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The Engineer of Human Souls
Language: en
Pages: 596
Authors: Josef Škvorecký
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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"So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud." Los Angeles Times Book Review
Engineers of the Soul
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Frank Westerman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-07 - Publisher: Abrams

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A “fascinating” account of how Gorky, Pasternak, and other great writers were coerced to create propaganda for Stalin (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Sunday Times
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Samuel C. Florman
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-02-15 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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A classic examination of how engineers think and feel about their profession and its philosophy. “A useful read for engineers given to self-scrutiny, and a st
Goya's Glass
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Monika Zgustova
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-10 - Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

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Richly imagined portraits celebrating three historical women—including Goya’s muse—by an “outstanding writer” (Vaclav Havel). In “a unique voice tha
The Miracle Game
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Josef Škvorecký
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948