How to Take It Apart is a beautifully illustrated, bilingual Spanish/English children's book that uses Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model to teach children science. In this story, an elephant wishes he had hands but a chimpanzee reminds him of the advantages of a trunk, and suggests that having ha[...]

For many years, Gunter Grass (born 1927) has been one of the world's most vital literary figures. From the publication of The Tin Drum through his latest pleas for sane government and civil treatment of Germany's "foreign citizens" in the 1990s, Grass has been at the forefront of both literary and p[...]

This book is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principle--the row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling corners--is followed by the systematic presentation of the differe[...]

14 chapters addressing different technical challenges for the pianist. Contains 100 fine studies ranging from easy to moderate difficulty, including works by Burgmuller, Czerny, Gurlitt, Heller, Schumann, and others.[...]

Intended as an introduction to Geochemistry for Geology majors in their senior year or first year of graduate work.Designed to show students how to use chemical principles in solving geological problems, this text emphasizes a quantitative approach to problem solving and demonstrates how chemical pr[...]

The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantast[...]

On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.[...]

Hailed by critics and readers alike as Gunter Grass's best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany's struggle with its wartime memories.
The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was a[...]

This selection combines Selected Poems (1966) and New Poems (1968). The German originals face the translations. Translated by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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