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"Virgins of God": The Making of Asceticism in Late...
$41.30
Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in today's society have their origins in late antiquity. This revisionist study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studi..
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey, Vol. 3: Books 17-...
$80.67
This is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume each section of commentary is preceded by introductions dealing wit..
A Course in Number Theory (Oxford Science Publicat...
$26.34
Perfect for students approaching the subject for the first time, this book offers a superb overview of number theory. Now in its second edition, it has been thoroughly updated to feature up-to-the-minute treatments of key research, such as the most recent work on Fermat's coast theorem. Topics inclu..
A First Course in Coding Theory (Oxford Applied Ma...
$23.98
Algebraic coding theory is a new and rapidly developing subject, popular for its many practical applications and for its fascinatingly rich mathematical structure. This book provides an elementary yet rigorous introduction to the theory of error-correcting codes. Based on courses given by the author..
A First Course in Combinatorial Mathematics (Oxfor...
$11.27
Now in a new second edition, this volume presents a clear and concise treatment of an increasingly important branch of mathematics. A unique introductory survey complete with easy-to-understand examples and sample problems, this text includes information on such basic combinatorial tools as recurren..
A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000
$10.54
Here at last is the only up-to-date history of American philosophy, an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. In this fascinating volume, the eminent historian Bruce Kuklick tells the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States, in the contex..
A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000
$14.64
Ranging from Joseph Bellamy to Hilary Putnam, and from early New England Divinity Schools to contemporary university philosophy departments, historian Bruce Kuklick recounts the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States.Readers will explore the thought of early American phil..
A New England?: Peace and War 1886-1918 (New Oxfor...
$32.83
This absorbing narrative history brings into sharp and lively focus a period of immense energy, creativity, and turmoil. The book opens in 1886, as the Empire is poised to celebrate Victoria's golden jubilee, and ends in 1918 at the close of the 'war to end all wars', with England knowing that an er..
A Parliament of Souls: Limits and Renewals 2
$41.25
This second volume in the Limits and Renewals trilogy is an attempt to restate a traditional philosophy of mind, drawing on philosophical and poetical resources that are often neglected in modern and postmodern thought, and emphasizing the moral and political implications of differing philosophies o..
A Political Theory of Rights
$23.98
Rights are basic building blocks of the contemporary state, yet their rigorous justification is difficult. This book provides a thorough analysis of this central topic, and challenges the orthodox view that rights are a type of property claim in one's body. Drawing on the tradition of the social con..
A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke (C...
$25.03
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet of this century. His major achievements--the New Poems, the Sonnets to Orpheus, and the incomparable Duino Elegies--had a powerful impact on European literature and have been the subject of intense scrutiny and increasing a..
A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Comm...
$12.08
Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political societies in particular, the author argues that in cen..
Ab Urbe Condita: Volume I: Books I-V (Oxford Class...
$40.91
Written primarily in Latin, 1914/1930/1981 edition Author: Livy Publisher: Clarendon Press Binding: Hardcover Language: latin ISBN-10: 0198146612 ISBN-13: 9780198146612..
Adjustment with a Human Face: Volume I: Protecting...
$14.63
Following three decades of progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups worldwide began to falter in the mid-1970s. World recession, and in particular the debt crisis in Latin America and African famine, have seriously affected economic development programs in less d..
Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Sha...
$357.25
This is the first study in English to examine one of the most crucial terms in Greek ethical and social discourse, aidos, within a wide range of Greek literature. Commonly rendered "shame," "modesty," or "respect," aidos is one of the most elusive and difficult Greek words to translate. Dr. Cairns d..
Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph (Cl...
$68.13
In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and Pakistan, drawing a bleak picture of massacre and repression comparable to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He investigates the evolution of Alexander's views of empire and concept of universal monarch, and document..
An Introduction to Comparative Law
$31.46
This book first discusses the nature of Comparative Law, its functions, aims, methods and history, then surveys the main features of the major legal families of the world. Extremely well written, this text outlines all the major legal systems of the world and details individual areas of law within t..
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought
$17.56
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of economics from its beginnings--at the end of the Middle Ages--to contemporary developments, including some significant contributions of the 1980s. The economic thought of the last 50 years has been given particular attention to reflec..
Analysis on Symmetric Cones (Oxford Mathematical M...
$287.87
Analysis on Symmetric Cones is the first book to provide a systematic and clear introduction to the theory of symmetric cones, a subject of growing importance in number theory and multivariate analysis. Beginning with an elementary description of the Jordan algebra approach to the geometric and alge..
Ars Rhetorica (Oxford Classical Texts)
$61.44
From the Back CoverThis series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page. The aim of the series remains that of including the works of all the principal classical authors.About the AuthorAristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of..
Art, Emotion and Ethics
$48.48
Art, Emotion, and Ethics is a systematic investigation of the relation of art to morality, a topic that has been of central and recurring interest to the philosophy of art since Plato. Berys Gaut explores the various positions that have been taken in this debate, and argues that an artwork is always..
Bacchae (Clarendon Paperbacks)
$19.61
"Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels.... Equ..
Beowulf: A Student Edition
$42.45
Beowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, and at the same time provides the materials necessary for its detailed study at both undergraduate and postgraduate leve..
Bucolici Graeci (Oxford Classical Texts)
$30.54
xv 170p navy cloth with gilt lettering, binding firm, excellent copy Author: Gow, A. S. F. Publisher: Clarendon Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0198145179 ISBN-13: 9780198145172..
Byron's Heroines
$117.98
"Alas! the love of women! it is known/ To be a lovely and fearful thing!" (Don Juan, st. 199) Traditionally seen as an archetypal masculine poet, better known for his relationships with women than for the sympathetic study of them, Lord Byron has not lent himself easily to a feminist critique. In th..