Notes of a twelve-year-old boy

Funny Children's Stories

’... an excellent piece of academic work that will serve both as an impetus for further debate as well as a platform for future research. ... The volume brings together up-to-date research and raises significant theoretical issues on religion, gender and secularization.’ Nordic Journal of Religion and Society  'The primary contribution of the book lies in further empirically specifying the general insight that gender is a constructive aspect of how people as groups or as individuals are part of larger socio-historical developments such as secularization. Drawing upon women's voices and lived realities, it provides a well-founded critique of generalizing narratives about 'religion', 'secularism' and 'emancipation'. It also allows for comparative insights as the contributions are based upon the diverging experiences of women from various religious/secular, cultural, ethnic and national backgrounds. The book is therefore a must-read for those interested in comprehensive empirical accounts of the intersections between gender, religion, secularization and other 'markers' of sociopolitical differences.' Religion and Gender

Challenging Secularization

Women and Religion in the West

Mill on Liberty: A Defence

’Forrester’s book is an excellent scholarly study ... based on a thorough examination of all available sources, with the surviving company records proving a challenge in some ways. Until well into the twentieth century, Royal Mail’s annual reports and financial statements were generalized rather than detailed. In particular, it was often difficult to distinguish the financial performance of the South American routes within the general trading results of the company, but Forrester has made every effort to overcome this problem. The author has also done a good job of linking the history of Royal Mail to the changing political and economic fortunes of Brazil and Argentina over the years. All in all this useful study will be of interest to maritime, economic, and business historians.’ Journal of International Maritime History  ’For those interested in the history of Anglo-Latin American economic relations (with regard to Argentina and Brazil in particular), business history, or shipping (including postal) history, this is a welcome addition to the literature. It contains plenty of interesting details and useful information on the operations of the Royal Mail companies in South America from the early 1850s to the 1960s. The book shows how the Royal Mail companies were important conduits of commercial information, cargo, and passengers during a long and crucial period of Anglo-Latin American relations.’ Economic History Today  ’...the book is a sound example of the British business history tradition. Its significant strength is the practical expertise of the author who - before moving to the publishing business and finally to maritime history studies - worked for two decades as a ship officer. Accordingly he can competently describe and discuss the technical and navigational aspects of his story.’ EH Net

A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines

British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851-1965

The Eagle and the Ant

Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker

The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History

’In recent years, South Asian religions and people have increasingly made themselves visible in European towns and cities. New grand architecture and open processions, but also societal controversies, shifted South Asian minorities from invisibility to public awareness accompanied by both tribute and trouble. The volume brings together new and fascinating research and highlights the diversity and vitality of South Asian religions in Europe.’  Martin Baumann, University of Lucerne, Switzerland  'Migration and Religion in Europe will stimulate readers' understanding of the diversity of minorities' migration experiences and religious profiles in many states of Western Europe. Particularly fascinating are the disclosures of intersections between gender, politics and caste in this series of expert ethnographies.  The comparative dimension of many chapters (between groups and between historical periods) is particularly illuminating.’    Eleanor Nesbitt, University of Warwick, UK

Comparative Perspectives on South Asian Experiences

Migration and Religion in Europe

Covenant and Commonwealth

'Based on a wide range of sources and enlivened by perceptive comments, Eva Holmberg's book makes a good example of a new kind of history, the history of the collective imagination'. Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK  'Dr Holmberg does justice to the richness of the subject by using a wide range of historical approaches and an impressive array of sources.' Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London, UK  'Since the publication of James Shapiro’s seminal study, Shakespeare and the Jews, in 1996, a small stream of scholarship has appeared, and with each publication, we have gained a clearer picture of the place of Jews in our collective cultural history. With her new book, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination, Eva Johanna Holmberg provides a much-needed addition to this archive... Holmberg’s work should be valued for the careful and detailed presentation she gives to her primary sources. Here under one cover, the interested scholar can now easily access hundreds of key passages recording firsthand accounts by English travelers detailing their impressions and encounters with Jews... Holmberg’s work should be greeted as a most welcome addition to this lively conversation about Jews in early modern history.' Renaissance Quarterly  'OwÂ­ing to the steady stream of data presented about the ways in which both preconceptions and lived experience influenced how Jews were imagined in the seventeenth century, this book will be a useful and reliable resource for students of cultural history, social anthropology, travel literature, and especially diaspora studies.' The Seventeenth-Century News  'Holmberg’s study provides a groundbreaking and much-needed analysis on a question which still needs to be seriously investigated. Her book will no doubt prove very useful to all those interested in the history of ideas in general and in the early modern period in particular, but the clear layout and her agreeable, accessible style will surely attract non-specia

A Scattered Nation

Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination

Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Families, Parents, and Children

Cold War Spies

`Images and their significance defined in a remarkable reference work.' - Linda O'Callaghan, Sunday Telegraph`The author's erudition shines through the several hundred items in the dictionary, many of them scholarly essays in their own right. A volume for browsing and learning.' - Psychological Medicine

Dictionary of Symbols

’This is a carefully-researched study of the housing consequences of the London Olympics Games for East London. Despite some benefits for local people, the overall winners have been private sector developers and the already comparatively-advantaged from elsewhere in London seeking out the city’s last affordable housing market. Although not a story of untrammelled gentrification, the fully justified story line is to those who hath shall be given.’ Tim Butler, King’s College London, UK  ’Various aspects of the 2012 London Olympics' housing legacy have been discussed previously, but Penny Bernstock's book provides the first comprehensive overview of this important topic. It is based on a meticulous analysis of a wide range of original and secondary data sources and as such it makes a substantial contribution towards our understanding of both the 2012 Olympics and the rapidly changing housing and social landscape of East London.’ Paul Watt, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

A Critical Review of London 2012's Legacy

Olympic Housing

"Focusing on the tendency in Impressionism to trouble distinctions between the public and the private, Daniel Hannah’s sophisticated and compelling book opens up broad new views of much that makes Henry James’s writing meaningful and much that has yet to be seen in the problem of Impressionism." --Jesse E. Matz, Kenyon College, USA 
"Hannah effectively knits together two well-established strands of critical enquiry in James' studies that prove mutually supportive. The first considers the author's myriad aesthetic debts and affiliations: to visual culture and portraiture, and to the aestheticist discourses of Pater and Wilde ... The second ... addresses James's complex engagement with late-nineteenth-century contexts and cultures of exposure, documenting his responses to and negotiations of the literary marketplace and reading public." --Review of English Studies 
"Hannah’s text is a valuable addition to the body of work on literary impressionism, joining a large and ever-changing body of scholarship on a fascinating subject." --English Literature in Transition
"An excellent book by Daniel Hannah illustrates how a familiar topic—James and impressionism—can be revitalized by a creative synthesis of close reading and historical research…A number of scholars have explored the contexts of 'Franco-American impressionist painting' and British aestheticism, but this book links cultural history with astute and original close readings, both of relatively neglected texts and those that have incited well-known debates." --Sarah B. Daugherty, American Literary Scholarship

Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public

Inventive. Inspiring. Important. A passionate defense of the emancipatory post-war writing daring to stretch beyond authorship and the fiction/theory binary; a celebration, in the wake of Roland Barthes, of the wildly critical visions of such writers as Teju Cole, Chris Kraus, Maggie Nelson, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace; and an invitation to form a new kind of study group with them all as we take on this startlingly strange and yet terrifyingly familiar 21st century.

Writing After the Death of the Author

Authorship’s Wake

Erster Teil: Reise in Norwegen und Spitzbergen im Jahre 1870

Reisen nach dem Nordpolarmeer in den Jahren 1870 und 1871

The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews

Life Must Go on

What's Wrong with Sociology?

What if you could go back in time to tweak a few things in your life. Be careful what you wish for

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Historia del maestre último que fué de Montesa y de su hermano Don Felipe de Borja, la manera como gobernaron las memerables plaças de Orán y Marzaelquivir, reynos de Tremecén y Ténez en Africa, siendo allí capitanes generales, uno en pos del ot

&ldquo;A bilingual love poem of admiration and respect for the millions of monarch butterflies that journey south to Mexico every year. . . . Almada Rivero's warm and friendly illustrations showcase the various people and animals the monarch encounters in its 3,000-mile journey. . . . Gundersheimer's recounting of the lepidoptera's journey is told in a bilingual poem. . . . Like the butterfly traveling south and north, the languages switch prominence, displaying in the larger font the principal&mdash;and rhyming&mdash;language in each spread. . . . Backmatter includes facts on the round trip the butterflies undertake, the &lsquo;super generation&rsquo; that makes the trek south, and a call to action to protect the monarchs as they slowly lose their habitats. Uplifting and inspiring of further research.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews&ldquo;The verses are loosely structured as moving along with the butterflies, where the bold curvilinear black font of the text calls to mind the movement of the butterfly. . . . The text is set to simple verses where the rhyming structure provides a sense of unity and an auditory element that will engage preschoolers during storytime. Kindergartners will also enjoy the digitally made art that brings to life the narrative with emotionally expressive animals and children. The back matter contains Author&rsquo;s Notes referring briefly to the monarchs&rsquo; journey, their contribution to the planet, and their struggles with climate change. A playful picture book . . . that could be used to foster consciousness about protecting the planet and to explain migration and the role of butterflies in pollination.&rdquo;&mdash;School Library Journal

Señorita Mariposa (Bilingual English-Spanish Edition)

Exchange of Cultures in the ‘Norman’ Peripheries of Medieval Europe

Norman Tradition and Transcultural Heritage

Gripping and gruesome ... It's packed with unrelenting, won't-let-go intensity that characterises all Oates' work' East Anglian Daily Times.

Pursuit

’The ten in-depth studies on the East Asian countries, from China and Japan to Indonesia, reveal their internal cultural diversity. Thanks to a consistent conceptual framework, the new policies on migration and eventual social integration can be assessed in a transnational perspective.’ Frank Delmartino, Leuven University, Belgium  ’Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia is an important collection of well-researched essays. It grounds the all-to-often overly abstract notion of multiculturalism in both state policies and everyday realities of people throughout East and Southeast Asia. Readers who want to understand the changing identities and challenges facing people and societies throughout globalizing, transnational Asia would do well to pick up this book.’  Eric C. Thompson, National University of Singapore, Singapore  'Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia is an excellent collection of articles, edited by an outstanding scholar, who is well grounded in related discourses on East Asia - the focal sub-region of the book. ... this book is a must read for policy planners (who are involved in modern day nation building across the globe), academia, international development practitioners and indeed freelance readers.' East Asian Integration Studies

Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia

’Europe is at the crossroad: either it develops citizen participation in order to increase its political legitimacy, or its existence will be threatened. This book helps us to better understand how the first path could be made credible.’ Yves Sintomer, Université de Paris 8, France  'The answer to the question posed in the title of this new volume is a resounding ’No’, and it is, in itself, an exposeÂ´ of the lengths to which the EU will go to pretend that it has any interest at all in the opinions or will of the ’citizens’, or the idea that they should be able to influence the policy-making process. ... The authorial team deploy a wide range of research techniques in order to identify the legitimising potential of these initiatives to connect people to the authoritative institutions and to allow them to contribute to the emergence of a more substantial and participative EU ’citizenship’. It is an exhaustive and thorough piece of work that includes some international comparisons with the way in which other polities approach these questions.' Journal of Contemporary European Studies  'This book makes a timely and original contribution to debates about the effectiveness of deliberative experiments at the European level. ... The foreword of the book by European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding suggests it may potentially have a practical impact among European practitioners by highlighting the successes and failures of EU citizen consultations, which have the potential to inform future practice. In addition it could have a much broader audience amongst scholars of deliberative democracy and European studies, and will undoubtedly be of particular interest to those concerned with the EU’s democratic deficit and how this might be remedied.' Journal of Common Market Studies  This book probes into the question that has captured policy-makers and citizens alike: how to bridge the gap between the European Union (EU) and those it is to represent? The

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