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  • Bewilderment

    New Poems and Translations

    af David Ferry ...
    Serier serie Phoenix Poets
    Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. "This is one of the great books of poetry of this young century."—Dan Chiasson, The New YorkerTo read David Ferry's Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Aeneid

    af Virgil ...
    Oversat af David Ferry ...
    This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry’s life: a complete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics have become standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius, rendering Virgil’s formal, metrical lines into an English that ... Læs mere

    146,99 kr.

  • The Odes of Horace

    A Translation

    David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired translation of the complete Odes of Horace, one that conveys the wit, ardor and sublimity of the original with a music of all its own.The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr.

  • Raritan on War

    An Anthology

    Serier serie Raritan Skiff Books
    We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless Aeneid) casts light on modern war, observed or directly ... Læs mere

    200,11 kr.

  • The Epistles of Horace

    A Translation

    af Horace ...
    Oversat af David Ferry ...
    My aim is to take familiar things and makePoetry of them, and do it in such a wayThat it looks as if it was as easy as could beFor anybody to do it . . . the power of makingA perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much.--from "The Art of Poetry"When David Ferry's translation of The Odes of Horace appeared in 1997, Bernard Knox, writing in The New York Review of Books, called it "a Hor... ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr.

  • Gilgamesh

    A New Rendering in English Verse

    af David Ferry ...
    "There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousand descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book WorldA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistThis is a new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr.

  • The Georgics of Virgil

    A Translation

    af David Ferry ...
    "David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day." —Anthony Day, Los Angeles TimesJohn Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr.

  • The Copenhagen Conspiracy

    af David Ferry ...
    At the close of the nineteenth century, we stood on the threshold of one of the greatest periods of science, in which the entire world and understanding of science would be shaken to the core and greatly modified. This explosion of knowledge led ultimately to that same information revolution that we live in today. Planck and Einstein showed that light was not continuous but made of small ... Læs mere

    665,09 kr.

  • Semiconductor Transport

    af David Ferry ...
    The information revolution would have been radically different, or impossible, without the use of the materials known generically as semiconductors. The properties of these materials, particularly the potential for doping with impurities to create transistors and diodes and controlling the local potential by gates, are essential for microelectronics.Semiconductor Transport is an introductory text ... Læs mere

    901,13 kr.

  • Silicon Nanoelectronics

    Redigeret af Shunri Oda, David Ferry ...
    Serier serie
    Technological advancement in chip development, primarily based on the downscaling of the feature size of transistors, is threatening to come to a standstill as we approach the limits of conventional scaling. For example, when the number of electrons in a device's active region is reduced to less than ten electrons (or holes), quantum fluctuation errors will occur, and when gate insulator thickness ... Læs mere

    600,72 kr.

  • The Eclogues of Virgil

    af Virgil ...
    Oversat af David Ferry ...
    "Fresh-minted and sparkling . . . Ferry's translation wonderfully preserves the exquisite harmonies of the mode while giving it a vigorous edge of reality." —Robert Taylor, The Boston GlobeVirgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of Gilgamesh . . .The Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, which were influential in so ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr.

  • Lydbog

    River Thieves

    Fortalt af David Ferry ...

    Uforkortet

    11 timer 31 min

    At the turn of the nineteenth century, naval officer David Buchan arrives in the Bay of Exploits with orders to establish contact with the Beothuk or "Red Indians," the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland facing extinction. When Buchan approaches the area's most influential white settlers, the Peytons, for advice and assistance, he enters a shadowy world of allegiances and old grudges that he ... Læs mere

    149,35 kr.