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Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th15th Centuries
Addresses the importance of ancient literature for Byzantine society and explores various ways of recycling and understanding ancient works.
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
Collects important papers on various key issues in Plato and Aristotle and on the early history of Greek optics.
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library
Eleni Pappa is a researcher at the Academy of Athens. --Book Jacket.
Advertising and Violence
Advertising and Violence identifies and analyzes the important issues related to violence in advertising and its overall effects on society. The book is based on a widely cited special issue of the Journal of Advertising and includes eight new chapters that expand the book's coverage. The objective of the book is to compile a compendium of current thinking, perspectives, theoretical viewpoints, and research relevant to the violence and advertising interface. The chapter authors, all notable experts in the field, take a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates perspectives from disciplines other than marketing in order to provide a broad-based view of how advertising and violence coalesce and the policy implications of this juxtaposition.
The Parva naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism
This book investigates Aristotelian psychology through his works and commentaries on them, including De Sensu, De Memoria and De Somno et Vigilia. Authors present original research papers inviting readers to consider the provenance of Aristotelian ideas and interpretations of them, on topics ranging from reality to dreams and spirituality. Aristotle’s doctrine of the ‘common sense’, his notion of transparency and the generation of colours are amongst the themes explored. Chapters are presented chronologically, enabling the reader to trace influences across the boundaries of linguistic traditions. Commentaries from historical figures featured in this work include those of Michael of Eph...
The Oxford Handbook of Functional Brain Imaging in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences
A large part of the contemporary cognitive neuroscience literature involves functional neuroimaging, yet few readers are sufficiently familiar with it to appraise that literature correctly. The purpose of this Handbook is to enable them to understand the neuroimaging methods and evaluate their present contributions and future promise in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology. The chapters contain very accessible descriptions of the various methods and an objective account of their clinical and research applications.
The Oxford Companion to Cheese
The Oxford Companion to Cheese answers a clear call for the kind of subject-defining reference work that The Oxford Companion to Wine achieved. It is the first truly comprehensive cheese book, containing 855 A-Z scholarly, yet accessible entries on the history, culture, and science of cheese making and cheese enjoyment, worldwide. An astonishing 325 authors contributed entries, residing in 35 countries. They included cheesemakers, cheesemongers, dairy scientists, anthropologists, food historians, journalists, archaeologists, and on, from backgrounds as diverse as the topics they write about. This landmark encyclopedia is the most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and reliable reference work on cheese available.
Bibliophilos
The present volume is a Festschrift in honour of the distinguished Byzantinist Costas N. Constantinides. The title of the volume, Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World, reflects Professor Constantinides’ major contribution to the fields of Greek palaeography, editions of Byzantine texts, Byzantine history, scholarship and education, and Cypriot manuscripts and culture. The volume is introduced by a preface and a tabula gratulatoria dedicated to the honorand, followed by twenty articles, written by seasoned and younger scholars, who are former colleagues and students of Professor Constantinides. These articles, which appear in alphabetical order, offer new material and she...
Myriobiblos
This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology. New editions and analyses of texts and documents are included. The essays combine traditional scholarship with newer approaches, thus reflecting the current dynamics of the field.
Byzantion
Includes section "Comptes rendus".
