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By considering the works of Herodotus against a background of late archaic and early classical Greek culture and society, these new essays by an international team of experts make a thought-provoking contribution to the ongoing debates concerning literacy and oral culture....

Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have        changed: human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms,        medical laboratories, and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive study, Lisa        Kemmerer shows how spiritual writings and teachings in seven major...

Diderot's   The Nun (   La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. This new translation...

This book draws together the latest work from scholars around the world using        subjective well-being data to understand and compare well-being across countries and        cultures. Starting from many different vantage points, the authors reached a        consensus that many measures of subjective well-being, ranging from life...

Corporate finance is a multifaceted discipline in which everything works in theory        but not necessarily in practice. To bridge this gap, intelligently designed and        executed surveys are essential in empirically validating conceptual hypotheses and        the relative usefulness of various theories.Survey Research in Corporate Finance...