A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex.
Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.
This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights – especially fish – fine wine and pleasures of the flesh. Indeed, great fortunes were squandered and politicians’ careers ruined through ritual drinking at the symposium, or the wooing of highly-coveted, costly prostitutes.
James Davidson brings an incisive eye and an urbane wit to this refreshingly accessible and different history of the people who invented Europe, democracy and art.

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

DAVIDSON, James

Cooking Education & Reference

Fontana Press

A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex. Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style. This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights -- especially fish -- fine wine and pleasures of the flesh. Indeed, great fortunes were squandered and politicians' careers ruined through ritual drinking at the symposium, or the wooing of highly-coveted, costly prostitutes. James Davidson brings an incisive eye and an urbane wit to this refreshingly accessible and different history of the people who invented Europe, democracy and art.

History

Ancient Civilizations

Harper-perennial

American Journey Since 1865

Teen & Young Adult

Lytle,Mark

Stoff,Michael

Education & Reference

Pearson\Prentice Hall

American Journey, 1877: The Quest for Liberty

Americas

Product Description 
Stochastic Limit Theory, published in 1994, has become a standard reference in its field. Now reissued in a new edition, offering updated and improved results and an extended range of topics, Davidson surveys asymptotic (large-sample) distribution theory with applications to econometrics, with 
particular emphasis on the problems of time dependence and heterogeneity.\nThe book is designed to be useful on two levels. First, as a textbook and reference work, giving definitions of the relevant mathematical concepts, statements, and proofs of the important results from the probability literature, and numerous examples; and second, as an account of recent work in the 
field of particular interest to econometricians. It is virtually self-contained, with all but the most basic technical prerequisites being explained in their context; mathematical topics include measure theory, integration, metric spaces, and topology, with applications to random variables, and an 
extended treatment of conditional probability. Other subjects treated include: stochastic processes, mixing processes, martingales, mixingales, and near-epoch dependence; the weak and strong laws of large numbers; weak convergence; and central limit theorems for nonstationary and dependent 
processes. The functional central limit theorem and its ramifications are covered in detail, including an account of the theoretical underpinnings (the weak convergence of measures on metric spaces), Brownian motion, the multivariate invariance principle, and convergence to stochastic integrals. 
This material is of special relevance to the theory of cointegration. The new edition gives updated and improved versions of many of the results and extends the coverage of many topics, in particular the theory of convergence to alpha-stable limits of processes with infinite variance.\nAbout the Author 
James Davidson, 
University of Exeter\nJames Davidson is Emeritus Professor of Econometrics at the University of Exeter.

Stochastic Limit Theory: An Introduction for Econometricians

Business & Money

Economics

Oxford University Press

A handbook and reference for academic econometricians and advanced graduate students. The book provides a coherent account of recent contributions to limit theory, with particular emphasis on the issues of date dependence and heterogeneity. It also provides a grounding in the requisite mathematics and probability theory, which will allow readers with limited mathematical training to make use of the material.

Stochastic Limit Theory: An Introduction for Econometricicans (Advanced Texts in Econometrics)

This major new econometrics text surveys recent developments in the rapidly expanding field of asymptotic distribution theory, with a special emphasis on the problems of time dependence and heterogeneity. Designed for econometricians and advanced students with limited mathematical training, the book clearly lays out the necessary math and probability theory and uses numerous examples to make its data useful and comprehensible. It also includes original new material from Davidson's own research on central limit theorems.

Stochastic Limit Theory: Advance Texts in Econometricicans (Advanced Texts in Econometrics)

Oxford University Press, USA

The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) defines a new standard in enterprise solutions through a simplified, component-based development model. By extending the "write-once, run-anywhere(TM)" benefits of the Java programming language to enterprise servers, J2EE adds the scalability, robustness, and security required for today's vital e-commerce and enterprise solutions. The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition: Platform and Components Specifications defines the architecture for developing applications with J2EE. This volume includes: 
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Specification, version 1.2 This specification defines the initial release of the J2EE platform. It discusses application architecture using Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages(TM), Enterprise JavaBeans, and other technologies. It specifies application access to services such as JDBC(TM), Java Transaction API, JavaMail(TM), CORBA connectivity, and others. It also discusses J2EE policies regarding application deployment and security. Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, version 1.1 Enterprise JavaBeans technology provides the standard middle-tier components in the J2EE model. This technology provides simplified support for transaction management and remote object access, and it frees enterprise developers to focus on the business logic of their applications. Version 1.1 of the specification includes a number of enhancements, including mandatory entity beans and XML deployment descriptors. Java Servlet Specification, version 2.2 Java Servlets technology defines a standard for developing server-side behaviors in web applications based on the Java programming language. As part of the J2EE specifications, servlets technology supports development of dynamic web content for e-commerce and other enterprise applications. 
JavaServer Pages Specification, version 1.2 The JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology simplifies the development and deployment of interactive web applications. Using an extensible markup language based on HTML and the Java programming language, JSP defines a server-side mechanism to allow content experts greater freedom in creating and displaying dynamic web content. 
Developed with the input of a wide range of industry experts, these specifications define a new standard for resolving many complex issues related to developing, deploying, and managing multi-tier enterprise applications.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition: Platform and Component Specifications

Computers & Technology

Shannon, Bill

Hapner, Mark

Matena, Vlada

Team, Enterprise

Pelegri-Llopart, Eduardo

Enterprise Team, The

Programming Languages

Pearson/Education

The Greeks and Greek Love

A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, the first full-scale book on the subject in English since 1978, by a young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient history for decades' (Andrew Roberts, MAIL ON SUNDAY)

The Greeks and Greek love: a radical reappraisal of homosexuality In Ancient Greece

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Weidenfeld & N.

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