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Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments...

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine aby a powerful dictatorship that...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived...

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

On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler's assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, 'We...

In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern,...

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the non-profits,...

This text aims to provide a guide to the sonnets of Shakespeare. Commentaries, presented alongside the original text and a modernized version,...

"Do Muslim Women Need Saving$1208" is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military...

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician,...

Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read aby everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes....

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors....

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a classic of American historical literature required reading for understanding the...

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former...

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against...

This is a textbook for the standard undergraduate econometrics course. Its only prerequisites are a semester course in statistics and one...

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman...

A century and a half after the publication of "Origin of Species", evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include...

Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis'...

Emily Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer - an...

Cristanne Miller's major edition of Dickinson's poems presents the 1,100 poems the poet retained during her lifetime, in the form she retained...

Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of America's industrial power and economic prosperity...

"A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth...Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night."--Wall Street Journal"Harrington...

Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defence against...

Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited żeby Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings...

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician,...

Perhaps no-one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of...

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast...

This masterly and long-awaited work is a full exposition, synthesis, summation, and critical evaluation of the present state of man's knowledge...

An exhaustive history of the human cranium and a guide to how each part of it functions.

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia)...

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician,...

In Longus' ravishing "Daphnis and Chloe" (second or early third century CE), one of the great works of world literature, an innocent boy...

In the writings of Philostratus (ca. 170-ca. 250 CE), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century CE reached its height. His...

In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in żeby the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (10044 BCE), but not written...

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived...

Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of...

The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism,...

Ulysses Grant's memoirs, sold door-to-door aby former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark...

What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped żeby the struggle to answer this question, according to...

Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 8454 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine...

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician,...

Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet. How did Emily...

Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian,...

The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness,...

In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which...

This volume looks at the way women have fared in the 20th century, a period which has seen momentous events, in terms of wars and revolutions....

The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins...

A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book revises our view...

This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter...

The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD...

More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the uncensored...

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should...

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States...

Theocritus (early Third Century BCE) Was The Inventor Of The Bucolic Genre, Also Known As Pastoral. The Present Edition Of His Work, Along...

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (5468 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed....

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics--even the...

The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine world, and Works...

Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry...

Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert ist ein Werk von außergewöhnlichem Ehrgeiz, von großer Originalität und von beeindruckendem Rigorismus. Es...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality,...

Are humans żeby nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question żeby examining the evolutionary origins...

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually...

Already famous throughout Europe, this text opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of...

In This Dialogue Between A Famous Atheist And A Former Radical, Sam Harris And Maajid Nawaz Invite You To Join An Urgently Needed Conversation:...

Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess - as Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Works and Days" do. A collection...

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced < i>

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived...

Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 CE). The collection was very popular...

In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sandor Ferenczi has amassed a large following within the psychoanalytic community....

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there...

'What does it mean to be lonely?' Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived...

The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age", a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan...

In this book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales...

Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology...

From the temptation of Eve to the venomous murder of the mighty Thor, the serpent appears throughout time and cultures as a figure of mischief...

A world-renowned researcher of animal behavior reveals the extraordinary orienteering skills of desert ants, offering a thrilling account...

Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired...

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory...

Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the...

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality...

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician,...

Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in...

"In principle, venture capital is where the ordinarily conservative, cynical domain of big money touches dreamy, long-shot enterprise. In...

The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches...

These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response...

How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? Presenting the exploration of...

China's efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized aby corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional...

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be...

Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by...

What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than...

From ancient cave paintings of honey bee nests to modern science's richly diversified investigation of honey bee biology and its applications,...

A study of the mechanics, practice, and application of negotiation explains the processes of negotiation and offers practical instruction...

This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole...

This work argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks selection pressures...

This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole...

Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary...

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

A classic work, first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, "Space, Time and Architecture"...

Statius s "Silvae," thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles...

No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established...

Giacomo Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, in the form of a fictional dialogue between a daughter indignant...

Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the...

Succinct, Accessible, And Authoritative, Thomas Piketty S The Economics Of Inequality Is The Ideal Place To Start For Those Who Want To...

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology:...