State and Economy in Ancient Egypt
State and Economy in Ancient Egypt

Author: David Warburton

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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Combining philological investigation and theoretical reasoning, this book offers a completely new interpretation of the economic role of the state in ancient Egypt. The first part provides background outlining the relevance of Keynes General Theory to the ancient Egyptian economy. The central part uses ancient Egyptian texts as the foundation of an analysis of words commonly assumed to relate to taxation during the New Kingdom (c. 15401070 B.C.E.). The conclusions summarize the philological results and explore the role of the temples in the ancient Egyptian state during the New Kingdom. The result places ancient Egyptian taxation and state economic activity in a market context, opening a new path to the understanding of the ancient Egyptian economy based on an analysis of primary sources.

Machines as the Measure of Men
Machines as the Measure of Men

Author: Michael Adas

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780801497605

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This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.

Taking Power
Taking Power

Author: John Foran

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-17

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781139445184

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Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a theory that seeks to integrate the political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency. It attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico 1910, China 1949, Cuba 1959, Iran 1979, and Nicaragua 1979, the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the failed revolutionary attempts in El Salvador, Peru, and elsewhere. It closes with speculation about the future of revolutions in an age of globalization, with special attention to Chiapas, the post-September 11 world, and the global justice movement.

Accountability through Public Opinion
Accountability through Public Opinion

Author: Sina Odugbemi

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 0821385569

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This books analyses the role of public opinion for generating genuine citizen demand for accountability, providing case studies from around the world to illustrate how public opinion forces governments to be accountable.

Fundamentals of Oral Histology and Physiology
Fundamentals of Oral Histology and Physiology

Author: Arthur R. Hand

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1118342917

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Fundamentals of Oral Histology and Physiology is a landmark new text streamlining the essentials of histology and physiology into one clinically accessible textbook. Written for predoctoral dental students, the book brings together structure, function, and clinical correlations for maximum retention and ease of use. Assuming a background in basic biologic sciences, this text focuses on the histology and physiology that students need to know to practice dentistry and to understand and evaluate the current literature, without repeating basic information learned in other courses. Fundamentals of Oral Histology and Physiology concentrates on Oral Structures and Features, including Development, Teeth, Tooth and Jaw Support, Mucosal Structure and Function, and Effectors.

Global Price Fixing
Global Price Fixing

Author: John M. Connor

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1461302935

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Some books get written, others write themselves. This book is the latter type. I have devoted myselfto studying the economic organization of industries related to food and agriculture for almost twenty-five years. It has been my good fortune to work at places that tolerated my gadfly approach to research. So long as I produced a few publications each year and wooed a few graduate students to share those interests, I was free to pursue an array of topics: why firms diversifY, the competitive role of advertising, strategies for selling in overseas markets, measuring market power, and many others. Although firmly anchored in the eclectic analytical framework of industrial economics and focused on the food system, I traversed a wide field at will. Some years ago, I had pretty much convinced myself that naked price fixing was not a high priority for scholarship in these industries. True, collusion was rife in a few food industries, such as bid-rigging among suppliers of fluid milk to school districts in isolated rural districts. Ripping off milk money from school children is reprehensible enough, but the size of the economic losses from localized price fixing paled besides other sources of imperfect competition.

Campus Design
Campus Design

Author: Richard P. Dober

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Utilizing case studies which cover all types of universities and institutions of higher learning throughout the world, this planning and design study illustrates how to create a university setting which is functional, attractive and accessible