1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000044284

Autore

Fletcher, Beryl S.

Titolo

A  student's guide to the plays of Samuel Beckett / Beryl S. Fletcher and John Fletcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1978

ISBN

O-571-13418-1

0-571-13419-X

Edizione

[2. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

279 p. ; 20 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Fletcher, John

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462104203321

Autore

Bolick Clint

Titolo

Leviathan [[electronic resource] ] : the growth of local government and the erosion of liberty / / Clint Bolick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, c2004

ISBN

0-8179-4553-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 531

Disciplina

320.8/0973

Soggetti

Local government - United States

Civil rights - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Nature of the Beast; 1.  Leviathan; 2.  



Federalism: The Grand Design; 3.  The Curious Evolution of Federalism; Part Two: The Erosion of Liberty; 4.  Freedom of Commerce and Enterprise; 5.  Private-Property Rights; 6.  Freedom of Speech; 7.  The Right to Be Left Alone; 8.  Racial Discrimination; 9.  The Government School System; Part Three: Taming the Beast; 10.  Fighting Big Government at the Local Level; Notes; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with ""grassroots tyranny""?and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these bureaucracies.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465080003321

Autore

Elliott John H.

Titolo

Beware the evil eye . Volume 2 Greece and Rome : the evil eye in the Bible and the Ancient world / / John H. Elliott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eugene, Oregon : , : Cascade Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4982-7366-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Disciplina

133.425

Soggetti

Evil eye - Biblical teaching

Evil eye - Middle East

Evil eye - Mediterranean Region

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In the present volume, Elliott addresses the most extensive sources of Evil Eye belief in antiquity--the cultures of Greece and Rome. In this period, features of the belief found in Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources are expanded to the point where an ""Evil Eye belief complex""



becomes apparent. This complex of features associated with the Evil Eye--human eye as key organ of information, eye as active not passive, eye as channel of emotion and dispositions, especially envy, arising in the heart, possessors, victims, defensive strategies, and amulets--is essential to an understanding of the lit