[T]his haunting, wise book heralds the arrival of a remarkable Australian talent' - The Age, Pick of the Week.In my defence I can only put forward this disclaimer: I don't consider myself to be a p...
This is not a mathematics book, but a book about mathematics, which addresses both student and teacher, with a goal as practical as possible, namely t...
This eclectic philosophical work approaches the essence of philosophy through a discussion that vindicates the academic and popular view of philosophy. It also integrates the essentialist and exist...
Almost hidden by the noise over BBC Charter renewal, Channel 4's whole future is up for debate, with privatisation back on the agenda. The government says privatisation would secure the Channel's f...
How does a scientist go about solving problems? How do scientific discoveries happen? Why are cold fusion and parapsychology different from mainstream science? What is a scientific worldview? In...
Acclaimed essayist Edward Short writes with his usual insight and brio on a range of historical, literary and Newmanian matters. Here are essays on the poets Thomas Hardy and Lord Tennyson, Rudy...
When Dreams Dictate addresses the key factors fronting the real meaning of a successful life. Many people have money but are unhappy, lonely and emotionally insecure. Many people are more hardworki...
Jesus's words in John 17 represent one of the church's highest values "May they all be one as you and I Father are one." Yet divisions occur from the highest levels of the church to street level pr...
After Magdalena's family leave Nigeria escaping the growing civil unrest, she has no reason to believe she will ever return. Yet 10 years later she is back, this time wi...
China's influence on world affairs is rising. But will it fundamentally change the international political order? And what kind of political order do the Chinese citizens want? This book approaches...
In an increasingly interconnected world wine market, evolving consumer demands, technologies, and climate have all contributed to large shifts in global patterns of production and consumption of...
Whisper is Diane Young. She used to be Alexis Devin. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly who it is behind the mask.She was trained in the martial arts by her Japanese stepfathe...
The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not...
This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The two decades following the occupation were s...
Allen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary...
The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have bee...
This book is about a Great Nigeria. The book focuses on the history of Nigeria before the coming of Europeans, norms, festivals among the people called Nigerians. It also centers on the good attitu...