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Dianoia

Product Description: Dianoia continues this acclaimed poetâs investigations into language, culture, and the intersections of recent history, philosophy, and human possibility

By Michael Heller

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9781937658465 | Nightboat Books, May 3, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Dianoia continues this acclaimed poetâs investigations into language, culture, and the intersections of recent history, philosophy, and human possibility

London Clerical Workers, 1880-1914: Development of the Labour Market

Product Description: 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 interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781848930544 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, December 1, 2010, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: 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 interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.

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9781138661332, titled "London Clerical Workers 1880-1914: Development of the Labour Market" | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: 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 interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.

Philosophy in Science: An Historical Introduction

Product Description: The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" â space, time, causality, the structure of the universe â are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand unified theories of contemporary science...read more

By Michael Heller

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9783642177040 | Springer Verlag, March 18, 2011, cover price $119.00

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9783642446511 | Springer Verlag, October 4, 2014, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" â space, time, causality, the structure of the universe â are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories.

Infinity: New Research Frontiers

Product Description: "The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite." - David Hilbert This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought...read more

By Michael Heller (editor) and W. Hugh Woodin (editor)

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9781107003873 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 7, 2011, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: "The infinite!

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9781107685482 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 2, 2014, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: "The infinite!

Philosophy of Chance: A Cosmic Fugue With a Prelude and a Coda

By Michael Heller

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9788378860006 | Copernicus Center Pr, January 29, 2013, cover price $59.95

Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry. Dealing with such major figures as Pound, Stevens, Moore, Oppen, Duncan, Niedecker, Lorca, Rilke and MallarmÃ© and of poets in more contemporary modernist and post-modernist lineages, they examine how these poets articulate, virtually in the same breath, both affirmation and doubt concerning poetry, history and knowledge...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781848612181 | Reprint edition (Shearsman Books, April 16, 2012), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.

This Constellation Is a Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010

Product Description: From his early spare poems written in Spain to the recent ruminative work exploring language, tradition (often Jewish and diasporic) and the self, this book collects four decades of Michael Hellerâs âtone perfect poemsâ as George Oppen described them...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781937658021 | Nightboat Books, April 10, 2012, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: From his early spare poems written in Spain to the recent ruminative work exploring language, tradition (often Jewish and diasporic) and the self, this book collects four decades of Michael Hellerâs âtone perfect poemsâ as George Oppen described them.

Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Poetry of George Oppen

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. This expanded edition of SPEAKING THE ESTRANGED brings together Michael Heller's writings on the work of George Oppen (1908-1984), one of America's most remarkable and distinguished poets...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781848612082, titled "Speaking the Estranged:: Essays on the Poetry of George Oppen" | Expanded edition (Shearsman Books, March 6, 2012), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.

The Sense of Life and the Sense of the Universe: Studies in Contemporary Theology

Product Description: Questions concerning the sense of man and the sense of the universe are closely related. In fact, they constitute one Big Question. Man is genetically connected to the universe and the origins of man have their roots in the history of the universe...read more

By Michael Heller

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9788362259021 | Copernicus Center Pr, June 16, 2010, cover price $54.50 | About this edition: Questions concerning the sense of man and the sense of the universe are closely related.

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

By Michael Heller

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9780465018987 | Basic Books, February 23, 2010, cover price $16.95

Commons and Anticommons

Product Description: This two-volume collection brings together the most important articles on the tragedies of the commons and anticommons. The first volume presents the bedrock articles that define commons and anticommons theory, from Aristotle to the present...read more

By Michael Heller (editor)

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9781845426576 | Reprint edition (Edward Elgar Pub, February 1, 2010), cover price $544.00 | About this edition: This two-volume collection brings together the most important articles on the tragedies of the commons and anticommons.

Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

By Teresa Batuk-Ulewiczowa (trans) and Michael Heller

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9783642021022 | Springer Verlag, January 3, 2010, cover price $69.95

Un Universo Comprensibile: Interazione Tra Scienza E Teologia

Product Description: "La cosa piÃ¹ incomprensibile del mondo Ã¨ il fatto che sia comprensibile", ebbe a dire un giorno Albert Einstein. A ben pensarci, non Ã¨ stupefacente che lâUniverso abbia unâintima essenza razionale e matematica, tale da abilitare la mente umana a indagarlo e a conoscerlo? Questo libro tratta dellâevoluzione storica del concetto di razionalitÃ , dal mondo greco classico fino ai nostri giorni, passando attraverso i contributi, spesso sottovalutati o mal compresi, dei Padri della Chiesa e dei teologi medievali...read more

By Michael Heller

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9788847013711 | Springer Verlag, July 15, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "La cosa piÃ¹ incomprensibile del mondo Ã¨ il fatto che sia comprensibile", ebbe a dire un giorno Albert Einstein.

Two Novellas: Marble Snows & the Study

Product Description: Fiction. As with Michael Heller's memoirs and essays, TWO NOVELLAS: MARBLE SNOWS & THE STUDY continues his project of poetry by other means. These works, written some twenty years apart and drawing on such diverse influences as Akutagawa's short fictions, Joyce's Portrait and Valery's Monsieur Teste, embody Heller's exploration of language's dramatic relationship to character, fate and incident...read more

By Michael Heller

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9780980887341 | Ahadada Pr, April 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fiction.

Eschaton

Product Description: Poetry. "Like the Renaissance and Neo-classical poets who speculated on the Great Chain of Being and microcosm-macrocosm relationships, Heller communicates a vision of human life as related to natural processes of great intricacy and magnitude...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781584980667 | Talisman House Pub, January 15, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Cost Lives

By Michael Heller

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9780465029167 | Basic Books, July 7, 2008, cover price $26.00

A Comprehensible Universe: The Interplay of Science and Theology

Product Description: Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. This thoughtful book explores the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The authors are eminent cosmologists and theologists.

By Michael Heller

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9783540776246 | Springer Verlag, July 4, 2008, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Why is our world comprehensible?

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9783642096372 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 2010, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Why is our world comprehensible?

Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen

Product Description: 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 his abandonment of poetry for political activism in the thirties to his renewed poetic output after the 1950s.

By Michael Heller

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9781844714407 | Salt Pub, March 30, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 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 his abandonment of poetry for political activism in the thirties to his renewed poetic output after the 1950s.

Earth and Cave

Product Description: In 1965 Michael Heller and his wife went to live in Nerja a poor farming and fishing village on the Southern coast of Spain near MÃ¡laga, that nonetheless boasted several literary expatriates and summer residents like Garcia Lorca s brother and the Spanish poet Jorge GuillÃ©n...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781933675176 | Small Pr Distribution, January 1, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In 1965 Michael Heller and his wife went to live in Nerja a poor farming and fishing village on the Southern coast of Spain near MÃ¡laga, that nonetheless boasted several literary expatriates and summer residents like Garcia Lorca s brother and the Spanish poet Jorge GuillÃ©n.

Uncertain Poetries

Product Description: These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry. Dealing with such major figures as Pound, Stevens, Moore, Oppen, Duncan, Niedecker, Lorca, Rilke and MallarmÃ© and of poets in more contemporary modernist and post modernist lineages, they examine how these poets articulate, virtually in the same breath, both affirmation and doubt concerning poetry, history and knowledge...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781844710577 | Salt Pub, April 30, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry.

Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion

By Michael Heller

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9781932031348 | Templeton Foundation Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $22.95

Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems

Product Description: "The formal and thematic tension here creates a nearly elegiac tone. Abstract ideas are juxtaposed with imagery of earth and sea, and nature becomes a symbol of human drama."--"Publisher's Weekly."

By Michael Heller

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9781876857516 | Salt Pub, January 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "The formal and thematic tension here creates a nearly elegiac tone.

Knowledge

Product Description: Poetry. Originally published in 1979, this highly praised collection of poems takes as its themes the perennial concerns of poetry, love, history, knowing and mourning. As Toby Olson wrote of the book in New Letters, "The reader feels an arrival at a place that he might well have thought was unsayable...read more

By Michael Heller

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9781881471929 | Spuyten Duyvil, March 1, 2002, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

The Flesh of the Soul: The Body We Work With : Selected Papers of the 7th Congress of the European Association of Body Psychotherapy, 2-6 September 1999, Travemunde

Product Description: This book shows what issues and themes dominate body psychotherapy at the beginning of the new millennium. The focus of the Travemunde Congress, and of this volume, is on how the bodily dimension can be linked with theories that are used in psychotherapy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By European Association of Body Psychotherapy Congress 1999 Travemunde (corporate author) and Michael Heller (editor)

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9780820450520 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: This book shows what issues and themes dominate body psychotherapy at the beginning of the new millennium.

Living Root: A Memoir

Product Description: Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions. Recalling his family's origins in Bialystok as well as his own childhood in Brooklyn and Miami Beach, poet and essayist Michael Heller creates a rich mosaic of reflections on his past, his origins, and the entanglements of thought and religion that have shaped his life and writing...read more

By Michael Heller

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9780791446331 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions.

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9780791446348 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions.

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