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This collection presents six essays by one of France''s most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist,…

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

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

Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. The Republican…

How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? In his new book, Ronald Dworkin argues…

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

Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From MOOCs to autograders to computerized tutors, technologies designed for large-scale learning have never lived up to the…

What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories…

Generations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political…

Many Americans fear the power of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats'-the '"deep state.'" Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule…

Produkt Policing the Open Road zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Envy, irritation, paranoia - in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of…

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This volume searches behind the legend of Hypatia of Alexandria - mathematician, Neoplatonist and renowned beauty who was…

In the writings of Philostratus (ca. 170-ca. 250 CE), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century CE reached…

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of…

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If you want peace, prepare for war. A build-up of offensive weapons can be purely defensive. The worst road may be the best…

Presents a description and analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao of northern Luzon in the…

A law requires black bus passengers to sit in the back of the bus. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves a drug for…

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced …

• Rok vydání 2010

In "Reflections on Judging," Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States…

Originally published in 1965, Contraception received unanimous acclaim from all quarters as the first thorough, scholarly,…

The Younger Pliny was born in 61 or 62 CE, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was…

Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and…

"Brutus" gives an account of the Roman tradition of public and lawcourt speeches from its beginning to what Cicero described…

Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and…

Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and…

The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish…

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,…

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

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

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

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…

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

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

The philosopher Philo, born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, was trained in Greek as well as Jewish…

• Rok vydání 2019

"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."--Adam Kirsch, Wall Street…

What gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics'-a…

At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever…

The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism''s and Christianity''s sacred books. Why these…