Author: Prof. Dr. Fernando Cabo AseguinolazaAnxo Abuín Go
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: comparative, literatures, history, languages, european, iberian, peninsula, volume
Number of Pages: 764
Published: 2010-05-26
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 9027234574
ISBN-13: 9789027234575

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even co

Authors:Prof Franco Taroni, Prof Silvia Bozza, Dr Alex Biede
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: perspective, statistics, practice, decision, bayesian, analysis, forensic, science, data
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2010-05-24
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0470998350
ISBN-13: 9780470998359

This is the first text to examine the use of statistical methods in forensic science and bayesian statistics in combination. The book is split into two parts: Part One concentrates on the philosophies of statistical inference. Chapter One examines the differences between the frequentist, the likelihood and the Bayesian perspectives, before Chapter Two explores the Bayesian decision-theoretic perspective further, and looks at the benefits it carries. Part Two then introduces the reader to the practical aspects involved: the application, interpretation, summary and presentation of

Authors:Jeffrey Spier, Prof. Herbert L Kessler, Prof. Steven
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: art, kimbell, museum, christian, bible, earliest, picturing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-12-13
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300116837
ISBN-13: 9780300116830

Picturing the Bible explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating “graven images”? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the story of how C

Authors:Jeffrey Spier, Prof. Herbert L Kessler, Prof. Steven
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: art, kimbell, museum, christian, bible, earliest, picturing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300149344
ISBN-13: 9780300149340

"Picturing the Bible" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating ’graven images’? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the sto

Authors:Prof. Jonathan M. Bloom, Prof. Sheila S. Blair, Jona
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: power, faith, years, thousand, islam
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0300094221
ISBN-13: 9780300094220

In its first thousand years - from the revelations given to Muhammad in the 7th century to the great Islamic empires of the 16th - Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo and Baghdad made remarkable advances in philosophy, science, medicine, literature and art. This work explores the first millennium of Islamic culture, seeking to shatter stereotypes and enlighten readers about the events and achievements that have shaped contemporary Islamic civilization. Jonathan Bloom and Sh

Author: Prof. R. Edward Freeman Prof. Jeffrey S. Harrison
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: ethics, corporate, institute, series, lead, roundtable, business, stakeholders, survival, reputation, success, managing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0300125283
ISBN-13: 9780300125283

Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success, the culmination of twenty years of research, interviews, and observations in the workplace, makes a major new contribution to management thinking and practice. Current ways of thinking about business and stakeholder management usually ask the Value Allocation Question: How should we distribute the burdens and benefits of corporate activities among stakeholders? Managing for Stakeholders, however, helps leaders develop a mindset that instead asks the Value Creation Question: How can we create as much value as possible for all of our

Author: Prof. Enrique Peruzzotti Prof. Catalina Smulovitz
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Keywords: latin, american, democracies, pitt, studies, new, rule, law, social, accountability, enforcing
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-04-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0822958961
ISBN-13: 9780822958963

Examines how elected officials in Latin American democracies have come under scrutiny from new forms of political control, and how these social accountability mechanisms have been successful in counteracting corruption and the limitations of established institutions. This volume reveals how legal claims, media interventions, civic organizations, citizen committees, electoral observation panels, and other watchdog groups have become effective tools for monitoring political authorities. Their actions have been instrumental in exposing government crime, bringing new issues to the public agenda, a