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From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of...... more

With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of o... more

The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist... more

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What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian or... more

Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918) first published this work in German in 1878. Reissued here is the 1885... more

, 1997; vol 2, 2005). Allan Mitchell received his PhD from Harvard in 1961, then taught at Smith College (1961-1972) and the...... more

With its scholarly discussions of myth, German idealist philosophy, negative theology, and mysticism... more

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Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th centu... more

This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-... more

Few of Sergius Bulgakov’s professional writings achieve the lyrical heights of Jacob’s Ladder. In it... more

Translated by Thomas Allan Smith In The Burning Bush -- the first component of his "minor theological trilogy" -- the...... more

What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldi... more

Every era has invented a different idea of the classical to create its own identity. Thus the cla... more

The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist... more

A book like no other, Frenchman Paul Fournel’s Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very person... more

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This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy s leading political... more

From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of...... more

From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of...... more

This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting con... more

Nobel Prize nominee Milan Rufus (1928-2009) was the unofficial poet laureate of Slovakia and a poet ... more

interest in the thought of this early fourteenth-century Franciscan master. Allan B. Wolter s critically acclaimed book...... more

"Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks." So said Paulino Yam...... more

Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable novel about the desolation of Hitl... more

A fantastic evocation of life and learning in a dream sequence: Jerome, who has to sit an exam and s... more

In the late 1980s and early 1990s--before his celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to internation... more

Yang Fei was born on a train as it raced across the Chinese countryside. Lost by his mother, adopted... more

Yu Hua s populist voice and exquisite wit have made him one of the most celebrated and bestselling w... more

I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses. Sitting in a priso... more

"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven / far and wide after he had sacked the sacr... more

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since t... more

A thoroughly unconventional monograph on the work of contemporary architect Enric Miralles, this boo... more

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In 1988, Gen Lamrimpa, a Tibetan monk, led a one-year retreat in the Pacific Northwest, during which... more

German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world ... more

students, and men and women. In this volume Christopher Kelly presents Allan Bloom s translation, newly edited and...... more

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