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Greek Thought by Christopher Gill 9780199220748
Booksplease Price: £23.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199220748Author Christopher GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint
Galen and the World of Knowledge by Christopher Gill 9780521767514
Booksplease Price: £99.73Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays...
Galen and the World of Knowledge by Christopher Gill 9781107410749
Booksplease Price: £45.31Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays...
Stoic Ethics: The Basics Christopher Gill 9781032813592
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.99At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Stoic ethics for students and for readers interested in Stoic life-guidance.It combines an...
Form and Argument in Late Plato by Christopher Gill 9780199241422
Booksplease Price: £55.68Why did Plato put his philosophical arguments into dialogues, rather than presenting them in a plain and readily understandable fashion? In writing rich tales of philosophical encounters, does Plato...
Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism by Christopher Gill 9780199556793
Booksplease Price: £117.72This is a study of the psychological ideas of Galen (AD 129-c.210, the most important medical writer in antiquity) and Stoicism (a major philosophical theory in the Hellenistic and Roman periods),...
The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought by Christopher Gill 9780199564378
Booksplease Price: £48.23Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of...
Plato's Atlantis Story: Text, Translation and Commentary Christopher Gill 9781786940155
Booksplease Price: £31.16This book aims to bring together all the evidence relevant for understanding Plato's Atlantis Story, providing the Greek text of the relevant Platonic texts (the start of Plato's Timaeus and the...
Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue by Christopher Gill 9780198152323
Booksplease Price: £89.16This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer, Greek tragedy, and philosophy. The focus is on norms of personality in Greek psychology and ethics. The key thesis is that,...
Learning to Live Naturally: Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance by Christopher Gill 9780198866169
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £113.14At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism among scholars and the general public, this book offers a sustained examination of the core Stoic ethical claims and their significance for modern...
In the Blue - Behind the Front Line: War Diary of John Gill by Christopher Gill 9781999826642
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999826642Author Christopher GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint
A Guide to Asperger Syndrome by Christopher Gillberg 9780521001830
Booksplease Price: £62.04Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, usually with life-long consequences for social interaction and behaviour. The disorder is neurodevelopmental and symptoms appear in the preschool...
Clinical Child Neuropsychiatry by Christopher Gillberg 9780521543354
Booksplease Price: £83.00Neuropsychiatry is a rapidly expanding field, linking the traditional areas of neurology and psychiatry, which has benefited greatly from recognition of the role of genetic and environmental...
A Clinician's Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by Christopher Gillberg 9780521294843
Booksplease Price: £93.34Originally published in 2006, this authoritative clinical handbook provides a detailed overview of the main disorders encountered by child and adolescent psychiatrists in clinical practice, ranging...
Offshore Windpower Christopher Gillis 9780764337437
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.75Windpower remains one of the world's most developed forms of renewable energy, and the oceans offer room for considerable expansion. This comprehensive survey features over 140 striking photos and...
ADHD and Its Many Associated Problems by Christopher Gillberg 9780199937905
Booksplease Price: £71.61ADHD and Its Many Associated Problems is a clinical handbook about infants, children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged, and elderly people with ADHD and all its many comorbidities. It is the...
Autism in Complex Presentations: A Guide to Assessment and Diagnosis Christopher Gillberg 9781911612704
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.55This book raises awareness of the importance of recognising and supporting autism with co-occurring conditions. Autism in Complex Presentations brings together international clinicians and...
A Preface to Jane Austen by Christopher Gillie 9780582354814
Booksplease Price: £42.60An excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature.About the AuthorCHRISTOPHER GILLIE is an Arts Tutor for the Open University having for a long period served Trinity...
Movements in English Literature by Christopher Gillie 9780521099226
Booksplease Price: £35.47In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie follows the method of selecting writers that are most significant for this study. He tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and...
A Preface to Jane Austen: Revised Edition by Christopher Gillie 9780582437623
Booksplease Price: £51.04In this excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature, Christopher Gillie outlines Jane Austen's life and literary background and examines their effect on her work...
The ESSENCE of Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Conditions: Rethinking Co-Morbidities, Assessment, and Intervention by Christopher Gillberg
Booksplease Price: £21.98ESSENCE (Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations) refers to the group of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, ADHD and tic disorders as well as...
The Symposium by Plato
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, GuardianIn the course of a lively drinking...
Meditations: with selected correspondence by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private...
The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education by Tom Harrison
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education offers the reader a comprehensive and authoritative account of both the theoretical and practical complexities of cultivating virtue in education and...
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Epictetus
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.02'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards...
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume VI: 1988 by Julia Annas 9780198244974
Booksplease Price: £56.24Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, some of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of...
Epictetus: Discourses, Book 1 by Robert F. Dobbin 9780199235995
Booksplease Price: £62.71The Discourses are a key source for ancient Stoicism, one of the richest and most influential schools of thought in Western philosophy. They not only represent the Stoicism of Epictetus' own time,...
The Platonic Art of Philosophy by George Boys-Stones 9781316629505
Booksplease Price: £41.37This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions...
The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy by Oliver Taplin 9780198144861
Booksplease Price: £80.11The visual effect of the staging of Aeschylus' plays was an essential part of their impact. And yet all that survives today are the scripts. Imagination, helped by anachronistic sources, has played...
Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life by A. A. Long
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £30.99The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A...
The Platonic Alcibiades I: The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception by Francois Renaud 9780521199124
Booksplease Price: £99.43Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It...
Plato's Individuals by Mary Margaret McCabe
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Contradicting the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically, Mary Margaret McCabe argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something and...
Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521036429
Booksplease Price: £35.47Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only...
Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen by Professor Susanna Braund 9780521826259
Booksplease Price: £102.51Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only...
Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts by Christopher Janaway 9780198237921
Booksplease Price: £54.66Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he famously argued in the Republic that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound,...
Stoic Studies by A. A. Long
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.98For the past three decades A. A. Long has been at the forefront of research in Hellenistic philosophy. In this book he assembles a dozen articles on Stoicism previously published in journals and...
Rationality in Greek Thought by Michael Frede 9780198250029
Booksplease Price: £56.67Rationality in Greek Thought, a collection of specially written essays by leading international scholars, re-examines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. Conceptions of reason, rationality,...
Rationality in Greek Thought by Michael Frede 9780198240440
Booksplease Price: £75.37Rationality in Greek Thought - a collection of specially written essays by leading international scholars - fundamentally re-examines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. Conceptions of...
French and Italian Stoicisms by Kurt Lampe 9781350082038
Booksplease Price: £112.13The importance of Stoicism for Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense and Michel Foucault's Hermeneutics of the Subject and The Care of the Self is well known. However, few students of either classics or...
Odysseus, Hero of Practical Intelligence: Deliberation and Signs in Homer's Odyssey by Jeffrey Barnouw 9780761830269
Booksplease Price: £70.88In dramatic representations and narrative reports of inner deliberation the Odyssey displays the workings of the human mind and its hero's practical intelligence, epitomized by anticipating...