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Speech on behalf of Publius Sestius

This book features a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against ...

Guía artística de Almería y su provincia

Esta obra es la primera obra de referencia que se publica sobre el patrimonio artístico almeriense en su conjunto, reseñando de manera sistemática y unitaria los monumentos de la capital y los pueblos de la provincia.

I titoli di credito

Indice: Premessa. - Parte prima: I titoli di credito. Problemi generali. - I: La fattispecie cartolare: suo divenire e suoi confini. - II: I titoli di credito e i processi di dematerializzazione. - III: La fattispecie tra tipicità e figure affini. - Parte seconda: La cambiale. - I: La cambiale: struttura ...

Speaking freely

trials of the First Amendment

The rights guaranteed in the First Amendment#including freedom of expression#are among the fundamental touchstones of our democracy. In Speaking Freely, Floyd Abrams, who for over thirty years has been our most eloquent and respected advocate for uncensored expression, recounts some of the major ...

The Oxford companion to wine

Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its ...

Juicing the orange

how to turn creativity into a powerful business advantage

Too many companies think creativity means throwing money into marketing efforts and giving lip service to "out of the box" thinking. But, such efforts rarely have a positive impact on the bottom line. Pat Fallon and Fred Senn argue that leaders have more creativity within ...

The Ladder of Jacob

ancient interpretations of the bibliocal story of Jacob and his children

The biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi ...

Industrial organization and the digital economy

This book looks at theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries. Digital technology has dramatically changed the structure of many industrial sectors. The rise of the ...

Seafarers, merchants and pirates in the Middle Ages

The first sailors braved the North Sea and the Baltic in open wooden boats: their aims were varied - to fish, to trade, to conquer and plunder. Without maps or compasses, they steered by the sun or by sightings of the shore. Nevertheless, they discovered Iceland ...

Long memory in economics

When applying the statistical theory of long range dependent (LRD) processes to economics, the strong complexity of macroeconomic and financial variables, compared to standard LRD processes, becomes apparent. In order to get a better understanding of the behaviour of some economic variables, the book assembles ...

Return on learning

training for high performance at Accenture

Story of how Accenture, one of the world's most widely known companies, revolutionized its internal corporate training operation"--Provided by publisher.

Reference and information services in the 21st century

an introduction

Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century is the most current introduction to reference work available. Part One covers the essentials # selecting and evaluating material, interviewing enquirers, instructing users, and assessing services. The authors effectively synthesize the growing need for electronic resources with the ...

The ultimate foundation of economic Science

an essay on method

Written toward the end of Mises's life, his last monograph, "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science", returned to science, economics as a science based on human action. Mises believed that, since the publication of "Human Action", economists and scientists alike had misinterpreted the idea ...

Commentary on the Law of prize and booty

The history of "Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty" is complex. When Grotius's personal papers were auctioned in The Hague in 1864, Dutch scholars discovered that his famous "Mare Liberum" was just one chapter in a manuscript of 163 folios, written in ...

National and regional parliaments in the european constitutional order

How does the Parliament of the United Kingdom hold ministers to account for their European policies? How does the EU principle of subsidiarity affect the relation between Westminster and the Scottish Parliament? How does Belgium accomodate its powerful regional assemblies into the European role of ...

The rationalists

Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz

Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz stand out among their seventeenth- century contemporaries as the great rationalist philosophers.Each sought to construct a philosophical system in which theological and philosophical foundations serve to explain the physical, mental and moral universe. Though a careful analysis of their work ...

Classics and the uses of reception

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics. Emphasizes theoretical aspects ...

Confronting Iran

the failure of american foreign policy and the roots of mistrust

The Islamic Republic of Iran´s ongoing nuclear programme has provoked a major and menacing crisis in its relations with the US and the other Western powers. Ali Ansari, a briton of iranian origin, argues that the crisis is a symptom of broader, long-term fissures ...

Biographical dictionary of American economists

"The Biographical Dictionary of American Economists" will contain over 600 entries by more than 100 authors. The Dictionary covers American and Canadian economists and writers/thinkers with views on economics from the pre-Revolutionary period to the 1950s. There are major entries on figures as diverse ...

The marketing code

This is a high suspense novel that reveals the secrets of 21st century marketing. Inspired by Dan Brown's mega-selling "The Da Vinci Code", this book is a Grail Quest for those from the world of business. This is highly original and entertaining; and will ...