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Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing s...(展开全部)

Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics. At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ...(展开全部)

A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women , and The Cyclops .

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural ...(展开全部)

Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand's most compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, famous for its open-ended verdict, is presented here in its definitive text. Also included are two of Rand's unproduced plays, Think Twice, a clever philosophical murder mystery, and Ideal, a bitter indictment of people's willingness to betray th...(展开全部)

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department'...(展开全部)

洛兰·达斯顿是马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所荣誉院长。她的作品涉猎科学史的诸多话题，包括概率统计史、早期现代科学奇迹、科学事实的出现、科学模型、科学探究的对象、自然的道德权威和科学客观性的历史。近期出版书籍包括《反自然》（Gegen die Natur，2018；英文版，Against Nature, 2019），《档案馆里的科学》（Science in the Archives，2017）和《理性是如何疯掉的》（2014）。 达斯顿目前的研究方向包括规则史、现代性在科学史上的意义、19世纪末以来科学领域的国际治理，以及道德和自然秩序之间的关系。达斯顿获得过辉瑞奖（1989年，《启蒙时期的古代概率论》）和萨顿科学史学会奖章、巴伐利亚科学院谢林奖、格丁根科学院的利钦伯格奖章、比勒费尔德大学卢曼奖，以及普林斯顿大学和希伯来大学荣誉博士学位。2018年，她获得...(展开全部)

This monograph by the award-winning Dutch-born photographer Sassen features photographs from throughout West and East Africa. Sassen's overriding theme is parasomnia, a sleep disorder involving strange movements, behaviours, emotions, and dreams. The otherworldly feel of these photographs, involving both human and inanimate subjects, aptly conveys an altered-consciousness point...(展开全部)

Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces...(展开全部)