I imprint: 1291 books
God
A New Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that - whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam - God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of...
The Culture of Migration
Politics, Aesthetics and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history but today, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globalization, a higher percentage of people than ever before live outside their country of birth. Increased international migration has resulted in more movement of information, traditions...
Mass Photography
Collective Histories of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday...
The Art of Exile
A Vagabond Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
By the time he was six, John Freely had crossed the Atlantic four times. His childhood was spent on the mean streets of 1930s Brooklyn, where he scavenged for junk to sell and borrowed money for books; his first love being Homer's Odyssey. He was 15 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and 17 when he...
The Croatian Spring
Nationalism, Repression and Foreign Policy Under Tito
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region. Using primary sources not previously utilized by western scholars, this book documents the 'Croatian Spring' - a national and liberal movement that began in the mid-sixties...
Climate Change in the Media
Reporting Risk and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some researchers have argued that stressing the 'risks' posed by climate change rather than the 'uncertainties' can create a more helpful context for policy makers and a stronger response...
Algeria and the Cold War
International Relations and the Struggle for Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Throughout the Cold War, Africa was a theatre for superpower rivalry. That the U.S and the Soviet Union used countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to their own advantage is well-known. Sub-Saharan countries also exploited Cold War hostilities in turn. But what role did countries in North Africa play?
The News from Ireland
Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
The Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 was an international historical landmark: the first successful revolution against British rule and the beginning of the end of the Empire. However, the Irish revolutionaries did not win their struggle on the battlefield - their key victory was in mobilising public...
Turkey, Power and the West
Gendered International Relations and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
During the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP, the Turkish government shifted from a 'reactive' to an 'activist' foreign policy. As a result, many in the West increasingly began to see Turkey as a key actor in the international relations of the region, and indeed the wider international...
by Chris Farrands, Imad El-Anis, Roy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
International Relations is a multi-disciplinary and heterogeneous subject which goes to the heart of relations between states and international organisations embracing international politics, economics, political economy, diplomatic and international history. It seeks to explain the mainsprings of...
Abject Spaces in American Cinema
Institutional Settings, Identity and Psychoanalysis in Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
American cinema abounds with films set in prisons, asylums, hospitals and other institutions. Rather than orderly places of recovery and rehabilitation, these institutional settings emerge as abject spaces of control and repression in which adult identity is threatened as a narrative impetus. Exploring...
Trading Secrets
Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Today's intelligence community faces challenges that would have been inconceivable only a dozen years ago. Just as al-Qaeda's destruction of the Twin Towers heralded a revolution in global diplomacy, the events of 9/11 also threw two centuries of spy-craft into turmoil – because this new enemy could...
Journalism and PR
News Media and Public Relations in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Public relations and journalism have had a difficult relationship for over a century, characterised by mutual dependence and – often – mutual distrust. The two professions have vied with each other for primacy: journalists could open or close the gates, but PR had the stories, the contacts and...
Reporting the EU
News, Media and the European Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In recent years, media coverage of the European Union has faced its most serious test. The interlinked crises in the Union have severely tested the expertise of the EU press corps, many of whom have struggled to cope with its complexities, and have thrown into sharper relief the differences among...