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  • How to Land a Top-Paying Waiters and waitresses Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Gilbert Nathan ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Waiters and waitresses job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy

    Edited by Nathan Gilbert, Margaret Graver, Sean McConnell ...
    Extensively trained as a philosopher, Cicero was also a working politician with a keen awareness of the distance between pure intellectual endeavor and effective strategies of persuasion. This volume explores a series of interrelated problems in his works, from the use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in intellectual inquiry, to the motives of political agents and the morality of ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Subversive Lives

    A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years

    by Susan F. Quimpo, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo ...
    Series series Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
    From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters that comprise a family saga of revolution, persistence, and, ultimately, vindication, even as ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Reading Roman Friendship

    by Craig A. Williams ...
    This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Cicero: Pro Marco Caelio

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Pro Marco Caelio is perhaps Cicero's best-loved speech and has long been regarded as one of the best surviving examples of Roman oratory. Speaking in defence of the young aristocrat Marcus Caelius Rufus on charges of political violence, Cicero scores his points with wit but also with searing invective directed at a supporter of the prosecution, Clodia Metelli, whom he represents as seeking ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Tacitus: Annals Book XV

    by Tacitus ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman Empire. It describes how the imperial system survived Nero's flamboyant and hedonistic tenure as emperor, and includes many famous passages, from the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64 to the city-wide ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus

    by Pamela Gordon ...
    The school of Greek philosopher Epicurus, which became known as the Garden, famously put great stock in happiness and pleasure. As a philosophical community, and a way of seeing the world, Epicureanism had a centuries-long life in Athens and Rome, as well as across the Mediterranean.The Invention and Gendering of Epicurusstudies how the Garden's outlook on pleasure captured Greek and Roman ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rhetoric in Classical Historiography

    Four Studies

    by A.J. Woodman ...
    This radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. Includes detailed discussion of the work of Thucydides, Cicero, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Terence: Hecyra

    by Terence ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments boldly with traditional comic forms, not only in its creation of anticipatory suspense, but through its variations on traditional situations and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

    by Ingo Gildenhard, Louise Hodgson ...
    In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    by Mathew Owen, Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Series Book 3 - Open Reports Series
    The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor ... Read more

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