-
A smolny album
The Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens was founded by Catherine the Great as the first state educational institution for women in Russia. A scholarly article by Alexander Liarsky presents the history of the Institute, followed by over 50 photographs of the Smolny from Kovaleff Baker’s ...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
The closet
A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet—and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged set...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
The little book of cosmology
The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what sci...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
The night of akhenaton
Hungary’s Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922-91) is one of Europe’s major modern poets. Her poems are clear and packed at once, monumental yet crystalline in their thought and organisation. The vast pressures of her nation’s troubled history find their equivalent in human feeling, voiced through the extraord...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Alif: journal of comparative poetics, no. 38
The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is 'produced' rather than 'discovered,' and that translation is a core mechanism for the production and circulation of all forms of knowledge. This topic has received relatively limited attention in translation studies to dat...
Read MoreRegular price $89.95Sale price $89.95 Regular price $89.95Unit price per -
History in financial times
Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mo...
Read MoreRegular price $110.00Sale price $110.00 Regular price $110.00Unit price per -
Al-kitab al-asasi
This three-part course in Modern Standard Arabic for non-native speakers approaches the language through a series of themed topics—daily life in the Arab world, politics and governance, literature and the arts, science and medicine, astronomy—concentrates principally on listening and speaking ski...
Read MoreRegular price $39.50Sale price $39.50 Regular price $39.50Unit price per -
Pursuits of happiness
Thirty-eight illuminating essays, reviews, and lectures by a legendary teacher in the Great Books program at St. John’s College
Regular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Carnac
One of France’s most important modern poets, Eugène Guillevic (1907-97) was born in Carnac in Brittany, and although he never learned the Breton language, his personality is deeply marked by his feeling of oneness with his homeland. His poetry has a remarkable unity, driven by his desire to use w...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Voices in refuge
Current estimates indicate the presence of anywhere between 20,000 and 250,000 Sudanese refugees in Egypt. The great discrepancy in figures, a result of contradictory new reports, is an important demonstration of the way the refugee situation in Cairo is perceived by various interest groups, many...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Exquisite agony
An poignant new play about love and life beyond death from the Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright of Anna in the Tropics.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price per -
Mindfulness in early buddhism
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism is a timely and thoroughgoing examination of the significance, meaning and development of mindfulness in early Buddhism. Buddhist meditator and scholar Bhikkhu Anālayo here provides answers to questions such as: To what extent is mindfulness an originally Buddhist c...
Read MoreRegular price $28.95Sale price $28.95 Regular price $28.95Unit price per -
Makerspaces
A first-to-market resource that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mind-set in the youngest learners, use open-ended materials, and design makerspaces.
Regular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Judaism’s challenge
This book highlights the challenges that face Judaism, captured by the dual implication of election: divine love and enmity with others. This challenge takes on great urgency in the context of advances in interfaith relations and a contemporary Jewish theology of world religions.
Regular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Nasser's blessed movement
The classic account of the early years of military rule in Egypt after the 1952 coupThis essential book explores the early years of military rule following the Free Officers’ coup of 1952. Enriched by interviews with actors in and observers of the events, Nasser’s Blessed Movement shows how the o...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Visual productions of knowledge: toward a different middle east
This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors. Of special significan...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Baldwin's catholic geese
Keith Hutson’s debut collection, Baldwin’s Catholic Geese, looks at the delight and heartbreak of being human through the lens of beloved music hall and variety stars like Hylda Baker and Frankie Howerd, as well as less celebrated, now long-forgotten acts of the past: The Bryn Pugh Sponge Dancers...
Read MoreRegular price $17.95Sale price $17.95 Regular price $17.95Unit price per -
Tamburlaine the great
Authoritative version of this much loved play. Back in print after a dozen years with corrections and amendations. Part of MUP's strategy to have the complete works of Marlowe in print by the year 2000. Very popular edition by one of the most respected dramatic scholars.
Regular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The indoctrination of the wehrmacht
Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht. However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Using film as a source
A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.
Regular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Monks and monasteries of the egyptian desert
In the fourth century A.D. the deserts of Egypt saw the birth of Christian monasticism under the tutelage of the desert fathers. Since then the movement has spread around the world. This standard work traces the historical development of all the currently inhabited Coptic monasteries, drawing on ...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Freedom, resentment, and the metaphysics of morals
An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson’s influential “Freedom and Resentment”P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment” is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting respo...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Playing the ghost of maimonides
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new collection, he puts on the mask of Moses Maimonides (aka the Rambam), the Medieval Jewish rabbi and physician who wrote his Gui...
Read MoreRegular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
Classic egyptian movies
A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular and immensely influential not only in Egypt but across the Arab world. Concentrating on productions written and produced entirely in Egypt, Sameh Fath...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Michaelmas term
Michaelmas Term is one of five satiric city comedies that the young playwright Thomas Middleton wrote for the boy players of St Paul's Cathedral, sometime before 1607. Set in a vividly detailed, realistic urban milieu at the start of London's social season, the play comes alive through the centr...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Love without a story
Subramaniam's latest collection celebrates an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and time, they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge...
Read MoreRegular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
The templars
This unique collection of translated sources offers a valuable insight into the lives of those who joined, supported and attacked this most fascinating and enigmatic of institutions. This book charts the origins of the Order through to the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution.
Regular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The staple of news
Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new £9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at £14.99). The complete canon of Be...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The naturalist's illustrated guide to the sierra foothills and central valley
California’s San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys and the nearby Sierra Nevada Foothills are host to abundant, varied, and often surprising plants and wildlife. This fully illustrated guide pairs over seven hundred meticulous line drawings with descriptions of the birds, mammals, amphibians, reptil...
Read MoreRegular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Love minus love
Wayne Holloway-Smith’s second collection Love Minus Love is an innovative book-length sequence which Max Porter calls "unforgettably brilliant" and Fiona Benson calls "exciting, excoriating, gorgeous, appalling, and eye-wateringly honest". It is a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.
Regular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
Umm al-dunya
Directed to learners of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic who have previously studied Modern Standard Arabic, this is the first textbook to handle the different levels and the variety of contexts of Egyptian Colloquial: both the everyday and the educated forms. It is also the first to introduce the lang...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Too brave to dream
When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen previously unknown poems handwritten by Thomas wer...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Political and social protest in egypt
Political and Social Protest in Egypt
Regular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Calling philosophers names
An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term philosophos or "philosopher" in ancient Greece....
Read MoreRegular price $39.00Sale price $39.00 Regular price $39.00Unit price per -
The magnitude of my sublime existence
The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence is the account of a young woman's stay in the psychiatric ward of a large hospital. The only time she feels safe is when swimming; the only place, the sea, preferably underwater. Selima Hill's 17th book of poetry - her 14th from Bloodaxe - takes her back to t...
Read MoreRegular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
A not-so-new world
When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar ...
Read MoreRegular price $49.95Sale price $49.95 Regular price $49.95Unit price per -
Volpone, or the fox
The most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date
Regular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Return by minor road
In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Those years living in the town form the focus of her third poetry collection. Through rivers, rain, wildlife and landscape, she revisits her home town an...
Read MoreRegular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price per -
Agrarian transformation in the arab world: persistent and emerging challenges
This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Oh, tama!
A deeply eccentric novel about lives and connections—and a cat of course—in 1980s Tokyo: witty, offbeat, and strangely profound.
Regular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Planning egypt’s new settlements: the politics of spatial inequities
This study critically analyzes the paradigms and practices of planning in Egypt since 1952. Based on primary and secondary data, the study argues that under Nasser, plans often diverged from their blueprints and revealed the myth of ‘technical objectivity’ that underpinned the planning industry. ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Alif: journal of comparative poetics, no. 26
This issue of Alif is devoted to travel and travel-writing in the broadest cross-cultural sense and focuses on what Mahmoud Manzalauoui has termed indigenes, visitants, sojourners, and habitants or metics, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East. It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and accla...
Read MoreRegular price $89.95Sale price $89.95 Regular price $89.95Unit price per -
Tongulish
Tongulish is the language of sweet talk and honeyed words, babble and blather, quibble and quizzical. And tongulish is spoken throughout Rita Ann Higgins's lively new collection. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler ...
Read MoreRegular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
The university and the global knowledge society
How the university went global and became the heart of the information ageThe university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, as more universities in more countries educate more students in more fields. At the same time, the university has become central to a knowledge society...
Read MoreRegular price $39.00Sale price $39.00 Regular price $39.00Unit price per -
Arabicity
Beautifully produced volume, including over 150 artworks by 50 contemporary Arab artists, whose ground-breaking works reflect the pulse of region
Regular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per -
100 ways to draw a bird and make a living from illustration
While presenting one hundred ways to draw a bird, the author unveils the facets of life as an illustrator, in the hope that doing so will help to make everyday life as an illustrator a little simpler.
Regular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Every man out of his humour
Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume's introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
White ink stains
Eleanor Brown’s first collection, Maiden Speech, published by Bloodaxe in 1996, included her much anthologised “girlfriend’s revenge” poem ‘Bitcherel’ along with a widely praised sequence of fifty love and end-of-love sonnets written during her 20s. Her second collection, White Ink Stains, appear...
Read MoreRegular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price per -
Pioneering feminist anthropology in egypt: selected writings from cynthia nelson
Cynthia Nelson was an outstanding professor of anthropology at AUC and the founding director of the Institute of Gender and Women’s Studies. This collection of her essays, which highlight her distinguished scholarly career, is grouped under three main themes: phenomenology and the meaning of reli...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Abstract crossings
Toward the middle of the 1950s, abstract art became a dominant trend in the Latin American cultural scene. Many artists incorporated elements of abstraction into their rigorous artistic vocabularies, while at the same time, the representation of geometric lines and structures filtered into everyd...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
