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A Certain Realism
"Superb. . . . In its careful handling of the biographical and the autobiographical, the factual and the speculative, this book will become a model for how studies of individual directors should be done in the future."—Peter Brunette, author of Roberto Rossellini
Pasolini Old and New
A collection of essays on the work of controversial Italian writer, dramatist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Contributions focus on Pasolini's self-involvement and his analyses of language, aesthetics, and film, among other topics. Attention is also given to differences in Pasolini's reception
Paper Spurs
"Juana knows how to deal with harsh reality. She has no other choice." "Growing up in rural Spain in the 1950s means a life of poverty, hunger, and gruelling work. Juana leaves the home she has known all her life and heads to Barcelona to look for employment." "For a time she finds a wage and a bed in the house of the mysterious Senora Monterde, and companionship with the anarchist watchmaker Liberto. But life is never as it seems and once discovering Monterde's shameful secret Juana realizes she must rely on own resources to make the best of her new life in the city of marvels." --Book Jacket.
Music and the Ineffable
The classic work on the philosophy of music—now available in English to a new generation of readers Vladimir Jankélévitch left behind a remarkable body of work steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist composers such as Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel. Music and the Ineffable brings together these two threads, the philosophical and the musical, as an extraordinary quintessence of his thought. Jankélévitch deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. These are a point of departure for a sus...
Juan the Landless
This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Chosen for a Special Joy
In July 1947, Ted and Ruth Andrianoff and their two small children boarded a troop ship bound for Southeast Asia. Today, Hmong Christians around the world trace their spiritual geneology to the rebirth of the first convert in Xieng Khouang Province in 1950 and to the couple whose willing obedience allowed them to experience God's spectacular power.
The Monkey in the Mirror
The fundamental questions of our origins, along with our evolutionary future, find new life in this extraordinary book. In this superb collection of essays, eminent scientist, Ian Tattersall takes up some of the most controversial questions in evolutionary history. He argues that far from being finely engineered organisms, we are in fact improvised beings, owing as much to chance as adaptation. Tattersall leads us around the world and into the far reaches of the past, and reveals the complexities of the science of human evolution.
Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today. Michela Fontana traces Ricci's travels in China in detail, providing a rich portrait of Ming China and the growing importance of cultural exchanges between China and the West. She shows how Ricci incorporated his ideas of "cultural accommodation" into both his life and his writings aimed at the Chinese elite. Her biography is the first to highlight Ricci's immensely important scientific work and that of key Christian converts, such as Xu Guangqi, who translated Euclid's Elements together with Ricci. Exploring the history of science in China and the West as well as their dramatically different cultural attitudes toward religious and philosophical issues, Michela Fontana introduces not only Ricci's life but the first significant encounter between Western and Chinese civilizations.
