Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106 43 BCE), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than…

This is a collection of notable deeds and sayings which Valerius Maximus compiled during the reign of Tiberius. The…

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

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

Demosthenes (384 322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a champion of Athenian…

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In letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106-43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his…

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A translation of De Civitate Dei.…

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A new edition of The Orator's Education.…

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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least…

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Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work.…

The subject of this book is the lives of three very different 17th-century women. They were not queens or noblewomen, one…

In his new Preface E.O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write…

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told…

Dealing with climate change means accepting tough tradeoffs: giving up certain energy sources, products, and conveniences,…

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Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to…

The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But…

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The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius is seen as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism. Pierre Hadot here…

This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern…

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Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were…

The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets…

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Imagination is thought to be the province of childhood—the stuff of free play and unrestrained ideas. Then comes the dull…

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This is an introduction to Jacques Lacan's approach to therapy, from the point of view of a practitioner faced with the…

Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, this title focus on the logic of…

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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…

During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…

\nWritten in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential…

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Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems…

A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is…

\nA groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…

Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic,…

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The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound…

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…

Contains the author's analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on beauty in all its…

\nAnimal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean is a treasure trove of widely translated stories on how to conduct oneself and…

Presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the…

The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favoured imitation of Cicero…

First published in essay form in 1956, this book presents Sellars' entire philosophical system and his attack on the Myth of…

The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled…

A re-interpretation of American constitutional history, planned as the first of three volumes. Ackerman examines the…

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), considered the philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A…

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Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a…

\nRenowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections-some beloved, others less well known-that illuminate…

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A study of the mechanics, practice, and application of negotiation explains the processes of negotiation and offers…

Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars,…

Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the adopted daughter of an Eskimo…

\nEquity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global gender gap in science. Analyzing…

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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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Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He…