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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, …
Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis)
Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of …
The Oxford Handbook of Galen
The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the …
Galen: Psychological Writings
All Galen's surviving shorter works on psychology and ethics - including the recently discovered Avoiding Distress, and the neglected Character Traits, extant only in Arabic - are …
Galen: Writings on Health
Galen's Health (De sanitate tuenda) was the most important work on daily exercise, diet and health regimes in antiquity. This book presents the first reliable scholarly translation …
Time for the Ancients
The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also …
The Chern Symposium 1979
This volume attests to the vitality of differential geometry as it probes deeper into its internal structure and explores ever widening connections with other subjects in …