Charles Segal: 6 books

Book cover of Conversations with Lincoln
by Charles Segal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017

A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity. Conversations with Lincoln is just such a book. In it Charles M. Segal has collected and presented more than one hundred interviews with Lincoln as President-elect and President. As a revelation of the intimate, human side of Abraham Lincoln, it...
Book cover of Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba

by Charles Segal
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993

Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art. Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here,...
Book cover of Aglaia

Aglaia

The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna

by Charles Segal
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1997

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then...
Book cover of Antigone
by Sophocles, Reginald Gibbons, Charles Segal
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003

Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous...
Book cover of Old Law, New Tricks: Using the Clean Air Act to Curb Climate Change
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
Book cover of The Military In New Times

The Military In New Times

Adapting Armed Forces To A Turbulent World

by James Burk, Robert J Waldman, David R Segal
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019

What role will armed forces play in a world that is turbulent yet no longer organized by the bipolar conflict of East and West? In this volume, leading experts from several disciplines assess the rapidly changing global strategic and cultural landscape, examining how it will affect the responsibilities...
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