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  • Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides

    by Proclus ...
    Translated by Glenn R. Morrow, John M. Dillon ...
    This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force that greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. As the notes and introductory ... Read more

    Was $86.39 USD Now $71.29 USD

  • Bildung and Paideia

    Philosophical Models of Education

    Edited by Marie-Élise Zovko, John M. Dillon ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
    Bildung and Paideia examines traditional humanistic ideals in light of philosophical reflection on the need for education of the whole human being.The study of what it is to be human is traditionally the task of the humanities. In recent years, however, the humanities have been increasingly subordinated to technological, economic, and utilitarian aims. Do the humanities still have a fundamentally ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Plotinus: The Enneads

    by Lloyd P. Gerson ...
    Translated by George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, R. A. H. King, Andrew Smith, James Wilberding ...
    The Enneads by Plotinus is a work which is central to the history of philosophy in late antiquity. This volume is the first complete edition of the Enneads in English for over seventy-five years, and also includes Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Led by Lloyd P. Gerson, a team of experts present up-to-date translations which are based on the best available text, the editio minor of Henry and Schwyzer ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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    Competing Against Luck

    The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

    by Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan, Clayton M. Christensen ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Howards End

    A BBC Radio 4 full cast dramatisation

    by E.M. Forster ...
    Narrated by Alexandra Mathie, Ann Rye, Full Cast, Jill Cardo, John Hurt, Joseph Kloska, Lisa Dillon, Malcom Raeburn, Tom Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 53 min

    Spring 1905, England.When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End - the country home of the Wilcox family, her own life, along with that of her sister Margaret, is changed forever. This is the tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.Frequently cited as E. M. Forster's finest work, ... Read more

    $6.71 USD

  • A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks

    Classic Tales of Courtship, Domestic Conflict, Social Convention, and Changing Gender Roles

    by George Bernard Shaw, John Kendrick Bangs, George Farquhar, Susanna Centlivre, Henrik Ibsen, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Allan Monkhouse, Humphry Mrs. Ward, Charlotte Skinner, P. Jones, Mrs. Gordon Smythies, Arthur Hornblow, George Howells Broadhurst, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Archibald Marshall, Arthur Stringer, George Sand, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Margaret Widdemer, Mabel Barnes-Grundy, Neith Boyce, Martha Morton, W. Heimburg, Albert Delpit, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, George Moore, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Walter Besant, Alfred Ollivant, Cornelia A. P. Comer, August Strindberg, P. G. Wodehouse, Mae M. Franking, Katherine Anne Porter, Honoré de Balzac, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, George Gissing, Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Elinor Glyn, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hannah More, Mary Croom Brown, Fowl, Helen Rowland, Burt L. Standish, Annie F. Johnston, Carolyn Wells, James Montgomery Flagg, Sir John Dillon, Edward Ward, Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks surveys marriage as contract, comedy, ordeal, aspiration, and social institution across an unusually broad transnational archive. Its stories and dramatic selections move from satirical intrigue and drawing-room wit to domestic realism, psychological conflict, sentimental romance, and pointed social critique. Comic reversals, contested inheritances, ... Read more

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  • Spookane

    Ghosts, Gargoyles, and Garbage Goats

    by Cliff Hansen, Courtney Bond, Zoey Kenagy, Stephen Tenerowicz, Rio L. Barney, Robert John Jenson, V. Contreras, Michele Dillon, Greg Bem, Paul Lonardo, Talene Rivera, F. M. Donhiser, John Nelson, Thomas Holland, Margo Pecha, Mark Anderson-Fitzpatrick, Emerald “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, Alexia Cortes, Laura Shell ...
    Series Book 1 - Spookane
    Something is wrong in Spokane. Everyone knows this. It waits for you in the Davenport's grand lobby, where a harmless midnight ritual calls up something that wasn't invited. It prowls Riverside State Park and flies above the Thousand Steps in Greenwood Cemetery. It lives in a Fifth Avenue apartment and it runs next to you in Bloomsday. It hides in a deep hole on a farm.This book features twenty ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • American Catholics, American Culture

    Tradition and Resistance

    by Peter Steinfels, Peter Steinfels, J Bottum, Gail Buckley, Richard M. Doerflinger, William Donohue, Kenneth J. Doyle, Paul Elie, James T. Fisher, Andrew M. Greeley0, Mark Massa1, Paul Moses2, Susan A. Ross3, Valerie Sayers4, Mary C. Segers5, Mark Silk6, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead7, Kenneth L. Woodward8, Brian Doyle9, Daniel Callahan0, Michele Dillon1, Luke Timothy Johnson2, John T. McGreevy3, Alan Wolfe4, Robert Royal5 ...
    Series series American Catholics in the Public Square
    Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

  • The Roots of Platonism

    The Origins and Chief Features of a Philosophical Tradition

    by John Dillon ...
    How does a school of thought, in the area of philosophy, or indeed of religion, from roots that may be initially open-ended and largely informal, come to take on the features that later mark it out as distinctive, and even exclusive? That is the theme which is explored in this book in respect of the philosophical movement known as Platonism, stemming as it does from the essentially open-ended and ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Platonic Heritage

    Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity

    by John Dillon ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular concerns evidenced in the papers are the continuities in the Platonic tradition, and the setting of ... Read more

    Was $84.99 USD Now $75.99 USD

  • The Justice of Constantine

    Law, Communication, and Control

    by John Dillon ...
    Series series Law And Society In The Ancient World
    As the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great has long interested those studying the establishment of Christianity. But Constantine is also notable for his ability to control a sprawling empire and effect major changes. The Justice of Constantineexamines Constantine's judicial and administrative legislation and his efforts to maintain control over the imperial bureaucracy, to ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Enneads

    by John Dillon, Plotinus ...
    Translated by Stephen MacKenna ...
    Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of supreme perfection and argued powerfully that it was necessary to guide the human soul towards this state. Here he outlines his compelling belief in three ... Read more

    $16.59 USD