Title:
All the world's reward folktales told by five Scandinavian storytellers / edited by Reimund Kvideland, Henning K. Sehmsdorf ; contributors, Hallfreður Örn Eiríksson ... [et al.].
Author:
Kvideland, Reimund, 1935-
Sehmsdorf, Henning K.
Hallfreður Örn Eiríksson.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Olav Evindsson Austad : tales from Setesdal, Norway (1907-1926) -- pt. 2. Ane Margrete Hansen : tales from Jutland, Denmark (1889) -- pt. 3. Jakob Glader : Tales from Dal, Sweden (1884) -- pt. 4. Johann Bäckström : tales from Österby, Swedish Finland (1885) -- pt. 5. Herdís Jónasdóttir : tales from Húsafell, Iceland (1966-1967).
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
University of Washington Press,
Publication Place:
Seattle :
ISBN:
0295978104 (cloth : alk. paper)
029597754X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780295977546
9780295800639 (e-book)
Subject:
Tales -- Scandinavia.
Electronic books.
Contents:
pt. 1. Olav Evindsson Austad : tales from Setesdal, Norway (1907-1926) -- pt. 2. Ane Margrete Hansen : tales from Jutland, Denmark (1889) -- pt. 3. Jakob Glader : Tales from Dal, Sweden (1884) -- pt. 4. Johann Bäckström : tales from Österby, Swedish Finland (1885) -- pt. 5. Herdís Jónasdóttir : tales from Húsafell, Iceland (1966-1967).
Physical Description:
xv, 325 p. : ill.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10521809
Publication Date:
1999.
Title:
The allegiance of Thomas Hobbes Jeffrey R. Collins.
Author:
Collins, Jeffrey R.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-304) and index.
Thomas Hobbes and the uses of Christianity -- Hobbes, the long parliament, and the Church of England -- Rise of the independents -- Leviathan and the Cromwellian revolution -- Hobbes among the Cromwellians -- The independents and the 'Religion of Thomas Hobbes' -- Response of the exiled church.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Place:
Oxford ; New York :
ISBN:
0199268479 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Electronic books.
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Contents:
Thomas Hobbes and the uses of Christianity -- Hobbes, the long parliament, and the Church of England -- Rise of the independents -- Leviathan and the Cromwellian revolution -- Hobbes among the Cromwellians -- The independents and the 'Religion of Thomas Hobbes' -- Response of the exiled church.
Physical Description:
xii, 313 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10317679
Publication Date:
2005.
Title:
The last vote : the threats to Western democracy / Philip Coggan.
ALLEN LANE HB
ALLEN LANE HB.
Author:
Coggan, Philip, Author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Last Vote is a wake-up call showing why we cannot afford to take democracy for granted, from Philip Coggan, award-winning author of Paper Promises and The Money Machine. Can we afford to take democracy for granted? It's now so much a part of our lives that we could be forgiven for thinking it mainly takes care of itself. Almost half the world's population now lives in a democratic state, while some Western democracies have now had universal suffrage for almost a century and have endured through even the most severe of global upheavals. In The Last Vote, Philip Coggan shows how democracy today faces threats that we ignore at our own risk. Amid the turmoil of the financial crisis, high debt levels, and an ever-growing gap between the richest and the rest, it is easy to forget that the ultimate victim could be our democracy itself. Tracing democracy's history and development, from the classical world through the revolution of the Enlightenment and on to its astounding success in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Coggan revisits the assumptions on which it is founded. What exactly is democracy? Why should we value it? What are its flaws? And could we do any better? The Last Vote is a wake-up call, and an illuminating defence of a system, which, in Churchill's words, is the worst possible form of government, except for all the others that have been tried. Reasoned, lucid and balanced, Coggan's argument parrots neither the agenda of left nor right, but calls for us all to work together to ensure we don't end up in an even greater mess than we're in today. Finally, he proposes ideas for change and improvement to the system itself so the next vote we cast will not be the last. Praise for Paper Promises: "This book stands way above anything written on the present economic crisis". (Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan). "Bold and confident ... This book should be taken very seriously". (John Authers, Financial Times). "The most illuminating account of the financial crisis to appear to date ... written with a lucidity that conveys deep insights without a trace of jargon". (John Gray, New Statesman). Philip Coggan was a Financial Times journalist for over twenty years, and is now the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist. In 2009 he was named Senior Financial Journalist in the Harold Wincott awards and was voted Best Communicator at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. He is the author of The Money Machine, and Paper Promises, winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Publisher:
Allen Lane,
Publication Place:
London, England ; New York :
ISBN:
9781846146893
1846146895
Subject:
Democracy.
Series:
ALLEN LANE HB
ALLEN LANE HB.
Physical Description:
x, 305 pages : charts ;
Publication Date:
2013.
Title:
The last vote : the threats to Western democracy / Philip Coggan.
ALLEN LANE HB
ALLEN LANE HB.
Author:
Coggan, Philip, Author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Last Vote is a wake-up call showing why we cannot afford to take democracy for granted, from Philip Coggan, award-winning author of Paper Promises and The Money Machine. Can we afford to take democracy for granted? It's now so much a part of our lives that we could be forgiven for thinking it mainly takes care of itself. Almost half the world's population now lives in a democratic state, while some Western democracies have now had universal suffrage for almost a century and have endured through even the most severe of global upheavals. In The Last Vote, Philip Coggan shows how democracy today faces threats that we ignore at our own risk. Amid the turmoil of the financial crisis, high debt levels, and an ever-growing gap between the richest and the rest, it is easy to forget that the ultimate victim could be our democracy itself. Tracing democracy's history and development, from the classical world through the revolution of the Enlightenment and on to its astounding success in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Coggan revisits the assumptions on which it is founded. What exactly is democracy? Why should we value it? What are its flaws? And could we do any better? The Last Vote is a wake-up call, and an illuminating defence of a system, which, in Churchill's words, is the worst possible form of government, except for all the others that have been tried. Reasoned, lucid and balanced, Coggan's argument parrots neither the agenda of left nor right, but calls for us all to work together to ensure we don't end up in an even greater mess than we're in today. Finally, he proposes ideas for change and improvement to the system itself so the next vote we cast will not be the last. Praise for Paper Promises: "This book stands way above anything written on the present economic crisis". (Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan). "Bold and confident ... This book should be taken very seriously". (John Authers, Financial Times). "The most illuminating account of the financial crisis to appear to date ... written with a lucidity that conveys deep insights without a trace of jargon". (John Gray, New Statesman). Philip Coggan was a Financial Times journalist for over twenty years, and is now the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist. In 2009 he was named Senior Financial Journalist in the Harold Wincott awards and was voted Best Communicator at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. He is the author of The Money Machine, and Paper Promises, winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Publisher:
Allen Lane,
Publication Place:
London, England ; New York :
ISBN:
9781846146893
1846146895
Subject:
Democracy.
Series:
ALLEN LANE HB
ALLEN LANE HB.
Physical Description:
x, 305 pages : charts ;
Publication Date:
2013.
Title:
The Allen Site a Paleoindian camp in southwestern Nebraska / edited by Douglas B. Bamforth.
Author:
Bamforth, Douglas B.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Douglas B. Bamfforth -- Previous Paleoindian research at Medicine Creek / E. Mott Davis -- Landforms, alluvial stratigraphy, and radiocarbon chronology at selected Paleoindian sites around Medicine Creek Reservoir / David May -- Cultural and paleoenvironmental implications of freshwater mussels from the Allen Site / Robert E. Warren -- Growth increment analysis of freshwater mussel shell from the Allen Site / James C. Chatters -- Paleoenvironmental interpretations of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in southwestern Nebraska : the pollen and phytolith evidence / Linda Scott Cummings, Thomas E. Moutoux, and Reid A. Bryson -- Early Holocene vegetation of the central Great Plains based on paleobotanical and paleoethnobotanical remains from the Medicine Creek area / L. Anthony Zalucha -- Archaeology of the Allen Site : introduction, fieldwork, and provenience data / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Spatial structure and refitting of the Allen Site lithic assemblage / Douglas B. Bamforth and Mark Becker -- The Allen Site lithic assemblage / Douglas B. Bamforth and Mark Becker -- Other archaeological evidence / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Faunal evidence for subsistence and settlement patterns at the Allen Site / Jean Hudson -- Synthesis : Paleoindian occupation of the Allen Site / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Beyond Medicine Creek : the Allen Site and Plains Paleoindian-period ways of life / Douglas B. Bamforth.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
University of New Mexico Press,
Publication Place:
Albuquerque :
ISBN:
9780826342959
9780826342973 (e-book)
Subject:
Paleo-Indians -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley.
Paleoethnobotany -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley.
Paleoecology -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley.
Medicine Creek Valley (Neb.) -- Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Introduction / Douglas B. Bamfforth -- Previous Paleoindian research at Medicine Creek / E. Mott Davis -- Landforms, alluvial stratigraphy, and radiocarbon chronology at selected Paleoindian sites around Medicine Creek Reservoir / David May -- Cultural and paleoenvironmental implications of freshwater mussels from the Allen Site / Robert E. Warren -- Growth increment analysis of freshwater mussel shell from the Allen Site / James C. Chatters -- Paleoenvironmental interpretations of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in southwestern Nebraska : the pollen and phytolith evidence / Linda Scott Cummings, Thomas E. Moutoux, and Reid A. Bryson -- Early Holocene vegetation of the central Great Plains based on paleobotanical and paleoethnobotanical remains from the Medicine Creek area / L. Anthony Zalucha -- Archaeology of the Allen Site : introduction, fieldwork, and provenience data / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Spatial structure and refitting of the Allen Site lithic assemblage / Douglas B. Bamforth and Mark Becker -- The Allen Site lithic assemblage / Douglas B. Bamforth and Mark Becker -- Other archaeological evidence / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Faunal evidence for subsistence and settlement patterns at the Allen Site / Jean Hudson -- Synthesis : Paleoindian occupation of the Allen Site / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Beyond Medicine Creek : the Allen Site and Plains Paleoindian-period ways of life / Douglas B. Bamforth.
Physical Description:
xvi, 284 p. : ill., maps.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10492270
Publication Date:
c2007.
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