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Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy: The SS Leadership,1925-1939 Herbert F. Ziegler 9780691606361
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $52.46The first book-length presentation on the social origins of the prewar SS leadership, this volume offers a complete picture of the men who, between 1925 and 1939, joined the vanguard of National... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 17 (Translation Supplement): The Berlin Years: Writings and Correspondence, June 1929–November 1930 Albert Einstein 9780691246161
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $66.79An English-language edition of selected correspondence and papers of Albert EinsteinA translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume 17 is available in paperback. Since this... -
Ornament and European Modernism: From Art Practice to Art History by Loretta Vandi
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and... -
Metternich's German Policy, Volume II: The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 by Enno E. Kraehe 9780691612942
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $106.14Using new archival sources, this book shows that Prussia sought not the unity of Germany but its partition into five masses loosely enough joined to assure her control of the North. Hardenberg, not... -
Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany by Vernon L. Lidtke 9780691623733
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $81.71During the years that the German Social Democratic party organization was legally suppressed by the Socialist Law, the movement underwent a fundamental transformation in its relationship to the... -
History of Modern Psychology: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 1, 1933-1934 by C. G. Jung
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91Jung's lectures on the history of psychology-in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in... -
Festgabe Fa1/4r Werner Flume: Zum 90. Geburtstag by Horst H Jakobs 9783540648321
Booksplease Price: $86.40Mit BeitrAgen zum RAmischen Recht in Antike und Mittelalter, zum geltenden Zivil- und Steuerrecht sowie zu den Grundlagen der Rechtsidee ehren Horst Heinrich Jakobs, Eduard Picker, Jan Wilhelm,... -
Poetic Thinking. Now by Marko Pajević 9781032435213
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $95.63- This book develops a new perspective for philosophical anthropology.- With the notion of poetic thinking, it outlines a new concept for cultural theory.- It offers stimulating theoretical... -
The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age by Jan von Plato 9780691174174
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $43.97The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics. The Great Formal Machinery Works draws on original... -
Wittgenstein's Novels by Martin Klebes
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French... -
German Romantic Criticism by Friedrich Schlegel 9780826402622
Booksplease Price: $69.87"German Romantic criticism represents a fundamentally dialectical type of thinking, " says Ernst Behler in his Foreword. "With Romantic criticism we are on the threshold of that phase of modernity of... -
Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology by Randy O. Wayne 9780128143711
Booksplease Price: $183.36Plant Cell Biology, Second Edition: From Astronomy to Zoology connects the fundamentals of plant anatomy, plant physiology, plant growth and development, plant taxonomy, plant biochemistry, plant... -
Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War by Jonathan Rosenberg
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $48.15Dangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of twentieth-century American life, occupying a prominent place in the nation's culture and politics. The work of... -
E. W. Nay (German Edition): Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle, Gouachen und Zeichnungen. Band 3 E. W. Nay Stiftung 9783775734134
RRP: $351.00Booksplease Price: $233.22The three-volume catalogue raisonne of the works on paper by E. W. Nay (1902-1968) will provide art historians, art dealers, and every art lover a long-awaited chance to survey Nay's oeuvre and gain... -
The Bach Family: Seven Generations of Creative Genius Karl Geiringer 9781032896410
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $59.07When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), Johann Sebastian's... -
The Bach Family: Seven Generations of Creative Genius Karl Geiringer 9781032896359
RRP: $163.78Booksplease Price: $145.26When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), Johann Sebastian's... -
The Embodied Self: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Solution to Kant's Problem of the Empirical Self by Thandeka 9780791425763
Booksplease Price: $49.73This book investigates the philosophic notion of self-consciousness found in the work of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel... -
Inventions of Enlightenment Since 1800: Concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung by Élisabeth Décultot 9781802078763
Booksplease Price: $190.96Enlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century... -
The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers Hans Joas 9781839992865
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $210.81This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers's philosophy for the social sciences. It also includes classical... -
The Designed Myth: Investigations on the structure and effect condition of utopia Hans-Georg Soeffner 9783658397012
Booksplease Price: $139.83Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly represent a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st... -
The Challenges of Cultural Psychology: Historical Legacies and Future Responsibilities by Gordana Jovanovic
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.93This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the... -
The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 by Michael Philipp
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $57.62Following World War II, Western painting went in completely new directions. A young generation of artists turned their backs on the dominant styles of the interwar period: Instead of figurative... -
Austrian and German Masterworks: Twentieth Anniversary of Neue Galerie New York by Renee Price
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $70.96The Neue Galerie New York opened in November 2001, showcasing its collection of Austrian and German art from 1890 to 1940. This publication is issued in celebration of the museum's twentieth... -
The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat Patrick Eiden-Offe 9798888903254
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $54.29In the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would... -
Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century by Omar W. Nasim
Booksplease Price: $82.84Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to... -
Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis by Emanuel Berman 9780814711859
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $58.58In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies. He supports... -
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama by Wendy Sutherland 9780367878986
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the... -
Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis by Emanuel Berman 9780814711842
Booksplease Price: $200.15In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies. He supports... -
Philip Larkin: Art and Self: Five Studies by M. Rowe 9780230251717
Booksplease Price: $91.14Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and... -
The Neo-Kantian Reader by Sebastian Luft
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $105.50The latter half of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable resurgence of interest in Kant's philosophy in Continental Europe, the effects of which are still... -
Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin George T. M. Shackelford 9780300286243
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $83.71An exploration of the important role that art and artists played in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century Highlighting the influences and antipathies among art, politics, identity, and... -
Stalingrad: Death of an Army by Ben Skipper
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66The very name Stalingrad has become synonymous with military folly and political arrogance. Its capture by the Wehrmacht was a crushing defeat, both militarily and politically, for the Red Army. The... -
Caspar David Friedrich by Markus Bertsch 9780500028339
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $70.10Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth, the most thorough Friedrich retrospective in many years. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is renowned as the Romantic... -
Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die Deutsche Jugendbewegung: Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement by Christian Damboeck 9783030848866
Booksplease Price: $90.25This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key... -
Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology by Tzvetan Todorov
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth century, solitude was considered the... -
Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance by Saulius Geniusas 9781786604316
Booksplease Price: $81.47Although the concept of productive imagination plays a fundamental role in Kant, German Idealism, Romanticism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, the meaning of this central concept remains largely... -
How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body by Matthew Beaumont 9781804290071
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait... -
Mission at Nuremberg: An Allied Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis by Tim Townsend
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.50November, 1945. The war is over, Hitler is dead, and Allied Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke receives his most challenging assignment: to go to Nuremberg and minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi... -
The Significance of Indeterminacy: Perspectives from Asian and Continental Philosophy by Robert H. Scott
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84While indeterminacy is a recurrent theme in philosophy, less progress has been made in clarifying its significance for various philosophical and interdisciplinary contexts. This collection brings... -
Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory by Lisa Herzog 9780198784579
Booksplease Price: $94.73Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory analyses the constructions of the market in the thought of Adam Smith and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and discusses their relevance for...