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Ottoman fortifications 1300-1710

Illustrated by Adam Hook. The Ottoman Empire was heir to the architectural traditions not only of the Byzantine Empire but also to those of the medieval Islamic Middle East. Having learned from these, the Ottomans created a fusion of military architectural styles to which they ...

Financial alchemy in crisis

the great liquidity illusion

In July 2007, the combination of a seemingly unstoppable rise in house prices and bullish banks swimming in liquidity meant that almost anyone could get a mortgage in the UK or US. Little more than a month later the supply of credit dried up practically ...

Restoring confidence in the financial system

see-through leverage: a powerful new tool for revealing and managing risk

"Restoring Confidence" is a ground-breaking book in which a top mathematician, who is also one of the City of London's most experienced traders, and an experienced City banker explore how confidence in the global financial system was destroyed by the current banking crisis. Drawing ...

Other people's anthropologies

ethnographic practice on the margins

Ed. Aleksandar Boskovic. Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo- American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With ...

Roman imperialism

This book examines the course and nature of Roman expansion during the Republic and Early Empire, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject, and the effect of empire on the imperial power. These are topics which have long generated considerable controversy among ...

Archaeology and Anthropology

understanding similarity, exploring difference

Eds. Duncan Garrow, Thomas Garrow. This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeology's interest in anthropology has remained ...

Ancient mines and quarries

a trans-atlantic perspective

Eds. Margaret Brewer-LaPorta, Adrian Burke, David Field. This volume derives from a meeting on prehistoric mines and quarries held at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006. Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction ...

Viajes en la transición de la arquitectura española hacia la modernidad

actas preliminares. Pamplona, 6/7 de mayo 2010

Los viajes han sido siempre uno de los cauces importantes para la transmisión y extensión de los hallazgos y novedades en todos los ámbitos de la cultura. Pero cobran especial importancia en momentos concretos que se dan a veces en las civilizaciones, cuando se están ...

Estudio de la decoración arquitectónica romana y análisis del reaprovechamiento de material en la Mezquita Aljama de Córdoba

INDICE: Cuestiones generales sobre el reaprovechamiento de material romano. Análisis del reaprovechamiento en la Mezquita Aljama de Córdoba. Conclusiones.

Estudios

Ed. Mercedes Águeda Villar. Edición de Mercedes Águeda Villar. Recoge este libro una muestra de la versátil y polifacética personalidad del que fuera director del Museo del Prado, que tocó muy diferentes aspectos, algunos de ellos muy poco tratados, de la historia del arte español ...

The political economy of Africa

Ed. Vishnu Padayachee. The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent's economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip ...

Harmonizing european Copyright Law

the challenges of better lawmaking

Aut. Mireille van Eechoud...[et al]. Nobody likes today's copyright law. Widespread unauthorized use of copyright material proliferates with impunity, while citizens and users protest that intrusive copyright and related rights law stifle cultural expression. Equipment manufacturers and intermediaries complain about yet more 'security ...

Profiting from the world's economic crisis

finding investment opportunities by tracking global market trends

This book offers timely advice for finding investment opportunities during a global economic crisis. In "Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis", author Bud Conrad predicts a rough road ahead for our economy and reveals nontraditional investments that can make big money in difficult times ...

Modernization of european company Law and corporate governance

some considerations on its legal limits

What are the legal limits of the European Community's competence in the matter of company law? As many company law instruments have already emerged as a result of the European Commission's Action Plan to Modernize Company Law of May 2003 and various new ...

Karl Polanyi

the limits of the market

Karl Polanyi's "The Great Transformation" is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of nineteenth-century 'market fundamentalism ...

Empire for liberty

a history of America Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowtitz

How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism - and in some ...

The repo handbook

"The Repo Handbook, 2nd Edition" presents an overview of repo vehicles and markets with sufficient depth for those seeking detailed explanations. In three parts it demonstrates how these secured loans fit into global capital markets and why they account for up to 50 per cent ...

Rule of Law, misrule of men

This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of ...

Taking economics seriously

There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation ...

Crisis in the global economy

financial markets, social struggles, and new political scenarios

Eds. Andrea Fumagalli, Sandro Mezzadra. Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collective reflection on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile "multiversity" of the UniNomade network of international researchers and activists during the months immediately following the first ...