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  • The President And The Council Of Economic Advisors

    Interviews With Cea Chairmen

    Interviews with ten former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers--from the Truman to the Carter administrations--are gathered in this book to examine the relationship between economic advisers and the president and the institutional relationships among the CEA, executive departments, and federal financial agencies. The interviews also reconstruct major presidential decisions since the ... Read more

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  • Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Salons, censorship, and the Encyclopédie: a critical portrait of Enlightenment materialism and modern secular culture

    In Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), John Morley offers a lucid intellectual biography of Denis Diderot and a history of the Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment's boldest machine for organizing knowledge. He reads Rameau's Nephew, Le Rêve de d'Alembert, Jacques le fataliste, the Salons, and technical entries alongside episodes of censorship and salon sociability. The style is Victorian but ... Read more

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  • A Voyage to Abyssinia

    Jeronimo Lobo was born in Lisbon in the year 1593. He entered the Order of the Jesuits at the age of sixteen. After passing through the studies by which Jesuits were trained for missionary work, which included special attention to the arts of speaking and writing, Father Lobo was sent as a missionary to India at the age of twenty-eight, in the year 1621. He reached Goa, as his book tells, in 1622, ... Read more

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  • A Voyage to Abyssinia

    An Intimate Journey Through Mysterious Abyssinia

    Translated by Samuel Johnson ...
    In "A Voyage to Abyssinia," Jerónimo Lobo provides an intricate account of his travels to the enigmatic land of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia) during the 17th century. Lobo's writing is characterized by its keen observational style, blending detailed descriptions of the landscapes and cultures he encounters with an analytical perspective shaped by his background as a Jesuit missionary. This work ... Read more

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  • A Voyage to Abyssinia

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    Translated by Samuel Johnson ...
    In "A Voyage to Abyssinia," Jerónimo Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, recounts his remarkable journey through 17th-century Ethiopia. Written in a lively and engaging prose style, the book combines elements of travel literature and anthropological observation, immersing readers in the physical landscape and cultural tapestry of Abyssinia. Lobo's keen eye for detail and his reflections on the ... Read more

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  • The Neoliberal Republic

    Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France

    Translated by Meg Morley ...
    Series series Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law
    The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all ... Read more

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  • Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces

    Enriched edition. Exploring Religious and Philosophical Themes in Romantic Literature

    "Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces" is a profound exploration of the complexities of faith, doubt, and the nature of human existence as expressed through Samuel Taylor Coleridge's distinctive lyricism and philosophical insight. Written in a confessional style that reflects his deep inner turmoil and quest for truth, the work weaves together personal reflections with ... Read more

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  • Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces" stands as a poignant exploration of consciousness and the metaphysical inquiries that permeate human experience. Written in a reflective, introspective style characteristic of Romantic literature, this collection showcases Coleridge's thoughtful prose and poetic fragments as he grapples with profound ... Read more

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    How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, ... Read more

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    Unmasking the Truth about Tax CutsIn this essential essay, Thomas Sowell, with his trademark independent-minded approach, challenges the prevailing narratives surrounding tax cuts and "trickle-down" economics. He argues that this often-used term is a distorted simplification, obscuring the nuanced reality of how tax policy impacts economic activity. Sowell provides a clear-eyed perspective, ... Read more

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  • Agricola And Germania: Translation Based On Alfred John Church And William Jackson Brodribb (1876) (Mobi Classics)

    The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, lit. The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.This work survived only in one single manuscript that was found in Hersfeld Abbey, Holy Roman Empire and brought to Italy in 1455 where Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the later Pope Pius II ... Read more

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