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    A compelling history of the world’s greatest ancient powers.In this highly appealing collection, a distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars survey the great empires from 1600 BCE to 500 CE. In ten comprehensive chapters, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, these experts guide readers through the empires of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria and Babylonia, Achaemenid ... Read more

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    Aging doesn't Have to Mean Disease, Frailty, and Decline.With the right approach, we can treat aging as a disease and overcome its root causes to prevent and even reverse age-related diseasesDr. Thomas Harrison's book, Forever Young, challenges readers to rethink their approach to aging and shows them how to prevent and reverse age-related diseases, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and ... Read more

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  • Of Bridges

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    "A fascinating and profound meditation on . . . bridges, and the myriad connections to . . . our creativity and the conundrums of the human condition." ―Sting, musician"Always," wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live." Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, ... Read more

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  • Gun Violence and Gun Control: Critical Engagements

    This interdisciplinary anthology explores a wide range of intersecting issues contributing to and arising from gun violence. Millions of people are hurt and killed by gun violence globally, and the traumatic realities of these events are navigated by individuals and communities widely. In this context, gun violence fundamentally threatens social functioning in significant ways, and profoundly test ... Read more

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  • Greeks and Barbarians

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    Greeks and Barbarians examines ancient Greek conceptions of the "other." The attitudes of Greeks to foreigners and there religions, and cultures, and politics reveals as much about the Greeks as it does the world they inhabited. Despite occasional interest in particular aspects of foreign customs, the Greeks were largely hostile and dismissive viewing foreigners as at best inferior, but more often ... Read more

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  • Quality Thrills

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  • Interpreting Herodotus

    Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main thesis that the Histories should be read against the background of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars during which it was written, its insight and penetrating discussion extend to a range of other issues, from the relative ... Read more

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  • Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms “a new variety of countryside ... Read more

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  • Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing

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  • Driving to the Darkness

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    Driving To The Darkness is a story of the 1960's about Splinters and Boomer in a decade of an asian war, anti war protests, assassinations in the country, civil rights, pot smoking and wonderful rock 'n roll music that the twins collected and listened to endlessly. It begins with the calm of the early sixties and a young president being elected to office. It shows the violence and near civil war ... Read more

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  • Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile

    Memoirs of Worthington, Ohio in the 1950’S

    Grandaddy Drove An Oldsmobile is a tale of the 1950's about two skinny twin urchins living in the colonial and historic village of Worthington, Ohio. Their adventures encompass exploring the woods and ravines in Davy Crocket coonskin hats and walking around with their cowboy hats and fanner fifties revolvers. Their love of American cars, family members who are vivid characters,emerging rock and ... Read more

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