ISBN: 9780674018266 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2005
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony...
ISBN: 9780674994805 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 736
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 Greek verse. He may have been a hellenised Roman living...
ISBN: 9780674461079 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2021
This is a textbook for the kanon undergraduate econometrics course. Its only prerequisites are a semester course in statistics and one in differential calculus. Arthur Goldberger views the subject...
ISBN: 9780674072947 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2013
What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped aby the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement żeby one of Europe's...
ISBN: 9780674238374 Oprawa: twarda Autor: John Tzetzes Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2019
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics--even the ancient Greek language itself--had become almost...
ISBN: 9780674088771 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2016
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 size. Ravaged żeby warfare and disease, the empire seemed...
ISBN: 9780674996441 Oprawa: twarda Autor: Bion / Moschus / Theocritus Ilość stron: 624 Rok wydania: 2015
Theocritus (early Third Century BCE) Was The Inventor Of The Bucolic Genre, Also Known As Pastoral. The Present Edition Of His Work, Along With That Of His Successors Moschus (fl. Mid-second...
ISBN: 9780674002937 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 818 Rok wydania: 2003
Species of the genus Pheidole are the most abundant and diverse ants of the New World and range from the northern United States to Argentina. In this illustrated book, Edward O. Wilson untangles...
ISBN: 9780674659995 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2016
Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led żeby Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a...
ISBN: 9780674018242 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 696 Rok wydania: 2005
Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems żeby Emily Dickinson - 1,789 poems in all, the largest...
ISBN: 9780674993839 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 512
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship,...
ISBN: 9780674676220 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 1680 Rok wydania: 1998
Emily Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer - an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive...
ISBN: 9780674057111 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 560 Rok wydania: 2010
A century and a half after the publication of "Origin of Species", evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects -...
ISBN: 9780674074095 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 294 Rok wydania: 1991
From ancient cave paintings of honey bee nests to modern science's richly diversified investigation of honey bee biology and its applications, the human imagination has long been captivated...
ISBN: 9780674276604 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 1990
An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of...
ISBN: 9780674955394 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 1999
This work argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks selection pressures on females themselves. In an account of what female...
ISBN: 9780674990920 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 512
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) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under...
ISBN: 9780674659964 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2016
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique...
ISBN: 9780674050273 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2010
Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited żeby Jeannine Hensley, has...
ISBN: 9780674737297 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2016
China's efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized aby corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule,...