In 1919, John Maynard Keynes wrote his famous tract The Economic Consequences of the Peace. that work, he anticipated collapse first era globalization began in mid-nineteenth century. He admonished short-sighted assumption these years relative peace and prosperity for many was a permanent norm, interrupted only briefly by Great War. diplomatic failures, lapses leadership, promotion narrow inter...

Stanisław Płaza (1927–2006) is a leading figure among scholars writing about local noble parliamentary assemblies. created synthesis of our knowledge Crown The author introduces the reader to scholar, his life. Before finished school he found himself (in 1940) with whole family in Soviet Gulag, like many Poles, as result occupation over half Poland after Hitler-Stalin pact 1939. After war retur...

J U N E 2 0 0 7 find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that each had purchased. An airline manager says that he is happy to compensate them but is handicapped by being clueless about the value of these strange objects. Simply asking the travelers for the price is hopeless, he figures, for they will inflate it. Instead he devises a more complicated scheme. He asks each of them ...

C. Norman Coleman is an American Cancer Society Professor and Chairman of the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School. He is involved with cancer patients both as a clinician and a researcher. He is extensively experienced in the many aspects of medicine and oncology. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and r...

Mike Brewer is Director of the Direct Tax and Welfare Research Programme at the IFS and a Research Affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan. His main research interests are in the impact of welfare reform and the personal tax and benefit system on families with children. He has evaluated the labour market impact of the working families’ tax credit, and the impact o...

Translating Khalil I. Al-Fuzai’s “A Lot of Hands” aims at what Bhabha calls “cultural communication” (228). In this way, translation reconstructs and introduces the self to other people nations. sense, contributes concept identity. Al-Fuzai (1940-today) is a writer from Saudi Arabia who wrote few collections stories. his stories he tries present Arabian community in direct, simple way (Dohal 20...

It is a well-known fact that William Shakespeare, just like many of his contemporaries, was influenced by earlier literary and non-literary sources while he writing plays. However, Shakespeare did not remain true to the which inspired neither in terms content nor form. Much Ado About Nothing, wrote making use features New Comedy genre had emerged Ancient Greece, undoubtedly an indicative master...

I came to Columbia in 1968 as an undergraduate in the engineering school. I didn’t know what I wanted to major in, and declared an interest in nuclear engineering, so that I could take as many physics courses as I wanted. But the summer after my freshman year I took a summer job in Washington D.C. at an Army lab for which I had qualified by taking a civil service exam. They had an OR group, and...

“W our fi rst encounter with some object surprises us and we fi nd it novel or very different from what we formerly knew or from what we supposed it ought to be, this causes us to wonder and be astonished at it,” wrote 17th-century philosopher René Descartes in his Passions of the Soul. Indeed, astonishment awaits anyone who views for the fi rst time the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldi, Milanese pa...

The second part of the book details many of Guthrie’s lectures and writings. Following his wartime experiences, he specialised in ophthalmic surgery and wrote three textbooks on eye surgery. He progressed to become President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on three separate occasions. He enabled the end of “body snatching” by the Anatomy Act of 1832. This remarkable man was multi-li...