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Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty

Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty

Barry Strauss

In the midst of the standard, dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine-tasting courses, yoga classes, and a failed attempt at a first novel -- forty-year-old Barry Strauss falls unexpectedly and passionately in love with rowing, a sport ...
Athens After the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals): ...

Athens After the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals): ...

Barry Strauss

More widely, Professor Strauss argues for the importance of the economic, social and ideological changes resulting from the Peloponnesian War in the development of political nexus.
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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The City and Man

The City and Man

Leo Strauss

The essays are based on a long and intimate familiarity with the works, but the essay on Aristotle is especially important as one of Strauss's few writings on the philosopher who largely shaped Strauss's conception of antiquity.
Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of ...

Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of ...

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Textual interpreters must thus take care not just to look for evidence which fits our expectations. This applies to Strauss''s critics too. Consider Masoud Bonyanian''s attempt to show that Strauss influenced American neoconservatives in the Bush administration: according to Bonyanian, these neoconservatives lied about why they waged war with Iraq because Strauss had argued that politicians may need to tell a noble lie to hide truths from the masses.102 A simple test of this claim is to ...
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium

Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium

Leo Strauss

The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than thirty years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1973: Title Index

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1973: Title Index

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Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime

Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime

Kenneth L. Deutsch

Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal ...
Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to ...

Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to ...

Neil Strauss

One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it Neil Strauss. Neil Strauss No.l BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GAME Y fybu're looking 7 \iS Rolling Stone V NEIL STRAUSS is the author of the No. 1 bestseller. Front Cover.
Richard Strauss: new perspectives on the composer and his work

Richard Strauss: new perspectives on the composer and his work

Bryan Randolph Gilliam

"from reviews of the cloth edition: ""Gilliam, perhaps now the leading North American expert on Strauss's operas . . . has assembled a group of authors who collectively present what is undoubtedly a major contribution to Strauss studies.
The Richard Strauss Companion

The Richard Strauss Companion

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Bryan Gilliam calls attention to the outstanding qualities of this opera in "Daphne Transformed," in Richard Strauss and His World, ed. Bryan Gilliam (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992), 33-66. 7. As to Strauss's concern about the ...
Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work

Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work

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This collection will interest Strauss scholars, musicologists, and those interested in the artistic and cultural life of Germany from 1880 through the Second World War. Contributors.
Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the ...

Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the ...

Barry Strauss

Analyzes the leadership and strategies of three forefront military leaders from the ancient world, offers insight into the purposes behind their conflicts, and shows what today's leaders can glean from their successes and failures.
Barry Loser: I am So Over Being a Loser

Barry Loser: I am So Over Being a Loser

Jim Smith

I am not a Loser I am still not a Loser I am so over being a Loser I am sort of a Loser Barry Loser and the holiday of doom Barry Loser and the case of the crumpled carton Barry Loser’s ultimate book of keelness Barry Loser hates half ...
Barry Loser: I am Not a Loser

Barry Loser: I am Not a Loser

Jim Smith

I am not a Loser I am still not a Loser I am so over being a Loser I am sort of a Loser Barry Loser and the holiday of doom Barry Loser and the case of the crumpled carton Barry Loser’s ultimate book of keelness Barry Loser hates half ...
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved ...

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved ...

Barry S. Strauss

An account of the 480 B.C. battle that rendered Athens the dominant power in Greece documents its importance in making possible the foundation of western traditions, citing the contributions of history's first woman commander.
A Texas Ranger and Frontiersman: The Days of Buck Barry in ...

A Texas Ranger and Frontiersman: The Days of Buck Barry in ...

James Buckner Barry

... 47 Barry, Augustus (brother), 67) emigrates to Texas, 47 Barry, Bryant (brother) , 94, 95 ) witnesses death of William Ladd, 64 Barry, Bryant Buckner (grandfather) , married a Nobles, 1 Barry, Bryant Buckner (father), 1) death from typhoid fever, ...
Buck Barry, Texas Ranger and Frontiersman

Buck Barry, Texas Ranger and Frontiersman

James Buckner Barry

... 47 Barry, Bryant (brother), 94, 95) witnesses death of William Ladd, 64 Barry, Bryant Buckner (grandfather), married a Nobles, 1 Barry, Bryant Buckner (father), 1) death from typhoid fever, 2 Barry, Claudius (brother), emigrates to Texas, ...
Dave Barry Talks Back

Dave Barry Talks Back

Dave Barry

Yet another collection of Barry wit and wisdom by the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and the author of Dave Barry Turns 40.
The Trojan War: A New History

The Trojan War: A New History

Barry Strauss

Drawing on archaeological research, an expert account of the famous historical battle confirms many details recounted in Homer's epic account, from Troy's alliance with the Hittite Empire to the significant fire at the end of the twelfth ...
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous ...

The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous ...

Barry Strauss

In this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (The Wall Street Journal).
Richard Strauss and His World

Richard Strauss and His World

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This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life.
Richard Strauss and His World

Richard Strauss and His World

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This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life.
Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss

Matthew Boyden

This compelling volume provides a frank discussion of his open anti-Semitism at the Bayreuth Festival and delves into his active and willing collaboration with Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, fully exploring why and in which ways Strauss ...
Socrates and Aristophanes

Socrates and Aristophanes

Leo Strauss

"Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates.
The Spartacus War

The Spartacus War

Barry Strauss

The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years.
Barry Loser: I am Sort of a Loser

Barry Loser: I am Sort of a Loser

Jim Smith

I am not a Loser I am still not a Loser I am so over being a Loser I am sort of a Loser Barry Loser and the holiday of doom Barry Loser and the case of the crumpled carton Barry Loser’s ultimate book of keelness Barry loser hates half ...
How to Make Money Like a Porn Star

How to Make Money Like a Porn Star

Neil Strauss

In the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality.
Game

Game

Neil Strauss

This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity.

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