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  • Case Studies in Pediatric Critical Care

    Edited by Peter J. Murphy, Stephen C. Marriage, Peter J. Davis ...
    Case Studies in Pediatric Critical Care presents a spectrum of real and interesting case studies relating to critically ill children. Each case study includes details of the presenting history and symptomatology, results of investigations and the subsequent critical care management of the patient. Cases have been chosen to illustrate the increasingly diverse range of problems that may be ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children E-Book

    Edited by Peter J. Davis, Franklyn P. Cladis ...
    Written and edited by renowned experts in pediatric anesthesia, Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children provides clear, concise guidance on effective perioperative care for any type of pediatric surgery. The 10th Edition contains significantly revised content throughout, bringing you fully up to date with recent advances in clinical and basic science that have led to changes in today's ... Read more

    $209.69 USD

  • The Art of Veiled Speech

    Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes

    Edited by Han Baltussen, Peter J. Davis ...
    Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences for exercising free speech. In this collection of fourteen original essays, editors Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis trace the roots of censorship far beyond its supposed origins in early modern ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Art of Veiled Speech

    Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes

    Edited by Han Baltussen, Peter J. Davis ...
    Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences for exercising free speech. In this collection of fourteen original essays, editors Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis trace the roots of censorship far beyond its supposed origins in early modern ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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  • Miller's Anesthesia, 2-Volume Set E-Book

    Edited by Michael A. Gropper, Lars I. Eriksson, Lee A. Fleisher, Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish, Neal H. Cohen, Kate Leslie ...
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  • 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

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  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

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  • The Last Pagans of Rome

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    Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century, sponsoring pagan literary circles, patronage of the ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

    Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government

    by Thomas N. Bisson ...
    Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.Bisson traces the origins of European ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus

    Edited by A. J. Woodman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to ... Read more

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