In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. Over time, the Company... Læs mere
This anthology provides a set of distinctive selections that explore both Western and Eastern views of lying and truthfulness, including selections from Augustine, Grotius,... Læs mere
Ma qui la morta poes resurga , 'here let poetry rise from the dead,' prays the narrator Dante: a wish richly fulfilled in Lombardo's renderings, whose unprepossessing dignity and clarity give... Læs mere
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A fully updated and revised edition of a classic medieval source collection, featuring clear modern English translations based on the best available critical editions of over 116 documentary sources - more than any other book of its kind.
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Thinking Through Questions is an accessible and compact guide to the art of questioning, covering both the use and abuse of questions.
'The literary significance of these six texts is enormous, and a single, affordable volume containing all of them, in clear and accessible translations, with thorough annotations, [will] be a great boon to teachers of Japanese literature.
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