Elena: 1551 books
Readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates
Defending the Philosophical Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In Plato’s Apology of Socrates we see a philosopher in collision with his society—a society he nonetheless claims to have benefited through his philosophic activity. It has often been asked why democratic Athens condemned a philosopher of Socrates' character to death. This anthology examines the...
The Skin of the Sky
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
The Skin of the Sky is the fascinating and haunting story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant Mexican astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers, and sisters on their mother's farm on a small plot...
The Queens Regnant of Navarre
Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts.
Plato's Dialectic at Play
Argument, Structure, and Myth in the Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2005
The Symposium is one of Plato’s most accessible dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, Plato’s Dialectic at Play aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation...
The Quiet Thinker
Lessons of Love, Spirituality and Self-Acceptance from the Mind of an 'Introvert'
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Are you a quiet thinker? Have you gone through life being misunderstood by many? Has your path in life ever led you to a crossroads where you’ve questioned your very existence? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you! Valarie Stephens, a self-proclaimed introvert,...
by elena botts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Botts's poems address themes such as human mortality, vulnerability, and perception of time. They are meant to trigger a thoughtful response from people of diverse sensibilities.
by Elena Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater
Upstaging Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the...
Riqualificazione energetica dell'involucro edilizio
Diagnostica e interventi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 4, 2014
La riqualificazione energetica rappresenta un primo importante passo verso una progettazione integrata e sostenibile del patrimonio edilizio esistente. L’ottimizzazione può partire proprio dall’involucro edilizio, attuando misure passive che consentono di risparmiare energia, di migliorare il...
by Elena Lojkina
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Flattée par ce compliment, je vis que Alexandre lançait des regards discrets sur ma poitrine, je dois dire que cela me faisait de l'effet, je comprenais que je ne laissais pas ce jeune homme indifférent. En montant les escaliers je me rendis compte que mon débardeur était complètement mouillé,...
Rural Revisions of Golden Age Drama
Performance of History, Production of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This work focuses on rural community versions of Spanish Early Modern Theatre and deals with cultural heritage and the contemporary impact of Golden Age theatre on local rural communities. To this end, I examine the burgeoning of annual rural Golden Age theatre festivals that generate site-centered,...
A Frequency Dictionary of Russian
core vocabulary for learners
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A Frequency Dictionary of Russianis an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions.
The dictionary is based on data from a 150-million-word internet corpus taken from...
Les filles de l'Olympe tome 6
Le dernier souhait
Language: French
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Les trois amies ont enfin vaincu le dieu de la Guerre. Elles devraient pouvoir profiter de leur été. Mais depuis que Liz est prisonnière du Bracelet de la Négation d'Arès, elle se comporte de façon étrange. L'ennemi ne serait-il pas en train de revenir sous un nouveau visage pour la bataille ultime ?
Cluster in progress
La Tecnologia dell'architettura in rete per l'innovazione The Architectural tecnology network for innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
La Società italiana della Tecnologia dell’architettura, SITdA, fondata nel 2007 attraverso la creazione di un ampio network di docenti e ricercatori universitari, ha l’obiettivo di sostenere la cultura della ricerca nell’area disciplinare e di offrire risorse per la formazione e la qualificazione...