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Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
Kurt A. RaaflaubKurt A. Raaflaub ... Kurt A. Raaflaub, 2007); Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (eds.John Bodel and SaulOlyan, 2008); ... KurtA. Raaflaub Notes on Contributors EveMarie Becker is Professor of New Testament Series Editor's Preface.
Epic and History
PreviewThe Ancient World: Comparative Histories Series Editor: Kurt A. Raaflaub Published War and Peace in the Ancient World Edited by KurtA. Raaflaub Household and Family Religion in Antiquity Edited byJohn Bodel and Saul Olyan Geography ...
War and Peace in the Ancient World
Kurt A. RaaflaubSeries Editor's Preface vii Notes on Contributors ix 1 Introduction: Searching for Peace in the Ancient World 1 KurtA. Raaflaub 2 Making War and Making Peace in Early China 34 Robin D. S. Yates 3 Ancient India: Peace Within and War ...
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures ...
Jonas GrethleinI also benefitted from the expertise of Johanna Hanink, Bob Morstein-Marx and Kurt Raaflaub and their comments on individual chapters. It would be impossible to name everyone from whom I have learnt in discussion and correspondence, ...
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
Kurt A. Raaflaub"A balanced, high-quality analysis of the developing nature of Athenian political society and its relationship to 'democracy' as a timeless concept."—Mark Munn, author of The School of History
War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and ...
David R. McCann14 Father of All, Destroyer of All: War in Late FifthCentury Athenian Discourse and Ideology Kurt A. Raaflaub War is both king of all and father of all, and it has revealed some as gods, others as men, it has made some slaves, others free.
Kurt Schwitters: MERZ--a Total Vision of the World
Kurt Schwitters10 On alchemy, see Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Mistery, New York 2000, p. 141 and Kurt Schwitters, 'lch und meine Ziele', 1931, in Friedhelm Lach (ed.), Kurt Schwitters: Das literarische Werk: ...
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire
Beth SeveryFor more bibliography, seeKurtA.Raaflaub andL.J.Samons, “Opposition to Augustus,” in Between Republic and Empire. Interpretationsof Augustusand hisPrincipate, eds KurtA. Raaflaub and Mark Toher (Berkeley: University of California Press ...
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
PreviewThe Ancient World: Comparative Histories Series Editor: Kurt Raaflaub Published War and Peace in the Ancient ... A. Talbert The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Edited byJohann P. Arnason and KurtA.
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut William Rodney Allen ... since I was a Chemistry major, I had very little instruction from the profoundly literary people. CR: And yet you refer frequently to writers like Celine 196 Two Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut Charles Reilly.
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
PreviewThe Ancient World: Comparative Histories Series Editor: Kurt Raaflaub Published War and Peace in the Ancient World ... Family Religion in Antiquity Edited by John Bodel and Saul Olyan Epic and History Edited by David Konstan and KurtA.
Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill ...
Kurt WeillLast will and testament of Kurt Weill, 25 March 1944 In July 1950, the League of Composers again sponsored a Kurt Weill Concert — with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Maurice Levine — this time "as an expression of tribute to ...
Kurt Warner
A. R. SchaeferNo Division I colleges offered Kurt a scholarship. The only coach who recruited Kurt was Northern Iowa's Terry Allen. Northern Iowa is a Division I-AA school located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The school's teams are called the Panthers. Kurt was ...
Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer
Kurt MeyerKnown for his bold and aggressive leadership, Kurt 'Panzer' Meyer was one of the most highly decorated German soldiers of World War II. Successively commanding a motorcycle company, a reconnaissance battalion, a grenadier regiment, and the ...
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
Harold BloomHarold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom. PETER FREESE. Kurt. Vonnegut's. Slaughterhouse-Five. or,. How. to. Storify. an. Atrocity. D. uring the night of February 13, 1945, three waves of British and ...
Kurt Cobain
Michael MartinA biography highlighting the life, career, and the impact of rock musician, Kurt Cobain.
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Kurt VonnegutWhen someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience? Well, I’d like the guy—or the girl, of course—to put the book down and think, “This is the greatest man who ever lived.”
Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel
John DawsonThis authoritative biography of Kurt Goedel relates the life of this most important logician of our time to the development of the field.
Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume II: Publications 1938-1974
Kurt GödelPublications 1938-1974 Kurt Gödel S. Feferman. Russell's mathematical logic* ( 1944) Mathematical logic, which is nothing else but a precise and complete formulation of formal logic, has two quite different aspects. On the one hand, it is a ...
Die Bundestagswahlkämpfe der FDP: 1949-2002
Marco MichelWolfgang Döring beim Parteitag 1962 in Düsseldorf, zit nach Kurt J Körper, Bilanz, S. 30 505 Vgl. Kurt J Körper, Bilanz, S 31. 506 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher in ihrer Rede beim Parteitag 1963 in München, zit nach Kurt J Körper, Bilanz, S. 32.
Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love: In Their Own Words
Kurt CobainFeatures quotes gathered over the years from family, friends, and the artists themselves, giving the reader a personal insight into their music and world.
Reflections on Kurt Gödel
Hao WangKurt. Godel. Just before his retirement, G arranged to have me visit the Institute for Advanced Study (for 1975-76). In the spring of 1976, the idea occurred to me to find out more about G's intellectual development, and he was quite willing to talk ...
Bluebeard
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in Bluebeard. It is a novel so funny and yet so terribly serious that you will read it - then reconsider your own life.
Kurt Cobain
Christopher SandfordKurt Cobain, who handled opposition far better than he did fame, put enough rage and guilt into Bleach to blight an entire generation. The record crackled with self-loathing, as though the internecine struggle between Cobain the joker and ...
Kurt: Forcing the Edge
Kurt BrowningThe author, three-time world champion and first skater to perform a quadruple jump in world competition, looks back on his life and the hard work that has enabled him to reach his full potential as a skater
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
Kurt VonnegutThis collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and ...
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