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A Commentary on Aristotle's ’De anima'
This new translation of Thomas Aquinas’s most important study of Aristotle casts bright light on the thinking of both philosophers. Using a new text of Aquinas’s original Latin commentary (René-Antoine Gauthier’s Leonine...
Oedipus at Thebes
Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time
In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries—and in...
The Crown Jewels
The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives
This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their “crown jewels,” as the KGB unofficially called its most...
The Road to Stalingrad
Stalin`s War with Germany, Volume One
In this first volume of John Erickson’s monumental history of the grueling Soviet-German war of 1941–1945, the author takes us from the pre-invasion Soviet Union, with its inept command structures and strategic...
The Road to Berlin
Stalin`s War with Germany, Volume Two
Completing the most comprehensive and authoritative study ever written of the Soviet-German war, John Erickson in this volume tells the vivid and compelling story of the Red Army’s epic struggle to drive the Germans...
Blackhearts
Ecology in Outback Australia
This fascinating book is a firsthand account of the adventures of an ornithological field team studying long-tailed finches in outback Australia. In 1991, Nancy Burley, a noted behavioral ecologist, and her husband,...
Blood from the Sky
“Rawicz extended the frontier of artistic expression, by giving the unbearable a bearable frame.”—from the introductionWith the publication of this paperback edition of Piotr Rawicz’s prizewinning Blood from...
Forests to Fight Poverty
Creating National Strategies
As the potential global impact of forest destruction and degradation becomes better understood, the link between poverty and deforestation in developing countries is of increasing concern. In this clear, focused book, eminent...
Rethinking Visual Anthropology
For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows...
Agrippina
Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her...