Christian Wolmar 
On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain’s Railways [EPUB ebook] 

This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley“s novels. …

Philosophy in Cultural Theory boldly crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a philosophical critique of cultural theory today. Drawing on the legacy of Walter Benjamin, Peter Osborne looks critical …

Chrétien de Troyes uses repeated references to Spain throughout his romances; despite past suggestions that they contain Mozarabic and Islamic themes and motifs, these references have never been comm …

“Argonauts of the Desert“ presents a revolutionary new commentary on the Bible and its origins, arguing that most biblical stories and laws were inspired by Greek literature. From Genesis to Kings, …

This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the …

Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced picture of mental illness and its varieties in western civilizati …

Charlotte Dacre’s debut novel Confessions of the Nun of St Omer (1805) was a bestseller in its day, launching the career of a woman who would go on to become one of the nineteenth century’s most noto …

Carole Howard is the author of two novels – About Face and Deadly Adagio – as well as the co-author of The Great PARIS Walk Pack. She loves to travel and has been to 50-odd countries so far — and th …

Owners and governing body members of Ambulatory Surgery Centers assume a significant responsibility in their role, until now there has been no easy-to-read resource to assist in understanding those r …

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