Collection de pièces de théâtre. TOME II

Contient : 1 "Antes a filha que o vinho. Farça." ; 2 "A apotheose de Hercules. Drama em trez actos. Lisboa, 1806." ; 3 "Drama em hum só acto, que se intitula : A appariçaõ a Affonso Henriques no campo de Ourique, representado no theatro nacional do Salitre, no mes de março (na quaresma) de 1813." ; 4 "A quanto obriga amor ou Os doidos da data moderna. Entremez." ; 5 "Drama intitulado : Argonauta escravo." ; 6 "Comedia emtitulada : Armida e Reinaldo, em dous actos." ; 7 "Opera. Os asombros da constancia : Volugeso e Berenice. Copiada aos 20 de novembro de 1788." ; 8 et 9 "A assembleia rafada ou A velha taful. Farça composta por hum anonimo, ampliada por Alexandre José Victor da Costa Sequeira, copiada aos 29 de novembro de 1817." Deux exemplaires, dont un non daté et sans le nom de l'arrangeur ; 10 "As astucias de Zanguizarra ou Os velhos logrados. Farça que se repprezentou no theatro nacional da rua dos Condes, com geral aceitaçaõ, composta pelo ponto Ricardo Jozé Fortuna, copiada aos 20 de abril de 1818." ; 11 "A audiencia ou A eschola dos principes, drama sentimental de trez actos, que se repprezentou no theatro nacional da rua dos Condes, com geral aceitaçaõ, composto pelo actor Antonio Jozé de Paula, copiado aos 20 de setembro de 1817." ; 12 "O aventureiro nocturno. Drama em 3 actos. Anno de 1814. Por A. R. C." ; 13 "O aviso á gazeta. Farça."

Collection de pièces de théâtre. TOME XXII

Contient : 1 "Merinval ou O castigo da vingança. Tragedia traduzida do francez." ; 2 "A mizantropia ou O arrependimento. Drama sentimental de sinco actos, que se repprezentou no theatro nacional da rua dos Condes, com geral aceitaçaõ, composto no idiôma hespanhol por hum anónimo, traduzido no idiôma portuguez pelo actor Antonio Jozé de Paula, ampliado por Alexandre Jozé Victor da Costa Sequeira, copiado aos 24 de julho de 1817." ; 3 "Entremes famozo do mizeravel." ; 4 "Intervalo : O morgado emsacado... copiado a 7 de setembro de 1826." ; 5 "A morte de Cézar ou Do mundo a maior crueldade. Drama trágico de trez actos. Acrescentada e posta ao gosto moderno por Joaõ Ignacio Henriques e por***, copiado aos 7 de junho de 1808." ; 6 "O morto vivo ou O desvanecido de si mesmo. Farça que se repprezentou no theatro nacional da rua dos Condes, com geral aceitaçaõ, composta pelo actor Antonio Jozé de Paula, ampliada por Alexandre Jozé Victor da Costa Sequeira, copiada aos 26 de novembro de 1817." ; 7 "Comedia intitulada : Muito vence amor e engano ou O ignorante por sabio admetido." ; 8 "A mulher com defeito ou O cazamento por gazèta. Farça que se repprezentou no theatro nacional da rua dos Condes, com geral aceitaçaõ, composta por Ricardo Jozé Fortuna, copiada aos 28 de fevereiro de 1818." ; 9 "A mulher de máu génio ou A criada generoza. Drama de meio-caracter de trez actos, composto no idiôma italiano pelo Doutor Carlos Goldôni, traduzido no idiôma portuguez por hum anónimo, ampliado por Alexandre Jozé Victor da Costa Sequeira, copiado aos 6 de julho de 1817." ; 10 "A mulher zeloza ou Os extremos da amizade. Drama sentimental em 2 actos por A. Xavier F. de A."

The Truth about love : a collection of writing on love through the ages.

Antología que recoge una selección de textos de distintos géneros (poesía, ficción, drama, teatro), épocas y culturas, con la temática común del amor. Están organizados en siete secciones: búsqueda, amor no correspondido, celebración, amor prohibido, amistad, pérdida y traición. El libro incluye preguntas para ayudar a los estudiantes a desarrollar sus habilidades de expresión oral y escrita, una introducción sobre los temas más estudiados en la literatura sobre el amor, una guía de lecturas complementarias en cada sección, e información sobre los autores seleccionados.

The effectiveness of non-executive directors in Chinese state-owned enterprises

Purpose – The primary aim of this paper is to examine whether boards of directors with independent members function as effective corporate governance mechanisms in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises(SOEs), by analysing four characteristics of non-executive directors (NEDs) that impact on their effectiveness, namely their degree of independence, information, incentive, and competence. Design/methodology/approach – Being exploratory in nature, the research uses qualitative methods for data collection. It is based on an interpretivist perspective of social sciences, analysing and explaining the factors that influence the effectiveness of NEDs. Findings – The findings indicate that the NED system is weak in China as a result of the concentrated ownership structure, unique business culture, intervention of controlling shareholders and the lack of understanding of the benefits brought by NEDs. Research limitations/implications – The paper examines the salient features of and challenges to the system of NEDs of SOEs in present-day China. It provides an understanding of how the various perceptions of the board, gathered from in-depth interviews of corporate directors, leads to new interpretations of board effectiveness. The research, however, is limited owing to a relatively small sample size and the sensitive nature of the information collected. Originality/value – The study aims to fill gaps in the literature and contribute to it by assessing the “real” views and perceptions of NEDs in China in an institutional environment significantly different from that of the USA, the UK and other western economies.

How national culture on consumers' decision-making styles: a comparative study among Americans, Brazilians, Chinese, and japanese in the purchase of cell phones.

The influence of the national culture on consumer decision-making styles is investigated using a sample of Americans, Brazilians, Chinese, and Japanese consumers who have purchased a cell phone in the past three years. To make the research possible, a survey was used as a method of data collection. It relates Hofstede’s cultural classification typology with Sproles and Kendall’s consumer style inventory (CSI). The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) results indicate six decision-making styles together with other consumer behavioral characteristics that can be used to distinguish and profile consumers who purchase cell phones. Empirical findings reveal that among Americans, Brazilians, and Japanese; Americans are the most quality conscious, brand conscious, innovative, and hedonistic shoppers; Brazilians are the most loyal, and Japanese, the most confused by overchoice consumers. Conceptual contributions and managerial implications are discussed.

Governance Structure Choices in Supply Chain Management Evidence from Spanish and Chinese Pork Chain Cases

The author participated in the 6 th EU Framework Project ―Q-pork Chains (FP6-036245-2)‖ from 2007 to 2009. With understanding of work reports from China and other countries, it is found that compared with other countries, China has great problems in pork quality and safety. By comparing the pork chain management between China and Spain, It is found that the difference in governance structure is one of the main differences in pork chain management between Spain and China. In China, spot-market relationship still dominates governance structure of pork chain, especially between the numerous house-hold pig holders and the great number of small slaughters. While in Spain, chain agents commonly apply cooperatives or integrations to cooperate. It also has been proven by recent studies, that in quality management at the chain level that supply chain integration has a direct effect on quality management practices (Han, 2010). Therefore, the author started to investigate the governance structure choices in supply chain management. And it has been set as the first research objective, which is to explain the governance structure choices process and the influencing factors in supply chain management, analyzing the pork chains cases in Spain and in China. During the further investigation, the author noticed the international trade of pork between Spain and China is not smooth since the signature of bi-lateral agreement on pork trade in 2007. Thus, another objective of the research is to find and solve the problems exist in the international pork chain between Spain and China. For the first objective, to explain the governance structure choices in supply chain management, the thesis conducts research in three main sections. 10 First of all, the thesis gives a literature overview in chapter two on Supply Chain Management (SCM), agri-food chain management and pork chain management. It concludes that SCM is a systems approach to view the supply chains as a whole, and to manage the total flow of goods inventory from the supplier to the ultimate customer. It includes the bi-directional flow of products (materials and services) and information, and the associated managerial and operational activities. And it also is a customer focus to create unique and individual source of customer value with an appropriate use of resources, leading to customer satisfaction and building competitive chain advantages. Agri-food chain management and pork chain management are applications of SCM in agri-food sector and pork sector respectively. Then, the research gives a comparative study in chapter three in the pork chain and pork chain management between Spain and China. Many differences are found, while the main difference is governance structure in pork chain management. Furthermore, the author gives an empirical study on governance structure choice in chapter five. It is concluded that governance structure of supply chain consists of a collection of rules/institutions/constraints structuring the transactions between the various stakeholders. Based on the overview on literatures closely related with governance structure, such as transaction cost economics, transaction value analysis and resource-based view theories, seven hypotheses are proposed, which are: Hypothesis 1: Transaction cost has positive relationship with governance structure choice Hypothesis 2: Uncertainty has positive relationship with transaction cost; higher uncertainty exerts high transaction cost Hypothesis 3: The relationship between asset specificity and transaction cost is positive Hypothesis 4: Collaboration advantages and governance structure choice have positive relationship11 Hypothesis 5: Willingness to collaborate has positive relationship with collaboration advantages Hypothesis 6: Capability to collaborate has positive relationship with collaboration advantages Hypothesis 7: Uncertainty has negative effect on collaboration advantages It is noted that as transaction cost value is negative, the transaction cost mentioned in the hypotheses is its absolute value. To test the seven hypotheses, Structural Equation Model (SEM) is applied and data collected from 350 pork slaughtering and processing companies in Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan Provinces in China is used. Based on the empirical SEM model and its results, the seven hypotheses are proved. The author generates several conclusions accordingly. It is found that the governance structure choice of the chain not only depends on transaction cost, it also depends on collaboration advantages. Exchange partners establish more stable and more intense relationship to reduce transaction cost and to maximize collaboration advantages. ―Collaboration advantages‖ in this thesis is defined as the joint value achieved through transaction (mutual activities) of agents in supply chains. This value forms as improvements, mainly in mutual logistics systems, cash response, information exchange, technological improvements and innovative improvements and quality management improvements, etc. Governance structure choice is jointly decided by transaction cost and collaboration advantages. Chain agents take different governance structures to coordinate in order to decrease their transaction cost and to increase their collaboration advantages. In China´s pork chain case, spot market relationship dominates the governance structure among the numerous backyard pig farmer and small family slaughterhouse 12 as they are connected by acquaintance relationship and the transaction cost in turn is low. Their relationship is reliable as they know each other in the neighborhood; as a result, spot market relationship is suitable for their exchange. However, the transaction between large-scale slaughtering and processing industries and small-scale pig producers is becoming difficult. The information hold back behavior and hold-up behavior of small-scale pig producers increase transaction cost between them and large-scale slaughtering and processing industries. Thus, through the more intense and stable relationship between processing industries and pig producers, processing industries reduce the transaction cost and improve the collaboration advantages with their chain partners, in which quality and safety collaboration advantages be increased, meaning that processing industries are able to provide consumers products with better quality and higher safety. It is also drawn that transaction cost is influenced mainly by uncertainty and asset specificity, which is in line with new institutional economics theories developed by Williamson O. E. In China´s pork chain case, behavioral uncertainty is created by the hold-up behaviors of great numbers of small pig producers, while big slaughtering and processing industries having strong asset specificity. On the other hand, ―collaboration advantages‖ is influenced by chain agents´ willingness to collaborate and chain agents´ capabilities to cooperate. With the fast growth of big scale slaughtering and processing industries, they are more willing to know and make effort to cooperate with their chain members, and they are more capable to create joint value together with other chain agents. Therefore, they are now the main chain agents who drive more intense and stable governance structure in China‘s pork chain. For the other objective, to find and solve the problems in the international pork chain between Spain and China, the research gives an analysis in chapter four on the 13 international pork chain. This study gives explanations why the international trade of pork between Spain and China is not sufficient from the chain perspective. It is found that the first obstacle is the high quality and safety requirement set by Chinese government. It makes the Spanish companies difficult to get authorities to export. Other aspects, such as Spanish pork is not competitive in price compared with other countries such as Denmark, United States, Canada, etc., Chinese consumers do not have sufficient information on Spanish pork products, are also important reasons that Spain does not export great quantity of pork products to China. It is concluded that China´s government has too much concern on the quality and safety requirements to Spanish pork products, which makes trade difficult to complete. The two countries need to establish a more stable and intense trade relationship. They also should make the information exchange sufficient and efficient and try to break trade barriers. Spanish companies should consider proper price strategies to win the Chinese pork market

Chinese plan of the city of Peking

T.B. Jervis; the chinese characters and explanations rendered into English were furnished by Mr. Samuel Birch, from a comparison of the above documents and the notes appended to the original by the students in the Missionary College at Naples.

The wisdom of Confucius ; a collection of the ethical sayings of Confucius and of his disciples /

Half-title: International pocket library

Stories from a Ming collection.

Translation of selections from Ku chin hsiao shuo (romanized form)

Catharine of Russia ; or, The child of the storm : an historical drama, founded on an incident in the life of Peter the Great.

Separated from some unknown collection.