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Medea
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf explodes this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a brutal political battle. Medea, driven by her conscience to leave her corrupt homeland, arrives... more...
The Art of Boudoir Photography
Pearson Education 2012; US$ 35.99"Cultivating sex appeal and looking great naked is not about crash dieting or Photoshop, but rather is about a woman?s attitude, confidence, playful personality, and feeling good in her own skin.? ?Christa Meola, boudoir photographer In this greatly anticipated book The Art of Boudoir Photography: How to Create Stunning Photographs... more...
City of Angels
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 27.99The stunning final novel from East Germany?s most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret... more...
Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 15.95Beyond Good and Evil contains Nietzsche's mature philosophy of the free spirit. Although it is one of his most widely read texts, it is a notoriously difficult piece of philosophical writing. The authors demonstrate in clear and precise terms why it is to be regarded as Nietzsche's philosophical masterpiece and the work of a revolutionary genius.... more...
A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 29.99This book is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil, featuring 187 beautifully drawn full-color plates with 1796 species accounts, including a distribution map for each species. The volume contains information on bird features, habitat, calls, and species distribution, and pays special attention to the species endemic to Brazil.... more...
On-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography
Amherst Media, Inc. 2009; US$ 19.99With this guidebook, photographers learn how to create stunning, professional images while avoiding the common pitfalls of using an on-camera flash. Techniques for using simple accessories?such as bounce cards and diffusers as well as how to improve a lighting scenario by enhancing it rather than overwhelming it?show photographers how to master this... more...
Measuring the Universe
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 27.50Measuring the Universe is the first history of the evolution of cosmic dimensions, from the work of Eratosthenes and Aristarchus in the third century B.C. to the efforts of Edmond Halley (1656—1742). "Van Helden's authoritative treatment is concise and informative; he refers to numerous sources of information, draws on the discoveries of... more...
Studies in Stemmatology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 180.00This volume contains ten papers selected from among those presented at the annual Free University Stemmatological Colloquia 1990-93. Current issues in (automated) stemmatology, paleography and codicology are addressed from contemporary theoretical perspectives. All papers focus on new directions in textuology and manuscript affiliation, and especially... more...
Earth Economics
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Taking stock of emerging planet data and analysing policies during the global crisis, Earth Economics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to basic macroeconomic concepts, methods and principles and their application to real world data. Written principally for students seeking an introduction to macroeconomics, this book offers a completely... more...
Computational Semantics with Functional Programming
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 35.00A comprehensive introduction to computational semantics, showing students how to compute meaning using the functional programming language Haskell. more...









