This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic dev... more

The story of the struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union -- the ultimate confrontation be... more

An introduction to Thomas Piketty s monumental work US Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman described Tho... more

One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten bo... more

. Sokolov’s fiction has hugely influenced contemporary Russian writers. Now, thanks to Alexander Boguslawski’s bold and superb...... more

At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be his only student, who unde... more

nontechnical, literary style, this skillful translation by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner invites engagement with Fink...... more

Depuis leur premier jour d’université, Quent Jackson avait marché dans les traces de Jason Spade, de... more

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a s... more

A metaphysical thriller about the lengths to which men will go to escape the inevitable--be it love ... more

Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several import... more

First published in 1878, The Analytical Theory of Heat is Alexander Freeman s English translation of French...... more

The Odyssey is the sequel to the Illiad in which the Greek hero Odysseus has many adventures in his ... more

Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian dominatio... more

Modern Entomologic book of the early twentieth century by the physicist and botanist Jean-Henri Fabr... more

Modern Entomologic book of the early twentieth century by the physicist and botanist Jean-Henri Fabr... more

In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to... more

successful was Alexander Pope s translation of the Iliad that the great English 18th-century poet then turned his hand - with the...... more

Dies ist die erste umfassende Untersuchung der Schriften des Aristoteles-Schülers Eudemos von Rhodos... more

Alexander Friedmann (1888-1925). Without the benefit of observational evidence, Friedmann predicted that the whole universe...... more

Large format paper back for easy reading. Homer s epic and bloody story of the Trojan Wars... more

Originally published in 1845, this concise critique formed the basis of thirty later lectures delive... more

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Se... more

For students of classical, medieval, and early modern literature and of the history of education, Ke... more

of The Iliad is Alexander Pope s. As Dr. Johnson said of Pope s rendition of the Odessey, it is, certainly the noblest...... more

The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It ... more

Ptolemy s Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and o... more

As a rule, an author s correspondence possesses only a secondary interest, but Jacob Burckhardt s le... more

The autobiography of Cuba’s finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause cele... more

This book sets out to redress the balance of history in favor of the peasants. Reminding us that pea... more

The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in... more

God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western C... more

The classic story of a dangerous love triangle set in an 1890s Paris opera house. Rumored to be haun... more

The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 190... more

and the different types of ambiguity. The full, clear commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on this important book is...... more

Alexander of Aphrodisias was the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle, and his commentary on...... more

source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817 97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet...... more

The Hidden Force is a 1900 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. The story is set at the end o... more

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husba... more

This book addresses the general theory of motion of mechanical systems with Coulomb friction. In par... more

A young girl travels into a magical land to save her brother from real-world bullies...and from the ... more

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler’s magisterial history of modern Germany, of... more

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler’s magisterial history of modern Germany off... more

An original story translated from the Japanese The Elric brothers travel to the ghost town of Xenoti... more

The lights of the Paris Opera House dim and a lovely singer holds the audience spellbound with her e... more

The Hidden Force is a 1900 novel by the Dutch writer, L. Couperus. In the novel, the protagonist, Va... more

Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-cen... more

For a fifteen-year-old, falling in love can eclipse everything else in the world, and make a few sho... more

Polvo de sue os es la novena y pen ltima entrega de la saga Malaz: El Libro de los Ca dos , la decal... more

In the Penal Colony . In a nimble new translation by the acclaimed Alexander Starritt, this collection of Kafka s...... more

Von Speyr s book does not lend itself to any classification that I can think of. It is not dogmatic... more

, Henry Berlin, John Dagenais, Mary Franklin-Brown, Alexander Ibarz, Annemarie C. Mayer, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Josep E. Rubio...... more

Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) is the most famous Samurai who ever lived. His magnum opus, the Go-Rin-... more

Ranging in time from the end of the Bronze Age to the dawn of the so-called historical period (12th-... more

After years on the job, police detective Jakob Franck has retired. Finally, the dead--with all their... more