The Work of Avishai Ehrlich
This book is about Avishai Ehrlich’s life’s work in political sociology and his role as a public intellectual. Chapters include his articles, commentaries, and personal memories from distinguished academics, friends, and students who knew his influence well.
This book combats modern scholarship’s marginalization of women in antiquity, proving their roles in the home, workplace, and society were essential for survival. Using archaeology and textual studies, it highlights women’s extensive accomplishments.
Things That Liberate
This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.
This book provides new short essays on Jefferson’s thoughts on political philosophy, religion, and morality. Crafted to both entertain and enlighten, these provocative and critical essays take the reader deep into Jefferson’s mind, highlighting his relevance today.
Thirty-Six Short Essays on the Probing Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Authored by a foremost authority on Jefferson, this book offers 36 short essays on his thoughts. Meant to be read as Jefferson himself read before sleep—one at a time, “whereupon to ruminate”—these fresh, provocative essays are to be savored.
Thomas Arthur Leonard and the Co-operative Holidays Association
Hope focuses on the life of Thomas Arthur Leonard, a Congregational minister who was appalled by the dull and grim life in the industrial north of England. He also tells the story of the Co-operative Holidays Association, which pioneered walking holidays for working people.
Thomas Jefferson and His Younger Brother
Scholars overlook Jefferson’s younger brother Randolph, a dimly parochial man who required his cosmopolitan brother’s constant help. This complete collection of their correspondence, with critical commentary, reveals stark disclosures about Thomas Jefferson, family man.
This book presents 15 papers by specialists on Late Antique Egypt. Articles deal with its history, from monasticism to the Arab conquest. Other contributions provide new writings and readings of texts from inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, offering a close-up look at the period.
Three Victorian Historians
Diverse and contrasting historians like Hallam, Buckle, and Gardiner open windows through which we can see Victorian England as it changed. This book reinterprets the works of these great historians whom the Victorians read, offering its own insight into the era.
Thrice a Stranger
By focusing on the real story of a family against a background of historical events, this book shows how the pseudo-theories of so-called international relations can be demolished, and brings to life some vital aspects of modern European history.
Time Images
The “time-image” concept holds broad potential for the historical interpretation of cultural works. This book applies this innovative concept to theory, literature, and cinema, revealing the historical character of works not ordinarily seen as historical.
Timeless Experience
Offering unique insights into a key figure in the development of Gestalt therapy, this volume comprises Laura Perls’s heretofore unpublished writing, including journal entries, letters, poems, translations, short stories, and drafts for lectures and publications.
This book brings maritime women’s experiences to the fore. Based on the life stories of seafarers’ wives from the Åland Islands, it explores their perception of leading two parallel lives and investigates their attitudes to the myths surrounding their image.
To Write as a Boxer
In 1907, Andrew Jeptha became the first black boxer to win a British title—a victory that cost him his sight. He responded by writing a book. This is the story of how a fighter learned to see and fight back in a world that refused to see him.
How are tourism and colonization related? This book explores the development of tourism in French Indochina from the early 1900s to WWII, revealing how it was used as a political tool to promote the colony and attract future colonists.
Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir
The 2011 revolution complicated questions about Egyptian identity. This volume focuses on written and oral expression, viewed through the lenses of rhetoric and communication, to understand how the demand for change altered Egyptians’ perceptions of themselves.
Towards Efficient Photovoltaic Devices
As solar energy is the only renewable resource capable of adequately meeting today’s total global energy demand, Andrei focuses on the possibilities of optimising dye-sensitised solar cells’ efficiency.
Towards Fairer Geo-Spiritual Ecosystems
This book looks at society, education, and spirituality through a decolonial lens. As AI and biotech redefine our future, we must surmount narratives subservient to privilege and power to create more inclusive, fair, and sustainable futures for humanity.
This book examines how laissez-faire economics influenced Britain’s relationship with America after the Revolution. Informed by Adam Smith, Lord Shelburne envisioned a new commercial empire based on trade instead of territorial conquest.
Trade and Security
The US achieved its true goal in Vietnam: not saving a nation, but buying time for a region. This book reveals how America sacrificed its economy to build prosperous Asian allies as a firewall against Communism.
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