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is a translation into English of a major work of scholarship by a leading historian of modern Japan, and may be...... more

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is a translation into English of a major work of scholarship by a leading historian of modern Japan, and may be...... more

that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today, however, the dominant view is that Japan is inescapably on a downward...... more

with a one-volume resource comparable to what is available for the Jewish and Christian scriptures. The meticulously...... more

poetry compiled in 1243 by Ibn Sa id al Andalusi, a native of Alcal la Real in then Moorish southern Spain. The text is...... more

This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560-636). Isidore...... more

This collection of three tales, "A Simple Heart," "Saint Julian," and "Herodias" offers an excellent introduction to...... more

poems selected by renowned Rumi scholar A. J. Arberry, who provides here one of the most comprehensive and adept English...... more

A quiet French country district is the site of a nuclear waste processing plant. Fran oise Zonabend describes how those...... more

The new edition includes additional analytical methods in the classical theory of viscoelasticity. This leads to a new...... more

Coming from what is arguably the most productive period of Husserl’s life, this volume offers the reader a first...... more

, North Africa and Sicily was compiled by Ibn Sa id al-Andalusi, a native of Southern Spain. The text has been translated into...... more

This unique book, written by a leading Soviet theorist, is not a textbook of quantum mechanics but rather a compendium...... more

The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the mos... more

Reprint of the 1961 classic study of the discourses of the founder of the order of Whirling Dervishe... more

to light a complex system of avoidances. Her analysis reveals that beyond the specific denial of the work of the...... more

Brilliantly rich and wildly provocative, a postmodern take on the literary thriller by the inimitable Alain...... more

The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets, by common consent ranks...... more

of the parties. A Japanese classic translated by one our leading authorities....... more

, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...... more

translated from the Greek by J.A.K. Thomson with revisions and notes by Hugh Tredennick, and an introduction and bibliography by...... more

All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it s not worth an hour of trouble claims Alain Badiou in this lively...... more

the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust’ Thomas Mann A story of war in all...... more

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than...... more

Washington Post Comparado con grandes xitos y etiquetado como el bombazo de 2018, este debut de A.J. Finn cumple con todas esas...... more

, cerca de la frontera de Siria, un grupo de operaciones estadounidense se prepara para llevar a cabo una misi n preparada con...... more

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focused his exceptional mind on a great medical conundrum: in 1894, on a Hong Kong hospital forecourt, he identified and...... more

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Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to...... more

of the Transcendental provides Badiou s readers with a much-needed complete elaboration of his understanding and use of...... more

of the "Three Heroes" who unified Japan after a century of fragmentation and internecine bloodshed. The other two of the...... more

with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin. About the...... more

extracts from Sallust’s now fragmentary Histories, depicting Rome after the death in 78 B.C. of the dictator Sulla. A. J...... more