This text is a technical introduction to the subject of co-operative economics, looking at how selfish ends leads to co-operative means and efficient outputs. The text combines theoretical overviews with applications such as the production of single and multiple goods, and the provision of private and public goods, drawing on philosophical debates to underline the theoretical concepts. Technical appendices follow each chapter and there is provision for student execises.

Product Description: First edition. Three hundred years ago, now treasured medieval manuscripts were scorned, neglected and left to vandals. An exhibit held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art early in 2001, sought to explore new ideas and perspectives on the destruction and reconstitution of illuminated manuscripts in the 18th and 19th centuries in France and England and in the early 20th century in America...read more

Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet—inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment, Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

Product Description: Traces the development of book illustration and printing history century by century starting with the 15th century to the present.