Academic Press: 465 books
Otto Abetz and His Paris Acolytes
French Writers Who Flirted with Fascism, 1930–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Before Hitler comes to power Otto Abetz is a left-wing Francophile teacher in provincial Germany, mobilizing young French and German idealists to work together for peace through Franco-German reconciliation and a united Europe. Abetz marries a French girl but after 1933 succumbs to the Nazi sirens....
Reinventing the Sublime
Post-Romantic Literature and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Reinventing the Sublime looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity, and at intimations of a post-Romantic’ sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of invention’ taking the Latin meaning of to come upon’, find’, discover’ that involves...
Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West
The Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The book is a case study in the literary, psychoanalytic, and theological encounters between diasporic Muslim intellectuals and secular western modernity. It centers on the simultaneous search for the possibility of both a reformation of Islamic fundamentalism and a transformation of the exclusionary...
by Saskia E. Wieringa, Abha Bhaiya, Nursyahbani Katjasungkana
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. These two major cities have substantively different...
Harry Clarke’s War
Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 contain the names of 49,435 enlisted men who were killed in the First World War. Commissioned in 1919 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and published in 100 eight-volume sets, the Records are notable for stunning and elaborate page decorations by celebrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to European spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances...
The Bounds of Liberalism
The Fragility of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The central question at the heart of this consideration is how far the West may need to modify or extend the liberal philosophy that informs its responses to the multiple world crises it is currently addressing. The book provides a review of the strengths and weaknesses of a social liberalism that,...
The Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold
Letters to Clough, the 1853 Preface, and Some Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Many of the ideas that appear in poet Matthew Arnold’s Preface to the Poems of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Literature was, in Arnold’s perception, meant to communicate a message rather...
Spanish–Israeli Relations, 1956–1992
Ghosts of the Past and Contemporary Challenges in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Despite a common heritage dating back centuries and mutual national interests, such as their joint fear of Soviet influence across the Mediterranean, it took 38 years after the establishment of the State of Israel (1948) and a decade after Franco's death (1975) for relations to be established between...
Museums in a time of migration
Rethinking museum's roles, representations, collections, and collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Migration has, across time, contributed to the development and reshaping of societies and urban spaces. Today, migration movements have become a global phenomenon, where the number of countries affected—socially, economically and culturally—by migration is continually increasing. As in past times,...
The Fitzgerald Legacy
Reforming Public Life in Australia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Twenty years ago, the Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct, commonly referred to as the Fitzgerald Inquiry after its chair Mr G.E. (Tony) Fitzgerald, QC, tabled its findings in the Queensland Parliament after an exhaustive and sensational two years...
The Ring of Myths
The Israelis, Wagner and the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the fall of 1938, following Kristallnacht, the symphonic orchestra in Palestine cancelled the performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. No one could foresee that this would be the beginning of a never-ending boycott. The boycott began in a society struggling for its existence and collective...
by Volodymyr Krasnoholovets
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, Structure of Space and the Submicroscopic Deterministic Concept of Physics, completely formalizes fundamental physics by showing that all space, which consists of objects and distances, arises from the same origin: manifold of sets. A continuously organized mathematical lattice of topological...
Music Autoethnographies
Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political. Usually written in the first-person voice, autoethnographic work appears in a variety of creative formats; for example, short stories, music compositions, poetry, photographic essays, and...