"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric". "The Conflagration of Community" challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. Hillis[...]

Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hill[...]

A modernized primer for young single adult women, originally published in 1936, counsels readers on how to take charge of their own lives, create a hospitable home environment, and cultivate life-enriching hobbies, in a guide that features such chapters as "A Lady and Her Liquor" and "The Pleasures [...]

Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize--and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates--is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simpl[...]

This book investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question of topography. They include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power, the translation of theory from one topographical location to another, the way topographical delinea[...]

The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James' fiction. Three mod[...]

THE NEXT GREAT CHAPTER IN THE STORY OF LIFE The science of biology evolves. The science classroom and lab evolve. In this edition, as

always, "Life: The Science of Biology" evolves with them, in innovative, authoritative, and

captivating ways.

From the first edition [...]

THE NEXT GREAT CHAPTER IN THE STORY OF LIFE The science of biology evolves. The science classroom and lab evolve. In this edition, as

always, "Life: The Science of Biology" evolves with them, in innovative, authoritative, and

captivating ways.

From the first edition [...]

Innovative, authoritative, and captivating - Life is the most balanced experimentally-based biology text available. It offers an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals of biology by describing the landmark experiments that revealed them. The ninth edition remains at the cutting edge [...]

J. Hillis Miller is undoubtedly one of the most important literary critics of the past century. For well over five decades his work has been at the forefront of theoretical and philosophical thinking and writing. From his earliest work with Georges Poulet and the so-called Geneva School, which int[...]