Książki858 produktów Producent: × Princeton University Press

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and...

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is the man who gave living organisms two Latin names. This book gives a portrait of Linnaeus the man, charting his rise from a poor student at Lund University to Professor...

How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today - even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation$1365 How did...

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his...

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth$477 How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of...

Amazons - fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world - were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon...

An illustrated record book of sauropod facts and figures--the hugest, the oldest, the most intelligent, and moreThe sauropod dinosaurs roamed the planet for millions of years, with creatures...

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This...