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Der in Tôkyô lebende angesehene Literatur- und Filmkritiker Donald Richie stellt Spiegel, Schwert und Edelstein an die Spitze seiner Liste der fünf besten Bücher, die in diesem Jahrhundert von westlichen Autoren über Japan geschrieben worden sind. Spiegel, Schwert und Edelstein ist eine Studie, die auf Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen in Japan zwischen 1931 und 1939 basiert und von dem deutsch-jüdischen Schriftsteller und Gelehrten Kurt Singer nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Australien zum Abschluß gebracht wurde.

"Magisterial in its historical sweep, fiercely democratic in its vision, Whose Millennium? is the thinking person's 'bridge to the 21st century.' There is an alternative to rampant inequality and the corruptions of power, and-ever so modestly and persuasively-Daniel Singer points the way."
i>--Barbara Ehrenreich

This visionary book challenges the chorus of resignation-the notion that there is no alternative, that profit is the best relationship between people, and that the market guarantees democracy. Daniel Singer insists that a more free and egalitarian society can be won,...

Each year, as many as 200,000 individuals are victims of various types of sexual abuse perpetrated in American prisons, jails, juvenile detention facilities, and lockups. As many as 80,000 of them suffer violent or repeated rape. Those who are outside the incarceration experience are largely unaware of this ongoing physical and mental damage--abuses that not only affect the victims and perpetrators, but also impose vast costs on society as a whole. This book supplies a uniquely full account of this widespread sexual abuse problem.

Author Michael Singer has drawn on official reports to...

Originally published in 1990, this comprehensive volume addresses the central issues of sentence and discourse processes, with particular emphasis placed on reading and listening comprehension. The text material is accessible to both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and informative for professionals and educators. In this regard, this uncommon volume identifies the logic of both the specific experimental manipulations that are described, and the more general on-line and memory measures frequently invoked. The principles presented in the text are supported by hundreds of...

Posing Sex: Towards a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood.

It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the "sex-image," the artist's posing of human figures in the act of coitus, is an enduring compositional armature for artists from antiquity to the present. Singer, however, makes the quite controversial claim that this aesthetic practice, in literature and painting especially, serves as a powerful metier for exploring...

"The work is indispensable for deciphering no longer known proverbs in collective manuscripts and in texts far beyond the Middle Ages."
Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota