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The Secret and Sublime: Taoist Mysteries and Magic
1st Edition
By John Blofeld
October 01, 2025
First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colourful religion and way of life. Perhaps for the first time, all aspects of Taoism are brought within the covers of one book: popular Taoism with its lavish ceremonies, demon exorcism, oracles, ghosts, ...
The Universities and the Theatre
1st Edition
Edited
By D. G. James
October 01, 2025
First published in 1952, The Universities and the Theatre contains the papers read at the Symposium on the Responsibility of the Universities to the Theatre which was held in April 1951 in the University of Bristol. The book discusses themes like drama departments in American universities; drama ...
The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism
1st Edition
By Allon White
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author ...
The World of the Russian Peasant: Post-Emancipation Culture and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Eklof, Stephen P. Frank
October 01, 2025
First published in 1990 The World of the Russian Peasant is designed to provide a wide-ranging survey of new developments in Russian peasant studies. Editors Eklof and Frank paint a broad picture of what life was like for the vast majority of Russia’s population before 1917. Individual authors ...
Truants from Life: Theory and Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ved Varma
October 01, 2025
First published in 1991, Truants from Life is written by three child psychiatrists, three psychologists, two psychotherapists, a social worker, a bereavement counsellor and two specialist teachers. The result is an excellent, fascinating, authoritative and wide-ranging examination of withdrawn ...
US Allies in a Changing World
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Rubin, Thomas A. Keaney
October 01, 2025
First published in 2001, US Allies in a Changing World explores the development of the United States' alliances from the American perspective, as well as from that of its most important allies—Britain, Germany, the Gulf States, Israel, Turkey, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The book ...
What’s New?: A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sander E. van der Leeuw, Robin Torrence
October 01, 2025
First published in 1989, What’s New? puts innovation firmly back on the agenda of archaeological interpretation. This book revives interest in the process of innovation and reinterprets it by drawing on original work done in a variety of disciplines. It demonstrates that the study of the components...
William Turner: Tudor Naturalist, Physician and Divine
1st Edition
By Whitney R. D. Jones
October 01, 2025
First published in 1988, this biography of William Turner aims to present a balanced account of his career, writings, and, above all, Turner as a person. It offers a fairly comprehensive overview of his eventful life. The book begins by examining Turner as a naturalist, focusing on his career and ...
Writing and Politics in Franco’s Spain
1st Edition
By Barry Jordan
October 01, 2025
Between 1940 and 1965, Spain was almost entirely cut off from the intellectual life of western Europe. Within Spain itself, opposition writers believed that a committed literature could take over the role of the press in a democratic society, dealing with daily realities and social issues as well ...
A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945
1st Edition
By Hans Renner
September 01, 2025
First published in 1989, A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 is a comprehensive account of Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, tracing events from 1945 to 1990. The author focuses on the last twenty years in particular, when the Prague Spring offered a brief period of liberalization, but was ...
An Introduction to Musical History
1st Edition
By J.A. Westrup
September 01, 2025
First published in 1955, An Introduction to Musical History is not just another short history of music, but a discussion of its sources and background. It explains how we derive our knowledge of the music of the past, and how music has been affected by its social and political background. Such ...
An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By John Brewer, John Styles
September 01, 2025
How ungovernable were seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Englishmen? Certainly, the historical evidence attests to an unruly and contumacious populace: riot was widespread, such criminal activities as the counterfeiting of coin flourished, disorder pervaded even London’s gaols, and men at all ...