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“john mckiernan”

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  • The Wine of Agamemnon

    by John McKiernan ...
    The Tale of Troy was not Homer's alone. Even before he sang of the Wrath of Achilles and the Return of Odysseus, many other poets had recounted the acts of gods and men at Troy. Over many years the tale was reworked and grew and changed, until the truth of the real war was almost lost. But through those long years the voice of one man was silent. And that man knew the tale complete and unadorned, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capturing Labor

    A History of Unfree Work in the Southwest

    Edited by Jessica R. Pliley, John Mckiernan-González ...
    A collection of essays grappling with the many, often overlooked, forms of unfree labor in the West.When Americans think of unfree labor—coerced, extracted from workers unable to freely enter and exit contracts—what comes to mind is Black slavery and peonage in the South. But other forms of unfree labor also built the United States. Collecting a diverse range of sharply argued historical essays, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Precarious Prescriptions

    Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

    Edited by Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, Martin Summers ...
    In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Fevered Measures

    Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942

    by John Mckiernan-González ...
    In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. The medical borders created by these officials changed with each contagion and sometimes varied from the existing national borders. Federal ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    by Homer ...
    Translated by Emily Wilson ...
    Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation."Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean. . . . It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered ... Read more

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  • The Odyssey

    by Homer, Bernard Knox ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    **The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as “the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English” (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher NolanA Penguin Classic**“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once ... Read more

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  • The Iliad

    by Homer, Bernard Knox ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert FaglesA Penguin ClassicDating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. ... Read more

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  • The Odyssey of Homer

    by Richmond Lattimore ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    THE ODYSSEY is now a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Christopher NolanHomer’s great epic The Odyssey—one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works—translated by Richmond Lattimore“A splendid achievement. . . the best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet.” — New York Times Book ReviewA classic for the ages, The Odyssey is the m... ... Read more

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  • Helen of Troy

    by Margaret George ...
    Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller.The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy.Laden with ... Read more

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  • The Oracles of Troy

    by Glyn Iliffe ...
    Series Book 4 - The Adventures of Odysseus
    "A fantastic read and an excellent continuation of the story of the Iliad from the perspective of Odysseus. . . . Brilliant!" ( Edinburgh Book Review)The Trojan War has been raging for ten years. Greece's greatest warriors have fallen. But then a series of oracles appear with utterances from the gods, commands that must be fulfilled if Troy is to be defeated.Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks, knows ... Read more

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  • The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Translated by E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu ...
    NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural ... Read more

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  • The Iliad

    The Fitzgerald Translation

    Translated by Robert Fitzgerald ...
    by Homer ...
    Anger be now your song, immortal one,Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter lossand crowded brave souls into the undergloom,leaving so many dead men-carrionfor dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.-Lines 1-6Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a ... Read more

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