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The Lady of Solitude projects a fresh and daring new voice on to the Brazilian literary scene. These... more

In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilaviciute travels between the ridiculous and the subli... more

Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions ... more

of Brazilian society. Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the...... more

A New York Review Books Original Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman s final testament, written afte... more

The story is about Whitehorn the miller’s efforts to find a match for his beautiful daughter, Jurga,... more

tradition of Palestinian satire. - Judith Kazantzis Translated from the Arabic by Issa J. Boullata, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Liz...... more

Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, Mongo Beti’s tenth novel, L’histoire du fou... more

Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, Mongo Beti s tenth novel, L histoire du fou... more

Set on the author s native Aegean island of Skiathos, these twelve stories capture the folkways of G... more

Joakim Zander delivers another "compelling, timely, and character-centered thriller" (Booklist) in t... more

A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew in this electrifying d... more

In this collection by a canonical figure in Korean literature, meditations upon life in old age come... more

This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two ... more

translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and Charles Tomlinson...... more

Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese music by Prussian medical scientist and physici... more

Bram Stoker’s initial notes and outlines for his landmark horror novel Dracula were auctioned at Sot... more

Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Orestes, translated by William Arrowsmith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a...... more

At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions i... more

translations. Elizabeth Sprigge s unique achievement was to render the original Swedish texts into English that is at once fluent...... more

Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika H... more

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina’s leading writer, educator, and politician of t... more

With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims...... more

First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratologic... more

translation with introduction and notes. Dr Elizabeth A. Andersen teaches in the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University....... more

In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian ... more

In The Mourning Voice, Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant vi... more

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996... more

of his death in 1938, Elizabeth Hapgood, his friend and translator, chose items which concentrate on the essence of his...... more

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of ... more

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snufk... more

When Moomintroll learns that a comet will be passing by, he and his friend Sniff travel to the Obser... more

Sophocles I contains the plays Antigone, translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; Oedipus the King, translated by David...... more

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibr... more

What counts as an individual in the living world? What does it mean for a living thing to remain the... more

"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor--a former Economist journalist and current Korean... more

This exquisitely composed photo-novel by French artist-writer Anouck Durand (born 1975)--collaged fr... more

How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931, have reconciled with Martin Heidegge... more

How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931, have reconciled with Martin Heidegge... more

This book offers a rare glimpse into the motivations of suicide bombers, especially women and childr... more

by Trubetskoi s granddaughter, Elizabeth Saika-Voivod, and featuring Trubetskoi s original photographs, this fascinating...... more

As precariousness becomes the "new normal," what do these conditions mean for those dependent on the... more

Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is... more

This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army’s occupation of ... more

At eighty-five, Jacques Maritain, the most distinguished Catholic philosopher of the twentieth centu... more

Terez n survivor George (Jir ) Brady recalls: In the tragic struggle for survival, the Nazi-imposed... more

In his autobiography Joseph Turmel (1859-1943) has left an intensely personal account of his struggl... more

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Author s Preface to the Russian Edition This book is written for advanced students, for predoctoral ... more

This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan from its origins, through the subj... more

Mainstream economists tell us that developing countries will replicate the economic achievements of ... more

The Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba ... more

***Named Among the Top 50 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Perspectives on Terrorism www.ter... more

What can infants hear? What are their reactions to music? Is it useful for them to sing and listen t... more

The ancient Middle East was the theater of passionate interaction between Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Ar... more

Suicide bombers are often compared to smart bombs. From the point of view of their dispatchers, they... more

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Sponsorship provides a comprehensive guide to the successful manage... more

This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther in a co... more

Osip Mandelstam was one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century, with a prophetic understandi... more