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Germany 1945
Views of War and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
“Packed with carefully chosen photos . . . this book is a moving reminder of the material and moral devastation left behind by Nazi Germany.” ―Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin–Madison
The Allied forces that entered Germany at the close of World War II were looking for remorse and...
The Beginning of Western Philosophy
Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Volume 35 of Heidegger’s Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text....
Between Word and Image
Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: “Probing and lucid” (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).
Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato....
Last Press Bus Out of Middletown
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
For 30 years, celebrated sports journalist Bob Hammel has reported on a variety of games and athletes–the Olympics, Pan American Games, 23 NCAA Final Fours, Major League Baseball playoffs and World Series,college football bowl games, Muhammad Ali's last championship victory, and dozens of Indiana...
by Roslyn Rensch
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition...
Women and Music
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2001
This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars,...
Balkan Breakthrough
The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
“An important account of a very overlooked aspect of the Great War.” —Strategy Page
With the transfer of German units to the western front in the spring of 1918, the position of the Central Powers on the Macedonian front worsened. Materiel became scarce and morale among the Bulgarian forces...
by Andrei Bely
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two...
The Materiality of Language
Gender, Politics, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material...
The Doc and the Duchess
The Life and Legacy of George H. A. Clowes
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
George Henry Alexander Clowes was a pivotal figure in the development of the insulin program at the Eli Lilly Company. Through his leadership, scientists and clinicians at Lilly and the University of Toronto created a unique, international team to develop and purify insulin and take the production...
Today I Am a Woman
Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
“The amazing tales of Jewish girls on six different continents who celebrate the Jewish ritual of becoming a woman.” —The Jewish Journal
Winner, Spirituality Category, New England Festival Best Books of the Holiday Season
Divided into nine regions—Africa; Asia; Australia and New Zealand;...
Pioneers
A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
“A unique work of art” that captures “the experiences of an important generation of Russian Jews. . . . and an important document of its time.” —Gabriella Safran, author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-Sky
S. An-Sky’s novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young...
Ponderings II–VI
Black Notebooks 1931–1938
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Ponderings II–VI begins the much-anticipated English translation of Martin Heidegger's "Black Notebooks." In a series of small notebooks with black covers, Heidegger confided sundry personal observations and ideas over the course of 40 years. The five notebooks in this volume were written between...