Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (Morrison Jago)(Pevná vazba)

Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (Morrison Jago)(Pevná vazba)

This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ten texts against the challenges of their milieus, it considers twentieth-century fiction as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between

Independent People (Laxness Halldor)(Pevná vazba)

Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of

Ulysses - James Joyce

The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary editionFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human

The Fourth Estate: Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland (O'Brien Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The Fourth Estate examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland. While many media institutions have been subjected to historical scrutiny, the professional and organisational development of journalists, the changing practices of journalism and the contribution it

1984: The Graphic Novel (Orwell George)(Pevná vazba)

One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. War is Peace * Freedom is Slavery * Ignorance is Strength In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth Century (Cunningham David)(Pevná vazba)

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth-Century offers an accessible and fresh approach to an object of interdisciplinary research that is currently receiving increased international attention. Providing a broad historical schema, and examining pivotal moments within it, the collection brings

Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the Public Sphere (Fives Allyn)(Pevná vazba)

Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain (Nash David)(Pevná vazba)

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide range of literature, David Nash and Anne-Marie

A History of Twentieth-Century Germany (Herbert Ulrich)(Pevná vazba)

Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years after World War II. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful democracy, and the longest

Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Ghodsee Kristen)(Pevná vazba)

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive

Castle Cross The Magnet Carter - A Novel (Corthron Kia)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the Center for Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through the lives of four men--two white brothers

Time in Between (Fois Marcello)(Pevná vazba)

The continuation of an epic family saga set in mid-twentieth century

Women of the Foreign Office: Britain's First Female Ambassadors (Warburton Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Since the suffrage campaigns in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal and civil rights, employment rights, equal pay - and yet Britain's first official female ambassador

The Kybalion: Centenary Edition (Three Initiates)(Pevná vazba)

The most popular occult work of the twentieth century--now in a hardbound edition that evokes the original volume, with a new introduction by scholar of mysticism Richard Smoley. For generations, readers have debated the origins and studied the knowledge of this mysterious exploration of Hermetic

The American Steam Locomotive in the Twentieth Century (Morrison Tom)(Paperback)

Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were deceptively simple machines, yet, the more their technology was studied, the more obscure it became. Despite immense and sustained engineering

Edge of the Grave (Morrison Robbie)(Pevná vazba)

Edge of the Grave is the first novel in a historical crime series set against the backdrop of 1930s Glasgow. For fans of William McIlvanney's Laidlaw, Denise Mina and Philip

Hidden History of the Mississippi Blues (Stolle Roger)(Pevná vazba)

Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi. They didn't

The Coffeehouse (Mahfouz Naguib)(Paperback)

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a

Vauxhall Cars of the 1960s and 1970s (Taylor James)(Pevná vazba)

Vauxhalls held a special place in the British motoring scene of the mid-twentieth century. Solid, reliable and respectable, they were carefully designed to meet the expectations of buyers and also to meet the global ambitions of General Motors in America, the company that owned the Vauxhall marque

Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes (Slavishak Edward)(Pevná vazba)

The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of what they would encounter. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however, networks of missionaries, sociologists, folklorists,

Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (Ray Avishek)(Pevná vazba)

From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious

O Pioneers! (Cather Willa)(Pevná vazba)

At the turn of the twentieth century. Central to the novel's action is the Nebraskan landscape it describes, by turns unyielding and fruitful, bitter and ecstatic.O Pioneers! joins Cather's My Antonia in Everyman's

Things in Glocca Morra (Collier Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Spanning several decades of the 20th century, this posthumously published novel explores the colorful personal history of the Kennedy family and the exploits of JFK. The fictional account is told from the point of view of the real-life Lem Billings, a prep school friend and later campaigner for

Twentieth-Century Design (Woodham Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world's foremost design historians,