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Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary by Mikhail Gorbachev 9789042038554
Booksplease Price: $75.80This book provides brief expositions of the central concepts in the field of Global Studies. Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev says, "The book is intelligent, rich in content... -
Cultural Functions of Intermedial Exploration by Erik Hedling 9789042014305
Booksplease Price: $119.31This collection of 19 essays is the first one devoted to function-oriented analyses of intermedial interrelationships in literature, art, music, and film. The contributors - among others, Werner... -
Chaos and Madness: The Politics of Fiction in Stephen Marlowe's Historical Narratives by Monica Calvo-Pascual 9789042033016
Booksplease Price: $111.00In the 1950s prolific U.S. fiction writer Stephen Marlowe became a cult author for lovers of noir fiction mainly for his Drumbeat series, which present his best-known character: private eye Chester... -
The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film by Jeff Persels 9789042036130
Booksplease Price: $100.32Volume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors,... -
Ethics in Biomedical Research: International Perspectives by Matti Häyry 9789042021792
Booksplease Price: $134.69This book deals with the international assessment and regulation of biomedical research. In its chapters, some of the leading figures in today’s bioethics address questions centred on global... -
Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture by Nigel Harkness 9789042022607
Booksplease Price: $134.69This volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical,... -
In the Flesh of the Text: The Poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart by Peter Broome 9789042023666
Booksplease Price: $138.28This closely focused study of the inner movements, dynamic tensions and tactile richness of an intensely sensual but deeply searching poetry, is the first full-length monograph devoted to one of... -
Entering an online support group on eating disorders: A discourse analysis by Stommel Wyke 9789042026605
Booksplease Price: $146.65Online support groups are considered highly valuable in addition to traditional health care services, but we know very little about how people actually join such a group. This book offers a... -
Values, Violence, and Our Future by Gary J. Acquaviva 9789042005594
Booksplease Price: $65.92This book identifies the character of human predators who violate others or themselves. The contagion of violence infects values that affect behavior. But we may call upon the intrinsic values of... -
<i>Mythos</i> and <i>Logos</i>: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom by Albert A. Anderson 9789042010208
Booksplease Price: $126.42This book contains fifteen essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient... -
Sartrean Dialectics: A Method for Critical Discourse on Aesthetic Experience by Roxanne Claire Farrar 9789042012325
Booksplease Price: $52.88This book presents a modification of the dialectical method of Jean-Paul Sartre as a tool for critical discourse on aesthetic experience. Three practical demonstrations are offered of the modified... -
Confrontations: Politics and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France by Kathryn M. Grossman 9789042013049
Booksplease Price: $124.06The result of interdisciplinary collaboration rarely undertaken in such a systematic manner. Confrontations brings together literary critics, historians, and art historians to reflect on a cluster of... -
Peirce's Pragmatism: The Design for Thinking by Phyllis Chiasson 9789042012752
Booksplease Price: $108.63This book cuts through the complex writing style of the seminal philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce. It disentangles his ideas, explains them one by one, and then puts the pieces back together for... -
Earth's Abominations: Philosophical Studies of Evil by Daniel M. Haybron 9789042012783
Booksplease Price: $65.92This 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... -
Conversations with Pragmatism: A Multi-Disciplinary Study by Paul Custodio Bube 9789042015609
Booksplease Price: $60.00This book represents the reflections of scholars coming from varied disciplinary backgrounds who have found a conversation partner in pragmatism. The “conversations” recorded here demonstrate... -
Architectures of Poetry by Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez 9789042018921
Booksplease Price: $75.41Architectures of Poetry is the first comprehensive accounting of the currently intense dialogue between the sister arts of poetry and architecture. Refusing to take either term in a metaphoric sense,... -
Cultures of Neurasthenia: From Beard to the First World War by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra 9789042009219
Booksplease Price: $81.75Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was 'invented' in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern... -
Provisionality and the Poem: Transitions in the Work of du Bouchet, Jaccottet and Noel by Emma Wagstaff 9789042019393
Booksplease Price: $106.24Much poetic writing in France in the post-1945 period is set in an elemental landscape and expressed through an impersonal poetic voice. It is therefore often seen as primarily spatial and cut off... -
Touching Surfaces: Photographic Aesthetics, Temporality, Aging by Anca Cristofovici 9789042025134
Booksplease Price: $118.11Who 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... -
The Progressive in Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes by Svenja Kranich 9789042031432
Booksplease Price: $147.03This book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial phase of its grammaticalization between... -
The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art by Denis Lejeune 9789042034396
Booksplease Price: $140.66To many, chance and art are antagonistic terms. But a number of 20th century artists have turned this notion on its head by attempting to create artworks based on randomness. Among those, three in... -
Facets of Self-Consciousness by Katja Crone 9789042035157
Booksplease Price: $140.66This special issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien brings together a number of carefully selected and timely articles that explore the discussion of different facets of self-consciousness from... -
Arthur Miller's <i>Death of a Salesman</i> by Eric J. Sterling 9789042024502
Booksplease Price: $100.32Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the third volume in the Dialogue series, covers six major and controversial topics dealing with Miller's classic play. The topics include feminism and the role of... -
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness by Colette Balmain 9789042025509
Booksplease Price: $111.00The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity... -
Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing by Jason Harding 9789042030558
Booksplease Price: $146.65The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies... -
Giordano Bruno: An Introduction by Paul Richard Blum 9789042035553
Booksplease Price: $76.60Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic... -
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, Band 72 (2014) by Guus Kroonen 9789042038592
Booksplease Price: $150.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042038592Author Guus KroonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint < -
Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe by Patricia Howe 9789042012363
Booksplease Price: $109.02On the centenary of Fontane's death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars... -
The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond by Dolores Herrero 9789042033887
Booksplease Price: $150.61These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms 'cultural trauma' and 'personal trauma' intertwine in postcolonial fiction. In a... -
Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization by Messay Kebede 9789042008106
Booksplease Price: $113.37This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the... -
The Medieval Chronicle II: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle. Driebergen/Utrecht 16-21 July 1999 by Erik Kooper 9789042008342
Booksplease Price: $119.31After the success of the first international conference on the medieval chronicle, it was decided that another would be in place. It was held in the summer of 1999, and again drew some 150... -
Heidegger and the Question of Psychology: Zollikon and Beyond by Mark Letteri 9789042025226
Booksplease Price: $63.55In Heidegger and the Question of Psychology: Zollikon and Beyond, Mark Letteri acquaints a broad readership (such as psychotherapists and counselors, not just professional philosophers) with Martin... -
East Germany: Continuity and Change by Paul Cooke 9789042005693
Booksplease Price: $38.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042005693Author Paul CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London by Lawrence Phillips 9789042016637
Booksplease Price: $102.70Ranging from the turn of the nineteenth century to the last few years of the twentieth century, The Swarming Streets explores the representation of London in the last century through some of the... -
Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace by David Boersema 9789042020610
Booksplease Price: $119.31This book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and... -
Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky's <i>Crime and Punishment</i> by Janet G. Tucker 9789042024946
Booksplease Price: $150.22Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment presents for the first time an examination of this great novel as a work aimed at winning back "target readers", young... -
Denis Williams: A Life in Works: New and Collected Essays by Charlotte Williams 9789042027916
Booksplease Price: $134.69Denis Williams, painter, teacher, novelist, archaeologist, and cultural administrator, is one of the founding fathers of modern Guyana. His involvement in several of the country's key cultural... -
Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays by Elizabeth McMahon 9789042028494
Booksplease Price: $119.31Remembering Patrick White presents the first major study of the full range of White's work in over twenty-five years, and aims to bring this important author up to date for new generations of readers... -
Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse by William D. Melaney 9789042034488
Booksplease Price: $137.08Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse argues that deconstruction can be employed in conjunction with the historically-oriented approach to cultural experience that is favored... -
English Corpus Linguistics: Variation in Time, Space and Genre: Selected papers from ICAME 32 by Gisle Andersen 9789042036796
Booksplease Price: $140.66As its title suggests, this book is a selection of papers that use English corpora to study language variation along three dimensions – time, place and genre. In broad terms, the book aims to bridge...