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The Unity of Christ
Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition
No period of history was more formative for the development of Christianity than the patristic age, when church leaders, monks, and laity established the standard features of Christianity as we know it today. Combining...
Passions
Selections from Leopardi’s prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge—Revenge is so sweet one...
Deutschland im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Ein Textbuch für fortgeschrittene Deutschlernende
Intended for advanced German language learners, this unique textbook offers a cross-disciplinary look at the impact of globalization on German life and culture. Eichmanns Maier provides theoretical and fictional texts,...
The Winds of Freedom
Addressing Challenges to the University
As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit, and courage, confront head-on...
The Captain and "the Cannibal"
An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage
The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend Sailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain...
A Voice Still Heard
Selected Essays of Irving Howe
An indispensable collection of one of America’s most outspoken and original critics of the second half of the twentieth century Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of...
Six Poets
Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology
The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six...
Communicating in Chinese: Reading and Writing
Student’s Book for Reading and Writing
Communicating in Chinese is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books (available online as PDFs), and provides the framework for a proficiency-based approach...
Dante's Two Beloveds
Ethics and Erotics in the "Divine Comedy"
Re-examining key passages in Dante’s oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. Olivia Holmes shows how Dante...
Fife
Fife's most famous buildings include Dunfermline Abbey, with its sturdy Norman nave; St Andrews cathedral, the focus of the old University town on the North Sea coast; the foursquare post-Reformation kirk at Burntisland; the...