The sounds, sights, and activity of a construction site provide for endless fascination. Packed with... more

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one ... more

International Bestseller - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction "Far more than a c... more

job redundant there’s only one thing he can do--go down with his ship. Translated by Michael Henry Heim....... more

The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s ... more

Pope Francis has been an engaging, prophetic voice tirelessly calling the church to a simple lifesty... more

The third of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at onc... more

Here is a brilliant new translation of Descartes’s Meditations, one of the most influential books in... more

past. The basis for director Volker Schlsndorff’s movie Voyager. Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book...... more

The Japanese philosopher and aesthete’s definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy ... more

For over a century, Karl Marx s critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social moveme... more

This volume provides readers with a new translation and up to date historical and rhetorical comment... more

play. This edition of the Spiritual Exercises presents a contemporary translation by Michael Ivens, a noted authority on...... more

Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in vi... more

Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in vi... more

This selected edition presents an overview of all of Huidobro’s work, from 1914 until 1948, when his... more

The notion of narcissism introduced by Sigmund Freud has become a victim of its own success. On the ... more

The notion of narcissism introduced by Sigmund Freud has become a victim of its own success. On the ... more

Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean w... more

The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who ... more

Hegel s The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of mo... more

indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS Great American Read, Michael Katz s sparkling new...... more

translated into prose--and now, for the first time, translated back into verse by Michael Bazzett--this is a story of the...... more

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of ... more

"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New Yorker NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING C... more

AS SEEN ON ANCIENT ALIENS - Now in a beautiful 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword and afte... more

The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism a... more

How did earliest Christians receive and understand the teaching of Jesus and the apostles? These wri... more

, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this central work to the...... more

This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus’ seminar on Plato’s Phaedrus, one ... more

twentieth century--gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word-drunk, pitch-dark. In Michael Hofmann’s extraordinary new translation...... more

Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamen... more

First academic monograph on recent developments of the German higher education system Responds to a ... more

This volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a ... more

"The structural core problem of the Gnostic dualism between the god of creation and the god of redem... more

Both startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the b... more

In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, an enthralling and original novel that b... more

This art book showcases depictions of hell in Japanese art from the 12th century to the 19th century... more

This open access book looks at Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher... more

"[An] earnest take on Luther’s life, wonderfully rendered through paintings and collages that dip in... more

We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided th... more

We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided th... more

The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who ... more

Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of storie... more

At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 193... more

On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in... more

The memoirs of former Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim take the reader behind the scenes of g... more

An English translation, accompanied by the original German text, of Heinrich Woelfflin s extraordina... more

Introduction to the Mystery of the Church is an ecclesiological survey presenting a doctrinal synthe... more

the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its...... more

Perfectly titled, Vertigo --W.G. Sebald s marvelous first novel -- is a work that teeters on the edg... more

Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaiss... more

Translated by Michael R. Katz Vasily Sleptsov was a Russian social activist and writer during the politically charged...... more

storyteller Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Aḥmad ibn...... more

The protagonists of Suzana Tratnik s short stories in Games with Greta all share a sense of isolatio... more

In this "perfectly balanced, fast-paced, and compelling thriller" (Booklist, starred review), a top ... more