There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time. -- George Steiner W... more

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY --Time It is impossible to name a book that had a greater... more

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY --Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner s towering maste... more

theology. Harry Van Dyke, the original translator, reintroduces this vital contribution to our understanding of the...... more

The first English translation of his work, The Withholding Power, offers a fascinating introduction ... more

The first English translation of his work, The Withholding Power, offers a fascinating introduction ... more

IN THE NEWSWeimin Wu: pioneer physicist on Chinese science’s turbulent past, promising futureTimes H... more

IN THE NEWSWeimin Wu: pioneer physicist on Chinese science’s turbulent past, promising futureTimes H... more

This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a histor... more

Herman Bavinck, the premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-n... more

and allegiances are nothing short of catastrophic. Beautifully translated by novelist Harry Mathews, "The Laurels of Lake...... more

A woman falls into a coma. Perhaps she s going to die. Becoming the sleeper s shadow, the woman s da... more

This bridges the worlds of learned magic and village cunning, providing rare and previously unavaila... more

Jacob Klapwijk considers the stark choice many believers and non-believers face between religious no... more

Jacob Klapwijk considers the stark choice many believers and non-believers face between religious no... more

Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na... more

August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852-1938) was an eminent German economist who visited the Unite... more

form. Harry Golombek, the translator, has enlarged the original collection to include the best examples of all the various...... more

Tartakower was a grandmaster and writer of wit and erudition whose annotations are perennially fresh... more

This collection of 700 letters traces Martin Buber s transition from mystically inclined man of lett... more

Semiautobiographical and universal in appeal, Street of Riches is about a young girl’s growing up in... more

"An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths," wr... more

Salomon Bochner’s classic lectures on Fourier integrals from the acclaimed Annals of Mathematics Stu... more

This volume contains an entirely new and accessible translation into modern English of the medieval ... more

Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody an... more

Philoponus’ On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of universals, preserving the views of ... more

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor... more

Philoponus’ On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of universals, preserving the views of ... more

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser... more

The second volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard’s Miscellaneous Texts, Contemporary Artists, gathers thir... more

The first volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard s Miscellaneous Texts on contemporary art and artists, Aes... more

Gottfied Semper was the most important German theorist of the nineteenth century. From his first pub... more

hastily translated English edition in 1968. Now with the help of the author’s most trusted translator, Harry T. Willetts, here...... more

Hegel’s lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important ... more

Asconius lived about a century after Cicero and wrote commentaries on Cicero’s speeches to help his ... more

This is the fifth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the survivi... more

History of the Inca Realm is a classic work of ethnohistorical research that has been both influenti... more

What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds th... more

One of the most important accounts of the Middle Ages, the history of Niketas Choniates describes th... more

Strindberg’s most important and most frequently performed plays--The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Pla... more

culmination of a request Sitor once made of Harry Aveling to render his stories in English. The translation of his complete short...... more

Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmora... more

An important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and many others, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of A... more

retold by the prize-winning author Minh Tran Huy, they are here elegantly translated by Harry Aveling. The stories tell of...... more

, depicting everyday lives during the rise of modernity. The iconic translation of Harry Zohn, a literary figure from Vienna...... more

In Friendship, Francesco Alberoni offers a wide-ranging analysis of intimacy. Traversing disciplines... more

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended... more

The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many ... more

A meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix s... more

"A serene, lucid and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates ... more

Ranking with the best novels about World War II, "Minuet for Guitar" is also a masterpiece of Sloven... more