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The Things I've Seen
Liberties Press 2013; US$ 11.65Lara Marlowe, the Washington correspondent of The Irish Times, has witnessed more than her share of history in three decades as a foreign correspondent. She has reported with clarity and fearlessness on the main conflicts of our era, from the civil war in Lebanon to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the ongoing... more...
Literature and the Political Imagination
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and... more...
Journalism
SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 59.00Traditional news values no longer hold, infotainment has the day. Journalism is in a terminal state of decline. Or so some contemporary commentators would argue. Although there has been a great diversity in format and ownership over time, Conboy demonstrates the surprising continuity of concerns in the history of journalism. more...
The Edward Said Reader
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.00Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism , Peace and Its Discontents , and the seminal study Orientalism , have influenced not only our worldview... more...
Differentials
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 29.95A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry. Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist poets such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Williams... more...
Piers Morgan - The Biography
John Blake Publishing 2012; US$ 8.47This affectionate and in-depth biography examines the incredible life of this remarkable man. From his early life growing up in a pub in Sussex, through the scandals he encountered as an editor, to how his life has taken a new turn with his stateside career and recent marriage.Piers Morgan is one of the best-known faces in the British media, whose... more...
My Friend the Mercenary
The Text Publishing Company 2010; US$ 34.95Notorious mercenary Nick du Toit acted as James Brabazon's bodyguard while he reported from behind rebel lines on the Liberian civil war. Brabazon writes of this time and how Du Toit exposed details of the covert military operation to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny oil-rich country, that failed with far-reaching consequences. more...
Der Mythos von der Weisheit Ägyptens in der französischen Literatur der Moderne
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 33.33Hauptbeschreibung Die Frage nach den Gründungsmythen Europas ist im Zeitalter der Globalisierung besonders virulent. Will man ein europäisches Netzwerk schaffen, muss man sich auf die europäischen Dimensionen der nationalen Kulturen besinnen und ihre für den Kontinent Identität stiftenden Potenziale verfolgen. Ein Gründungsmythos Europas ist der... more...
Western Literature in China and the Translation of a Nation
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China. more...
Perceptions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
Anthem Press 2012; US$ 130.00This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and foreign press. more...









