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André Thevet's North America

A Sixteenth-Century View

By: Roger Schlesinger,Arthur Stabler

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André Thevet's North America

A Sixteenth-Century View

By: Roger Schlesinger,Arthur Stabler

André Thevet was one of the most widely travelled Frenchmen of the sixteenth century, visiting almost all the main countries and regions of western Europe, the Near East, and Brazil. He served four consecutive French kings, beginning with Henry II, as Royal Cosmographer and "garde des singularitez." As cosmographer, he wrote three major books dealing with the discovery and subsequent exploration of the New World: Les Singularitez de la France antarctique (1556), La Cosmographie universelle (1575), and the Grand Insulaire (unpublished, 1586). Although the portions of these works devoted to South America have received considerable attention from scholars, Thevet's work on North America has remained inaccessible to students of the Age of Discovery. Professors Schlesinger and Stabler have now added Thevet to the list of enjoyable books by early European explorers of North America.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773561293

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9780773561298

Taming the Megabanks

Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

By: Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr

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Taming the Megabanks

Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

By: Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr

Banks were allowed to enter securities markets and become universal banks during two periods in the past century - the 1920s and the late 1990s. Both times, universal banks made high-risk loans and packaged them into securities that were sold as safe investments to poorly-informed investors. Both times, universal banks promoted unsustainable booms that led to destructive busts - the Great Depression of the early 1930s and the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-09. Both times, governments were forced to arrange costly bailouts of universal banks. Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The Act broke up universal banks and established a decentralized financial system composed of three separate and independent sectors: banking, securities, and insurance. That system was stable and successful for over four decades until the big-bank lobby persuaded regulators to open loopholes in Glass-Steagall during the 1980s and convinced Congress to repeal it in 1999. Congress did not adopt a new Glass-Steagall Act after the Global Financial Crisis. Instead, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act. Dodd-Frank's highly technical reforms tried to make banks safer but left in place a dangerous financial system dominated by universal banks. Universal banks continue to pose unacceptable risks to financial stability and economic and social welfare. They exert far too much influence over our political and regulatory systems because of their immense size and their undeniable "too-big-to-fail" status. In Taming the Megabanks, Arthur Wilmarth argues that we must again separate banks from securities markets to avoid another devastating financial crisis and ensure that our financial system serves Main Street business firms and consumers instead of Wall Street bankers and speculators. Wilmarth's comprehensive and detailed analysis demonstrates that a new Glass-Steagall Act would make our financial system much more stable and less likely to produce boom-and-bust cycles. Giant universal banks would no longer dominate our financial system or receive enormous subsidies. A more decentralized and competitive financial system would encourage banks and securities firms to fulfill their proper roles as servants - not masters - of Main Street businesses and consumers.

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256

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Oxford University Press

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0190260726

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9780190260729

The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey

Essays in Honour of the Ninetieth Birthday of C.A. Ralegh Radford

By: Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford

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The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey

Essays in Honour of the Ninetieth Birthday of C.A. Ralegh Radford

By: Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford

Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0851152848

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9780851152844

Wilson, Volume III

The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914-1915

By: Arthur S. Link

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Wilson, Volume III

The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914-1915

By: Arthur S. Link

Critics have called the two prior volumes in this life of Woodrow Wilson "a model of political biography" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.), and “a capital piece of work, critical and judicious” (Henry Steele Commager). In this third volume Arthur Link covers the period between the immediate background of World War I and the not, to Great Britain of October 21, 1915, marking the end of Wilson's fight to lay solid foundations for American neutrality. Volume 3 also adds new material on American involvement in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Far East. A less stern picture of Wilson emerges-the picture of man struggling patiently and cautiously to avoid entanglement in the European war, work out a reasonable adjustment to British sea power, and meet the German challenge of submarine warfare in a mod rate restrained manner. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400875838

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9781400875832

The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance

By: Arthur Versluis

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The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance

By: Arthur Versluis

The term "Western esotericism" refers to a wide range of spiritual currents including alchemy, Hermeticism, Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, and Christian theosophy, as well as several practical forms of esotericism like cartomancy, geomancy, necromancy, alchemy, astrology, herbalism, and magic. The early presence of esotericism in North America has not been much studied, and even less so the indebtedness to esotericism of some major American literary figures. In this book, Arthur Versluis breaks new ground, showing that many writers of the so-called American Renaissance drew extensively on and were inspired by Western esoteric currents.

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Oxford University Press

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0190286024

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9780190286026

The Sentient Cell

The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness

By: Arthur S. Reber,Frantisek Baluska,William Miller

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The Sentient Cell

The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness

By: Arthur S. Reber,Frantisek Baluska,William Miller

All species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an existential consciousness. Without sentience, the first cells that emerged some 4 billion years ago would have been evolutionary dead-ends, unable to survive in the chaotic, dangerous environment in which life first appeared and evolved. In this book, Arthur Reber's theory, the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC), is outlined and distinguished from those models that argue that minds could be instantiated on artificial entities and those that maintain consciousness requires a nervous system. The CBC framework takes a novel approach to classic topics such as the origin-of-life, philosophy of mind, the role of genes, the impact of cognition, and how biological information is processed by all species. It also calls for a rethinking of a variety of issues including the moral implications of the sentient capacities of all species, how welfare concerns need to be expanded beyond where they currently are, and critically, how all life is intertwined in a coordinated cognitive ecology. The Sentient Cell explores this revolutionary model, which updates the standard neo-Darwinian framework within which current approaches operate and examines the underlying biomolecular features that are the likely candidates for the "invention" of consciousness and outline their role in cellular life.

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Oxford University Press

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0198873212

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9780198873211

German Canadians

Community Formation, Transformation and Contribution to Canadian Life

By: Arthur Grenke

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German Canadians

Community Formation, Transformation and Contribution to Canadian Life

By: Arthur Grenke

In German Canadians: Community Formation, Transformation and Contribution to Canadian Life, Grenke explores important themes in the German Canadian experience, including immigration, social life, the war experiences, intermarriage, political participation and the German contribution to Canadian life. Focusing on language maintenance and transition, the study explores their effect on the formation and decline of different German Canadian communities as they emerged and dissolved. While the reader may, or may not, agree with some of the conclusions reached, the work should, nevertheless, stimulate reflection and discussion.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490772022

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9781490772028

F. D. Maurice and the Conflicts of Modern Theology

By: Arthur Michael Ramsey

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F. D. Maurice and the Conflicts of Modern Theology

By: Arthur Michael Ramsey

This volume, originally published in 1951, contains seven lectures delivered in honour of Christian theologian F. D. Maurice (1805-72).

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Cambridge University Press

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1107668913

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The Politics of Upheaval

1935-1936, the Age of Roosevelt, Volume III

By: Arthur Meier Schlesinger

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The Politics of Upheaval

1935-1936, the Age of Roosevelt, Volume III

By: Arthur Meier Schlesinger

The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR's critics to denounce "that man in the White house." To his left were demagogues -- Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order -- ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 -- a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618340874

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9780618340873

The Economy As An Evolving Complex System II

By: W. Brian Arthur

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The Economy As An Evolving Complex System II

By: W. Brian Arthur

A new view of the economy as an evolving, complex system has been pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute over the last ten years, This volume is a collection of articles that shape and define this view?a view of the economy as emerging from the interactions of individual agents whose behavior constantly evolves, whose strategies and actions are always adapting.The traditional framework in economics portrays activity within an equilibrium steady state. The interacting agents in the economy are typically homogenous, solve well-defined problems using perfect rationality, and act within given legal and social structures. The complexity approach, by contrast, sees economic activity as continually changing?continually in process. The interacting agents are typically heterogeneous, they must cognitively interpret the problems they face, and together they create the structures?markets, legal and social institutions, price patters, expectations?to which they individually react. Such structures may never settle down. Agents may forever adapt and explore and evolve their behaviors within structures that continually emerge and change and disappear?structures these behaviors co-create. This complexity approach does not replace the equilibrium one?it complements it.The papers here collected originated at a recent conference at the Santa Fe Institute, which was called to follow up the well-known 1987 SFI conference organized by Philip Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, and David Pines. They survey the new study of complexity and the economy. They apply this approach to real economic problems and they show the extent to which the initial vision of the 1987 conference has come to fruition.

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CRC Press

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0429965184

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9780429965180

Theology for a Scientific Age

Being and Becoming--natural, Divine, and Human

By: Arthur Robert Peacocke

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Theology for a Scientific Age

Being and Becoming--natural, Divine, and Human

By: Arthur Robert Peacocke

This second, expanded edition of Arthur Peacocke's seminal work now includes the author's Gifford Lectures, as well as a new part three, in which he deals roundly with the central corpus of Christian belief for a scientific age. "Distinctively theological commitments are being rethought in light of scientific apprehensions of nature".--Ted Peters, Zygon.

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452

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Fortress Press

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1451403933

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9781451403930

Technical Growth and Social Change

By: Stanley Arthur Hetzler

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Technical Growth and Social Change

By: Stanley Arthur Hetzler

This is Volume XVI of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1969, this study looks achieving modernization via technological development and aims at the stimulation of theoretical inquiry to provide some insight as to how new hypotheses may be arrived at through a multidisciplinary approach.

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Routledge

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1136255680

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9781136255687

Book's by Arthur Stabler

André Thevet's North America

André Thevet's North America

Taming the Megabanks

Taming the Megabanks

The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey

The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey

Wilson, Volume III

Wilson, Volume III

The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance

The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance

The Sentient Cell

The Sentient Cell

German Canadians

German Canadians

F. D. Maurice and the Conflicts of Modern Theology

F. D. Maurice and the Conflicts of Modern Theology

The Politics of Upheaval

The Politics of Upheaval

The Economy As An Evolving Complex System II

The Economy As An Evolving Complex System II

Theology for a Scientific Age

Theology for a Scientific Age

Technical Growth and Social Change

Technical Growth and Social Change

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