hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche’s own f... more

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Coll ge de France, Foucault develops a vigorous... more

In the Book and Sword, Louis Cha revives the legend about the great eighteenth-century Manchu Empero... more

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this b... more

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this b... more

The political community of Islam grew out of the religious community. This book, first published in ... more

Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in the Galician town of A Coruña into a noble family who nurtured her li... more

This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of t... more

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’s most scholarly book and ... more

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France.... more

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France ... more

"The author examines the meanings ascribed to the land in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditio... more

A call for a new form of democracy in which hybrid forums composed of experts and laypeople addres... more

The gardens of Versailles--along with the name of their chief creator, André Le Nôtre (1613-1700)--h... more

The director of the Cardiovascular Institute at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, Valentín Fuster cal... more

Hellenica/i> is Xenophon s chronicle of the history of the Greeks, or the Hellenes from 411 to 359... more

tragic clash between the traditional, provincial outlook and modern, liberal outlook of Madrid. Graham Whittaker’s edition...... more

A well researched and fascinating guide to the fall of a once might empire. Many of the earliest boo... more

Ramon Jose Sender Graces was born on 3rd February 1901. He was a prolific writer, who published a va... more

"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin’s stories and has achieved... more

Essential reading for anyone interested in the Balkan wars.... more

Ramon Jose Sender Graces was born on 3rd February 1901. He was a prolific writer, who published a va... more

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, ... more

Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comf... more

Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comf... more

Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of th... more

Heidegger’s Hidden Sources documents for the first time Heidegger’s remarkable debt to East Asian ph... more

The third volume of Theo-Drama is considered the most central book of Fr. von Balthasar’s entire the... more

The first volume of this series surveyed the great world dramatists to gather concepts and ideas to ... more

The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lübeck, is one of the most important s... more

U.S. debut of major new European poet introduced by Carolyn Forchéeacute; with blurbs from Li-Young ... more

"The term ’feudal society’ is a caricature. It was invented by nineteenth-century historians to capt... more

"The term ’feudal society’ is a caricature. It was invented by nineteenth-century historians to capt... more

Order and Exclusion is a rare and magnificent book of medieval history with clear relevance to today... more

First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo’s masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely r... more

In this book, Klaas Smelik presents a selection of writings from ancient Israel that ranges from tax... more

Picador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault s prestigious, groundbreaking series of lec... more

Marking a major development in Foucault s thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion... more

In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Coll... more

This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the College de France, launches an inquiry into the notion... more

These thirteen lectures on the punitive society, delivered at the Coll ge de France in the first ... more

Foucault must be reckoned with. --The New York Times Book Review Praise for Foucault s Lectures at ... more

What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the interven... more

Passionate, calculating, only sometimes honourable but always honest, Fanny Legrand is one of the gr... more

This small and simple spiritual gem offers a profound contemplation of the Seven Last Words of Chris... more

The working hypothesis is this: it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent... more

Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in the Galician town of A Coruña into a noble family who nurtured her li... more

Juan Jos Lahuerta s Columns of Smoke series offers bold new readings of modernity and its key figure... more

In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his histor... more

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jos Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-readi... more

be translated into English by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick--Of Entirety Say the Sentence is his most...... more

be translated into English by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick--Of Entirety Say the Sentence is his most...... more

Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also...... more

Columns of Smoke is a four-volume collection. The first volume includes Photography or Life and P... more

Lectures on the Will to Know reminds us that Michel Foucault s work only ever had one object: truth.... more

This beautifully produced volume is the updated and revised edition of Polígrafa’s 2005 publication ... more

This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of t... more

With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain o... more

was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize. Graham Foust is the...... more