Barber: 563 books

This is the digital version of the classic 2006 "Visible Cities Dubrovnik", an acclaimed guide that has been treated as a primary source by other guidebook writers and Wikipedists. It covers the history, sights and personalities of the city and surrounding coast in affectionate depth. If...

This guide to Budapest, perhaps the most beautiful of the Central European capitals, covers the city in loving and meticulous detail. The depth of information and quality of the research make this an excellent guide for the independent cultural traveller, full of the joy of discovery. With high quality...

Between then, our three authors have either written or contributed to a dozen Frommer's travel guides to Quebec over the years. They have returned to these two colorful, pleasure capitals of Quebec for this 2015 edition, which reflects their most recent discoveries in attractions, lodgings, meals, cultural...

Gathering field work from almost twenty countries along with in-depth analysis and case studies, Religious Radicalism after the Arab Uprisings explores how radical groups, governments, and publics have responded to the Arab uprisings of 2011 and how conflicts that many thought were coming to an end...

Fast forward never took so long . . .   Kit Runyon isn’t looking for a man to keep—she’s happy with the occasional one-night stand and no strings. Making sure her family’s electronics repair shop is profitable enough to support three generations is her main focus. But when Brian Hendricks...

EXTERMINATORS?OF?THE?YEAR?ZERO focuses on the dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime of revolutionary human erasure in Cambodia †an implosive, volatile genocide exacted within Pol Pot's own country, and pursued with relentless, obsessional determination. At the end of his four years of dictatorial...

This book explores the unique and volatile art scene of 1960s Tokyo, and its connections to the culture of violent rioting and street-protest which developed across that decade, in intimate contact with avant-garde art, photography, performance and film. Through studies of seminal figures of that culture...

From 1931 to 1953 Josef Stalin, the Soviet dictator, instigated a complex of sub-zero death camps at Magadan on the isolated Far Eastern Pacific coast, where thirty million Soviet citizens were gratuitously and systematically massacred on his perverse whim, leaving mountains of human ashes in one of...

This book shows how political inaction has shaped the politics, economy and society we recognize today, despite the fact that policymakers are incentivised to act and to be seen to act decisively. Politicians make decisions which affect our lives every day but in our combative Westminster system,...

Pier Paolo Pasolini's final year of life before his brutal murder is an extreme, intensive and accumulating period. While propelling himself into a position of polemical violence and political danger with his Pirate's Writings for prominent newspapers, he also gave numerous interviews that prefigured...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

History shows how Catalan culture has overcome critical situations far more adverse than the present. The Catalan language has not been replaced and this anthology contains four Catalans, one Valencian and one Mallorcan, who, although they lived through the tail end of the dictatorship, grew up under...

Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond? This lively account argues that this is definitely the case and explores the cultural landscape of this much maligned decade to uncover hidden gems and to explode many of the well-established myths about 1970s British film and cinema.

The ongoing battle between free individuals and our moribund institutions for the control of information resources, information technology and information systems began with the sexual gods. The chief god Atum, controller of Cosmos, declared sex ungodly and messy, outcomes unpredictable. A...