I imprint: 1291 books
The Church of the East
An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
The so-called 'Nestorian' Church (officially known as the Apostolic Assyrian Church of the East, with its See in Baghdad) was one of the most significant Christian communities to develop east of the Roman Empire. In its heyday the Church had 8 million adherents and stretched from the Mediterranean...
Britain and America After World War II
Bilateral Relations and the Beginnings of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The period immediately after World War II was a vital one for diplomatic relations and, with the Soviet Union emerging as a new superpower, it was particularly important for Britain's relations with America. The subject has unsurprisingly already received much scholarly attention, but this is the...
Sofia Coppola
A Cinema of Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Sofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director...
Sounds of Fear and Wonder
Music in Cult TV
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
How does music enrich and define cult television series? The book analyses theme tunes and scoring on television to reveal how composers construct a series' identity using musical idioms and instruments. Characters and plot developments, similarly, are enhanced by their musical accompaniment. The...
by Prof James Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including...
From Steam to Screen
Cinema, the Railways and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. Films, newspapers and literature told astonishing stories about technology, such as locomotives breaking speed records and moving images seemingly springing...
Greek to Me
A Memoir of Academic Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The 1960s were a tumultuous period in the history of Greece, as its democracy fell under the forced establishment of a military dictatorship. The regime of the Colonels was the culmination of national division and hostility between communist forces and right wing militants. It was in these extraordinary...
Echoes of Empire
Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonised states reversal or retribution? This ground-breaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through...
Stalin's Economic Advisors
The Varga Institute and the Making of Soviet Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims. Both assumptions, however, oversimplify the complex and subtle factors involved in its creation and implementation. Kyung-Deok Roh provides an alternative, more...
Counter-shock
The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The oil price collapse of 1985-6 had momentous global consequences: non-fossil energy sources quickly became uncompetitive, the previous talk of an OPEC 'imperium' was turned upside-down, the Soviet Union lost a large portion of its external revenues, and many Third World producers saw their foreign...
Secularism and State Religion in Modern Turkey
Law, Policy-Making and the Diyanet
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The Diyanet is the 'Presidency of Religious Affairs', the official face of Islam and highest religious authority in Turkey, and is a governmental department established in 1924 after the break-up of the Ottoman Empire. In this book, Emir Kaya offers an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of this vital...
The Quest for Authority in Iran
A History of The Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Iran's presidents have defined the Islamic Republic's attitudes towards the rest of the world. Never has this been more true than now. In this book Siavush Randjbar-Daemi presents an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the Iranian presidency from its inception in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution...
Mainstreaming Sex
The Sexualisation of Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Mainstreaming Sex uncovers the significant impact, hitherto only half glimpsed, that striptease culture is having on our media, relationships, educational and working lives. It is a welcome and much needed book.
Western culture is exhibiting its fascination with sex in new, often surprising...
Europe's Balkan Dilemma
Paths to Civil Society or State-Building?
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Through the intervention of the European Union, the lives of people living in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo have been transformed beyond recognition. From the perspective of the Western Balkans today, the EU looks and acts like a development agency with a spectacularly broad brief and very...