1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787314903321

Autore

Epps Garrett

Titolo

American epic [[electronic resource] ] : reading the U.S. Constitution / / Garrett Epps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-19-997476-4

0-19-997475-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Classificazione

LAW018000

Disciplina

342.7302

Soggetti

Constitutional law - United States

Constitutions - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface: How to Read a Constitution; Acknowledgments; Preamble: "Tell me, Muse, how it all began"; Article I: A Tale of Two Cities; Article II: Under the Bramble Bush; Article III: Solomon's Sword; Article IV: All God's Children; Article V: Alter or Abolish; Article VI: The Supreme Law of the Land; Article VII: Bloodless and Successful; Last Things; The Bill of Rights: National Decalogue; Quick Fixes: Eleventh and Twelfth Amendments; Democratic Vistas: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

A Burst of Reform: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth AmendmentsHangover Remedies: Twentieth through Twenty-Second Amendments; Dreams and Nightmares: The Twenty-Third through Twenty-Sixth Amendments; Madison's Return: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment; Appendix: The United States Constitution; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. ""It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand,"" he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow ""missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony,"" he writes. Americans may venerate the Constitution, ""but all too seldom is it read."" In American Epic, Epps takes us through a complete reading of the Constitution--



even the ""boring"" parts--to achieve an

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996309128303316

Autore

Haverkamp Alfred

Titolo

Information, Kommunikation und Selbstdarstellung in mittelalterlichen Gemeinden / / Alfred Haverkamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 1998

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, , [2009]

©1998

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 288 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Schriften des Historischen Kollegs ; ; 40

Altri autori (Persone)

Müller-LucknerElisabeth

Disciplina

302.23/094/0902

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Cities and towns, Medieval - Europe, Western

Cities and towns, Medieval - Germany

Cities and towns, Medieval - Italy

Communication - Italy - History - To 1500

Communication - Germany - History - To 1500

Bell towers - Germany - History - To 1500

Bell towers - Italy - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

German, English, and Italian.

Papers from a colloquium held July 10-13, 1995, at the  Historisches Kolleg, München, Germany.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Zur Einführung / Haverkamp, Alfred -- Verzeichnis der Tagungsteilnehmer -- Die Bedeutung der Glocken in byzantinischen und slavischen Klöstern und Städten / Hannick, Christian -- Individual and Community in the Liturgy of the Liberation of Christian Jerusalem / Linder, Amnon -- Die Bedeutung der Glocke im Licht des mittelalterlichen Ritus der Glockenweihe / Heinz, Andreas -- Gerichtsöffentlichkeit im hoch- und spätmittelalterlichen Deutschland / Weitzel, Jürgen -- Campane, trombe e carrocci nelle cittä



del regno d'ltalia durante il medioevo / Bordone, Renato -- Toskanische Türme: Repräsentation und Konkurrenz / Schwarz, Michael Viktor -- Flämische Belfriede und südniederländische städtische Bauwerke im Mittelalter: Symbol und Mythos / Uytven, Raymond van -- Zwischen Kirche und Stadtgemeinde / Bönnen, Gerold -- Der stier von Ure treib ein grob gesang / Meyer, Werner -- Zeit, Arbeit und Muße im Wandel spätmittelalterlicher Kommunikationsformen / Fouquet, Gerhard -- Orts- und Personenregister -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Die richtige Beurteilung der Vorteilhaftigkeit von Investitionen ist eine zentrale Aufgabe der Unternehmensplanung. Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt den vollkommenen und unvollkommenen Kapitalmarkt unter Sicherheit sowie die Investitionstheorie unter Unsicherheit.

The accurate evaluation of the comparative advantages of investments is a core mission of corporate planning. This textbook presents the nature and objectives of investment theory, including aspects of perfect and imperfect capital markets under conditions of certainty, as well as investment theory involving uncertainty.