These remarkable documents of Greek social and cultural history include masterpieces of lively narrative and subtle argument prepared by such orators as Lysias, Antiphon, and Demosthenes. The fifteen cases presented represent the first recorded instances of the working of a democratic jury system under a definite code of law aimed at inexpensive and equal justice for all citizens. Issues examined include murder, assault, property damage, embezzlement, contested legacies, illegal marriage, slander and civil rights. Also provided are comprehensive background chapters on the professions of law and rhetoric in ancient Athens and explanatory notes clarifying the course of each role.

Murder of Herodes

Politics & Social Sciences

FREEMAN, Kathleen

Archaeology

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Victorian Sage Philosophy and Rhetoric In

Reference

Holloway, John

Words, Language & Grammar

New College Encyclopedia of Music

Westrup, J.a

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Populism―progressive or retrogressive force? Posing this question, Norman Pollack draws on Populist manuscripts and newspapers, the best evidence for the movement's response to industrialism. In the words of farmers and workers, Populism springs to life, ceasing to be an abstraction. The author concludes that the movement, while primarily agrarian, had significant intellectual and labor support; accepting industrialization, it opposed capitalistic industrialism as alienating and degrading the individual. In this intellectual history―based on data most of which has been ignored―the author takes a first step toward a more comprehensive analysis of industrial America.

Populist Response to Industrial America

Pollack, Norman

Politics & Government

Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable. Do you see the past through a rosy filter that makes it seem like Paradise Lost? Are you convinced that traffic lights always turn red for you? Do you have to win (so as not to lose)? After extricating yourself from a bad relationship, do you find another partner just like the previous one? If so, congratulations! You have the makings of an unhappiness expert. With the techniques in this book, you can raise yourself to the genius level. A word of warning, however. Along the way you may begin to ask yourself, "How did I manage to turn myself into my own worst enemy?" Fortunately, this tongue-in-cheek (but serious) volume takes a look at that question too. Special attention is given to such topics as "Four Games with the Past," "Self-fulfilling Prophecies," and "Why Would Anybody Love Me?" Those who believe that the search for happiness will eventually lead to happiness will find much to ponder in the section "Beware of Arriving." All readers will be both amused and startled to find themselves in these pages, but there is a special delight and enlightenment for therapists and counselors. Although the author does not officially admit it, the book is one complex "symptom prescription," a therapeutic double bind as described and practiced by him and his colleagues.

Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious

Self-Help

Paul Watzlawick

Happiness

Ring of the Nibelung

"Andrew Porter's utterly natural, often poetic, faithfully rendered English text should be a revelation...The immediacy of instant comprehension gives the entire drama an added dimension."?The New York TimesRichard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to produce the music in text.

Arts & Photography

WAGNER

PORTER

Music

Walter LaFeber brings a full range of historical tools to bear on American Diplomatic history--biographical sketches, a concise survey of world events that shaped U.S. policy, a use of American social and cultural history, and a full discussion of the rise of presidential power. Photos and maps.

American Age United States Foreign Polic

History

Walter LaFeber

Americas

Tuning a Racing Yacht New Edition

FLETCHER, MIKE

The French Revolution has traditionally been viewed as a major dividing line in modern Europe's history, an event which destroyed that complex line in modern Europe's history, an event which destroyed that complex of political, social, legal and juridical institutions known as the "old regime" and inaugurated a new era characterized by a greater emphasis upon individual rights, the spread of representative government and the emergence of a new kind of loyalty to the nation. These generalizations about the French Revolution still retain much of their validity as long as they are qualified in some significant ways.

The Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1850

Breunig, Charles

Military

This Vast External Realm

Acheson, Dean

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