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Odes
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 19.00Timeless meditations on the subjects of wine, parties, birthdays, love, and friendship, Horace?s Odes , in the words of classicist Donald Carne-Ross, make the ?commonplace notable, even luminous.? This edition reproduces the highly lauded translation by James Michie. ?For almost forty years,? poet and literary critic John Hollander notes, ?James Michie?s... more...
Epigrams
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.95Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His Epigrams can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to schoolmasters to, above all, the aristocratic elite. With wit and wisdom, Martial evokes not ?the... more...
The Art of Love
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 14.00In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses , came under severe criticism for The Art of Love , which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious... more...
Helen
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 19.99Outstepping the literal bounds of genre, this work has been referred to by scholars as both a tragedy and a comedy. This translation attempts to preserve Euripides' structure of subtlety and his comments on both the futility of war and the distinction between appearance and reality. more...
Europas Finanzzentren
Campus Verlag 2005; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung In London und Frankfurt, Paris, Zürich und Liechtenstein schlägt das Herz des europäischen Kapitalismus. Dort ballen sich die Institutionen, welche die Geldwirtschaft in Gang halten: Börsen und Banken, Versicherungen, Treuhandfirmen und Anwaltskanzleien. International bekannte Autoren beschreiben, wie diese Finanzplätze und Offshore-Zentren... more...
The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 38.50The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data. It summarizes what we know of the peoples who lived... more...
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