This is a chapter by chapter explanation of the work which served as a basis for a critique of the marginal theory of value and distribution - Production of Commodities by means of Commodities by the economist, Sraffa.

The Production of Commodities: Introduction to Sraffa

Business & Money

Woods, John E.

Economics

Palgrave

The new translation, by the masterly John E. Woods, of one of Thomas Mann's most famous and important novels: his modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which twentieth-century Germany sells its soul to the devil. Mann's protagonist, Adrian Leverkühn, is one of the most significant characters in the literature of our era, for it is in him that Mann centers the tragedy of Germany's seduction by evil. This modern Faust is a great artist: Leverkühn is a musical genius who trades body and soul in a Mephistophelian bargain for twenty-four years of triumph as the world's greatest composer. He is isolated, brilliant, a radical experimenter who both plays and thinks at the very edges of artistic possibility. The story of his life becomes an apocalyptic narrative of his country's moral collapse as it surges into the catastrophe of World War II. No simple symbolic figure, Leverkühn is himself, almost paradoxically, a morally driven man in the vortex of an entire culture's self-destruction. Through the wonderful--and terrible--story of Leverkühn's life and death, Mann not only gave us his most profound writing on the very nature and heart of all art--how it is created and how it impinges on every aspect of our experience: artistic, religious, political, sexual, psychological--but also forced his countrymen (the novel was first published fifty years ago, in 1947) to come face-to-face with how they had fallen prey to all that was most lethal in their heritage.

Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend

Literature & Fiction

MANN, THOMAS

World Literature

KNOPF

The Middle East

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Ayer Co. Pub

Book by Habal, Mutaz B., Himel, Harvey, Lineaweaver, William C., Woods, John E., Parsons, Robert W.

Advances in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Medical Books

Habal, Mutaz B.

Himel, Harvey

Lineaweaver, William C.

Parsons, Robert W.

Medicine

Mosby, Inc.

The Aqquyunlu was one of three waves of tribal domination over the Anatolia-Iran area in the 15th-16th centuries, a transitional time in Islamic history from the Later Middle to the Early Modern period. Drawing upon published and unpublished archival and documentary sources, Woods updates the bibliography and refines his analysis of some points in the 1976 edition (based on his 1974 doctoral dissertation, Princeton U.). Includes period maps, illustrations, and appended material on Aqquyunlu genealogy, confederates, and history. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Aqquyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire (Revised and Expanded Edition)

History

WOODS, JOHN

Middle East

University of Utah Press

Following the Mongol invasion of the Middle East (ca. 1250), large numbers of nomadic Central Asian peoples moved into Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Anatolia. These demographic changes engendered a new social order in which conquered, sedentary populations were ruled by nomadic overlords. In the states that arose in the Mongol wake, political authority and state organization were derived initially from nomadic traditions and customs yet rapidly became amalgamated with Islamic legitimizing principles. At the same time, Islamic and pseudo-Islamic popular religious organizations, particularly militant, messianic movements began to spread throughout the region. The century between the decline of the Mongol Il-Khanids and the assertion of Ottoman control from the west and Safavid control from Iran was thus one of great experimentation and innovation in political thought and intense political, military, and religious rivalry. The history of the Aqquyunlu confederation (1378-1508) lies squarely within these geographic, chronological, and social parameters. When it was originally published in 1976," THE AQQUYUNLU" was the first study of a region and period until then frequently dismissed as "apolitical" and culturally barren. Long unavailable, it is still the primary English-language work on the subject. It traces the Aqquyunlu rise from clan, through civil war, consolidation, and decline, drawing upon a wide range of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish sources. The new edition recasts a number of chapters, updates references, and incorporates recent research to reflect the ongoing work of a senior scholar.

The Aqquyunlu: Clan, confederation, empire : a study in 15th/9th century Turko-Iranian politics (Studies in Middle Eastern history)

Americas

Bibliotheca Islamica

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