Since World War II, refugee organizations have faced a recurrent challenge: the manipulation of refugees by warring parties to further their own aims. Some armies in civil wars, facing military defeat, use refugees as assets to establish the international legitimacy of their cause, treat refugee cam[...]
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
The legendary author of "Paradise Lost" and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library's definitive "The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton," this indispensable collection[...]
No English king has suffered a worse press than King John: but how to disentangle legend and reality? The youngest of the five sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the empire builders of the Angevin dynasty, John had small hope of securing any significant inheritance. Then, in 1199, on the d[...]
Student Engagement in Higher Education fills a longstanding void in the higher education and student affairs literature. In the fully revised and updated edition of this important volume, the editors and chapter contributors explore how diverse populations of students experience college differently [...]
'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, 'York Notes Advanced' introduce students to sophisticated analysis, a range of[...]
"Stephen King's Gothic" explores the works of the world's best-selling horror writer through the lenses offered by contemporary literary and cultural theory. King's writing, it argues, explores many of the issues analysed by critics and philosophers, and offers ways of encountering and understanding[...]
This is the first fully readable edition of Dr. John Dee's Spiritual Diaries. Completely revamped, reorganized, and corrected, this reader-friendly version of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for Many Years between Dr. John Dee . . . and Some Spirits . . . covers Dee's invocation of the ang[...]
'The Grand Design', by eminent scientist Stephen Hawking, is the latest blockbusting contribution to the so-called New Atheist debate, and claims that the laws of physics themselves brought the Universe into being, rather than God. In this swift and forthright reply, John Lennox, Oxford mathematicia[...]
This early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in which Stephen Daedalus rebels against church, country and family, is taken from an incomplete manuscript and is supported by literary and bibliographical notes[...]
The Revelation to John by Stephen Smalley is a magisterial interpretation of John's Apocalypse as a grand drama, which can only be properly understood in light of John's Gospel and letters and in the context of the Johannine community. As such, it offers the reader a significantly different approach[...]
John McGuinness is the most famous road racer in the world. He is one of the most successful tt riders of all time, second only to the legendary Joey Dunlop, and in 2007 he became the first man to break the 130mph-barrier on the course. He has also set lap records at the nw200, the Ulster gp and Sca[...]
Stephen Skinner has been interested in magic for as long as he can remember. He wrote, with Francis King, the classic "Techniques of High Magic" in 1976. He followed that with "Oracle of Geomancy and Terrestrial Astrology" which has become the standard work on Western divinatory geomancy. Books on N[...]
The identification of God with beauty is one of the most aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought. However, this claim is often at risk of becoming untethered from core Christian theological confessions. To avoid a theological account of beauty becoming a mere projection of our wildest de[...]
Based on a study of every intrastate war settlement between 1980 and 1998 in which international actors played a key role, this is a comprehensive, systematic study of the implementation of peace settlements - of what happens after the treaties are signed.[...]
John Bell Hood, one of the Confederacy's most enigmatic figures, died unexpectedly from yellow fever in August of 1879. He had been working hard on his memoirs, the first draft of which he finished just before his death. When Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and Confeder[...]
The remarkable naturalism of John Constable's paintings has always been acknowledged, and his 'vivid and timeless' (as he called them) oil sketches have been celebrated since the 1890s as precursors of Impressionism, modernism and photographic composition. He remains a powerful influence on contempo[...]
In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles. If ever a writer presented an enigma to the literary world, it was Fante who grappled at once with brilliance and cruelty, yet presented a talent that h[...]
Boka forteller om livet til vitenskapsmannen Stephen Hawking. Boka gir ett innblikk i både privatlivet til Hawking, og i hans karriere som forsker innenfor teoretisk fysikk og astrofysikk. Den setter vitenskapen inn i en menneskelig sammenheng, og viser hvordan vitenskap og liv er uløselig knytta [...]
Studying the man considered to be the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein, this biography of Stephen Hawking brings readers closer to one of the greatest living scientific geniuses. While obviously a brilliant scientific mind, Hawking has also succeeded in revealing some of th[...]