The Persian Book of Kings : an Epitome of the Shahnama of Firdawsi. by Robinson, B. W.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: The Poet & the Poem; EPITOME OF THE SHAHNAMA; Prologue; I THE PISHDADIAN DYNASTY; REIGN OF GAYUMARTH; REIGN OF HUSHANG; REIGN OF TAHMURATH; REIGN OF JAMSHID; The Splendour of Jamshid; The Tyranny of Zahhak; The Coming of Faridun; REIGN OF FARIDUN; Faridun & his Three Sons; REIGN OF MINUCHIHR; Zal & Rudaba; Birth & Early Exploits of Rustam; REIGNS OF NAWDAR, ZAV & GARSHASP; War with Turan; II THE KAYANIAN DYNASTY; REIGN OF KAY QUBAD; Rustam's Quest for Kay Qubad; REIGN OF KAY KA'US.…”
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Justin and Pompeius Trogus : a Study of the Language of Justin's ""Epitome"" of Trogus. by Yardley, J. C.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic Elements in the Epitome -- 8. Trogus, Justin, and the Law -- INDEX RERUM ET NOMINUM NOTABILIORUM -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- INDEX JUSTINIANUS -- INDEX ALIORUM LOCORUM -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V.…”
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Chronik des Hydatius. Fortführung der Spanischen Epitome by Kötter, Jan-Markus

Table of Contents: “…(G 10) Fortführung der spanischen Epitome /…”
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Justin and Pompeius Trogus : a Study of the Language of Justin's ""Epitome"" of Trogus. by Yardley, J. C.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic Elements in the Epitome -- 8. Trogus, Justin, and the Law -- INDEX RERUM ET NOMINUM NOTABILIORUM -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- INDEX JUSTINIANUS -- INDEX ALIORUM LOCORUM -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V.…”
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On Aristotle's "Metaphysics" : an annotated translation of the so-called "Epitome" / by Averroës, 1126-1198

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Physicians' manual of the pharmacopeia and the National formulary ; an epitome of all the articles contained in the U. S.... by Hallberg, C. S. N. (Carl Svantè Nicanor), 1856-1910

The Chreia and ancient rhetoric : commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata

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Editar a Calderón : hacia una edición crítica de las comedias completas by Arellano, Ignacio

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Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire

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TEDTalks Jamie Oliver - TED Prize Wish, Teach Every Child About Food

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A companion to St. Paul in the middle ages

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XIII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Ljubljana, 2007

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Xenophon of Ephesus : his compositional technique and the birth of the novel by O'Sullivan, James N., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Formulae and Bearbeiter -- 1. The epitome â€? theory -- 2. The â€?Heliosredaktionstheorieâ€? …”
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The Mirror of the worlde by Cary, Elizabeth Tanfield

Table of Contents: “…Introduction Early Encounters with the World: Elizabeth Tanfield and Her Work -- The Translator's "Pregnancy of Understanding": Elizabeth Tanfield's Style -- The Translator in the Priory: Influences and Contexts -- Note on the Text -- The Mirror of the Worlde (text and annotations) -- Appendix A Summary of all French Editions of Ortelius Printed by 1602 225 -- Appendix B Comparison of the Contents of The Mirror of the Worlde with the Contents of the 1590 Epitome and the 1598 Miroir -- Appendix C Complete Text of L'Epitome's Descriptions of "Lucembourg" (34v) and "Haynault" (35v).…”
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Passes Through. by Stephenson, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Dyad; One; One; Ja, Mehr: La Mer; Etceteras or An Epitome of Ruins; Acknowledgements.…”
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The afterlife of Austria-Hungary : the image of the Habsburg Monarchy in interwar Europe by Kożuchowski, Adam, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Austria-Hungary in historiography -- Austria-Hungary in essayism and political theory -- Austria-Hungary in literary fiction -- The empire epitomized: Franz Joseph -- Conclusion.…”
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The afterlife of Austria-Hungary : the image of the Habsburg Monarchy in interwar Europe by Kożuchowski, Adam, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Austria-Hungary in historiography -- Austria-Hungary in essayism and political theory -- Austria-Hungary in literary fiction -- The empire epitomized: Franz Joseph -- Conclusion.…”
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Teachings of Tibetan yoga : an introduction to the spiritual, mental, and physical exercises of the Tibetan religion by Zhang, Zhenji, 1920-

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Rhetorical figures in science by Fahnestock, Jeanne, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 1 The Figures as Epitomes; CHAPTER 2 Antithesis; CHAPTER 3 Incrementum and Gradatio; CHAPTER 4 Antimetabole; CHAPTER 5 Ploche and Polyptoton; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Just wars and moral victories : surprise, deception and the normative framework of European war in the later Middle Ages by Whetham, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Metaphysical and moral context -- The role of war as a legal instrument in the Middle Ages -- The epitome of military science -- The works of Geoffroy de Charny -- Froissart : the management of chivalric expectation -- Conclusion.…”
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Doing physics : how physicists take hold of the world by Krieger, Martin H.

Table of Contents: “…The division of labor : the factory -- Taking apart and putting together : the clockworks, the calculus, and the computer -- Freedom and necessity : family and kinship -- The vacuum and the creation : setting a stage -- Handles, probes, and tools : a rhetoric of nature -- Production machinery : mathematics for analysis and description -- An epitome.…”
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The death of our planet's species : a challenge to ecology and ethics by Gorke, Martin, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Part A: Hopes for an "ecological solution" -- Ecology as the epitome of controlling nature? -- The science of ecology as a normative authority? …”
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Poetics of the Incarnation : Middle English writing and the leap of love by Cervone, Cristina Maria

Table of Contents: “…The “Enigma” of Signification in “Figurative” Language -- Elisions of Abstract and Concrete, Epitomized in a “True-love” -- Agency : When Christ as “Doer” Is Also the “Love Deed” -- Time in Narrative : The Teleology of History Meets the Timelessness of God “in plenitudo temporis” -- “He is in the mydde point” : Poetic Deep Structure and the Frameworks of Incarnational Poetics.…”
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Poetics of the Incarnation : Middle English writing and the leap of love by Cervone, Cristina Maria

Table of Contents: “…The “Enigma” of Signification in “Figurative” Language -- Elisions of Abstract and Concrete, Epitomized in a “True-love” -- Agency : When Christ as “Doer” Is Also the “Love Deed” -- Time in Narrative : The Teleology of History Meets the Timelessness of God “in plenitudo temporis” -- “He is in the mydde point” : Poetic Deep Structure and the Frameworks of Incarnational Poetics.…”
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Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library. by Carlyon, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Andrés González de Barcia as Commentator in the First Phase of His Scholarship on the Historiography of the Indies -- 2 The Epítome de la Biblioteca, Before: Seventeenth-Century Conceptualizations of the Bibliographical Mission: Antonio de León Pinelo and Nicolás Antonio -- 3 The Epítome de la Biblioteca, After: Bibliography as a Reflection of Andrés González de Barcia's Intellectual Project for New World Scholarship -- 4 Andrés González de Barcia's Creation of the Spanish American Library and His Edition of Gregorio García's Origen de los Indios -- 5 The Index as a Scholarly and Political Tool in the Americanist Editions of Andrés González de Barcia -- Appendix: Complete Bibliography of González de Barcia's Americanist Editions (1720-1743) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library. by Carlyon, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Andrés González de Barcia as Commentator in the First Phase of His Scholarship on the Historiography of the Indies -- 2 The Epítome de la Biblioteca, Before: Seventeenth-Century Conceptualizations of the Bibliographical Mission: Antonio de León Pinelo and Nicolás Antonio -- 3 The Epítome de la Biblioteca, After: Bibliography as a Reflection of Andrés González de Barcia's Intellectual Project for New World Scholarship -- 4 Andrés González de Barcia's Creation of the Spanish American Library and His Edition of Gregorio García's Origen de los Indios -- 5 The Index as a Scholarly and Political Tool in the Americanist Editions of Andrés González de Barcia -- Appendix: Complete Bibliography of González de Barcia's Americanist Editions (1720-1743) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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The politics of language : Byrhtferth, Ælfric, and the multilingual identity of the Benedictine reform by Stephenson, Rebecca, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the literary context of the monastic reform -- Pedagogy of the Enchiridion : layout and languages -- Scapegoating the secular clergy : the hermeneutic style as a form of monastic self-definition -- The politics of English : computus, translation, and monastic self-definition -- The politics of Ælfric's prefaces -- Unravelling the hermeneutic style : Ælfric's latin epitomes and English translations.…”
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The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics by Watson, Walter, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics -- Aims of the present book -- Method to be followed -- Prospective readers -- Groundwork -- Aristotle's arts and sciences -- The organon -- Preface to the theoretical sciences -- Mathematics -- The physical sciences -- The biological sciences -- First philosophy -- The order of the arts and sciences -- The practical sciences -- The productive sciences : poetics -- Rhetoric -- Scientific rationality as a guiding idea -- Causes -- The symbolon argument -- Causes in the poetics -- Poetic imitation -- The analysis of poetic imitation -- The scope of poetic imitation -- The evolution of poetic imitation -- Expectations of Poetics II -- The epitome of Poetics II -- Comparison of expectations with the epitome -- The kinds of poetry -- The autonomy of poetry -- Internal and external ends -- The Aristotelian tradition -- Historical, educational, and imitative poetry -- Historical poetry -- Historical poetry and history -- Historical poetry and imitative poetry -- Historical poetry and rhetoric -- Educational poetry -- Poetry and philosophy -- Poetry and education -- Imitative poetry -- The end of tragedy -- The end of tragedy as catharsis -- The fearful emotions -- The removal of emotions by emotions -- The aim of tragedy : symmetry -- The mother of tragedy : pain -- Poetry and the practical sciences -- Poetic and therapeutic catharsis -- Is catharsis in the poem or in the audience? …”
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Cesarean section : an American history of risk, technology, and consequence by Wolf, Jacqueline H.

Table of Contents: “…The epitome of risk : cesarean sections in the nineteenth century -- Still too risky? …”
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The begging question : Sweden's social responses to the Roma destitute by Hansson, Erik

Table of Contents: “…The Swedish ideology, or missing exceptional equality -- The tolerant stance of inaction, 2010-2015 -- The Borromean welfare knot -- The conjuncture, 2015-2019 -- The problem : an epitome.…”
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Story of Appolonius, King of Tyre : a Study of Its Greek Origin and an Edition of the Two Oldest Latin Recensions. by Kortekaas, G. A. A.

Table of Contents: “…RB vis-Ã -vis RA (a provisional judgement)""; ""V A closer look at the intermediate phase R(Gr) (epitome)""; ""1. The necessity to assume an epitome""; ""2. …”
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The third citizen : Shakespeare's theater and the early modern House of Commons by Arnold, Oliver, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"An epitome of the whole realme" : absorption and representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons -- Cade's mouth : swallowing Parliament in the first tetralogy -- "Their tribune and their trust" : political representation, property, and rape in Titus Andronicus and The rape of Lucrece -- "Caesar is turn'd to hear" : theater, popular dictatorship, and the conspiracy of republicanism in Julius Caesar -- "Worshipful mutineers" : from Demos to electorate in Coriolanus.…”
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The third citizen : Shakespeare's theater and the early modern House of Commons by Arnold, Oliver, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"An epitome of the whole realme" : absorption and representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons -- Cade's mouth : swallowing Parliament in the first tetralogy -- "Their tribune and their trust" : political representation, property, and rape in Titus Andronicus and The rape of Lucrece -- "Caesar is turn'd to hear" : theater, popular dictatorship, and the conspiracy of republicanism in Julius Caesar -- "Worshipful mutineers" : from Demos to electorate in Coriolanus.…”
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The Historians of Ancient Rome : an Anthology of the Major Writings. by Mellor, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…5-7 13-14; 18-89; Life of Augustus 5-18; 21-23; 26-31; 34-43; 46-69; 72-101; Life of Claudius 2-6; Plutarch; Life of Cato the Elder; Life of Antony; Appian; The Civil Wars; I 1-2; 6-26; Cassius Dio; Roman History; LI 8-15; LII 1-2; 6; 13; 15; 17; 19; 24-25; 27; 40-41; Epitome of Book LXVIII; Epitome of Book LXXII 33-36; Epitome of Book LXXIII 1; 4-5; 10; 14-22; Lactantius; On the Death of the Persecutors XLVIII; Eusebius; The Life of Constantine; I 1-42; Writers of Augustan History (Scriptores Historiae Augustae); Life of Hadrian; Ammianus Marcellinus; Histories.…”
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The woman war correspondent, the U.S military, and the press, 1846-1947 by Edy, Carolyn M.

Table of Contents: “…"A womanly view of war," 1846-1910 -- "Conditions of acceptance," 1911-1939 -- "To play men's rules," 1940-1942 -- "Women's stuff and the little stories," 1942-1943 -- "As epitomes of all the rest," 1943-1944 -- "A matter of special facility," 1944 -- "Outstanding and conspicuous service," 1945 -- "Persona non grata," 1945 and beyond -- Appendix 1: American women war correspondents during World War I -- Appendix 2: American women war correspondents during World War II.…”
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Xenophon's Ephesiaca : a paraliterary love-story from the ancient world by Tagliabue, Aldo Carlo Fernando, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Ephesiaca as a Novel Contrasting Two Nights of Love -- 2 Apollo's Oracle: The Prophecy of the Protagonists' Love-Story -- 3 Action and Growth in Personality in the Protagonists' Journey -- 4 Spirituality and Mutualityin Anthia and Habrocomes' Progression in Love -- 5 The Protagonists' Love After Death in Egypt -- 6 The Protagonists' Return to Ephesus: The Social Confirmation of Their Erotic Development -- 7 The Ephesiaca as a Narrative Leaning Towards Paraliterature -- 8 My Paraliterary Reading of the Ephesiaca in Light of the Epitome Theory -- Appendix. The Identity of Xenophon of Ephesus and the Date of the Ephesiaca -- Bibliography -- Indices -- Index Locorum -- General Index.…”
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The philosophy of John Locke : new perspectives

Table of Contents: “…The epitome (Abrégé) of Locke's Essay / James Hill and J.R. …”
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Going to the wars : the experience of the British civil wars, 1638-1651 by Carlton, Charles, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A Soldier's Life Is Terrible Hard -- 6. The Epitome of War -- 7. The Miserable Effects of War -- 8. …”
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The place that makes us

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Scenarios of power : myth and ceremony in Russian monarchy from Peter the Great to the abdication of Nicholas II by Wortman, Richard

Table of Contents: “…The European myth -- Signs of empire -- Peter the Great -- Olympian scenarios -- The education of princes and the dilemma of neoclassicism -- The Emperor Paul I -- The angel on the throne -- Nicholas I -- Epitomes of the nation -- Parents and son -- Alexandar II and the scenario of love -- The tsar-emancipator -- The crisis of autocracy -- A national myth -- The making of a Russian tsar -- The inauguration of a national myth -- The resurrection of Muscovy -- The life and death of a Russian tsar -- Nicholas II as heir and husband -- The accession and coronation of Nicholas II -- Demonstrations of godliness -- Nicholas II and the Revolution of 1905 -- Historical celebrations -- Nicholas II and World War I.…”
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