The Politics of Youth in Greek Tragedy: Gangs of Athens, Paperback - Matthew Shipton

DescriptionThis bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient worl...

DescriptionNumerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This bo...

This new collection of Aristotle's political writings provides the student with all the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as...

DescriptionThe surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works ...

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 ...

In Adi s Ni o: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called M...

Reducere. For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonme...

After squandering his wealth with prodigal generosity, a rich Athenian gentleman finds himself deep in debt. Unshaken by the prospect of bankruptcy...

Reducere. The authoritative edition of Timon of Athens from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and g...

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evide...

War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone - Krijn Peters

Tthe distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare Our Contemp...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. "The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in...

Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoAuthor(s): Anna Paszkowska-rogaNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 169 x 238 x 15...

Hyper-active Governance is a new way of thinking about governing that gets beyond simplistic debates about whether the state is more or less powerf...

Reducere. When the body of a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector A...

Publisher: New Local Government NetworkAuthor(s): Matthew CliftonIllustration(s): 24 illustrationsNumber of pages: 114Publication date: 2007Dimensi...

Although religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic 'religions of the book', this study examines the emergence of a f...

Drawing on accounts of unaccompanied migrant young people becoming adult, this book offers a political economy analysis of wellbeing in the context...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever wr...

DescriptionYou'll never fall into a tourist trap when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the place...

Rome's first emperor, Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, has probably had the most lasting effect on history of all rulers of the classica...

Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social e...

Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy - Kathryn Bosher

Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anti...

Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New ...

DescriptionOnce considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for...

The new adaptation of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, from bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s)...

An analysis of the processes through which a stable, consolidated, and fully-democratic regime was brought into existence in the 1970s and early 19...

During a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their com...

Reducere. Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us fro...

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Highlighting both change a...

The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonPublisher: O...

The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s -- .

Reducere. In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No ...

Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), ...

Reducere. Having devoted the past ten years of his life to research for this major new work, John Nolland gives us a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew that...