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...

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 ...

About G.M.A Grube's translations of Plato: "Unmistakably superior: more lucid, more accurate, more readable. Above all, they're lucidly adorned, un...

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...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...

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...

Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...

Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...

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...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic w...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his lacon...

Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.

William Graham Sumner is the "forgotten man" of American intellectual history. Too often dismissed or only superficially understood, his interpreta...

What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship betwee...

Carolyn Highland’s outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to get outside and experience all that the natural world has to offer...

Complete edition of the three known versions of the romance.

"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticu...

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, ...

Peat starts out as Lynn Jenner’s study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre ...

A first rate translation at a reasonable price. --Michael Rohr, Rutgers University

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...

"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects b...

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...