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Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

This is a critical edition of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes , which presents in dialogue form his views on the fear of death and endurance of pain, on distress and a range of other emotions, and on th…

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Ruth Perry
The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

This is a scholarly biography of Anna Gordon Brown, posthumously known as Mrs Brown of Falkland, an eighteenth-century Scottish ballad collector. This pioneering new study takes us to the overlapping worl…

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Silvia Valisa
The Periodical Life of Modernity

The Milan-based publishing firm Sonzogno was an essential yet historically overlooked cultural player in nineteenth-century Italy. Positioning Sonzogno as both exceptional in its commercial success and em…

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Thomas Wright, Paul Kinsella
Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of hi…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome, J: Three Men in a Boat

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey th…

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Michael J Shapiro
Thinking Outside the Canon

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop…

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Eric Csapo, Peter Wilson
A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 Bc: Volume 1, the Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

This is the first volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on the theatre festivals in the city of Athens. It presents and discusses in detail all the docum…

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Mirjam E Kotwick
The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams , Mirjam…

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David Streitfeld
Western Star

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove , The Last Picture Show , and Brokeback …

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Peta Ann Fox
Sophoclean Sisters

This book offers a re-evaluation of Ismene in Sophocles' Antigone, challenging the traditional view of her as merely a foil to her sister, Antigone. Through a close analysis of key passages, it argues for…

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John Julius Norwich
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson-renowned translator of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad -explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures o…

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The Passenger: Thailand

"These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home."-The TLSThe Passenger makes its first stop in Southeast Asia. A journey to one of the wo…

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Leah O'Hearn
Akrasia and the Catullan Lover

Exploring how the Roman poet Catullus portrays erotic desire as a problem of self-control, Leah O'Hearn argues that Catullus presents himself as a lover plagued by akrasia (the failure to act on better ju…

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Duncan F Kennedy
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450-350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by em…

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