wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Philip of Macedon
ISBN: 9780715628294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Philip was a genius of extraordinary versatility. Inheriting a kingdom near to collapse, he made Macedonia the greatest military power in the Western world and left to his son Alexander the strongest state in Eastern Europe. This book gives full attention to the Macedonian state and the Macedonian people who made Philip's success possible, and to the high level of culture and of artistic skills revealed by recent archaeological discoveries.
Philip was a genius of extraordinary versatility. Inheriting a kingdom near to collapse, he made Macedonia the greatest military power in the Western ...
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156,46 zł |
The Genius of Alexander the Great
ISBN: 9780715633410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A superb biography reissued in this new edition to coincide with the Warner Bros film Alexander, due for release 4 November 2004, starring among others Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie.
A superb biography reissued in this new edition to coincide with the Warner Bros film Alexander, due for release 4 November 2004, starring among other...
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126,25 zł |
The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris
ISBN: 9780271084718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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444,54 zł |
Genius of Alexander the Great
ISBN: 9780807847442 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his sudden death, Alexander had achieved mythical status throughout his kingdom, and in the centuries that followed his life became the subject of countless chronicles and biographies.
N. G. L. Hammond, the foremost expert on ancient Macedonian history, here presents a new account of Alexander's fabled career. Based on a thorough analysis of the ancient sources and enriched by a lifetime of... By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia ...
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165,11 zł |
The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris
ISBN: 9780271084725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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153,49 zł |
Racine's Roman Tragedies: Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice
ISBN: 9789004504806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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562,32 zł |
Creative Tensions: Introduction to Seventeenth-century French Literature
ISBN: 9780715628010 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The primary aim of this book is to provide an introduction, principally for students but also for the general reader, to 17th-century French writing. Nicholas Hammond shows in eight vignettes what made this period a golden age of French drama, philosophy, and creativity. He argues that, rather than acting as a stranglehold, the rules of the time propelled artistic creativity to exceptional heights, releasing a sensitivity to language and wit which has not been rivalled since.
The primary aim of this book is to provide an introduction, principally for students but also for the general reader, to 17th-century French writing. ...
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130,37 zł |
Playing with Truth
ISBN: 9780198158936 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Pascal's Pensées is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century France, an unfinished work which has both inspired and perplexed readers in succeeding centuries.
Playing with Truth is the first comprehensive book on Pascal to be devoted to his use of key terms depicting the central subject of the Pensées, the human condition. Nicholas Hammond explores such fundamental notions as language and order, proceeding with a detailed analysis of the words inconstance, ennui, inquiétude, bonheur, félicité, and justice. Developing and challenging the most... Pascal's Pensées is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century France, an unfinished work which has both inspi...
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147,11 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
ISBN: 9780521006118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. A team of leading scholars surveys the range of his achievement and intellectual background as well as the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find a convenient and accessible guide to Pascal and advanced students and specialists, a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of his works.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologet...
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134,75 zł |
Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610-1715)
ISBN: 9783034307062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume is the first book-length study devoted to gossip in early modern France. Whereas many works that focus on other countries and periods have concentrated on the relationship between gossip and women, none has explored the crucial link between gossip and same-sex desire. Using material that has never been published before and touching on different social spheres, from valets to the immediate circle of Louis XIV, the author reveals a world radically different from the traditional image of France under the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. An in-depth analysis of the theory and...
This volume is the first book-length study devoted to gossip in early modern France. Whereas many works that focus on other countries and periods have...
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303,72 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
ISBN: 9780521809245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. A team of leading scholars surveys the range of his achievement and intellectual background as well as the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find a convenient and accessible guide to Pascal and advanced students and specialists, a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of his works.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologet...
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376,98 zł |
Forbidden Ascension
ISBN: 9781656537591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,40 zł |
Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny: Essays on Bajazet and Mithridate
ISBN: 9789004695139 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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414,11 zł |
Racine's Andromaque: Absences and Displacements
ISBN: 9789004415058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements casts a new look at the dynamism, richness, and complexity of Racine’s first major tragedy (first performed in Paris in 1667), through a collection of articles specially commissioned by the editors Nicholas Hammond and Joseph Harris. Challenging received opinions about the fixity of French ‘classicism’, this volume demonstrates how Racine’s play is preoccupied with absences, displacements, instability, and uncertainty. The articles explore such issues as: movement and transactions, offstage characters and locations, hallucinations and...
Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements casts a new look at the dynamism, richness, and complexity of Racine’s first major tragedy (first ...
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418,47 zł |
The Cambridge Ancient History
ISBN: 9780521234474 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume III Part I. Volume III Part III explores the new prosperity and growth of the young city-states in the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. This was the great period of expansion and colonization which saw the establishment of Greek city-states from the Western Mediterranean to the Black Sea. This volume describes the East and Egypt, the importance of West Greece and the Aegean islands in trading and exploration, the special characteristics of the...
The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume ...
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1044,19 zł |
T. Macci Plauti Menaechmi
ISBN: 9780674435599 / Angielski / Twarda / 1975 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 BCE), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. The Menaechmi, his best known comedy, is about mistaken identity, involving a set of twins, Menaechmus of Epidamnus and Menaechmus of Syracuse. It incorporates various Roman stock characters including the parasite, the comic courtesan, the comic servant, the domineering wife, the doddering father-in-law and the quack doctor.
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 BCE), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest survi...
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296,78 zł |