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Areopagitica [PDF ebook] 
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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 …

»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 …

‘…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 …

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 …

The English Revolution of 1642-60 produced an explosion of stylistically and ideologically diverse pamphlet literature. The essays collected here focus on the prose of this new revolutionary era, and …