This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with...

Tacitus made his debut as a historian with the powerful Histories, a fundamentally important book for students of the literature and history of Rome in the early imperial period. Long regarded...

Kein anderer römischer Kaiser scheint wie Caligula (37 - 41 n.Chr.) von einer Aura des Wahnsinns umgeben. Darf man den Quellen vertrauen, so trieb er Inzest mit seinen Schwestern, richtete ein...

The ancient Greek achievement in the writing of history has set the standard but the nature of this achievement is looking increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as...

Here architect Kurokawa gives us a further explication of his synthesist theory of architecture, called symbiosis. In his explanation he draws on aspects of human culture that are often lacking in...

The basis for this book is a number of lectures given frequently by the author to third year students of the Department of Economics at Leningrad State University who specialize in economical...

Almost all the recently-published books on set theory are of one of the following two kinds. Books of the first kind treat set theory on an elementary level which is, roughly, the level needed for...

Acclaimed as a classic portrait, Griffin's work is widely considered to be the definitive biography of this notorious emperor.Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians, novelists...

'What was good has become better'. Contemporary Review

The present book is based on lectures given by the author at the University of Tokyo during the past ten years. It is intended as a textbook to be studied by students on their own or to be used in a...

The first part of this volume is based on a course taught at Princeton University in 1961-62. The author came upon a long-forgotten manuscript, which contained a brief but essentially complete...

This substantially revised second edition teaches the bifurcation of asymptotic solutions to evolution problems governed by nonlinear differential equations. Written not just for mathematicians, it...

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The first part of this book, Part I, can be read from two quite distinct points of one, as an attempt to develop and defend the important aspects of an entirely new approach to the analysis of the...

VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION First Printing hardcover, clean text: "AS NEW" text except for previous owner's name on endpaper; solid binding, no remainders, NOT ex-library, slight shelfwear; WE SHIP FAST...

Part I: Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran: a new hypothesis of Qumran origins -- James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher with appendix on: The "three nets of Belial" in the Damascus document,...

Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean Revolution. First, the author analyzes geometry in its historical...

The discovery by Green and Schwarz in 1984 that ten-dimensional superstring theory is anomaly-free and finite only if the Yang-Mills gauge group is SO(32) or E8 x E8 has made the phenomenological...

Modern physics was born from two great revolutions: relativity and quantum theory. Relativity imposed a locality constraint on physical theories: since nothing can go faster than light, very distant...

Latin, German, Roman time, theater. The left hand pages are in Latin and the right hand ones are in German.