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Time in antiquity

Contents illustrations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. This book offers insights into ordinary people's perceptions of time and time-keeping instruments. It presents an analysis of the development of sundial ...

Germans againts Hitler

the Stauffenberg plot and resistance under the Third Reich

Those Germans, such as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who fought the Third Reich from within have often been mythologised as heroes in the fight against tyranny but the truth is far more complex.

The reconquest kings of Portugal

political and cultural reorientation on the medieval frontier

Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the peninsula during ...

Global politics

a new introduction

Eds., Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Global Politics:A New Introduction is an innovative new textbook that provides a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in ...

La crisis ninja y otros misterios de la economía actual

Si todavía no te has enterado de lo que está pasando, este es tu libro. En La Crisis Ninja y otros misterios de la economía actual, Leopoldo Abadía te explica de manera clara y positiva que hasta de las peores situaciones se puede salir bien ...

George Tooker

Once you've seen a George Tooker painting, you won't soon forget it, but Tooker's life and work are not well known. This gap in American art history is splendidly redressed in this volume of lustrous reproductions and informative biographical and critical essays ...

Achieving human rights

Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do-at the personal level as well as state actions-to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs of the ...

Killing Mr Lebanon

the assassination of Rafik Hariri and its impact on the middle east

Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, known as "Mr. Lebanon," was killed by a massive explosion as he drove along the Beirut seafront on February 14, 2005. A business entrepreneur, who rose from nothing to become one of the most powerful men in Lebanese politics, Hariri ...

Network enterprises

the evolution of organizational models from guilds to assembly lines to innovation clusters

Building on the historical analysis of organizations and theories that have influenced their development, Gianfranco Dioguardi provides an insightful exploration of the network enterprise and its evolution from the Medieval guilds to the present innovation clusters of Silicon Valley, the Research Triangle, Route 128, and ...

Value-based marketing

marketing strategies for corporate growth and shareholder value

This book provides a clear practical introduction to shareholder value analysis for the marketing professional. It gives them the tools to develop the marketing strategies that will create the most value for business. For top management and CFOs, the book explains how marketing generates shareholder ...

A foreign exchange primer

This book will provide a thorough introduction to the foreign exchange markets, looking at the main products through to the techniques used, coverage of the main participants, details of the various players, and an understanding of the jargon used in everyday dealings. Written in a ...

Intermarket trading strategies

This book shows traders how to use Intermarket Analysis to forecast future equity, index and commodity price movements. It introduces custom indicators and Intermarket based systems using basic mathematical and statistical principles to help traders develop and design Intermarket trading systems appropriate for long term ...

Capitalists, workers, and fiscal policy

a classical model of growth and distribution

Drawing on the work of the classical-Marxian economists and their modern successors, "Capitalists, Workers, and Fiscal Policy" sets forth a new model of economic growth and distribution, and applies it to two major policy issues: public debt and social security.The book homes in specifically ...

Institutional foundations of public finance

economic and legal perspectives

Eds. Alan J. Auerbach, Daniel N. Shaviro. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Institutional Foundations of Public Finance" integrates economic and legal perspectives on taxation and fiscal policy, offering a provocative assessment of the most important issues in public finance today. Part I, an in-depth look at the tax reform debate ...

Global food and agricultural institutions

This pioneering text brings together for the first time the global institutions on the front line of the campaign against hunger and poverty. The institutions examined in this book - the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Bank ...

The political economy of work

Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, "The Political Economy of Work" offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work. The author challenges some common preconceptions about work and promotes an original approach to ...

Corruption in international business

the challenge of cultural and legal diversity

Ed. Sharon Eicher. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar. Business and social attitudes to corruption, however, vary according to the wide variety of cultural norms across the countries of the world. International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and sometimes ...

Methods of environmental impact assessment

Eds. Peter Morris, Riki Therivel. This well-established textbook offers comprehensive coverage of the methods used in environmental impact assessment, which is now firmly established as an important (and in many cases obligatory) procedure in proposing or launching any development project where there may be consequences ...

Collective preference and choice

El desencanto

el despertar de un izquierdista de toda la vida

Trad., Núria Petit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ En 2001 Andrew Anthony era un periodista de éxito. Se estaba instalando en la vida de un inglés de clase media. Era un miembro destacado de la izquierda liberal y poseía una serie de ideas que, como la cartera y las llaves ...