Open Book Publishers: 120 books
by Tony Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Teaching Mathematics is nothing less than a mathematical manifesto. Arising in response to a limited National Curriculum, and engaged with secondary schooling for those aged 11-14 (Key Stage 3) in particular, this handbook for teachers will help them broaden and enrich their students’ mathematical...
The Passion of Max von Oppenheim
Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins...
Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Lives and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Russian women of the nineteenth century are often thought of in their literary incarnations as the heroines of novels such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But their real counterparts are now becoming better understood as active contributors to Russia’s varied cultural landscape.
This collection...
From Dust to Digital
Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before...
Woodstock Scholarship
An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when...
Oral Literature in the Digital Age
Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises...
by Frankie McCarthy, James Chalmers, Stephen Bogle
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Professor Robert Rennie has been one of the most influential voices in Scots private law over the past thirty years. Highly respected as both an academic and a practitioner, his contribution to the development of property law and practice has been substantial and unique. This volume celebrates his...
Tolerance
The Beacon of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse...
How to Read a Folktale
The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels,...
by David Gamez
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to nothing about the relationship between consciousness and the brain and we can only speculate about the consciousness of animals and machines.
Human and Machine...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity.
Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 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...
Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion
An Essay in Philosophical Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we routinely make assertions. Information shared this way plays a critical role...
Digital Scholarly Editing
Theories and PracticeS
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading...
by David G. Anderson, Dmitry V. Arzyutov, Sergei S. Alymov
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The idea of etnos came into being over a hundred years ago as a way of understanding the collective identities of people with a common language and shared traditions. In the twentieth century, the concept came to be associated with Soviet state-building, and it fell sharply out of favour. Yet outside...