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The The History of Akbar (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu’l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar’s reign, including accounts of the quelling of rebellions in Bihar,... Læs mere
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Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Like a saint’s relics, Dante’s bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet’s hereafter—the physical afterlife of the... Læs mere
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Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment, but in Cecilia Heyes's view these cognitive gadgets are not programmed in the genes. They... Læs mere
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Critique of Forms of Life (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
For liberals, the question “Do others live rightly?” seems to demand a follow-up question: “Who am I to judge?” Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint... Læs mere
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Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians often dismiss economics, losing insights into the... Læs mere
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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America—but at considerable cost to... Læs mere
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Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Ars Rhetorica (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Greek East... Læs mere
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City of God, Volume I: Books 1–3 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
On the City of God unfolds God’s action in the progress of the world’s history, and propounds the superiority of Christian beliefs over pagan in adversity.
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Hippocrates, Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC),... Læs mere
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The Persian Wars, Volume II: Books 3–4 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find.
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History of the Wars, Volume V: Books 7.36–8 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history, with much information about peoples,... Læs mere
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Prudentius, Volume I: Preface. Daily Round. Divinity of Christ. Origin of Sin. Fight for Mansoul. Against Symmachus 1 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Prudentius used allegory and classical Latin verse forms in service of Christianity. His works include the... Læs mere
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