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Writings on Church and Reform (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), a student of canon law who became a Catholic cardinal, was widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance. He... Læs mere
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On Agriculture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Cato’s second century BC De agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources.... Læs mere
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Enquiry into Plants, Volume I: Books 1–5 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Enquiry into Plants and De Causis Plantarum by Theophrastus (ca. 370–ca. 285 BC) are a counterpart to Aristotle’s zoological work and the most important botanical... Læs mere
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The Library, Volume II: Books 3.10–End. Epitome (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library provides an expansive summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world.
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Moral Essays, Volume I: De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Moral Essays, Seneca expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness, consolation, the happy life, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, and gift-giving.
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Foundations of Social Theory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Arguably the most important contribution to social theory in fifty years, James Coleman's Foundations erects a unified conceptual structure, capable of describing and... Læs mere
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Tragedies, Volume I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Seneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots are... Læs mere
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Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that... Læs mere
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How To Be Gay (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its... Læs mere
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Genealogy of the Pagan Gods: Books I-V (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The goal of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. This is... Læs mere
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The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book is a broad, interpretive account of Byzantine strategy, intelligence, and diplomacy over the course of eight centuries that will appeal to scholars, classicists, military history buffs, and professional soldiers.
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