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Book Cover for: Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation Between Body and Soul, Robert Vinkesteijn

Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation Between Body and Soul

Robert Vinkesteijn
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New #openaccess monograph: Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul by Robert Vinkesteijn @HumboldtUni https://t.co/08vkh3suqC @BrillPublishing @Brill_Classics

Hardcover, 2022

$155.00$130.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Valete vos viatores: travelling through latin inscriptions across the roman empire, Armando Redentor

Valete vos viatores: travelling through latin inscriptions across the roman empire

Armando Redentor
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New #openaccess book: Valete Vos Viatores: Travelling through Latin inscriptions across the Roman Empire edited by Javier Andreu Pintado, Armando Redentor & Elena Alguacil Villanúa https://t.co/IaE70vdCgK @epigraphy_info @UnivdeCoimbra https://t.co/ANbRhtafNM

Paperback, 2022

$60.00$35.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Saving God: Religion After Idolatry, Mark Johnston

Saving God: Religion After Idolatry

Mark Johnston
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@NeuroYogacara What about work on "atheist mysticism" also perhaps Mark Johnston "Saving God" https://t.co/lVTzb1KXrr

Paperback, 2011

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, Bonnie Honig

A Feminist Theory of Refusal

Bonnie Honig
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New issue of Classical Antiquity Vol. 41 , No. 2 (2022) https://t.co/Olq0wHuLEw @ucpress Forum on @bonnie_honig A Feminist Theory of Refusal https://t.co/f2o3TeOyH4

Hardcover, 2021

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos, Travis Zadeh

Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos

Travis Zadeh
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A world of wonders: Exploring a 13th-century Muslim guide to the cosmos https://t.co/yolNY3iNij Travis Zadeh @yale @RLSTYale discusses his new book, “Wonders and Rarities,” @Harvard_Press which examines a seminal 13th-century work of natural history and cosmology. @YaleCMES

Paperback, 2025

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Terence: Hecyra, Terence

Terence: Hecyra

Terence
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New Translation of Terence's Hecyra by @Chriskelkactor https://t.co/RqVSGyjAmK @PoetryInTransl https://t.co/8e72G4UnIK

Paperback, 2014

$40.99$20.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire, Eckart Frahm

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

Eckart Frahm
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Eckart Frahm @yale_nelc on Assyria: Chronicling the rise and fall of the world’s first empire @BasicBooks https://t.co/nwxDPG18uX @yale

Paperback, 2024

$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, Paul de Man

Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

Paul de Man
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Iran Colloquium @YaleCMES Wednesday, Dec. 7 12pm EST @DabashiHamid on Allegories of Reading/Reading Allegories: Can we still Read Avicenna and Suhrawardi’s Allegories? https://t.co/0xycSbVXOi https://t.co/BedXCR7wH0

Paperback, 1982

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, N. Bryant Kirkland

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception

N. Bryant Kirkland
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Why academia today would frown on Herodotus: review of N. Bryant Kirkland's (@ClassicsAtUCLA) Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature & Histories Book I Carolyn Dewald & Rosaria Vignolo Munson (eds.) https://t.co/rJbYZi1n0N @TheTLS

Hardcover, 2022

$130.00$105.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Metaphysics, Aristotle

Metaphysics

Aristotle
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APA Member Interview: Harry Alanen @PittTweet https://t.co/6OhWyBzFTn @apa_blog @apaphilosophy "His research explores Aristotle’s metaphysics and natural philosophy focusing on Aristotle’s philosophy of action."

Paperback, 2016

$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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