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Martial
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today’s culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial... more...
Media, Policy and Interaction
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed on media channelled 'public opinion' as part of a democratic process. It will appeal to a broad audience in social and public policy, political... more...
Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 28.00This book deals with the ways in which the Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, and the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself. more...
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement
Scribner 2008; US$ 21.99The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory... more...
Societies in Eclipse
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 31.50While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse , archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography, and oral tradition to examine the... more...
Not by Faith Alone
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 36.99This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate the effects of neoliberal... more...
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