Open Book Publishers: 120 books
Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet
Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast...
by Patrick Bateson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible...
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-73
Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god...
Literature Against Criticism
University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside...
Animals and Medicine
The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have played in advancing medical knowledge. Laboratory animals have been essential to this progress, and the knowledge gained...
Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49
Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean...
The Environment in the Age of the Internet
Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
How do we talk about the environment? Does this communication reveal and construct meaning? Is the environment expressed and foregrounded in the new landscape of digital media?
The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from...
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925
Theory of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
Exploring the Interior
Essays on Literary and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of...
by Ruth Finnegan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.
This revised edition makes Finnegan’s...
Yeats's Legacies
Yeats Annual No. 21
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft...
Information and Empire
Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change?
Information and Mechanisms of Communication in...
by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, Kalia Brooks Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees...
Feeding the City
Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative...