ISBN: 9780520303362 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 536 Rok wydania: 2019
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied aby an illuminating introduction, maps,...
ISBN: 9780520281431 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 608 Rok wydania: 2019
Dealing with western literature, this poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. It captures the Iliad in all its...
ISBN: 9780520305571 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Laozi Ilość stron: 232 Rok wydania: 2019
The Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., its enigmatic verses have...
ISBN: 9780520291102 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Eusebius of Caesarea Ilość stron: 552 Rok wydania: 2019
Eusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western...
ISBN: 9780520343290 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 2020
For anyone interested in China--its past, its present, and its future--the Analects (Lunyu) is a must-read. This new translation żeby renowned East Asian scholar Moss Roberts will offer a fresh...
ISBN: 9780520294776 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Lisa Duggan Ilość stron: 136 Rok wydania: 2019
Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the...
ISBN: 9780520350793 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2020
Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine...
ISBN: 9780520290747 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Newton, Sir Isaac Ilość stron: 616 Rok wydania: 2016
Describes The Acceleration, Deceleration, And Inertial Movement; Fluid Dynamics; And The Motions Of The Earth, Moon, Planets, And Comets. This Title Deals With The Fundamental Three Laws Of Motion...
ISBN: 9780520290778 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2016
In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript żeby an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda.The Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied...
ISBN: 9780520385849 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 464 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780520287587 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2015
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing - from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman...
ISBN: 9780520344556 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 478 Rok wydania: 2020
"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."--New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when...
ISBN: 9780520305564 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Sappho Ilość stron: 128 Rok wydania: 2019
Poetry - Ancient Literature These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest...
ISBN: 9780520294455 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2018
From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and...
ISBN: 9780520292697 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 184 Rok wydania: 2017
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. This book explores the recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores...
ISBN: 9780520271470 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2011
Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora...
ISBN: 9780520280069 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 192 Rok wydania: 2013
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight...
ISBN: 9780520304437 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 265 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780520299931 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 328 Rok wydania: 2019
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed,...
ISBN: 9780520271029 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Foster, Michael Dylan; Kijin, Shinonome Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2014
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled "yokai," these creatures come in infinite shapes...