Religion, neuroscience and new physics in dialogue

Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered in this non-...

A beginner's guide to the later philosophy of wittgenstein

In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity an...

Collaboration in space and the search for peace on earth

The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.

The other

It examines the secular/religious tensions in Turkish society, through the eyes of two different women.

'king lear' in context

How did the court audience of 1606 respond to Shakespeare’s most disturbing tragedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate ‘King Lear’ in its time uncovers the Christian ethics, contemporary political scene, literary atmosphere and requirements of tragedy that all inform the background ...

Urban crisis, urban hope

Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.

A history of russia volume 1

A comprehensive and accessible history of the culture, people and politics of this vast and enigmatic nation.

The ascendancy of the congress in uttar pradesh

Investigates the social contradictions, class forces and efforts at political organization that lay behind the powerful nationalist movement in Uttar Pradesh the 1920s and '30s.

P. s. o'hegarty (1879-1955)

'P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O'Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement.

Build an author brand, develop your amazon profile and participate on kindle boards in a day

This ebook explains how to raise your literary profile and build up a readership for your book by building a vibrant author brand, developing your Amazon Central author page and participating regularly on Amazon’s Kindle Boards.

Politics, media and campaign language

‘Politics, Media and Campaign Language’ is an original, groundbreaking analysis of the story of Australian identity told through Australian election campaign language. Introducing the concept of identity security, the book argues that the story of Australian identity is characterised by recurring...

Excursions

This choice collection of Thoreau’s nature writing includes the essays ‘The Succession of Forest Trees,’ ‘Walking’, and ‘Autumnal Tints’ – each one an explorative reach into the heart of the natural world.

Compositions, orchestrations, adaptations and arrangements

This anthology consists of original compositions and arrangements as well as adaptations, arrangements and orchestrations of pre-existing compositions of Ron Westray, to date.

Rural india facing the 21st century

A profound analysis of a broad range of issues, providing a masterly overview of rural development in India.

Charles de foucauld’s reconnaissance au maroc, 1883–1884

Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensi...

Behind tax policy controversies

This book provides a short, critical introduction to controversies in tax policy. It emphasizes the many diverse underlying factors that drive tax policy debates and sheds light on traditional and newly emerging issues of tax policy.

Planning for water security in southeast asia

This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people ca...

Yeats and revisionism

The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last...

The anthem companion to erving goffman

The purpose of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman’s continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.

The travel writings of marguerite blessington

This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.

The anthem companion to david riesman

The purpose of this book is to revisit the legacy of David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd, the biggest selling sociology book to date, and a highly influential public intellectual during the second half of the twentieth century.

Music technology panic narratives beyond piracy

When people develop technologies to distribute music, record labels act like it will destroy music. This book shows these narratives are about reconfiguring power.

Altered destinations

‘Altered Destinations’ addresses the complex interrelations of state, nation and identity in India through the medium of culture, and compellingly reframes the debate in the context of the Gandhian concept of swaraj.

Antonio pietrangeli, the director of women

This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject i...

The key to music’s genetics

Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist, singer and academic to this fascinating journey through the origins of music and its role in human development, culture and society.

After jews

The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”. 

Satire, comedy and tragedy

This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne’s greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne’s recu...

Reinventing marie corelli for the twenty-first century

‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the ‘second most famous Englishwoman in the world’ after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record. The essays account for Corelli’s popularity and reintroduce h...

Lloyd george at war, 1916-1918

‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War.

A spectre in the stones

Lloyd Lewis is moving to yet another children’s home, but this one is different. It is possessed by the supernatural with poltergeists and a ghost creating havoc. Lloyd links the chaos to a nearby ravaged stone circle. But what is the link? And can Lloyd do anything to defuse this terrifying anar...

Beckett and broadcasting

The stakes of regulation

This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psycholo...

Grand-guignol cinema and the horror genre

Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre maps important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre’s Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century. This study traces key components of the Grand-Guignol sta...

Economic development of emerging east asia

This unique book provides comparative economic studies of Taiwan and Korea, and compares them mostly with Japan and the United States. Additionally, this study finds that, in terms of the real GDP per capita in PPP, these East Asian countries are still emerging in the world economy.

Assassination in colonial cyprus in 1934 and the origins of eoka

This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. It places the event into its broadest possible context and sifts through all the evidence in order to reach a plausible answer to this mysterious ...

Wish

An adaptation in narrative verse of a children’s fantasy tale, ‘The Rose-Coloured Wish’ (1923) by Florence Bone (1875–1971), ‘Wish’ is a timeless story that weaves adventure, humour and vivid characterisation into a subtle moral tale.

Connecting icts to development

“Connecting ICTs to Development” highlights over fifteen years of IDRC-supported research in the field through its Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) program. 

Hands, wrists, fingers

Hands, Wrists, Fingers is a practical book offering concepts and tools to help musicians of all abilities become comfortable using their hands in healthy and expressive ways.

The critical situation

The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies is concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in relation to a variety of ideological and institutional structures, including those of world literature, American studies, spa...

May alcott nieriker, author and advocate

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.

Legal duty and upper limits

This book offers innovative solutions to our democratic, economic, and ecological crises.

Reclaiming economic sovereignty in africa

This book has discussed the critical question of why the continent, despite being the most endowed place on the planet, with a diverse range of natural and human resources, has remained the most impoverished region on the planet. The book shows that this is largely due to lack of economic soverei...

Late victorian orientalism

Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investi...

Chemical attraction

For Ben and Lily, two clinical trial participants with nothing in common other than mutual dislike, is this real love? Or is it merely a side effect of their prescription drugs?

The anthem companion to harold garfinkel

The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel’s legacy in the social sciences and beyond.

Life chances, education and social movements

‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical...

The wise girl’s guide to freelance modelling

This book will provide aspiring freelance models with the tools to get started in the fashion industry. ‘The Wise Girl's Guide to Modelling’ contains invaluable advice on how to avoid the many pitfalls of the trade and get work without having to spend money. 

Global green shift

Global Green Shift - Author’s book webpage Winner of 2018 Schumpeter Prize Competition The greening of industry is described as a global process driven not so much by Western countries concerned with climate change as by China, India and other industrializing countries responding to economic imp...

British depth studies c500–1100 (anglo-saxon and norman britain)

‘British Depth Studies c500–1100 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman Britain)’ is designed for students and teachers preparing for the new GCSE ‘Anglo-Saxon and Norman England’ British Depth Study components of the Edexcel and AQA examination boards.

The dao of civilization

The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.

Russian language studies in north america

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.