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Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue
For Martin Heidegger the "fall" of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is... Les mer
Victims of Justice Revisited
Perhaps no legal case has done more to reshape America's debate over the death penalty than Illinois's prosecution and conviction of Rolando... Les mer
Encounters with Lise and Other Stories
In 1994 Russian writer Victor Erofeyev proclaimed Leonid Dobychin "one of the main heroes of twentieth-century Russian literature." Obscure... Les mer
Voices of the Diaspora
Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy,... Les mer
Essential History
However widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a "foundational" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his... Les mer
The Second Book
An award-winning collection of stories from a promising young Bosnian writer The protagonists of The Second Book, are connected vertically and... Les mer
Anthony McCall
Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone has long been a classic of American avant-garde cinema, but because it was most often screened in dusty... Les mer
Wilkie Collins
On the evidence of The Dead Alive, Scott Turow writes in his foreword that Wilkie Collins might well be the first author of a legal thriller. Here is... Les mer
How to Quiet a Vampire - A Sotie
How to Quiet a Vampire is a study of terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner. Published to acclaim in 1977, this... Les mer
Self/Pity
Drawing on history, myth, folk rhymes, human physiology, and the psyche's crevices, Susan Hahn's Self/Pity is a relentless journey of the... Les mer
Teh Servant Leader
In The Servant Leader, Robert P. Neuschel makes the case that our leadership is experiencing a diminution in ethics and a loss of enduring values.... Les mer
Women and the Press
When Abigail Adams made her famous plea to John Adams to "remember the ladies," the role of advocacy on behalf of U.S. gender equality... Les mer
Writing as Exorcism
"Sometimes it takes a poet to read a poet. In this inspired, idiosyncratic study, Ilya Kutik offers exemplary interpretations of three Russian... Les mer
First Ladies and the Press
At her first press conference, Eleanor Roosevelt, uncertain of her role as hostess or leader, passed a box of candied grapefruit peel to the... Les mer
Poems and Prose - A Bilingual Edition
An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats,... Les mer
Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout
Based on a deposition signed by fourteen Chiefs of the Thomson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir... Les mer
Bernardo and the Virgin
In 1980, with the Sandinistas newly in power, tailor and pig farmer Bernardo Martinez witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow about... Les mer
Essential History
However widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a "foundational" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his... Les mer
Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide
The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide provides the first complete visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States and around... Les mer
Knocking Down Barriers
Sixty years ago, when Truman Gibson reported for duty at the War Department, Washington, D.C. was a southern city in its unbending segregation as... Les mer
Big Bill of Chicago
To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned him as a fake and friend of gangsters with "the carcass of a rhinoceros and the brain... Les mer
The Last Eyewitnesses, Volume 2
This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their lives and families to save... Les mer
The Leisure Society
Peter and Mary are unhappy. But they don't know it yet. They work long hours. They invest their money for a retirement they will probably never... Les mer
The Literary Animal
In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new... Les mer