Rich Villodas 
Deeply Formed Life [EPUB ebook] 

In central Brussels stands a statue of a young woman. Built in 1923, it is the first monument to a working-class woman in European history. Her name was Gabrielle Petit. History has forgotten Petit, …

”Emer O”Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature … Compelling, informative and fascinating” – Stephen Fry The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a me …

As Indians got their first taste of satellite television during the first Gulf War, Raghav Bahl saw his future in the signals flickering across the small screen. Armed with burning ambition, keen bus …

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter profess …

An in-depth study of Ma Xiangbo, one of the most prominent Catholic thinkers in modern China. …

The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses T …

From church establishment figure to revolutionary, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte to promoter of the Bourbon Restoration, the twists and turns of Charles Maurice Prince de Talleyrand’s remarkable ca …

This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view— and Jewish too perhaps—- of a man and times so familiar to us and yet which acquires another …

A definitive biography of the man who coined the expression ‘conspicuous consumption’. Based on newly released archival sources, this book sets the facts straight on more than 60 years of myths and m …

The Dream of Bernat Metge is the first English translation of Lo Somni, a prose dialogue written around 1397 by the Catalan humanist Bernat Metge (?1340-1413). It stands as a noteworthy example of na …