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  • Galen

    An Anthology

    Edited by P. N. Singer ...
    Galen of Pergamum (AD 129--c. 210), physician and philosopher, anatomist, logician, clinical and pharmacological theorist and researcher, and personal doctor to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of the Graeco-Roman world. Galen: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive range of his medical, philosophical, and autobiographical works in English, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Galen

    Edited by P. N. Singer, Ralph M. Rosen ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

  • Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis)

    by P. N. Singer, Philip J. van der Eijk, Piero Tassinari ...
    Series series Cambridge Galen Translations
    Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Asylum

    A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

    by Moriz Scheyer ...
    Translated by P. N. Singer ...
    A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Asylum

    A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

    by Moriz Scheyer ...
    Narrated by Robert Blumenfeld ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    All the Light We Cannot See

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    by Anthony Doerr ...
    Narrated by Zach Appelman ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 2 min

    Winner of the Audie Award for Fiction*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

    Ancient Wisdom, #2

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 2 - Ancient Wisdom
    The thinkers who built the Western mind—and still shape your own.This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read. —Philip van Heusen for Readers' FavoriteThree men. Three rival visions of reality. And together, the hidden framework behind how you think about truth, morality, happiness, and meaning.Much of Western philosophy can be traced back to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—figures whose ... Read more

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  • A Train in Winter

    An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 1 - The Resistance Quartet
    In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship. Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and the author of Dancing to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Guide to Stoicism

    by St. George William Joseph Stock ...
    Among the Greeks and Romans of the classical age philosophy occupied the place taken by religion among ourselves. Their appeal was to reason not to revelation. To what, asks Cicero in his Offices, are we to look for training in virtue, if not to philosophy? Now, if truth is believed to rest upon authority it is natural that it should be impressed upon the mind from the earliest age, since the ... Read more

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  • Hitler

    The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

    by Ernst Hanfstaengl ...
    Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical power, was convinced the man would some day come to power. As Hitler’s fanatical theories and ideas ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2

    The Use of Pleasure

    by Michel Foucault ...
    In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.Throughout The Use of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Durrells of Corfu

    by Michael Haag ...
    The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left?The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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