Thomas Jefferson 
Notes on the State of Virginia [PDF ebook] 

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which …

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 …

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 …

First published in 1996. The first modern collection of its kind, this anthology includes unabridged essays written by 19th century Britain’s” most eminent women intellectuals- the female counter-pa …

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 …

This is the first anthology to bring together the writings of the earliest black women writers in the East and West Caribbean, Bermuda, Canada, the US and England. The selections span the American Re …

This volume makes available for the first time the complete surviving works of the London printer-author Elinor James (c.1645-1719). Uniquely in the history of early modern women, James wrote, printe …

Roger Bromley deals with the ways in which certain popular forms contribute to the social production of memories. The texts he examines include the fictions of R. F. Delderfield and Lena Kennedy. Thi …

"From the Easy Chair Vol. 1" by George William Curtis is a collection of insightful essays and commentary that offer astute observations and cultural analysis. Curtis, known for his wit and …

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 …