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Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and…

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Poetics of Music collects Igor Stravinsky's 1939-1940 Norton Lectures, delivered at the height of his neoclassical period.…

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Cicero's letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put…

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Produkt Lucian, Volume I - Lucian zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in…

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Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles philosopher, father, courtier, political…

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The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present…

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\nGuru Nanak founded the Sikh religion, and his vast corpus of hymns forms the core of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs\'…

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Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the…

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This is a primer on the Capabilities Approach, Martha Nussbaum's innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues…

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

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Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics…

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Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator's…

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In his most influential work, the Metamorphoses, Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) weaves a hexametric whole from a huge range of myths,…

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Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

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After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history…

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In 124 epistles Seneca (ca. 4 BC-AD 65) writes to Lucilius, occasionally about technical problems of philosophy, but more…

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Plotinus was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who…

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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in…

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Writings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…

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Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general. This book contains…

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Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the halls of…

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Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky…

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Legal Lessons examines how China's party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period.…

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For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli "sparking" regions of the brain.…

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Bobby Kennedy wasn't the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney…

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What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America's foremost novelist reflects…

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This epic poem concerns Dionysus' earthly career from birth at Thebes to reception on Olympus. In a poem full of mythology,…

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In succinct and engaging fashion Michael Walzer demystifies the activity of the social critic, providing a philosophical…

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Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed…

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The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers,…

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In early modern Italy, a wave of Inquisition trials prosecuted radical dissenters for their claims that Adam and Eve had…

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The Dantesque political allegory The Labyrinth of Fortune, composed in 1444 by Juan de Mena, reflects on Juan II of…

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In the tradition of the great dialecticians, Rahel Jaeggi revitalizes the idea of progress by confronting its opposite:…

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In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution…

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Produkt Specter Haunting Europe - Hanebrink, Paul zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Blaise Pascal is a marquee name, yet little read outside France. Antoine Compagnon provides an ideal introduction to one of…

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For anyone who has blanched at the uphill prospect of finishing a long piece of writing, this book holds out something more…

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On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP's rise…

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The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real…

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In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian…

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When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in December 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was serving an eleven-year sentence in a…

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Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate constitutional curbs on…

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The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the…

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In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Ferenczi's diary records self-critical reflections on conventional psychoanalytic…

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If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would…

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Like a saint's relics, Dante's bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet's…