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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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Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest…

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Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity,…

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Dignity plays a central role in thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning.…

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Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

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Keith Tribe's new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Max Weber died. One of the world's leading…

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the…

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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in…

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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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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 only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books, 1-10,…

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

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The main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books…

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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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Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos…

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Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what is it, and how do professors identify it? Lamont observed deliberations for…

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After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and…

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Tony Rothman offers a primer on the science of the big bang and the questions we still can't answer about the origins of the…

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From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of…

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Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner provides the most…

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In a Different Voice is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with…

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Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new…

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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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Cyropaedia is a historical romance on the education of the sixth-century BC Persian king Cyrus the Great that reflects…

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One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society…

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In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the…

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Argues that state policies that created conditions conducive to financialization allowed the state to avoid a series of…

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What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment,…

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Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his…

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Produkt Observation and Experiment - Rosenbaum, Paul zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of 'Gnosticism' and the nature of…

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Produkt Mere Civility - Bejan, Teresa M. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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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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The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of the Chinese's attempts to venture abroad and…

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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 Painter's Fire follows a remarkable cohort of transatlantic artists who risked their lives and reputations to promote…

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Wacker gives an in-depth account of the practices of American pentecostal churches. He examines aspects of pentecostal…

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Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…

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The Old English Pastoral Care, a ninth-century translation from Latin of Pope Gregory the Great's guide for aspiring bishops…