Literary Essays
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Map for the Heart
Otago University Press£18.00| /To live in Central Otago is to come to terms with the dominance of nature. Writer Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the I...
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Medea
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus ...
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Meno
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£7.99| /About G.M.A Grube's translations of Plato: "Unmistakably superior: more lucid, more accurate, more readable. Above all, they're lucidly adorned, un...
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Miscellany of Demotic Texts & Studies
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£77.99| /Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri. It contains a series of contributions on a variety of Demotic subjects including a new ve...
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Montaigne: Selected Essays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...
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Montaigne: Selected Essays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...
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My Private China
Blacksmith Books (HK)£10.99| /What do normal people in China look forward to when they get up in the morning? What is the mentor of Lang Lang like? What about the personal frien...
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Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...
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Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...
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Nicomachean Ethics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£19.99| /Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the...
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Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic w...
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Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his lacon...
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On Crimes and Punishments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.
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On Liberty, Society & Politics
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /William Graham Sumner is the "forgotten man" of American intellectual history. Too often dismissed or only superficially understood, his interpreta...
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Oral Art Forms & their Passage into Writing
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship betwee...
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Out Here
Rocky Mountain Books£20.99| /Carolyn Highlands outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to get outside and experience all that the natural world has to offer...
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Oxford Version of the Achilleid
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£14.99| /Complete edition of the three known versions of the romance.
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Parmenides
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticu...
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Parmenides
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, ...
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Peat
Otago University Press (NZ)£18.99| /Peat starts out as Lynn Jenners study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre ...
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Phaedo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /A first rate translation at a reasonable price. --Michael Rohr, Rutgers University
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Phaedo
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of Plato's great dialogues of Socrates talking about death, dying, and the soul due to his impending executio...
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Phaedrus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects b...
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Philebus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard...
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