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Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), Volume I: Books 1–6 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Metamorphoses (Golden Ass) of Apuleius is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the sensations of a bird, but by pharmaceutical accident... Læs mere
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China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient... Læs mere
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Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book offers an insider’s look at the political and cultural dimensions of design, development, and production, and reaffirms Petroski as the master explicator of the principles and processes that turn thoughts into the many things that define our material world.
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Platonic Theology: Books V-VIII (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for... Læs mere
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A Loeb Classical Library Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity’s major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reporting, satire, and fiction—giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture.
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The World Republic of Letters (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this book, Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements—a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance.
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Lives of the Popes (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II, Platina (1421–1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed this biographical compendium of the Roman... Læs mere
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The Art and Science of Negotiation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Using a vast array of specific cases and clear, helpful diagrams, Raiffa not only elucidates the step-by-step processes of negotiation but also translates this deeper understanding into practical guidelines for negotiators and "intervenors."
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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to puncture the myths, from Galileo’s incarceration to... Læs mere
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Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions... Læs mere
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The Persian Wars, Volume I: Books 1–2 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find.
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