Inheritance and originality

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

What might it mean to think of philosophy as being in the condition of modernism - in which its relation to its own past, and hence its sense of its own future, has become an undismissable problem? If philosophy's hitherto-defining conventions can neither be taken ...

The psychology of economic decisions

Vol. I: Rationality and well-being

Psychologists and economists often ask similar questions about human behaviour. This volume brings together contributions from leaders in both disciplines. The editorial introduction discusses methodological differences between the two which have until now limited the development of mutually beneficial lines of research. Psychologists have objected ...

Political philosophy

A very short introduction

This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the reasons why we need ...

The history of Astronomy

a very short introduction

The psychology of economic decisions

. Vol. I: rationality and well-being

Time series with long memory

This volume provides in a convenient format for students and researchers the core papers in long memory time series analysis. Long memory time series are characterized by a strong dependence between distant events. Various methods and their theoretical properties are discussed, with empirical applications. The ...

Postal savings and fiscal investment in Japan

the PSS and the FILP

Japan's Postal Savings System (PSS) and Fiscal Investment and Loan Programme (FILP) are major institutional features of Japanese finance that support a wide ranging system of government financial intermediation. Despite their size and importance, they have not received extensive attention outside of Japan. These ...

State banking in Early America

a new economic history

Political determinants of corporate governance

political context, corporate impact

Oxford encyclopedia of theatre and performance

International encyclopedia of linguistics

The press effect

politicians, journalists, and the stories that shape the political world

Was the 2000 presidential campaign merely a contest between Pinocchio and Dumbo? And did Dumbo miraculously turn into Abraham Lincoln after the events of September 11? In fact, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman argue in The Press Effect, these stereotypes, while containing some elements ...

Patrons, clients, and empire

chieftaincy and over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

This is a wide-ranging comparative study of relationships between the indigenous leadership of traditional states and colonizing Europeans from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It challenges stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies and seeks to answer the fundamental question ...

Fifty years of prosopography

the Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and beyond

France

the dark years, 1940-1944

This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews, intellectual and cultural life under Occupation, and the purge ...

The structure and dynamics of geographic ranges

In the grip of disease

studies in the Greek imagination

This original and lively book uses texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion to explore the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues are deeply implicated: causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, the mind-body relationship ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume V/II: Organization and mobilization in the German sphere of power. Wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources 1942-1944/5

From the outbreak of war to the end of 1941, Germany was riding high over much of Europe; then it all began to go wrong. Volume V Part II of the comprehensive and authoritative Germany and the Second World War series spans the years 1942 ...

The Law of set-off

Human rights, human wrongs

Controlling market power in telecommunicications

antitrust vs sector-specific regulation

Economic regulation in the telecommunications sector can be performed through economy-wide instruments, such as antitrust law and antitrust authorities, or through sector-specific instruments, such as telecommunications regulation and regulatory authorities. Relying on a comparative analysis of five countries, the present book seeks to shed some ...

Russian Law

This book provides the most comprehensive account in any language of modern Russian law, updated to encompass the entire sweep of market-oriented law reform. The second edition of this authoritative work will be embraced by practitioners, investors, law students, the comparative and international law markets ...