I imprint: 1291 books
The Hero of Budapest
The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The story of Raoul Wallenberg - who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust - is one of the most remarkable of World War II. Yet the complete account of his life and fate can only be told now - and for the first time in this book - following access to the Russian...
There and Back Again
J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.' Addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlórien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, the prophetic words of Galadriel in the film The Fellowship of the Ring are just as pertinent to J R R Tolkien's own fiction. For decades,...
The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, remains in every way a thinker for our times. She was an outsider, in multiple senses, defying the usual religious categories: at once atheistic and religious; mystic and realist; sceptic and...
The Making of a Nazi Hero
The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
On 14 January 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA was shot at close range at his home in Berlin. Although the crime was never completely solved, the murder was most likely committed by a group of communists with close ties to the city's gangland. Wessel later died from his injuries....
Choosing Slovakia
Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens...
Berber Government
The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a Berber-speaking region...
Eternal Chalice
The Enduring Legend of the Holy Grail
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
What is the secret of the Grail?' So intoned a heavenly voice to Sir Percival in John Boorman's stylish and influential film 'Excalibur' (1981). The sacred allure of the Holy Grail has fascinated writers and ensnared knights for over a thousand years. From Malory to Monty Python, the eternal chalice...
by Dr Gavin Hyman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The last few years have seen a remarkable surge of popular interest in the topic of atheism. Books about atheism by writers like richard dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have figured prominently in bestseller lists and have attracted widespread discussion in the media. The ubiquity of public debates...
Science
Antiquity and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sales in classics, the history of ideas and the history and philosophy of science. Modern science and...
England's First Demonologist
Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology,...
Magic and Masculinity
Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic – the attempted communication with angels and demons – both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position...
Engaged with the Arts
Writings from the Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2007
John Tusa has been Managing Director of London's Barbican Centre for more than a decade. In that time he has been a notable controversialist, speaking up for the need for the arts, defending their achievements and arguing for more funding.
This selection of John Tusa's passionately argued, candid...
Tangier
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe and overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws,...
British Imperial
What the Empire Wasn't
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including racism, exploitation and the problems of the Middle...