Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
10 best books like Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation (Mary Lefkowitz): Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, West of Here, Roman Warfare, The World of Late Antiquity 150-750, Greek Religion, History of the Ancient Near East, Travel Light, Move Fast, 2020
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
| Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| ISBN | 0465026567 |
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140443339 |
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.
Moving from darkness to light, from...
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital’s cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical...
| Author | Jonathan Evison |
| ISBN | 1565129520 |
At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0304352659 |
The Romans built perhaps the greatest empire of all time, forged with an unequaled skill in warfare. Accompany these unparalleled troops from the conquest of Italy thru to world conquest. Watch as defeated armies became allies & future Roman soldiers. Consider the irony of extreme brutality...
| Author | Peter R.L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0393958035 |
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization."
These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared...
| Author | Walter Burkert |
| ISBN | 0674362810 |
In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable...
History of the Ancient Near East
| Author | Marc Van De Mieroop |
| ISBN | 1405149116 |
If the history of the Near East has always seemed a little daunting and confusing, this book by one of the best known writers on the subject should show you the light at the end of the tunnel. Beginning c.3000 BC with the advent of the first writing system, Van De Mieroop traces the emergence and development...
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the...
IN 2020, BRITAIN IS AT BREAKING POINT...
In a country sorely divided, what happens to empathy and tolerance, to generosity of spirit? And can hope survive?
In 2020, years of economic turmoil, bitter debates over immigration, and anger at the political elites have created a maelstrom,...
De dood is een zware klus
De oude Syriër Abd al-Latief heeft een laatste wens: hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp. Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen. Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op: samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg. In een busje,...
| Author | Matteo Righetto |
| ISBN | 1782274650 |
The first novel in a trilogy set on the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 19th century. A young woman seeks the truth behind her father's disappearance.
Every year, Augusto De Boer undertakes a treacherous journey through the Italian Alps, smuggling his family's...
