Edmund: 703 books

Aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw koopt Charles Ephrussi, een schatrijke graanhandelaar en kunstliefhebber, een verzameling netsukes: traditionele Japanse figuurtjes van ivoor of hout. De kostbare beeldjes worden een geliefd familiebezit. Wanneer veertig jaar later de nazi’s Wenen bezetten en...

In Enterprise and Inclusion in Italy, Edmund Phelps weaves together and applies to Italy his two principal interests of the past decade -the imperative of restoring initiative, enterprise and dynamism in a great many industrialized economies, most acutely needed in the eastern European economies amid...

Credit derivatives have emerged from the financial crisis as a stronger and more robust product, heavily used by financial institutions, corporations, insurers, asset managers and pension funds. Much of the original title, Credit Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Credit Derivative Products,...

Are you tired of reading books to look for answers? Always searching for a book that compiles all the tips and tricks that can deal with development of dynamic web applications? This e-book is the answer to your problem. It consists of hundreds of proven codes to deal with the everyday problems encountered...

Political morality concerns what programs and policies government ought to adopt. What would this morality look like in a disenchanted world, one in which rationality prevails? The enchanted world is extensive, including not just religion but traditional morality. In this book, Edmund Abegg constructs...

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...

'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy...

Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient’s good, and the importance of...

The Story of Viga-Glum. Sir Edmund Head I HAVE heard the question asked, "What interest can attach to the language and literature of a small and remote island, the inhabitants of which never exceeded 60,000 in number?" The population of Iceland has always been insignificant, and its...

Why should kids get all the fun? Read an epic, narrative, Christmas Eve bedtime poem for adults! In the wee hours of christmas morning, our heroine is visited by Santa. But he's brought a friend with him...Krampus! It seems she's on both the naughty list and the nice list. To resolve the situation,...

In the time of Harun-er-Rashid there was, in Baghdad, a rich merchant named Sindbad the Sailor, the source of whose wealth was a mystery. It seemed to be inexhaustible. For long seasons he kept open house, and his entertainments were the most magnificent of all save only those of Er-Rashid himself....

She couldn't handle one small town, how is she going to save the world? Janet Jones has reached the end of the road. Literally.Jane (to her friends) is a headstrong 18-year-old with Asperger's Syndrome who is fleeing from the ghosts of her past. Her one simple goal is to find her place...

It comes to me as a very welcome piece of news, and yet a piece of news which I have been long expecting, that a special American edition of Edmund Leamy's Irish fairy tales is about to be published. This, then, will be the third issue of the little book. I venture to predict that it will not be the...

This engrossing collection of exquisitely rendered short tales from writer Edmund Leamy spans topics including the supernatural, fairies and sprites, and mischievous children, all set in and heavily influenced by Irish culture of the early twentieth century.