Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap.…

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.…

An English language translation accompanies the original Greek text of Aristotle's book about the nature of the state,…

The classical and Christian worlds meet in Boethius (c. 480 524 CE), the last writer of purely literary Latin from…

Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 386 BCE) has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. The…

Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the…

The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon--a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best…

Davis retrieves three women's lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas…

The greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change.…

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

The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more…

The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens…

This is a biography of Martin Heidegger chronicling his ideas, with their debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and his…

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…

Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old…

Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical…

This first volume shows that even as a young man Walter Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His…

\nCollected here are \"Franz Kafka,\" \"Karl Kraus,\" and \"The Author as Producer,\" the meditation \"A Berlin Chronicle,\"…

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…

Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is…

In this classic work, Huntington challenges old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the…

Presents an analyses of data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in…

Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World,…

Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,…

Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How?…

Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, has been called "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth…

Written by the Roman emperor for his own private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations set forth principles for…

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…

Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the…

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…

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…

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…

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

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

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…

The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…

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