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The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

By: Alain Bresson

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The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

By: Alain Bresson

A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economy This comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent economic historiography to provide a detailed picture of the Greek economy between the last century of the Archaic Age and the closing of the Hellenistic period. Focusing on the city-state, which he sees as the most important economic institution in the Greek world, Bresson addresses all of the city-states rather than only Athens. An expanded and updated English edition of an acclaimed work originally published in French, the book offers a groundbreaking new theoretical framework for studying the economy of ancient Greece; presents a masterful survey and analysis of the most important economic institutions, resources, and other factors; and addresses some major historiographical debates. Among the many topics covered are climate, demography, transportation, agricultural production, market institutions, money and credit, taxes, exchange, long-distance trade, and economic growth. The result is an unparalleled demonstration that, unlike just a generation ago, it is possible today to study the ancient Greek economy as an economy and not merely as a secondary aspect of social or political history. This is essential reading for students, historians of antiquity, and economic historians of all periods.

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Princeton University Press

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The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

By: Alain Bresson

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Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

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Cinema

By: Alain Badiou

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Cinema

By: Alain Badiou

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence and human freedom. Through the experience of viewing, the movement of thought that constitutes the film is passed on to the viewer, who thereby encounters an aspect of the world and its exaltation and vitality as well as its difficulty and complexity. Cinema is an impure art cannibalizing its times, the other arts, and people – a major art precisely because it is the locus of the indiscernibility between art and non-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the social and political art par excellence, the best indicator of our civilization, in the way that Greek tragedy, the coming-of-age novel and the operetta were in their respective eras.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745670024

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Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style

By: Alain Briot

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Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style

By: Alain Briot

Alain Briot states that, "The personality of the photographer must be present in the image for an artistic photograph to have value." And in this book he sets out to teach the things that are essential in achieving this goal. Following his successful first book, Mastering Landscape Photography, Briot goes beyond the conventional rules of composition and takes on a fresh, new approach to teaching the art of photography. Based upon his personal experiences as an artist, teacher, and photographer, he opens new doors to the reader-doors leading to new ways of seeing and composing images. Briot approaches fine art photography as being a combination of art and technique. In this new book he addresses both of these by presenting artistic and technical information. On the artistic side, Briot introduces artistic concepts that have been rarely, if ever, associated with photography. On the technical side, he presents numerous tools that can help you learn how to create better photographs and provides technical solutions to common photographic problems. The author practices photography as a fine art. What matters most to him is how photography can be used to express feelings and emotions. For Briot, a good photograph must be both artistically inspired and technically excellent. To have just one of these two elements is not enough for a fine art photograph to be successful. Topics include: - How to compose with color, with black and white, and with light - Why you need to consider your audience while composing a photograph - Recreate the emotions you felt when you captured your photographs - How the elements of color-hue, contrast, and saturation-work in your images - How to control the elements that have a visual effect in your photographs - How to draw upon your personal way of seeing and then share your vision - How to diagnose image maladies and apply the proper remedies - How to define a color palette for a specific photograph - How to use compositional elements to develop a personal style Forweword by Tony Sweet

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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145710069X

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9781457100697

The Immobile Empire

By: Alain Peyrefitte

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The Immobile Empire

By: Alain Peyrefitte

In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see eye to eye, and the trade talks failed. The inability to develop a trade relation would have enormous consequences for future relations between China and the West. Peyrefitte’s vivid narrative of this fascinating encounter is based on extraordinary source materials from each side—including the charming and candid diary of Thomas Staunton, the son of one of Macartney’s aides. An example of history at its finest, The Immobile Empire recaptures the extraordinary experience of two great empires in collision, sizing each other up for the first time.

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Vintage

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0345803949

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The Way to the Labyrinth

Memories of East and West

By: Alain Daniélou

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The Way to the Labyrinth

Memories of East and West

By: Alain Daniélou

An authority on Hinduism and renowned for his directorship of the Institute of Comparative Music Studies in Berlin and Venice, Alain Daniélou is also an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian vînâ, painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler. To these attainments he has added The Way to the Labyrinth--as vivid, uninhibited, and wide-ranging a memoir as one is ever likely to encounter, now translated and published in English for the first time. Born of a haute-bourgeoise French family--his mother an ardent Catholic, his father an anticlerical leftwing politician, his older brother a cardinal--Daniélou spent a solitary childhood. Escaping from his family milieu, he went to Paris, where he fell in with avant-garde, bohemian, sexually liberated circles, among whose luminaries were Cocteau, Diaghilev, Max Jacob, and Maurice Sachs. But however fervently he plunged into various activities, he felt some other destiny awaited him. After a number of journeys, some of them highly adventurous, he found his real home in India. He spent twenty years there, fifteen of them in Benares on the banks of the Ganges. There he immersed himself in the study of Sanskrit, Hindu philosophy, music, and the art of the ancient temples of Northern India, and converted to the Hindu religion. But times changed, and soon after India gained its independence, he returned to live again in Europe and devoted much of his great energy to the encouragement of traditional musics from around the world.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210146

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9780811210140

French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alain Mérot

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French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alain Mérot

Recent studies and exhibitions, combined with the discovery of work by hitherto little-known artists have enabled Merot to take a fresh look at the period and to suggest a new configuration. The great names of the period - Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard - are located in relation to other developments. Merot includes discussion of the impact of contemporary literature and political, philosophical and social influences. The foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648, and the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments are considered with other issues of status, patronage and connoisseurship. The book provides a panorama of the period; the text is profusely illustrated in colour, and accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography.

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Yale University Press

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0300065507

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9780300065503

What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?

His Life and His Films

By: Alain Silver

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What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?

His Life and His Films

By: Alain Silver

There was something about Robert Aldrich's artistic temperament that enabled him to transcend the apparent vulgarity of so many of his motion picutres. Besides the great films, such as Kiss Me Deadly which is certainly one of the finest examples of film noir, are several little-seen or underrated later works such as the revisionist Western, Ulzana's Raid, the gangster love story, The Grissom Gang, or the grim cop picture, Hustle. Aldrich's career has long deserved the detailed evaluation which this book provides." - Andrew Sarris

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1617801658

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9781617801655

The Crommelynck Mystery

The Life and Work of a Belgian Playwright

By: Alain Piette,Bert Cardullo

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The Crommelynck Mystery

The Life and Work of a Belgian Playwright

By: Alain Piette,Bert Cardullo

In this book, the authors examine the works of Fernand Crommelynck (1886-1970), whose international reputation was established in 1922, when his most important and most popular play, The Magnanimous Cuckold, was presented in Moscow. Torn between the extremes of laughter and sorrow, frequently violent and visionary, Crommelynck's work is typically Flemish (though written in French), not least in its preoccupation with sin. Pain is always present in his plays, the pain felt by characters living in a world where happiness is destroyed by irrationalism, self-deception, and obsession. Crommelynck's plays humorously show us how human behavior can be dominated by extreme expressions of emotion or desire. The mixture of buffoonery and tragedy characteristic of his theater extends also to his prose style, which presents the most outrageous or gross situations in a language of beautifully sensuous imagery.

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Susquehanna University Press

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1575910039

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9781575910031

Infinite Thought

By: Alain Badiou

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Infinite Thought

By: Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou is already regarded as one of the mostoriginal and powerful voices in contemporaryEuropean thought. Infinite Thought brings together arepresentative selection of the range of AlainBadiou's work, illustrating the power and diversity ofhis thought.

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A&C Black

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0826479294

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9780826479297

The Best of Los Angeles & Southern California

By: Alain Gayot

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The Best of Los Angeles & Southern California

By: Alain Gayot

Visitors love L.A. for the same reasons its residents do -- fabulous year-round weather, gleaming beaches, and a staggering choice of entertainment and cultural activities. Then, of course, there's the thrill of Hollywood -- the glitz and glamour that make Los Angeles an international phenomenon. With more than 2,000 reviews of restaurants, hotels, resorts, shopping, nightlife, and recreation, The Best of Los Angeles covers it all, from Ensenada, Mexico, all the way north to Hearst Castle.

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Gayot

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1881066509

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9781881066507

The Age of Rock

By: Alain Dister

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The Age of Rock

By: Alain Dister

The author paints a vivid portrait of the development of rock and roll--from its roots in gospel and blues to the present--against a constantly changing backdrop of political and social turmoil. Includes discography, filmography, and 231 illustrations, 188 in full color.

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ABRAMS

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0810928310

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9780810928312

The Best of Los Angeles and Southern California

By: Alain Gayot

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The Best of Los Angeles and Southern California

By: Alain Gayot

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Gayot

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1881066347

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Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese

By: Chrysanthi Gallou,Stephen Hodkinson

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Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese

By: Chrysanthi Gallou,Stephen Hodkinson

A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, reverse the stereotype and explore the role of luxury and wealth at Sparta and among its Peloponnesian neighbors from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period. Using literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence, an international team of specialists investigates the definition and changing meanings of the term luxury and its nearest ancient Greek equivalents, providing new insights into Sparta's supposed abstention from luxury, and the way that this was portrayed by ancient writers. They analyse wealth production and private and public spending, emphasising features that were distinctive to Sparta and the Peloponnese compared with other parts of ancient Greece. Other chapters investigate issues still familiar in the contemporary world: economic crisis and debt, austerity measures, and relief provisions for the poor.

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Classical Press of Wales

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1910589845

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9781910589847

Letters to a Teacher

By: Sam Pickering

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Letters to a Teacher

By: Sam Pickering

Ten essays on literature, competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth from the teacher who inspired "The Dead Poet's Society" reveal the joys of teaching and the power of innovation over stale formalism.

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Grove Press

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0802142273

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9780802142276

Alain Thomas

inédits

By: Alain Thomas,Vincent Gautier

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Alain Thomas

inédits

By: Alain Thomas,Vincent Gautier

Comme dans un kaléidoscope que le temps s'évertue à faire tourner, Alain Thomas restitue au monde les faces cachées de contrées imaginaires. Refuge de l'arc-en-ciel, berceau de la vie, intuitions prophétiques, les oeuvres inédites d'Alain Thomas viennent renforcer sa singularité artistique pour le hisser définitivement sur un sommet à part. Un sommet où l'imaginaire n'a jamais été aussi réel." P. [4] of cover

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Coiffard Editions

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2919339001

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The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

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The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

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Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style

Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style

The Immobile Empire

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The Way to the Labyrinth

The Way to the Labyrinth

French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?

What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?

The Crommelynck Mystery

The Crommelynck Mystery

Infinite Thought

Infinite Thought

The Best of Los Angeles & Southern California

The Best of Los Angeles & Southern California

The Age of Rock

The Age of Rock

The Best of Los Angeles and Southern California

The Best of Los Angeles and Southern California

Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese

Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese

Letters to a Teacher

Letters to a Teacher

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