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The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 149.99This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature... more...
The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. more...
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 332.00Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers. The project takes as its temporal boundary the period 1789 to 1914. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought primarily covers social and political thinking, but key entries... more...
Entering the Shift Age
Sourcebooks 2013; US$ 11.99The Information Age? Think again. Change is everywhere: how we communicate, what we do for a living, the values we hold, the way we raise our children, even the way we access information. Thanks to a global economy, the force of the Internet, and the explosion of mobile technology, we have?almost imperceptibly?been ushered into a new era, the Shift... more...
Reinvention
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 19.95Ours is the era of ?reinvention?. From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery, and from corporate rebranding to urban redesign: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary ? especially boundaries of the self. In this insightful and... more...
(Re-)Writing the Radical
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790s either in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and transformation. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the ?fate? of the Enlightenment, its... more...
A History of Popular Culture
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 33.95This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War. A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War Two: instantaneous communications,... more...
Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages. more...
Medievalisms
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.95From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores:... more...
Rethinking Civilization
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Rethinking Civilization offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age. Majid Tehranian analyses the transition from nomadic, to agrarian, commercial, industrial, and digital civilizations and argues that the growing gaps among the five major civilizations have led to terror operating as a form of global communication. ... more...









