Open Book Publishers: 120 books
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 1: The Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 3: The American Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
by William J. Sutherland, Lynn V. Dicks, Nancy Ockendon
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2019 edition contains...
Beyond Holy Russia
The Life and Times of Stephen Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States....
Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell
Yeats Annual No. 20
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB International Annual W. B. Yeats Lectures Series (2003-2008) by Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Bernard O’Donoghue and Helen Vendler. Those that were available in pamphlet form are...
A People Passing Rude
British Responses to Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in...
Frontier Encounters
Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China’s search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia’s fear of Chinese migration, and...
by Roger Paulin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and...
Democracy and Power
The Delhi Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the engaging style...
by Amartya Sen (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism)...
by Mikuláš Teich
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating...
On History
Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K....
by Ingo Walter (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and multifaceted...
by John R.W. Speller
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary...