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Pre-Owned A Brief History of E...Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge yet wit... Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge yet with information now among the world s most valuable commodities this volume provides a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be. more
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The Letters of Pliny the Young...The Letters of Pliny the Younger is a collection of personal and official lett... The Letters of Pliny the Younger is a collection of personal and official letters written by the famous Roman lawyer and author Pliny the Younger. Edited by John Boyle Orrery this book includes detailed observations on each letter as well as an... more
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The Boys and Girls Pliny; Bein...This book has been considered important throughout the human history and so th... This book has been considered important throughout the human history and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book... more
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The Letters Of Pliny The Young...This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to it... This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age it may contain imperfections such as marks notations marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important we have made it available as... more
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The Letters Of Pliny The Young...The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Selected and Edited Together with a Companio... The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Selected and Edited Together with a Companion to Pliny s Letters more
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The Letters Of Pliny The Young...This collection of letters written by the famous Roman writer and philosopher ... This collection of letters written by the famous Roman writer and philosopher Pliny the Younger provides a fascinating glimpse into daily life in the ancient world. Accompanied by insightful commentary and analysis these letters shed new light on... more
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Pliny on Art and Society: The ...Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance in the cou... Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager s is the first full... more
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Pliny on Art and Society: The ...Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance in the cou... Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager s is the first full... more
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Pre-Owned Film Encyclopedia: T...Completely revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen this fourth edition fea... Completely revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen this fourth edition features 8 000 A-to-Z entries on the artistic technical and commercial aspects of filmmaking. Includes timely coverage of the new creative independent scene as well as... more
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Pliny the Elder s World: Natur...Pliny s World offers readers a translation of the Natural History s opening bo... Pliny s World offers readers a translation of the Natural History s opening books unprecedented for its completeness accuracy and accessibility. Here in quirky often breathless style Pliny lays the foundation of a hugely influential encyclopedia... more
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Routledge Innovations in Polit...Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder s Natural History the world s fi... Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder s Natural History the world s first encyclopedia as a record of the prodigious the quotidian and the useful in Rome in the first century AD for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an... more
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Routledge Innovations in Polit...Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder s Natural History the world s fi... Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder s Natural History the world s first encyclopedia as a record of the prodigious the quotidian and the useful in Rome in the first century AD for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an... more
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Pliny the Elder s World (Paper...Pliny s World offers readers a translation of the Natural History s opening bo... Pliny s World offers readers a translation of the Natural History s opening books unprecedented for its completeness accuracy and accessibility. Here in quirky often breathless style Pliny lays the foundation of a hugely influential encyclopedia... more
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Pre-Owned The Grove Book of Ar...Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an imposs... Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an impossible task. In fact it is merely difficult. And since the days of the ancient Greeks many writers of all kinds have taken up the challenge -- not only art critics but... more
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Pre-Owned Pliny and Other Prob...Pliny and Other Problems starts with the problems of ordinary life - a mother ... Pliny and Other Problems starts with the problems of ordinary life - a mother s midlife crisis - and the doings (and undoings) of aging and loss. In the central poems Pliny the Elder s life and tome Natural History is playfully explored. Pliny mixes... more
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Princeton Economic History of ...The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder s economic thought--and its i... The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder s economic thought--and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire s constrained innovation and economic growth The elder Pliny s Natural History (77 CE) an astonishing compilation of 20 000... more
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Pliny s Praise (Hardcover)Pliny s Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetor... Pliny s Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian s principate the reign of Nerva and Trajan s early years and it communicates... more
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The Natural History of Pliny; ...This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is p... 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 is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more
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Pre-Owned C. Plini Secundi Epi...This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is p... 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 is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more
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The Letters Of Pliny The Young...This collection of letters written by the famous Roman writer and philosopher ... This collection of letters written by the famous Roman writer and philosopher Pliny the Younger provides a fascinating glimpse into daily life in the ancient world. Accompanied by insightful commentary and analysis these letters shed new light on... more
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