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ISBN 978-0-226-74823-8
EAN 9780226748238
Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE 65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies presents all of his dramas, expertly rendered by preeminent scholars and ...
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The Latest Catastrophe
History, the Present, the Contemporary
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called contemporary history, a history ...
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Pressed for Time
The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
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PVP: 16,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38084-1
EAN 9780226380841
The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-34939-8
EAN 9780226349398
That Kind of Happy, the long-awaited second collection by award-winning poet Maggie Dietz, explores the sharp, profound tension between a disquieted inner life and quotidian experience. Central to the book are poems that take up two major life events: becoming a mother and losing a father within a short stretch of time. Here, at the ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-34956-5
EAN 9780226349565
Gail Mazur's poems in Forbidden City build an engaging meditative structure upon the elements of mortality and art, eloquently contemplating the relationship of art and life and the dynamic possibilities of each in combination. At the collection's heart is the poet's long marriage to the artist Michael Mazur (1935 2009). A fascinating range of tone ...
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Extraterritorial Dreams
European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
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PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-36822-1
EAN 9780226368221
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state, but throughout modern history this has not always been the case. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, "Extraterritorial Dreams" explores the history of Ottoman Jews who sought, acquired, were denied or stripped of ...
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Segregation
A Global History of Divided Cities
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ISBN 978-0-226-37971-5
EAN 9780226379715
When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us in this magisterial history, segregation is everywhere, deforming cities and societies ...
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The Foundations of Natural Morality
On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law
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ISBN 978-0-226-38067-4
EAN 9780226380674
Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural ...
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Why We Play
An Anthropological Study
Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even ...
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Subversive Copy Editor
Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
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ISBN 978-0-226-24007-7
EAN 9780226240077
Longtime manuscript editor and "Chicago Manual of Style" guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the rights and wrongs of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides squared off, it was often the reader who lost. In her search for practical strategies for ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-19888-0
EAN 9780226198880
In 2012, the White House put out a call to increase the number of STEM graduates by one million. Since then, hundreds of thousands of science students have started down the path toward a STEM career. Yet, of these budding scientists, more than half of all college students planning to study science or medicine leave ...
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Islam Translated
Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
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PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38053-7
EAN 9780226380537
The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines.In Islam ...
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Edge of Irony
Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-226-05442-1
EAN 9780226054421
Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, ...
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Shakespeare and the Law
A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions
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ISBN 978-0-226-37856-5
EAN 9780226378565
William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts ...
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What is Paleolithic Art?
Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
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ISBN 978-0-226-26663-3
EAN 9780226266633
Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it something deeper a creative impulse, a spiritual ...
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Writer's Diet
A Guide to Fit Prose
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PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-35198-8
EAN 9780226351988
Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, "The Writer s Diet "is for you! It s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis. Instead, she offers an easy-to-follow set ...
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But Can I Start a Sentence with "but"?
Advice from the Chicago Style Qx{0026}A
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PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-226-37064-4
EAN 9780226370644
Every month, tens of thousands of self-declared word nerds converge upon a single site: The Chicago Manual of Style Online's Qx{0026}A. There the Manual's editors open the mailbag and tackle readers' questions on topics ranging from abbreviation to word division to how to reform that coworker who still insists on two spaces between sentences. Champions ...
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Juvenescence
A Cultural History of Our Age
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PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38196-1
EAN 9780226381961
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at ...
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A War for the Soul of America
A History of the Culture Wars
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PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-37923-4
EAN 9780226379234
When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country, his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout the previous decade and would continue until the century's end, pitting conservative ...
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PVP: 23,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78320-591-2
EAN 9781783205912
Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be up where the people are, but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to be down in the ocean where she is. Movies like the Little Mermaid and Pirates of the Caribbean have sparked the interest of newer generations of mermaid fans, ...
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