A Dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-european, No. 10) (2 Volumes) PDF
The second edition of A Dictionary of Tocharian B includes substantially all Tocharian B words found in regularly published texts, as well as all those of the London and Paris collections published digitally (digital publication of the Paris collection is still incomplete), and a substantial number of the Berlin collection published digitally. The number of entries is more than twenty per cent greater than in the first edition. The overall approach is decidedly philological. All words except…
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The Carrot Purple and Other Curious Stories of the Food We Eat (Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy)
The Carrot Purple and Other Curious Stories of the Food We Eat (Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy) PDF
How many otherwise well-educated readers know that the familiar orange carrot was once a novelty? It is a little more than 400 years old. Domesticated in Afghanistan in 900 AD, the purple carrot, in fact, was the dominant variety until Dutch gardeners bred the young upstart in the seventeenth century. After surveying paintings from this era in the Louvre and other museums, Dutch agronomist Otto Banga discovered this stunning transformation.The story of the carrot is just one of the hidden tal…
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Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)
Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)
The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida’s project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as ‘dead’, nor unproblematically defended as a…
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The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance (Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies)
The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance (Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies)
The financial crises across Asia in 1997-98 ignited fierce debate about domestic economic weaknesses and flaws in the international financial system. Some analysts blamed Asian governments for inadequate prudential supervision, widespread failures of corporate governance and even “crony capitalism.” Others assailed the inherent instability of global financial markets and what they considered to be hasty and ill-conceived liberalization taken at the behest of western-dominated international fi…
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