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The Journey to the East
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 13.99In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah?s Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten.... more...
Siddhartha
The Floating Press 1922; US$ 5.95Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom. more...
Crisis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 7.99This collection of poems, written during the same period as Steppenwolf , was first published in 1928 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hesse's uneasiness about the degree of self-exposure in these quite untypical poems is evident in that the majority (and many of the best) were never reprinted during his lifetime. Astonishingly frank and... more...
Achieving Peace or Protecting Human Rights?
BRILL 2005; US$ 279.00This book is a legal analysis of the Dayton Peace Agreement and its inherent contradictions between human rights and an ethnically based political system. As a member of the EU delegation in Dayton, the author explains some of the backgrounds for the peace agreement and she points to its potential for political reform. more...
Madam Prime Minister
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005; US$ 32.99One of the world's leading woman politicians tells her inspiring story At forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, physician and mother of four, was appointed prime minister of Norway-the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that office. In this refreshingly forthright memoir, Brundtland traces her unusual and meteoric career. She grew up... more...
Psychophysics Beyond Sensation
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 150.00This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. This book's goal is to demonstrate the extent of the domain of psychophysics, ranging from sensory processes, through sensory memory and short-term memory issues, to the interaction between sensation and action.... more...
The Rock Art of Norway
Oxbow Books 2010; US$ 30.00For thousands of years people in all parts of the world have engraved images on rock panels and stones. Images are found on large, earth bound boulders, on smaller, movable stones or on rock panels in burial chambers. A variety of images are conveyed, including people, animals, objects used by humans, abstract patterns and objects unrecognisable to... more...
Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 80.00Examines companies' and investors' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation. more...
Searching for a 'Principle of Humanity' in International Humanitarian Law
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 88.00An examination of whether there is a legally independent 'principle of humanity' in international humanitarian law. more...
Astrobiologie - Eine Einführung
Wiley 2013; US$ 21.95Astrobiologie ist ein Forschungsgebiet, das sich in jüngster Zeit großen öffentlichen Interesses erfreut hat. Inzwischen sind astrobiologische Fragen oft die Rechtfertigung für die Forschungsausgaben von NASA und anderen staatlichen Organisationen. Aufgrund dieses breiten Interesses besteht ein Bedarf nach einer detaillierten,... more...









