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Perkin Warbeck's Notebook - Or, Redeeming Jacob--A Parson's Tale (Hardcover): Duke T Gray Perkin Warbeck's Notebook - Or, Redeeming Jacob--A Parson's Tale (Hardcover)
Duke T Gray
R1,106 R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Save R209 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (Hardcover): Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Rolf J. Goebel, Clayton Koelb A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Rolf J. Goebel, Clayton Koelb
R4,515 Discovery Miles 45 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term "Kafkaesque." This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Included are entries on Kafka's works, characters, themes, family members, acquaintances, and other topics, such as: Abraham Absurd Animals Bureaucracy Colonialism Death Don Quixote Sigmund Freud Guilt Irony Judaism K. Thomas Mann Nihilism And many more. Entries often cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

LIFE'S LESSONS LEARNED...so far... (Hardcover): Gary J Kelman, Richard T. Gray LIFE'S LESSONS LEARNED...so far... (Hardcover)
Gary J Kelman, Richard T. Gray
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R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
About Face - German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (Hardcover): Richard T. Gray About Face - German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (Hardcover)
Richard T. Gray
R1,628 Discovery Miles 16 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Once associated with astrology and occultist prophecy, the art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline. The story expands to illuminate an entire tradition within German culture, stretching from Goethe to the rise of Nazism. In About Face, Richard T. Gray explores the dialectical reversal - from the occult to the scientific realm - that entered physiognomic thought in the late eighteenth century, beginning with the positivistic writings of Swiss pastor Johann Caspar Lavater. Originally claimed to promote understanding and love, physiognomics devolved into a system aimed at valorizing a specific set of physical, moral, and emotional traits and stamping everything else as ""deviant."" This development not only reinforced racial, national, and characterological prejudices but also lent such beliefs a presumably scientific grounding. In the period following World War I, physiognomics experienced yet another unprecedented boom in popularity. Gray explains how physiognomics had by then become a highly respected ""super-discipline"" that embraced many prominent strands of German thought: the Romantic philosophy of nature, the ""life philosophy"" propagated by Dilthey and Nietzsche, the cultural pessimism of Schopenhauer, Husserl's method of intuitive observation, Freudian psychoanalysis, and early-twentieth-century eugenics and racial biology. A rich exploration of German culture, About Face offers fresh insight into the intellectual climate that allowed the dangerous thinking of National Socialism to take hold.

Water Politics in the Middle East - A Context for Conflict or Cooperation? (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): Mostafa Dolatyar, T Gray Water Politics in the Middle East - A Context for Conflict or Cooperation? (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
Mostafa Dolatyar, T Gray
R2,796 Discovery Miles 27 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Most studies of water scarcity in the Middle East conclude that there is a significant risk of imminent conflict, even warfare, between states in the region. This book demonstrates that the evidence does not support this doom-laden prediction. Indeed, the authors show that although water scarcity has occasionally played a role in disputes in the Middle East, it has much more often promoted co-existence between adversaries. The reasoning behind this hypothesis is that water is too critical to be put at risk by warfare.

Constructive Destruction - Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation (Hardcover, Reprint 2010):... Constructive Destruction - Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Richard T. Gray
R3,396 Discovery Miles 33 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study presents a thorough investigation of Kafka's aphoristic writings, examining them in terms of the history of the aphorism in Germany, and paying special regard to Kafka's contemporary Austrian aphorists. Emphasis is placed on the role of the aphorism in the development of Kafka's literary creativity. Aphoristic discourse presented itself to Kafka as a possible manner of resolving specific conflicts in his life and art, above all the crisis of communication the individuality of the self. Aphoristic structure provides the transitional link between Kafkas early perspectivistic narratives and the parables of the later period."

The Politics of Genetic Resource Control (Hardcover): A. Stenson, T Gray The Politics of Genetic Resource Control (Hardcover)
A. Stenson, T Gray
R2,761 Discovery Miles 27 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The question of how genetic resources ought to be owned and controlled has become a controversial international political issue. The authors examine this issue from a normative perspective, discussing the four principles that govern the debate over genetic resource control. These four principles are proprietarian intellectual property rights (the dominant principle, reflecting Western influences); communitarian intellectual property rights (a principle bound up with the rights of indigenous peoples); national sovereignty (the principle at the heart of international law); and common heritage of mankind (the most recent principle reflecting Third World demands).

Water Politics in the Middle East - A Context for Conflict or Cooperation? (Hardcover): M. Dolatyar, T Gray Water Politics in the Middle East - A Context for Conflict or Cooperation? (Hardcover)
M. Dolatyar, T Gray
R4,236 Discovery Miles 42 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Most studies of water scarcity in the Middle East conclude that there is a significant risk of imminent conflict, even warfare, between states in the region. This book demonstrates that the evidence does not support this doom laden prediction. Indeed, the authors show that although water scarcity has occasionally played a role in disputes in the Middle East, it has much more often promoted co-existence between adversaries. The reasoning behind this hypothesis is that water is too critical to be put at risk by warfare.

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season - Selected Poems (Paperback): Forough Farrokhzad Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season - Selected Poems (Paperback)
Forough Farrokhzad; Translated by Elizabeth T. Gray
R400 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R79 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of contemporary world literature. Farrokhzad, as Elizabeth Gray writes in the preface, "remains a beacon to artists, especially women and marginalized artists, who seek freedom in all its forms." This thoughtfully curated, deftly translated selection of Farrokhzad's poems includes work from her whole writing life, early to late. Readers will thoroughly treasure this expansive poet of the quotidian; of longing, loss, and desire; of classical reinvention; of lexical variation and sonic beauty; of terrifying wisdom, hope, and grief.

Ghostwriting - W. G. Sebald's Poetics of History (Hardcover): Richard T. Gray Ghostwriting - W. G. Sebald's Poetics of History (Hardcover)
Richard T. Gray
R4,053 Discovery Miles 40 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the emigre writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald's literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his characteristic literary techniques and how they emerged and matured out of the practices and attitudes he represented in his profession as a literary scholar. The title "Ghostwriting" signals the convergence in Sebald's works of a set of diverse historical questions, philosophical views, and literary practices. Many historical ghosts haunt Sebald's narratives on the level of story. Moreover, Sebald's narrator plays the role of a ghostwriter in the profound sense that his stories fictionally re-enact the histories of obscure, but once-living individuals whose lives they revitalize, and whose fates are tied up with the most virulent historical conjunctures of the modern world. This study thus seeks to comprehend the constitutive elements of Sebald's "poetics of history," his implementation of literary tools for effective historical memorializing.

Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations - Volume 11 (Paperback, Annotated Ed): Friedrich Nietzsche Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations - Volume 11 (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Translated by Richard T. Gray
R735 R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Save R39 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the third volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsche's work. Volume 2: "Unfashionable Observations," translated by Richard T. Gray, was published in 1995; Volume 3: "Human, All Too Human (I)," translated by Gary Handwerk, was published in 1997. The edition is a new English translation, by various hands, of the celebrated Colli-Montinari edition, which has been acclaimed as one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last half century.
The present volume provides for the first time English translations of all of Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks from the summer of 1872 to the end of 1874. The major works published in this period were the first three "Unfashionable Observations" "David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer," "On the Utility and Liability of History for Life," and "Schopenhauer as Educator." Translations of the preliminary notes for these pieces are coordinated with the translations of the published texts printed in Volume 2: "Unfashionable Observations."
The content of these notebooks goes far beyond the notes and plans for published and unpublished "Unfashionable Observations," encompassing numerous sketches related to Nietzsche's major philological project from this period, a book on the pre-Platonic Greek philosophers. The ideas that emerged from Nietzsche's deliberations on these early Greek thinkers are absolutely central to his thought from this period and contribute in significant ways to the development of several of his major themes: the role of the philosopher vis-a-vis his age and the surrounding culture; the relationships among philosophy, art, and culture; the metaphorical nature of language and its relationship to knowledge; the unmasking of the modern drive for absolute "truth" as a palliative against the horror of existence; and Nietzsche's "unfashionable" attack on modern science and modern culture, especially on the Germany of the Bismarck Reich. These notebooks represent important transitional documents in Nietzsche's intellectual development, marking, among other things, the shift away from philological studies toward unabashed cultural criticism.

Tidal Power - Proceedings of an International Conference on the Utilization of Tidal Power held May 24-29, 1970, at the... Tidal Power - Proceedings of an International Conference on the Utilization of Tidal Power held May 24-29, 1970, at the Atlantic Industrial Research Institute, Nova Scotia Technical College, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1972)
T Gray
R2,914 Discovery Miles 29 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At a time when public attention is focused on the environment, while simultaneously society is increasing at an ever-accelerating rate its demand electrical power, the possibility of utilizing the power of the oceans by for pollution free tidal power generation is most attractive. Tidal power has been used to a limited extent over several centuries but only recently has any sig nificant effort been dedicated to realizing some of the vast potential. The first pilot project at La Rance has now been operating successfully for several years and the second experimental station using up-dated construc tion techniques has been in operation at Kislaya Guba since 1969. These projects have contributed valuable experience and establish the technical feasibility of this important source of electrical power, while providing guid ance in those areas requiring further development to realize economic viability. More than fifty sites can be readily identified around the world where tidal power schemes could realistically be developed. With improvements in technology, this number might well be extended by utilization of a large number of river estuaries. Such developments must be considered not only on the basis of the production of electrical power but also in respect of associated benefits. Considerable bodies of water would be partially confined, thereby improving recreational facilities as has already been experienced at La Rance."

A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism (Paperback, New): Neil H. Donahue A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism (Paperback, New)
Neil H. Donahue; Contributions by Barbara D. Wright, Ernst Schuerer, Francis Michael Sharp, James Rolleston, …
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism. More than any other avant-garde movement, German Expressionism captures the aesthetic revolution of 20th-century modernity in all its contrasts and conflicts. In continuous eruptions from 1905 to 1925, Expressionism upset reigningpractices in the arts, most vividly in painting and the visual arts. In the literature, a heady intellectualism combined with dramatic gesture, graphic visions, exuberant emotions and urgent proclamations to forge forceful stylesof verbal expression. Expressionism introduced into art both visual and verbal a shockingly new intensity with many facets and many faces. This volume presents the literature of German Expressionism, which is far less known in the English-speaking world, with essays by leading scholars on Expressionism's philosophical origins, its thematic preoccupations, and its divergent stylistic manifestations by writers whose common bond is intensity and whose lineson the page read like the gouges of a woodcut: Georg Kaiser, Walter Hasenclever, and Ernst Toller in drama; Gottfried Benn, Georg Heym, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Georg Trakl in poetry; Alfred Doeblin, Carl Einstein, and Carl Sternheim in prose, to name just a few. Against the background of the journals, exhibitions, and anthologies, the cafe meeting places and public life of Expressionism, the volume's highly focused, intrinsic analyses of texts and comprehensive overviews of extrinsic contexts (and of the most up-to-date research) shows the fervor and complexity of the period and its effulgent literary formations. Neil H. Donahue is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University.

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (Paperback, New edition): James Rolleston A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (Paperback, New edition)
James Rolleston; Contributions by Bianca Theisen, Henry Sussman, James Rolleston, John Zilcosky, …
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka. No other 20th-century writer of German-language literature has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal world of Kafka's novels and stories continues to fascinate readers and critics of each new generation, who in turn continue to find new readings. One thing has become clear: although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. The challenge to criticshas been to present a strong point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research, a challenge that has been met by the contributors to this volume. Contributors: James Rolleston, Clayton Koelb, Walter H. Sokel, Judith Ryan, Russel A. Berman, Ritchie Robertson, Henry Sussman, Stanley Corngold, Bianca Theisen, Rolf J. Goebel, Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Sander L. Gilman, John Zilcosky, Mark Harman James Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of German at Duke University.

Salient (Paperback): Elizabeth T. Gray Salient (Paperback)
Elizabeth T. Gray
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, "This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the choed ritual, the core 'severance' practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdroen, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint." Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading "not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning." Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual choed visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm.

Unfashionable Observations - Volume 2 (Paperback, New Ed): Friedrich Nietzsche Unfashionable Observations - Volume 2 (Paperback, New Ed)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Translated by Richard T. Gray
R730 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R39 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new translation is the first to be published in a twenty-volume English-language edition of "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche," the first complete, critical, and annotated translation of all of Nietzsche's work. The Stanford edition is based on the Colli-Montinari edition, which has received universal praise: "It has revolutionized our understanding of one of the greatest German thinkers"; "Scholars can be confident for the first time of having a trustworthy text."
Under the title "Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen," Nietzsche collected four essays published separately between 1873 and 1876: "David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer," "On the Utility and Liability of History for Life," "Schopenhauer as Educator," and "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth." The title, newly translated as "Unfashionable Observations," spells out the common impulse linking these essays: Nietzsche's inimical attitude toward his "time," understood broadly as all the mainstream and popular movements that constituted contemporary European, but especially German, "culture" in the wake of the Prussian military victory over the French in 1871.
The "Unfashionable Observations" are foundational works for Nietzsche's entire philosophy, prefiguring both his characteristic philosophical style and many of the major ideas he would develop in his later writings. This is the first English translation to include Nietzsche's variants to the published text.

Control of Welding Distortion in Thin-Plate Fabrication - Design Support Exploiting Computational Simulation (Hardcover, New):... Control of Welding Distortion in Thin-Plate Fabrication - Design Support Exploiting Computational Simulation (Hardcover, New)
T Gray, D. Camilleri, N. McPherson
R3,867 Discovery Miles 38 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The intense temperature fields caused by heat sources in welding frequently lead to distortions and residual stresses in the finished product. Welding distortion is a particular problem in fabricating thin plate structures such as ships. Based on pioneering research by the authors, "Control of Welding Distortion in Thin-Plate Fabrication" reviews distortion test results from trials and shows how outcomes can be modeled computationally. The book provides readers with an understanding of distortion influences and the means to develop distortion-reducing strategies.

The book is structured as an integrated treatment. It opens by reviewing the development of computational welding mechanics approaches to distortion. Following chapters describe the industrial context of stiffened plate fabrication and further chapters provide overviews of distortion mechanics and the modeling approach. A chapter on full-scale welding trials is followed by three chapters that develop modeling strategies through thermal process and thermo-mechanical simulations, based on finite-element analysis. Simplified models are a particular feature of these chapters. A final sequence of chapters explores the simulation of welding distortion in butt welding of thin plates and fillet welding of stiffened plate structures, and shows how these models can be used to optimize design and fabrication methods to control distortion.

"Control of Welding Distortion in Thin-Plate Fabrication" is a comprehensive resource for metal fabricators, engineering companies, welders and welding companies, and practicing engineers and academics with an interest in welding mechanics.
Allows practitioners in the field to minimize distortion during the welding of thin platesProvides computational tools that can give insight into the effects of welding and fabrication proceduresDemonstrates how welding distortion in thin plate fabrications can be minimized through design

Perkin Warbeck's Notebook - Or, Redeeming Jacob--A Parson's Tale (Paperback): Duke T Gray Perkin Warbeck's Notebook - Or, Redeeming Jacob--A Parson's Tale (Paperback)
Duke T Gray
R746 R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Save R126 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stations of the Divided Subject - Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1914... Stations of the Divided Subject - Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1914 (Hardcover)
Richard T. Gray
R2,746 Discovery Miles 27 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A sociohistory of German bourgeois literature from 1770-1914 based on detailed readings of six cononical literary texts.

The Blunders of a Bashful Man (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Walter T. Gray The Blunders of a Bashful Man (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Walter T. Gray
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R582 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R103 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God Is in Your Mess - Your Crisis, Your Downfall: T Gray God Is in Your Mess - Your Crisis, Your Downfall
T Gray
R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Radiant Revelations - Holistic Coaches Share How Radiant Your Life Can Really Be (Paperback): Nicole Stargin Hall, Paula... Radiant Revelations - Holistic Coaches Share How Radiant Your Life Can Really Be (Paperback)
Nicole Stargin Hall, Paula Shepherd, Robert T Gray
R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Axis Mundi - Books One & Two: The Complete Story of John Runyon (Paperback): Allen T Grey Axis Mundi - Books One & Two: The Complete Story of John Runyon (Paperback)
Allen T Grey
R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor 1885 (Paperback): Walter T. Gray The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor 1885 (Paperback)
Walter T. Gray
R445 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R58 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Feeding Beef Cattle in Alabama (Hardcover): Dan T. Gray, William Francis Ward Feeding Beef Cattle in Alabama (Hardcover)
Dan T. Gray, William Francis Ward
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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