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Corpocracy how CEOs and the business roundtable hijacked the world's greatest wealth machine--and how to get it back / by Monks, Robert A. G., 1933-

Table of Contents: “…An audience with the emperor -- Economics ascendant -- The Godfather -- The business roundtable -- Inside the corpocracy -- House take -- Efficiencies "R" us -- Return of the blob -- The great and the good -- Still, I dare to dream.…”
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Corpocracy how CEOs and the business roundtable hijacked the world's greatest wealth machine--and how to get it back / by Monks, Robert A. G., 1933-

Table of Contents: “…An audience with the emperor -- Economics ascendant -- The Godfather -- The business roundtable -- Inside the corpocracy -- House take -- Efficiencies "R" us -- Return of the blob -- The great and the good -- Still, I dare to dream.…”
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The Qing opening to the ocean Chinese maritime policies, 1684-1757 / by Zhao, Gang, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Chinese private maritime trade and global integration -- Reconsidering overseas trade : the Chinese intellectual response to the emerging global economy -- The northeast Asian trade network, the Manchu, pro-commerce tradition, and the 1684 open-door trade policy -- Enriching the state by cherishing private trade : the Kangxi emperor and the 1684 open trade policy -- Separating trade from tribute : Kangxi ends the tribute trade system -- The establishment of the Qing maritime customs system and the growth of private trade -- Economic interest, security concern, and the tribute system : Kangxi's response to Tokugawa Japan's license system -- The Kangxi emperor bans trade with Southeast Asia -- Western merchants, local interests, and Christian penetration : a new interpretation of the Canton system.…”
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The Qing opening to the ocean Chinese maritime policies, 1684-1757 / by Zhao, Gang, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Chinese private maritime trade and global integration -- Reconsidering overseas trade : the Chinese intellectual response to the emerging global economy -- The northeast Asian trade network, the Manchu, pro-commerce tradition, and the 1684 open-door trade policy -- Enriching the state by cherishing private trade : the Kangxi emperor and the 1684 open trade policy -- Separating trade from tribute : Kangxi ends the tribute trade system -- The establishment of the Qing maritime customs system and the growth of private trade -- Economic interest, security concern, and the tribute system : Kangxi's response to Tokugawa Japan's license system -- The Kangxi emperor bans trade with Southeast Asia -- Western merchants, local interests, and Christian penetration : a new interpretation of the Canton system.…”
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Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Manolaraki, Eleni

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Siluae -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.…”
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Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Manolaraki, Eleni

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Siluae -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.…”
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Marcus Aurelius and his times; the transition from paganism to Christianity, comprising Marcus Aurelius: Meditations; Lucian: Hermotimus, Icaromenippus; Justin Martyr: Dialogue wit... by Aurelius, Marcus

Donors of Longmen faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture / by McNair, Amy

Table of Contents: “…Emperor as Tathāgata -- The mechanics of a karmic gift of sculpture -- The rhetoric of expenditure -- The politics of filial piety -- Cīnasthāna preserves the dharma -- Rouge and powder money -- The satellite grottoes -- Salvation for one -- Epilogue : the later life of the site -- Appendix : Chinese texts of Longmen inscriptions.…”
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Medicine and society in late imperial China a study of physicians in Suzhou, 1600-1850 / by Chao, Yüan-ling, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The "Confucianization" of medicine : the idea of the ruyi (Confucian physician) in late imperial China -- State and medicine : the Sanhuang miao (Temple of the Three Emperors) -- Medical theories and the development of the Wenbing school -- Suzhou physicians -- Maintaining health in Suzhou -- Practicing medicine : specialization and the transmission of knowledge.…”
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Donors of Longmen faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture / by McNair, Amy

Table of Contents: “…Emperor as Tathāgata -- The mechanics of a karmic gift of sculpture -- The rhetoric of expenditure -- The politics of filial piety -- Cīnasthāna preserves the dharma -- Rouge and powder money -- The satellite grottoes -- Salvation for one -- Epilogue : the later life of the site -- Appendix : Chinese texts of Longmen inscriptions.…”
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Medicine and society in late imperial China a study of physicians in Suzhou, 1600-1850 / by Chao, Yüan-ling, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The "Confucianization" of medicine : the idea of the ruyi (Confucian physician) in late imperial China -- State and medicine : the Sanhuang miao (Temple of the Three Emperors) -- Medical theories and the development of the Wenbing school -- Suzhou physicians -- Maintaining health in Suzhou -- Practicing medicine : specialization and the transmission of knowledge.…”
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A dance of assassins performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo / by Roberts, Allen F., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The "emperor" strikes back. Invitation to a beheading -- A conflict of memories -- Histories made by bodies -- Tropical gothic -- Storms the headhunter. …”
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A dance of assassins performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo / by Roberts, Allen F., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The "emperor" strikes back. Invitation to a beheading -- A conflict of memories -- Histories made by bodies -- Tropical gothic -- Storms the headhunter. …”
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Will Africa feed China? / by Brautigam, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…-- Long March: History of Chinese Agricultural Engagement in Africa -- The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away -- Zombie Investments -- Green Shoots -- The Future -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Database of Media Reports and Actual Outcomes -- Endnotes -- Index.…”
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Will Africa feed China? / by Brautigam, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…-- Long March: History of Chinese Agricultural Engagement in Africa -- The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away -- Zombie Investments -- Green Shoots -- The Future -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Database of Media Reports and Actual Outcomes -- Endnotes -- Index.…”
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Egyptian cultural icons in Midrash by Ulmer, Rivka

Table of Contents: “…The significance of Egypt in rabbinic texts -- Pharaohs Sheshonq, Necho, and Apries -- The Nile -- Egyptian festivals -- The Osiris myth and Egyptian magic -- History, the Roman emperor, and Egyptian funeral practices -- Alexandria -- Cleopatra, Isis and Serapis -- The Egyptian gods, language, and customs -- The divine eye -- The "finding of Moses" in art and text.…”
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Egyptian cultural icons in Midrash by Ulmer, Rivka

Table of Contents: “…The significance of Egypt in rabbinic texts -- Pharaohs Sheshonq, Necho, and Apries -- The Nile -- Egyptian festivals -- The Osiris myth and Egyptian magic -- History, the Roman emperor, and Egyptian funeral practices -- Alexandria -- Cleopatra, Isis and Serapis -- The Egyptian gods, language, and customs -- The divine eye -- The "finding of Moses" in art and text.…”
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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' by Garnett, George

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources.…”
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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' by Garnett, George

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources.…”
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Clio & the crown : the politics of history in medieval and early modern Spain / by Kagan, Richard L., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Official history -- Empire and history -- Historia pro persona : Emperor Charles V -- Historia pro patria : Philip II -- "His majesty's history" -- Defending imperium -- "To mortify our enemies" : history and propaganda at the court of Philip IV -- Critical history or official history? …”
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