The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction, Willert

Автор: Boyd Brian
Название: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
ISBN: 0674057112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674057111
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer`s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss`s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works.

Автор: Ober Josiah
Название: The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
ISBN: 069114091X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691140919
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Описание: "Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth. Classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence lasting hundreds of years. Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period--and why only then? And how, after `the Greek miracle` had endured for centuries, did the Macedonians defeat the Greeks, seemingly bringing an end to their glory? Drawing on a massive body of newly available data and employing novel approaches to evidence, Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece and an unprecedented account of its rise and fall. Ober argues that Greece`s rise was no miracle but rather the result of political breakthroughs and economic development. The extraordinary emergence of citizen-centered city-states transformed Greece into a society that defeated the mighty Persian Empire. Yet Philip and Alexander of Macedon were able to beat the Greeks in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE, a victory enabled by the Macedonians` appropriation of Greek innovations. After Alexander`s death, battle-hardened warlords fought ruthlessly over the remnants of his empire. But Greek cities remained populous and wealthy, their economy and culture surviving to be passed on to the Romans--and to us. A compelling narrative filled with uncanny modern parallels, this is a book for anyone interested in how great civilizations are born and die. This book is based on evidence available on a new interactive website. To learn more, please visit: http: //polis.stanford.edu/"--

Автор: Thomas K Hubbard
Название: Homosexuality in greece and rome
ISBN: 0520234308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520234307
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Описание: Collects the primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome that are translated into modern English. Covering a period - from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century bce to Greco-Roman texts of the third and fourth centuries ce - this title includes well-known writings by Plato, Sappho, Aeschines, Catullus, and Juvenal.

Название: Cambridge illustrated history of ancient greece
ISBN: 0521481961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521481960
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is available for the first time in paperback.

Автор: Andrew May
Название: Pseudoscience and Science Fiction
ISBN: 3319426044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319426044
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity … are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with academic science, beyond the superficial trappings of jargon and subject matter. The most obvious difference between the two is that pseudoscience is presented as fact, not fiction. Yet like SF, and unlike real science, pseudoscience is driven by a desire to please an audience – in this case, people who “want to believe”. This has led to significant cross-fertilization between the two disciplines. SF authors often draw on “real” pseudoscientific theories to add verisimilitude to their stories, while on other occasions pseudoscience takes its cue from SF – the symbiotic relationship between ufology and Hollywood being a prime example of this. This engagingly written, well researched and richly illustrated text explores a wide range of intriguing similarities and differences between pseudoscience and the fictional science found in SF. Andrew May has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from Manchester University. After many years in academia and the private sector, he now works as a freelance writer and scientific consultant. He has written pocket biographies of Newton and Einstein, as well as contributing to a number of popular science books. He has a lifelong interest in science fiction, and has had several articles published in Fortean Times magazine

Автор: Barbas-Rhoden, Laura
Название: Ecological imaginations in Latin American fiction
ISBN: 0813035465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813035468
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 65470.00 T
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Описание: From the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Amazon to the windswept lands of Tierra del Fuego, Laura Barbas-Rhoden discusses the natural settings within contemporary Latin American novels as they depict key moments of environmental change or crisis in the region from the nineteenth-century imperialism to the present.

Автор: Abberley
Название: English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914
ISBN: 1107101166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107101166
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Will Abberley explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, providing a new, historical angle on current debates about language evolution and the language of science. Abberley offers fresh perspectives on authors including Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells, and genres including utopian, historical and science fiction.

Автор: Nicholson
Название: Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece
ISBN: 1107403685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107403680
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Athletics represented an important institution through which the Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political position. In this book, Nigel Nicholson examines how aristocrats responded as the relationship between the victors and the helpers changed radically, which threatened the political value of athletics, through a study of victory memorials.

Автор: Fereira, Rachel Haywood
Название: The emergence of Latin American science fiction
ISBN: 0819570818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780819570819
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America

Автор: Coldstream, J.N.
Название: Geometric Greece 900-700bc 2ed
ISBN: 0415298997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415298995
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Fully updated, this comprehensive survey now includes a substantial new chapter on the abundant discoveries and developments made since the book`s first publication. Highly illustrated, including images of several finds never previously published, it provides the only detailed archaeological survey of the ninth and eighth century BC.

Автор: Pelagidis Theodore, Mitsopoulus Michael
Название: Greece: From Exit to Recovery?
ISBN: 0815725779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815725770
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Two Greek economic analysts explain the Greek financial crisis —from beginning to end.The first section of Greece: From Exit to Recovery? explores the lead up to to Greece's adoption of the euro. Authors Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos believe that the ensuing challenges were foreseeable. In fact, the authors posit that it was Greece's difficultly in dealing with those challenges that sparked the euro crisis.Section II analyzes discrete sectors of the economy, paying special attention to labor and finance — and the mistakes creditors made in focusing on reducing Greek incomes — rather than increasing competitiveness on non-labor costs.Section III investigates why Greek companies spend relatively little on research and development? The authors' analysis indicates that policy decisions largely determine R & D performance in the private sector, and they advance a number of specific policy proposals to improve the situation.

Автор: Orrieux, Claude Schmitt-pantel, Pauline (professor
Название: History of ancient greece
ISBN: 0631203095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631203094
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This is a single-volume introduction to Ancient Greece, covering the period from the Golden Age of Knossos and Mycenae to the incorporation of Greece into the Roman empire in the second century BC and the transfer of Greek culture to Byzantium in the fourth century.