Edward B Cohen

Materials for a Basic Course in Property

The Henley-Stevenson Quarrel

Works and Criticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Comprehensive Bibliography

Ebenezer Cooke: The Sot-Weed Canon

Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective

Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective

The Athenian Nation

Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts

The Athenian Nation

Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that Athens d...

Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective

In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. Challenging the "primitivistic" view, in which bankers are merely...

Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts

Originally published: Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1973]. xii, 233 pp. Athens was the dominant maritime power in the West from the eighth to fourth centuries BCE. Athenian preeminence insured that its maritime law was accepted throughout the Mediterranean world. Indeed, its influence outl...

The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi

Edward Cohen grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt, thousand of miles from the northern centers of Jewish culture. As a child he sang "Dixie" in his segregated school, said the "sh'ma" at temple. While the civil rights struggle exploded all around, he worked at the family clot...

Modern Coating and Drying Technology

In this book, industrial engineers and others will find a much needed introduction and reference on the science of coating. Drawn from a two-day course organized by the editors, this book delineates the major processes used in coating continuous webs, emphasizing precision application technology for...

Programming in the 1990s: An Introduction to the Calculation of Programs (Monographs in Computer Science)

Programming is a fascinating and challenging subject. Unfortunately, it is rarely presented as such. Most often it is taught by "induction": features of some famous programming languages are given operational meaning (e.g. a loop "goes round and round"), a number of examples are shown, and by induct...

Working on a New Play: A Play Development Handbook for Actors, Directors, Designers & Playwrights

(Limelight). " The invaluable Working on a New Play ...arrived, to my overwhelming delight and mental profit; I began and finished it in one long, insatiable, and educational night. Everything in it is new, illuminating and informative, lively and clarifying." Cynthia Ozick

Athenian Economy and Society

In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. Challenging the "primitivistic" view, in which bankers are merely pa...