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William V. Harris
Dire Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of ancient healthcare. Greek medicine is at the origin of modern medicine, but it…
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This collection of essays by contemporary historians considers how after two centuries of scholarship we can best explain Christianity’s rise to dominance.
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In Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations an international group of scholars aims to give a fresh start to the study of the wide range of practices that people in…
Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and…
The product of a collaboration between scientists, historians and archaeologists, this book breaks new ground in the study of the long-term interaction between environmental factors, including climate, and human beings.
Marking the centenary of the birth of M.I. Finley, the famous historian of the ancient world and a refugee from McCarthyism, a combined group of ancient and American historians here…
This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks…
Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of the obsessive concern with the control…
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From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with images of dreams. This cultural history draws on contemporary post-Freudian science…
W. V. Harris provides the first thorough exploration of the levels, types, and functions of literacy in the classical world, from the invention of the Greek alphabet about 800 B.C…
William Vernon Harris
Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for…
Discussing various questions of imperialism, law, economy, and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world, this work contains essays, organised chronologically from the first Olympics to late antiquity. These essays share…
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This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the…
This volume, containing fourteen papers given at a conference held at Columbia in 2007, is the most concerted attempt in recent times to understand the famous and enigmatic orator and…
William Thornton
A biographical sketch of the antecedents, early life and career of William Thornton, particulary known for his design of the US Capitol. It includes his early antislavery writings, and detailed…
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This volume explores the tensions of the late-20th century between the totalizing discourses of global corporate capitalism and representative democracy on the one hand and the contingent, fragmentary nature of…
Robert O Harris
Full Title: Henry J. Skeffington, Commissioner of Immigration, Respondent, Appellant, v. Morris Katzeff, Petitioner, Ex Rel. William T. Colyer, Et Al., Appelle
Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials…
George A Spiegelberg,William T Griffin
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading…
Harry D Nims,William P McCool
William S Gluck,Harry W Lindsey
Thaddeus Mason Harris,William 1773-1844 Biglow
Harry V. Jaffa
Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa’s birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel offers a piercing examination of the political thought…
Professor of Politics William Harris, M.D (University of Otago),Thomas Manton,Jc Ryle
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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Martin E.Hugh- Jones,William T. Hubbert,Harry V. Hagstad
Provides expanded information which includes sections on historic background, current principles, and anticipated future changes, and consideration of the latest knowledge of human and veterinary medicine in the field of…
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William T. Hubbert,Harry V. Hagstad,Elizabeth Spangler,Michael Hinton,Keith Hughes
Teaches students and practitioners how to: understand the food chain as a single entity, collect and analyze data relevant to investigation of foodborne disease outbreaks, identify human health hazards in…
Twenty-five leaders from the higher education and service-learning sectors provide insight into what works in building citizenship through civic engagement on their campuses and communities. From small colleges to large…
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