Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition (Biles Zachary P.)(Pevná vazba)

Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition (Biles Zachary P.)(Pevná vazba)

Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance

Competition and the State (Sokol D. Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

Competition and the State analyzes the role of the state across a number of dimensions as it relates to competition law and policy across a number of dimensions. This book re-conceptualizes the interaction between competition law and government activities in light of the profound transformation of

Greek Lyric (Campbell David a.)(Pevná vazba)

Towards the end of the fifth century BCE, Aristophanes and the other writers of comedy used contemporary poets and musicians as targets for their jokes, making fun of their innovations in language and music. The dithyrambs of Melanippides, Cinesias, Phrynis, Timotheus, and Philoxenus are remarkable

Metamorphica (Mason Zachary)(Pevná vazba)

In the tradition of Zachary Mason's bestselling first novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey - where he recast episodes from Homer's masterpiece - Metamorphica now reimagines Ovid's epic poem of endless transformation,

Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth (Aristophanes)(Pevná vazba)

Aristophanes, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. This is the fourth and final volume in the new

Fragments (Aristophanes)(Pevná vazba)

The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE. But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over forty plays by Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of

Concrete Houses - The Poetics of Form (Rollo Joe)(Pevná vazba)

Competition, Gender and Management: Beyond Winning and Losing (Dennehy J.)(Pevná vazba)

Investigates eight dimensions of competition which are active yet covert in the lives of managers. Explains in great detail the everyday experiences of men and women and the ways in which different cultures at work and in wider society, particularly exposure to sport and media, affect and reflect

The Metaphysics of Market Power: The Zero-Sum Competition and Market Manipulation Approach (Raitt George)(Pevná vazba)

Texas Is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk (Blashill Pat)(Pevná vazba)

'Pat Blashill's beautiful book of photos captures the poetics and energetic eccentricities of the post punk Austin, Texas music scene of the '80s, things one will never get on the internet. Long live books and this one kicks ass.'ƒ‚‚'ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚'Kim

Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial (Bush Olga)(Pevná vazba)

This book investigates the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through comparative study of Islamic court

Brexit and Competition Law (Rodger Barry)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the immediate and likely longer-term consequences of Brexit for the UK's competition law regime and includes the competition and subsidy control provisions of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. It has been written to be of value to

The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability (Olszok Charis)(Pevná vazba)

Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in

Aristophanes: Lysistrata (Sommerstein Alan H.)(Paperback)

Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its most desperate crisis since the Persian War. This fully annotated English translation of the play

Poetics - with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics (Allen S.)(Pevná vazba)

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute

Sensory Evaluation of Sound (Zacharov Nick)(Pevná vazba)

The book provides a detailed review of the latest techniques in sensory evaluation, specifically applied to the evaluation of sound and audio. The material spans topics from concert hall acoustics to the latest applications in audiology and hearing aid design, via the fields of mobile

Pigs Have Wings (Wodehouse P.G.)(Pevná vazba)

After winning the Fat Pig competition for two years in a row with Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's ascendancy at the Agricultural Show is threathened by Sir Gregory Parsloe's new sow, Queen of

Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes)(Paperback)

This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theater of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and encompass the

Paul Hollywood's Bread (Hollywood Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Get baking with the master baker and judge of The American Baking Competition Paul Hollywood's new book is all about bread - how to make it and how to use it. Not only does Paul teach you exactly how to make a variety of breads, but for each one there is a spin-off recipe that shows you how to

The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment (Hawkes Dean)(Paperback)

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond

Competition Law of the Eu and UK (Marco Colino Sandra)(Paperback)

Competition Law of the EU and UK is the essential introduction to competition law. Clear and accessible, without compromising on rigor, it helps students to navigate all of the technicalities of competition law. With strong coverage of the economics underpinning the law, this text leads students

Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries: Critical Essays (Ingle Zachary)(Pevná vazba)

In Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries, editors Zachary Ingle and David Sutera have assembled a collection of essays that look at the ways in which identity--national, religious, ethnic, racial, etc.--and myth are constructed, perpetuated, or questioned in documentaries produced in the United

Eu Cartel Law and Economics (Argenton Cedric Associates)(Pevná vazba)

The significant evolution of EU competition law in the last 15 years has been fundamentally influenced by economic theory, and economic aspects of cartel prosecution are increasingly relevant in modern competition practice. EU Cartel Law and Economics is the first book-length assessment of cartels