Humanities - Page 232

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really under...

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The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy...

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Machiavelli's Broken World

Machiavelli was painfully aware of living in a disastrous moment of Italy's history: foreign invasio...

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What's Wrong with Rights?

Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of...

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The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much –...

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Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read...

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity

The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and adm...

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Roman Law in Context

This book explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the...

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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it’s sadly untrue, even if it has a n...

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The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language

'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever r...

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The Dawn of Language: The Story of How We Came to Talk

“A model of popular-science writing” STEVEN POOLEWho was “the first speaker” and what was their firs...

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The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scatt...

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The Wisdom of the Enlightenment

Enlightenment―Aufklärung in German, Lumières in French―is more an idea than a period. But it is an i...

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Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis

How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history’s greatest ‘what ifs’....

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The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy

This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A tea...

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