Economics is a discipline fundamentally concerned with effective coordination. In that way, its main concerns are very close to those of governance. Economics, like governance, has evolved considerably over the last half century. This book is a very modest attempt at gauging the relative importance of this tsunami and the way in which it might indicate what will be its future.A Future for Economics proposes the reflections on this general theme by eight senior members of the econom...

Cross the Gate with Finn and Ella into Aelfheim, the mythical world of the elves.With Finn poisoned and a new player on the scene, Ella is starting to have serious doubts as to the success of their crazy mission. Their goal is to enter the elven capital and find Finn's mother — dead or alive. The mother, that is.Hopefully.But with Snowstorm acting up, Finn's state of health twisting the world and in a dangerous race against time, the odds are certainly not in favor of...

Tandis que le royaume d'Araluen s'apprête à entrer en guerre contre Morgarath et ses Wargals, Will et Horace accompagnent le Rôdeur Gilan à Celtica, afin d'y rencontrer le Roi des Celtes. Mais la région est comme vidée de ses habitants. Evanlyn, une jeune fille qui s'est réfugiée dans les collines, leur apprend que la plupart ont été tués ou chassés par les Wargals. Gilan regagne Araluen pour en avertir immédiatement le Roi Duncan. Plutôt que de le suivre, Will, Horace et Evanlyn partent s...

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The fifteen studies assembled here grew out of research on south-Italian ordinary chants and tropes for the multi-volume series Beneventanum Troporum Corpus II, edited by John Boe in collaboration with Alejandro Planchart. In the present essays, clerical and ordinary chants and tropes of the Mass (especially when derived from paraliturgical hymns and poems), certain aspects of chant notation and particular facets of the old Beneventan and the old Roman chant repertories are examined in rel...

The Medicine-Men of the Apache offers a closely observed ethnography of Apache healers: their rites, chants, materia medica, cosmology, and social authority. Bourke alternates translated incantations with case sketches and careful inventories of paraphernalia, embedding practice within mythic etiologies. Stylistically, it blends taxonomic catalog with vivid field reportage, typical of late-nineteenth-century Bureau of Ethnology work, rich in lexical notes and ritual choreography yet inflec...

Ce livre audio est narré par une voix numérique.Une nouvelle et délicieuse version du classique de Charles Dickens, Un chant de Noël.Vous pensez connaître cette histoire ? Détrompez-vous : vous n’avez jamais vécu Un chant de Noël tant que vous ne l’avez pas lu à travers les yeux du chien de Scrooge.C’est le récit classique que vous connaissez, mais cette fois raconté par un chien.Un lévrier nommé Carl.Ebenezer Scroo...

John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she ...

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years — a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.Her son, Adam, grows up in...

It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in 1887, living in Rome as one of the city's m...

Baxter finds himself involved in an infamous revolution . . .Marcus Baxter may have survived one naval battle, but his troubles are far from over.Despite serving with the Russian navy aboard the Yaroslovich, he is arrested by the Tsarist secret police for conspiracy and sent west on the Trans-Siberian railway to St. Petersburg. Competing factions within the secret police disrupt his journey and he finds himself in Odessa.Odessa, th...

New York City. 1974.Lee is hired to investigate the murder of Brother Phil Mallory of the Serenity Order, a religious sect.