ISBN: 9780674975590 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 720 Rok wydania: 2017
Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry. It is both the most ambitious...
ISBN: 9780674064010 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2012
The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age", a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed...
ISBN: 9780674081154 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 144 Rok wydania: 2006
Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written aby a highly respected federal judge, who obviously...
ISBN: 9780674047884 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2010
'What does it mean to be lonely?' Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as...
ISBN: 9780674046368 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 768 Rok wydania: 2011
An exhaustive history of the human cranium and a guide to how each part of it functions.
ISBN: 9780674057104 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 928 Rok wydania: 2011
Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive...
ISBN: 9780674005983 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 312 Rok wydania: 2001
The era of late antiquity - from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth - was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of...
ISBN: 9780674088078 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 544 Rok wydania: 2015
Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way?...
ISBN: 9780674994300 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 768
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: 9780674852716 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 406 Rok wydania: 1991
This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself...
ISBN: 9780674536654 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 288
Describes the history of the nuclear arms race, examines the dangers of nuclear war, and discusses strategies for stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.
ISBN: 9780674013735 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2004
A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book revises our view of ancient philosophy - and in doing so, proposes that we...
ISBN: 9780674018280 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 640 Rok wydania: 2006
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 ancient civilisation. It remains a masterwork without...
ISBN: 9780674997370 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 544 Rok wydania: 2020
The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only...
ISBN: 9780674993556 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 432
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 of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain,...
ISBN: 9780674537514 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 198
This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular...
ISBN: 9780674991958 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 496
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: 9780674004238 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2000
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 we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and...
ISBN: 9780674948396 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 1993
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno...
ISBN: 9780674273559 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2022
The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect...