That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic suggest that the idea was hardly new. In speeches, letters, philosophical tracts, poems, and histories, Cicero and his peers obsessed over the illnesses, disfigurements, and deaths that were imagined to have beset their body politic, portraying rivals as horrific diseases or accusing opponents of butchering and even murdering the state. Body-political imagery had long enjoyed popularity among Greek authors, but these earlier images appear muted in comparison and it is only in the republic that the body first becomes fully articulated as a means for imagining the political community. In the works of republican authors is found a state endowed with nervi, blood, breath, limbs, and organs; a body beaten, wounded, disfigured, and infected; one with scars, hopes, desires, and fears; that can die, be killed, or kill in turn. Such images have often been discussed in isolation, yet this is the first book to offer a sustained examination of republican imagery of the body politic, with particular emphasis on the use of bodily-political images as tools of persuasion and the impact they exerted on the politics of Rome in the first century BCE.

The Deaths of the Republic: Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome

Literature & Fiction

Walters, Brian

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

From the first passenger aircraft in the world to the supersonic flights of today. A directory of over 140 of today's planes and helicopters with details of development, technical specifications and performance statistics.

The Illustrated History of Air Travel

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Crescent

Trainer Aircraft Markets (Jane's Special Report)

Business & Money

Economics

Janes Information Group

Junkers

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Tempus Pub Ltd

Winter of 1945. Aksel Foss, a Dane forced at gunpoint to fight in the German Army, flees Soviet tanks across the snow-bound fields of East Prussia. His goal-return to Denmark, and escape both the Russians and the dreaded SS who seek him for killing concentration camp guards. Retreating through burning towns and cities, he engages in near-daily combat as he tries to save himself and his lover, a beautiful refugee woman who has lost her entire family in the war.

The Danish Soldier

Genre Fiction

Wilder_Publications

Convinced that artificial intelligence holds the key to solving the world's most pressing problems, a brilliant inventor named John Founder is racing against shadowy groups to develop the first machine with superhuman intelligence. As John grows closer to achieving his goal, dramatic events force him to consider that realizing his ultimate ambition might come at the cost of destroying the very future he is trying to create. While John struggles with a decision that could have catastrophic consequences, an adversary with its own dark agenda is secretly plotting against him. In the book's explosive climax, opposing forces collide in an epic battle to determine the future of humanity.

Eve: Rise of the Machines

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Retreat from Moscow and Other Poems

Brian Walters is a rare poet --tuned to history as few have been for a generation or more. He is alert for those critical moments that reveal a place, time and a human heart with energy and clarity, and gives them to us. Bitter, terrible, sweet, whatever they are, for they are our heritage and what has formed us over the centuries. Human bravery, savagery, thoughtfulness, and passion all find a place in his work. There is even room for hope and love in spite of everything. --Howard McCord

Poetry

Wilder Pubns Ltd

This is Brian Walters second collection of poetry. As with his first collection, Vinland has something for everyone. Walters ranges effortlessly from brutal epic narrative poetry to gentle whimsical verse. His narrative poetry is as easy to read as the finest prose, pulling you in so completely that you often forget that you are reading poetry and not a novel. His verse celebrates life and all that comes along with it. Sometimes touching, sometimes stirring, always engaging, Walters' poetry will remain with you long after you close the pages of the book. Born into a family that treated books like gold, Brian Walters, when not engaged in sports of all kinds, avidly read his father's collections of old stories about the wild west and American history in general. After graduating from George Mason University, he lived in Denmark for ten years, where he was much influenced by the Scandinavian climate and Old Norse literature. A number of his poems and one literary essay have been published in various magazines. He currently resides in Blacksburg, Virginia with his wife and two children.

Vinland

This is Brian Walters third collection of poetry. As with his previous collections, Watie's Surrender and Other Civil War Narratives has something for everyone. Walters ranges effortlessly from brutal epic narrative poetry to gentle whimsical verse. His narrative poetry is as easy to read as the finest prose, pulling you in so completely that you often forget that you are reading poetry and not a novel. His verse celebrates life and all that comes along with it. Sometimes touching, sometimes stirring, always engaging, Walters' poetry will remain with you long after you close the pages of the book. This collection tracks the American Civil War showing the brutality, senselessness, bravery, and courage that shook America to it's foundations and forever changed us.    Born into a family that treated books like gold, Brian Walters, when not engaged in sports of all kinds, avidly read his father's collections of old stories about the wild west and American history in general. After graduating from George Mason University, he lived in Denmark for ten years, where he was much influenced by the Scandinavian climate and Old Norse literature. A number of his poems and one literary essay have been published in various magazines, this is his third collection. He currently resides in Blacksburg, Virginia with his wife and two children.

Watie's Surrender and Other Civil War Narratives

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