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Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing
Plato’s dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this book Professor Rowe treats them rather as...
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The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919–1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical...
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Adult Eyewitness Testimony
Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments provides an overview of empirical research on eyewitness testimony and identification...
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A Linguistic Geography of Africa
More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African...
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Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt
This book collects all known Jewish inscriptions in Egypt between the third century BC and the sixth century AD. The entry on each inscription...
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The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919–1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical...
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Society and Identity
Since the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of ‘identity’ and what it means...
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Australian Languages
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished...
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Reading Latin Poetry Aloud
Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. It...
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Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun
Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and...
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Metaphor in Culture
To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive...
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Irish English
English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This book traces the...
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Reading Latin Poetry Aloud
Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. It...
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Diverging Pathways
Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, presenting a detailed picture of the family backgrounds and...
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Indo-European Linguistics
The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Lucretius’ didactic poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of...
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The Syntax of Welsh
Welsh, like the other Celtic languages, is best-known amongst linguists for its verb-initial word order and its use of initial consonant mutations....
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Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of...
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Indo-European Linguistics
The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Lucretius’ didactic poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of...
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Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model...
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Poetry and Civil War in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Lucan is the wild maverick among Latin epic poets. Sneered at for over a century for failing to conform to humanist canons of taste and propriety, in...
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Postcolonial English
The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English...
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A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
This book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter...
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