Reaktion Books imprint: 753 books
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
An engaging and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this concise biography of the French writer and his work cuts directly to the intersection of thought and life that was essential to Genet's creativity. Arguing that Genet's life was an extraordinary spectacle in which the themes of his most...
by Philip Carr-Gomm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good...
by Stephen F. Eisenman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
The photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison aroused worldwide condemnation—or did they? Opinion polls showed that most citizens of the United States were unmoved by the images. One reason for this relative lack of a public outcry may be the nature of the Abu Ghraib pictures themselves and what...
Remembrance Today
Poppies, Grief and Heroism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Each November, Americans celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday that honors our armed services and that marks the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. Veterans Day roughly coincides with Remembrance Day in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, where millions of people...
Appetites for Thought
Philosophers and Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher’s banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging...
Tsunami
Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
When the earthquake that struck the Solomon Islands in 2013 produced tsunami waves that damaged the country’s infrastructure, it was one in a recent string of reminders of the devastating effects these ferocious waves can have. From the 2011 tsunami in Japan to the giant waves that killed people...
Robert Altman
In the American Grain
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Known as an iconoclast and maverick, film director Robert Altman has consistently pushed against the boundaries of genre. From refashioning film noir in The Long Goodbye, the western in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the psychological drama in Images, science fiction in Quintet, and the romantic comedy...
Mirror In Parchment
The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment, a lively, searching study of one medieval manuscript, its patron, producers,...
Oil, Islam, and Conflict
Central Asia since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan while Chechnya still struggles under a shadow of violence, and the nations surrounding them are barely more stable. Add in the significant reserves scattered throughout Central Asia and you have a volatile political cocktail that makes the region, in Rob Johnson’s...
Counterpoints
Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict associated with multimedia is not a new phenomenon. From opera to the symphonic poem to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time...
A Region in Turmoil
South Asian Conflicts since 1947
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
South Asia has been the setting for some of the century's most violent invasions, the Western world's bloodiest defeats, and a volatile geopolitical brew of religions, ethnicities, and nationalism that sends unsettling ripples through the global balance of power even today. Rob Johnson writes here...
The Goths
Lost Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Goths are truly a “lost civilization.” Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet...
Faith and Sword
A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
In today’s tense geopolitical climate, terrorist groups avow their allegiance to the Islamic faith in their edicts, while the president of the United States undertakes controversial wars in Islamic nations and openly refers to his Christian faith as a key component of his decision-making. With the...
Anatomy Museum
Death and the Body Displayed
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with...