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In the Footsteps of the Gods
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 17.00Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and romantic landscapes - the classical world has for centuries captivated and inspired the west. But what provoked the shift from the western world's love-affair with classical Rome and its manifestation in the Renaissance, to the Hellenic world? The decisive switch in focus and taste... more...
Pillars of Hercules
Night Shade Books 2012; US$ 14.99Alexander, Prince of Macedon, is the terror of the world. Persia, Egypt, Athens? one after another, mighty nations are falling before the fearsome conqueror. Some say Alexander is actually the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the living incarnation of Hercules himself. Worse yet, some say Alexander believes this? The ambitious prince is aided in... more...
Designing and Delivering Dementia Services
Wiley 2013; US$ 98.95Dementia is increasingly and widely recognised as a serious health and social challenge, in the developed world as well as in the developing world. The need therefore to design and implement dementia care services of high quality is becoming more and more vital, particularly given the likelihood of ever increasing demand in a world, which likely sees... more...
Faust, Part I
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableGoethe?s Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto... more...
Near-Term Opportunities for Integrating Biomass into the U.S. Electricity Supply
RAND Corporation 2011; US$ 9.95Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. This report examines changes to power plants and their operations, costs of cofiring biomass, and logistical issues associated with delivering biomass to the plant. more...
Elective Affinities
Oxford University Press, UK 1994; US$ 8.99In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious volition all four are drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical... more...
The Sorrows of Young Werther
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 8.99I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.'The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl... more...
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