Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
by Charlie Cottam, David L. S. Hodgkinson, Steve Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:
Period Study: Relations between Greek states and between...
The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition
A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers...
Brecht on Performance
Messingkauf and Modelbooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing...
Philosophy
Principles and Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:
AS
Thucydides,...
by Mary Midgley
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the ever popular stance in society...
Towards the Light
The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it...
Among the Dead Cities
Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This is the OCR endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2018 to 2023. The texts covered are:
Homer
Odyssey 6:48–159
Iliad 3:1–112
Odyssey 7:184–297
Herodotus
Histories 1.30–4, 86–7 and 6.125 (Solon & Croesus; How Alcmaeon...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Annals Book I sections 16–30 and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Annals Book I sections 3–7, 11–14 and 46–49, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33
Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:
Love and Relationships by Matthew Barr and Alastair Thorley
Politics of the Late Republic...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34
Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:
Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and Julietta Steinhauer
Democracy and the Athenians...
Expurgating the Classics
Editing Out in Greek and Latin
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric...
Theorising Performance
Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the performance of ancient Greek drama; some ancient plays - "Sophocles", "Oedipus",...