How to read the Bible

history, prophecy, literature: why modern readers need to know the difference and what it means for faith today

More people read the Bible than any other book. Indeed, many try to live their lives according to its words. The question is, do they understand what they're reading? As Steven McKenzie shows in this provocative book, quite often the answer is, "No." McKenzie ...

The economy of Esteem

an essay on civil and political society

However much people want esteem, it is an untradable commodity - there is no way that you can buy the good opinion of another or sell to others your good opinion of them. And yet esteem is allocated in society according to systematic determinants: people's ...

Fair trade for all

how trade can promote development

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They ...

Political keywords

using language that uses us

The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal in the United States, but that statement does not hold true for words. Some words carry more weight than others - they seem to work harder, get more done, and demand more respect. "Political Keywords ...

Journeymen-printers, heresy, and the inquisition in sixteenth-century Spain

Although the history of the book is a booming area of research, the journeymen who printed books in the sixteenth century have remained shadowy figures because they were not thought to have left any significant traces in the archives. Clive Griffin, however, uses Inquisitional documents ...

The origins of value

the financial innovations that created modern capital markets

The essays in this volume are written by a distinguished and adventurous set of historians and economists who have been willing, in many cases, to step beyond their typical field of inquiry and explore the historical foundations of financial innovation. The essays are motivated by ...

India's ancient past

R.S.Sharma, one of the best-known historians of Early India, provides a comprehensive yet accessible text on the ancient period of Indian history. Beginning with topics such as historiography and the importance of Ancient Indian history, he goes on to cover the geographical, econological ...

Why geography matters

three challenges facing America: climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism

Preparing for climate change, averting a cold war with China, defeating terrorism: all of this requires geographic knowledge. In Why Geography Matters, Harm de Blij makes an urgent call to restore geography to America's educational curriculum. He shows how and why the United States ...

Carry me back

the domestic slave trade in american life

Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by ...

Todd and Wilson's textbook on trusts

This clearly written book focuses on the key themes of an undergraduate course in trusts. This edition has been thoroughly updated and re-worked to enhance accessibility while stimulating thought and insight in students. Complex issues are explained clearly but without over- simplification. New material on ...

The World Trade Organization

a very short intorduction

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage. Rulings on beef hormones and tuna-dolphin cases provide graphic examples of how the organization regulates and intrudes into ...

Social rights in Europe

Social rights, while traditionally the neglected sibling within the human rights family, have been prominent on the agenda in Europe in recent years. The debate over the justiciability of social rights in the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the revision of the Council ...

The concept of legal system

an introduction to the Theory of legal system

State Liability

Tort Law and Beyond

The lectures presented in this volume examine the fast-growing compensation culture and the consequential pressure on courts to widen the range of situations in which individuals can claim damages from the State. Within domestic legal systems, there has been a considerable extension of tortious liability ...

The myth of ownership

taxes and justice

In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions, fueled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as ...

Regulating commercial gambling

Past, Present and Future

This book is about the public regulation of commercial gambling in Great Britain. It examines recent changes and proposals for change to three primary forms - betting, gaming, and lotteries - against an account of their social and legal history. The author then moves forward to analyse ...

The Antitrust Revolution

economics, competition and policy

The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 4/e, consists of a set of twenty original essays on important recent antitrust cases, commissioned and edited by John E. Kwoka, Jr. and Lawrence J. White. Each essay discusses a single case and was written by an ...

God?

a debate between a Christian and an Atheist

This concise, up-to-date, and accessible discussion of the existence of God is presented as a point/counterpoint debate: Craig argues for God's existence and Sinnott-Armstrong argues against it. Employing common language and concrete examples, the authors formulate their arguments in light of recent developments ...

Ancient greek literature

This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality, including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides. Attention ...

Ancient Egypt

a very short introduction

The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination - mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about this great ...

Presocratic Philosoph

a very short introduction

This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins with the finding of the new papyrus fragment of Empedocles' poem, and uses the ...

Periodic time series models

This book considers periodic time series models for seasonal data, characterized by parameters that differ across the seasons, and focuses on their usefulness for out-of-sample forecasting. Providing an up-to- date survey of the recent developments in periodic time series, the book presents a large number ...