Subject Catalog

Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 916
Release: 1981
Genre: Subject catalogs
ISBN:

Barbarian Spring

Barbarian Spring
Author: Jonas Lüscher
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908323841

On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city traders at a desert luxury resort that was once the site of an old Berber oasis. With the wedding party in full swing and the bride riding up the aisle on a camel, no one is aware that the global financial system stands on the brink of collapse. As the wedding guests nurse their hangovers, they learn that the British pound has depreciated tenfold, and their world begins to crumble around them. So begins Barbarian Spring, the debut novel from Jonas Lüscher, a major emerging voice in European fiction. The timely and unusual novel centers on a culture clash between high finance and the value system of the Maghreb. Provocative and entertaining, Barbarian Spring is a refreshingly original and all-too-believable satire for our times.

Code

Code
Author: Gerfried Stocker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Edited by Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schepf. Essays by Peter J. Bentley, Erkki Huhtamo, Friedrich Kittler and Pierre Levy.

The Wonderful Writing Machine

The Wonderful Writing Machine
Author: Bruce Bliven (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1954
Genre: Typewriters
ISBN:

The fascinating story of the typewriter from its earliest beginnings to the present, including evolution of typists.

Lecture on Ethics

Lecture on Ethics
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118842677

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s oeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance