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Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out the billions that... Læs mere
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Milosz: A Biography (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Andrzej Franaszek’s award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz—winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—recounts the poet’s odyssey through WWI, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi... Læs mere
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Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Pigeonholed as a Jazz Age epicurean and an emblem of the Lost Generation, Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation’s shifting mood and manners... Læs mere
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One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another’s equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern... Læs mere
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Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A growing number of young men today say they are “mostly straight” and yet feel a slight but enduring desire for men. Ritch Savin-Williams explores the stories... Læs mere
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Odyssey, Volume II: Books 13–24 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus’ journey home from the Trojan War and the temptations, delays, and dangers he faced at every turn.
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Satires. Epistles. Art of Poetry (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The poetry of Horace is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. In the Satires... Læs mere
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Politics (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Nearly all the works Aristotle (384–322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
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Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Virgil (70–19 BC) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his Georgics with tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. His... Læs mere
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Odes and Epodes (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. His Odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Love and political concerns are frequent themes of the Epodes.
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Jewish Antiquities, Volume I: Books 1–3 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from creation to AD 66. Also by him are an autobiographical Life and a treatise Against Apion.
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