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

In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic…

This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of…

Philostratus '"the Elder'" or '"the Athenian'" (2nd to mid-3rd c.) and Eunapius (ca. 345'-415) provide fascinating…

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of…

Demosthenes (384'-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness…

Are we alone in the universe? It is a captivating question, but one that historically eluded proper scientific…

This rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and…

"The ABCs of RBCs" is the first book to provide a basic introduction to Real Business Cycle (RBC) and New-Keynesian models.…

Successfully used for a number of years by more than four hundred psychologists and psychiatrists, this set of pictures…

Examines the theories of Freud, Sullivan, Fromm, Jacobson, and other psychologists regarding interpersonal relationships.…

There are more psychoanalytic theories today than anyone knows what to do with, and the heterogeneity and complexity of the…

Emily Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk…

Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature''s preeminent social hunters. Without…

Minuchin traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Having achieved renown for his theoretical…

Describes the history of the nuclear arms race, examines the dangers of nuclear war, and discusses strategies for stopping…

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Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the…

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Evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Nowak draws on the languages of biology and mathematics to…

This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines…

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

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

A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from…

In his history, Polybius (ca. 200'-118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the…

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

Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of…

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

A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from…

The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431'-421, 415'-413, and 413'-404 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying…

View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"This landmark work,…

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Ottoman survey registers are recognized as sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the…

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This is a textbook for the standard undergraduate econometrics course. Its only prerequisites are a semester course in…

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Turning to regression, Amemiya presents the classical bivariate model in the conventional summation notation. He follows…

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This book describes and illustrates the results of more than 15 years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the…

In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the econoic approach to the building blocks of…

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Organized by family group, genus group, and species group, this meticulously detailed but easily used volume is the ultimate…

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

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106'-43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

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

In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BC'-AD 17) demonstrates abstrusity…

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

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

Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and Caecilius were highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry,…

The instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished…

Species of the genus Pheidole are the most abundant and diverse ants of the New World and range from the northern United…

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

In his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BC'-ca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of…