Histories
The New Press's four&-volume Postwar French Thought Series charts the intellectual transformations that took place in post-World War II France. Histories, the first volume in the Series, focuses on the way French thinkers reshaped the way we s...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika
The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters. Meeting in an inn overlooking Katmandu, these two profoundly thoughtful men explored the questions that have occupied humankind throughout its history. Does life have meaning? What is consciousness? Is man free? What is the value of scientific and material progress? Why is there suffering, war, and hatred? Their conversation is not merely abstract: they ask each other questions about ethics, rights, and responsibilities, about knowledge and belief, and they discuss frankly the differences in the way each has tried to make sense of his life. Utterly absorbing, inspiring, and accessible, this remarkable
Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing
Whether you're an absolute beginner or a Strictly Come Dancing wannabe, it's time to get up and dance Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing gives you the confidence you need to take your first steps on the dancefloor. It even includes style tips ...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika II
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika II
Monk and the Philosopher
The most groundbreaking meeting of Eastern philosophy and Western culture to date. In this father-son dialgue, Revel and Ricard explore the most fundamental questions of human existence and the ways in which they are embraced by Eastern and Wester...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection Volume 15
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection Volume 15
Madness, Language, Literature
Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. ¿ Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less exp...
Makers of Jewish Modernity
This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. M...
The Capitalist World-Economy
In The Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of...
Language, Madness, and Desire
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely e...
Revel
I debutdiktsamlingen Sekvensen om pappersblomman strävade Christer Boberg efter att uttrycka det ordlösa eller det förbegreppsliga. I den nya samlingen, Revel, rör sig dikterna mellan den psykiska störningen, den könsliga svindeln, medvetandets sandrygg och ett fruktat eller efterlängtat försvinnande.
Reginald's Christmas Revel
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. With his signature flair and razor-sharp wit, Saki is an undispu...
Revel, Riot, and Rebellion
What have maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches to do with the English Civil War? A great deal, argues David Underdown. Using three western counties as a case-study, he shows that the war was neither a dispute confined to the elit...
Lexham Geographic Commentary on Acts through Revel ation
Walking in the footsteps of the Apostles. The Lexham Geographic Commentary on Acts through Revelation puts readers in the sandals of the Apostles as they travel throughout the Mediterranean, explaining the geographical setting for the spread of Ch...
