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Susan Lape is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine.
Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era.
Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on ordinary citizens who marry for love--are most often thought of as...
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#1 As schools and businesses shut down, the Fed went into overdrive. Alongside COVID-19, another disease was spreading, and its progress could not be halted using N-95s or social distancing. This disease moved faster than any virus, and threatened economic harm as great as the pandemic itself.
#2 A panic is when a shock causes an initial round of selling, which in turn...
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Lady Sibille never goes looking for trouble, but trouble always seems to find her. When she inadvertently becomes the master of the ancient cursed head of Menander the Magus, she has the power to grant any wish-at a steep price. Bound to the most powerful magical object in medieval France, Sibille finds herself thrust into an action-packed world of occult intrigues, political gamesmanship, Nostradamus, and star-crossed romance. With the help of the...
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Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds, translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch, translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi, translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House, translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor, translated by Palmer Bovie.
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One FaceTwo MenAnd A Secret That Could Destroy An EmpireAt the dawn of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor will do anything to ensure the future of his empire. Building the Forbidden City in fulfillment of his father's dreams is only the beginning. But few people share the emperor's vision. When a consort's betrayal has devastating consequences that rock the imperial court, the emperor discovers that the fight for the dragon throne has only begun.The Man...
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Do the Fed's efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality?
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created outside of the banking system have pushed the Fed to take on more and more responsibilities to keep the economy out of recession, as it did during...
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"Nobody lives the life he chooses to live."
-Menander, fourth-century BC
Confluence rivers merge consisting of time. The headwaters behind you are of a primordial waterway birthed out of the chaos. Trust only the voice in your head. Outlive everyone, but the one in the mirror who does not age. Live life earned through death, capture it again-and-again. Years, hundreds or thousands, still you breathe, you just breathe.
Battered in every event, only...
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Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Why do professors all tend to think alike? What makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects should be required? Why do teachers and scholars find it so difficult to transcend the limits of their disciplines? Why, in short, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable? The answer, Louis Menand argues, is that the institutional structure and the educational philosophy...
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In her lyrical memoir The Death of Small Creatures, Trisha Cull lays bare her struggles with bulimia, bipolar disorder and substance abuse. Interspersing snatches of conversations, letters, blog entries and clinical notes with intimate poetic narrative, Cull evokes an accessible experience of mental illness.In The Death of Small Creatures, Cull strives to cope with her hopelessness. She finds comfort in the company of her two pet rabbits until one...
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Fifty pieces of motherf**king wisdom, lovingly selected for your perusal.
Have you ever wished famous quotes and proverbs said "f**k" more? Well, you're in luck! We've spiced up the wisest words ever spoken with profanity that will get your mouth washed out with soap.
Ask the potty mouth in your life: the fine art of swearing befits even the most sagacious maxims. We think you'll find cursing makes these quotations more memorable, more fun to share,...
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"Written by a highly regarded scholar in the field, this book represents the first published study on the Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India that treats them as Hellenistic states. Referring to classical Western and Indian sources, as well as numismatics, the author gives a multi-faceted account of their dynastic rule and conquest.
The book begins with an overview of the Seleucid settlement, providing a background to the relations between Greeks...
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What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive vision of Americanism as a battle cry or a smug assumption, this collection of essays stirs up new questions and debates that challenge us to rethink the...
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This is book 1 of the Ruled by His Touch series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now!I've got her right where I want her – cuffed, bare, and begging for more.She doesn't belong in my world.But that won't stop me from dragging her here.I'll use her to help me – then I'll use her to please me.And then I'll throw her aside.GARRETTI seek power and glory, and not even the most vicious mob boss will stop me.But when I capture one of his mafia...
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For anyone who has ever overdosed on love or planned the wedding before the second date, Jo Piazza's dazzling debut novel is a must-read Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating fake email accountsyou're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love. Sophie isn't dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her hometown,...
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AN ANCIENT SOLID GOLD CROSS HAS BEEN BURIED ALONG WITH ITS OWNER. ONLY YOUNG CHASE BAKER IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO DIG IT BACK UP!"Can Chase and his pals survive the living dead?"You know Chase Baker as an adventurer and Renaissance man who loves the ladies but who also loves finding trouble in the form of buried treasure all around the globe. But what was Chase like back when he was a teenager? Turns out, he was a younger version of his adult self.In this...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from Minoan Civilization to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. Who were the Minoans? This ancient Bronze Age civilization has left historians and archaeologists puzzled. While other Bronze Age civilizations follow a typical pattern, the Minoans were such an advanced culture that some experts believed that they could be the lost tribe of Atlantis, which was...
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"Wise and ebullient . . . . Gefter takes the reader inside so many of Avedon's photo shoots, and so deftly explicates his work, that you're thirsty to sate your eyes with Avedon's actual images . . . . One of the achievements of Gefter's biography is to argue persuasively for Avedon's place, as a maker of portraits, as one of the 20th century's most consequential artists." - Dwight Garner, New York Times
"Gefter weaves the particulars of Avedon's...
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"Winner of a SABR Baseball Research Award, Society for American Baseball Research" "Finalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine" Christopher J. Phillips is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of The New Math: A Political History. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Science, and Nature. He lives in Pittsburgh.
An in-depth look at the intersection...
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"Winner of the 2005 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association" "Winner of the 2005 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians" "Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights" "Co-Winner of the 2004 History Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies" "Co-Winner of the 2004 First Book Prize, Berkshire...
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