Open Book Publishers: 120 books
Tyneside Neighbourhoods
Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Nettle’s book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the other is amongst the most economically...
Just Managing?
What it Means for the Families of Austerity Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The 'just about managing'. 'Hardworking families'. 'Alarm-clock Britain'. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families...
Storytelling in Northern Zambia
Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
More than just a book, Storytelling in Northern Zambia lets you watch videos of the storytellers while you read. Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral...
by Nikolai Krementsov
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
In 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become ‘eugenics.’ The same year, Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii addressed similar issues in a sizeable treatise, entitled Human Perfection and Degeneration. Initially unheralded,...
by Mark McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditions that...
Tales of Darkness and Light
Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people.
Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece...
Thomas Annan of Glasgow
Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the "Second City of the Empire,” a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s...
by Massimo Zicari
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why...
by Jean McClure Mudge (editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women’s rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he spoke about a spectrum...
Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53–86
Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on...
The End of The World
Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games.
This...
Deliberation, Representation, Equity
Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. But participatory decision making is balancing on the borders of inclusion, structure, precision and accuracy. To simply enable more...
Cultural Heritage Ethics
Between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists,...
Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Practices, Principles and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to...