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Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences. This bilingual edition includes all three examples of Machiavelli's comedic art: sparkling translations of his farcical masterpiece, The Mandrake; of his version of Terence's The Woman From Andros; and of his Plautus-inspired Clizia--works whose genre afforded Machiavelli a unique vehicle not only for entertaining audiences but for...

Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of the Hasmonean rule of Judea (152 - 63 BCE) by going beyond the accounts of the Hasmoneans in Josephus in order to bring together new evidence to reconstruct how the Hasmonean family transformed their kingdom into a state that lasted until the arrival of the Romans.

Atkinson reconstructs the relationships between the Hasmonean state and the rulers of the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic Empires, the Itureans, the Nabateans, the Parthians, the Armenians, the Cappadocians, and the Roman Republic. He draws on a variety of...

General Jacob L. "Jake" Devers (1897--1979) was one of only two officers -- the other was Omar C. Bradley -- to command an army group during the decisive campaigns of 1944--1945 that liberated Europe and ended the war with Nazi Germany. After the war, Devers led the Army Ground Forces in the United States and eventually retired in 1949 after forty years of service. Despite incredible successes on the battlefield, General George C. Marshall's "dependable man" remains one of the most underrated and overlooked figures of his generation.

In this definitive biography, James Scott Wheeler...

Mit dem Lonely Planet Vietnam auf eigene Faust durch das Paradies. Willkommen in einer Welt, in der die Farben kräftiger, die Kultur facettenreicher und die Geschichte fesselnder ist als anderswo. Mutter Natur hat Vietnam reich beschenkt. Hohe Berge, einsame Sandstrände und schier endlose smaragdgrüne Reisfelder. Diesmal lügen die Prospekte nicht - Không ó chi, Willkommen in Vietnam!

• Reiseplanung: Erkunde die tollsten Ecken deines Reiseziels und plane deine perfekte Reise mithilfe unserer Reiserouten und detaillierten...

This study, through a close reading of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus argues that Wittgenstein can be interpreted from a mystical point of view.