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Apologetic writings

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 68)

First brought to Florence by Lorenzo de Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452 1498), a Dominican friar, would ultimately play a major role in the events that convulsed the city in the 1490s and led to the overthrow of the Medici themselves. After ...

Silvae

(Loeb Classical Library; 206)

Statius "Silvae," thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct pictorial quality. Statius ...

Fragments of the histories; Letters to Caesar

(Loeb Classical Library; 522)

Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign as ...

At the heart of the State

the moral world of institutions

The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete and situated reality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues ...

El nuevo régimen de impugnación de los acuerdos sociales de las Sociedades de Capital

La reforma del sistema impugnatorio de los acuerdos sociales es una novedad de gran importancia que, sin duda, está llamada a incidir profundamente en el funcionamiento de nuestras sociedades.

Advances in heavy tailed risk modeling

a handbook of operational risk

A cutting-edge guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to heavy tailed risk modeling Focusing on the quantitative aspects of heavy tailed loss processes in operational risk and relevant insurance analytics, Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk presents ...

Common precedents

the presentness of the past in victorian Law and fiction

Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society ...

The little big number

how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it

n one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by ...

Henry George and the crisis of inequality

progress and poverty in the Gilded Age

America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical ...

Quantitative risk management

concepts, tecniques and tools

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques of quantitative risk management. Whether you are a financial risk analyst, actuary, regulator or student of quantitative finance, Quantitative Risk Management gives you the practical tools you need to solve real-world ...

Lectures on public economics

This classic introduction to public finance remains the best advanced-level textbook on the subject ever written. First published in 1980, Lectures on Public Economics still tops reading lists at many leading universities despite the fact that the book has been out of print for years ...

Life and early travels

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 65)

Cyriac of Ancona (1391 1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year 1435 by ...

Drones and the future of armed conflict

ethical, legal, and stretegic implications

During the past decade, drones have become central to American military strategy. When coupled with access to accurate information, drones make it possible to deploy lethal force across borders while keeping one's own soldiers out of harm's way. The potential to direct force ...

Erasmus, Man of Letters

the construction of charisma in print

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central ...

Out of ashes

a new history of Europe in the Twentieth Century

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material ...

Exiles in Sepharad

the jewish millennium in Spain

The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad . Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and ...

La Crònica de Ramon Muntaner

edició i estudi (pròleg - capítol 146). Volum 1

Ramon Muntaner (1265-1336), guerrer i cronista que va servir diversos sobirans del casal de Barcelona, nascut a Peralada i ciutadà de València, fou un testimoni privilegiat dels fets esdevinguts a la Corona d’Aragó del seu temps. A la seva Crònica, sens dubte un dels ...

La Crònica de Ramon Muntaner

edició i estudi (pròleg - capítol 146). Volum 2

Ramon Muntaner (1265-1336), guerrer i cronista que va servir diversos sobirans del casal de Barcelona, nascut a Peralada i ciutadà de València, fou un testimoni privilegiat dels fets esdevinguts a la Corona d’Aragó del seu temps. A la seva Crònica, sens dubte un dels ...

Història de la moneda de la Corona Catalano-Aragonesa medieval

(excepte els Comtats Catalans) (1067/1162 - 1516)

Història raonada de la moneda medieval catalana emesa, de primer a Occitània i, des d'Alfons I (1162-1196) a tots els territoris de la Corona Catalano-Aragonesa, fins a Ferran el Catòlic (1479-1516), que també inclou les branques laterals de Mallorca, Sicília, territoris grecs i Nàpols ...

Esperando a Godot

Cuando en 1953 se estrenó en París Esperando a Godot, pocos sabían quién era Samuel Beckett, salvo, quizá, los que ya lo conocías como ex secretario de otro irlandés no menos genial: James Joyce. Por aquellas fechas, Beckett tenía escrita ya gran parte de su ...