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Evita
The Life of Eva Perón
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Eva Perón remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Perón - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated...
by Chris Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses but moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality...
A Travel Guide to Homer
On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
In October 1945 at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been bewitched by Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. As the culmination of a life spent...
Light from the East
How the Science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with the translation of Greek manuscripts...
Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror
Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
'For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.' Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, foreshadowed his own assassination at his home in Colombo in August 2005. Kadirgamar had a clear and prophetic...
Pompeii
An Archaeological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance...
Kipling Abroad
Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Rudyard Kipling is the doyen of travel writers. His genius for evoking the sights, sounds and atmosphere of a place was crystallised in his fiction, in which he introduced Victorian readers to the drama and exoticism of the East. The teaming, dusty Grand Trunk Road springs to life off the pages of...
Secret Nation
The Hidden Armenians of Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres. As a result of what has come to be called the Armenian Genocide, those who survived in Anatolia were assimilated as Muslims, with most losing all traces of their Christian identity.
In fact,...
Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion
Religion, Rebels and Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history.
Space Science and the Arab World
Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space. Twenty-five years later, the discovery of a planet 500 light years away by the Qatar Exoplanet Survey – subsequently named 'Qatar-1b' – was evidence of the cutting-edge space science projects taking place across the Middle East.
Photography and Cyprus
Time, Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Formerly a British colony, the island of Cyprus is now a divided country, where histories of political and cultural conflicts, as well as competing identities, are still contested. Cyprus provides the ideal case study for this innovative exploration, extensively illustrated, of how the practice of...
Godard and Sound
Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood the importance of the soundtrack in cinema and relied heavily on the impact of carefully constructed...
From France With Love
Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Love stories have always been at the heart of French cinema, but romantic comedies have, until recently, been absent from it. In 2001, the global success of Amélie catalysed a major development in the Western world's second-largest film industry: the appropriation of the 'Hollywood' romantic comedy...
Alberto Giacometti
The Art of Relation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Sartre, Breton, and Winnicott are just some of the great thinkers who have drawn upon the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which has continued to resonate with artists,...