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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking brings together two sensitive minds in an exhilarating conversation on the arts.…

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What would a plant do? It is an unusual question. But, as Beronda L. Montgomery shows, humans can learn a great deal from…

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Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism.…

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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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Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen's To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature…

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In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic…

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In Method of Medicine, Galen provides a comprehensive and influential account of the principles of treating injury and…

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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

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The letters of Jerome (ca. AD 345-420) are an essential source for our knowledge of Christian life in the fourth and fifth…

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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…

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The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

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Saturnalia has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore.…

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

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Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. AD 150-235, was born in Bithynia. Dio's work is a vital source for the last years of the…

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The rise of webtoons has altered the Korean cultural market due to the growth of transmedia storytelling-the flow of a story…

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Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist…

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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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A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but…

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"What does it mean to be lonely?" Dumm asks. His inquiry takes us beyond social circumstances into the deeper forces that…

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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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From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and…

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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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Produkt Euthydemus. Gorgias - Plato zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. AD 150-235, was born in Bithynia. Dio's work is a vital source for the last years of the…

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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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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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Historical works by Bede (672 or 673-735) include his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Lives of the Abbots of…

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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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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death; history to 54 BC.…

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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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Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title…

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Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one…

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Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly…

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With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Françoise Baylis insists that…

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including…

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From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to…

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Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini's commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism's obsession with male strength. Through the…

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The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well…

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In the melancholy elegies of the Tristia and Ex Ponto, Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) writes from exile in Tomis on the Black Sea,…

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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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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…

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Produkt Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume VII - Pacuvius zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Leucippe and Clitophon, written in the second century AD, is exceptional among the ancient romances in being a first-person…

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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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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…