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Genes and Morality: New Essays by Veikko Launis 9789042006966
Booksplease Price: €67.03Most public discussion has focused on those effects of genetic research that are considered in some way unwanted or unpleasant. For example, there has been much debate concerning the risks and the... -
Fractured Biographies by Ian Wallace 9789042009561
Booksplease Price: €52.04A physical chemist (Fritz Haber), a photographer (Josef Breitenbach), a cabaret artist (Georg Kreisler), two writers (Otto Alscher and Albin Stuebs), a pioneering scholar in Irish-German studies... -
Joseph Conrad: The Short Fiction by 9789042009608
Booksplease Price: €55.79Joseph Conrad: The Short Fiction offers a wide range of perspectives on Conrad's short stories. Nine essays, by established and emerging scholars, deal with early and classic stories as well as the... -
The Circle & the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Māori Literature by Eva Rask Knudsen 9789042010482
Booksplease Price: €67.97In Aboriginal and Māori literature, the circle and the spiral are the symbolic metaphors for a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery. The journey itself, with its indigenous perspectives... -
'This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song': Resistance in Women's Literature of World War II by L. Leigh Westerfield 9789042011489
Booksplease Price: €94.20The romanticized image of the heroic male resistance fighter in World War II belies a truth that is both darker and more personal. This literary history explores, for the first time, the reality of... -
Earth's Abominations: Philosophical Studies of Evil by Daniel M. Haybron 9789042012783
Booksplease Price: €52.04This book philosophically explores a wide range of subjects relating to evil and human wickedness, including the nature of evil, explaining evil, evil and moral responsibility, and responding to evil... -
Peace, Value, and Wisdom: The Educational Philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda by George David Miller 9789042013599
Booksplease Price: €47.36This book introduces readers to the Buddhist-based philosophy of education of Daisaku Ikeda. Ikeda's philosophy of education offers human revolution, value creation, and dialogue as counterweights to... -
Time, Narrative & the Fixed Image / Temps, narration & image fixe by Mireille Ribière 9789042013667
Booksplease Price: €97.95This volume focuses on the relationship between time, narrative and the fixed image. As such, it highlights renewed interest in the temporality of the fixed image, probably one of the most important... -
Paul Morand: The Politics and Practice of Writing in Postwar France by Kimberly Philpot van Noort 9789042013766
Booksplease Price: €64.22Darling of the Jazz Age, the globe-trotting diplomat and acclaimed writer Paul Morand and his literary and political careers underwent a radical shift following his collaboration with the Vichy... -
Jews in German Literature since 1945: German-Jewish Literature? by 9789042014534
Booksplease Price: €109.21This volume contains some 46 essays on various aspects of contemporary German-Jewish literature. The approaches are diverse, reflecting the international origins of the contributors, who are based in... -
A Garland For Gissing by Bouwe Postmus 9789042014770
Booksplease Price: €101.70The crown upon the continuing vitality and popularity of Gissing studies in the final decade of the twentieth century was the publication of The Collected Letters of George Gissing (1990-97). The... -
Conversations with Pragmatism: A Multi-Disciplinary Study by Paul Custodio Bube 9789042015609
Booksplease Price: €47.36This book represents the reflections of scholars coming from varied disciplinary backgrounds who have found a conversation partner in pragmatism. The “conversations” recorded here demonstrate... -
Negotiating Positions: Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen by Simon Ward 9789042015760
Booksplease Price: €46.42This study offers new perspectives on Wolfgang Koeppen, a writer too often consigned to the margins of post-1945 literary history. Examining the interaction of the personal and the social in... -
The Fantastic Anatomist: A Psychoanalytic Study of Henry James by Ronnie Bailie 9789042015814
Booksplease Price: €41.73In this compact but highly concentrated study, the author unites clinical and literary critical skills in an attempt to go beyond familiar psychological commentary on Henry James and conduct a... -
Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance by Anthony Mortimer 9789042016767
Booksplease Price: €75.46Seven centuries after the birth of Petrarch (1304-74) the nature and extent of his influence loom ever larger in the study of renaissance literature. In this revised and expanded edition of... -
Pragmatic Moral Realism: A Transcendental Defense by Sami Pihlstrom 9789042017474
Booksplease Price: €67.97This book examines the issue of moral realism from a pragmatist point of view, drawing attention to our human practices of ethical evaluation and deliberation. It defends the essentially ungrounded... -
Searching for Presence: Yves Bonnefoy's Writings on Art by Robert W. Greene 9789042017924
Booksplease Price: €71.72Yves Bonnefoy's writings have won him praise not only from readers and critics of French poetry, but also, thanks to translations into many other languages, from readers and critics of poetry far... -
The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures by Philip E. Bennett 9789042018518
Booksplease Price: €83.90The Singer and the Scribe brings together studies of the European ballad from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century by major authorities in the field and is of interest to students of European... -
Multimodality in Canadian Black Feminist Writing: Orality and the Body in the Work of Harris, Philip, Allen, and Brand by Maria Caridad Casas 9789042026865
Booksplease Price: €99.82This book develops a theory of multimodality - the participation of a text in more than one mode - centred on the poetry/poetics of Lillian Allen, Claire Harris, Dionne Brand, and Marlene Nourbese... -
The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy by Astrid van Weyenberg 9789042037007
Booksplease Price: €112.93This book explores contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies. Six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts - by Yael Farber, Mark Fleishman, Athol Fugard, Femi Osofisan, and Wole... -
Klein in the Trenches: Working with Disturbed Patients by Robert Waska 9789042035744
Booksplease Price: €88.57This book explores the theoretical and technical aspects of Modern Kleinian Therapy with borderline, narcissistic, and psychotic patients who are in great psychological conflict and who struggle to... -
The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la litterature africaine by Bernard de Meyer 9789042025806
Booksplease Price: €97.95The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture - a synopsis of current trends in African literature - and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several... -
Stealing the Fire: Adaptation, Appropriation, Plagiarism, Hoax in French and Francophone Literature and Film by James Day 9789042031647
Booksplease Price: €97.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042031647Author James DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Modernization and the Crisis of Memory: John Donne to Don DeLillo by Philipp Wolf 9789042015289
Booksplease Price: €76.40Contemporary studies of memory focus either on the psychology of remembering, on its archives and media, or on the traditional ars memoriae. The general cultural framework with its social and... -
Sur quel pied danser?: Danse et litterature by Edward Nye 9789042016088
Booksplease Price: €111.99La danse a inspire la litterature, et la litterature a inspire la danse. Mais comment fonctionne exactement l'articulation entre les deux, et quelles sont les consequences de leur reciprocite ? Cet... -
Feminist Alliances by Lynda Burns 9789042017283
Booksplease Price: €67.97This book is about feminism, its critics, and its possible directions for change. The nine chapters raise questions about theories of sexual difference, power, justice and history. A central theme... -
Avant-Garde / Neo-Avant-Garde by Dietrich Scheunemann 9789042019256
Booksplease Price: €128.25This collection of critical essays explores new approaches to the study of avant-garde literature and art, film and architecture. It offers a theoretical framework that avoids narrowly defined... -
Deepening our Understanding of Wittgenstein by Michael Kober 9789042020108
Booksplease Price: €102.63This volume is of interest for anyone who aims at understanding the so-called 'later' or 'mature' Wittgenstein. Its contributions, written by leading German-speaking Wittgenstein-scholars like Hans... -
Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry by Alexandra Smith 9789042020122
Booksplease Price: €124.46Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkin's legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of... -
Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction by Fiona Tolan 9789042022232
Booksplease Price: €134.85Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction takes a new look at the complex relationship between Margaret Atwood’s fiction and feminist politics. Examining in detail the concerns and choices of an author... -
The Lost Girls: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930 by Andrew Radford 9789042022355
Booksplease Price: €140.52The Lost Girls analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 for whom the myth of Demeter's loss and eventual recovery of her cherished daughter Kore-Persephone, swept off in violent and... -
Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature by Lene M. Johannessen 9789042023321
Booksplease Price: €79.21Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that... -
Touching Surfaces: Photographic Aesthetics, Temporality, Aging by Anca Cristofovici 9789042025134
Booksplease Price: €93.26Who isn't seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the... -
Cyberculture and New Media by Francisco J. Ricardo 9789042025189
Booksplease Price: €128.25In the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as... -
![A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo 9789042025233](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9211814/10246008/9789042025233__74748.1755843059.jpg?c=1 "A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo 9789042025233")
A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo 9789042025233
Booksplease Price: €87.64This book addresses "containment" as it relates to interlocking discourses around the "War on Terror" as a global effort and its link to race and sexuality within the United... -
Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics by Evgenia Cherkasova 9789042026100
Booksplease Price: €57.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042026100Author Evgenia CherkasovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
A Lab of My Own by Neena B. Schwartz 9789042027374
Booksplease Price: €50.17What was it like to be a woman scientist battling the "old boy's" network during the 1960s and 1970s? Neena Schwartz, a prominent neuroendocrinologist at Northwestern University, tells all. She... -
Fear Itself: Reasoning the Unreasonable by Stephen Hessel 9789042028067
Booksplease Price: €77.34What are fear, horror, and terror? This question, central to our endeavour, cannot be answered by one unified voice. It always cracks, falters, and fades before it can fully enunciate its... -
Textual Scholarship and the Material Book by Wim van Mierlo 9789042028173
Booksplease Price: €132.97In the last decades, the emphasis in textual scholarship has moved onto creation, production, process, collaboration; onto the material manifestations of a work; onto multiple rather than single... -
Selected Papers by Vasily Sesemann 9789042028258
Booksplease Price: €49.23The Baltic philosopher Vasily Sesemann (1884-1963), rooted in the Classics and influenced but not dominated by Kant, Herder, Bergson, Husserl, and Lossky, was a first-rate scholar in the fields of...