Literatura obcojęzyczna Harvard University Press

In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on...

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

Harriet Ritvo provides a picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the 19th century and, aby extension, how they served...

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

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

In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Envy, irritation, paranoia - in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are...

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

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

The poignant story of Holocaust survivors who returned to their hometown in Poland and tried to pick up the pieces of a shattered world.In...

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

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

Society needs whistleblowers, yet to speak up and expose wrongdoing often results in professional and personal ruin. Kate Kenny draws on...

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

Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter...

Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg's shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum...

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

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions...

The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius is seen as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism. Pierre Hadot here uncovers levels...

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

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...

Mary Beard's richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture - and for monarchs, dynasts...

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

Winner of a British Medical Association Book AwardA Brain Pickings Best Science Book of the YearEarly birds and night owls are born, not...

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

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...

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

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...

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

In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial...

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

"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family." - The...

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

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

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...

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to...

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....

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

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...

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

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)....

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

Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan," his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0" updates...

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...

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

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...

In this text, Wilson's work on the biological basis of social behavior in all species from amoeba colonies to human societies has been trimmed...

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

A richly illustrated, captivating study of army ants, nature's preeminent social hunters.A swarm raid is one of nature's great spectacles....

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest war of the century. It included the tragic slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical...

"Brutus" gives an account of the Roman tradition of public and lawcourt speeches from its beginning to what Cicero described as the polished...

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

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

Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores....

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of...

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

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have...

St. Augustine's masterpiece is an interpretation of history in terms of the struggle between good and evil: the City of God in conflict...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Steven Fine explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world's oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously...

Winner of the William James Book Award"Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Telegraph Editor's Choice An Evening standard "Best Books about London" SelectionIn popular...

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous...

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

Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional...

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

Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing...

This work consists of two parts: "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited", published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples", a reworking of an article...

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

The authors basic argument is that while learning is an essential and lifelong activity, people frequently use exactly the wrong strategies...

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

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

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