In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in...

That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel, or biography, or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of...

Geography and Enlightenment explores both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From wide-ranging disciplinary and topical perspectives, contributors consider the many ways in which the world of...

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the...

In this reissued collection of essays, first published in 1985, Paul Q. Hirst assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. It begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and includes...

A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive...

Published in conjunction with the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Sanja Ivekovic in the United States, this volume is the most comprehensive survey on the artist available in English. A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer,...

Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century.A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most...

Focusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics. From an account of the semiotic doctrines embodied in the works of classical rhetoric to an exploration of representative modern concepts of the symbol found...

Macchine volanti, mulini, navi a pale, ma anche elevatori di obelischi, carri da assalto, trabocchi e paracadute. Dalla mostra "Gli ingegneri del Rinascimento" un catalogo illustrato pieno di disegni, progetti, ingranaggi e strumenti meravigliosi.

Winner of the American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Batton Book of the Year AwardFrom a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address...

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng,...

75 easy air fryer recipes from the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen—plus the experts’ secrets for making the most of basket and toaster oven-style appliances.In this ultimate cookbook, the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen shows just how versatile air fryers...

A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful worksBetween the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback...

A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov, now available in a striking new Pushkin Blues format.Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike...

A beguiling new selection of Katherine Mansfield's finest stories, focused on her mysterious, complex portrayals of relationships between womenKatherine Mansfield was one of the true pioneers of the short story. Her style shifts subtly between the comic...

A scintillating collection of inspirations for Wes Anderson's star-studded tenth film The French Dispatch--fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers.A glimpse of post-war France through the...

A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony BriggsAs complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of...

A biography of the remarkable—and in her time scandalous—seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel."My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world."—Margaret Cavendish Margaret...