From the sensational Chinese author who has been called “a new world master,” a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation
Features a revised and expanded translators' introduction and an updated translation, as well as the English versions of author's draft of a portion of the text and of his later critique of his own lectures.
"The Mishna", a six-part codification of oral rabbinic law, is the basis of the Talmud. It is one of the two holy books upon which Judaism has been constructed. This edition aims to provide as close to a literal translation as possible, following the syntax of Mishnaic Hebrew.
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer
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An analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between AD 400 and 1400. It surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying... Læs mere
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