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  • The Passions of John Addington Symonds

    by Shane Butler ...
    John Addington Symonds (Bristol 1840 - Rome 1893) was one of Victorian Britain's most prolific authors, with works that included poems, translations, travel essays, and scholarly studies on topics ranging from classical literature to the Renaissance to the poetry of his contemporaries. Today, however, he is usually remembered for his long unpublished Memoirs, a major early monument of queer life ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Alcohol, Power and Public Health

    A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

    by Shane Butler, Karen Elmeland, Betsy Thom, James Nicholls ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates, supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling instead for governments to control consumption across whole populations through a combination of pricing strategies, restrictions on retail ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Hand of Cicero

    by Shane Butler ...
    Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Cicero stands out, however, not only because of his fame, but also because his murder included a unique addition to the customary decapitation. For his corpse was deprived not only of its head, but also of its right hand. Plutarch tells us why Mark Antony wanted the hand that wrote the Philippics. But ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Deep Classics

    Rethinking Classical Reception

    Edited by Professor Shane Butler ...
    Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for – other kinds of human endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Sound and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Shane Butler, Sarah Nooter ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres.Sound plays so great a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Shane Butler, Alex Purves ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity and, when the senses are examined, sight is regularly privileged. 'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. It offers both a fresh ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Our New Zealand Cousins (Unabridged)

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    by James Inglis ...
    Narrated by Ursula Rozell, Ruth William, Shane Butler, Donald Lanzi ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 50 min

    A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had made since the writer had been there twenty years earlier, encomiums on the differences between New South Wales and New Zealand, and the writer's thoughts on where the two colonies needed to progress in the areas of agriculture, mining, forestry and education. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Aspects of Language and Translation

    by George Steiner ...
    "A brilliant work . . . A dazzling meditation on the very nature of language itself" from the world-renowned scholar and author of The Poetry of Thought ( Kirkus Reviews).In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan

    From Hellenism to Celan

    by George Steiner ...
    From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound and illuminating vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language.With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Lacan on Love

    An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference

    by Bruce Fink ...
    Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle.Can psychoanalysis ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Translated by David Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his major work The World as Will and Representation, are presented here in more accessible, self ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Eros the Bittersweet

    An Essay

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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