Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the...

This is a unique collection of pieces about the many filmmakers and writers from around the globe -- Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East --...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic w...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his lacon...

Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.

What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship betwee...

Carolyn Highland’s outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to get outside and experience all that the natural world has to offer...

Complete edition of the three known versions of the romance.

Pacific Rim Letters by Roy Kiyooka at once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with K...

"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticu...

This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, ...

Peat starts out as Lynn Jenner’s study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre ...

This is an English translation of one of Plato's great dialogues of Socrates talking about death, dying, and the soul due to his impending executio...

"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects b...

Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edi...

William Penn played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the se...

"Politics by principle is that which modern politics is not. What we observe is 'politics by interest', whether in the form of explicitly discrimin...

The Prince of Darkness', written by Erika Mitterer (1906-2001) in 1939, is a veiled criticism of the contemporary political system. It was meant to...

Though almost forgotten today, Herbert Spencer ranks as one of the foremost individualist philosophers. His influence in the latter half of the nin...

• An eclectic mix of poetry that showcases global experiences of lockdown• Highlights the unique experience of being pregnant during the pandemic• ...

This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasma...

ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WW...

In 1976, Bill Rosser visited friends on Palm Island and was shocked at the restrictions the Aboriginal people living there were forced to endure. H...

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...

Fame. Why do authors seek it? How does one acquire it? What are the consequences of attaining it? Gabriel Zaid examines the methods and motivations...

A companion volume to the three-book set "Select Works of Edmund Burke", this text includes seven of Burke's major contributions to English politic...

Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This third volume presents h...

A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Desolate Star brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima....

Snow Bodies is a memoir of a young woman's life on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver in the early 1970s, in the vein of Evelyn Lau's Runaway. Di...

This is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt. Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around quest...