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A naturalist's account of the rich flora and wildlife encountered during an eight-day walk across the massif of Tymphi in Zagori, Greece.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.

In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses original documents, archaeology, and histories of myth and witchcraft to create the first-ever biography of the young duchess who survived two reigns and two wars to become the first lady at two rival courts. David Baldwin, established...

The Continental tradition has always placed great emphasis on the Logos. The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Philosophy celebrates and situates this emphasis in the genre of the gift and its giving. The process of receiving, or giving, of the gift overcomes the existential alienation and separation that is so present in the human condition. To ritualize giving and its gifting is to provide a syntax of solidarity that bespeaks our desire for cohesion and need for identities beyond our own. To give a gift is to befriend. The gift of logos is more than a gift from the gods and goddesses; it...

with contributions from Neil Bettridge, Jean Cameron, Paul Cavill and Teresa Webber. The White Book of Southwell derives its name from its white vellum cover. Compiled between c.1350 and 1460, with a few later additions, its 500 pages record 620 individual documents from c.1100 onwards. They range widely from papal bulls and royal charters, quo warranto inquiries, privileges granted by many archbishops of York to the Chapter at Southwell, individual canons (or prebendaries) and the parishes where the Minster held lands or controlled livings. The majority date from c.1200-1460 and concern...

"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the Western Front, presents a picture at once panoramic and intimate of a world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death. And yet throughout he remains...

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On the True Sense of Art "collects essays by philosophers responding to John Sallis s "Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art "as well as his other works on the philosophy of art, including "Force of Imagination "and "Logic of Imagination."

Each of the chapters, by some of the leading thinkers in Continental philosophy, engages Sallis s work on both ancient and new senses of aesthetics a transfiguration of aesthetics as a beginning that is always beginning again. With a responsive essay by Sallis himself, "On the True Sense of Art "forms a critical introduction to the thought of...

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On the True Sense of Art "collects essays by philosophers responding to John Sallis s "Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art "as well as his other works on the philosophy of art, including "Force of Imagination "and "Logic of Imagination."

Each of the chapters, by some of the leading thinkers in Continental philosophy, engages Sallis s work on both ancient and new senses of aesthetics a transfiguration of aesthetics as a beginning that is always beginning again. With a responsive essay by Sallis himself, "On the True Sense of Art "forms a critical introduction to the thought of...

This book provides a comprehensive mathematical description and analysis of the delegate allocation processes in the US Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, focusing on the role of apportionment methods and the effect of thresholds—the minimum levels of support required to receive delegates.  The analysis involves a variety of techniques, including theoretical arguments, simplicial geometry, Monte Carlo simulation, and examination of presidential primary data from 2004 to 2020.The book is divided into two parts: Part I defines the classical apportionment problem and explains...