Economics in real time

a theoretical reconstruction

This book offers a new model for contemporary economic behavior that accounts for changes since neoclassical and Marxian microeconomics were formulated over a century ago. By incorporating real time into the analysis of sales and purchases, the phenomena of product innovation, advertising and distribution, the ...

Understanding economic recovery in the 1930s

Endogenous propagation in the Great Depression

One of the watershed periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression was the defining event for at least one generation of world citizenry. Although much has been written about the almost four-year economic collapse that began in mid-1929, very little has been written about ...

Handbook for international management research

Equal justice in the balance

America's legal responses to the emerging terrorist threat

Conflict and coexistence

Archbishop Rodrigo and the muslims and jews of medieval Spain

"An outstanding contribution not only to Spanish but to European history at large. Pick's book is the first to clarify the unity of purpose that drove Archbishop Rodrigo, a major figure not only as a historian and controversialist, but as a churchman whose military ...

Worshipping Aphrodite

art and cult in Classical Athens

The hero and the city

an interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

This work of seemingly conventional, philologically based criticism challenges many of the traditional views of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Joseph P. Wilson disputes the received wisdom that Oedipus was a suppliant of the Athenians, arguing rather that the primary relationship that governed Oedipus's dealings ...

The economy of prostitution in the roman world

a study of social history and the brothel

Principles of corporate renewal

Since its publication in 1998, this indispensable text has been the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including outsourcing, turnaround ...

The athenian experiment

building an imagined political community in Ancient Attica, 508-490 B.C.

Renewing jewish faith

The Jesuit and the Incas

the extraordinary life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J

Upholding justice

society, state, and the penal system in Quito (1650-1750)

The origins of mexican catholicism

Nahua rituals and christian sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Patchwork nation

sectionalism and political change in american politics

Growth recurring

economic change in world history

This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, it is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. Eric Jones proposes two fundamentally new frameworks ...

Myth, montage, and visuality in late medieval manuscript culture

Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea

Legalizing moves

salvadoran immigrants' struggle for U.S. residency

The secret of secrets

the scholary career of a pseudo-aristotelian text in the latin middle ages

International capital flows in calm and turbulent times

the need for new international architecture

International capital flows in calm and turbulent times analyzes the financial crises of the late 1990s and draws attention to the type of lenders and investors that triggered and deepened the crises. It concentrates on institutional investors and banks and provides detailed analysis of the ...