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Dynamism: The Values That Drive Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Economic Growth (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific... Læs mere
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Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Usually when we’re bored, we try to distract ourselves. But soon enough, boredom returns. James Danckert and John Eastwood argue that we can learn to handle... Læs mere
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Platonic Theology: Books I-IV (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the... Læs mere
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Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed the evolution of... Læs mere
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On Old Age. On Friendship. On Divination (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the... Læs mere
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Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho. Alcaeus (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love, and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, were two illustrious singers of sixth-century BC Lesbos.
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Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1–8 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In his most influential work, the Metamorphoses, Ovid (43 BC–AD 17) weaves a hexametric whole from a huge range of myths, which are connected by the theme of change and ingeniously linked as the narrative proceeds from earliest creation to transformation in Ovid’s own time.
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On the Nature of Things (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Lucretius lived ca. 99–ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. In his didactic poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) he expounds Epicurean philosophy so as to dispel fear of the gods and death, and promote spiritual tranquility.
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Commentaries on Plato (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.
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Constitutional Identity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience—from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation’s past and the desire... Læs mere
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Dialogues: Charon and Antonius (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the... Læs mere
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Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in... Læs mere
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