LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david bolton

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  • Conflict, peace and mental health
    David Bolton
    A powerful guide for dealing with traumatised communities in the wake of conflict and disaster.What are the human consequences of conflict, and how should healthcare and social services respond? In this book, David Bolton provides an answer to these urgent questions, drawing on more than twenty-five years of service experience in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the ...
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    37,34 €

  • The Casket by Plautus
    David Bolton
    A fresh translation of The Casket (or Cistellaria) by Plautus. A young man is in love with an ’unsuitable’ young woman - a courtesan. His father disapproves and has in mind a much more suitable (ie. lucrative) match. The play allows the audience to consider and interpret the Roman world of the citizen, the slave and the courtesan.First produced in 202BC, some of the original te...
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    11,81 €

  • Casina by Plautus
    David Bolton
    A new translation of Casina by Plautus. The play was first produced at the end of the third century or early second century BC. An old man and his son are each in love with Casina, a slave girl. The old man is already married and his son is expected to marry into his own social class. This will not stop their pursuit of Casina?. ...
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    8,27 €

  • Electra by Sophocles
    David Bolton
    A new translation of Sophocles’ Electra by David Bolton. The translation combines prose and verse and aims to be an authentic rendering of the original Greek text and to maintain its spirit. The translation is accompanied by background notes concerning the feud in the Pelopid dynasty, Homer’s account, the Delphic Oracle and the role of Orestes. ...
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    12,54 €

  • Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides
    David Bolton
    A new translation by David Bolton of Euripides’ tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis. The prose and verse of the translation aim to provide an authentic rendering of the original Greek text and to maintain its spirit. The translation is accompanied by background notes, a discussion of the central characters and the part played by rhetoric in the play. There is also a translation of the t...
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    12,39 €

  • Cyclops by Euripides
    David Bolton
    A new translation of Cyclops, a Satyr play by Euripides. Cyclops is the only Satyr play to have survived in full. The Satyr plays took as their theme a well-known mythological story: here, the story is of Odysseus’ encounter with the Cyclops, Polyphemus. Satyrs and their elderly leader, Silenus (whose sole desire is to spend an easy life honouring Bacchus with wine and pursuing...
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    12,51 €

  • The Captives by Plautus
    David Bolton
    A fresh translation of The Captives by Plautus, probably first produced at the end of the third century or early second century BC. It is unusual amongst Roman comedies in that it deals with a serious subject - the treatment of prisoners of war. ...
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    11,85 €

  • The Pot of Gold by Plautus
    David Bolton
    A fresh translation of the Roman comedy The Pot of Gold (Aulularia) by Plautus. The final act, largely missing in the extant sources, has been completed by the translator, David Bolton, as part of this edition. ...
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    12,23 €

  • Euclid Elements
    David Bolton
    A fresh translation of Euclid’s ’Elements’ together with a comprehensive introduction to each of the ’Elements' books, all contained in a single volume. Euclid’s ’Elements’, produced c300 BC, superseded all previous attempts to identify the ’elements’ of geometry and became the authoritative work on plane and solid geometry, number theory, proportion, and the irrationals to be ...
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    47,65 €

  • Conflict, peace and mental health
    David Bolton
    What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing, the book describes how needs were assessed and understood, how evid...
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    25,95 €

  • The Eunuch by Terence
    David Bolton
    The Eunuch by Terence was apparently the most popular of Terence’ six comedies: Suetonius tells us it commanded a record-breaking fee. Here is a fresh translation by David Bolton together with introductory notes. ...
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    12,20 €