Ira Berkow 
Counterpunch [PDF ebook] 
Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possib …

This volume, first published in 1987, was the first to examine in depth the religious thought of Colonel Mu»ammar al-Qadhdhafi and its central place in his political, social and economic theories. T …

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The write …

Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey»s leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic …

‘…And Then I Became Gay is about the lives of young men who express the complications, adversities, and satisfactions of being a sexual outsider in North America during the 1980s and 1990s. Consist …

Thomas Cartwright was the leader of the Elizabethan Puritans and his intellectual pre-eminence was widely acknowledged. Standard-bearer of the Prebytero-Puritans against Whitgift, he was held to have …

»An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security» CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many animals facing extinc …

The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole – sending submarines and ice-breakers – the ice itself continues to recede creating new trade routes and new o …

First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen»s six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, …