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'Now I am alone,' says Hamlet before speaking a soliloquy. But what is a Shakespearean soliloquy? How has it been understood in literary and theatrical history? How does it work in screen versions of Shakespeare? What influence has it had? Neil Corcoran offers a thorough exploration and explanation...

Roland Barthes – the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first...

The remarkable story of the last American spy of the Cold War: Aldrich “Rick” Ames, the most destructive traitor in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency   Tim Weiner, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis, reporters for The New York Times, tell how the barons of the CIA could not believe...

The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need to be re-assessed and questioned. Drawing on...

Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian...

STONEHENGE COMPLETE tells of the celebrated ancient monument in southern England seen by a million visitors a year. They come to wonder why Britains prehistoric people built the massive stone circle about 2300 BC. The many questions are answered in Stonehenge Complete. Five thousand years ago the sages...

A Father's Mission is one of the most important books on fatherhood to be released this year. A Father's Mission will teach you how to become a better father. And a better man.  Neil M White, author of A Father's Mission has reached thousands of men through his writing. He has one mission -...

Philosophers typically suppose that the contents of our beliefs and other cognitive attitudes are propositions-things that might be true or false, and their truth values do not vary from time to time, place to place, or person to person. Neil Feit argues that this view breaks down in the face of beliefs...

This critical study of a momentous development of narrative art in literature and film of the late twentieth century climaxes in detailed analyses of works by Nabokov, Pynchon, Barth, Bellow, and Lessing. Starting from thorough explications of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Durrell's Alexandria...

Although her responsibility is for Easter Europe, NSA satellite analyst Keely Krebs is studying images from Peru where her brother is prospecting for oil when she sees an anomaly that changes her life. Rather than do what the doctors tell her she needs to do to delay her death from lupus, Keely decides...

King Arthur Lives Forever is a story of Arthurian times. Prosperous Britannia had many cities and towns supported by an agricultural and commercial economy. Hundreds of large Roman style estates throughout the country were owned by native British and retired Roman legionnaires. Farmers grew cereals,...

"For Mao, a journey of 1,000 miles began with a single step. For me, a journey of 50,000 miles begins with a singing Womble"   Join Neil Matthews as he goes “underground, over ground”, with his wife Helen and a few furry friends as they visit the places which gave the Wombles their names.....

"You finally broke me..." Join Sue Perryman as she encounters the classic series of Doctor Who for the very first time. Admire her eye for bespoke carpentry, laugh at her inability to grasp how the Time War works, and marvel at her talent for spotting actors who have appeared in EastEnders,...

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of...