Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China’s Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958),... more

Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today... more

In this fourth volume of the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity, Michael Wolter provi... more

In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his unive... more

Jörg Frey has devoted decades of his scholarly career to exploring the rich landscape of John’s Gosp... more

Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater inte... more

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet tha... more

In this introductory guide, Knud Jespersen traces the process of disintegration and reduction that h... more

In this introductory guide, Knud Jespersen traces the process of disintegration and reduction that h... more

When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous cen... more

This volume contains an entirely new and accessible translation into modern English of the medieval ... more

The Syrian crisis has confounded political leaders and experts who forecast a rapid fall of the regi... more

Comparative Tort Law promotes a ’learning by doing’ approach to comparative tort law and comparative... more

Comparative Tort Law promotes a ’learning by doing’ approach to comparative tort law and comparative... more

In Tallinn in 1946 a young boy is transfixed by the beauty of a luxurious cream-coloured car gliding... more

Satan has a problem: God has come to the conclusion that it is unfair to send souls to hell if they ... more

Based on substantial fieldwork and thorough knowledge of written sources, Xavier Bougarel offers an ... more

Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why ... more

This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of... more

Two of Japan’s foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with re... more

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

The Rosicrucian Trilogy features modern translations of Fama Fraternitatis (1614), Confessio Fratern... more

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

What did Zeus mean to the Greeks? And who was Hera, united with Zeus historically and archetypally a... more

When Nyamuragi, an adolescent mute, attempts to ask a young woman in rural Burundi for directions to... more

The first book from a man who would become one of the towering intellectual’s of the 20th century. E... more

Composici n social dominicana (Social Composition of the Dominican Republic), first published in 197... more

Composición social dominicana (Social Composition of the Dominican Republic), first published in 197... more

At the height of the Mongol Empire, a ten year old Tibetan child, Phagpa (1235-1280), was taken to t... more

This volume contains two Tantras: the Tantra of Great Bliss and the Tantra of the Natural Intent of ... more

What did Zeus mean to the Greeks? And who was Hera, united with Zeus historically and archetypally a... more

A translation into English of a the Pan sgrub rnams kyi thugs bcud snying gi nyi ma, or The Sun of M... more

Although portrayed as a liberal law of co-existence of and co-operation between states, internationa... more

In our globalised world the sources and actors of international law are many and its growth prolific... more

In our globalised world the sources and actors of international law are many and its growth prolific... more

The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing thei... more

Newcomers to Rousseau’s works and those who are familiar with his writings will find something to su... more

This anthology contains works that will be of primary interest to those interested in the literature... more

mark the 400th anniversary of the original German publication in 1614, Christopher McIntosh and Donate Pahnke McIntosh...... more

The young student Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fears: he is convinced that Coppelius, ... more

Dragpa Gyaltsan s writings in Tibetan fill four volumes of almost a thousand pages each. He was a st... more

The present volume is devoted to the writings of Sakya Pandita, and includes a biography of him writ... more

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and c... more

Every year since 1933 many of the world s leading intellectuals have met on Lake Maggiore to discus... more

In her preface to Robert Walser’s Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored... more

Christophe de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris (also included in this volume), which attacks the religious teaching in Emile...... more

How does one describe God who is utterly other ? Neither the concrete definitions of science nor th... more

Although portrayed as a liberal law of co-existence of and co-operation between states, internationa... more

Numerical models have become essential tools in environmental science, particularly in weather forec... more

Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nah... more

A major, groundbreaking biography that traces the intellectual development of one of the most import... more

Wishes, and the notorious Donkey-Skin. This translation by Christopher Betts captures the tone and flavor of Perrault’s world...... more

The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-... more

This translation is based upon the Norwegian text in the Centenary Edition of Ibsen’s collected work... more

Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of pol... more

The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libatio... more

The emergence of the military agency of the Soviet state is a crucial but neglected aspect of inter-... more