Love in Ancient Rome
Univ of Oklahoma Pr, November 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Univ of Oklahoma Pr, November 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Yale University Press, September 1986. Trade Paperback. This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans. As is. Foxing and underlining. More
University Press of America. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing on the edges of the print block and the endpapers. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, August 1982. Trade Paperback. This highly acclaimed collection provides a rare look into the private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes -- wet nurses, prostitutes, poets, gladiators, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition offers new texts..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1979. Trade Paperback. More
Back Bay Books, July 1978. Trade Paperback. As is. Underlining/foxing. More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1966. Trade Paperback. By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material..... More
Chicago Review Press, October 2021. Hardcover. "Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." --Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America The previously untold stories of the life of the..... More
Merlin Books, January 1988. First Thus. Paper Back. Uncommon title. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/4'} First UK paperback edition. Sun lightened spine. Errata slip taped to half title page -- same page with previous reader's name hand written in ink. Else, without markings. [491 pp.]. More
History of Health Sciences / Crossroads Books, 1985. First Edition. Paper Back. More
Medical Library Association / Waverly Press, January 1965. Cloth. Octavo. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. [300 pp.]. More
Princeton University Press, May 1978. First Edition. Cloth. Despite great ferment and activity among historians of science in recent years, the history of physiology after 1850 has received little attention. Gerald Geison makes an important contribution to our knowledge of this neglected area by investigating the achievements of English physiologists..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. Biology was introduced with the nineteenth century. The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1999. First Thus. Paper Back. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured..... More
Touchstone Books, September 1983. Reprint. Paper Back. First Touchstone paperback edition. 2nd printing. Sound, clean & unmarked interiors. Number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. [256 pp.]. More
Dover Pubns, June 1957. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion;..... More
Pantheon, February 1982. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback with sun lightened spine. Conversely sun darkened margins to cover verso and textblock pages. [349 pp.]. More
W. W. Norton, January 1945. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Brick red with sunned spine. Previous readers' inscription front end pages. Dustjacket is missing. A piece of dustjacket (rear flap and panel) taped to rear free end page. According to jacket fragment this is 'revised and enlarged edition'. However, acccording to..... More
Belknap Press, May 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dark grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangle field on spine. In edgeworn dustjacket with torn/chipped spine base. Slightly lighter grey end pages.A previous reader's name written in ink upper right corner of fep. [520 pages]. More
Grove Press, November 2021. Hardcover. Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." --Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's..... More
David R. Godine, Publisher, August 2022. Hardcover. A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and Russell..... More
Wave Books, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets..... More
Grove Press, June 2022. Hardcover. A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for..... More
Menasha Ridge Press, June 2022. Paper Back. Get the authoritative guide to the waterways of Georgia, offering thousands of miles of paddling. Wet your paddle--and whet your paddling appetite--with Canoeing & Kayaking Georgia, the definitive guide to whitewater, smoothwater, and everything in between. From the Chattahoochee River Watershed in the..... More
Bellevue Literary Press, May 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE An incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing In fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse. A wealthy older woman reflects on her relationship..... More