The Aftermath
The Aftermath offers a perspective of how one who has lived with terror for years is able to avoid paralysis and move forward. It is a book about how people live with gnawing doubts and uncertainty concerning their past actions and inaction. It is...
Rethinking the Post Soviet Experience
In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition. The interactions and contradictions of moral economies and market relations are ex...
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Essential Haiku
The Essential Haiku brings together Robert Hass's beautifully fresh translations of the three great masters of the Japanese haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, and the haiku poet most familiar to English readers; Yosa ...
Little Book on Form
From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as bo...
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy
The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are difficult and not widely understood. Lawrence Hass redresses this problem by offering an exceptiona...
Thomas' Calculus, SI Units + MyLab Mathematics with Pearson eText
Thomas' Calculus, SI Units + MyLab Mathematics with Pearson eText
Thomas' Calculus, SI Units
Thomas' Calculus, SI Units
Time and Materials
Robert Hass has, for a long time, held a prominent position among the most revered of all living poets. Unlike the more difficult, cerebral poetry of writers like John Ashbery, Hass' work is grounded in the beauty of the physical world, in the sma...
Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
The first Israeli journalist to voluntarily live in Gaza, the much-maligned Palestinian enclave, offers her insights and reflections on what she saw and learned, the joys, and the sudden fears, and gives a moving portrait of the resilient Palestin...
Summer Snow
A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collec...
En Morgon I Sierra
Robert Hass räknas bland USA:s mest betydande poeter och i sin diktning reflekterar han över vardagliga händelser då reflektionen blir ett slags sjätte sinne som ger erfarenheten en djupare mening. Att läsa Hass lär en uppmärksamhetens konst. Urvalet i den bok är ur Hass samtliga sju diktsamlingar sedan debuten 1973. Han är även översättare och essäist, har översatt bland andra Tomas Tranströmer och Czeslaw Milosz.
Diary Of Bergen-belsen
The Diary of Bergen-Belsen is a unique, deeply political survivor's diary from the final year inside the notorious concentration camp. Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light...
Economic Sociology
Economic Sociology provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of the promises of economic sociology. It shows how economies are more than supply-and-demand curves, individual profit motives, and efficient performance: they are forms of p...
Blunt Instruments
Blunt Instruments
Pedestrian and the City
The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key is...
Hegel and the Art of Negation
Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of history have seemed less compelling than they were for previous generations of philosophers, is study of H...
Carried to the Wall
On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclecti...
Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall
For the city's first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC's symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasi...
Self-Doubt
Mental and emotional disorders have reached epidemic levels in Western societies. Self-doubt, panic-attacks, anxiety disorders and personal fears of all kinds present major challenges to contemporary medical science. Rudolf Steiner's spiritual res...
Practice of the Wild
'This is an important book for anyone interested in the ethical interrelationships of things, places, and people, and it is a book that is not just read but taken in.' --Library Journal Featuring a new introduction by Robert Hass, the nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.
Supporting Student Mental Health
Supporting Student Mental Health is a guide to the basics of identifying and supporting students with mental health challenges. It's no secret that your responsibilities as a teacher go beyond academic achievement. You cover key socioemotional com...
