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The Reckoning

Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

By: Jacob Soll

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The Reckoning

Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

By: Jacob Soll

An award-winning historian presents a wide-ranging history of accounting, discussing how basic auditing and double-entry bookkeeping have shaped kingdoms and empires as well as how misuse of this system caused the 1929 Crash and the 2008 financial crisis. 30,000 first printing.

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Basic Books (AZ)

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0465031528

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Free Market

The History of an Idea

By: Jacob Soll

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Free Market

The History of an Idea

By: Jacob Soll

From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market thought. Contrary to popular narratives, early market theorists believed that states had an important role in building and maintaining free markets. But in the eighteenth century, thinkers insisted on free markets without state intervention, leading to a tradition of ideological brittleness. That tradition only calcified in the centuries that followed. Tracing the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton Friedman, Soll argues that we need to go back to the origins of free market ideology in order to truly understand it—and to develop new economic concepts to face today’s challenges.

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1541620232

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9781541620230

The Information Master

Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

By: Jacob Soll

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The Information Master

Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

By: Jacob Soll

Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager." ---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge "Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning attention to detail Colbert used knowledge in the service of enhancing royal power. Jacob Soll's scholarship is impeccable and his story long overdue and compelling." ---Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles "Nowadays we all know that information is the key to power, and that the masters of information rule the world. Jacob Soll teaches us that Jean-Baptiste Colbert had grasped this principle three and a half centuries ago, and used it to construct a new kind of state. This imaginative, erudite, and powerfully written book re-creates the history of libraries and archives in early modern Europe, and ties them in a novel and convincing way to the new statecraft of Europe's absolute monarchs." ---Anthony Grafton, Princeton University "Brilliantly researched, superbly told, and timely, Soll's story is crucial for the history of the modern state." ---Keith Baker, Stanford University When Louis XIV asked his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert---the man who was to oversee the building of Versailles and the Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as the navy, the Paris police force, and French industry---to build a large-scale administrative government, Colbert created an unprecedented information system for political power. In The Information Master, Jacob Soll shows how the legacy of Colbert's encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state and was a precursor to industrial intelligence and Internet search engines. Soll's innovative look at Colbert's rise to power argues that his practice of collecting knowledge originated from techniques of church scholarship and from Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship, finance, and library science. With his connection of interdisciplinary approaches---regarding accounting, state administration, archives, libraries, merchant techniques, ecclesiastical culture, policing, and humanist pedagogy---Soll has written an innovative book that will redefine not only the history of the reign of Louis XIV and information science but also the study of political and economic history. Jacket illustration: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), Philippe de Champaigne, 1655, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Wildenstein Foundation, Inc., 1951 (51.34). Photograph © 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472034642

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9780472034642

Musica mechanica organoedi / Musical mechanics for the organist, Part 2

By: Jacob Adlung,Quentin Faulkner

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Musica mechanica organoedi / Musical mechanics for the organist, Part 2

By: Jacob Adlung,Quentin Faulkner

Part I includes all of "Volume One" of the original edition, except the Stoplists from Chapter 10. Part 2 of this edition includes all of "Volume 2" of the original; Part 3 includes all the Stoplists printed in the original Mmo [Musica mechanica organoedi] and all the stoplists cited from other sources but not originally included, plus bibliography, index, etc."--Back cover

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Lulu.com

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1609620143

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9781609620141

Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax

With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic

By: Jacob Wackernagel

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Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax

With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic

By: Jacob Wackernagel

This book is an English version of two series of highly acclaimed introductory lectures given by the great Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob Wackernagel (1853-1938) at the University of Basle in 1918-19 on aspects of Greek, Latin, and German as languages. Out of print in German since 1996, these lectures remain the best available introduction, in any language, not only to Greek, Latin, and comparative syntax but also to many topics in the history and pre-history ofGreek and Latin, and their relations with other languages. Other subjects, such as the history of grammatical terminology, are also brilliantly dealt with. This new edition supplements the German original by providing a translation of all quotations and examples, a large number of detailed footnotesoffering background information and suggestions for further reading, and a single bibliography which brings together Wackernagel's references and those added in the notes.

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Oxford University Press

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0198153023

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9780198153023

A New Latin-English School-Lexico on the basic of the Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. C. F. Ingerslev

By: George Richard Crooks,Alexander Jacob Schem

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A New Latin-English School-Lexico on the basic of the Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. C. F. Ingerslev

By: George Richard Crooks,Alexander Jacob Schem

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752520272

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9783752520279

Publishing The Prince

History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

By: Jacob Soll

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Publishing The Prince

History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

By: Jacob Soll

As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century version of Machiavelli's masterpiece. In the process of translating, Amelot also transformed the work, altering its form and meaning, and his ideas spread through later editions. Revising the orthodox schema of the public sphere in which political authority shifted away from the crown with the rise of bourgeois civil society in the eighteenth century, Soll uses the example of Amelot to show for the first time how the public sphere in fact grew out of the learned and even royal libraries of erudite scholars and the bookshops of subversive, not-so-polite publicists of the republic of letters. Jacob Soll is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Cover art courtesy of Annenberg Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania Jacket Design: Stephanie Milanowski "Jacob Soll traces the origins of Enlightenment criticism to the practices of learned humanists and hard-pressed literary entrepreneurs. This learned and lively book is also a tour de force of historical research and interpretation." ---Anthony Grafton, author of Cardano's Cosmos and Bring Out Your Dead "Brilliant. How the printed page changed political philosophy into investigative reporting, and reason of state into the unmasking of power." ---J. G. A. Pocock, author of The Machiavellian Moment "Soll's path-breaking study is a 'must read' for all those interested in the history of political thought and early modern intellectual history." ---Barbara Shapiro, University of California Berkeley "Soll has done [Amelot] and his context justice, writing as he does with a clear, singular, and welcome voice." ---Margaret C. Jacobs, American Historical Review

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University of Michigan Press

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0472025287

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9780472025282

Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen

A Dual-Language Book

By: Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

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Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen

A Dual-Language Book

By: Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

Treasury of 27 world-famous tales, among them "Hänsel and Gretel," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Riding Hood," as well as less familiar tales such as "The Danced-Out Shoes," "The Golden Bird," and "The Six Swans.

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Courier Corporation

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0486119548

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9780486119540

Delphi Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm (Illustrated)

By: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm,Wilhelm Carl Grimm

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Delphi Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm (Illustrated)

By: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm,Wilhelm Carl Grimm

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German academics, philologists and lexicographers, whose first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales has enjoyed enduring popularity, influencing the works of countless other writers, while changing the course of children’s literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fairy tales of The Brothers Grimm, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the Grimms’ life and works * Concise introductions to the main texts * All the fairy tales and legends, translated by Margaret Hunt * The first English translation of the fairy tales by Edgar Taylor, with the original illustrations by George Cruikshank — available in no other collection * Multiple translations of the tales, including texts by Marian Edwardes, Lucy Crane and the famous edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham * Five different translations in total * Also includes the original German text of the fairy tales (1857 edition) * Features Thomas Crofton Croker’s FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND, which the Brothers Grimm translated * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous tales are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Special alphabetical contents tables for the complete fairy tales * Easily locate the tales you want to read * Features a bonus biography - discover the authors’ intriguing life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Fairy Tales GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES EDGAR TAYLOR TRANSLATION, 1826 MARGARET HUNT TRANSLATION, 1884 LUCY CRANE TRANSLATION, 1886 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 1909 MARIAN EDWARDES REVISION, 1912 THE ORIGINAL GERMAN TEXT, 1857 LIST OF FAIRY TALES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Translation FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND by Thomas Crofton Croker The Biography THE BROTHERS GRIMM by Henry Sweet Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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1786560917

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The Theatre of Spontaneity

By: Jacob L. Moreno

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The Theatre of Spontaneity

By: Jacob L. Moreno

J. L. Moreno wrote books, chapters and articles about psychodrama. His writing, like the method he pioneered, is rich and complex. Many students, practitioners and participants around the world have encountered Moreno's work in action; however, fewer people may have had the opportunity to read and think about the 'words of the father' due to the limited availability of key texts. A desire to ensure Moreno's work is available to the widest possible audience inspired members of the North West Psychodrama Association to work together to re-publish the books in this series. We hope by doing so J. L. Moreno's words will continue to reverberate across time and space: inspiring new generations of practitioners to be as creative and spontaneous as is possible whilst managing the complexity of modern day practice.

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Lulu.com

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1445777134

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9781445777139

A Commentary on Hesiod

Works and Days, Vv. 1-382

By: Willem Jacob Verdenius

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A Commentary on Hesiod

Works and Days, Vv. 1-382

By: Willem Jacob Verdenius

This is a word-for-word commentary on the first part (vv. 1-382) of Hesiod's Works and Days. Special attention has been paid to peculiarities of grammar and idiom, but also to figures of style and the poet's train of thought. All interpretations - many of them which are new - are documented as fully, but at the same time as concisely, as possible. This documentation, which will prove useful for the interpretation of many other texts, has been made more easily accesible by detailed indexes. Discussion of other views plays a considerable part in the commentary and will help the reader avoid a great number of minor and major misunderstandings. The commentary has been confined to the first part of the poem because this seemed to be more in need of a thorough explanation than the rest. It is also the most interesting part in so far as it forms a kind of manual of social morality. The basis concepts of this doctrine are carefully defined in the commentary, and their historical implications are briefly indicated.

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BRILL

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9004074651

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9789004074651

Enzymes of Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Modification

Volume 2: RNA Enzymes

By: Samson T. Jacob

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Enzymes of Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Modification

Volume 2: RNA Enzymes

By: Samson T. Jacob

The First volume gives an overview of the enzymes involved in DNA synthesis and modification; the second volume deals with the RNA-enzymes. Although the major emphasis of the book is on eukaryotic enzymes, a separate chapter dealing with prokaryotic DNA repair enzymes has been included to discuss the major advances in this field in recent years. There are two separate chapters on RNA polymerases to provide a comprehensive coverage of the enzymes from lower eukaryotes, plants and higher eukaryotes.

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CRC Press

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1351088769

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Following the Man of Yamhad

Settlement and Territory at Old Babylonian Alalah

By: Jacob Lauinger

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Following the Man of Yamhad

Settlement and Territory at Old Babylonian Alalah

By: Jacob Lauinger

Legal texts recording the purchase or exchange of entire settlements are among the most important cuneiform tablets discovered at Old Babylonian/Middle Bronze Age (Level VII) Alalah. Following the Man of Yamhad is the first book-length study of these legal texts and the socio-economic practice that they document. The author explores the nature of the alienated settlements, the rights enjoyed by their owners, the underlying system of land tenure, and the larger political context in which the transactions occurred. The study is supported by extensive collations and up-to-date editions of relevant legal and administrative texts. Its conclusions will be of interest to anyone working on the history, society, and economy of the Bronze Age Near East.

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9004292896

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9789004292895

From Prejudice to Destruction

Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933

By: Jacob Katz

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From Prejudice to Destruction

Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933

By: Jacob Katz

Katz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, revising the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different.

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Harvard University Press

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0674325079

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9780674325074

How Power Works in Schools and Why It Matters for Maximizing Students’ Learning

By: Jacob W. Neumann

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How Power Works in Schools and Why It Matters for Maximizing Students’ Learning

By: Jacob W. Neumann

People typically misunderstand how power works in schools. Common thinking says that things like high-stakes testing, school reform efforts, and political mandates exert the most power on schools. The reality, however, is that power comes from everywhere. It isn’t a thing that only certain people possess, nor does it operate linearly, as in simple actions and reactions. Instead, power acts more like a web: if you exert power in one part of a school, the effects often spread across the rest of it. The usual emphasis on big, easy-to-see influences causes schools to focus on the wrong concerns (the big public ones) instead of the ones which make the most impact (the small daily ones). This book examines everyday phenomena inside schools to reveal the complexity and nuance of power and makes practical suggestions for how schools can manage power more effectively to maximize students’ learning.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475874138

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The Information Master

Musica mechanica organoedi / Musical mechanics for the organist, Part 2

Musica mechanica organoedi / Musical mechanics for the organist, Part 2

Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax

Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax

A New Latin-English School-Lexico on the basic of the Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. C. F. Ingerslev

A New Latin-English School-Lexico on the basic of the Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. C. F. Ingerslev

Publishing The Prince

Publishing The Prince

Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen

Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen

Delphi Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm (Illustrated)

The Theatre of Spontaneity

The Theatre of Spontaneity

A Commentary on Hesiod

A Commentary on Hesiod

Enzymes of Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Modification

Enzymes of Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Modification

Following the Man of Yamhad

Following the Man of Yamhad

From Prejudice to Destruction

From Prejudice to Destruction

How Power Works in Schools and Why It Matters for Maximizing Students’ Learning

How Power Works in Schools and Why It Matters for Maximizing Students’ Learning

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