The Nature of Things (Lucretius)(Paperback)

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Secret Network of Nature - The Delicate Balance of All Living Things (Wohlleben Peter)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

Mystery of Things (Grayling Prof A.C.)(Paperback / softback)

Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top

Kensho: The Heart of Zen (Cleary Thomas)(Paperback)

Kensho is the transformative glimpse of the true nature of all things. It is an experience so crucial in Zen practice that it is sometimes compared to finding an inexhaustible treasure because it reveals the potential that exists in each moment for pure awareness free from the projections of the

Stubborn Light of Things - A Nature Diary (Harrison Melissa)(Paperback / softback)

Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Nail Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely

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

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

Shadow of Things to Come (Efoui Kossi)(Paperback)

Now in paperback, The Shadow of Things to Come and its catastrophic and carnivalesque dreamscape speak out against political rhetoric and the destruction of meaning by government. In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and to an Orwellian abuse of

Eat That Frog! - Get More of the Important Things Done - Today! (Tracy Brian)(Paperback / softback)

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Things to do Before the End of the World (Barr Emily)(Paperback / softback)

Quick, Let's Get Out of Here (Rosen Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Focuses on the yucky things your brother does, the annoying things your parents say, the funny things you

How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement (Malafouris Lambros)(Paperback)

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or 'all in the head.'

Meteorite: Nature and Culture (Golia Maria)(Paperback)

Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In Meteorite, Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Halberstam Jack)(Paperback)

In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of