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 ...

Christine Lavant (1915-1973), one of Austria's most famous yet obscure 20th century poets, wrote these memoirs during a voluntary six-week stay in ...

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...

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose from Sybylla Feminist Press, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for m...

When you cross an Oxford graduate with a young man seeking gold and adventure in the remote wilderness, the result is Nahanni Journals. In this fas...

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...

This is a unique collection of pieces about the many filmmakers and writers from around the globe -- Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East --...

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.

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.

Pacific Rim Letters by Roy Kiyooka at once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with K...

"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 ...

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...

Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edi...

William Penn played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the se...

"Politics by principle is that which modern politics is not. What we observe is 'politics by interest', whether in the form of explicitly discrimin...