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Philostratus "the Elder" or "the Athenian" (2nd to mid-3rd c.) and Eunapius (ca. 345-415) provide fascinating intellectual and professional biographies of notable sophists that reveal their predominant influence in the educational, social, religious, and political life of the Empire in their times.

M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality, his literary works, his pithy sayings, and his drive to define and to champion the Roman national character. This edition supplies all testimonia about, and all fragments by or attributed to him.

M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality, his literary works, his pithy sayings, and his drive to define and to champion the Roman national character. This edition supplies all testimonia about, and all fragments by or attributed to him.

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differently each conceived of inequality, and how the subject, prominent in their times, was eclipsed during the Cold War and has become central once again.

This edition brings the research university into the 21st century. The multiversity that Clark Kerr discovered now finds itself in an age of apprehension with few certainties. Kerr gives five general points of advice on what kinds of attitudes universities should adopt.

Kristin Surak offers the first on-the-ground investigation of the global market in citizenship for the rich. She tracks the countries that sell citizenship, the elites who buy it, and the intermediaries who make the market, revealing how citizenship by investment became a popular option that now accounts for over 50,000 naturalizations annually.

The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec cosmology and mastery of ancient codices helped shape our understanding of pre-Columbian Mexico. Grindle captures the appeal and contradictions of this trailblazing woman, who brought a new rigor to the study of ancient civilizations.

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is substantially influenced by language, so that basic interactions with the world vary greatly across peoples.

Craig Venter embarks on a series of epic ocean voyages to seek out, genetically sequence, and learn from underwater microbes. The Voyage of Sorcerer II reveals a treasure trove of previously unknown life and shows how, from improving human health to confronting climate change, microbes are key to our future.

No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons. Often stereotyped as "Westernized" and as Hindus in all but name, these groups are better seen as having developed a distinctive Muslim capitalism, in which religious and commercial prerogatives are inseparable.

The Uses of Oppression follows the development of the Ottoman Greek press in the nineteenth century. It employs the vivid reflections of editors, correspondents, advertisers, commentators, and readers to view the everyday lives of a generation caught up in radical social and political changes, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat.

The Painting Master's Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was written. Amy McNair's translation and analysis offers a definitive argument for Liang Shicheng, not Emperor Huizong, as the catalogue's compiler.

Avant-Garde Post- follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism. Rejecting both the Putin regime-with its selective mobilizations of Soviet nostalgia-and Western discourses of liberal superiority, this circle is reviving class-based critique through experimental forms and global collaborations.

Schooling has become less about learning and more about the scramble for good grades, high test scores, and spotless transcripts. No one is happy about this, least of all students. But what can be done? Off the Mark explains how we got into this predicament, why our reforms haven¿t worked, and how we can reorient our system to advance learning.

Maximus of Tyre's forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue, and a rich collection of the famous philosophical, literary, and historical figures, events, ideas, successes, and failures that constituted Greek paideia in the so-called Second Sophistic era.

Maximus of Tyre's forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue, and a rich collection of the famous philosophical, literary, and historical figures, events, ideas, successes, and failures that constituted Greek paideia in the so-called Second Sophistic era.

The State of Housing Design 2023 is the first report in a new series that reviews national trends, ideas, and critical issues related to residential design. This volume addresses issues of affordability, social cohesion, sustainability, aesthetics, density, and urbanism through critical essays, visual content, and a crowdsourced survey.

Although Robert Klein (1918-1967), well known for his erudition and the originality of his research, was an important, even paradigmatic figure for the field of art history in the twentieth century, no sustained study has yet been dedicated to his work. Robert Klein: A Meteor in Art History and Philosophy sheds light on his intellectual journey.

Imagination is thought to be the province of childhood¿the stuff of free play and unrestrained ideas. Then comes the dull routine of adulthood, stifling creativity. In fact, the opposite is true. Andrew Shtulman shows that imagination is not inherited at birth, nor does it diminish with age. It grows as we do, through education and reflection.