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 ...

International trade

theory,strategies, and evidence

This is a comprehensive graduate textbook on International Trade. It surveys both the theoretical and empirical literature, and reports new results. International Trade addresses the need to synthesize and integrate the new advances in a field that has become a key element of policy discussions ...

State banking in Early America

a new economic history

Napoleon and the transformation of Europe

Digitizing collections

strategic issues for the information manager

Written by leading international experts in digital library development, each book in the Digital Futures series examines in detail some of the key strategic and practical issues facing libraries and other cultural institutions in the rapidly expanding world of digital information. The proliferation of developments ...

Metadata

an introduction and practical guide

The Cambridge History of Science

Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science

This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences ...

The limits of nationalism

This book discusses the justifications and limits of cultural nationalism fram a liberal perspective.It begins by presenting a normative typology of nationalist ideologies. The main distinction in this typology is between cultural nationalisms ancl statist nationalisms. According to statist nationalisms, states have an interest ...

Maritime traders in the Ancient Greek world

Art and the culture of love

In Seventeenth-century Holland

Velázquez´s Las meninas

Work to welfare

how men become detached from the labour market

Strong religion

the rise of fundamentalisms around the world

Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945

Medieval archaeology

understanding traditions and contemporary approaches

Economic development and the division of labor

State/Space

A reader.

Los caminos de Heidegger

Trad. Ángela Ackermann Pilári. Muy conocido y apreciado en el mundo de habla castellana por su hermenéutica filosófica, Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) era también uno de los discípulos más antiguos de Heidegger. Él mismo se consideraba "testigo ocular" del impacto y de la fascinación que llegó ...

Gesellschaftsrecht

ein studienbuch

The Encyclopedia of Christianity

Volume 3: (J-O)

Volume 3 of the award-winning reference work on Christianity The multiple award-winning Encyclopedia of Christianity (EC), copublished by Brill and Eerdmans, is a monumental five-volume work presenting the history and current state of the Christian faith in its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the ...