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Selected fragmentary play.Vol.I: Hermione, Polyxene, The Diners, Tereus, Troilus, Phaedra

The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only from quotations, indirect references ...

The Edinburg companion to Ancient Greece and Rome

A comprehensive reference work for both students and academics. The "Edinburgh Companion" is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach and pragmatic in its method, it reveals the multifaceted nature of the classical enterprise and shows something ...

Money, financial instability and stabilization policy

Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy consists of original articles by leading Post Keynesians, Kaleckians and other heterodox economists from the developed and developing world.

Clusters and globalisation

the development of urban and regional economies

Clustering as an economic policy concern has become increasingly fashionable. The authors of this book shed light on this subject of which there remains remarkably little understanding, and even less agreement, regarding what clusters are, what they require for success and what impacts they are ...

Stability with growth

macroeconomics, liberalization and development

There is growing dissatisfaction with the economic policies advocated by the IMF and other international financial institutions - policies that have often resulted in stagnating growth, crises, and recessions for client countries. This book presents an alternative to "Washington Consensus" neo-liberal economic policies, by showing that ...

Reti migranti

La nozione di "rete migratoria" ha il merito di mettere in luce il carattere socialmente strutturato delle migrazioni, il ruolo in esse rivestito dal contesto relazionale degli attori coinvolti. Le ricerche presentate in questo volume convergono nell'evidenziare come le reti sociali dei migranti costituiscano ...

I confini del mondo

Storia del cosmopolitismo dall'Antichità al Settecento

Parola-chiave nell'attuale dibattito politologico e sociologico, "cosmopolitismo" evoca il senso di una nuova era, caratterizzata dalla progressiva dissoluzione dei confini e delle tradizionali distinzioni nazional-statali. Come spesso accade, la categoria attraverso la quale si cerca di dare forma riflessiva alla spiazzante realtà del nuovo ...

Financial information analysis

Accounting information is one of the most potent sources of influence and power in any society. This is especially so in those environments where accounting is recognized as a primary means of communication and control. In a world in which more and more people have ...

Linear model theory

univariate, multivariate, and mixed models

"Fundamentals of Multivariate Linear Models: Theory and Application" consists of five parts. Part 1 centers on brief, clear mathematical statements of notation, assumptions, and formulas. Real data examples illustrate and motivate students. Part 2 consists of mathematical prerequisites (matrix algebra and the fundamentals of multivariate ...

Economics, politics and budgets

the political economy of fiscal consolidations in Europe

Motivated by the recent proliferation of fiscal consolidation episodes in the advent of Monetary Union, this book explains the causes and consequences of fiscal policy in Europe. This books answers three related questions - What explains the timing of fiscal adjustments? What explains their different duration ...

Econospinning

how to read between the lines when the media manipulate the numbers

Gene Epstein knows a thing or two about economic data. Before becoming the Economics Editor for Barron's in 1993, he was a senior economist at the New York Stock Exchange. Now, in "Econospinning", Epstein supplies readers with a book that attempts to cut through ...

A companion to urban economics

Urban economics is a dynamic, constantly evolving subject, central to the study and practice of economics. "A Companion to Urban Economics" provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics. The text provides a set ...

Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness

new data on the use of patents by Universities, small firms and individual inventors

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries# technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to #not-for-profit# entities ...

History of the jews and judaism in the second temple period.Vol.1: Yehud: a history of the persian province of Judah

Grabbe argues that there is a danger of seeing everything from a Judaeo-centric point of view, or using the biblical texts and out-of- date secondary material to provide the main perspective in understanding history, whereas any scholar writing about this period should also be familiar ...

Diario de viaje desde Madrid a Italia

José Viera y Clavijo realizó en 1780 un viaje a Italia en compañía del marqués de Santa Cruz y de su hermano, don Pedro de Silva, fruto del cual surgiría su Diario de viaje desde Madrid a Italia, obra que representa uno de los diversos ...

EU Private International Law

harmonization of laws

This book focuses on harmonization of conflict laws at the European Community level, which has been driven by the introduction of a series of conventions and regulations. It offers critical assessment of these advances across four main areas of concern: civil jurisdiction and judgments; the ...

Consumo y Derecho

elementos jurídico-privados de Derecho del Consumo

El objetivo de la obra es facilitar la aproximación al estudio de las principales categorías conceptuales e institucionales del Derecho del Consumo y ello, principalmente, desde el punto de vista jurídico- privado. A este efecto se han sistematizado y analizado los derechos básicos de los ...

An introduction to air Law

Time and again, through seven previous editions, Introduction to Air Law has proven itself a comprehensive and up-to-date view of all the main components making up this interesting and topical branch of international law. Coverage includes such aspects as liability of the carrier, insurance, product ...

Textbook on immigration and asylum Law

This second edition of Gina Clayton's textbook provides undergraduates with a dynamic analysis of the law and system of control which govern immigration and asylum in the UK. Students are introduced to the subject through its historical and legal context, clarifying who is subject ...

A practical approach to conveyancing

A Practical Approach to Conveyancing takes a pragmatic, rather than academic, approach to conveyancing. It provides practical solutions to everyday problems encountered by conveyancing practitioners. This eighth edition contains precedent documents, clauses, and forms that provide the blueprint for highly effective procedural structures. Checklists and ...