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A thorough analysis of insider trading requires the integration of law and finance, and this book presents a theoretical and empirical examination of insider trading by incorporating a synthesis of securities law with that of financial theory. The book begins with a conceptual framework that explores the theoretical roles of markets, firms and publicly held corporations, including a discussion of corporate governance to determine both who may ...

Highlighting the importance to ecological studies of incorporating humans and their effects on ecosystems, leading experts from a variety of disciplines address a number of important issues, including:* the prominent role of humans in the function of ecosystems on Earth* why humans have been ignored in ecological studies* approaches taken by social scientists, historians, geographers, economists, and anthropologists in the study of human activ...

Translation of: 52 ways to protect yourself from cancer.

An exciting, educational, lift-the-flap adventure designed to involve children in a quest while they learn about Jesus. From His birth in Bethlehem to His Crucifixion to His Resurrection into Heaven, Mike and Molly witness all the important events in the life of Jesus. Full color.

Former Los Angeles Ram Rosey Grier now writes a novel that probes the gritty reality of urban street life--a story that shows how one person can really make a difference. Brett Holiday, an aging football star, discovers that there is more to life than sports, when he meets an orphan whose search for love collides with Brett's search for meaning.

Now truth-seekers can receive instant guidance from Jesus in His own words whenever they face any one of the more than 300 human/spiritual challenges Londos has arranged alphabetically in this helpful book.

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With "Nineteenth-Century Shipbuilding on Long Island" as its subtitle, this illustrated history of shipbuilding villages peripheral to the giant shipyards on the Brooklyn and Manhattan waterfronts is also a history of last-century entrepreneurs in an industry that peaked in mid-century and then declined to disappearance by the 1920s.

The essays which Bentham collected together for publication in 1830 under the title of Official Aptitude Maximized, Expense Minimized, written at various times between 1810 and 1830, deal with the means of achieving efficient and economical government. In considering a wide range of themes in the fields of constitutional law, public finance, and legal reform, Bentham places the problem of official corruption at the centre of his analysis. He c...

At the end of the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham devised a scheme for a prison that he called the panopticon. For twenty years he tried to build it, in the end he failed, but the story of his attempt offers fascinating insights into both Bentham's complex character and the ideas of the period. Basing her analysis on hitherto unexamined manuscripts, Janet Semple chronicles Bentham's dealings with the politicians as he tried to put his plan ...

This work presents a scholarly commentary and critique of Hugo Grotius' De Jure Belli ac Pacis. It shows that, far from being a bookish theoretician indulging in the construction of an abstract system, Grotius ultimately aimed to create a practically oriented treatise focusing on "regulating and restraining war." It also re-examines the historiography of international law with its anachronistic Eurocentric bias.

This book explores central aspects of a key period in Latin literature. The study is unusual in embracing both poetry and prose, and in offering close literary discussion of a large number of particular passages. It is not a history, but a selective and comparative study--throwing fresh light on the period as a whole, on individual authors, and on differences and affinities between genres. Most space is given to epic and tragedy, and to the pr...

A Store of Common Sense is the first comparative study in English of Old Icelandic and Old English wisdom poetry. It examines problems of form, unity, and coherence, and how the genre responds to social change, both reflecting and shaping the thinking of the communities which originated it. Larrington's book explores the possibility of Christian influence on Norse texts and demonstrates the impact of Christian learning on the ancient pagan gen...

In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism, Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to humanize. In Art and Embodiment he develops this theme in much greater depth, arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generalityand completeness, and the concreteness and contingency of humanity's basic relation to the world. As the key element in his theory, he proposes an ecologi...

Jerome (c. 345-420) was one of the greatest biblical scholars of antiquity. Among his achievements was his Latin translation of the Bible "according to the Hebrew, " or iuxta Hebraeos. In this study, Adam Kamesar considers the origin of this project through an analysis of the Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim, a commentary on the book of Genesis published at approximately the same time as the first installments of the translation. Providing a l...

This is the first scholarly history of the city of Wells in the Middle Ages. David Gary Shaw makes full use of the rich archives of Wells to trace its growth from a rural manor into the prosperous borough it became by the late twelfth century. Dr Shaw examines the variety of trades which flourished in Wells - including tanning, glove-making, and cloth-manufacture - and analyses the composition of the burgess community. He also explores the imp...

With the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China began a program of agricultural reform intended to increase productivity. This detailed study examines what the author sees as the major changes which moved the sector from a centrally planned to a more market-oriented system--replacement of collective teams with household farming, an increase of free markets for rural products, an increased state price for agricultural products, and greater ...

Until The New Press first published May It Please the Court in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Court since 1955 had been recorded. The original book-and-tape set was a revelation to readers and reviewers, quickly becoming a bestseller and garnering praise across the nation.May It Please the Court includes both live recordings and transcripts of oral arguments in twenty-three of the most significant cases argu...

A social history of Germany in the years following WWI, this book explores the devastating social and psychological consequences of Germany's defeat and subsequent demobilization offering insights into the sense of dislocation, both personal and national, experienced by Germany and Germans in the 1920s and its damaging legacy for German democracy.

The core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. As well as considering the distribution of resources, property rights and the saving of life and providing challenging and unconventional answers, Radowski develops an alternative account of tort and property law.