Lucretius: The Way Things Are: The de Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius)(Paperback)

Lucretius: The Way Things Are: The de Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius)(Paperback)

' . . . [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' --The Classical

On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)(Pevná vazba)

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded of solid reasoning, brilliant imagination, and noble poetry, he

Lucretius: de Rerum Natura: Book IV (Godwin J.)(Paperback)

Book IV of Lucretius' great philosophical poem deals mainly with the psychology of sensation and thought. The heart of this book is a new text, incorporating the latest scholarship on the text of Lucretius, with a clear prose facing translation. The commentary concentrates on the thought ofthe text

On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)(Paperback / softback)

The Nature of Things (Lucretius)(Pevná vazba)

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers

On the Nature of the Universe Bk1 (Lucretius)(Paperback)

Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe Bk 1 was written around 55BCE, towards the end of the Roman Republic. Lucretius was unusual, though not alone, in his startlingly modern world view which encompassed Epicurean philosophy, a knowledge of physics and a belief that religion was intrinsically

The Nature of Things (Lucretius)(Paperback)

The acclaimed new translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in

On the Nature of the Universe (Lucretius)(Paperback)

This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view. About the

Faces of Angels (Grindle Lucretia)(Paperback / softback)

Only in the beautiful city of Florence can the faces of angels mask a terrifying

Battle of the Beetles (Leonard M.G.)(Paperback / softback)

From a secret Biome in the jungle, Lucretia Cutter plans to wreak wickedness on the world unless Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt can stop her. If they fail, she'll mass an army of giant Frankenstein beetles - and the planet will never be the same again. Humanity is under siege. The future depends on

Rape: From Lucretia to #metoo (Sanyal Mithu)(Pevná vazba)

The way we think about rape is intricately linked to the way we think about sex - and that means sexuality and gender in equal measure. Why do we speak and think about rape the way we do? From Jimmy Savile and Roman Polanski, Julian Assange and Dominique Strauss-Kahn to gang rape in Delhi and New

Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Nail Thomas)(Paperback)

Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core of all these ethical

The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (Johnson Ryan J.)(Paperback)

Explores how Deleuze's thought was shaped by Lucretian atomism - a formative but often-ignored influence from ancient philosophy More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Deleuze considers himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has ignored one of the more formative

Care of Mind/Care of Spirit (May Gerald G.)(Paperback)

Although secular psychology addressed a great deal about how we come to be the way we are and how we might live more efficiently, it can offer nothing in terms of why we exist or how we should use our lives,' writes Gerald May in this classic discussion of the nature of contemporary spiritual

The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver (Scanlin Tommye McClure)(Paperback)

The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow. In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on her artistic journey and how crafting and life are interwoven, two threads that comprise a larger picture. Readers will find themselves lost in Scanlin's

The Social Life of Things (Appadurai Arjun)(Paperback)

The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of

The Way to Love: Meditations for Life (De Mello Anthony)(Paperback)

The Way to Love contains some of the most beloved stories from Anthony de Mello. Here, more than ever before in his bestselling writing, he grapples with the ultimate question of love. In thirty-one meditations, he implores his readers with his usual pithiness to break through illusion, the great

Where The Wild Things Are (Sendak Maurice)(Paperback / softback)

Presents the story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year,

Shorter - How Working Less Will Revolutionise the Way Your Company Gets Things Done (Pang Alex Soojung-Kim)(Paperback / softback)

Forget the old concept of the 9-5. Companies around the world are redesigning the work week to increase efficiency, health and happiness in their workers.A growing number of businesses are shortening their working week to address problems with low productivity, poor mental health and unequal

The A-Z of Victorian Crime (Bell Neil R. a.)(Paperback)

Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying than fiction. In this book, four eminent

Edmund de Waal: Ten Thousand Things (Simon Joan)(Pevná vazba)

Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confronting European and Asian traditions of intimate craftsmanship with the scale and sequence of minimalist art and music, Edmund de Waal's ensembles of

The Book of the Courtier (Castiglione Baldesar)(Paperback)

'The courtier has to imbue with grace his movements, his gestures, his way of doing things and in short, his every action'In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of

The Way of Nature (Zhuangzi)(Paperback)

A delightfully illustrated selection of the great Daoist writings of Zhuangzi by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents

The Codependency Manifesto: Clearing the Way Out of the Codependent Mind (Romano Lisa A.)(Paperback)

Liberate yourself from the tyranny of codependency. When you are codependent, you are unconscious. You do not know that emotional neglect has caused your brain to believe life is a threatening reality. Instead of believing you are worthy of love, you feel unworthy of love. You do not make choices