In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases.
This book provides an unprecedented analysis on the place of performance. The central theme is that the place of performance is of considerable significance as a connecting factor in international commercial contracts. This book challenges and questions the approach of the European legislator for not ...
Renowned for centuries as a classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. It has become influential in the western world for its insight into the process of death and dying. Translated by the Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and with a forward by the Dalai Lama.
