Candide is the most famous of Voltaire’s "philosophical tales," in which he combined witty improbabi... more

An entire generation of mathematicians has grown up during the time - tween the appearance of the ?r... more

Meet the people of Cairo s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can onl... more

Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British rule What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is a ... more

Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross sectio... more

best known as a writer of short stories and fairy tales, but this early novel, masterfully translated by Roger Keys and...... more

best known as a writer of short stories and fairy tales, but this early novel, masterfully translated by Roger Keys and...... more

Considered one of Morocco s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of ... more

This second edition of a very popular two-volume work presents a thorough first course in analysis, ... more

This second English edition of a very popular two-volume work presents a thorough first course in an... more

In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysteri... more

by the original Norwegian texts. The translator, the American poet Roger Greenwald, worked with Jacobsen himself to...... more

In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadis... more

A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco s greatest narrative writers. Th... more

Wagner’s book-length essay on Beethoven is really about Wagner himself rather than Beethoven. It is ... more

The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ... more

This book examines methods for linking osteo-archaeological data with historical and environmental s... more

available in English before and Roger Nichols s translation, capturing the very essence of Poulenc s lively writing style, makes...... more

Set in the High Atlas in pre-modern Morocco, Moon and Henna Tree chronicles the rise and fall of a l... more

This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the ex... more

In Chinese Scholars on Inner Asia, some of the best work of the past half-century by leading Chinese... more

Award-winning novelist Bensalem Himmich’s third novel to be translated into English is a vertiginous... more

Do international institutions really contribute to building a lasting peace? As diplomats, practitio... more

In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval A... more

the crossroads of the old world and the new. Translated from the Arabic by Roger Allen...... more

In analysing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, t... more

In contrast to a globalizing approach to ’transnational organized crime, ’ this edited volume studie... more

The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history s most perplexing figures, al-Haki... more

La Bête humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola’s most v... more

A new sparkling and witty version by Roger McGough of Molière’s comedy published as a programme text to accompany the...... more

Numerous democratic nations have been singled out by NGOs for brutality in their modus operandi, for... more

This significantly expanded second edition of Riemann, Topology, and Physics combines a fascinating ... more

Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical p... more

An Ignatius Press Reprint Ignatius Press Reprints are identical in content with the most recent prin... more

Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann s study of Arthurian verse romance was first published in German in 1985, ... more

Jean-Michel Nectoux s important biography of Gabriel Faur is the most comprehensive study yet of thi... more

This richly illustrated text covers the Cauchy and Neumann problems for the classical linear equatio... more

In a land far away a stranger is washed up near an isolated fishing village. Unable to understand hi... more

. Originally published by Actes Sud in 1997, this English edition is the work of translator Roger Nichols, one of the UK s leading...... more

For centuries the Islamic world has, by turns, been both reviled and admired in the West. Since the ... more

Critical acclaim for The Battle for Okinawa ""An indispensable account of the fighting and of Okinaw... more

Two volumes of Colette s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman. Ch ri, toget... more

Two volumes of Colette s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman. Perhaps Cole... more

documentary novels. These reprint editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight of Gustavus Adolphus College, and they...... more

A finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of natio... more

With a characteristically broad and provocative treatment, Dahlhaus examines a single music-aestheti... more

This volume contains all of Frege s extant unpublished writings on philosophy and logic other than h... more

translation of Porro s original Italian text by Joseph Trabbic and Roger Nutt will make his masterful study readily accessible to...... more

Gives valuable insight into the status of ground water hydrology in the U.S. Originally published in... more

English-language readers through the brilliant translations of Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers. Openwork showcases pieces from the author s...... more

Roger Jackson provides accurate, accessible translations of three classics of medieval Indian Buddhist mysticism: the...... more

experience. Readers of The Ship (also translated by Adnan Haydar and Roger Allen) will remember the ingenious way the political...... more

To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruc... more

A Stanford University Press classic.... more

When the cries of a female dolphin in distress wake a young male dolphin from his dreams, he discove... more

During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, experiences the miserable l... more

Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The ete... more