Five days which transformed Russia (The Second world)

Mstislavskii, Sergei

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

The Royal Pavilion is one of the most famous and opulent royal extravaganzas in existence. First built in 1787 for the Prince of Wales as a neo-classical marine villa, by the time the Prince became king in 1820, it had grown into the extraordinary Indian-Chinese fantasy that it is today. This book reproduces all the important surviving designs, from the exterior and interior of the Pavilion.

Philip Wilson Catalogue

John, Morley

A collection of poetry by Arab women from the Jahiliyya (pre-Islamic era) to the Andalusian period. The poems celebrate the triumph of feminine wit over the arrogance of muscle power, in a period when women were suppressed by religious and political bigotry.

Classical Poems by Arab Women (English, Arabic and Arabic Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Al-Udhari, Abdullah

Poetry

This book describes the traditional architectures of the western half of Nigeria, covering the huge area from the Hausa people of the north to the Yoruba people of the south. It therefore shows the many fascinating building styles and methods of the many peoples of this area - from savanna to forest.Fr. Carroll shows how two main types of architecture have evolved in these areas: in the forest, the distinctive style of the Yoruba and Bini peoples, with household units built around a rectangular courtyard and under a continuous roof, supported by thick mud walls; and in the savanna the people developed thin-shelled buildings in moulded mud in a variety of attractive forms. He also describes later developments, including the Hausa town style with its massive mud walls supporting flat or domed roofs.The author describes and evaluates the traditional artistry, design, craftsmanship and building methods employed in mosques, churches, palaces and domestic architectures, and shows the dramatic impact of modernisation on traditional building, beginning after 1948 with the Modern International Style, a good example of which is the University of Ibadan. Also he examines the effect of the introduction of new materials and techniques. He deals with the 'vigorous non-professional people's architecture' which is replacing traditional building.

Architectures of Nigeria: Architectures of the Hausa and Yoruba Peoples and of the Many Peoples Between Tradition and Modernisation

Arts & Photography

Carroll, Kevin

Architecture

Mormonism: An Introduction (Introductions to Religion)

Mormonism is often viewed as the quintessential American faith. Indeed, “they teach the American religion” was how Tolstoy once responded to a question about the Mormons. Mormonism was the first and most successful new religion to appear in the New World where, despite the biblical language of its narrative, it created a novel and dynamic theology that was vitally different from the Protestant Christianity from which it originated. Today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is one of the wealthiest and most powerful institutions in the USA. Its clean-cut, youthful missionaries appear as representative of American values as the executives of Citibank and comparable US institutions. Yet at the heart of the Mormon story is a remarkable paradox. Despite their present-day image as ‘archetypal Yankees’, Mormons were long perceived as ‘un-American’ in their utopian socialism and in the hard battle they fought―and eventually lost―to preserve the sacred principle of polygamy, or ‘plural marriage’. In his lively and timely reappraisal of its apparent contradictions, Malise Ruthven discusses the emergence of Mormonism as a world religion; its theology, structure and rituals; the career of the Saints’ charismatic founder, Joseph Smith, culminating in his assassination in 1844; the theocratic rule of Smith’s successor, Brigham Young; the 1890 ‘Manifesto’, when polygamy was abandoned in exchange for Utah statehood; the emergence of a Mormon Diaspora after World War 1; and the impressive growth of Mormonism outside the old American West after World War 2.

History

Ruthven, Malise

World

In the wake of the Arab spring of 2011, the struggle for leadership of the Arab world has taken on a new significance, and with this comes the ever-present issue of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. The 1990s was a decade of US-led peace-making in the Middle East, and the Syrian-Israeli talks teetered on a deal more than once. The framework for a potential peace agreement was established through these bilateral negotiations, but after the collapse of the Asad-Clinton summit of 2000, the 'Syrian track' stalled as positions hardened and regional and domestic political realities shifted. Here, Radwan Ziadeh tracks these negotiations, from the Madrid conference of 1991, to the Asad-Clinton summit, and beyond, examining how Syria's foreign policy has changed with the rise to power of Bashar al-Asad and, in Iran, of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri in Lebanon and the Iraq war. This book provides a valuable and thorough historical analysis of this period of Middle Eastern politics and international diplomacy as well as examining the potential impact of a peace deal on Syrian society, politics and economy.

Syria's Role in a Changing Middle East: The Syrian-Israeli Peace Talks (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)

Ziadeh, Radwan

Reference

Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age (International Library of the Moving Image)

In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes. He argues that they reveal the profound effects the digital age has had on our social lives. Through narratives that feature the 'post-human', genetic engineering and cloning, surveillance and data mining, space and time travel, artificial intelligence, online dating cultures and visions of catastrophe, they portray a world in which the material, and the stable, are being lost to the ever-more volatile and ephemeral idea of 'liquid space'. Redmond examines a wide selection of popular films and TV series such as Gravity, Under the Skin, The Lobster, Children of Men and Doctor Who, to locate how traditional values are being erased in favour of a new liquid modernity. Drawing on an eclectic range of approaches from phenomenology to critical race theory, and from close textual analysis to the revelations of eye-tracking technology, this book is an illuminating account of the digital age through the lens of science fiction.

Humor & Entertainment

Redmond, Sean

Movies

In October 1945, at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been mesmerized with Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. Throughout his life spent exploring both these lands and the stories by and connected to Homer, Freely has forged a captivating traveler's guide to Homer's lost world and to his epics— The Iliad and The Odyssey—investigating where such places as the Land of the Lotus Eaters are and what it was about the landscapes of Greece and Turkey that influenced and inspired Homer— arguably the greatest classical epic poet.This will be a traveler's guide to all of those places linked to Homer that can be identified and it will also speculate on where such places as the Land of the Lotus Eaters might be. With a revealing introduction to Homer and his times and an outline of the wanderings of Odysseus, the book follows in his footsteps from Troy to his final return to Ithaca. Finally, Freely illuminates how the Homeric epics took their final form and their subsequent echoes in literature, art, legend and folklore: all part of the romance of the wandering hero.

A Travel Guide to Homer: On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean

Freely, John

Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-term home and workspace he left behind in Berggasse 19, Vienna is a seemingly empty space, devoid of the great psychoanalyst's objects and artefacts. Now museums, both of these spaces resonate powerfully. Since 1989, the Freud Museum London has held over 70 exhibitions by a distinctive range of artists including Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw, Susan Hiller, Sarah Lucas and Tim Noble and Sue Webster. The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna houses a small but impressive contemporary art collection, with work by John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, Jenny Holzer, Franz West and Ilya Kabakov. In this remarkable book, Joanne Morra offers a nuanced analysis of these historical museums and their unique relationships to contemporary art. Taking us on a journey through the `site-responsive' artworks, exhibitions and curatorial practices that intervene in the objects, spaces and memories of these museums, Joanne Morra offers a fresh experience of the history and practice of psychoanalysis, of museums and contemporary art.

Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive Art (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)

Morra, Joanne

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Five days which transformed Russia (The Second world)

Philip Wilson Catalogue

Classical Poems by Arab Women (English, Arabic and Arabic Edition)

Architectures of Nigeria: Architectures of the Hausa and Yoruba Peoples and of the Many Peoples Between Tradition and Modernisation

Mormonism: An Introduction (Introductions to Religion)

Mormonism: An Introduction (Introductions to Religion)

Syria's Role in a Changing Middle East: The Syrian-Israeli Peace Talks (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)

Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age (International Library of the Moving Image)

A Travel Guide to Homer: On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean

Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive Art (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)