1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910268258303321

Autore

Danforth, Paul M

Titolo

Transportation : managing man on the move / [by] Paul M. Danforth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970

Descrizione fisica

192 p : ill. ; 23 cm

Collana

Doubleday science series ; 19

Disciplina

380.5

Locazione

DINTR

Collocazione

D4/78

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Prima pubblicazione sotto il titolo: Controllo dei trasporti

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003935019707536

Autore

Kästner, Erich

Titolo

Friedrich der Grosse und die deutsche Literatur : die Erwiderungen auf seine Schrift "De la litterature allemande" / Erich Kästner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart [etc.] : Kohlhammer, 1972

Descrizione fisica

111 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Studien zur Poetik und Geschichte der Literatur ; 21

Disciplina

830.9

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785491403321

Autore

Marin Pamela

Titolo

Blood in the forum : the struggle for the Roman republic / / Pamela Marin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-282-87380-6

9786612873805

1-4411-2915-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

937.05

Soggetti

Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What it was to be Roman -- A blueprint for civil war? Sulla and the 80s BCE -- The up and coming generation: Rome in the 70s BCE -- Hopes for the future: Rome in the 60s BCE -- Rome in crisis? The Catilinarian conspiracy of 63 BCE -- A first triumvirate? Rome in the early 50s BCE -- Violence in republican Rome: the truth of the late 50s BCE -- Civil War and Caesar's dictatorship.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the story of the last century of the Roman Republic - why and how did the Republic succeed and why did it ultimately fail? Was the destruction of the Republic attributable to one man - Julius Caesar - or was he perhaps the most visionary of his colleagues in realising that the Rome of the past had changed? Are the actions of men like Brutus and Cassius in assassinating Caesar worthy of admiration, or were they the final gasp of a fallen world?. Pamela Marin begins by examining the ideals underpinning the Roman Republic, and relates the legendary story of Cincinnatus. In the year 458 an