In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us up to the Twitterverse. Along the way, he follows detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England, Milton's Satanic realm, the Springfield of Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield of Homer Simpson. He explains how language has been used by the great heroes of...(展开全部)

Loeb Classical Library 193

Loeb Classical Library 193

史蒂文•F.海沃德（Steven F. Hayward） 他是美国企业研究所F.K. Weyerhaeuser法律与经济研究员、旧金山太平洋研究所高级研究员以及阿什兰大学托马斯•史密斯杰出客座教授。 他拥有美国研究博士学位和克莱蒙特研究学院政治学硕士学位。 他是作家，为多种学术和大众出版物撰稿，其中包括《国家评论》《理性》《旗帜周刊》《美国观察者》《克莱蒙特书评》《政策评论》《纽约时报》及《华尔街日报》。 他更是总统历史学家，著有《真实的吉米•卡特》《伟大：里根、丘吉尔及现代政治家之造就》《里根时代：旧自由秩序的崩溃（1964-1980）》和《里根时代：保守派的反革命运动（1980-1989）》等。

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, point...(展开全部)

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, point...(展开全部)

From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and astrophysics. The book presents physics as it ...(展开全部)

Last Words from Montmartre is a novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lovers and, ultimately, the complete unraveling of the narrator. In a voice that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to hubris, compulsive repetition to sublime reflection, reticence to vulnerability, it can be read as both the author’s masterpiece and ...(展开全部)