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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.95"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities'
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 34.00This, the first comprehensive study of The Man Without Qualities, guides the reader towards Musil's central concerns. more...
Performing Brecht
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill,... more...
The True Story of My Life
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 8.95From the translator: No literary labor is more delightful to me than translating the beautiful thoughts and fancies of Hans Christian Andersen. My heart is in the work, and I feel as if my spirit were kindred to his; just as our Saxon English seems to me eminently fitted to give the simple, pure, and noble sentiments of the Danish mind. This True Story... more...
The Robbers
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Fans of classic European melodrama will love The Robbers. Originally staged in the late eighteenth century, this play -- which follows the feud between brothers in an aristocratic German family -- was a blockbuster success that propelled Friedrich Schiller to the height of literary fame. The Robbers was later adapted into an equally renowned opera... more...
Mary Stuart
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99This work details the dramatic final days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The action opens with Mary's unjust imprisonment and ends with her execution, which is ultimately ordered by Mary's morally conflicted cousin, Queen Elizabeth of England. Schiller's play is widely regarded as one of the finest literary distillations of these controversial... more...
Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99Considered one of most significant literary figures of his era, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke served as a bridge between the themes and styles of the Romantic period and the concerns and anxieties that would give rise to modernism in the twentieth century. This collection brings together dozens of Rilke's most popular and critically acclaimed... more...
The Last Right
Jacana Media 2013; US$ 16.99"The Last Right" is the true story of Craig Schonegevel who suffered from the extremely variable condition known as Neurofibromatosis Type 1. In Craig?s case his life was mostly one of operations, pain and suffering and his brave attempts to slay the NF 1 dragon that kept on gnawing at his life and his body. His extraordinary courage in the face of... more...
Interkulturelle Kompetenz in der Literatur der Moderne
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 35.59Das Naheliegendste in dem Umgang mit der Literatur der Moderne, die sich dem Stil der Schriftsteller um die Jahrhundertwende zwischen einzelnen sogenannten literarischen Zentren abgrenzen lässt, ist zu untersuchen, welchen Einflüssen die jeweiligen Werke im einzelnen genau und wirklich unterliegen. Fokussiert ist die Metropole Paris, die den Blickwinkel... more...
Die Balanced Scorecard: Entwicklungstendenzen im deutschsprachigen Raum
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 48.52Hauptbeschreibung Die Balanced Scorecard (BSC) wurde Anfang der 90er Jahre von Kaplan/Norton entwickelt. Sie schufen damit ein revolutionäres, auf Kennzahlen basierendes Managementinstrument, welches einen weltweiten Siegeszug antrat und mittlerweile auch fest in der Controllinglehre verankert ist. Das Konzept der Balanced Scorecard erweist sich... more...









