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TREATISE ON LAW by Regan, Richard J.
Category: Philosophy | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the "Doctor Angelicus" and "Doctor Communis". He is heralded as the most influential Western medieval ...Show more
Tacitus - The Annals by Tacitus
Category: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics
Translated by Alfred J. Church. Regarded as his finest work, Tacitus's Annals remain one of the most important sources of early Roman history. Written while he was a serving senator, and having access to the official senate records, Tacitus provided one of the most complete records of Roman politics, fo ...Show more
The Essential Plotinus - Representative Treatises from the Enneads by Elmer O'Brien (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right for an introduction to Plotionus's many-layered view of t ...Show more
The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega; Harold V. Livermore (Translator); Karen Spalding (Intro and Notes by, Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.
The Saga of the Volsungs - With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford (Translated with commentary by)
Category: No Category | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about ...Show more
The Wars of Justinian by Procopius; H. B. Dewing (Trans)
Category: History | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At last . . . the translation that we have needed for so long: a fresh, lively, readable, and faithful rendering of Prokopios' Wars, which in a single volume will make thi ...Show more
Theban Plays by Sophocles
Category: Reference | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Anc ...Show more
Utilitarianism - With Related Remarks from Mill's Other Writings by John Stuart Mill; Ben Eggleston (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ranging from his treatise on logic to his personal correspondence. In these remarks, Mill comments on specific passages of Utilitarianism , elaborates on top ...Show more
Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
Category: Self-Help | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition.This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.