Open Book Publishers: 120 books
Forests and Food
Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases,...
Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas
Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices...
That Greece Might Still Be Free
The Philhellenes in the War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles,...
Wallenstein
A Dramatic Poem
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein’s Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under...
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although...
by Flora Kimmich (Translator), Friedrich Schiller (author), John Guthrie (editor)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on a rebellion in sixteenth century Italy, its title: The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa. A Republican Tragedy. At the head of the conspiracy stood Gian Luigi de’ Fieschi (1524-1547),...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century
A Living Document in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume –...
Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal
Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This...
Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau'
A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and...
Zombies in Western Culture
A Twenty-First Century Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western...
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although...
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although...
In the Lands of the Romanovs
An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian...
by Göran Printz Påhlson, Robert Archambeau (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic Göran Printz-Påhlson. It was Printz-Påhlson who introduced poetic modernism to Scandinavia, and his essays and poems delve deeply into English, American, and continental modernist...