[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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, ...więcej »
A perfect sunny day, a family celebration, a heart-stopping hour that changes everything...Dana has all she ever wanted - a husband she loves, her four-year-old daughte...więcej »
Who Intervenes? takes as a given that there are tensions among ethnic groups throughout the world. But it is not at all clear when and why these tensions escalate into violence. The likeliho...więcej »
Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secul...więcej »
Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography show...więcej »
In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a 'model' in the socialist...więcej »
Congress and the world are shocked by the brazen attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House. The villains will not give up until the job is done. Autho...więcej »
Bob Farmer has hit the jackpot. In a flash, he got a highly-paid position with a prestigious research company and found a new, beautiful and incredibly sensual girlfriend, Zara. Bob's life suddenly...więcej »