Cicero (Marcus Tullius 10643 BCE) Roman lawyer orator politician & philosopher of whom we know more than of any other Roman lived through the stirring era which saw the rise dictatorship & death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic In his political speeches especially & in his correspondence we see the excitement tension & intrigue of politics & the part he played in the turmoil of the time Of about 106 speeches delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political before jurors if judicial 58 survive (a few of them incompletely) In the fourteenth century Petrarch & other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero & nearly 100 by others to him These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication Six rhetorical works survive & another in fragments Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions & a number of others; & some lost There is also poetry some original some as translations from the Greek The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes ...

Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known & highly regarded However his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura --long out of print--is virtually unknown Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate & fluent prose rendering For this edition Professor Smith provides a revised translation new Introduction headnotes & bibliography ...

A charming picture book about loneliness & making friends from an bestselling author & illustrator From bestselling author Amy Hest & illustrator Jenni Desmond comes a charming picture book about loneliness & making friends Bunny & Dog live on opposite sides of the fence No one says hello Or hi But on the night of the shooting star two doors open ...

On the night you were bornthe moon smiled with such wonderthat the stars peeked in to see youand the night wind whispered Life will never be the same On the night you were born the whole world came alive with thanksgiving The moon stayed up till morning The geese flew home to celebrate Polar bears danced On the night you were born you brought wonder & magic to the world Here is a book that celebrates you It is meant to be carried wherever life takes you over all the roads through all the years This debut picture book by Nancy Tillman has touched the hearts of readers of all ages from the youngest readers to new mothers to grandparents A New York Times & Publishers Weekly bestselling book On the Night You Were Born is sure to be a beloved addition to family libraries ...

For humans the sea is & always has been an alien environment Ever moving & ever changing in mood it is a place without time in contrast to the land which is fixed & scarred by human activity giving it a visible history While the land is familiar even reassuring the sea is unknown & threatening By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing & cajoling The sea may give but it takes Why then did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals we like to acquire rare materials & we are eager for esoteric knowledge & society rewards us well for both Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there
- a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean & the Atlantic two contrasting seas
- the Mediterranean without a significant tide enclosed & soon to become familiar the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges an ocean without end We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete & we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain Portugal & England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia The message is that the contest between humans & the sea has been a driving force perhaps the driving force in human history

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'can we doubt that individuals having any advantage however slight over others would have the best chance of surviving & of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world His insistence on the immense length of the past & on the abundance of life-forms present & extinct dislodged man from his central position in creation & called into question the role of the Creator He showed that new species are achieved by natural selection & that absence of plan is an inherent part of the evolutionary process Darwin's prodigious reading experimentation & observations on his travels fed into his great work which draws on material from the Galapagos Islands to rural Staffordshire from English back gardens to colonial encounters The present edition provides a detailed & accessible discussion of his theories & adds an account of the immediate responses to the book on publication The resistances as well as the enthusiasms of the first readers cast light on recent controversies particularly concerning questions of design & descent ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE STAR OF THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICALEXCLUSIVE! Contains an extract from Carrie's next novel All That She Can See out July 13th!' Reminded me so much of Cecelia Ahern' Ali Mc Namara' Utterly enchanting' Jill Mansell Your soul is too heavy to pass through this door Leave the weight of the world in the world from before Evie Snow is eighty-two when she quietly passes away in her sleep surrounded by her children & grandchildren It's the way most people wish to leave the world but when Evie reaches the door of her own private heaven she finds that she's become her twenty-seven-year-old self & the door won't open Evie's soul must be light enough to pass through so she needs to get rid of whatever is making her soul heavy For Evie this means unburdening herself of the three secrets that have weighed her down for over fifty years so she must find a way to reveal them before it's too late As Evie begins the journey of a lifetime she learns more about life & love than she ever thought possible & somehow some way she may also find her way back to the only man she ever truly loved Powerful magical & utterly romantic On the Other Side will transport you to a world that is impossible to forget A love story like no other it will have you weeping from the sheer joy & beauty of it all ...

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Since September 11th we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside the real struggle is between good & evil What does this mean for political & social life? Is there a ' Third Way' beyond left & right & if so should we fear or welcome it? This thought-provoking book by Chantal Mouffe a globally recognized political author presents a timely account of the current state of democracy affording readers the most relevant & up-to-date information Arguing that liberal 'third way thinking' ignores fundamental conflicting aspects of human nature Mouffe states that far from expanding democracy globalization is undermining the combative & radical heart of democratic life Going back first to Aristotle she identifies the historical origins of the political & reflects on the Enlightenment & the social contract arguing that in spite of its good intentions it levelled the radical core of political life Contemporary examples including the Iraq war racism & the rise of the far right are used to illustrate & support her theory that far from combating extremism the quest for consensus politics undermines the ability to challenge it These case studies are also highly effective points of reference for student revision On the Political is a stimulating argument about the future of politics & addresses the most fundamental aspects of democracy that will aid further study ...