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The father of history as Cicero called him and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts enormous scope and considerable charm Herodotus has always been beloved by readers wellversed in the classics Compelled by his desire to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time Herotodus recounts the incidents preceding and following the Persian Wars He gives us much more than military history though providing the fullest portrait of the classical world of the 5th and 6th centuries This readable new translation is supplemented with expansive notes to help the reader appreciate the book in depth
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Published by Oxford University Press in 2017 this is the first hardback printing of The History of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS VOLUME IV 19702004 edited by Keith Robbins 744 pages blue cloth binding gilt lettering the book and dust jacket are both in very good condition The book though is extremely heavy and so an extra 16 in postage will be required for all areas excluding the UK Please bear this in mind BEFORE ordering
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The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house it leads through the publication of bibles scholarly works and the Oxford English Dictionary to a twentiethcentury expansion that created the largest university press in the world playing a part in research education and language learning in more than 50 countries With access to extensive archives The History of OUP traces the impact of longterm changes in printing technology and the business of publishing It also considers the effects of wider trends in education reading and scholarship in international trade and the spreading influence of the English language and in cultural and social historyboth in Oxford and through its presence around the worldThis first volume begins with the successive attempts to establish printing at Oxford from 1478 onwards Ian Gadd and sixteen expert contributors chart the activities of individual university printers the eventual establishment of a university printing house its relationship with the University and influential developments in printing under Archbishop Laud John Fell and William Blackstone They explore the range of scholarly and religious works produced together with the growing influence of the University Press on the city of Oxford and its place in the book trade in general
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The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house it leads through the publication of bibles scholarly works and the Oxford English Dictionary to a twentiethcentury expansion that created the largest university press in the world playing a part in research education and language learning in more than 50 countries With access to extensive archives The History of OUP traces the impact of longterm changes in printing technology and the business of publishing It also considers the effects of wider trends in education reading and scholarship in international trade and the spreading influence of the English language and in cultural and social historyboth in Oxford and through its presence around the worldThis first volume begins with the successive attempts to establish printing at Oxford from 1478 onwards Ian Gadd and sixteen expert contributors chart the activities of individual university printers the eventual establishment of a university printing house its relationship with the University and influential developments in printing under Archbishop Laud John Fell and William Blackstone They explore the range of scholarly and religious works produced together with the growing influence of the University Press on the city of Oxford and its place in the book trade in general
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Informative as well as entertaining this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University
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In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians describes with cynical power the murderous year of the Four EmperorsAD 69when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war WH Fyfes classic translation has been substantially revised and supplied with extensive historical and literary notes The Introduction examines the subtleties of Tacituss writing and gives the necessary political and social background
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The question of difference between women and men and among women is at the heart of feminist theory and the history of feminism Feminists have long debated the meanings of sexual difference is it an underlying truth of nature or the result of changing social belief Are women the same as or different from men Feminism and History argues that sexual difference indeed that all forms of social differentiation cannot be understood apart from history It brings together the best critical articles available to analyse the ways in which differences among women and men have been produced The articles range across many countries and time periods from the Middle Ages to the present and they include analyses of western and nonwestern experiences There are discussions of race in the United States and in colonial contexts A variety of theoretical approaches to the question of difference is included but in all cases difference is the focus of the historians analysis The analytic f
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For hundreds of years leaders of nations have been educated at Oxford The architecture of the University and colleges has become one of the glories of Europe The holdings of the libraries and museums are among the most extensive and important in the world And most importantly Oxford has been at the center of major scholarship since the Middle Ages having made lasting contributions in the study of religion classics the arts the sciences and more In The Illustrated History of Oxford University John Prest has assembled the fascinating story of Oxfordfrom its origins 800 years ago to the present dayto give a uniquely authoritative version of the University for the general reader Written by a team of esteemed scholars all leaders in their fields this wideranging volume captures all of the richness and diversity of Oxford as it details its significant and colorful past From the brilliant intellectual beginnings of the University in the twelfth century to its twentiethcentury emphasis on research the Illustrated History charts the growth and development of a university competing at the frontiers of knowledge
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The code of conduct for a leading tech company famously says Dont Be Evil But what exactly is evil Is it just badness by another namethe shadow side of good Or is it something more substantivea malevolent force or power at work in the universe These are some of the ontological questions that philosophers have grappled with for centuries But evil also raises perplexing epistemic and psychological questions Can we really know evil Does a victim know evil differently than a perpetrator or witness What motivates evildoers Satans rebellion Iagos machinations and Stalins genocides may be hard to understand in terms of ordinary reasons intentions beliefs and desires But what about the more banal evils performed by technocrats in a collective how do we make sense of Adolf Eichmanns selfconception as just an effective bureaucrat deserving of a promotion Evil A History collects thirteen essays that tell the story of evil in western thought starting with its origins in ancient Hebrew wisdom literature and classical Greek drama all the way to Darwinism and Holocaust theory Thirteen interspersed reflections contextualize philosophical developments by looking at evil through the eyes of animals poets mystics witches librettists film directors and even a tech product manager Evil A History will enlighten readers about one of the most alluring and difficult topics in philosophy and intellectual life and will challenge their assumptions about the very nature of evil
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The code of conduct for a leading tech company famously says Dont Be Evil But what exactly is evil Is it just badness by another namethe shadow side of good Or is it something more substantivea malevolent force or power at work in the universe These are some of the ontological questions that philosophers have grappled with for centuries But evil also raises perplexing epistemic and psychological questions Can we really know evil Does a victim know evil differently than a perpetrator or witness What motivates evildoers Satans rebellion Iagos machinations and Stalins genocides may be hard to understand in terms of ordinary reasons intentions beliefs and desires But what about the more banal evils performed by technocrats in a collective how do we make sense of Adolf Eichmanns selfconception as just an effective bureaucrat deserving of a promotion Evil A History collects thirteen essays that tell the story of evil in western thought starting with its origins in ancient Hebrew wisdom literature and classical Greek drama all the way to Darwinism and Holocaust theory Thirteen interspersed reflections contextualize philosophical developments by looking at evil through the eyes of animals poets mystics witches librettists film directors and even a tech product manager Evil A History will enlighten readers about one of the most alluring and difficult topics in philosophy and intellectual life and will challenge their assumptions about the very nature of evil
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In recent decades memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy sociology politics history science cultural studies literary theory and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust In contemporary debates the concept of memory is often used rather broadly and thus not always unambiguously For this reason the clarification of the range of the historical meaning of the concept of memory is a very important and urgent task This volume shows how the concept of memory has been used and appropriated in different historical circumstances and how it has changed throughout the history of philosophy In ancient philosophy memory was considered a repository of sensible and mental impressions and was complemented by recollectionthe process of recovering the content of past thoughts and perceptions Such an understanding of memory led to the development both of mnemotechnics and the attempts to locate memory within the structure of cognitive faculties In contemporary philosophical and historical debates memory frequently substitutes for reason by becoming a predominant capacity to which one refers when one wants to explain not only the personal identity but also a historical political or social phenomenon In contemporary interpretation it is memory and not reason that acts in and through human actions and history which is a critical reaction to the overly rationalized and simplified concept of reason in the Enlightenment Moreover in modernity memory has taken on one of the most distinctive features of reason it is thought of as capable not only of recollecting past events and meanings but also itself In this respect the volume can be also taken as a reflective philosophical attempt by memory to recall itself its functioning and transformations throughout its own history
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The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry selected from a variety of sources mostly periodicals which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading Patrick Gardiner is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy of Magdalen College Oxford
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In recent decades memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy sociology politics history science cultural studies literary theory and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust In contemporary debates the concept of memory is often used rather broadly and thus not always unambiguously For this reason the clarification of the range of the historical meaning of the concept of memory is a very important and urgent task This volume shows how the concept of memory has been used and appropriated in different historical circumstances and how it has changed throughout the history of philosophy In ancient philosophy memory was considered a repository of sensible and mental impressions and was complemented by recollectionthe process of recovering the content of past thoughts and perceptions Such an understanding of memory led to the development both of mnemotechnics and the attempts to locate memory within the structure of cognitive faculties In contemporary philosophical and historical debates memory frequently substitutes for reason by becoming a predominant capacity to which one refers when one wants to explain not only the personal identity but also a historical political or social phenomenon In contemporary interpretation it is memory and not reason that acts in and through human actions and history which is a critical reaction to the overly rationalized and simplified concept of reason in the Enlightenment Moreover in modernity memory has taken on one of the most distinctive features of reason it is thought of as capable not only of recollecting past events and meanings but also itself In this respect the volume can be also taken as a reflective philosophical attempt by memory to recall itself its functioning and transformations throughout its own history
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It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and nonhuman animals by referring to their special faculties Thus we say that dogs can smell things in their environment because they have perceptual faculties or that human beings can think because they have rational faculties But what are faculties In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities How can they be individuated How are they interrelated And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings The six chapters in this book discuss these questions covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties as modules of the mind They show that faculties were referred to in different theoretical contexts but analyzed in radically different ways Some philosophers especially Aristotelians made them the cornerstone of their biological and psychological theories taking them to be basic powers of living beings Others took them to be inner causes that literally produce activities while still others provided a purely functional explanation The chapters focus on various models taking into account Greek Arabic Latin French German and AngloAmerican debates They analyze the role assigned to faculties in metaphysics philosophy of mind and epistemology but also the attack that was often launched against the assumption that faculties are hidden yet real features of living beings The short Reflections inserted between the chapters make clear that faculties were also widely discussed in literature science and medicine
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