Overview :The infinite No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; ye... Read More
Overview :This ground-breaking collection of essays tackles the philosophical issues at play in cosmology, physics, mathematics, and neuroscience. The... Read More
Overview :Poetry. EARTH AND CAVE by Michael Heller is a memoir in prose and poetry written in the 1960s when the author lived in Nerja, a small coasta... Read More
Overview :"There is a classical simplicity to its spare syllables.... Mr. Heller's book is intent on inquiry, full of rumination ... filled with illum... Read More
Overview :An original selection of work by one of America's greatest living poets. For over fifty years, Michael Heller has been building one of the m... Read More
Overview :The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" -- space, time, causality, the structure of the universe -- are overwhelmingly present ... Read More
Overview :Here, in a massively comprehensive book, Michael Heller summarizes all the major concepts, thinkers, and movements whose work has led to the... Read More
Overview :Since the beginning, firemen have been competing with each other for the honor of being first to a fire. In New York State, firematic contes... Read More
Overview :Poetry. Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael ... Read More
Overview :The voice of a renowned professor of philosophy in Poland, who is also a Roman Catholic priest, is introduced to the United States in this c... Read More
Overview :Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions. Recalling ... Read More
Overview :We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything establis... Read More
Overview :"The formal and thematic tension here creates a nearly elegiac tone. Abstract ideas are juxtaposed with imagery of earth and sea, and nature... Read More
Overview :From his early spare poems written in Spain to the recent ruminative work exploring language, tradition (often Jewish and diasporic) and the... Read More
Overview :The book's principal aim is to clarify fundamental concepts, decipher mathematical structures used to model space-time and relativistic worl... Read More
Overview :The first book devoted to the work of the Objectivist Poets: Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker.... Read More
Overview :Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essa... Read More
Overview :A hidden set of rules governs who owns what--explaining everything from whether you can recline your airplane seat to why HBO lets you borro... Read More
Overview :The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy,... Read More