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Alone in a cube that's glowing in the darkness, X is content within its little universe of infinite thought. This solitude is disturbed by the appearance of Y, who insists on exposing X to the richness of the physical world. Each begins to long for what the other has, luring them into a strange loop. In this play for two variables, Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould use mathematics and theatre to navigate the furthest reaches of our world. Th...

Black River is an electrifying return for relentless reporter Tuva Moodyson, from the author of Dark Pines and Red Snow.

The book re-examines the meaning and evolution of democracy, and the popular backlash confronting contemporary democracies. The authors argue that the rising popular dissent, which has been seized upon by populist parties, stems from a fundamental misunderstanding about the essence of democracy. The authors begin by pointing out that all democracies are a result of a historical 'bricolage', in which various components have been integrated into...

The Daunt Books revival of the Ginzburg ouevre goes on with this short and poignant novel about the dreams of youth and the moral compromises necessary to bring them into being as an adult.

Refugees' Europe: Towards an Inclusive Democracy addresses, through the normative, practical and political views of well-known international experts, the challenges that the so-called refugee crisis has generated for democracy in Europe.The management of the refugees' crisis reflects the crisis of democracy in Europe. The refugees' phenomenon has had a huge impact on European integration, from the local to the supranational scale, making it a ...

Als Maler mit geradezu sezierendem Blick wurde Otto Dix (1819-1961) zum schonungslosen Chronisten seiner Zeit, die geprägt war vom Untergang des Kaiserreichs, den Gräueln des Ersten Weltkriegs und der Euphorie der 1920er-Jahre der Weimarer Republik, die schließlich im Nationalsozialismus endete. Seine erschütternden Kriegsbilder und die ins Groteske getriebenen Darstellungen der gesellschaftlichen Zustände machen ihn zu einem der ganz großen K...

Das kurze, bewegte Leben des italienischen Malers und Bildhauers Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) verkörpert wie kaum ein anderes Künstlerleben seiner Zeit den tragischen Mythos des erfolg- und glücklosen Bohémien. Als er mit nur 35 Jahren an Tuberkulose bettelarm auf dem Pariser Montmartre starb, hatte er weder am Kunstmarkt noch bei der Kritik Erfolg gehabt, geschweige denn je ein Bild verkauft. Als Zeichner von meisterhafter Präzision und Redu...

Thoughtful insights on dying, near-death experiences and life after death.

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Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand-crafted and held up as one of the only items of English folk dress to survive into the 20th century, the smock frock is an object of curiosity in many museum collections. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from surviving garments to newspapers and photographs, this book reveals the hidden history...

In Perfecting the Cast, acclaimed casting expert Ed Jaworowski teaches the first few things that all casts have in common--the four principles of casting--and then shows how to apply those fundamentals in endless ways so that whatever fishing situation, the fly fisher has an understanding of how casting works and what needs to happen to make the cast and get the fish.

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters.The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rule...

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Pipì isn't like his four brothers or the other young monkeys living in the forest of Hullabaloo: he has bright-pink fur, a mischievous character and a rebellious streak that lands him into all sorts of scrapes. In this story, an expanded version of Collodi's original tale, we see him lose his tail to an ancient crocodile, end up as a valet to a young master, fall into the hands of flying bandits and become emperor of a tribe of apes.Collodi wr...

This is the shady story of how Big Oil shaped the UK

What's bigger than a digger? Bigger than a dinosaur? DIGGERSAURS are bigger - see them build and hear them ROAR!The DIGGERSAURS are busy building something - what could it be? Children will fall in love with these huge, colourful, lovable beasts as the wonderfully read-aloud rhyming story unfolds. And there are lots of funny details to spot along the way...Now available in a new cased board book size for little hands!Also by Michael Whaite:Dig...

This book-the first of a three-volume overview of comparative and transnational historiography in Europe-focuses on the complex engagement of various comparative methodological approaches with different transnational and supranational frameworks. It considers scales from universal history to meso-regional (i.e. Balkans, Central Europe, etc.) perspectives. In the form of a reader, it displays 18 historical studies written between 1900 and 1943....

In this entertaining and surprisingly moving autobiography, Timmy shares his journey through TV stardom, cycling the Camino and his passion for art.

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant transition from analogue to digital. However, their cultural and structural labor differences governed different re...

Throughout the 21st century, various craft practices have drawn the attention of academics and the general public in the West. In Craft is Political, D Wood has gathered a collection of essays to argue that this attention is a direct response to and critique of the particular economic, social and technological contexts in which we live. Just as Ruskin and Morris viewed craft and its ethos in the 1800s as a kind of political opposition to the ...