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Shapin Steven: Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: Examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump.

Fox Merritt B.: Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform. To date, most sophisticated theoretical work on corporate governance has focused on advanced market economies. In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have often done little more than convey the received theory to…

Gill Mary Louise: Aristotle on Substance

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organism — a composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matter — have the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation…

Shiller: Irrational Exuberance

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: This first edition of this book was a broad study, drawing on a wide range of published research and historical evidence, of the enormous stock market boom that started around 1982 and picked up incredible speed after 1995. Although it took as its specific starting point this ongoing boom, it placed it in the context of stock market booms generally, and it also made concrete suggestions regarding…

Ruttenburg Nancy: Dostoevsky's Democracy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Sentenced to death in 1849 for utopian socialist political activity, Dostoevsky, a Russian writer, was subjected to a mock execution and then exiled to Siberia for a decade, including four years in a forced labor camp, where he experienced a crisis of belief. This title offers a reinterpretation of the life and work of Dostoevsky.

Fried Michael: The Moment of Caravaggio

Скачать книгу (размер 1 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 301) Аннотация: This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A. W.…

Acemoglu: Introduction to Modern Economic Growth

Скачать книгу (размер 5 134 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1008) Аннотация: Introduction to Modern Economic Growth is a groundbreaking text from one of today's leading economists. Daron Acemoglu gives graduate students not only the tools to analyze growth and related macroeconomic problems, but also the broad perspective needed to apply those tools to the big-picture questions of growth and divergence. And he introduces the economic and mathematical foundations of modern…

Jeffrey S. Weiss: Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Between spring and winter 1909, Picasso executed more than sixty portraits of his companion, Fernande Olivier. These works — produced in a variety of formats and mediums — exhibit a range of artistic approaches dedicated to a single subject that stands out in the history of portraiture. Even more significant, this series of works coincided with the invention of Cubism. Published to accompany a…