One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper’s Leisu... more

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This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic dev... more

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Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several import... more

First published in 1878, The Analytical Theory of Heat is Alexander Freeman s English translation of French...... more

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Modern Entomologic book of the early twentieth century by the physicist and botanist Jean-Henri Fabr... more

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In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to... more

successful was Alexander Pope s translation of the Iliad that the great English 18th-century poet then turned his hand - with the...... more

Dies ist die erste umfassende Untersuchung der Schriften des Aristoteles-Schülers Eudemos von Rhodos... more

Alexander Friedmann (1888-1925). Without the benefit of observational evidence, Friedmann predicted that the whole universe...... more

Large format paper back for easy reading. Homer s epic and bloody story of the Trojan Wars... more

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For students of classical, medieval, and early modern literature and of the history of education, Ke... more

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The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It ... more

Ptolemy s Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and o... more

As a rule, an author s correspondence possesses only a secondary interest, but Jacob Burckhardt s le... more

The autobiography of Cuba’s finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause cele... more

This book sets out to redress the balance of history in favor of the peasants. Reminding us that pea... more

The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in... more

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The lights of the Paris Opera House dim and a lovely singer holds the audience spellbound with her e... more

God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western C... more

The classic story of a dangerous love triangle set in an 1890s Paris opera house. Rumored to be haun... more

The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 190... more

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Alexander of Aphrodisias was the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle, and his commentary on...... more

source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817 97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet...... more

Plato, Buddha, Christ--what brings these men to the far future to witness the end of the world? Read... more

The Hidden Force is a 1900 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. The story is set at the end o... more

This book addresses the general theory of motion of mechanical systems with Coulomb friction. In par... more

A young girl travels into a magical land to save her brother from real-world bullies...and from the ... more

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Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler’s magisterial history of modern Germany, of... more

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Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-cen... more

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In the Penal Colony . In a nimble new translation by the acclaimed Alexander Starritt, this collection of Kafka s...... more

Von Speyr s book does not lend itself to any classification that I can think of. It is not dogmatic... more