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A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: The Oresteia ä Aeschylus; Prometheus Bound ä Aeschylus; Oedipus the King ä Sophocles; Antigone ä Sophocles; Medea ä Euripides; The Bakkhai ä Euripides; Oedipus ä Seneca; Medea ä Seneca.

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“Sustainable design integrates consideration of resource and energy efficiency, healthy buildings and materials, ecologically and socially sensitive land-use, and an aesthetic sensitivity that inspires, affirms, and ennobles...” The construction process affects the environment and surrounding ecosystem. Once buildings are constructed, the occupants and administrators face a series of challenges in their attempt to maintain a healthy, efficient, and productive environment. In order to face these challenges, innovative and varied building strategies have been developed to contribute to the achievement of environmentally friendly homes that are alive and “breathe.”

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This facsimile reprint collection of important primary-source materials will be welcomed by historians of medicine, particularly those interested in nursing and nursing education from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Including many diagrams and photographs, they are also a valuable resource, not only for those working on nursing history, but also for scholars and advanced students of the history of hospitals, public health and, more generally, the role of women in America.

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This stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 love poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Love will be counterbalanced by Poems of Hate—a collection of poems on wrath, jealousy, revenge, and hatred—which is publishing simultaneously.

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Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores key influences on celebrated director Wes Anderson's new film Asteroid City. Together they form a detailed, captivating portrait of the mid-century film world and the enduring myths of the American West. Contents: A Conversation Between Wes Anderson and Jake Perlin A Life excerpt - Elia Kazan The Celluloid Brassière - Andy Logan Rainy Day - Lillian Ross The Outskirts: Other Men's Women - Gina Telaroli The Petrified Forest - Jorge Luis Borges Ace in the Hole: Noir in Broad Daylight - Molly Haskell What Makes a Sad Heart Sing: Some Came Running - Michael Koresky One False Start, Never Wear the Same Dress Twice - Durga Chew-Bose Maigret at the Coroner's excerpt - Georges Simenon Sunbelt Noir: Desert Fury - Imogen Sara Smith The Voyage Down and Out: Inferno - Kent Jones Bad Day Near The River's Edge - Nicolas Saada Watching Fail Safe at the End of the World - K. Austin Collins Black Desert, White Desert - Serge Toubiana Marilyn Monroe and the Loveless World - Jonas Mekas Beyond the Stars - Jeremy Bernstein Coming: Nashville - Pauline Kael Coming Around the Mountain: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Matt Zoller Seitz Selections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary - Bob Balaban Introduction to Small Change: A Film Novel - François Truffaut By The Time I Get to Phoenix - Thora Siemsen My Guy - Hilton Als Wild to the Wild - Sam Shepard

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This stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Hate will be counterbalanced by Poems of Love—a collection of traditional love poems—which is publishing simultaneously.

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