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Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the most important autobiographical work to have survived from ancient Greece. This book places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes....

This book provides accurate concise information concerning the evaluation and the treatment of patients with sleep problems. Because management of sleep disorders requires an understanding of sleep itself, the first portion desribes aspects of normal sleep. The remainder of the book follows an approach based on the clinical method in which the...

Collected Essays Volume VReligion and Public Reasons collects the theological work of John Finnis, spanning        his contribution to such foundational issues as the justification for belief in        revelation and moral-theological methodology; to the role of religion in public        reason and law; and to major controversies within Catholic...

When the Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 after twelve years in the wilderness, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker in American history. In  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics, Ron Peters, one of America's leading scholars of Congress, and Cindy Rosenthal, one of America's leading...

A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness        analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this        volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation        by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians,...

It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with        the work of the poets. What is extraordinary is how little systematic exploration        there has been of his relationship with specific poets other than Homer. This        neglect extends even to Hesiod, though Hesiod is of central importance for...