Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy, Vlassopoulos Kostas
Автор: Brookes John Название: Landscape Legacy ISBN: 1910258938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910258934 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: Long-awaited memoir by leading international landscape and garden designer John Brookes
Автор: Nethersole Scott Название: Art of Renaissance Florence: A City and Its Legacy ISBN: 178627342X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786273420 Издательство: Laurence King Рейтинг: Цена: 5313.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic and intellectual blossoming in Florence from ca.1400 to 1520 - the period traditionally known as the Early and High Renaissance. He looks at the city and its art with fresh eyes, presenting the well-known within a wider context of cultural reference. Key works of art - from painting, sculpture and architecture to illuminated manuscripts - by artists such as Michelangelo, Donatello, Botticelli and Brunelleschi are showcased alongside the unexpected and less familiar.
Автор: DuBois Page Название: Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy ISBN: 1845119266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845119263 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 29887.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Slaves are associated not just with the Colosseum of ancient Rome but also with Californian labour factories and south Asian sweatshops, while young women and children appear increasingly vulnerable to sexual trafficking. This title shows that slavery, far from being extinct, is alive and well in the contemporary era.
Автор: DuBois Page Название: Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy ISBN: 1845119274 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845119270 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5966.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Slaves are associated not just with the Colosseum of ancient Rome but also with Californian labour factories and south Asian sweatshops, while young women and children appear increasingly vulnerable to sexual trafficking. This title shows that slavery, far from being extinct, is alive and well in the contemporary era.
Автор: Philippa Lang Название: Science: Antiquity and its Legacy ISBN: 1350121517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350121515 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sales in classics, the history of ideas and the history and philosophy of science. Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. But the bold investigative experimentation and scientific systems of thought that this era spawned were in turn thoroughly influenced by Greek and Roman authors and ideas. Xenophanes' ideas about fossils informed the science of geology. Copernicus and his novel notion that the earth revolved around the sun, and not vice versa, were arguably influenced by the Samian philosopher and mathematician, Aristarchus. And the anatomists of Alexandria still - even today - have valuable insights to bring to current ethical discussions of vivisection and animal welfare. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, Philippa Lang addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.She discusses the origins of the cosmos; natural laws in mathematics and physics; conceptions and philosophies of biology and disease; ideas about mechanistic science and technology as they have been used to control the societies of human beings; and the important nexus between science, morality and ethics.Greek and Roman parallels illuminate and clarify the meaning of science itself.
Автор: Denise Eileen McCoskey Название: Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy ISBN: 1350125008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350125001 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one's skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration and colonialism to construct a hierarchy of civilizations and then justify slavery and other forms of economic exploitation. Assumptions about race thus have to take into account factors other than mere physiognomy. This is particularly true in relation to the classical world. In fifth century Athens, racial theory during the Persian Wars produced the categories 'Greek' and 'Barbarian', and set them in brutal opposition to one another: a process that could be as intense and destructive as 'black and 'white' in our own age. Ideas about race in antiquity were therefore completely distinct but as closely bound to political and historical contexts as those that came later. This provocative book boldly explores the complex matrices of race - and the differing interpretations of ancient and modern - across epic, tragedy and the novel. Ranging from Theocritus to Toni Morrison, and from Tacitus and Pliny to Bernal's seminal study Black Athena, this is a powerful and original new assessment.
Автор: Cox, Patricia (Author) Название: Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man ISBN: 1597409774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597409773 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4826.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This DVD-Rom covers the Great War away from the Western Front, it is a follow-on to our successful DVD-Rom, which provided the official record of the fighting in which British troops were involved in France and Flanders during the Great War 1914-1918 the Western Front. It contains the official record of all the other campaigns in which British troops took part Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa, Macedonia, Italy, Egypt and Palestine, Persia, Togoland and the Cameroons. Also included is Brig-Gen Sir J.E.Edmondss account of the Occupation of Constantinople in 1919 and that of Brig JJ Collier, former Chief of the General Staff of
As with dance, so with juggling--the moment that the performer finishes the routine, their act ceases to exist beyond the memory of the audience. There is no permanent record of what transpired, so studying the ancient roots of juggling is fraught with difficulty. Using the records that do exist, juggling appears to have emerged around the world in cultures independent of one another in the ancient past. Paintings in Egypt from 2000 BCE show jugglers engaged in performance. Stories from the island nation of Tonga place juggling's creation with their goddess of the underworld--a figure who has guarded a cave since time immemorial. Juggling games and rituals are pervasive in isolated Inuit cultures in northern Canada and Greenland. Though the earliest representation of juggling is 4,000 years old, the practice is surely much older--in the same way that humans were doubtlessly singing and dancing long before the first bone flute was created. This book is an attempt to catalogue this tangible history of juggling in human culture. It is the story of juggling, represented in art and writing from around the world, across time. Although much has been written about modern jugglers-specific performers, their props, and their routines-little has been said about those who first developed the craft. As juggling enters a golden age in the internet era, Juggling: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages offers a look into the past--to the origins of our art form.
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