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An illustrated mini-encyclopedia about the weird and wonderful world of lichensLichenpedia is a delightfully entertaining and beautifully illustrated A–Z treasury about the strange, obscure, and...

An insightful exploration of the moral and political power of the character sketch in early modern Europe—and the implications for our own relationship to this genre today.In the fourth century BCE,...

Inductive zoology.In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes “differences”―in parts, activities, modes of life, and character―across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes,...

Volume 12 in the RUSCH series continues work already begun on the School of Aristotle. It focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers who lived in the third century BCE, when Stoicism and Epicureanism...