Heller: 415 books
Alone in Mexico
The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens. He passed through the Caribbean, lived for a time in the mountains of Veracruz, and journeyed to Mexico City through the...
Engaging Agnes Heller
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of...
Catch As Catch Can
The Collected Stories and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
A collection of short stories and other miscellaneous writings by Joseph Heller, one of America’s most influential and idiosyncratic writers.
Years before the publication of Catch-22—which was called “a monumental artifact of contemporary literature” by The New York Times, “an apocalyptic...
Yossarian Slept Here
When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
THROUGHOUT ERICA HELLER’S LIFE, when people learned that Joseph Heller was her father, they often remarked, “How terrific!” But was there a catch? Like his most famous work, her father was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant, and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and stubborn,...
by Joseph Heller, Speed Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22.
It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows,...
Prague: My Long Journey Home
A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Author Charles Ota Hellers early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didnt last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other...
Daniel Heller-Roazen
Die Geheimnisse des al-Jahiz (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 052)
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In seinem Notizbuch wirft der Philosoph und Schriftsteller Daniel Heller-Roazen die Frage auf, »ob [...] die Sprache etwas ihr Eigenes, in allem Gesagten Verstecktes birgt«. Mit meisterhafter Beherrschung der Sprache und ihrer rätselhaft verschlüsselten Natur taucht er in fundamentale Fragen und...
by Nancy S. Heller, Daniel G. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
1ST FLAP COPY
Several years ago, while I was rounding at one of the Brigham and Women's Hospital nurseries, a new father shared a funny story with me.
Early the previous morning, this new father went to the hospital lobby in search of coffee and bagels. While waiting in line at the coffee...
by Marta Heller
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Lucas Belleville ha abbandonato la cittadina del Maine in cui è cresciuto in seguito alla fine travagliata della sua storia d’amore con Buck Marten.
Una storia tumultuosa, forte, romantica e piena di desiderio, destinata a sbriciolarsi sotto il peso dell’ostilità di Arthur Belleville, padre...
Ruthless
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Ruthless tells the explosive story of Jerry Heller's alliance with Eric Wright, aka Eazy-E, one of the legends of rap music and a founding member of N.W.A., "the world's most dangerous band." As a longtime music industry superagent, Heller had the skill and insight necessary to guide N.W.A.'s...
Now and Then
From Coney Island to Here
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The demented Army Air Force of Catch-22, the lethal business world of Something Happened, the dysfunctional family of Good as Gold-all these, we have assumed, had their roots in Joseph Heller's own past. Now, more than thirty-five years after the explosion of Catch-22 into the world's consciousness,...
by Agnes Heller
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career. While the narration mainly traces the development of ideas, we also learn how they occurred in the context of challenging life circumstances. Agnes Heller presents the life of her ideas...
Kook
What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars
With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery—of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean’s beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture;...
The Immortal Comedy
The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In...