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Roman frescoes from Boscoreale

the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor in reality and virtual reality

Auts. Bettina Bergmann...[et.al]. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, burying much of the region around the Bay of Naples in lava, one of the extraordinary Roman villas thereby preserved was that of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Its discovery in 1899 ...

Hiroshima after Iraq

three studies in art and war

Many on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, opposition to war seemed to lack the heat and potency of the 1960s and 1970s, giving the impression that passionate ...

Utopia/dystopia

conditions of historical possibility

Eds. Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash. The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large- scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. "Utopia/Dystopia" offers a fresh ...

The battle of Marathon

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to ...

The elizabethan world

Eds. Susan Doran, Norman Jones. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat ...

Europe's indians

producing racial diference, 1500-1900

Europe's Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding differenceoparticularly racial differenceoand its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth century through the late nineteenth ...

Managing biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems

Eds. D.I. Jarvis, C. Padoch, H.D. Cooper. Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. The volume includes the most recent research and developments in the maintenance of local diversity ...

Fundamental Rights and private Law in the European Union

Eds. Gert Brüggemeier, Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Giovanni Comandé. This two-volume comparative study, carried out by the Research Training Network on Fundamental Rights and Private Law in the European Union, offers an overview of the doctrines and case law on the direct or indirect application of ...

The land is the source of the Law

a dialogic encounter with indigenous jurisprudence

"The Land is the Source of Law" brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a 'dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence' in which individuals are characterised by their rights ...

Financial reporting under IFRS

a topic based approach

This practical text on financial accounting and reporting offers a global perspective on IFRS. It presents the rationale and principles prescribed throughout the IAS/IFRS, including numerous examples from large international companies, and develops fundamental skills necessary to read and use the information contained in ...

Cross-border divorce Law

Brussels II bis

This book examines the divorce aspects of the Brussels II bis Regulation (Regulation 2201/2003). It gives detailed consideration to the new jurisdictional rules and to the likely interpretation of the core jurisdictional concept of 'habitual residence'. The scope of the Regulation is analysed, and ...

An introduction to the chinese economy

the driving forces behind modern day China

This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The ...

Probability and statistics for finance

Aut. Svetlozar T. Rachev...[et al]. A comprehensive look at how probability and statistics is applied to the investment process Finance has become increasingly more quantitative, drawing on techniques in probability and statistics that many finance practitioners have not had exposure to before. In order ...

The little book that still beats the market

In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market-a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print- Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market ...

History of greed

financial fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff

Praise for "History of Greed: 'David Sarna is a visionary technologist. He is also a sophisticated investor and financier. He has written a readable, comprehensive, fascinating, and well-researched book that explores troublesome aspects of the financial system in a way only an experienced insider could ...

Dear Mr. Buffett

what an investor learns 1,269 miles from Wall Street

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 years, they both saw the writing on the wall, made clear by the implosion of Bear Stearns. Tavakoli, in clear ...

Madoff with the money

An intriguing look at Bernie Madoff the man, and his scam Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton ...

And then the roof caved in

how Wall Street's greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure ...

The marketisation of higher education and the student as consumer

Eds. Mike Molesworth, Richard Scullion, Elizabeth Nixon. In recent years government policy in the UK has encouraged an expansion of Higher Education to increase participation with the express aim of creating a more educated workforce, capable of competing in international 'knowledge-based' economies. This expansion has ...

El régimen jurídico preconcursal de los acuerdos de refinanciación (d.ad.4ª LC)

propuesta de reforma legislativa

Antes de entrar en crisis las empresas y deudores profesionales pasan por dificultades de toda índole de definen un estadio previo a la insolvencia que podemos denominar de 'preinsolvencia' o de 'precrisis'. En muchos casos ese estado -tan difícil de delimitar con rigor jurídico- es ...