Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies - Prijzen

Seeing Things

A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators sha...

Reading Today

Today we're just as, if not more, likely to scroll, click, and tap the cold, shiny screen of a laptop, tablet, or smartphone as we are to turn the pages of a book. How has the advent of new technologi...

Afternoon Raag

Described as a 'felicitous prose poem', Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man who is studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. His loneliness and melancholy...

Love Letters from Paris

'Enchanting. Reading Barreau is like having me-time with your best friend' NINA GEORGE, author of The Little Paris Bookshop 'Heart-breaking . . . touching and magical until the very last page' ELLE...

Empires of the Mind

Empires of the Mind tells the story of I. A. Richards, Britain's foremost literary critic in the 1920s, and his effort to promote an 850-word version of global English in China. Examining the cultu...

Kleine Geschichte der deutschen Literatur

Kurt Rothmanns Kleine Geschichte der deutschen Literatur bietet in klarer Diktion übersichtliche und knappe Erstinformationen über die gesamte deutsche Literaturgeschichte, für Schüler, für Einsteiger...

Elements of Logic

Partisans in Yugoslavia

The ubiquitous Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as founding myth of its newly united people. Its retrospective deconstruction has absorbed most of the academic attention for the Yugoslav P...

Jacob L. Talmon

Isaiah Berlin, in his Tribute to a Friend , wrote about the historian Jacob L. Talmon (19161980): No matter what his theoretical interests were, or the topics on which he was lecturing or writing, h...

The Wind From the East

Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution...

This Happened in My Presence

This Happened in My Presence reveals life in the small Spanish town of Deza during a period that was complex and tumultuous. The introduction explains the medieval origins of Deza's Christian, Muslim,...

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of...