History of the Persian Empire

A T Olmstead

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Books
• Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, an... Lees meer

Essays in Positive Economics

Milton Friedman

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• "Stimulating, provocative, often infuriating, but well worth reading."-Peter Newman, Economica "His critical blast blows like a north wind against the... Lees meer

The Rhythmic Structure of Music

Grosvenor Cooper

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• In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythm... Lees meer

The Renaissance Philosophy of Man

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• Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophi... Lees meer

Islam Observed

Clifford Geertz

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• In four brief chapters, writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of re... Lees meer

The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2

Harold C Goddard

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• In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his inco... Lees meer

Education and the Cult of Efficiency

Raymond E Callahan

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• Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sac... Lees meer

The Pullman Strike

Almont Lindsey

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• The Pullman Strike of 1894 threatened an entire nation with social and economic upheaval. Describing both its immediate results in business and its fa... Lees meer

Tales of Ancient India

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• "This admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . ... Lees meer

A Rhetoric of Irony

Wayne C Booth

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• Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itsel... Lees meer

The Jack-Roller

Clifford R Shaw

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• The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen ye... Lees meer

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes

Leo Strauss

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• In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ... Lees meer

Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels

Alexander Heidel

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• Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood w... Lees meer

The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control

Norval Morris, Gordon J Hawkins

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• Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins's first premise is that our criminal justice system is a moral busybody, unwisely extended beyond its proper role of ... Lees meer

A Companion to the Iliad

Malcolm M Willcock

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• Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been s... Lees meer

The Religion of Java

Clifford Geertz

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• Written with a rare combination of analysis and speculation, this comprehensive study of Javanese religion is one of the few books on the religion of ... Lees meer

Three Plays of Racine

Jean Baptiste Racine

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• "George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous ... Lees meer

The Sumerians

Samuel Noah Kramer

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• The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was prob... Lees meer

Urban Blues

Charles Keil

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• Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling... Lees meer

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Charles Darwin

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• Darwin's work of 1872 still provides the point of departure for research in the theory of emotion and expression. Although he lacked the modern resear... Lees meer

Philosophies of Art and Beauty

Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns

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• This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for... Lees meer

Odes and Epodes

Horace

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• The writings of Horace have exerted strong and continuing influence on writers from his day to our own. Sophisticated and intellectual, witty and fran... Lees meer

Emotion and Meaning in Music

Leonard B Meyer

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• "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many c... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective

Carl Joachim Friedrich

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• Mr. Friedrich develops his own position within the framework of the history of Western legal philosophy from the Old Testament down to contemporary wr... Lees meer