Archaic Bookkeeping brings together the most currentscholarship on the earliest true writing system in humanhistory. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of thefourth millennium B.C., this script, called proto-cuneiform,survives in the form of clay...

Surveys the progress of Egyptian civilization by concentrating on the twin themes of the Nile and Egypt's natural resources and the influences of Egypt's god incarnate, the pharaoh.

Exploring Aristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, Irwin here shows how Aristotle defends dialectic against the objection that it cannot justify a metaphysical realist's claims. He focuses particularly on Aristotle's...