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

Aulus Gellius (ca. 123170 CE) is known almost wholly from his "Noctes Atticae, " 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the...

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome...

Legality is a profound work in analytical jurisprudence, the branch of legal philosophy which deals with metaphysical questions about the...

This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of 'Gnosticism' and the nature of early Christian...

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic...

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

Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of spatial effects. Here...

Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt, who lived in the fifth century of our era, composed the last great epic poem of antiquity. The "Dionysiaca,"...

Caesar (C. Iulius, 10244 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his...

Valerius Flaccus flourished c. 70 90 BCE and composed an incomplete epic Argonautica in eight books, on the quest for the golden fleece....

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the...

The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense of experience,...

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there,...

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and all of Asia...

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BCE) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus s journey home...

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming...

The astonishing science of neutron stars and the stories of the scientists who study them.Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive....

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome...

'Collected here in some 500 pages, is perhaps the most comprehensive and provocative statement of an aesthetic position mustered aby a musician...

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

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age$379 Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And...

In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy (c. 100 178 CE) treats the practical...

Lockhart's 'Mathematician's Lament' outlined how we introduce mathematics to students in the wrong way. This book explains how mathematics...

Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. Bourdieu's subject is the study...

This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet...

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement...

Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners,...

The question addressed in this book is: if women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them...

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome...

The "Library" provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected...

This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution to...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA Financial Times Best Business Book of the YearA Times...

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming...

"Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read."--Wall Street Journal"This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems...

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming...

A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and...

Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including...

George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual...

Astronomers have recently discovered thousands of exotic planets that orbit stars throughout our Milky Way galaxy. With his characteristic...

Apollonius Rhodius's "Argonautica", composed in the 3rd century BCE, is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along...

In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness, consolation, the happy...

Edward Luttwak's Shocking 1968 Handbook Showed, Step-by-step, How Governments Could Be Overthrown And Inspired Anti-coup Precautions Around...

Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt, who lived in the fifth century of our era, composed the last great epic poem of antiquity. The "Dionysiaca,"...

Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners,...

The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked in meaning-making$340 In...

Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including...

Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what is says? Since the early s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused...

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart...

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, "The Open Work" remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the...

Sponsored by the Department of Classics of Harvard University, a revised edition of the late Professor Smyth's A Greek Grammar for Colleges...

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day....

A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary...

The eminent biologist reflects on his own response to nature and the aesthetic aspects of his exploration of natural systems in an intensely...

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming...

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

A show stopper a classic work: the edition translated żeby A.T. Murray that is cited in BCL3 (this revision is aby by George E. Dimock)....

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war of 49--48 BC,...

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming...

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

Arguing that within the next fifty years machines will equal humans not only in reasoning power but also in their ability to perceive, interact...

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

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities...

Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His "Astronomica,...

Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its...

When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus...

A study of some of the mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles. It makes comparisons between living and extinct animals,...

Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words 'Phusis kruptesthai philei.' How...

Ovid's Fasti, begun in or soon after AD I, was to have celebrated the calendar and associated legends of the Roman year, but probably had...

Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller...

In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The...

Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights" has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. At its center are...

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed żeby Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first...

Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Science Book Winner of the 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of...

Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book...

The star of Northanger Abbey" is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from...

Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first...

If you want peace, prepare for war. A build-up of offensive weapons can be purely defensive. The worst road may be the best route to battle....

In Hard-hitting Accounts Of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, And Hiroshima S Ground Zero, Comics Have Shown A Stunning Capacity To Bear Witness...

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic...