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Euripides' Escape-Tragedies
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 174.99This is the first major critical study of three late plays of Euripides: Helen, Andromeda and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Matthew Wright offers a sustained reading of the plays, arguing that they are a thematically connected trilogy. He re-examines central themes such as myth, geography, cultural identity, philosophy, religion, and (crucially) genre.... more...
Guns and Utu
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not Available'So they went forth, and they were given over to death by the guns.' -Rangipito, of Ngati Rahiri In the two decades before the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand was ripped asunder by island-spanning waves of warfare, extreme violence and cannibalism. Great war parties surged the length of the land to avenge historic grievances, killing and burning... more...
Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Criminal Past
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not Available'New Zealanders have long been proud of their ancestry, untainted by the convict stain. They should think again . . . Facinating.' -Sydney Morning Herald New Zealand's Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the... more...
The Comedian as Critic
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 99.99Some of the best evidence for the early development of literary criticism before Plato and Aristotle comes from Athenian Old Comedy. Playwrights such as Eupolis, Cratinus, Aristophanes and others wrote numerous comedies on literary themes, commented on their own poetry and that of their rivals, and played around with ideas and theories from the contemporary... more...
New Directions in Linear Acoustics and Vibration
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 117.00An introduction to linear acoustics and vibration, which attempts to bridge the gap between theoreticians and practitioners. more...
Hacking MythTV
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 29.99Want control? Build your own MythTV PC. You don't do stuff like this to cut corners. You do it because you want what you want?and because it's fun. And a personalized MythTV is so much more than a PVR. You can combine HDTV, DVD, all kinds of music, radio, photos, even a plug-in videophone module. All you need is a little Linux know-how, assorted software... more...
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