ISBN: 9780674993570 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 560
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught...
ISBN: 9780674418769 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 594 Rok wydania: 2014
Until his death in 1982, Karl von Frisch was the world's most renowned authority on bees. "The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees" is his masterwork--the culmination of more than...
ISBN: 9780674995345 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 480 Rok wydania: 1997
Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (c.519-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's...
ISBN: 9780674896468 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 350 Rok wydania: 1991
Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory...
ISBN: 9780674995642 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 1997
Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (c.519-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's...
ISBN: 9780674737525 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780674001879 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 1120 Rok wydania: 2000
A comprehensive history of world philosophy, this book is also a social history of global intellectual life. Eschewing polemics, it presents a sophisticated view of the multiple cultures of world...
ISBN: 9780674975453 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2017
Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker makes manifest the forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism...
ISBN: 9780674418226 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2014
Presents case studies and applies the techniques of family therapy to the treatment of self-starvation, anorexia nervosa, as well as other psychosomatic diseases.
ISBN: 9780674817364 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 560
In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national...
ISBN: 9780674064218 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 456 Rok wydania: 2012
The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created żeby white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and...
ISBN: 9780674171039 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 1992
For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has aby no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory...
ISBN: 9780674976245 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2018
With hundreds of full-color maps and finely crafted images, this atlas illustrates treaties that have determined the fates of millions, beginning with ancient Egyptians. Malise Ruthven and a team...
ISBN: 9780674008199 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 528 Rok wydania: 2002
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight...
ISBN: 9780674445796 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 508 Rok wydania: 1998
This text contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography. Speaking at hearings on an anti-pornography civil rights law, women offer witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their...
ISBN: 9780674060319 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 214 Rok wydania: 2011
Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at...
ISBN: 9780674021839 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 560 Rok wydania: 2007
Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That crocodiles are closer to birds than to lizards? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish,"...
ISBN: 9780674503854 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2015
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for Oriental goods took these migrants on a curious path, from New...
ISBN: 9780674012097 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 448 Rok wydania: 2004
Statius published his "Thebaid" in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a...
ISBN: 9780674991682 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 464
Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BCE37 CE), served as a military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece and Asia Minor, and later, from 4 CE to 12 or 13, as a...