Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear un... more

A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new mean... more

Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear un... more

Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse is a deceptively simple, intense, and lyrical allegorical tale of... more

Why is quantum field theory of condensed matter physics necessary? Condensed matter physics deals wi... more

In this book the author extends the concepts introduced in his Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Mat... more

Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this... more

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck... more

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben’s recent work throu... more

Ursula Archer s and Arno Strobel s internationally bestselling Strangers is a shocking thriller and ... more

A pair of lovers--a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in Brazil--sp... more

"How do we keep one another’s company? How might our lives unfold alongside those of our parents wit... more

While much of the Middle East is now engulfed in conflict and repression, Morocco remains a curious ... more

In the tranquil northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For month... more

Der Standard der Analyse des menschlichen Ejakulats! Das "WHO-Laborhandbuch zur Untersuchung und Auf... more

All Dogs are Blue is a scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio insane asylum. Its raw style and com... more

An old farm, a deserted landscape, a dark secret from times past with fatal consequences for the pre... more

A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with... more

In his photographic work, Ted Partin devotes himself to the image of the human being, one of the gre... more

In Film Narratology, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while noting the... more

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben’s recent work throu... more

influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows that all this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was...... more

Only a few months after a 25-year-long war ended in Afghanistan, Roger Willemsen accompanied a frien... more

The author lived and worked in China for ten years. This amusing, affectionate and perceptive book p... more

While much of the Middle East is now engulfed in conflict and repression, Morocco remains a curious ... more

Hans Lipps (1889-1941), medecin et philosophe, eleve de Husserl, s eloigne rapidement des positions ... more

Written by two backcountry snowboarders in cooperation with the Swiss Avalanche Research Center, thi... more