The sounds, sights, and activity of a construction site provide for endless fascination. Packed with... more

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one ... more

International Bestseller - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction "Far more than a c... more

job redundant there’s only one thing he can do--go down with his ship. Translated by Michael Henry Heim....... more

"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New Yorker NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING C... more

Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent vict... more

Here is a brilliant new translation of Descartes’s Meditations, one of the most influential books in... more

world in more than 19 languages. This edition, translated by Michael Biggins, in the first-ever English translation....... more

European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata, and The Dance of Death. Michael...... more

Steel was a worldwide bestseller and can now be rediscovered through Michael Hofmann s brilliant new translation. For more...... more

Epicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, ... more

The third of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at onc... more

its timeless insights. This abridged edition by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and...... more

Originally banned in China but later named one of that nation’s most influential books, a searing no... more

past. The basis for director Volker Schlsndorff’s movie Voyager. Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book...... more

the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its...... more

YOUCAT is short for Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, which will be launched on World Youth Da... more

Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the U... more

professor of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance...... more

The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s ... more

In Hermann Hesse s Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk... more

indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS Great American Read, Michael Katz s sparkling new...... more

The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first ... more

The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May ’68 and the r... more

until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell...... more

The Japanese philosopher and aesthete’s definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy ... more

Professor Michael Demson and Professor Helena Halmari, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Finnish Studies....... more

For over a century, Karl Marx s critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social moveme... more

This volume provides readers with a new translation and up to date historical and rhetorical comment... more

play. This edition of the Spiritual Exercises presents a contemporary translation by Michael Ivens, a noted authority on...... more

Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in vi... more

Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in vi... more

This selected edition presents an overview of all of Huidobro’s work, moving from the early symbolis... more

The notion of narcissism introduced by Sigmund Freud has become a victim of its own success. On the ... more

The notion of narcissism introduced by Sigmund Freud has become a victim of its own success. On the ... more

Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean w... more

Hegel s The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of mo... more

"Milkweed’s Seedbank series is one of the most exciting and visionary projects in contemporary publi... more

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of ... more

AS SEEN ON ANCIENT ALIENS - Now in a beautiful 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword and afte... more

The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism a... more

How did earliest Christians receive and understand the teaching of Jesus and the apostles? These wri... more

This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus’ seminar on Plato’s Phaedrus, one ... more

Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamen... more

twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann’s extraordinary new translation...... more

First academic monograph on recent developments of the German higher education system Responds to a ... more

""The structural core problem of the Gnostic dualism between the god of creation and the god of rede... more

SEELE s frustrations with Gendo s plans leads their agent inside the school to abduct Shinji and pla... more

Both startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the b... more

This art book showcases depictions of hell in Japanese art from the 12th century to the 19th century... more

Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, d... more

"[An] earnest take on Luther’s life, wonderfully rendered through paintings and collages that dip in... more

We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided th... more

We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided th... more

In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, an enthralling and original novel that b... more

In The Mysteries of Purification (Kitab asrar al tahara), the third of the forty books of the Reviva... more