English in the German-Speaking World, Paperback - ***

Examines the influence that English has on German in German-speaking countries, looking at borrowings from English, the use of English in public sp...

Reducere. Joseph Weizenbaum is best known in the English-speaking world for his 1976 popular critique of artificial intelligence, Computer Power and Human Re...

'A quiet, proud, often painful, always clear-eyed memoir... It deserves wide attention in the English-speaking world. It is illuminating of the man...

Reducere. Béla Balázs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The e...

Reducere. This updated edition offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. K...

My System is at the top of a very short list of chess classics. Nimzowitsch's ideas have had a profound influence on modern chess thinking. Most ch...

Reducere. DescriptionLearning a second language opens up a world of opportunity to everyone. However when it comes to children learning it can be hard to kee...

Harold L. Poor's biography of the iconic German Jewish author, journalist, satirist, playwright, and poet is the most important and thorough work o...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola--the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law--...

Reducere. DescriptionNothing is nicer than sharing and giving in this bilingual edition of the beloved classic by Marcus Pfister NorthSouth Books is proud to...

Reducere. The ageing Goethe finds new inspiration and youthfulness through the love of a young woman and the example of the great Persian poet Hafez.Johann W...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

Reducere. DescriptionThe general conclusion is that "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a fraudulent fiction, but its impact and effect in the early par...

Reducere. "The Money Power" contains two classic books on geopolitics, "Pawns in the Game" and "Empire of the City, " which present the thesis that the wars ...

It might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornu...

Reducere. Agnes Arber's international reputation is due in part to her exceptional ability to interpret the German tradition of scholarship for the English-s...

Reducere. A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towe...

Reducere. This classic book, long out of print in English, challenges accepted ideas of illness by suggesting it s not an enemy to be fought. When you see yo...

DescriptionA moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor Fontane In...

On a Clear April Morning, by Marcos Iolovitch, is a lyrical and riveting coming of age story set among early twentieth-century settlers brought to ...

DescriptionA story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular st...

Reducere. Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers...