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Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness(2015) SOLNIT, REBECCAEssays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sageVezava: Mehka23,15 € -
Mistress, Mother, Muse(2021) PALASKA, MARIAMistress, Mother, Muse: An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in that it lays the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies.Vezava: Trda41,34 € -
Thinking in a Pandemic(2020)Leading scientists, epidemiologists, and philosophers explore the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and argue for the necessity of scientific reasoning and collective responsibility.Vezava: Mehka16,98 € -
Latin Literature(2015) GRANT, MICHAELPresents an introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and others. This book traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers ofVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Dying Gaul and Other Writings(2017) JONES, DAVID'To open a book by David Jones is to walk in the ley lines of his dreaming, a dreaming offered to believer and non-believer alike.Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Fall of the Roman Republic(2006) PLUTARCHTaken from the "Lives", a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection describes the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 BC. Deeply influential on Shakespeare and many other later writers, the works explore corruption, dVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
On Essays(2021)Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various incarnations of the form, offers new accounts of major essayists in English, and traces a wide range of signVezava: Mehka54,51 € -
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 € -
On Artists(2019) WILSON, ASHLEIGHThe #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years: to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But iVezava: Mehka13,85 € -
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 € -
Apollonius of Tyana, Volume III(2006) PHILOSTRATUSIn his Life of Apollonius Philostratus (second to third century AD) chronicles the miracles of first-century AD teacher, religious reformer, and perceived rival to Jesus of Nazareth, Apollonius of Tyana.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 €
