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Book Synopsis The Beggar and the Professor by : Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Download or read book The Beggar and the Professor written by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-04-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a wealth of vividly autobiographical writings--diaries, travel journals, memoirs--Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter, born in France in 1499, and his sons, whose rich careers spanned the entire 16th century, from medieval times through the Renaissance and into the Reformation. 26 halftones. 5 maps.
Book Synopsis Beggar Thy Neighbor by : Charles R. Geisst
Download or read book Beggar Thy Neighbor written by Charles R. Geisst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.
Book Synopsis The Beggar in Sri Lanka by : Nandasēna Ratnapāla
Download or read book The Beggar in Sri Lanka written by Nandasēna Ratnapāla and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Magnificent and Beggar Land by : Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Download or read book Magnificent and Beggar Land written by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil wars. The government, backed by a strategic alliance with China and working hand in glove with hundreds of thousands of expatriates, many from the former colonial power, Portugal, has pursued an ambitious agenda of state-led national reconstruction. This has resulted in double-digit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest economy and a state budget in excess of total western aid to the entire continent. Scarred by a history of slave trading, colonial plunder and war, Angolans now aspire to the building of a decent society. How has the regime, led by President Jos? Eduardo dos Santos since 1979, dealt with these challenges, and can it deliver on popular expectations? Soares de Oliveira's book charts the remarkable course the country has taken in recent years.
Book Synopsis The Professor's House by : Willa Cather
Download or read book The Professor's House written by Willa Cather and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bittersweet tale about a professor's desire to stay in his old study and cling to what used to be on the eve of moving into a new house sparks deep introspection in a story that explores a mid-life crisis and family life in a 1920s Midwestern college town.
Book Synopsis The Professor's House by : Willa Cather
Download or read book The Professor's House written by Willa Cather and published by Macmillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1925 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.
Book Synopsis The Professor's House by : Willa Cather
Download or read book The Professor's House written by Willa Cather and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Book Synopsis The Professor's Experiment by : Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Download or read book The Professor's Experiment written by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Professor's Experiment by : Duchess
Download or read book The Professor's Experiment written by Duchess and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book String of Pearls written by Sheela Banu and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book entitled String of Pearls comprises twelve short stories. Every story in this collection probes into the myriad complexities of human life. The stories reveal Ms. Banu’s profound insight, keen vision, and broad perception about the variegated aspects of human life. However, her wistful dream for a symphony and harmony in the human life journey runs as an undertone in all her stories. The delicacy of her creative imagination, subtle characterization, vivid plotlines, subdued humour and pathos impart an endearing and enduring touch to this collection. Besides, each story testifies to Ms. Banu’s knowledge about the rich melody and pulsating rhythm of everyday life experiences. The ideas expressed in this collection are marked by a healthy vision of human life. Therefore, it makes an endearing book for all age groups.
Book Synopsis The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc by :
Download or read book The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The works of professor Wilson, ed. by prof. Ferrier by : John Wilson
Download or read book The works of professor Wilson, ed. by prof. Ferrier written by John Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Literary Gazette by : William Jerdan
Download or read book The Literary Gazette written by William Jerdan and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proud Beggars written by Albert Cossery and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery’s proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute. The police investigator Nour El Dine, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the murder but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. How is it that they live amid degrading poverty, yet possess a joie de vivre that even the most assiduous forces of state cannot suppress? Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of contentment? And so this short novel, considered one of Cossery’s masterpieces, is at once biting social commentary, police procedural, and a mischievous delight in its own right.
Book Synopsis The Beggar's Benison by : David Stevenson
Download or read book The Beggar's Benison written by David Stevenson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two clubs, dedicated to proclaiming the joys of libertine sex, thrived in mid and late 18th-century Scotland. The Beggar's Benison (1732), starting from local roots in Fife, became large and sprawling, with branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow - and St Petersburg. As a toast "The Beggar's Benison" was drunk at aristocratic dinners in London as a coded reference to sex, and the Prince of Wales (later George IV) became a member. In Edinburgh, also, the Wig Club (1775) gave the elite of the Scottish Tory establishment a forum in which to dine, gamble and venerate a wig supposedly made of the pubic hairs of the mistresses of Charles II. Both clubs flourished in a great age of raucous clubs in which bawdy often played a prominent part, and both died as changes in sensibility made such behaviour seem gross and unacceptable. As the Victorian age approached, the clubs withered away under its disapproving glare. In this book, the author tells the story of these clubs, analyzes the obscene relics of their rituals which survive, and places the clubs in their social, cultural and political contexts. It is an extensively researched study, but at the same time recognizes the entertainment value of the many anecdotes concerning the clubs, the absurdities inherent in the antics of club rituals, and the appeal of the bawdy.
Book Synopsis John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004 by : Uwe Böker
Download or read book John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004 written by Uwe Böker and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Steele remarked that the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at, he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's The Beggar's Opera, with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public ever since. With N. Playfair's 1920 revival and B. Brecht's and K. Weill's 1928 Dreigroschenoper, Gay's play has been a starting-point for dramatists such as V. Havel (Zebrácká opera, 1975), W. Soyinka (Opera Wonyosi, 1977), Ch. Buarque (Ópera do Malandro, 1978), D. Fo (L'opera dello sghignazzo, 1981), A. Ayckbourn (A Chorus of Disapproval, 1984), as well as others such as Latouche, Hacks, Fassbinder, Dear, Wasserman, and Lepage. Apart from contributions by international scholars analysing the above-named plays, the editors' introduction covers other dramatists that have payed hommage to Gay. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is of particular interest for scholars working in the field of drama/theatre studies, the eighteenth century, contemporary drama, postcolonial studies, and politics and the stage.
