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Cases, materials and text on Consumer Law

General editors Hans-W. Micklitz, Jules Stuyck, Evelyne Terryn; Coordinating editor Dimitri Droshout. The objective of this casebook, like others in the Ius Commune Series, is to help uncover common roots, notwithstanding differences in approach, of the European legal systems, with a view to strengthening the ...

The future of financial regulation

Eds. Iain MacNeil, Justin O'Brien. "The Future of Financial Regulation" is an edited collection of papers presented at a major conference at the University of Glasgow in spring 2009, co-sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council World Economy and Finance Programme and the ...

Arion´s Lyre

Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry

Arion's Lyreexamines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by ...

Surviving Death

In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates ...

The African Diaspora

a History Through Culture

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these ...

Painting History

Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey

In the aftermath of the Revolution, the French public turned to British history as a way of making sense of its recent past, and no French artist of the 19th century was more inspired by English subjects than Paul Delaroche. His monumental work The Execution ...

Sex and Religion in the Bible

If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life, we make a profound error. So contends Calum Carmichael in this original and incisive reading of some of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament#s most famous narratives. Sifting through the imaginative layers ...

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe

Between Market and Laboratory

It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences# systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on ...

The Hebrew Republic

Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization#the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in ...

The Second Crusade

Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay ...

Alexander the Great

a Life in Legend

Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther#across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. This engaging and handsomely illustrated book ...

Sacred Realism

Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of ...

Palestine Betrayed

The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and ...

Anne Boleyn

Fatal Attractions

In this groundbreaking new biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England#s most captivating queens. Through a wide- ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn#s girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship ...

The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence

In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius's De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine thinkers#earlier and more widely than has been supposed#to provide a radical critique of prevailing ...

Radical Judaism

Rethinking God and Tradition

How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may ...

The Body in Early Modern Italy

Eds. Julia L. Hairston and Walter Stephens. Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body has throughout history attracted more attention than perhaps any other ...

Makers of Ancient Strategy

from the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome

Ed. Victor Davis Hanson. 'In this outstanding collection, ancient historian and thoroughly modern pundit Victor Davis Hanson has assembled a gleaming cohort of historians who deepen our understanding of the constants of warfare and illuminate brightly the peculiarities of strategy in the worlds of ancient ...

China and the vocation of history in the Twentieth Century

a personal memoir

Frederick Mote, one of the twentieth century's most prominent Sinologists, has written a historian's memoir that uses observation and personal experiences to understand the intellectual and social transformation of China. Mote's thought-provoking narrative distills his reflections on modern China and details change ...

The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe

Italy, Spain, and Romania, 1870-1945

Dylan Riley reconceptualizes the nature and origins of interwar fascism in this remarkable investigation of the connection between civil society and authoritarianism. From the late nineteenth century to World War I, voluntary associations exploded across Europe, especially among rural non-elites. But the development of this ...