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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of…

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists…

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Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been…

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Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 304, Nakladatelství: The University of Chicago Press, Autor: Antonio C.…

Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad…

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Based on the Comics: Philosophy and Practice conference held at the University of Chicago in 2012, this title includes…

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One of the foundational works of Western culture, Art of Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of speech and persuasion for…

Draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases…

"We're living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I'm not altogether sure you're fully attuned to it." So says Irish-American…

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Tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and…

Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners…

We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we…

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the…

Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, "Machiavelli's Virtue" is a comprehensive…

One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the…

Kniha 9780226755076 How to Save a Constitutional Democracy Aziz Z. Huq…

For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning…

The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the…

Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians",…

Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians",…

This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while…

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Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians",…

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies…

Bad writing is bad for science. Incomprehensible journal articles, wordy proposals, and jargon-filled theses make reading a…

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With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped…

Explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein's writings. In this…

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer. This title introduces readers to some…

"Discourses on Livy" is the founding document of modern republicanism and this English translation remains faithful to the…

Explores how the impact of code on life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: as language and code have grown…

Barebacking - when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex - has incited a great deal of shock,…

Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the…

In this book, Murray Edelman continues his quest to understand the influence of perception on the political process by…

Veronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and…

For over fifty years, numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would…

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What is it about etching that renders it - according to both the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire and the visionary artist…

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An eminently practical guide, "Teaching as Story Telling" shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the…

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