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  • The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Jeremy Atack, Larry Neal ...
    Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important causal factors in economic performance. In a series of insightful essays, financial and ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • Memories of Socrates

    Memorabilia and Apology

    by Xenophon ...
    Translated by Martin Hammond ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Who would you say knows himself?' In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was one of the circle of mainly upper-class young Athenians attracted to Socrates' teaching. His Memorabilia is both a passionate defence of Socrates ... Read more

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    Forest 404

    A BBC sci-fi thriller

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    Forest 404: 9-part thriller, 9-part talk, 9-part soundscape and exclusive bonus documentaryCan you feel loss for something you've never known?Meet Pan. She lives a few centuries from now, in a future beyond a data crash that wiped out most records of life from before the 23rd century: The Cataclysm. Her job is to sort through the old sound recordings that survived from before the crash - from The ... Read more

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  • French Feminisms 1975 and After

    New Readings, New Texts

    Series Book 127 - Modern French Identities
    This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and textuality, Hélène Cixous and others became internationally recognised for ... Read more

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  • Are We There Yet?

    Travel to indignity (and beyond!) with the star of TV’s Rivals

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  • Plato

    A Civic Life

    by Carol Atack ...
    Series series Great Lives of the Ancient World
    Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Plato lived in turbulent times, born during a war that led to Athens’ defeat and decline. A restored democracy enabled the execution of his teacher Socrates.Carol Atack explores how his life in Athens influenced Plato’s thinking, how he developed the ... Read more

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  • Anachronism and Antiquity

    This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term 'anachronism' as well as the presence of anachronism in all its forms in classical literature, criticism and material objects. Contrary to the position taken by many modern philosophers of history, this book ... Read more

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    Are We There Yet?

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  • DELAY

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'I'm awake. I'm alive. Everything's real and I love you.'Lin, an astronaut, speeds towards a distant planet. He's on a pioneering solo mission to create a new home for humankind.His only human contact is an exchange of voice messages with his lover, Silas, back on Earth. But thanks to the laws of relativity, Silas is ageing so much faster than Lin. Days for the astronaut will be decades for the ... Read more

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  • Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 4

    Myles Burnyeat (1939-2019) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge, where he became Laurence Professor, in 1996 he took up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, from which he retired in 2006. In 2012 he published two volumes collecting ... Read more

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  • Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3

    Myles Burnyeat (1939–2019) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge, where he became Laurence Professor, in 1996 he took up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, from which he retired in 2006. In 2012 he published two volumes collecting ... Read more

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