Andrew Mcnamara: 3 books

For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion is stranded in an impasse between those who view the term modernity with automatic disdain-as deterministic, Eurocentric or imperialistic-and a booming interest...

A century ago, as World War I got underway, the Middle East was dominated, as it had been for centuries, by the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, its political shape had changed beyond recognition, as the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the insistent claims of Arab and Turkish nationalism and Zionism...

Psst! It's true! This is the best book on life before dinosaurs you'll ever read! Bugs that catch mud. Fish with teeth on the outside. Beasts with blades like steak knives on their backs. Scorpion look-alikes two metres long. Can they be real? In the long-ago days before the dinosaurs, there...