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We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, prove...
From yoga to neuroscience, a tour of major ideas about the body and mind. Body psychotherapy, which examines the relationship of bodily and physical e...
The book's principal aim is to clarify fundamental concepts, decipher mathematical structures used to model space-time and relativistic worlds, and to...
In this book, which is written by the 2008 Templeton Prize laureate Michael Heller, the problems of chance and probability are seen in light of the ad...
How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cance...
The Interplay of Science and Theology
Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the my...
The Choice Theory of Contracts is an engaging landmark that shows, for the first time, how freedom matters to contract....
Selected Poems
An original selection of work by one of America's greatest living poets. For more than fifty years, Michael Heller has been building one of the most i...
Improvising New York in the 1970s
Cover -- LOFT JAZZ -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Table -- 1. Fragmented Memories and Activist Archives ...
A Memoir
Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions. Recalling his family...
In the beginning of the 20th century, the methodological developments in physics led to a particular contention between neo-positivist empiricism and ...
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Essays of Sonic Encounter
Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michae...
How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
'A delicious book.' Jared Diamond Who controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their laptop? Who ow...
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 coastal village ...
This text provides readers with the background needed to use ultrasound most effectively in critical situations. It explains basic principles, primary...
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Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry
This is the first book devoted to Objectiยญvist poets Louis Zukofsky, George Opยญpen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and Lorine Niedecker, who initia...
Essays on the Work of George Oppen
These essays cover the range of Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots through h...
Development of the Labour Market
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new...
Poems
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The legacy of Quintin Hogg and The Polytechnic, 1864-1992
The story of the Polytechnic and of the legacy of Quintin Hogg is the third publication exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse his...
Poetry. "Like the Renaissance and Neo-classical poets who speculated on the Great Chain of Being and microcosm-macrocosm relationships, Heller communi...
Poetry. "According to recent star maps, the planet Saturn in its wobbling transit moves through such well-known constellations as Scorpio and Sagittar...
New and Selected Poems
Poetry. "Michael Heller has one of the most distinctive voices to be found in contemporary poetry. WORDFLOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS showcases a major ...
Why God and Geometry? This particular combination can be surprising for the unacquainted with the history of philosophy, yet everyone who has learnt a...
Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry. Dealing with such major figure...
What is capitalism, and how is it created? Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Schumpeter, Weber, Hayek, and Parsons, this book...
Dianoia continues this acclaimed poet's investigations into language, culture, and the intersections of recent history, philosophy, and human possibil...
Poetry. Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's m...
Volume II: The Practice, The History and Practice of Firematic Competition in New York State - (B&W Version)
From the first day the second fire truck came to town firemen have been competing with each other for that honor - both on and off duty. In New York S...
Since the beginning, firemen have been competing with each other for the honor of being first to a fire. In New York State, firematic contests between...
Collected Poems 1965-2010
A landmark volume gathering 45 years of work by one of our leading poets...
Grilling, Barbecuing, and Smoking with the Healthiest Meats from America's Small Farms