Books written by Patrick Baker
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Australian Marine Shells: Prosobranch gastropods, part one
First in a two-volume set describing and illustrating over 2400 species of Australian marine prosobranch gastropods including information on geographic distribution, habitat and synonymies. Provides an introduction dealing with collecting...
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Sci Phi Journal #7: September 2015: The Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy
Sean takes us on a journey to find out.Like Soldiers, Face to our Foes by Patrick S. Baker, explores questions of the nature of war and what it means to be a soldier.Pawprints in the Aeolian Dust by Eleanor R. Wood, a tale of a man and his ...
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Beyond Reception: Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity
Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism.
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Habent sua fata libelli: Studies in Book History, the Classical Tradition, and Humanism in Honor of Craig Kallendorf
Fede e potere alla metà del Cinquecento. Milano: Mursia. Al Kalak, Matteo. 2016. “Porto, Francesco.” In Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 85. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ ...
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Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
Renaissance Humanism, vol. I, pp. 29–70. “Still the Matter of the Two Giovannis: A Note on Malpaghini and Conversino,” Rinascimento, 35 (1996), 179–199. The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy ...
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The Cairngorms: A Secret History
Praise for The Cairngorms “Perfect . . . full of ghosts of walkers past.” —Conde Nast Traveler “Describing a series of walks, Baker illuminates the bleak landscape, revealing the many stories linked to its ruined bothies, ancient ...
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Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts
... Überflüssiges streichen (»superflua reseces«), Verworrenes klarer fassen (»confusa distinguas«), ungelenke und dunkle Passagen ausschmücken und aufhellen (»inerudita inculta obscura exornes atque illustres«) – also ein stilistisch ...
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The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories
From the high mountain passes of an ancient droving route to a desolate moorland graveyard, from uninhabited post-industrial islands and Clearance villages to caves explored by early climbers and the mysterious strongholds of Christian ...
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Australian Marine Shells
Australian Marine Shells
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The Presidential Dickerbook
The Presidential Dickerbook is the only adult stickerbook revealing the biggest boners and dick moves of every president, from George Washington to Donald Trump Inside you (TM)ll find 45 cartoon dick stickers, one for each president.
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Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
... Kristeller narrowed it.19 the recent publication of essays on Kristeller and the influence of his thought, John Monfasani (ed.), Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on his Life and Scholarship (New York, 2006). 17 Garin articulated his ...
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Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing: The Tradition of Collective Biography in Early Modern Europe
... Plutarch in early fifteenth-century Florence, see Marianne Pade, The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 2 vols., Renæssancestudier 14 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2007),vol. 1, ch. 3. 9 On this point, see ...