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Calendars and Years : Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East
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ISBN: 1782974954 1782974938 Year: 2007 Publisher: Havertown : Oxbow Books,

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Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic simplifications of these phenomena, such as the 360-day year used in early Mesopotamian administrative practices in order to simplify accounting procedures. Historians frequently use handbooks and tables for conv

Language and the declining world in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun
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ISBN: 9780521872157 0521872154 9780511627446 9780521147712 9781107322080 1107322081 0511627440 9781107316690 1107316693 1107197740 9781107197749 1139810650 9781139810654 1107317657 9781107317659 1107318572 9781107318571 1299399762 9781299399761 1107315735 9781107315730 0521147719 Year: 2007 Volume: 63 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and described the progressive impairment of an originally perfect language. Biblical and classical sources raised questions for both medieval poets and commentators about the nature of language, its participation in the Fall, and its possible redemption. John M. Fyler focuses on how three major poets - Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun - participated in these debates about language. He offers fresh analyses of how the history of language is described and debated in the Divine Comedy, the Canterbury Tales and the Roman de la Rose. While Dante follows the Augustinian idea of the Fall and subsequent redemption of language, Jean de Meun and Chaucer are skeptical about the possibilities for linguistic redemption and resign themselves, at least half-comically, to the linguistic implications of the Fall and the declining world.

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Language and languages --- Langage et langues --- History --- Histoire --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Dante Alighieri, --- Jean, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Historical linguistics --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Dante Alighieri --- Alighieri, Dante --- Dante, Alighieri --- Alih'eri, Dante --- Chopinel, Jean, --- Clopinel, Jean, --- De Meun, Jean, --- Jean Chopinel de Meun, --- Jean Clopinel de Meun, --- Jean de Meun, --- Jehan, --- Meun, Jean de, --- Clopinel, J. --- Gen 1 (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis 1 (Book of the Old Testament) --- Alihii︠e︡ri, Dante, --- Alaghieri, Dante, --- Aldigeri, Dante, --- Aligeri, Dante, --- Allighieri, Dante, --- Aligerius, Dantes, --- Aligheri, Dante, --- Alighieri, Dante, --- Alleghieri, Dante, --- Durante Alighieri, --- Tan-ting, --- Danding, --- Dāntī Alījyīrī, --- Alīyīrī, Dāntī, --- Dante Alih'i︠e︡ri, --- Dante, --- Dant Aligīeri, --- Aligīeri, Dant, --- Dantte, --- Tantte, --- Dantis Alagherius, --- Danthe Alighieri, --- Alighieri, Danthe, --- Dante Alig'i︠e︡ri, --- Alig'i︠e︡ri, Dante, --- Ailígiéirí, Dainté, --- Dantė Aligjeris, --- Dānté ʼAligiyéri, --- Makākavi Tāntē, --- Tāntē Alikiyari, --- Alikiyari, Tāntē, --- אליגיירי דנטי --- אליגירי, דנטי --- דאנטי אליגיירי --- דאנטי אליגיירי, --- דאנט, --- דנטה אליגיירי, --- דנטה אליגירי, --- דנטי אליגיארי, --- דנטי אליגירי, --- دانتى ألغييري --- دانتي أليجيري،, --- ダンテ, --- Данте Аліґгіері, --- Historical linguistics. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

Edible sea urchins : biology and ecology
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ISBN: 1280708026 9786610708024 0080465587 0444529403 9780080465586 9780444529404 9781280708022 6610708029 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier,

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The book is designed to provide a broad understanding of the biology and ecology of sea urchins. Synthetic chapters consider biology of sea urchins as a whole to give a broad view. The topics of these chapters include reproduction, metabolism, endocrinology, larval ecology, growth, digestion, carotenoids, disease and nutrition. Subsequent chapters consider the ecology of individual species that are of major importance ecologically and economically. These include species from Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, North America, South America and Africa.* First comprehensive book devote

Global Price Fixing
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ISBN: 1280864508 9786610864508 3540342222 3540342176 3540786694 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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The book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. It provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. A deeper understanding of the phenomenon is afforded by intensive case studies of collusion in the markets for lysine, citric acid, and vitamins. Particular attention is given to the economic injuries sustained by the cartels' customers. The author assesses whether antitrust enforcement by the European Union, the United States, and other countries is capable of deterring cartels in the foreseeable future.

Paradoxes of political ethics : from dirty hands to the invisible hand
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ISBN: 9780511371097 0511371098 0511370091 9780511370090 1107181240 1281156159 9786611156152 0511370628 0511369077 0511487436 0511369573 052187355X 0521122929 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the heart of the problem of 'dirty hands' in public life. Those who exercise political power often feel they must act in ways that would otherwise be considered immoral: indeed, paradoxically, they sometimes feel that it would be immoral of them not to perform or condone such acts as killing or lying. John Parrish offers a wide-ranging account of how this important philosophical problem emerged and developed, tracing it - and its proposed solutions - from ancient Greece through the Enlightenment. His central argument is that many of our most familiar concepts and institutions - from Augustine's interiorised ethics, to Hobbes's sovereign state, to Adam Smith's 'invisible hand', understanding of the modern commercial economy - were designed partly as responses to the ethical problem of dirty hands in public life.


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Sublime obsesion [1935]
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Year: 2007 Publisher: [s.l.] : Univesal Studios,

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How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Technology and the Demand for Skill: An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Techniques in microbiology : a student handbook
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ISBN: 9780132240116 Year: 2007 Publisher: San Francisco Pearson

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Microbiologie

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