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Daniel Malanski

Olympic Opening Ceremonies

This is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched event on Earth.Covering the period from the Moscow Olympics…

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

Gail Marshall

Britain in 1859

The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of t…

Modernists: A Decade Of Rhythm & Soul Dedication

Mark William Roche

Beautiful Ugliness

This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks inc…

Tim Newburn

Reading Riots

Riots and rioting are exceptional though not unusual social phenomena. Despite occurring irregularly, they are sufficiently common to be matters about which most of us have some knowledge. They have been …

Nicolás Buckley

Understanding and Misunderstanding Indigenous Women

This book is the first historical study to center indigenous women's perspectives on modernization and highlight their pivotal role in grassroots movements to preserve indigenous ways of life.Working agai…

Kyung-Sup Chang

China

Contemporary China is in many ways enigmatic. Its stunning economic, technological and sociocultural transformations have taken place at a pace and scale that is unprecedented in human history. At the sam…

Tim Newburn

Reading Riots

Riots and reading are exepctional though not unusual social phenomena. Despire occurring irregularly, they are sufficiently common to be matters about which most of us have some knowledge. They have been …

Kyung-Sup Chang

China

Contemporary China is in many ways enigmatic. Its stunning economic, technological and sociocultural transformations have taken place at a pace and scale that is unprecedented in human history. At the sam…

Chiara Giaccardi, Mauro Magatti

Supersociety

This book extends Zygmunt Bauman's concept of liquid modernity and introduces the concept of the supersociety to signify an era of unprecedented convergence and interconnection of three dimensions at a gl…

Elisa Randazzo, Hannah Richter

Challenging Anthropocene Ontology

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sus…

Lorenzo Casini

Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muha…

Stephen M Fallon

Milton and Newton

John Milton, England's greatest narrative poet, and Isaac Newton, England's greatest natural philosopher, are rarely thought of together. While one is regarded as the last great figure of the English Rena…

Roshdi Rashed

Ibn al-Haytham

Ibn al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity offers the first comprehensive monograph on one of the most brilliant figures of the medieval intellectual world.Spanning his groundbreaking contribut…

Richard M Reitan

Inner Worlds

Inner Worlds examines the emergence and operation of representations of interiority--consciousness, "folk mind," "spirit"--in Japan from its industrial revolution to the rise of fascis…

Nana Ariel, Dana Riesenfeld

Clichés We Live by

clichés We Live By shows how clichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, rev…

Alexei Penzin,

Insomnia

Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of pro…