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  • A Test of Leadership
    Gareth Williams
    In December 1758, a few days short of his 31st birthday, a sickly James Wolfe was given his first outright command. He was to lead an Army to capture Quebec, the capital of France’s colonial empire in the Americas. A career soldier, undeniably brave and determined, he had to that time passed all the tests for advancement but could he succeed as a leader in circumstances where h...
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    67,86 €

  • Ermolao Barbaro’s On Celibacy 1 and 2
    Gareth Williams
    This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy(1473) by the eminent Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1454-93); Books 3 and 4 of On Celibacy are presented, along with Barbaro’s On the Duty of the Ambassador, in the companion piece to this first volume. Setting out the historical context that crucially conditions Barbaro’s advoc...
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    51,25 €

  • Ermolao Barbaro’s On Celibacy 3 and 4 and On the Duty of the Ambassador
    Gareth Williams
    This book offers the first annotated translation into English of two works of the eminent Venetian humanist, Ermolao Barbaro (1454-93). Books 3 and 4 of On Celibacy seek to justify a contemplative existence at a far remove from the active life and career-path expected of a figure of Barbaro’s standing within the Venetian patriciate; Books 1 and 2 of On Celibacy are presented in...
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    51,06 €

  • A History of Paper
    Gareth Williams / Oliver Emanuel
    What use is paper? To speak.To imagine. To remember.It starts when she puts a note through his letterbox.’Hello Number 4, this is Number 6. Please could you SHUT THE **** UP? Ta.’ Not a promising beginning, but... they meet, they fall in love, they get married.Then one day a letter arrives that will change them, and the world, forever...Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams’s A Hi...
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    18,63 €

  • Our Precious Time
    Gareth Williams
    Knowledge is power, as they say. Power is energy deployed over time. And this book endeavours to rebalance that power back towards you, the individual. Your energy. Your time.This is the book I wish I had read when I was young - one that seeks to fill a gap in the presentation of a philosophy of economics that has been too long overlooked. The Austrian School of Economics provi...
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    22,44 €

  • Ermolao Barbaro’s On Celibacy 1 and 2
    Gareth Williams
    This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy(1473) by the eminent Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1454-93); Books 3 and 4 of On Celibacy are presented, along with Barbaro’s On the Duty of the Ambassador, in the companion piece to this first volume. Setting out the historical context that crucially conditions Barbaro’s advoc...
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    147,95 €

  • Ermolao Barbaro’s On Celibacy 3 and 4 and On the Duty of the Ambassador
    Gareth Williams
    This book offers the first annotated translation in English of two works of the eminent Venetian humanist, Ermolao Barbaro (1454-93). Books 3 and 4 of On Celibacy seek to justify a contemplative existence at a far remove from the active life and career-path expected of a figure of Barbaro’s standing within the Venetian patriciate; Books 1 and 2 of On Celibacy are presented in t...
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    147,76 €

  • Happiness in Your Head
    Gareth Williams
    You only have one. From school to university to working in a global corporation, my life path had been conventional. What society has primed us to strive for. I was peaking in my career, based in Hong Kong. I was flying around Asia Pacific inside the world of high finance. However, I knew I had to search for a more authentic happiness. It’s my only life. The COVID craziness hel...
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    20,61 €

  • Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher
    Gareth Williams
    Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid’s close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical ...
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    173,12 €

  • Infrapolitical Passages
    Gareth Williams
    This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. In doing so, Gareth Williams makes a...
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    40,79 €

  • Nanofibres in Drug Delivery
    Bahijja T Raimi-Abraham / CJ Luo / Gareth R Williams
    In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the production of nanoscale fibres for drug delivery and tissue engineering. Nanofibres in Drug Delivery aims to outline to new researchers in the field the utility of nanofibres in drug delivery, and to explain to them how to prepare fibres in the laboratory. The book begins with a brief discussion of the main concepts...
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    64,51 €

  • Nanofibres in Drug Delivery
    Bahijja T Raimi-Abraham / CJ Luo / Gareth R Williams
    In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the production of nanoscale fibres for drug delivery and tissue engineering. Nanofibres in Drug Delivery aims to outline to new researchers in the field the utility of nanofibres in drug delivery, and to explain to them how to prepare fibres in the laboratory. The book begins with a brief discussion of the main concepts...
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    48,99 €

  • Pietro Bembo on Etna
    Gareth D. Williams
    This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine �migr� Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493. The more particular focus of this study is on the imaginative capacities that...
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    170,05 €

  • The Origin of the Political
    Roberto Esposito / Gareth Williams / Vincenzo Binetti
    In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century's most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer's Iliad--that "great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others"-- as the common origin and point of departure for our u...
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    38,33 €

  • Cosmic Viewpoint
    Gareth D Williams
    Seneca’s Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what notoriously sets Seneca’s...
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    67,64 €

  • Paralysed with Fear
    Gareth Williams
    The story of mankind’s struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio. ...
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    44,99 €

  • Paralysed with Fear
    Gareth Williams
    The story of mankind’s struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio. ...
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    47,43 €

  • Paralysed with Fear
    Gareth Williams
    For much of the twentieth century, polio inspired terror as the ’morning paralysis’ which could break into any home and disable or kill a previously healthy person. The cruelty of the disease is epitomised by the iconic images of the crippled child and the iron lung. This story of mankind’s struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and paradoxes. One of ...
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    43,64 €

  • Cosmic Viewpoint
    Gareth D Williams
    Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what notoriously sets Sene...
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    122,19 €

  • Angel of Death
    Gareth Williams
    The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold standard peripheries; i.e. regime takers with limited influence on the regime. How did small countries adjust to an international monetary regime with seemingly little room for policy autonomy? ...
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    53,22 €

  • Tutbury
    Gareth Williams / Malcolm Hislop / Mark Kincey
    Archaeological and historical investigations at Tutbury Castle, StaffordshireBirmingham Archaeology Monograph Series 11A report on the archaeological and historical investigations undertaken at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. The town of Tutbury is situated on the eastern border of Staffordshire in central England some 15km south west of Derby and 6.5km north west of Burton upon...
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    147,44 €

  • Mexican Exception
    Gareth Williams
    The war on drugs has opened up a discussion on whether Mexico is living a state of exception or even becoming a failed state. This book argues that sovereign exceptionality has always been central to Mexican modernity. The question is how to understand the way the sovereign exception has worked and continues to work in cultural, historical, and institutional terms since this ho...
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    65,25 €

  • Banished Voices
    Gareth D. Williams / Gareth DWilliams
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    76,51 €

  • Tourism and Tourism Spaces
    Allan M Williams / Gareth Shaw
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    265,75 €

  • Tourism and Tourism Spaces
    Allan M Williams / Gareth Shaw
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    98,80 €

  • Banished Voices
    Gareth D. Williams / Gareth DWilliams / Williams Gareth D.
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    167,38 €