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  • The Limits of Love

    The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen

    by Michael Squires ...
    The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity—and the limits—of marriage. The Lawrences come alive not as simple quarreling travelers, nor as blissful domestic partners, but as complex personalities who experimented with marriage to see if it would fulfill their needs. Their antagonisms and their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Art of the Body

    Antiquity and its Legacy

    by Michael Squire ...
    Series series Ancients and Moderns
    The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship between Graeco ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Meltdown

    The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward

    by Larry Kirsch, Gregory D. Squires, Michael Barr ...
    Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb unsafe and unfair practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis. In interviews with key government, industry, and advocacy groups along with deep archival research, Kirsch and Squires show where the CFPB was able to overcome many abusive practices, where it was less able to do so, and why.Open for business in 2011, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • D. H. Lawrence and Italy

    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardina, Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as yet untouched ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • School Rethink 2.0

    Putting Reinvention into Practice

    Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, Juliet Squire ...
    Ten brilliant approaches that are disrupting US education and actionable advice for their broader implementation ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    School Rethink 2.0

    Putting Reinvention into Practice

    Narrated by Christopher P. Brown, Kim Niemi ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 38 min

    In School Rethink 2.0, editors Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, and Juliet Squire gather leaders immersed in the nuts-and-bolts work of educational reinvention to present ten promising education improvements and ways to implement them. Contributors explain what it takes to reinvent schooling and the hurdles that emerge when tackling everything from curricula to staffing to assessment. These ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Sight and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Michael Squire ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon

    Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry

    Edited by Avi Lifschitz, Michael Squire ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the history of post-Enlightenment aesthetics, it has also shaped the very practices of 'poetry' and 'painting' ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • The Frame in Classical Art

    A Cultural History

    Edited by Verity Platt, Michael Squire ...
    The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel

    Edited by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

    Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holisticallyDiscusses Greece and Rome in each chapter, with sensitivity to the continuities and differences between the two classical ... Read more

    $176.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

    Edited by Martin Revermann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic ... Read more

    $40.99 USD