I imprint: 1291 books
Monstrosity
The Human Monster in Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
From the 'Monster of Ravenna' to the 'Elephant Man', Myra Hindley and Ted Bundy, the visualisation of 'real', human monsters has always played a part in how society sees itself. But what is the function of a monster? Why do we need to embody and represent what is monstrous? This book investigates...
Palestinian Refugees and Identity
Nationalism, Politics and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, Palestinian refugees fled over the border into Jordan, which in 1950 formally annexed the West Bank. In the wake of the 1967 War, another wave of Palestinians sought refuge in the Hashemite Kingdom. Today, 42 per cent of registered Palestinian refugees...
Growing Up with the Impressionists
The Diary of Julie Manet
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Julie Manet, the niece of Eugène Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on 14th November 1878 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries and it is hardly...
The News Media At War
The Clash of Western and Arab Networks in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
During the 2003 War in Iraq, American news media found it difficult to convey their pro-war perspective outside the United States. Since the war was unpopular in many parts of the world, failure to win hearts and minds - particularly in the Middle East - represented a significant setback for the American soft power.
Iran and Turkey
International and Regional Engagement in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The foreign policies of Turkey and Iran seem increasingly to dictate the course of events in the Middle East. More recently, and especially following the Syrian crisis, the spotlight has turned to these states' dynamic re-entry onto the political stage, revealing them as key players with an international...
Sufis, Salafis and Islamists
The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
British Muslim activism has evolved constantly in recent decades. What have been its main groups and how do their leaders compete to attract followers? Which social and religious ideas from abroad are most influential? In this groundbreaking study, Sadek Hamid traces the evolution of Sufi, Salafi...
Touching and Imagining
An Introduction to Tactile Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after repeated censorship by the communist governmnent of Czechoslovakia. Illustrated with over 100 imges, this book is organised around many reproductions of Svanmajker's...
by Dominique Charpin
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Hammurabi was the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its greatest. Expanding the role and influence of the Babylonian city-state into an imperium that crushed its rivals and dominated
the entire fertile plain of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi (who ruled c. 1792-1750 bce) transformed a minor kingdom into...
The History of a Modern Millennial Movement
The Southcottians
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick...
The Art of the Body
Antiquity and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first...
Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture
Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and...
Dancing with the Doctor
Dimensions of Gender in the Doctor Who Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Widespread conversations and criticisms continue about the ways in which Doctor Who represents gender. Dancing with the Doctor, the first book on the Doctor Who universe to take gender as its focus, examines both the successful revival of the series since 2005 and its spin-off series, Torchwood and...
Muslim Identity Politics
Islam, Activism and Equality in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The surge in divisive and far-right politics and escalating Islamophobia in Britain pose new challenges for Muslim advocacy organisations. British Muslim activism has taken centre stage in the public sphere as a result. Yet, for over fifty years Muslim advocacy groups have worked to preserve religious...
Secular War
Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
How have long-standing and unconscious secular assumptions about religion shaped the post-9/11 climate and its wars? Stacey Gutkowski explores this little-examined, yet crucial, element of British perceptions of and policy towards Jihadism over the last decade, to draw critical conclusions about the...