A lyrical memoir of living under, and escaping from, anti-Semitism and the tyranny of communism.“There are scenes in this book that the reader will never forget.”—Mircea EliadeWith a new Afterword by the author and a new Introduction by bestselling historian Wilfred M. McClayIn Notes from the Other Side of Night, Juliana Geran Pilon provides a beautiful memoir of a return to her native Romania in 1975, whic...

The Mission This book highlights the continued relevance of high solid binders in meeting regulatory, environmental, and performance challenges in coatings development. Building on the first edition, it now includes updated content on modern chemistries such as silanes, polyurea, ketimines, and Michael additions, as well as new processes for low-molecular-weight acrylics. High solid resins remain a robust and flexible technology—offering low VOC emissions, broad formulation latitude, and i...

For thousands of years, humanity has watched the Moon. It has shaped calendars, inspired religions, guided travellers and given rise to countless beliefs. Yet behind the myths and superstitions lies a strange question: what if some of these ancient traditions were based on the observation of a real phenomenon?For nearly ten years, independent researcher Mircea Drăghescu followed a trail of clues scattered across centuries and continents. Ancient ma...

WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award 2024 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without BordersA highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid isan existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.Based on Cărtăr...

In his magnum opus (and only philosophical work to date, although it first appeared a long time ago), Mircea Hurmuzachi dismantles the pretensions that inhabit the relatively modern field of animal ethics. Do animals have 'rights'? Do we have a utilitarian obligation to care for them based on a moral need to minimise their suffering?Hurmuzachi's answer to both those questions is an unqualified yes. Animals are morally significant beings and gratuitous attempts to control o...

În luna februarie a anului 2004 am fost căutat la Consiliul judeţean de scriitorul braşovean Mircea Brenciu. Domnia-sa îmi propunea organizarea unei acţiuni deosebite ca impact social şi mediatic. Era vorba despre comemorarea unui mare erou al românilor, aparţinător – la modul dureros – de istoria noastră recentă. Se apropia ziua de 2 martie, zi în care se împlineau 15 ani de la martiriul celui ce a fost Liviu Corneliu Babeş. Întâi şi întâi, am realizat că această lucrare a comemorării era...

In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning.""Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they...

The second volume of the extraordinary history that "should be an essential resource for generations to come" ( Parabola).In volume two of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Chri...

Journal IV is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced as a famous scholar—his works are being translated into many languages and books about him arrive regularly in the mail. His encounters with scholars of like repute are recorded in the journal; after a party in Paris, Eliade shares a taxi with Claude Lévi-Strauss and inadvertently mak...

"Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic fiction, and general nonfiction works to distinguished contributions to the history of religions. Autobiography follows an apparently amazingly candid report of this remarkable man's prog...

In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920's Bucharest. Marked by a burgeoning desire to 'suck out all the marrow of life', the protagonist throws himself into his studies; engaging his professors and peers in philosophical discourse, becoming one of the founding members of the Student's Union, and opening---up the attic refuge of his isolated teenage years as a hotspot for political debate and romantic explo...

"Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic fiction, and general nonfiction works to distinguished contributions to the history of religions. Autobiography follows an apparently amazingly candid report of this remarkable man's prog...