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Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

How to Make a Home

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as…

Martina Russo

Flattery in Seneca the Younger

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenolo…

Marcus Tullius Cicero,

How to Find Happiness

Does happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero's exploration of a timeless question"Of course, we all want to be happy." So wrote the Roman s…

Yelena Baraz

A Written Republic

"A Written Republic offers a new way of viewing Cicero's philosophical work. Yelena Baraz presents a unified perspective that embraces not merely a selection but all of Cicero's philosophical writing…

Baird T Spalding

Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 6

Thirty-five years after the appearance of Volume 5 of Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, ten dusty cartons were discovered in the DeVorss warehouse, some of which held Spalding manuscript…

Rationalität - Freiheit - Verantwortung

Das Verhältnis zwischen Rationalität und Moralität, der philosophische Humanismus, innovative Perspektiven auf Freiheit und Verantwortung sind nur einige der Themen der Philosophie von Julian Nida-Rümelin…

The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

Herman Siemens

Nietzsche and Kant as Thinkers of Antagonism

"The question antagonism, struggle and dissensus, their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonistic theories, and remains the main source of the impasse between the…

Thomas J Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani

Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence

The first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in Turkey) from the late third century BC to the fourth century AD across multiple cultural s…

Ravi Sharma

Plato's Hippias Minor

Ravi Sharma provides a close study of an important but neglected Socratic dialogue by Plato. A new interpretation of the dialogue thoroughly re-examines the ancient evidence bearing on its interpretation …

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Ocean Studies Board, Committee for the 20252035 Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences for the National Science Foundation

Forecasting the Ocean

Understanding and anticipating change in the ocean, and how it will affect marine ecosystems and humans, has never been more urgent. Over recent years, basic and applied research in ocean science has deve…

David Rondel

A Danger Which We Do Not Know

A Danger Which We Do Not Know tells a story about how philosophy and anxiety are tangled up with each other. David Rondel explores how anxiety is one of the main human contexts in which the inclination to…

Adam Nicolson

How to Be

Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past. What is the nature of things? What is justice? How can I be myself? How should we treat each ot…

Levels in Clause Linkage

This is a cross-linguistic exploration of the use of clause linkage markers in causal, conditional, and concessive sentences. Employing a five-level classification of clause linkage based on semantic and …

Rough Guides

The Rough Guide to Kent, Sussex & Surrey: Travel Guide with Free eBook

"From the bucket-and-spade resorts of the southeast coast to ancient cities, quintessentially English villages and glorious countryside, Kent, Sussex and Surrey have something for everyone. History b…

U. Sunday Tim (Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA), Sugam Sharma (Researcher, Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)

The Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability

Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability: Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptation explores the geographic dimensions of vulnerability of human- environmental systems to climate change. It provides informati…

Amatorski

Curves and Bends, Things Veer

Richard Schacht

Nietzsche Pursued

"In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche announced his project to develop a philosophy of the future that would equip philosophers to better deal with human reality. He was only able to work on …

Sebastian Kaufmann,

Kommentar zu Nietzsches "Der Wanderer und sein Schatten"

Nietzsches Schrift Der Wanderer und sein Schatten erschien als Nachtrag zu Menschliches Allzumenschliches. In jüngster Zeit wird sie in der Forschung zurecht als eigenständiges Werk betrachtet. Die detail…