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Achilles: Some Scenes from His Life as Painted on Greek Vases...
Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

Michael A. Rinella - History - 2010 - 325 pages
Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself ...
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Families in the Greco-Roman World
Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity

Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity

Tina Johnson - History - 2011 - 268 pages
This book examines the modernization of childbirth in Republican China from several angles and shows how childbirth reform in the name of a modern nation began in Republican ...
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Two Shining Souls: Jane Addams, Leo Tolstoy, and the Quest for Global Peace

Two Shining Souls: Jane Addams, Leo Tolstoy, and the Quest for Global Peace

Biography & Autobiography - 2012 - 179 pages
In Two Shining Souls, Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams (1860-1935), the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy (1828 ...
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Umm al-Rasas Mayfaʻah: Gli scavi del complesso di Santo Stefano
Islam in Denmark: The Challenge of Diversity

Islam in Denmark: The Challenge of Diversity

Jorgen Nielsen - Religion - 2011 - 262 pages
Little has been published in English about Islam in Denmark although interest grew after the cartoons crisis of 2005-6. Danish research on the subject is extensive, and this ...
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