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Alternative Christs

Edited by Olav Hammer. Few, if any, individuals have had such a profound influence on Western culture as Jesus, even though not a single detail of his life or teaching can be confirmed with certainty. This lack of reliable biographical data has left his life ...

The Cambridge Companion to the roman historians

Edited by Andrew Feldherr. No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured ...

The empire project

the rise and fall of the British world-system 1830-1970

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than ...

The Parthenon and its sculptures

Edited by Michael B. Cosmopoulos. Few monuments have fascinated people as much as the Parthenon. Two and a half millennia after its construction, this monument continues to generate important research across a wide range of fields, from classics and art history to archaeology and the ...

Seneca and the self

Edited by Shadi Bartsch and David Wray. This new collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of ethical selfhood. The contributors explore the main cruces ...

The virtue of Aristotle´s ethics

While Aristotle#s account of the happy life continues to receive attention, many of his claims about virtue of character seem so puzzling that modern philosophers have often discarded them, or have reworked them to fit more familiar theories that do not make virtue of ...

Ancient greek political thought in practice

Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to ...

The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism

Edited by James Warren. This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school#s history from the early Hellenistic Garden to ...

The Cambridge Companion to ancient greek political thought

Edited by Stephen Salkever. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by ...

After the holocaust

the book of Job, Primo Levi, and the path to affliction

The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Moving from the Book of ...

Ethics and the business of biomedicine

During the last thirty years we have witnessed sweeping changes in health care worldwide, including new and expensive biomedical technologies, an increasingly powerful and influential pharmaceutical industry, steadily increasing health care costs in industrialised nations, and new threats to medical professionalism. The essays collected in ...

The philosophy of death

The Philosophy of Death is a discussion of the basic philosophical issues concerning death, and a critical introduction to the relevant contemporary philosophical literature. Luper begins by addressing questions about those who die: What is it to be alive? What does it mean for you ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 4

christianity in Western Europe c. 1100-c. 1500

Edited by Miri Rubin and Walter Simons. During the early middle ages, Europe developed complex and varied Christian cultures, and from about 1100 secular rulers, competing factions and inspired individuals continued to engender a diverse and ever-changing mix within Christian society. This volume explores the ...

Parables and conflict in the hebrew bible

Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible examines the intimate relationship between parables and conflict in the Hebrew Bible. Challenging the scholarly consensus, Jeremy Schipper argues that parables do not function as appeals to change their audience#s behavior. Nor do they serve to diffuse ...

The horse in human history

The horse is surely the #aristocrat# of animals domesticated by man. This book assesses the impact of the horse on human society from 4000 BC to AD 2000, by first describing initial horse domestication on the Pontic-Caspian steppes and the early development of driving and ...

The three cultures

natural science, social sciences, and the humanities in the 21st century

In 1959 C. P. Snow delivered his now-famous Rede Lecture, #The Two Cultures,# a reflection on the academy based on the premise that intellectual life was divided into two cultures: the arts and humanities on one side and science on the other. Since then, a ...

Alexis de Tocqueville, the first social scientist

The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Elster argues that Tocqueville#s main claim to ...

Geographies of empire

european empires and colonies c.1880-1960

How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers - British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, German and ...

Los rusos en la guerra de España

1936-1939

Gran formato con ilustraciones. Entre agosto de 1936 y febrero de 1939, voluntarios rusos combatieron al lado de la República española. Además de los propiamente rusos, entre ellos había bielorrusos, ucranianos, osetios, georgianos, azerbaiyanos, uzbekos, y otros muchos del total de Repúblicas Socialistas federadas y ...