As the daughter of King Saul, Michal lives a life of privilege--but one that is haunted by her father's unpredictable moods and by competition from her beautiful older sister. When Michal falls for young David, the harpist who plays to calm her father, she has no idea what romance, adventures, and h[...]

What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. As a representation of a particular individual, the portrait is often considered a mere token of identity a notion that g[...]

Available for the first time in English, this award-winning, best-selling Israeli novel follows the adventures and travails of Caleb, a contemplative dog unusually fascinated with human affairs. Born into a German-Jewish household in the mid-1930s, Caleb witnesses first-hand the rise of Nazism and t[...]

Groundbreaking study of how British psychoanalysis shaped democracy, childhood and the family during and after the Second World War.[...]

Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Michal Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of their student Tadeusz Kowalik and his reinterpretation of the Keynesian Revolution. A wide range of contributors to this volume, including G.C. Harcourt and [...]

In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists. The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, "other Prague," overlapping the w[...]

This comprehensive volume will equip photographers with everything they need to know in order to create digital stock photographs that will sell in today's highly competitive marketplace. "Digital Stock Photography" is full of expert insights on the style and concepts needed for saleable stock, and [...]

"Thorough and comprehensive coverage from one of the foremost experts in browser security." -Tavis Ormandy, Google Inc. Modern web applications are built on a tangle of technologies that have been developed over time and then haphazardly pieced together. Every piece of the web application stack, fr[...]

Grandmaster and renowned chess trainer Michal Krasenkow presents a treasure chest of puzzles designed to stretch the minds of all players. Imagination and calculation are two of the most important qualities of a chess player, and they are qualities which, with purposeful practice, can be developed s[...]