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by Darius Rejali
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture...
The Tyranny of Guilt
An Essay on Western Masochism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become...
by Raffaella Cribiore
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian...
The Emperor Nero
A Guide to the Ancient Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Nero's reign (AD 54–68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians—not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war....
428 AD
An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity...
On War and Leadership
The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty combat commanders. What they have to say--which is remarkably...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age of 62, and unable to make it even...
Aesopic Conversations
Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth,...
The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy
Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with...
The Symptom and the Subject
The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean...
by Deborah Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status...
by Gyan Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires...
The Pity of Partition
Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged...
Death by a Thousand Cuts
The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support?...