Sj: 449 books

Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter...

Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962—twenty years in the making—is Sjón’s epic three-part masterpiece Over the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sjón has earned a global reputation as one of the world’s most interesting writers. But what...

Inmitten einer Kirchenkrise geschieht das Unglaubliche: Mit Mut und Entschlossenheit kündigt Papst Johannes XXIII. das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil an. Er weiß, dass die Kirche ihre Botschaft den Menschen von heute nur noch dann vermitteln könne, wenn sie sich öffne, alle Fenster aufreiße und »einen...

**A Nature Book of the Year (The Times (UK)) “The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about something else.” Amesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjöberg’s life...

In The Gospel of Mark Fathers Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading of Mark's Gospel helps us to appreciate the literary character, its setting...

Rutilio Grande, SJ, was the first Jesuit to be assassinated in El Salvador. He was killed on March 12, 1977, for having done the works that Jesus commands with regard to one's neighbor as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. This volume of his writings and homilies illustrates how he applied the...

Entomologo, affabulatore e audace pensatore, Fredrik Sjöberg ci accompagna in nove viaggi di scoperta seguendo il suo fiuto per le storie d’eccezione che si nascondono dietro i dettagli più marginali. Un’escursione sulle tracce di un tiglio centenario o un nome trovato sul retro di un raro autoscatto...

In the light of its own history, the Catholic theology of the Eucharist, as it is generally understood today, is revealed as a splinter tradition whose deficiencies call for fundamental reformulation. The valid aspects of that theology (for example, the recovery of the role of the Holy Spirit in the...

«Perché uno non si arrende? Cos’è quel desiderio che lo spinge?» Eccentrico ricercatore, collezionista e narratore della natura e dei personaggi straordinari che l’hanno esplorata, Fredrik Sjöberg ci accompagna in un viaggio alla scoperta dell’inafferrabile Gustaf Eisen. Zoologo, pittore,...

«Le esperienze artistiche possono essere travolgenti quasi quanto gli amori», pensa Fredrik Sjöberg quando in una casa d’aste di Stoccolma rimane folgorato dal dipinto di un pino. Spinto dalla sua proverbiale passione per tutto ciò che è insolito, scopre che l’artista è Gunnar Widforss (1879-1934),...

Prinsesse, hestepige og en af Danmarks dygtigste dressurryttere: Hesten og interessen for ridning har i den grad formet Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburgs liv. I biografien "Mit liv med heste" går journalist Vivi Sjøner tæt på kvinden med hverdag i staldene og på ridebanen, avlsarbejdet...

SJ has seen thousands of vaginas. On her quest to normalise them, humor and calamity collide in this compilation of short stories and anecdotes about a girl who takes a break from her career in advertising to open a Brazilian waxing salon. It's not all about vaginas - it's about a girl trying to find...

In 'Tweede leven' van SJ watson wordt Julia geconfronteerd met de gewelddadige dood van haar zusje Kate in Parijs. Van Kates huisgenote en beste vriendin hoort ze over het dubbelleven dat Kate leidde. Wanneer Julia dit tweede leven van haar zusje onderzoekt, ontmoet ze de charmante en mysterieuze...

Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years...