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  • Digitalizing the Global Text

    Philosophy, Literature, and Culture

    Edited by Paul Allen Miller ...
    Series series East-West Encounters in Literature and Cultural Studies
    A few years ago globalism seemed to be both a known and inexorable phenomenon. With the end of the Cold War, the opening of the Chinese economy, and the ascendancy of digital technology, the prospect of a unified flow of goods and services and of people and ideas seemed unstoppable. Political theorists such as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that we had reached "the end of history." Yes, there were ... Read more

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    Bad Gays

    A Homosexual History

    Narrated by Ben Allen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked.Based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad ... Read more

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  • The Death Drive

    Philosophy, Literature, Theory

    The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars working in the area of literature, philosophy, and psychanalysis.After Freud's initial theorization, the death-drive has been re-interpreted by various psychoanalytic thinkers (including Melanie ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Battle of the Marne

    On September 4, 1914, the bugler of Destiny sounded the "Halt!" to the retreat of the armies of the Allies from the Belgian frontier. The marvelous fighting machine of the German armies, perhaps the most superb organization of military potency that has been conceived by the mind of man, seemed to reach its limit of range. Success had perched upon the German eagles, and for two weeks there had been ... Read more

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  • Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    Series series Classical Memories/Modern Identities
    Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle explores the concept of the Freudian death drive to interrogate both the ancient past and the present, highlighting how destruction and its remnants resist erasure and shape historical memory. Using Gaza’s rubble as a metaphor for the indestructibility of violence’s material traces, the text connects ancient Greco-Roman culture—from Homer and Sophocles to ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Great War, Volume 4 - Champagne, Artois, Grodno Fall of Nish, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Development of Air Strategy • United States and the War (WWI Centenary Series)

    Series series WWI Centenary Series
    This is the fourth volume in a wonderful series of publications covering the history of the First World War. It includes the chapters 'Zeppelins Attack London', 'The Battle of Verdun', 'Bulgarian Attacks', and many more and is perfect for anyone interested in the history of the conflict. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Sexuality

    Foucault and Classical Antiquity

    In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained under-explored and insufficiently analyzed. By bringing together the historical knowledge, ... Read more

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  • Latin Verse Satire

    An Anthology and Reader

    Edited by Paul Allen Miller ...
    A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays and texts in translation, this book succeeds in its mission to help the student understand the history of Latin's modern scholarly reception.Focusing on the linguistic difficulties and problems ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Truth in the Late Foucault

    Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
    The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault's engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Russian Literature and the Classics

    Series series Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature
    Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means claiming to offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on various aspects of the influence which the Classics have had on Russian literature at particularly significant junctures - the beginning of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Carnivalizing Difference

    Bakhtin and the Other

    Series series Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature
    It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of order, a conservative in the true sense of the term. Arising from a conference under the same title ... Read more

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  • PepperJack Online Sleuthing Service

    Series Book 3 - McGilliverse
    Being digital is everything it’s cracked up to be! But for Pepper and Jack, accidentally created artificial intelligent computer programs, being virtual has its drawbacks. Part of the AI Underground, Pepper and Jack navigate the computer networks of the Milky Way Galaxy to help their human friends, Alice Pemberton and Eugene McGillicuddy. But as Pepper and Jack soon learn, not having a body doesn ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD