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Spanning Galileo's career, this title presents an annotated translation of Galileo's important writings as judged by their historical impact from the 17th century to the present. It provides those writings that bear closely on key developments in physics, astronomy, epistemology, and scientific methodology, and those relevant to general culture.

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Spanning Galileo's career, this title presents an annotated translation of Galileo's important writings as judged by their historical impact from the 17th century to the present. It provides those writings that bear closely on key developments in physics, astronomy, epistemology, and scientific methodology, and those relevant to general culture.

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While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgement highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.

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A translation of the "Mengzi (Mencius)" that provides some of the most frequently studied portions of the work along with relevant passages from the classic commentary of Zhu Xi - one of the most influential and insightful interpreters of Confucianism. It includes a glossary and bibliography.

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A selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature that manages to relate many of the episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus and accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts.

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An abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey". It offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.

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The final volume in Hackett'd five-volume edition of The Faerie Queene. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's "Letter to Raleigh" and a short Life of Edmund Spenser appear in every volume.

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The final volume in Hackett'd five-volume edition of The Faerie Queene. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's "Letter to Raleigh" and a short Life of Edmund Spenser appear in every volume.

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From its opening scenesin which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolenBook Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry.

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Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's "Letter to Raleigh" and a short Life of Edmund Spenser appear in every volume.

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Shows how the Four Books - "The Greater Learning", "The Analects", "The Mencius", and "The Doctrine of the Mean" - have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. This book provides an introduction to the later imperial Confucian tradition; and illustrates the nature of the standard educational curriculum.

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Features Valerie Warrior's translation of the first five books of Livy's History; a general introduction to Livy and his work; foot-of-the-page notes offering contextual information; a chronology of events; and three appendices offering additional insight into Livy and the History.

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The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.

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Suitable for students of history and political theory, this work includes notes, a 2-page map, an index, and an Introduction by David Wootton.

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A translation of "The Prince".

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A translation of "The Prince".

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Includes notes, a 2-page map, an index, and an Introduction, this edition is useful for students of history and political theory.

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This edition comprises Austin's best known works; "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined", a classic work of moral, legal and political philosophy, and "The Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence" which gives an assesment of Austin's views of analyitical jurisprudence.

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The first complete English translation by a single translator of Bdier's classic work, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary materials to help the reader understand the history of the legend and Bdier's method in creating his classic retelling.