Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: music, metal, culture, heavy, madness, devil, power, gender, running
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1993-05-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0819562602
ISBN-13: 9780819562609

A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music.

Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, assistant
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-07-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0811215903
ISBN-13: 9780811215909

The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed "a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer." The Assistant is

Authors:Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin,
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: microscripts
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-05-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0811218805
ISBN-13: 9780811218801

W. G. Sebald called Robert Walser “a clairvoyant of the small,” and nowhere is the phrase more apt than in his “microscripts.” Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author’s death in 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of a German script: a whole story c

Authors:Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton,
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: review, books, york, new, von, gunten, jakob
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1999-09-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0940322218
ISBN-13: 9780940322219

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man’s inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of uncompromising originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting b

Authors:Robert A. Morgan, Eric Walser,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: interventional, radiology, techniques, procedures, angioplasty, stenting, handbook
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 2010-02-19
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1848003986
ISBN-13: 9781848003989

The Techniques in Interventional Radiology series of handbooks describes in detail the various interventional radiology procedures and therapies that are in current practice. The series comprises four titles, which in turn cover procedures in angioplasty and stenting, transcatheter embolization and therapy, biopsy and drainage and ablation. Each book is laid out in bullet point format, so that the desired information can be located quickly and easily. Interventional radiologists at all stages, from trainees through to specialists, will find this book a valuable asset for their practice.

Authors:Robert Walser,  Susan Bernofsky,
Publisher: Bison Book
Keywords: robber
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0803298099
ISBN-13: 9780803298095

The Robber, Robert Walser’s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby’s mouth as an ashtray. Walser’s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.

Author: Hans Walser
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: spectrum, symmetry
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0883855321
ISBN-13: 9780883855324

We are all familiar with the everyday notion of two-sided symmetry, as viewed for example in the external form of the human body. But in its broadest interpretation symmetry is a property which involves regularity and repetition. In this sense symmetry can be found everywhere, especially in science and art. The aim of this book is to present selected examples of symmetry, drawn from a wide variety of topics, in a way that will be understandable to students and teachers of mathematics as well as to the interested layman.