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1) Pericles
Author
Language
English
Description
Likely written around 1607 or 1608 and attributed at least in part to Shakespeare, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is an adventure-filled play that follows the extended sailing journeys of a young prince. Pericles, a young prince from Phoenicia, is forced to flee Antioch when he correctly guesses a riddle that reveals the incestuous activity of King Antiochus. Unable to stay at home in Tyre because of Antiochus' vengeance, he sails away and ends up shipwrecked...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 32
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and his ideas about art and poetry, placing his teachings in their historical context."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Michel Foucault's historical and philosophical investigations have gone through many phases: the archaeological, the genealogical, and the ethical among them. What remains constant, however, is the question that motivates them: "who are we?" Todd May follows Foucault's itinerary from his early history of madness to his posthumously published Collège de France lectures and shows how the question of who we are shifts and changes but remains constantly...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Saul Bass defined an era. He designed movie posters, studio publicity, credit sequences for films, and corporate logos from the 1940s to the 1990s, and he was an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. As a result, Bass changed the look of both film advertising and cinema itself. Bass's advertising, poster designs, and title sequences for Hollywood feature films were extremely innovative in terms of their formal design, use of iconography, and narrative...
Author
Language
English
Description
Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels in the ultimate true crime investigation
Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one—or, more commonly, several—dead bodies. And the cause of death, the motives behind violent crimes, the clues that inevitably are left behind, and the people who put the pieces together to solve the mystery
...Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after her death in March 1982, Ayn Rand's ideas have never been more important. Unfettered capitalism, unregulated business, bare-bones government providing no social services, glorification of selfishness, disdain for Judeo-Christian morality - these are the tenets of Rand's harsh philosophy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. This is a fantastic horror story about a hapless man who is turned into an insect. When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story...
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beyoncé. Her name conjures more than music, it has come to be synonymous with beauty, glamour, power, creativity, love, and romance. Her performances are legendary, her album releases events. She is not even forty but she has already rewritten the Beyoncé playbook more than half a dozen times. She is consistently provocative, political and surprising. As a solo artist, she has sold more than 100 million records. She has won 22 Grammys and is the...
11) Pindar
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 773
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
15) Sophocles
Author
Series
Twaynes's world authors series ;Greek literature volume TWAS 731
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
18) Terence
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors series ;Latin literature volume TWAS 745
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
19) Aeschylus
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 675
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
20) Cynewulf
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 327
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English