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In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy treats the practical use of astronomical knowledge: making predictions about individuals’ lives and the outcome of human affairs.
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Culture clarifies a crucial chapter in recent intellectual history. Adam Kuper makes the case against cultural determinism and argues that political and economic... Læs mere
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Bruner sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of the mind. He examines the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience... Læs mere
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On Architecture, completed by Vitruvius sometime before 27 BC and the only work of its kind to survive antiquity, serves not professionals but readers who want to... Læs mere
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Rosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking... Læs mere
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Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing from books 5, 6, and 10. Curtius... Læs mere
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Beyond Winning charts a way out of our current crisis of confidence in the legal system. It offers a fresh look at negotiation, aimed at helping lawyers turn disputes into deals, and deals into better deals, through practical, tough-minded problem-solving techniques.
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The main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books (from the earliest times to 264 BC) we have the first nine complete; most of 10 and 11; extracts; and an epitome of the whole.
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In the melancholy elegies of the Tristia and Ex Ponto, Ovid (43 BC–AD 17) writes from exile in Tomis on the Black Sea, appealing to such people as his wife and the emperor.
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Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world’s foremost abstract painters. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time.
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The authors demonstrate that unselfish behavior is in fact an important feature of both biological and human nature. Their book provides a... Læs mere
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Demosthenes (384–322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness and Greek resistance... Læs mere