General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): John Calvin • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryFrom the Back CoverThis book was written as a theological introduction to the Bible and a vindication of Refo...

• Author(s): William H. Gass • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and A Temple of Texts come four interrelated nove...

• Author(s): Elaine Kraf • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis remarkable novel by Elaine Kraf received almost no attention when it was first published in 1979. For whatever rea...

• Author(s): Peter Sloterdijk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionWhile ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored m...

• Author(s): Elliot S. Gershon | C. Robert Cloninger | American Psychopathological Association • Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing • Publisher Imprint: American Psychiatric Publishing • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralGenetic Approaches to Me...

• Author(s): Judith H. Gold | Sally K. Severino • Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing • Publisher Imprint: American Psychiatric Publishing • BISAC: Gynecology & ObstetricsPremenstrual Dysphorias: Myths and Realities is designed to prom...

• Author(s): Werner Ogris • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: InternationalKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Entwicklungsgang der Österreichischen Privatrechtswissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Fredric Jameson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchFirst published in 1961, Sartre: The Origins of a Style is a striking attempt not merely to analyze Sartr...

• Author(s): Bernard Schweizer • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting id...

• Author(s): Margaret J. M. Ezell • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryHow did academic and literary writers living in rural Britain in the 1680s establish ...

• Author(s): Lowell Edmunds • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: PoetryHow can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a h...

• Author(s): Valerie Sweeney Prince • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlHome is a powerful metaphor guiding the literat...

• Author(s): Richard Terdiman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismThe title Body and Story refers to the division of categories which establishes one axis of...

• Author(s): Daniel Dubuisson | William Sayers • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionIn this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson c...

• Author(s): Anne E. Boyd • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsAlthough these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equ...

• Author(s): Blakey Vermeule • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryBlakey Vermeule wonders how readers become involved in the lives of fictional characters, ...

• Author(s): Martin Puchner • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: DramaGrounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Frigh...

• Author(s): Betty Travitsky | Anne Lake Prescott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshMost anthologies of Renaissance writing include only (or pr...

• Author(s): Arthur Schnitzler • Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) • Publisher Imprint: Fredonia Books (NL) • BISAC: GeneralSchnitzler was an Austrian dramatist and novelist. The son of a prominent Jewish Viennese physician, he studied and practiced...

• Author(s): Betty T. Bennett | Stuart Curran • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAuthor of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two tr...

• Author(s): Thomas May • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceMay discusses the fundamental features of a liberal society- chiefly, the individual's rights to...

• Author(s): Heather Dubrow • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAs a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has co...

• Author(s): Jefferson T. Kline | T. Jefferson Kline • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsCinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell stori...

• Author(s): William Kerrigan • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Drama"It is impossible to imagine any kind of moral life without obligations, and impossible to imagine obligat...

• Author(s): M. L. Tina Stevens • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsIn Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of ...

• Author(s): Peter Makin • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh"All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Wh...

• Author(s): Peter Tracey Connor • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryWhen Sartre referred to Georges Bataille as a "new mystic," he meant the label as an i...

• Author(s): Steven Marcus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): Dorothy Ross • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: GeneralModernism is currently at the center of debate in intellectual history and throughout the humanities, a deba...

• Author(s): Dan Arnold • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EpistemologyIn Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief, Dan Arnold examines how the Brahmanical tradition of Purva Mimamsa and the writ...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Jacqueline H. Wolf • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: AnesthesiologyDespite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labo...

• Author(s): Barbara L. Estrin • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn the first book to use fiction as theory, Barbara L. Estrin reverses chronologica...

• Author(s): Friedrich Maximilian Klinger • Publisher: Tredition Classics • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Classics • BISAC: GeneralThis book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature...

• Author(s): Alissa C. Perrucci • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Pregnancy & ChildbirthIn today's contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinic...

• Author(s): E. T. a. Hoffmann • Publisher: Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik Gmbh, Ber • Publisher Imprint: Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik Gmbh, Ber • BISAC: ClassicsE. T. A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi. Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter...

• Author(s): E. T. a. Hoffmann • Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand • Publisher Imprint: Bod - Books on Demand • BISAC: ClassicsDas Fräulein von Scudery gilt als erst deutsche Kriminalnovelle. Die Novelle behandelt eine rätselhafte Mordserie im Par...

• Author(s): Mitchell Miller • Publisher: Parmenides Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Parmenides Publishing • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn the Statesman, Plato brings together--only to challenge and displace--his own cr...

• Author(s): Joanne V. Gabbin • Publisher: Northwestern University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press • BISAC: PoetryFurious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hun...

• Author(s): John H. McWhorter • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeIn John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the fol...

• Author(s): Julia Kristeva • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this wide-ranging introduction, Julia Kristeva presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics....

• Author(s): Johannes Fabian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship betwe...

• Author(s): Laura Sjoberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryLaura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fight...

• Author(s): Richard Locke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are...

• Author(s): William Logan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoetryFrom the Back CoverPraise for The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin"Our wittiest critic of contemporary v...

• Author(s): Shuntaro Tanikawa • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The Metaphor of the Sea is a chapb...

• Author(s): Angela Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTwisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideo...

• Author(s): Marianne Dekoven • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animal RightsWhy has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cult...

• Author(s): Jacques Rancière • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsJacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthet...

• Author(s): Victor Turner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryFirst published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctri...

• Author(s): Alfredo Gomez–Muller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broa...

• Author(s): Gabriele Schwab • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFrom mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives th...

• Author(s): Lawrence J. Mccrea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternJnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosoph...

• Author(s): Hélène Cixous • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralHélène Cixous is more than an influential theorist. She is also a groundbreaking author and playwright. C...

• Author(s): Lynne Huffer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolution...

• Author(s): Jill Stauffer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinit...

• Author(s): Robert Hullot–Kentor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionTheodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writing...

• Author(s): Robert Madden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Practical GuidesWhether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigrati...

• Author(s): Carrie Rosefsky Wickham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)The book explains how Islamist groups captured the hearts and minds ...

• Author(s): Judith Butler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAntigone, the insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. This bo...