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In this terse, brilliant translation, Simon Leys restores the human dimension to Confucius. He emerges a full-blooded...... more

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An important voice in the Third Generation of contemporary Chinese poets--younger poets whose work... more

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Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of ... more

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This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speech... more

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This is the first English translation of a Dalai Lama’s biography, and is highly significant for the... more

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Kirill, as well as an entirely new rendering of the Sermon on Law and Grace. Simon Franklin prefaces the texts with a...... more

This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European ... more

This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European ... more

Guardian Simon Nye s witty translation updates and relocates the play ... suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that...... more

Miller incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin, and Ceausescu to reveal the links b... more

There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. T... more

This history traces the development of democracy in Europe from its origins in ancient Greece up to ... more

For most of the last twenty years, sociologists have studied the "decline" of religion in the modern... more

A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who surv... more

Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role ... more

Rembrandt’s life coincided with what the Dutch refer to as their "golden age." This engagingly writt... more

The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotle s founding role in the scientific study of nature Bo... more

A haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, ... more

wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique...... more

A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli s life and thought This is a col... more

In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could n... more

This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe s words, born into a regime where it could...... more

From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel--her first to be translated int... more

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A classic mystery from one of Japan s best-loved crime writers The Lady Killer leads a double life i... more

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In many western societies today the optimism of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a deep un... more

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Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to flow ? Do we exist in... more

For fans of Elena Ferrante and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship b... more

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