1388 results for '"Fried, Johannes'

The aging Swiss novelist and playwright recounts a weekend tryst with a thirty-year-old American divorcee and the memories, revelations, recognitions, and acceptances occasioned by their...

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an incisive theorist of film. In this volume his finest writings on modern...

"The standard work on the development of modern architecture."—Walter Gropius"Giedion’s accomplishment remains unmatched."—José Luis SertSigfried Giedion was an unlikely candidate for the Charles...

Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the...

Hailed as one of the most important works on the Hitler period, this is an “astonishing, compelling, and unnerving” portrait of life in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944—from a man who nearly shot...

Max Frisch's candid story of his affair with a young woman illuminates a lifetime of relationships. Casting himself as both subject and observer, Frisch reflects on his marriages, children,...

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised...

Finalist for the Man Booker Award Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction. One of theNew York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017;...

A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka’s life, work, legacy, and thoughtFranz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and...

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press Publication date: 1927 Subjects: Sundar Singh, 1889-1933 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no...

The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil.   The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a...

From one of the nation's preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized...

Twelve-year-old Daphne reconciles with her father, who left her stranded three years ago, and learns forgiveness one fall at a time in this heartwarming debut by Sally Engelfried. For fans of The...

The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias is a fascinating virtual catalogue of utopian societies and communes from past to present. The authors assert that the formation of a utopian society...

From a prize-winning historian, a vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians’ struggle to understand

A thorough revision of Human Developmental Neuropsychology, this book is the most detailed and complete overview of child neuropsychology available today. It begins with a brief introduction to the...