Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surro[...]

Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societie[...]

A nano-aquarium - that is, a small-volume aquarium - requires special attention because decline in water quality and increased fish stress levels change in inverse proportion as tank sizes become smaller. Two aquarium experts tell hobbyists everything they need to know about setting up a miniature a[...]

This is the second of a three-volume commentary on the gospel of Matthew from Europe's leading Matthew scholar. Volume 1 Matthew 1-7 was previously published in the "Continental Commentaries" series. Luz's commentary is especially noteworthy, not only for his incisive exegesis, but also his keen eye[...]

This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the post[...]

"Production of Presence" is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past 30 years, together with an equally personal view of a possible future. B[...]

What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of conv[...]

The significance of Rainer Maria Rilke's work rests with the poet's insistence that everything needed for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In 26 incisive and engaging essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines both the lesser-known and the overlooked and con[...]

Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Since then he has staged more than 250 shows internationally, many of them among the most influential exhibits of our age. "Ways of Curating" is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from his yea[...]