1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466187003321

Autore

Agarwal Amar

Titolo

Endothelial keratoplasty : mastering DSEK, DMEK, and PDEK / / Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth, professor of ophthalmology, Ramachandra Medical College, chairman and managing director, Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital, Chennai, India, Terry Kim, MD, professor of ophthalmology, chief, Cornea and External Disease Service, director, Refractive Surgery Service, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Thieme, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-62623-452-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Disciplina

617.7/19059

Soggetti

Cornea - Surgery

Cornea - Transplantation

Eye - Surgery

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453327803321

Autore

James Harold

Titolo

The Roman predicament [[electronic resource] ] : how the rules of international order create the politics of empire / / Harold James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2008, c2006

ISBN

9786612964763

1-4008-3763-4

1-282-96476-3

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

325/.32

Soggetti

Imperialism

Power (Social sciences)

International economic relations

International organization

Social values

Electronic books.

Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Model of Decline and Fall -- Chapter 2. Mercury and Mars -- Chapter 3. The Questioning of Rules in an Obscure and Irregular System -- Chapter 4. Can It Last? -- Chapter 5. The Victory of Mars -- Chapter 6. Terminus: Beyond the Fringe -- Chapter 7. The Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history. The book addresses what James terms "the Roman dilemma"--the paradoxical notion that while global society depends on a system of rules for building peace and prosperity, this system inevitably leads to domestic clashes, international rivalry, and even



wars. As it did in ancient Rome, James argues, a rule-based world order eventually subverts and destroys itself, creating the need for imperial action. The result is a continuous fluctuation between pacification and the breakdown of domestic order. James summons this argument, first put forth more than two centuries ago in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to put current events into perspective. The world now finds itself staggering between a set of internationally negotiated trading rules and exchange--rate regimes, and the enforcement practiced by a sometimes-imperial America. These two forces--liberal international order and empire--will one day feed on each other to create a shakeup in global relations, James predicts. To reinforce his point, he invokes the familiar bon mot once applied to the British Empire: "When Britain could not rule the waves, it waived the rules." ? Despite the pessimistic prognostications of Smith and Gibbon, who saw no way out of this dilemma, James ends his book on a less depressing note. He includes a chapter on one possible way in which the world could resolve the Roman Predicament--by opting for a global system based on values as opposed to rules.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910695250303321

Titolo

The budget and economic outlook [[electronic resource] ] : an update, total outlays and revenues as a percentage of gross domestic product

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, , [2006]

Descrizione fisica

88 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Budget - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 22, 2006).

"August 2006."

"Pub. No. 2822."