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Mason And Mccall Smith'S Law And Medical Ethics

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 This classic textbook focuses on medical law and its relationship with medical practice and modern ethics. It provides thorough coverage of all topics found on medical law courses, and in-depth analysis of recent court decisions, encouraging students to think analytically about the subject.
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Fashioning The Future In Roman Greece - Memory, Monuments, Texts

by Estelle (Lecturer In Classics, Lecturer In Classics, Australian National University) Strazdins

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 Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. She establishes that imperial Greek temporality was more complex than previously allowed by detailing how cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future.
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Perception And Idealism - An Essay On How The World Manifests Itself To Us, And How It (Probably) Is In Itself

by Howard (Professor Emeritus In Philosophy, Central European University, Vienna) Robinson

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 Perception and Idealism examines how perception makes objects manifest to us, and what the world must be like for objects to be manifest in that way. Howard Robinson argues for a version of sense-datum theory about perception and theistic phenomenalism about metaphysical reality.
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The Comic Body In Ancient Greek Theatre And Art, 440-320 Bce

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 Through both textual and iconographic sources, this book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily.
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Art, Science, And The Natural World In The Ancient Mediterranean, 300 Bc To Ad 100

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 A study on the intersection of art, science, and the natural world in Hellenistic and Roman times.
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Architectural Restoration And Heritage In Imperial Rome

by Christopher (Honorary Research Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow, University Of Exeter) Siwicki

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 Challenging the idea that heritage is a purely modern phenomenon, this volume addresses how historic buildings were treated in Imperial Rome, examining the way in which the ancients restored the monuments they inherited from earlier generations and developing our understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage.
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Mimetic Contagion - Art And Artifice In Terence'S Eunuch

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 This volume considers the phenomenon of mimetic contagion, whereby works of art draw viewers into direct imitation of themselves, and how it operates within specific historical contexts. Terence's Eunuch is used as a case study, situating the motif within the peculiarities of mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art.
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Statues And Cities - Honorific Portraits And Civic Identity In The Hellenistic World

by John (Fellow And Tutor In Ancient History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford) Ma

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 This book combines archaeology and epigraphy to discuss portraits in ancient art within the context of city-states honouring individuals through erecting statues, and families imitating this practice. This tells us a lot about the history of these cities and how ancient art worked as a construction of relations during the Hellenistic period.
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Body Language In Hellenistic Art And Society

by Jane (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, University Of Oxford And The Ashmolean Museum) Masseglia

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 This richly illustrated volume brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects.
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Greco-Scythian Art And The Birth Of Eurasia - From Classical Antiquity To Russian Modernity

by Caspar (Lecturer In Classical Archaeology, Birkbeck, University Of London) Meyer

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 Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art history, and textual sources to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, Meyer offers unique introductions to the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to Asia and classical Greece, modern museum and visual culture studies, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
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Crisis And Ambition - Tombs And Burial Customs In Third-Century Ce Rome

by Barbara E. (Professor Of Classical Archaeology, University Of Exeter) Borg

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 Through a study of tombs and burial customs in Rome and its surroundings, this volume demonstrates that the third century was an exciting period of experimentation and creativity, and that ambition continued to be a driving force in all social classes, who paved the way for the new system of late antiquity.
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Images And Monuments Of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 Bc--Ad 100

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 An archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom during the transitional period between 100 BC and AD 100. Kropp treats images and monuments as historical documents and aims at uncovering royal identities and ideological aspirations.
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Statues In Roman Society - Representation And Response

by Peter (Lecturer In Classical Art And Its Heritage At The Courtauld Institute Of Art, London) Stewart

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 Statues were everywhere in the Roman world. They served as objects of cult, honours to emperors and noblemen, and memorials to the dead. Taking an unprecedentedly broad overview of this remarkable phenomenon, Statues in Roman Society explains the impact which all kinds of statuary had on the ancient population.
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The Roman Nude - Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 Bc - Ad 300

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 Nude statues of Roman emperors, generals, businessmen, and their wives survive from the ancient world in large numbers. This book explores the reasons why so many Romans chose to have themselves represented naked, and what this choice may tell us about Roman attitudes towards the self, the body, and personal identity.
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Ancient Rome As A Museum - Power, Identity, And The Culture Of Collecting

by Steven (Associate Professor Of Classics, Department Of Classics, University Of Maryland.) Rutledge

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 Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.
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Pliny'S Catalogue Of Culture - Art And Empire In The Natural History

by Sorcha (, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow In Classics At The University Of Cambridge) Carey

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 One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History. This important study reassesses Pliny's discussion of art, revealing how art is used to expound the Roman imperial agenda which dominates the work as a whole.
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Applications To Wind Up Companies (Book And Digital Pack)

by Derek French

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 This is the only book to focus entirely on winding up companies (including foreign companies), insolvent partnerships and other business organizations. It contains all there is to know about applying (petitioning) to have companies and similar entities wound up by the court. This Pack includes a digital version available on multiple platforms.
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Infectious Disease Epidemiology Paperbac

by Christophe Fraser

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 The book provides an introduction to modelling of the transmission, evolution and control of infectious diseases with emphasis on stochastic models and substantial exposition of the increasingly important interface between epidemiology and evolutionary theory.
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Romance Phonetics And Phonology

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 This book explores recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology. Topics studied range from the low-level mechanical processes involved in speech production and perception to high-level representation and computation, based on data from across the Romance language family, including from varieties that are less widely studied.
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Macroeconomics - A European Text

by Charles Wyplosz e Michael Burda

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 Macroeconomics teaches students to be young economists, providing a contemporary approach to the subject and a wealth of real-life case studies to allow students to understand how economics works in practice.
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Thraliana: The Diary Of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776-1809, Vol. 1: 1776-1784

by Hester Lynch Thrale

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 A scholarly edition of a work by Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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Urban Youth And Photovoice - Visual Ethnography In Action

by Melvin (Professor & Chair, Professor & Chair, Boston University School Of Social Work) Delgado

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 This book provides readers with a solid theoretical foundation and a guided approach to how to carry out a youth photovoice project. It takes the readers throughout all facets of the process, including raising key ethical considerations when involving youth in this process.
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Becoming Un-Orthodox - Stories Of Ex-Hasidic Jews

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 Lynn Davidman offers an in-depth study of defectors from Orthodox Judaism, showing how they negotiate the difficult passage away from their families and communities and reconstruct their identities in new social contexts.
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Emperors And Ancestors - Roman Rulers And The Constraints Of Tradition

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 Emperors and Ancestors analyses the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented, looking at the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted, such as coinage, inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, and literary text.
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