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Comparative International Accounting
Av Robert Parker, Christopher Nobes
E-bok, 2020
820 kr
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For undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in comparative and international aspects of financial reporting. Learn the foundational concepts of international financial reporting Comparative International Accounting, 14th Edition , by Nobes and Parker explores the conceptual and …
Foundations of Geomagnetism
Av George Backus, Robert Parker m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2589 kr
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The main magnetic field of the Earth is a complex phenomenon. To understand its origins in the fluid of the Earth's core, and how it changes in time requires a variety of mathematical and physical tools. This book presents the foundations of geomagnetism, in detail and developed from first …
Athenian Democratic Origins
and Other Essays
Av Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, Robert Parker m. fl.
E-bok, 2004
1074 kr
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In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle''s use of sources in The …
Polytheism and Society at Athens
E-bok, 2005
887 kr
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This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city''s many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults of households and of smaller …
Early Greek Alphabets
Origin, Diffusion, Uses
Av Philippa M. Steele, Robert Parker
E-bok, 2021
1533 kr
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of …
Early Greek Alphabets
Origin, Diffusion, Uses
Av Philippa M. Steele, Robert Parker
E-bok, 2021
1533 kr
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of …
Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia
Av PARKER, Robert Parker
2013
1073 kr
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Ancient Anatolia was a region where many indigenous or at least long-established peoples mingled with many conquerors or incomers: Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Its rich and complex history of cultural interaction is only spasmodically illuminated by literary sources. Inscriptions, by …
Changing Names
Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics
Av Parker, Robert Parker
Inbunden, 2019
1162 kr
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Changing Names investigates, in relation to the ancient Greek world, the ways in which preferences in personal name-giving change: through shifts in population, cultural contact and imperialism, the popularity of new gods, celebrity status of individuals, increased openness to external influence, …
Miasma
Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
Häftad, 1990
2447 kr
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Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of …
The Early Greek Alphabets
Origin, Diffusion, Uses
Av Robert Parker, Robert Parker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1853 kr
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of …
Polytheism and Society at Athens
Häftad, 2007
1628 kr
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This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults of households and of smaller …
Herodotus and his World
Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest
Inbunden, 2003
3943 kr
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Stunning in range and diversity, this collection of lively essays by an international team of experts illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote. The novel and enlightening contributions are as varied in focus and approach as the interests and backgrounds of the authors. There are …
Athenian Democratic Origins
and Other Essays
Av Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, David Harvey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
5301 kr
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In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources in The …
Polytheism and Society at Athens
Inbunden, 2005
1518 kr
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This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults of households and of smaller …
Athenian Democratic Origins
and Other Essays
Av G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, David Harvey m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1903 kr
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In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources in The …
Athenian Myths and Festivals
Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia
Av Christiane the late, Robert Parker
Inbunden, 2011
2302 kr
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Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. She studies the role played at festivals by hereditary religious associations, showing how …
Unbeliever
The POETRY of ELIZABETH BISHOP
Inbunden, 1988
613 kr
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Robert Parker ranges widely throughliterary history and theory to give the poems of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79)the serious critical attention they deserve. The Unbeliever shows thatBishop's poems, already famous for their clear and quiet tone, also strugglewith confusion and wonder about things she …
Chamberlain and Appeasement
British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War
Häftad, 1993
608 kr
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This book provides a fresh and original approach to a controversial episode in British history, Chamberlain's policy of 'appeasement' towards Hitler's Germany. Written directly from primary archival sources, Alastair Parker's account offers the student new perspectives on the man who dominated the …
Evolution of Corporate Financial Reporting (RLE Accounting)
Av T. Lee, Robert Parker
Inbunden, 2013
2590 kr
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This book explores certain contemporary problems of accounting through the eyes and pens of historians. Many accounting problems are not new ones and it is therefore important to understand their history and development through the ages. This book places twentieth century studies in context and …
Accounting in France (RLE Accounting)
Historical Essays/Etudes Historiques
Av Jay L. Nadeau, Yannick Lemarchand m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
3070 kr
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This volume illustrates the research not only of French accountants (Colasse, Durand, Jouanique, Lemarchand, Nikitin, Richard, Tessier) but also the work of Belgian authors writing in French (Stevelinck, Haulotte) and of French non-accountants (de Swarte, Durdilly, Sauvy). The work of British and …
Papers on Accounting History (RLE Accounting)
Inbunden, 2013
2200 kr
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Written over a period of twenty years the papers included here reflect the changing circumstances around the study of accounting history.
Accounting in Australia (RLE Accounting)
Historical Essays
Inbunden, 2013
3912 kr
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The history of accounting in Australia is of interest because it provides an opportunity to examine how accounting techniques, institutions and concepts have been imported and adapted to an environment similar to, but not exactly the same as that of the exporters. The book emphasizes private sector …
Towards a Theory and Practice of Cash Flow Accounting (RLE Accounting)
Av T. Lee, Robert Parker
Inbunden, 2013
2590 kr
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This book concerns developments in the history of one accounting idea. It discusses cash flow accounting and, as such, relates what can only be described as a ‘recycled’ accounting problem. Cash flow accounting is the oldest form of monetary accounting, preceding the now conventional accrual and …
Accounting in Scotland (RLE Accounting)
A Historical Bibliography
Av Janet Pryce-Jones, Robert Parker
Inbunden, 2013
2200 kr
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The first Scottish book on accounting was published in 1683. That book heralded a century during which Scotland established its reputation as a land of accountants: a steady stream of books subsequently appeared from Scottish presses. This bibliography contains over 330 location entries, including …
Eat Me Not
E-bok, 2020
11 kr
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A tripus is the stuff of nightmares: three long grasping tentacles, one all seeing eye, and a razor sharp beak. One (or possibly several) of these creatures stalks the city of Florist. The terrified citizens are afraid to leave their homes. Already, the Hotel family have been murdered in their …
Egg Heads
E-bok, 2020
11 kr
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Set in near future Australia, a robotic pet observes the Sharifs, a post-modern family living together in rural Australia, but separated by different aspects of digital reality."e;...each member of the family was largely ignorant of what the others did with their time.• Jeraldic believed his …
Anything Anywhere Anytime
E-bok, 2020
11 kr
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When Edward meets Katie, he is swept off his feet, but thirty years later, he must return through time to make sure that they meet at all. Will she believe his crazy stories of mirrors you can walk through, humans who are controlled by cybernetic yolks, journeys into the depths of space, and …
Urchin House Blues
E-bok, 2020
11 kr
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A typical* family with typical* problems must come to terms with the arrival of neighbours from a different culture. To add to their troubles, their family transport is damaged, their living home and that of their neighbours compete for food, and the extremely exotic members of the local …
Greek Gods Abroad
Names, Natures, and Transformations
Inbunden, 2017
401 kr
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From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting …
Religion in Roman Phrygia
From Polytheism to Christianity
Inbunden, 2023
1537 kr
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Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed “lived ancient religion” than any other region in the ancient world. The evidence from Phrygia is neither literary nor issued by cities or their powerful inhabitants but rather comes from farmers and …
