The Crowe Memorandum
An “outsider” in the Foreign Office, Sir Eyre Crowe was one of Britain’s most significant public servants. His 1907 Memorandum on Germany had a profound influence on foreign policy for forty years, shaping events from WWI to the eve of WWII.
Pābūjī: Rajput warrior, celibate ascetic, and hero of a medieval epic still performed in India. This accessible book explores the history and myths behind his exciting, humorous, and miraculous adventures, analysing the legendary tale.
The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism
Decades after independence, why do many African nations still mimic the West at their own culture’s expense? This book presents a bold challenge: to build a humane society by grounding it in local experience and synthesizing the best of indigenous and foreign values.
This book surveys Chinese ancient currency through the ages, exploring the history of currency exchange between China and other countries like ancient Greece and Rome. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on Asia and its interaction with European and American coins.
The Cultural Fabric of the Americas
Written by recognized authorities in their fields and by promising new scholars alike, this collection presents a wide assortment of viewpoints and research backgrounds to portray the Americas and its vast and diverse cultural fabric.
Heiner Müller, one of Europe’s most provocative playwrights, was a communist banned by his own government. Infuriating both East and West, his work defied theater itself. In this collection, leading scholars grapple with his artistic and political legacy.
The Cycle of Troy in Geoffrey Chaucer
In the Middle Ages, Trojan myths were transformed into models of human behaviour. This book explores how Geoffrey Chaucer recreates those myths, manipulating his material and integrating them into the contexts of his own works.
The Cyprus Detention Camps
In 1946, Jewish Holocaust survivors seeking to immigrate to Israel were intercepted and deported to detention camps in Cyprus. This largely inaccessible saga is now brought to light through previously unknown sources, eyewitness interviews, maps, and timelines.
Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
The Dan Brown Craze
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
The Dancer and the Dance
This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—”the most complex type of event yet produced”—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.
The Books of Samuel and Kings tell of formative events in Israel’s history, foreshadowing the coming Messiah. This book re-considers the lives of kings Saul and David and prophets Elijah and Elisha, uncovering new perspectives on their contribution to Christian thought.
The untold story of the contentious wartime relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle. Despite mutual dislike, they manipulated each other to defeat Hitler. Their four years of distrust and animosity played a critical role in the Allies’ path to victory.
The Death of Childhood
A riveting obituary to childhood, this book offers a sobering look at what it means to grow up today, tracing childhood’s progress to a bitter end. Thanks to technology and a hostile society, its innocence is lost. But there is hope, and this book offers solutions to restore it.
This book is a call for transformational change to increase employment for people with disabilities. It argues that we must work together to reimagine supports, using innovative practices. The Death of Rehabilitation is not an end to services. It is a rebirth.
The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone
In a crisis comparable to the Great Depression, 20 social scientists delve into the causes and social impacts on Europe’s periphery. They cover consequences from poverty to protest and offer policy recommendations to transform the crisis into an opportunity.
The Decay of Truth in Education
Krahenbuhl compellingly documents how educational institutions and political institutions alike have abandoned truth as a primary virtue. The targets of this critique range across political, religious, and social groups as an outcome of the educational malaise towards truth.
The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva
This book uses philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism to deconstruct schizophrenia. It challenges symptomatic treatment by seeking alternative ways to understand the plurivalent language of the condition, opening new spaces for cultural articulation.
The Déjà-vu and the Authentic
Viewing culture as a palimpsest, constantly rewritten, these essays explore the political and ethical stakes of creative reuse across literature, music, art, and cinema.
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