In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as…

\nThe authors explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which…

Working Space affords an opportunity to view painting through the eyes of one of the world's foremost abstract painters.…

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The eminent biologist reflects on his own response to nature and the aesthetic aspects of his exploration of natural systems…

• Rok vydání 1975

This, the most interesting and helpful edition of Charles Darwin's major work, is now available in an inexpensive paperback…

• Rok vydání 2013

\nIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that…

What happens when there is mourning with no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us…

\nThe Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the…

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Fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Graphesis offers a critical language for analysis…

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Celebrating the small creatures that have emerged triumphant on the planet, this work documents the survival strategies of…

The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their…

Perhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as the modern. Pluralistic and rationalizing, modernity…

Argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ranging widely in…

The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine…

Eugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine’s sovereignty in…

\nBiotechnologist Leroy Hood and longevity researcher Nathan Price journey to the future of health. Medicine today is a…

\nUnder Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to…

\nIn 1739 Bordeaux\'s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the…

\nMoses Chao argues that activity in the peripheral nervous system predicts the onset of neurological and psychiatric…

A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book…

During Guatemala's decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton offer the first biography of Vera Rubin, an astronomer who made vital contributions to…

\nThe Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and…

\nLaw and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India\'s long history as a case study,…

Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is…

• Rok vydání 1972

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his…

\nWhy is Israel\'s relatively small and low-budget military also the world\'s most innovative, technologically and…

Heroic epic of the eighth to the fifth century BC includes poems about Hercules and Theseus, as well as the Theban Cycle and…

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war…

Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library…

Euripides (c. 485 406 BCE) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or…

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Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential…

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Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the…

As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by…

Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world s great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography,…

Though attributed to Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) in antiquity, the Catalogue of Women, a presentation of legendary…

Aulus Gellius in Attic Nights (Gellius began to write these pieces during stays in Athens) composed a collection of short…

In the melancholy elegies of the Tristia and the Ex Ponto, Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) writes as from exile in Tomis on the Black…

Volume IV of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents Pythagoras and the Pythagorean School,…

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Polybius's theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years…

Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the…

The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian "the Apostate" (AD 331 or 332-363) include eight Orations; Misopogon…