Introducing the Ancient Greeks. From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind Hall Edith W.W.Norton & Company

The unexamined life is not worth living • - Plato (c.427-347BC) • This book traces the historical development of philosophical thought from the Ancient Greeks through the Enlightenment to the present day. It explores the five main branches of philosophy - metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and aesthetics - and includes biographies of significant philosophers and accounts of important texts. It is an accessible and fascinating account of the preoccupations of some of the world's greatest thinkers • Topics include • The nature of being and reality • The existence of God • Free will and predestination • Ethics in daily life • How we might make a good society

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great • But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? • Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history • Identifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexity – and explains how they made us who we are today

This book traces strands of thought in Western philosophy, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. An accessible, fascinating account of the major preoccupations of the world's greatest thinkers, it explores the five branches of philosophy - metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. It includes biographies of significant figures, accounts of important texts, and definitions of key concepts such as scepticism, relativism, and empiricism • Topics include • The nature of being and reality • The existence of God • Romanticism and existentialism • Free will and predestination • Ethics in daily life • How we might make a good society • Beautifully illustrated throughout

The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus? can the full story be told • The Ticket Collector from Belarus tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood friends in 1930s Domachevo, a holiday and health resort in what is now Belarus. During the events that followed the Nazi invasion in 1941, they became the bitterest of enemies. After the war, Ben-Zion made his way to Israel, and ‘Andrusha the bastard’ to England, where he found work as a British Rail ticket collector in London • They next confronted each other in the Old Bailey, over half a century later, where one was the principal prosecution witness, and the other charged with a fraction of the number of murders he was alleged to have committed

Двадцатый век был назван "американским веком". Со времен римских императоров не было такой череды правителей, держащих судьбу мира в своих руках. Теперь удостоенный наград биограф Найджел Гамильтон рассказывает нам о жизни двенадцати человек, от Франклина Д. Рузвельта до Джорджа У. Буш, который руководил имперскими успехами Америки - хорошими, плохими и по-настоящему ужасными • Как эти американские цезари добрались до Белого дома? С какими трудностями они столкнулись, когда добрались туда, и как они с ними справились? И кем были эти мужчины в своей личной жизни? • Книга на английском языке • The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands

Издание на английском языке. The Johns Hopkins Hospital 1998-1999 Guide to Medical Care of Patients With HIV Infection. / Руководство по уходу за пациентами с диагнозом ВИЧ инфекция. Госпиталь имени Джона Хопкинса 1998-1999 гг. This pocket guide provides guidelines for the care of HIV patients. Recommendations reflect the work of the AIDS care programme at Johns Hopkins. / Карманное руководство по уходу за ВИЧ-инфицированными пациентами. Рекомендации отражают работу по программе лечения СПИДа в Госпитале имени Джона Хопкинса

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This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnificent stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals. The Penguin Book of the British Short Story has a permanent authority, and will be reached for year in and year out. This volume takes the story from the 1920s to the present day

Travel back in time to discover the extraordinary lives of the ancient Egyptians in this accessible introduction to this historic civilization • Ancient Egypt was an incredible civilization that began around 3100 BCE and lasted for over 3,000 years. During that time, the ancient Egyptians developed new ideas and inventions that shaped the world as we know it today, from mathematics and geometry to paper and toothpaste! • The Ancient Egyptians is a simple, accessible introduction to this amazing ancient civilisation. This book is packed full of amazing facts to transport children back in time, where they'll journey down the River Nile, explore towering temples, and discover how the pyramids were built. Along the way, they'll find out about gods and goddesses, pharaohs, hieroglyphs, and much, much more