In this chilling installment of "the first great series of police thrillers" (Michael Ondaatje, nati... more

This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin’s best works of fiction. The Queen of Spade... more

Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga weaves a luminous, insightful stor... more

In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and rad... more

An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 ... more

Since his novel "The Alchemist" appeared three years ago, Paulo Coelho has emerged from Latin Americ... more

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Fo... more

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Fo... more

While on a relaxing vacation in Bali, Julian decides to consult a legendary and wise healer whose re... more

A classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of ... more

An English translation of the Abbé Prévost’s 1740 novel The Greek Girl’s Story. Includes foreword by... more

Looking down from the Eiffel Tower, Alan Greenmor stands on the edge, determined to end it all. As he prepares to jump...... more

Penguin Island in all its peculiar glory: this is the tale of the enchanted island island where the ... more

Penguin Island in all its peculiar glory: this is the tale of the enchanted island island where the ... more

A fascinating collection of Einstein s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of... more

small, indelible book. Bravo to Alan Bernheimer for having given it to us."--Paul Auster, author of Report from the Interior...... more

An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of all twelve of seventeenth-century French p... more

Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides’ Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city... more

Rilke’s great cycle of ten elegies, perhaps his most profound poetic achievement, had its inception ... more

In the tradition of Flann O Brien s At Swim-Two-Birds, Gilbert Sorrentino s Mulligan Stew, and Raymo... more

original texts of Therese s manuscripts. Scholarly and sensitive in his interpretaion, Alan Bancroft captures the intelligence...... more

A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after ... more

This volume is based on a year’s seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized aud... more

Michel Foucault s first exploration of insanity as a social construct--and his debut work of critici... more

A vivid chronicle of Italy’s rich history--from WWII to present--these narrative poems sing of a cou... more

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida’s essays written be... more

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and for... more

Oh My Goddess Omnibus Book Two introduces the third of the Goddess sisters--the youngest, Skuld. It ... more

In this volume Pierre Duhem first gives an overview of 19th century electricity and magnetism. Next,... more

For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectua... more

For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectua... more

In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terr... more

Today s photographic equipment allows amateurs to take pictures of the stars that far surpass images... more

Presents, and in part develops, a systematic philosophy as the universal science, or the theorizatio... more

where he heads the section on contemporary history and policies in education. Alan Nothnagle has taught history at the...... more

Explores the roles of the two oldest American Jewish fraternal organizations in the process of Ameri... more

In this stimulating and wide-ranging 1979 study, Andr Green, the eminent French psychoanalyst, demon... more

Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides’ Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city... more

Numerical Analysis and Optimization familiarises students with mathematical models (PDEs) and method... more

The most advanced and celebrated mind of the 20th Century, without a doubt, is attributed to Albert ... more

This revised and greatly expanded second edition contains a wealth of new information about the live... more

According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, human beings true nature, or buddha essence, is the founda... more

First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until... more

At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his phi... more

Monte-Carlo methods is the generic term given to numerical methods that use sampling of random numbe... more

Marsilius of Padua is one of the few truly revolutionary figures in the history of political philoso... more

Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytic... more

The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse is a seminal work on one of the most neglected ... more

Early Cinema in Russia chronicles one of the great lost periods in cinema history, that of Pre-Revol... more

Road Vehicle Suspensions gives a comprehensive survey of the kinematics, elasto-kinematics, and desi... more

Depicts prostitution in 19th-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organize... more

In the New Testament, Jesus reassures the Apostles before he ascends to heaven by saying, You will r... more

What does the paschal mystery mean in the context of the rite - past and present - and in Christian ... more

Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strang... more

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late... more

Not everyone can, or should, live as a hermit. Yet all Christians need an inner hermitage, a place a... more

The culture of the bourgeoisie gradually came to dominate European society during the nineteenth cen... more

The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo s international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In man... more

This text covers the basics of algebraic number theory, including divisibility theory in principal i... more