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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Britain and the Muslim world / British private traders in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Outrageous rites : early modern English encounters with Levantine religious rituals / "You will say they are Persian but let them be changed" : Robert and Teresa Sherley's embassy to the court of James / Elihu Yale, the East India Company, and the problem with Madras / Anglo-Ottoman enlightenment? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…De hirundine et ceteris avibus: P.Mich. VII 457 + P.Yale II 104 -- Capitolo V. De fele et gallo, de anicula et lupo, de vulpe ignifera: P.Amh. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conversations with James Tobin and Robert J. Shiller on the "Yale tradition" in macroeconomics / conducted by David Colander…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Rise and Fall of the "Right" to Assisted Suicide Yale Kamisar -- Practice versus Theory -- 5. The Dutch Experience Herbert Hendin -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction: state formation theory : status, problems, and prospects / Lars Bo Kaspersen IFS, KU and Jeppe Strandsbjerg, DBP, CBS and Benno Teschke, University of Sussex -- Lineages -- After the Tilly-thesis : social conflict, differential state-formation and geopolitics in the construction of the European system of states / Benno Teschke, University of Sussex -- Otto Hintze, Stein Rokkan and Charles Tilly's theory of European statebuilding / Thomas Ertman, New York University -- Challenges -- War and state formation : amending the bellicist theory of state making / Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University -- Beyond the Tilly thesis : family values and state formation in Latin Christendom / Philip Gorski, Yale & Vivek S. Sharma, Pitzer College -- Omissions -- The space of state formation / Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Copenhagen Business School -- The realm as a European form of rule : unpacking the warfare thesis through the Holy Roman Empire / Peter Haldon, Swedish Defence University -- War, conflict and the state reconsidered / Vivek S. …”

“…The book is inspired by a program Gentile launched at the Aspen Institute with Yale School of Management, and now housed at Babson College, with pilot programs in over one hundred schools and organizations, including INSEAD and MIT Sloan School of Management.She explains why past attempts at preparing business leaders to act ethically too often failed, arguing that the issue isn't distinguishing what is right or wrong, but knowing how to act on your values despite opposing pressure. …”