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The Arab Spring uprisings were not about gender; these were uprisings demanding rights for all. Yet, they presented a rare opportunity for women to...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an...

September 1862.After John Popes devastating defeat at Second Bull Run, George McClellan reconstitutes the Army of the Potomac and marches in pursui...

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call the progressive nonsense of the Big Socie...

From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, arguably the first f...

KwaZulu-Natal is culturally rich, offering a wide range of writers writing mainly in English and Zulu who are linked through their lives and thei...

Explore eight hundred years of lust, love, and loss. The author takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual l...

The collection of picture cards has fascinated generations of children and adults since the late nineteenth century. Between 1900 and 1940, cartoph...

Zoulei is an endangered language spoken by several hundred speakers in Chinas Guizhou Province and adjacent areas. It is a variety of the Ahou dial...

In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting...

This book is a metaphorical journey through the English lexicon, viewed as a vehicle and a mirror of cultural identity.From the translatability of ...

A Corner of Every Foreign Field is an innovative and thought-provoking take on the history of cricket, looking beyond the scorecards to the pivotal...

Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of M...

Confrontations with naked human bodies can provoke powerful, and often contradictory, impressions and feelings. Just as they might either thrill or...

An original idea, unsuspected focal points, picturesque and touching characters, twenty years between war and peace, this is what the pages of this...

'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchis YBAs setting the internat...