Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus. New ed, Paperback - ***

Explores the Timaeus' impact on pre-modern Greek and Arabic conceptualizations of medicine and will appeal to classicists, medievalists, and histor...

A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point.

Ficino's commentary on Plato's Timaeus offers the English reader, for the first time, an opportunity to share the insights of this highly influenti...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): John SallisNumber of pages: 192Collection: The Collected Writings of John SallisPublication date: 202...

Examining the massive social changes that reshaped the Middle East over the long nineteenth century, this study of the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissa...

A close text commentary on Plato's Charmides, which has been regarded as difficult and enigmatic. Examines the philosophical and dramatic features ...

Despite substantial spending on education and support for reform, the quality of education in many, if not most, Arab countries remains low. Which ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Albert HouraniAfterword by: Malise RuthvenUpon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the defin...

Publisher: Warburg InstituteNumber of pages: 226Collection: Warburg Institute ColloquiaPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 178 x 176 x 2Cover type: P...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

Reducere. Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an...

Comprehensive and analytical, A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict presents a balanced and impartial overview of this centuries-old struggle.Publ...

Publisher: Nick Hern BooksAuthor(s): Ariel DorfmanNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 1996Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 6Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Jack and his marvelous beanstalk made their first appearance in England in 1734 - and for nearly three centuries the tale has continued to enchant ...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 261Collection: Global Crises and the MediaPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 151 x 225 x 15Cove...

Abizadeh uncovers the basic distinction underwriting Hobbes's ethics: between prudential reasons of the good and reasons of the right, for which we...

An international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars examine the relationship between filmmaking - the sev...

Publisher: Countryside BooksAuthor(s): Charles WildgooseIllustration(s): Sketch maps and photographsNumber of pages: 96Collection: Pub WalksPublica...

This Element covers the art produced in early medieval England from the departure of the Romans to the early twelfth century, an art that shows the...

This Element introduces this literature and proposes a novel contribution. It defends a realist stance and offers a way of delineating genuine leve...

New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists' film and video and d...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as B...

Publisher: Pulse PublicationsAuthor(s): Ronald CameronIllustration(s): 29ill.7M.Number of pages: 88Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 211 x 297 x 21...

Examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the East...

Publisher: Girls Gone By PublishersAuthor(s): Elinor Brent-DyerCollection: Chalet SchoolPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 189 x 18Cover type:...

A seminal work reissued with a new introduction from Judit Szekacs-Weisz and welcoming words from Ivan Ward and Carol Siegel. It features stories o...

This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates th...

DescriptionCities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, what...

This Element examines hierarchical and clerical understandings of witchcraft within the contemporary Roman Catholic church. It explores whether it ...

This Element covers the history of Native North America's largest city: Cahokia, providing the archaeological history of its emergence and collapse...

Publisher: Peter Lang LtdAuthor(s): Richard ScholarNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 161 x 231 x 22Cover type: Paperback / soft...

The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide en...