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This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical…

• Rok vydání 2001
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Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and many of his letters have survived. Published in three volumes, Letters to Friends…

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Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its fixation on a computational model of mind, has led psychology away…

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The Writer's Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors-celebrities and unknowns-at a time when…

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In this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian…

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As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing,…

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Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A…

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

• Rok vydání 2010
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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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\nSelected Stories by Franz Kafka offers new renderings of the author’s finest work. Mark Harman’s English translations…

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Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient…

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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words Phusis kruptesthai…

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\nTA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of…

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A new edition of The Orator's Education.…

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This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard University in…

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In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been…

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\nMichael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the…

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Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative…

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In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for…

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From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led…