
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume III
Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap.…
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Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap.…
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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…
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A translation of De Civitate Dei.…
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An English language translation accompanies the original Greek text of Aristotle's book about the nature of the state,…
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The classical and Christian worlds meet in Boethius (c. 480 524 CE), the last writer of purely literary Latin from…
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Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 386 BCE) has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. The…
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Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the…
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The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon--a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best…
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Davis retrieves three women's lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas…
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The greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change.…
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Dealing with climate change means accepting tough tradeoffs: giving up certain energy sources, products, and conveniences,…
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The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more…
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The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens…
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This is a biography of Martin Heidegger chronicling his ideas, with their debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and his…
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Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and…
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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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Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old…
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Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical…
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This first volume shows that even as a young man Walter Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His…
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\nCollected here are \"Franz Kafka,\" \"Karl Kraus,\" and \"The Author as Producer,\" the meditation \"A Berlin Chronicle,\"…
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Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois's thought, Robert…
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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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Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is…
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In this classic work, Huntington challenges old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the…
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Presents an analyses of data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in…
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Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World,…
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Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,…
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Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How?…
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Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, has been called "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth…
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Written by the Roman emperor for his own private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations set forth principles for…
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The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and…
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Medical Writings from Early Medieval England presents vernacular texts on health and healing-unique local remedies and…
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Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the…
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During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…
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\nWritten in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential…
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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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Brought to Florence by Lorenzo de' Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), a Dominican friar, would…
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A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…
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Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic,…
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In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…
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The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound…
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Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…
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Contains the author's analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on beauty in all its…
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The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…
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The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets…
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