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Limits to Medicine
Marion Boyars 1976; US$ 17.49'The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence... more...
Matterhorn
Atlantic Books Ltd 2010; US$ 10.19Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos and two from North Vietnam, there is... more...
Etty Hillesum
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half years, an insecure, chaotic and troubled young woman was transformed into someone who inspired those... more...
Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1994; US$ 15.95Contents: Introduction. Selected Bibliography. I. EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS. 1. On the Jewish Question. 2. Toward a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction. 3. Excerpt-Notes of 1844 (selections). 4. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (selections): Preface; Alienated Labor; Private Property and Communism;... more...
Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 22.00This new, revised edition of Kant's Prolegomena includes selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments), together with the first reviews of the Critique, to which Kant responded in the Prolegomena. more...
The World of the Shining Prince
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 18.00Ivan Morris?s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan. Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan?s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. Focusing on the world of the emperor?s court?a... more...
Fathers and Sons
The Floating Press 1917; US$ 4.99Clashes and conflicts between fathers and sons are a story as old as humanity itself. Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev uses the turbulence of familial relations as a symbolic lens through which to explore the changing of the ideological guard in his native country. Turgenev's best-known work, Fathers and Sons is widely regarded as the first Russian... more...
On the Eve
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99On the eve of the Crimean war a young woman, Elena, is pursued by two men. She disappoints them and her affected, social-climbing family when she marries a Bulgarian revolutionary. Sickness and war intervene in their lives, sending tragic shock waves through an entire society. more...
The Diary of a Superfluous Man
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Immerse yourself in a compendium of literary virtuosity with this volume of short stories from Russian author Ivan Turgenev, who is regarded as one of the masters of the form. In the title piece, a man on the verge of succumbing to a terminal illness looks back over his life and marvels over the mystery of his own mundane existence. more...
The Torrents of Spring
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Get acquainted with the work of Russian literary master Ivan Turgenev in this rich, multifaceted tale of unrequited romantic love and self-discovery. The Torrents of Spring follows the coming-of-age of a young Russian aristocrat who is willing to give away everything he owns to pursue love. But before he can achieve his happily-ever-after, a sophisticated... more...









