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  1. I entered without words :
    Poems /
    Author: Gladding, Jody,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape convergeIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language... more

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    An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape convergeIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language in lyrics that operate as physical acts in three-dimensional space.Composed and printed in a landscape format, these minimal, quiet, playful, meditative, and open-ended poems are experimental in form and inviting in subject. Drawing inspiration from poets like A. R. Ammons, Lorine Niedecker, Gustaf Sobin, and Jean Valentine, and visual artists like Ann Hamilton, Roni Horn, and Cecilia Vicuña, Gladding discovers exciting spatial possibilities within the page itself by exploiting white space and varying typeface. As the page opens into the compositional field that Mallarmé, Ponge, and others conceived it to be, words constellate around bolded through-lines to offer multiple, interwoven meanings, interacting with each other and the reader, who moves freely among them, to make poems that are spatial, nonlinear, and different with each reading. And, adding yet another dimension to the collection, many of the poems have facing-page French versions."Landscape-oriented" in every sense, I entered without words is an ambitious, innovative, and striking collection by a major poet.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691238975
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    Parent title: Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English; De Gruyter
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    Title is part of eBook package:: Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022; De Gruyter
    Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; ; 168
    Subjects: Experimental poetry, American.; Experimental poetry.; Poetry; POETRY / General.
    Other subjects: Acid-free paper.; All rights reserved.; Ancient Greece.; Bibliography.; Classical Athens.; Clothing.; David Hinton.; David Lehman.; Dora Maar.; Firmament.; Flesh.; Freedom of speech.; Harvard Review.; Heat.; Intellectual property.; Jean Valentine.; Leather.; Liang Qichao.; Library of Congress.; My Child.; Newspaper.; Poet.; Poetry.; Princeton University Press.; Printing.; Publication.; Ralph Angel.; Scrap.; Shakespeare's plays.; Shorthand.; Stock exchange.; Thucydides.; Tiananmen Square.; Virgil.; Washing.; Wealth.
    Scope: 1 online resource (80 p.)
  2. In Praise of Good Bookstores /
    Author: Deutsch, Jeff,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff... more

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    From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch-the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world-pays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predicts-perhaps audaciously-a future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realizes its highest aspirations.In exploring why good bookstores matter, Deutsch draws on his lifelong experience as a bookseller, but also his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew. This spiritual and cultural heritage instilled in him a reverence for reading, not as a means to a living, but as an essential part of a meaningful life. Central among Deutsch's arguments for the necessity of bookstores is the incalculable value of browsing-since, when we are deep in the act of looking at the shelves, we move through space as though we are inside the mind itself, immersed in self-reflection.In the age of one-click shopping, this is no ordinary defense of bookstores, but rather an urgent account of why they are essential places of discovery, refuge, and fulfillment-and how they enrich the communities that are lucky enough to have them.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691229669
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    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022; De Gruyter
    RVK Categories: AN 44400 ; EC 2180
    Subjects: Books and reading; Booksellers and bookselling; Booksellers and bookselling; Bookstores; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
    Other subjects: Academic publishing.; Admiration.; Advocacy.; Aisle.; Analects.; Analogy.; Author.; Beth Medrash Govoha.; Bookselling.; Browsing.; Business case.; CIVICUS.; Cautionary tale.; Charles Simic.; Cleanliness.; Coffeehouse.; Commodity.; Commonplace book.; Competitive advantage.; Condition of possibility.; Convenience.; Cultural artifact.; Cultural institution.; Customer.; Decorum.; Democratic Vistas.; Divine soul.; Edition (book).; Elizabeth Hardwick (writer).; Encyclopedic knowledge.; Enthusiasm.; Exchange value.; Financial statement.; Generosity.; Governance.; Grand opening.; Gratitude.; Greeting card.; Greeting.; Gross margin.; Her Secret Is Patience.; High culture.; Honorarium.; Horace Walpole.; Humility.; Humour.; Hygiene.; Idealism.; Illustration.; Imagination.; Income.; Independent bookstore.; Intellectual.; Intuition.; Invention.; Jean-Luc Nancy.; Kollel.; Learning.; Literal translation.; Literature.; Michael Faraday.; Midrash.; Mircea Eliade.; Morality.; Noblesse oblige.; Our Homeland.; People of the Book.; Poetry.; Pride.; Principle.; Printing.; Profit margin.; Progressive Era.; Prose.; Publishing.; Rational choice theory.; Reason.; Reasonable person.; Remuneration.; Retail clerk.; Retail.; Ruminant.; Scientist.; Self-confidence.; Seminary Co-op.; Sensibility.; Shareholder.; Sincerity.; Socratic (Community).; Stimulation.; Supplement (publishing).; Technology.; The Bookseller.; The Bookshop.; The Library of Babel.; Thought.; Torah.; Twinkling.; Used book.; Wealth.
    Scope: 1 online resource (216 p.)
  3. Capital in the twenty-first century
    Author: Piketty, Thomas
    Published: 2014.; ©2014
    Publisher:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts

    Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns and shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to... more

     

    Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns and shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities. He argues, however, that the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth will generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality, the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth, today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Goldhammer, Arthur (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674369542; 0674369548
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; QC 310 ; QC 300 ; QC 200
    Subjects: Kapital; Einkommen; Einkommensverteilung; Vermögensverteilung; Einkommensteuer; Kapitalertragsteuer; Vermögensteuer; Umverteilung; Welt; Capital.; Income distribution.; Wealth.; Labor economics.; Kapital
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 685 pages)
  4. Capital in the twenty-first century
    Author: Piketty, Thomas
    Published: 2017; © 2014
    Publisher:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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    ISBN: 9780674982918; 9780674369542
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; QC 310 ; QC 300 ; QC 200
    Subjects: Kapital; Einkommen; Einkommensverteilung; Vermögensverteilung; Einkommensteuer; Kapitalertragsteuer; Vermögensteuer; Umverteilung; Welt; Capital.; Income distribution.; Wealth.; Labor economics.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 793 Seiten), Diagramme, Illustrationen
  5. Pliny's Roman Economy :
    Natural History, Innovation, and Growth /
    Author: Saller, Richard,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder's economic thought-and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire's constrained innovation and economic growthThe elder Pliny's Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000... more

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    The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder's economic thought-and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire's constrained innovation and economic growthThe elder Pliny's Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000 "things worth knowing," was avowedly intended to be a repository of ancient Mediterranean knowledge for the use of craftsmen and farmers, but this 37-book, 400,000-word work was too expensive, unwieldly, and impractically organized to be of utilitarian value. Yet, as Richard Saller shows, the Natural History offers more insights into Roman ideas about economic growth than any other ancient source. Pliny's Roman Economy is the first comprehensive study of Pliny's economic thought and its implications for understanding the economy of the Roman EmpireAs Saller reveals, Pliny sometimes anticipates modern economic theory, while at other times his ideas suggest why Rome produced very few major inventions that resulted in sustained economic growth. On one hand, Pliny believed that new knowledge came by accident or divine intervention, not by human initiative; research and development was a foreign concept. When he lists 136 great inventions, they are mostly prehistoric and don't include a single one from Rome-offering a commentary on Roman innovation and displaying a reverence for the past that contrasts with the attitudes of the eighteenth-century encyclopedists credited with contributing to the Industrial Revolution. On the other hand, Pliny shrewdly recognized that Rome's lack of competition from other states suppressed incentives for innovation. Pliny's understanding should be noted because, as Saller shows, recent efforts to use scientific evidence about the ancient climate to measure the Roman economy are flawed.By exploring Pliny's ideas about discovery, innovation, and growth, Pliny's Roman Economy makes an important new contribution to the ongoing debate about economic growth in ancient Rome.

     
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    ISBN: 9780691229553
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    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022; De Gruyter
    Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; ; 123
    Subjects: Economics; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
    Other subjects: Agriculture (Chinese mythology).; Agriculture.; Ambivalence.; Anecdote.; Antonine Plague.; Archaeology.; Auctoritas.; Aulus Gellius.; Book.; Bread.; By Nature.; Calculation.; Cattle.; Cess.; Cinnabar.; Climate change.; Climate.; Concoction.; Dissemination.; Dog bite.; Dyeing.; Economic complexity index.; Economic development.; Economic growth.; Economic history.; Economist.; Edition (book).; Encyclopedia.; Ephraim Chambers.; Epigraphy.; Excursus.; Exemplum.; Explanation.; Fraud.; Fuller's earth.; Fulling.; Garum.; Generosity.; Gratification.; Hadrian.; Hospitality.; Illustration.; Infant mortality.; Inference.; Infrastructure.; Ingredient.; Institution.; Invention.; Latifundium.; Learning.; Mathematician.; Medicina Plinii.; Metic.; Mining.; Morgantina.; Mortar and pestle.; Narrative.; Nation.; Observation.; Obstacle.; Philosophy.; Picenum.; Pigment.; Pliny the Elder.; Plough.; Population growth.; Pottery.; Prostitution.; Public bathing.; Publication.; Rationality.; Reason.; Result.; Return on investment.; Roman Empire.; Roman economy.; Scarcity.; Scientist.; Scythia.; Sestertius.; Slavery.; Sophistication.; Technology.; Textile.; The Ancient Economy.; The Other Hand.; Theophrastus.; Thought.; Tradesman.; Treatise.; Tyrian purple.; Urbanization.; Urine.; Vinegar.; Viticulture.; Vocabulary.; Wealth.; Woolen.; Workmanship.; Writing.
    Scope: 1 online resource (216 p.) :, 5 b/w illus.
  6. Capital in the Twenty-First Century /
    Author: Piketty, Thomas,
    Published: [2014]; ©2014
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, MA :

    What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But... more

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    What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Goldhammer, Arthur, (contributor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674369542
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
    Subjects: Capital.; Income distribution.; Labor economics.; Wealth.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
    Other subjects: Best Economic Charts.; C21.; Capital in the 21st Century.; Capital-labor split.; Capitalism.; Distribution of wealth.; Economic Charts.; Executive compensation.; Global Wealth Tax.; Global inequality of wealth.; Global tax on capital.; Income Inequality.; National income.; National wealth.; Picketty.; Progressive taxation.; Rate of return on capital.; Redistribution.; Rentiers.; Wage inequality.; Wealth Inequality.
    Scope: 1 online resource (695 p.) :, 96 graphs, 18 tables
  7. Capital in the twenty-first century /
    Author: Piketty, Thomas,
    Published: 2014; ©2014
    Publisher:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Massachusetts ;

    What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But... more

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    What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Goldhammer, Arthur, (translator)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-674-36954-8
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
    Subjects: Capital.; Income distribution.; Wealth.; Labor economics.
    Other subjects: Best Economic Charts.; C21.; Capital in the 21st Century.; Capital-labor split.; Capitalism.; Distribution of wealth.; Economic Charts.; Executive compensation.; Global Wealth Tax.; Global inequality of wealth.; Global tax on capital.; Income Inequality.; National income.; National wealth.; Picketty.; Progressive taxation.; Rate of return on capital.; Redistribution.; Rentiers.; Wage inequality.; Wealth Inequality.
    Scope: 1 online resource (696 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Income and Capital -- 1. Income and Output -- 2. Growth: Illusions and Realities -- Part Two: The Dynamics Of The Capital/Income Ratio -- 3. The Metamorphoses of Capital -- 4. From Old Europe to the New World -- 5. The Capital/Income Ratio Over the Long Run -- 6. The Capital-Labor Split in the Twenty-First Century -- Part Three: The Structure Of Inequality -- 7. Inequality and Concentration: Preliminary Bearings -- 8. Two Worlds -- 9. Inequality of Labor Income -- 10. Inequality of Capital Ownership -- 11. Merit and Inheritance in the Long Run -- 12. Global Inequality of Wealth in the Twenty- First Century - Part Four: Regulating Capital In The Twenty- First Century -- 13. A Social State for the Twenty-First Century -- 14. Rethinking the Progressive Income Tax -- 15. A Global Tax on Capital -- 16. The Question of the Public Debt -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contents in Detail -- Tables and Illustrations -- Index
  8. Capital in the twenty-first century
    Author: Piketty, Thomas
    Published: 2017; © 2014
    Publisher:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns and shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to... more

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    Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns and shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities. He argues, however, that the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth will generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality, the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth, today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

     
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    Contributor: Goldhammer, Arthur (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780674430006; 9780674979857
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; QC 310 ; QC 300 ; QC 200
    Subjects: Kapital; Einkommen; Einkommensverteilung; Vermögensverteilung; Einkommensteuer; Kapitalertragsteuer; Vermögensteuer; Umverteilung; Welt; Capital.; Income distribution.; Wealth.; Labor economics.
    Scope: ix, 793 Seiten, Diagramme, Illustrationen, 22 cm