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The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 2001 an international panel of climate scientists declared that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last... Læs mere
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Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms. Seven of his eighty or so plays survive complete,... Læs mere
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Physics, Volume II: Books 5–8 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Nearly all the works Aristotle (384–322 BC) 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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Dionysiaca, Volume I: Books 1–15 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This epic poem concerns Dionysus’ earthly career from birth at Thebes to reception on Olympus. In a poem full of mythology, astrology, and magic, Nonnos relates the god’s conquest of the East and also, sensually and explicitly, his amorous adventures.
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Historical Miscellany (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Aelian’s Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia) is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical... Læs mere
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The Jewish War, Volume II: Books 3–4 (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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Apollonius of Tyana, Volume II: Books 5–8 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In his Life of Apollonius Philostratus (second to third century AD) chronicles the miracles of first-century AD teacher, religious reformer, and perceived rival to Jesus of Nazareth, Apollonius of Tyana.
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Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of eastern minorities were clear, that of... Læs mere
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Loneliness as a Way of Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
“What does it mean to be lonely?” Dumm asks. His inquiry takes us beyond social circumstances into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The... Læs mere
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Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying,... Læs mere
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The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, With a New Preface (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their... Læs mere
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