Mit Press, February 2015. Trade Paperback. The wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose--now published in English for the first time. Learn the art of the thesis from a giant of Italian literature and philosophy--from choosing a...... More
Indiana University Press, July 1979. Trade Paperback. " . . . not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." --The Review of Metaphysics " . . . essential reading for anyone interesting in . . . the new reader-centered forms of criticism." --Library Journal In this..... More
Harcourt, October 1995. First American. Hardcover. In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessel's mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his era's obsession with science and navigation. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and..... More
University of California Press, December 1996. Trade Paperback. The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it won't be that..... More
Arcade Publishing, January 2000. Hardcover. They stand on opposite ends of the spectrum: one is the world-famous author of The Name of the Rose and a self-declared secularist; the other is a senior member of the Catholic Church (often mentioned as a possible successor to the pope). In this amicable..... More
