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On Immunity: An Inoculation(2015) BISS, EULAIn this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, she suggests thaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Learned Banqueters, Volume III(2008) ATHENAEUSA series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Critical Essays, Volume I(1974) DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSDionysius of Halicarnassus, born ca. 60 BC, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. They constitute an important development from the somewhat mechanical techniques of rhetorical hVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Select Letters(1930) AUGUSTINELetters are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine’s relations with other theologians.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Space Crone(2023) LE GUIN, URSULA K.Ursula K Le Guin's essential writings on feminism and gender collected for the first time.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Death of King Arthur(2004)Recounting the final days of Arthur and set in a world of fading chivalric glory, this title depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Liber Amoris(2008) HAZLITT, WILLIAMIn 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen-year-old daughter. This work is the chronicle of that obsession.Vezava: Mehka18,16 € -
Orations, Volume II(1926) DEMOSTHENESDemosthenes (384–322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness and Greek resistance to Philip of Macedon. His steadfastness, pungent argument, and control of language gained him early reputation asVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Pro Lege Manilia. Pro Caecina. Pro Cluentio. Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo(1927) CICEROWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius CaVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Discourses 1–11(1932) DIO CHRYSOSTOMDio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40–ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral concerns. What survives of his works make him prominent in the revival of Greek literature in the late first and early second centuryVezava: Trda44,47 €
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Opinions(2023) GAY, ROXANEFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger comes a stunning retrospective of essays and writings from the last decade covering politics, race and identity, feminism, popular culture, and more.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
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Traces Remain(2012) NICHOLL, CHARLESFrom a mysterious painting found in a Hereford house to the death of an alchemist, and from a new Jack the Ripper suspect to a gold hunt in El Dorado, the author's twenty-five essays take in two murders, three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare playVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Selected Essays(2003) JOHNSON, SAMUELContains a selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. This volume includes the best of Johnson's journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Murder Trials(1975) CICEROCicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman lifeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
History of the Wars, Volume IV(1924) PROCOPIUSHistory of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history, with much information about peoples, places, and special events. Powerful description complements careful narration. Procopius is jusVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Attic Nights, Volume I(1927) GELLIUSAulus Gellius in Attic Nights (Gellius began to write these pieces during stays in Athens) composed a collection of short chapters about notable events, words and questions of literary style, lives of historical figures, legal points, and philosophical isVezava: Trda44,47 €
