques. It follows the odyssey of Matthias, an innocent and bumbling young mouse destined to be the unlikely hero and great defender of Redwall, the English cathedral which has been home to a community of peaceful mice for generations.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Although we tend to think of rats and mice as lab animals, insects—particularly the fruit fly—have played critical roles in research. Explore the many discoveries made in the field of genetics using fruit flies, as well as the fascinating opportunity to watch natural selection in action thanks to the peppered moth and smoke from the Industrial Revolution.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From colossal devices designed to save the world to mind-expanding, world-shrinking machines, we trace the evolution of mice and menus. Learn about the world's most powerful computer, IBM's ASCI White, that operates at 12-trillion calculations a second. See how the first room-sized computers, such as ENIAC, changed the world. Bite into Apple's history, the machine that made computers a household appliance. And peer through a microscope to see the...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Explore how an animal’s size helps it thrive. Look at allometric scaling (which helps explain diverse characteristics, like why smaller animals like mice have faster breathing and heart rates than the enormous elephant), why invertebrates are much smaller on average than vertebrates, and how bioenergetics - how animals obtain and use fuel - helps us understand animal survival.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
We discover how cats first crossed from Asia into North America and how they went on to become the top predators of the continent. Today there are 13 feline species in the Americas – from the mighty jaguar, to the urban mountain lion, to the curious ocelot and from the Canada lynx to the nimble margay. . The story of how all these cats came to be is an epic tapestry of pioneering spirit, powerful natural forces, and a battle for supremacy with...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Australia is the only continent completely overrun by feral cats. It is estimated there are now some ten million domestic cats gone wild and that each year they kill billions of native animals. Where did they come from? Why did they spread so quickly? And how much of a role have they really had in the destruction of the country's fauna? Ten Million Wildcats shatters some common preconceptions. Feral cats look much the same as domestic cats; their...
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