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21 produkter
Boredom
A Lively History
Av Peter Toohey
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourishIn the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He …
Hold On
The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting
Av Peter Toohey
Inbunden, 2020
504 kr
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What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" (OED) than it is about describing …
Hold On
The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2020
245 kr
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What do you do when you''re not asleep and when you''re not eating? You''re most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" ( OED ) than it is about …
Hold On
The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2020
245 kr
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What do you do when you''re not asleep and when you''re not eating? You''re most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" ( OED ) than it is about …
Boredom
A Lively History
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2011
227 kr
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A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourishIn the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it''s simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre''s nausea. He …
Jealousy
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2014
184 kr
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Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today’s materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy—the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of the sometimes droll, sometimes deadly consequences …
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Av Peter Toohey
Inbunden, 1992
2871 kr
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Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an …
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
Av Peter Toohey
Inbunden, 1996
2871 kr
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic'Toohey's …
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
Häftad, 1996
740 kr
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Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern …
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Av Peter Toohey
Häftad, 2009
1040 kr
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Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an …
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
Av Peter Toohey
Häftad, 2013
990 kr
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic'Toohey's …
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
Inbunden, 2003
2963 kr
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This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, …
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
Häftad, 2003
682 kr
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This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, …
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
E-bok, 2020
785 kr
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Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern …
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
E-bok, 2020
768 kr
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Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern …
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2003
1235 kr
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Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an …
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2003
1235 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an …
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2013
1030 kr
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic …
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
Av Peter Toohey
E-bok, 2013
1052 kr
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic …
Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
Häftad, 2014
471 kr
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Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal …
Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
Inbunden, 2012
1602 kr
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Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal …
