Classics

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  The Republic: A New Translation

  Plato, William C. Scott, Richard W. Sterling

  Paperback

  "I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text."—John Ciardi

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  Greek Science After Aristotle

  G. E. R. Lloyd

  Paperback

  Although there is no exact equivalent to our term "science" in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks.

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  The Sumerians

  Charles Leonard Woolley

  Paperback

  In this book Professor Woolley, one of the world's foremost archaeologists, shows quite clearly that when Egyptian civilization began the civilization of the Sumerians had already flourished for at least 2,000 years.