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Yeats's Mask: Yeats Annual No. 19
Gould, Warwick; Mills Harper, MargaretOpen Book PublishersYeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the...
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The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the Holocaust
Shtif, NokhemOpen Book PublishersBetween 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundred...
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The Living Stream: Yeats Annual No. 18
Open Book PublishersYeats Annual No. 18 is another special issue in this renowned research-level series offering a tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares. Memories of the man are...
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Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts
Rudy, Kathryn M.Open Book PublishersMedieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and someti...
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Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education
Open Book PublishersThis insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case...
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The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
Open Book PublishersDigital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are...
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Chronicles from Kashmir: An Annotated, Multimedia Script
Dinesh, NanditaOpen Book Publishers‘What is happening in Kashmir?’ Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemb...
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Whose Book Is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity
Jefferiess, Janis; Kember, SarahOpen Book PublishersWhose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as...
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Love and Intrigue
Schiller, FriedrichOpen Book PublishersSchiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion...
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The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives
Open Book PublishersIn view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this antholo...
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Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City
Nettle, DanielOpen Book PublishersNettle’s book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourh...
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Ovid, Amores (Book 1)
Turpin, WilliamOpen Book PublishersFrom Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC...
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Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death
Velleman, J. DavidOpen Book PublishersIn nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to th...
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God's Babies: Natalism and Bible Interpretation in Modern America
McKeown, JohnOpen Book PublishersThe human population's annual total consumption is not sustainable by one planet. This unprecedented situation calls for a reformation in religious cultures that promote a large id...
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Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon
Open Book PublishersThe canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russ...
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Advanced Problems in Mathematics: Preparing for University
Siklos, StephenOpen Book PublishersThis book is intended to help students prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Papers). STEP examinations a...
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Advanced Problems in Mathematics: Preparing for University
Siklos, StephenOpen Book PublishersThis book is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examina...
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Dictionary of the British English Spelling System
Brooks, GregOpen Book PublishersThis book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It’s a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it...
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Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula
Open Book PublishersComplexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate chan...
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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
Atkinson, DavidOpen Book PublishersThis is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad shoul...