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  • Shadow of the Storm

    by Robert Edward Graham, C. S. Fuqua ...
    A stone is found on Mars with mysterious markings. Systems begin failing on the ship bringing it to Earth. Random violence escalates after the Marstone arrives on Earth. Then Maxwell Vaughn, a member of a group of the foremost physicists on the planet*,* vanishes from a building with heavy surveillance and tight security. Jim Pleasant Wolfshadow, a Cheyenne, former Navy Seal, and retired operative ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emotional contagion

    The Aristotelian compassio in medieval medicine and philosophy

    by Béatrice Delaurenti ...
    Translated by Graham Robert Edwards ...
    Series series Artes Liberales
    Yawning makes one yawn, crying makes one cry. In the same way, a shiver, appetite, sexual desire and confidence are transmitted from one person to another. These examples capture the contagion-like dimension of emotion, spreading rapidly among people with tangible behavioural manifestations. Emotional contagion still challenges scientific explanation, and philosophical, scientific and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • From the Tree to the Labyrinth

    by Umberto Eco ...
    How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context. ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Time, History, and Literature

    Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

    by Erich Auerbach ...
    Translated by Jane O. Newman ...
    Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A History of Balance, 1250–1375

    The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought

    by Joel Kaye ...
    The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the emergence of a greatly expanded sense of what balance is and can be. ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Nevertheless

    Machiavelli, Pascal

    by Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Series series Verso World History Series
    From the master of "micro-history" a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkersNevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction?In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance

    by Katelijne Schiltz ...
    Throughout the Renaissance, composers often expressed themselves in a language of riddles and puzzles, which they embedded within the music and lyrics of their compositions. This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the period. Katelijne Schiltz focuses on the compositional, notational, practical, social and theoretical aspects of musical riddle ... Read more

    $141.09 USD

  • Songs of the Women Troubadours

    Edited by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, Sarah White ...
    Series series Library of Medieval Literature
    This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts. English versions facing Occitan texts ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Composing the World

    Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos

    by Andrew Hicks ...
    Series series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
    "We can hear the universe!" This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) had detected a "transient gravitational-wave signal." What LIGO heard in the morning hours of September 14, 2015 was the vibration of cosmic forces unleashed with mind-boggling power across a cosmic medium of equally mind-boggling ... Read more

    $62.99 USD