Author: James H. S. McGregor
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: ground, venice
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0674027523
ISBN-13: 9780674027527

Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from barbarian invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen, salt gatherers, and traders who settled there crafted an amphibious way of life unlike anything the Roman Empire had ever known. In an astonishing feat of narrative history, James H. S. McGregor recreates this world-turned-upside-down, with its waterways rather than roads, its boats tethered alongside dwellings, and its livelihood harvested from the sea. McGregor begins with the river currents that poured into the shallow Lago

Author: Professor Harold Jame
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: continental, european, model, falcks, haniels, capitalism, wendels, family
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0674021819
ISBN-13: 9780674021815

This history of three powerful family firms located in different European countries takes place over a period of more than two hundred years. The interplay and the changing social and legal arrangements of the families shaped the development of a European capitalism quite different from the Anglo-American variety. Qualifying claims by Alfred Chandler and David Landes that family firms tend to be dysfunctional, Harold James shows how and why these steel and engineering firms were successful over long periods of time. Indeed, he sees the family enterprise as particularly conducive to managing

Author: William M. Landes The Honorable Richard A. Posn
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: law, property, intellectual, structure, economic
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-11-28
List price: $54.50
ISBN-10: 0674012046
ISBN-13: 9780674012042

This book takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area of American law today, comprising the fields of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, publicity rights, and misappropriation. Topics range from copyright in private letters to defensive patenting of business methods, from moral rights in the visual arts to the banking of trademarks, from the impact of the court of patent appeals to the management of Mickey Mouse. The history and political science of intellectual property law, the challenge of digitization, the many statutes and judge-made doctrines, and the interplay with antitrust

Authors:Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhal,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: revolution, last, mao
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2006-08-18
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0674023323
ISBN-13: 9780674023321

The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any communist country, Mao unleashed the Red Guards against the party. Tens of thousands of officials were humiliated, tortured, and even killed. Order had to be restored by the military, whose methods were often equally brutal. In a maste

Author: Gordon J. Horwitz
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: city, nazi, making, lodz, ghettostadt
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-05-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 067402799X
ISBN-13: 9780674027992

Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of ?ód?. Home to prewar Poland’s second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment—a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of urban planning and the arts. Central to the undertaking, however, was a crime of unparalleled dimension: the ghettoization, exploitation, and ultimate annihilation of the city’s entire Jewish population. Ghettostadt is the terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto’s place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in i

Authors:Joan Houston Hall,  Frederic Gomes Cassidy,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: volume, introduction, english, regional, american, dictionary
Number of Pages: 903
Published: 1985-09-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0674205111
ISBN-13: 9780674205116

William Safire calls it "The most exciting linguistic project going on in the United States," and I’d have to agree. Dictionary of American Regional English is a corker (thing of remarkable quality or strength). There’s nothing cheesy (low-grade, cheap) or cold potato (dull, boring, or worthless) about it. It’s such couthy (amiable) reading that it’s hard to raise your conkhouse (lift your head) and agress (move forward and make progress).

Authors:Albert Hourani, Malise Ruthve,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: second, peoples, arab, history
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2003-04-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0674010175
ISBN-13: 9780674010178

Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani’s masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became both a bestseller and an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. Now this seminal book is available in an expanded second edition. Noted Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven brings the story up to date from the mid-1980s, including such events as the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in Sy