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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to co…

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss
The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics

What do you do when you realize that the books you were taught to revere imbued you with false perspectives on humanity, society, and morals?This is the question editor and journalist Rebecca Bratten Weis…

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Robin Smith
Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philoso…

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Nicholas Grene,
The History Play

Traversing 400 years of drama, this book examines the history play as a distinctive form that has its origins in the Early Modern period and which evolves in each subsequent period according to the segmen…

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Melissa Alexander
Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical e…

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Rosanna Warren
The Fair Fields

More than a consecutive memoir, The Fair Fields presents a set of linked vignettes about what it was like to grow up in a white, liberal, literary household in Connecticut in the 1950s and early 1960s. Re…

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Robert Calder
Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

William Somerset Maugham (1874--1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century---and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more …

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Valerie M Hope
The Roman Mourner

To date, mourning has not featured prominently in studies of ancient Roman society, and this book redresses this by presenting a comprehensive analysis of who mourners were and what mourners did, as well …

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Ammonius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 10-14

This commentary of Ammonius (c. 440-520 AD) on Aristotle "On Interpretation" discusses philosophical ideology and is the only commentary written out and published by Ammonius, professor of philo…

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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

Examining a vast corpus of literary references and artistic representations, this volume offers the first comprehensive study of the ketos - the sea monster imagined by the ancient Greeks and Romans.The c…

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Stephen Greenblatt
Sir Walter Ralegh

Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age-focusing on his lifelong attempt to fashion his own identity as a work…

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Anirudh Sridhar
Agon

Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical meta…

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The History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film

This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of sub-Saharan African literatures analyzes social, economic and political factors that influenced the film versions of texts across a wide range of gen…

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Brian Raftery
Hannibal Lecter

"This is a fascinating, fluidly written history of everyone's favourite brain-eating cannibal." - EMPIREDrawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-it…

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James Marcus
Glad to the Brink of Fear

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American c…

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Estelle Haan,
The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's La…

lieferbar ab 25.6.2026.

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Kimberly Conrad,
The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of Leroy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Edited by J. E. Croon): A Comprehensive Curriculum Guide for Teacher

This complete curriculum guide assists educators in bringing LeRoy Wiley Gresham to life in the middle or high school classroom.

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORKA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARConsistently engrossing ... Kushins does an excellent job of guiding us through Leonard's stories, manuscripts …

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORKA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARConsistently engrossing ... Kushins does an excellent job of guiding us through Leonard's stories, manuscripts …

lieferbar ab 29.9.2026.

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