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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
This is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby’s critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in this century....
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Seneca: Apocolocyntosis
The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman...
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Introduction to the Grammar of English
This textbook provides a thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons the author concentrates on...
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Acceptable Risk
The common denominator of a growing number of hard decisions facing modern societies is the need to determine ‘how safe is safe enough?’. The...
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The Art of Rome c.753 B.C.–A.D. 337
This book consists of a comprehensive collection of ancient literary evidence on Roman art and artists, assembled together in translation and...
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Nietzsche on Tragedy
This is the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche’s earliest (and extraordinary) book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872). When he wrote it, Nietzsche...
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Dante Philomythes and Philosopher
This book is devoted to a full and lucid exposition of Boyde’s ideas. In the first two parts, the author presents a systematic account of the...
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Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature is the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the...
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Medieval and Modern Greek
To speakers of modern Greek the Homeric poems of the 7th century BC are not written in a foreign language. The Greek language has enjoyed a...
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Elementary Modern Standard Arabic
The Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Course (EMSA) is the premier introduction, for the English-speaking student, to the active written language of...
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Representing and Intervening
This is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It...
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Ethics and the Rule of Law
An introduction to the philosophy of law, which offers a modern and critical appraisal of all the main issues and problems. This has become a very...
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Perfection is finality; finality is death. The poets and prose writers of the first and early second centuries AD were not deterred by the towering...
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
In the two centuries covered by this volume, from about AD 250 to 450, the Roman Empire suffered a period of chaos followed by drastic administrative...
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
In the third century BC Rome embarked on the expansion which was ultimately to leave her mistress of the Mediterranean world. As part of that...
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
The sixty years between 43 BC, when Cicero was assassinated, and AD 17, when Ovid died in exile and disgrace, saw an unexampled explosion of literary...
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
This volume covers a relatively short span of time, rather less than the first three-quarters of the first century BC; but it was an age of...
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The Presocratic Philosophers
Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual...
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The Dark Side of the Landscape
The eighteenth century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of...
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Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
The myth of fire stolen from the gods appears in many pre-industrial societies. In Greek culture Prometheus the fire-stealer figures prominently in...
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Elementary Modern Standard Arabic
The Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Course (EMSA) is the premier introduction, for the English-speaking student, to the active written language of...
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Tun-huang Popular Narratives
Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to...
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A Discourse on Property
John Locke’s theory of property is perhaps the most distinctive and the most influential aspect of his political theory. In this book James Tully...
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The Political Thought of John Locke
This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke’s political thought. John Dunn restores Locke’s ideas to their exact...
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