Product Description: Fiction. Translated from the German by Tristram Wolff. The latest release in Burning Deck's Dichten series focusing on contemporary German writers, THE WILL TO SICKNESS is Gerhard Roth's classic 1973 novella. It reveals Roth's "objective prose" at its finest, where aggregates of particular impressions merge with a quasi-scientific emphasis on individual minute details...read more

Product Description: Innerhalb der letzten Jahrzehnte ist das Wissen um die neurobiologischen Grundlagen geradezu explodiert. Für die „Neurobiologie" haben interdisziplinäre Autorenteams jede Störung sowohl von psychiatrisch-neurowissenschaftlicher als auch von der psychologischen Seite genau unter die Lupe genommen...read more

Product Description: Can one fully understand the mechanisms of brain evolution? Why have some brains become large and complex, and others small and simple, while still others have remained the same for hundreds of millions of years? Where, how, and why did cognition evolve? Is there any definable relationship between cognitive function and brain structure and function? These are just some of the questions posed by the contributing authors of this unique book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Story of Darkness tells the real-life story of Karl Berger, a Viennese Jew. Growing up in Leopoldstadt, the second Viennese district, he seems firmly established in his Austrian identity. But in the early thirties, the growing anti-Semitism and the hostilities towards the Jewish population make him realize that his secure identity was just an illusion...read more

Product Description: Die Hirnforschung ist nach wie vor eines der faszinierendsten und meistdiskutierten Unter-suchungsgebieten in den Naturwissenschaf-ten. Ständig sind neue Erfolgsmeldungen zu verzeichnen, doch sind immer noch viele - vielleicht sogar immer mehr? - allgemeinin-teressierende Fragen offen, man denke nur an das Leib-Seele-Problem oder die Simulation von Hirnvorgängen durch Computer...read more

Product Description: Gerhard Roth’s first "novel," originally published in 1972, is a triumphant refutation of the death of modernism: a lucid, morbid and impossible account of what cannot be said, a deranged existence pieced together, an individual at total odds not only with the world and its structures, but with the chemical and biological basis of his own thought...read more

Product Description: Salamanders are subject to misconceptions even among vertebrate zoologists and physiologists. They are often said to exist only in northern temperate zones, being bound to aquatic or very moist cool habitats. In reality, more than half of all salamander species live in subtropical and tropical zones, ex­ clusively in the New World...read more

Product Description: Winterreise [Hardcover]