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A Bout De Souffle
French Film Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de Souffle (1960) has retained much of its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as Godard's earliest rendition of a set of thematic and stylistic motifs that would become his trademark....
Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran
Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
In Iran, folksongs are part of folklore and offer an intimate portrait of a vanishing era. They are also 'the voice' of ordinary people, providing a medium to express emotions, opinions and concerns. This book is based on folksongs collected over a 50-year period among the Boir Ahmad tribal people...
Passage to America
Celebrated European Visitors in Search of the American Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics, culture and society, the American experience was...
The Idea of Russia
The Life and Work of Dmitry Likhachev
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999) was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century. His life spanned virtually the entire century – a tumultuous period which saw Russia move from Tsarist rule under Nicholas II via the Russian Revolution and Civil War into seven decades of...
Frontline Ukraine
Crisis in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian...
Bangladesh
A Political History since Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes. The eighth most populous country of the world, it has attracted considerable attention often for the wrong reasons: corruption, natural disasters caused by its precarious geographical location, and volatile political situations with several military coups, following...
Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee
Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Tulips and coffee are defining cultural products of the Ottoman eighteenth century, along with their related institutions of palace and coffeehouse. These cultural products hold multiple meanings in the history and historiography of the period. For example, scholars argue that the janissary coffee...
Nuclear Iran
The Birth of an Atomic State
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war. What is Iran's nuclear programme all about? What is its...
New Horizons in Eastern Humanism
Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
China now attracts global attention and headlines that are directly proportionate to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for several millennia the philosophy that has guided and shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism....
by Michael Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's...
Reviving Phoenicia
The Search for Identity in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
'Reviving Phoenicia' follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria...
Europe's Intellectuals and the Cold War
The European Society of Culture, Post-War Politics and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
In 1946, Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed a transnational society designed to defuse the tensions left by World War II. The Society of European Culture was founded by some of Western Europe's most well-known intellectuals, including Albert Camus, André Gide, J.B. Haldane,...
by Michael Prestwich
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In his vivid new history,...
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Burma
Jungle Warfare and Intelligence Gathering in WW2
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population. The men of the SOE, trained in sabotage and guerrilla warfare, worked in the jungle, deep behind enemy lines, to frustrate...