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Piketty Thomas: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas…

Schaberg: A Patterned Past

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their…

Homer: The Iliad: Vol 1 (Loeb Classical Library)

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: «Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, the best of the Achaeans, over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result — a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces besieging Troy, for noble Trojans,…

Crews Robert D.: For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Russia occupies a unique position in the Muslim world. Unlike any other non-Islamic state, it has ruled Muslim populations for over 500 years. Though Russia today is plagued by its unrelenting war in Chechnya, Russia's approach toward Islam once yielded stability. In stark contrast to the popular 'clash of civilisations' theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Robert D. Crews…

Frost Laura: Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries? This book answers those questions by developing a comprehensive analytical framework for access and examining six case studies to explain why some health…

Joan H. Fujimura: Crafting Science: Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: During the late 1970s and 1980s, cancer underwent a remarkable transformation. In one short decade, what had long been a set of heterogeneous diseases marked by uncontrolled cell growth became a disease of our genes. How this happened and what it means is the story Joan Fujimura tells in an inside look at the way science works and knowledge is created. A study of a new species of scientific…