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  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Portuguese

    An Essential Grammar

    by Amelia P. Hutchinson, Janet Lloyd, Cristina Sousa ...
    Series series Routledge Essential Grammars
    This new edition of Portuguese: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the most important aspects of modern European Portuguese. Combining traditional and function-based grammar, the book sets out the complexities of Portuguese in short, readable sections. Explanations are clear, free from jargon and substantiated by examples. Throughout, the emphasis is on Portuguese as used by ... Read more

    Was $65.99 USD Now $58.99 USD

  • The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

    by Claude Calame ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Gardens of Adonis

    Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition

    by Marcel Detienne ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    Series series Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
    Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Pericles of Athens

    by Vincent Azoulay ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    The definitive biography of the legendary "first citizen of Athens"Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry, oratory, and architecture. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Practical Equine Dermatology

    by Janet D. Littlewood, David H. Lloyd, J. Mark Craig ...
    A practical and comprehensive reference for equine dermatology casesThe newly revised Second Edition of Practical Equine Dermatology delivers a thorough exploration of common dermatological conditions affecting horses whilst also drawing attention to rarer conditions.The book offers detailed advice on treatments and products currently available on the veterinary market in a problem-oriented layout ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens

    A Tale of Two Statues

    by Vincent Azoulay, Janet Lloyd ...
    This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action, these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have known hours of glory and moments of hardships, which have transformed them into true icons of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Chimera Principle

    An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination

    by Carlo Severi ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi’s The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people “without writing”—which relies on such ephemeral records as ornaments, body painting, and masks—as ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome

    by Claudia Moatti ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cultural dynamism and creativity when Roman intellectuals, most notably Cicero and Varro, began to explore ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

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    The Great Alone

    A Novel

    by Janet Dailey ...
    Narrated by Lloyd Bochner ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 3 min

    This landmark saga of adventure and romance spans 200 years against the rich and dangerous wilds of Alaska as a backdrop. The epic begins with the love of a beautiful Aleut woman for a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of a proud breed of native Alaskans, in whose veins flows the blood of the many peoples— Russian, Indian, English, American— who played a ... Read more

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    The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults

    Edited by Michael B. Cosmopoulos ...
    Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this excellent book studies a wide range of contributions and showcases new research on the archaeology, ritual and history of Greek mystery cults.With a lack of written evidence that exists for the mysteries, archaeology has proved central to explaining their significance and this volume is key to understanding a phenomenon central to ... Read more

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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