Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News
Elizabethan and early Stuart England saw the prevailing medium for transmitting military news shift from public ritual, through private letters, to public newspapers. Randall argues that the development of written news required new standards of credibility for the information to be believable. Whereas ritual news established credibility through public performance, letters circulated sociably between private gentlemen relied on the honour of the gentle author. With the rise of anonymous pamphlets and corantos (early newspapers) at the beginning of the seventeenth century, a still-existing standard of credibility developed which was based on individuals reading multiple, anonymous texts.
Macroeconomics: Private and Public Choice, 13 edition
The authors of MACROECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE integrate applications, real-world data and coverage of the 2008-2009 recession to help basic economic concepts come alive for the reader. The text focuses on the power and relevance of the economic way of thinking, helping the reader to apply economic principles to the world around them.
With The Disney Bakery, you can bring magic from your imagination into your kitchen: each recipe is vividly inspired by one of the classic animated Disney films. Turn piecrusts into Aristocats and puff pastry into Aladdins lamp, or, best of all, turn a rainy afternoon into a mouth-watering memory to treasure. Adrienne Berofsky has run her own catering company, worked as a private chef and restaurant manager, and served as a personal assistant to Gael Greene, food critic for New York Magazine.
The Art of Chinese Management: Theory, Evidence and Applications
This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth empirical study of Chinese organizational design in state and private enterprises. Web-based Chinese management, a new paradigm in business studies, explains the dynamism of private Chinese enterprises and demonstrates the crucial role of micro-level organizational practices for economic development. It can be used anywhere in the world to help deal with the increasing uncertainty and complexity for the next millennium and can also be used as a framework for economic policy.
Private and Civil Law in the Russian Federation (Law in Eastern Europe)
The chapters in this volume are from two Leiden conferences. There, distinguished scholars and practitioners from Russia and the Far Abroad measured the winds of change in the field of private law in post-Soviet Russia: enormous differences from the Soviet period, crucial in supporting post-Soviet changes toward freedom of choice in the marketplaces of goods, services, ideas and political institutions.
