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Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition
History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Alexander the Great (356–333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian language.
Young Lothar
An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Lothar Orbach, the youngest son of a German Jewish family, was just 14 when the Nazis began rounding up Berlin's Jews. His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother...
The Nomad's Path
Travels in the Sahel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The Manga is one of Africa's most wild and remote regions: a hostile and unforgiving landscape inhabited by nomads. Situated in south-eastern Niger, in the shadow of the Old Salt Road, it has been mislaid by the modern world; no westerner had been seen there in living memory. The Nomad's Path is a...
Babushka's Journey
The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cilly, or 'Babushka', into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape...
Andalucia
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Andalucia is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is surprisingly unlike the rest of the country. Its literary history began to develop with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of literary tradition, together with the landscapes...
The Cyprus Conspiracy
America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2001
A generation after the Greek colonels staged a coup on Cyprus in July 1974, dramatically ousting its Greek-Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island, the historic Mediterranean island remains split in two. As divided as Berlin before the...
Black Power and the American People
Culture and Identity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
While the history of the Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twentieth century, the related Black Power movement has left a more complex legacy. Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists,...
Art Beyond Representation
The Performative Power of the Image
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, Bolt's striking argument engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S.Peirce and Judith Butler to argue for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cézanne and...
The Rage
The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism. This book explores the interaction between the 'new' far right and Islamist extremists and considers the consequences for the global terror threat. Julia Ebner argues...
by Page DuBois
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even – by the Victorians – chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her...
Inventing Peace
A Dialogue on Perception
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has become of the notion of peace in all this? In...
The Medieval Christian Philosophers
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by uniform rituals of birth and death and worship. That uniformity, which came under increasing strain as national European characteristics became more pronounced,...
The Ethics of Visuality
Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Our world is saturated with images. Images multiply around us, having reached the status of essentially reproducible commodities. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ever really read and engage with images? Can they ever provide...
Journey of Life
Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Whether through lyrical celebrations of the wonders of nature; paeans to the steadfastness of women; or salutations to the world leaders who have in their various ways provided inspiration to his lifelong devotion to the causes of peace, justice and education, Daisaku Ikeda in his poems expresses...