Woodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight... Læs mere
Giving Reasons prepares students to think independently, evaluate information, and reason clearly across disciplines. Accessible to students and effective for instructors, it provides plain-English exercises, helpful appendices, and a variety of online supplements.
Nizami's Haft Paykar
Many other matters respecting the attributes of God and my own nature or mind remain for consideration; but I shall possibly on another occasion resume the investigation... Læs mere
Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals - the privileged, educated, influential elites - who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else.
A translation of Hesiod's poems. It captures Hesiod's rustic wisdom, his humour and his cautious pessimism.
Set in the United States, this title pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
A rigorous yet accessible and engaging introduction to symbolic logic that covers all thestandard topics and guides students with helpful suggestions for finding solutions toproblems of proof using the methods of deductive logic.
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, an indigenous Peruvian serving in the colonial Spanish government, wrote his "First New Chronicle and Book of Good Government" between the years 1600 and 1616. This translation captures the Biblical-to-legal flavours of Guaman Poma's manuscript.
An abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey". It offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
Features Spenser's work in five volumes. This title includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's 'Letter to Raleigh', and a short Life of Edmund Spenser.
Presents an introduction to Fichte's philosophical system and his place in the history of German Idealism. This title presents the English translations of "Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre" and "The Basis of Our Belief in a Divine Governance of the World".