For its centenary this volume originally re-examines some well-known issues surrounding The Good Soldier (1915) and its “mad about writing” author. The dialogue between established and young Ford scho
Innovative and interdisciplinary essays on the increasingly significant British writer J.G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in his key works, especia
Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, published in 1919, explores issues of small town middle America. In this work, contributors in American literature, English, and American studies offer fresh readi
The first book devoted entirely to Robinson familiarizes readers with the major currents in her thought from a diversity of perspectives—Romanticism, ecocriticism, medicine and literature, religion an
This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and general models on the topic and its relations
Synopsis: The challenges and changes that take place when religions move from one cultural context to another present unique opportunities for interreligious dialogue. In new cultural environments rel
This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist, Emilyn Claid, draws inspiration from her personal and pr
Published in 1953, The Unknown Courier tells the story of Operation Mincemeat’, a British Intelligence plan to mislead the German High Command by planting papers on a corpse washed up on t
"The definitive history."?Sunday TelegraphThis groundbreaking book was the first to analyse the whole field of wartime resistance to the Nazis in Europe. In following a truly epic theme, with its dram
The "White Lady" spy net stretched across Europe, encompassing more than one thousand agents and producing seventy percent of Allied intelligence on the German forces in the First World War.
Originally written up in 1930 as a series of thrilling articles in the Daily Telegraph, Hector Bywater experiences were soon turned into a book, with the help of Daily Express journalist H. C. Ferraby
"Elegant and rich in detail, [Kim Philby] provides intriguing glimpses of the man who would become the twentieth century's most notorious British spy and traitor."Mail on SundayKim P
Against the backdrop of World War One, and rising hysteria over German spies on the British home front, Basil Thompson was seconded from Scotland Yard to hunt, arrest and interrogate the potential Ger
In September 1925, Sidney Reilly journeyed across the Russian frontier on a mission to overthrow the Bolsheviks and restore the Czar. He vanished without a trace. The circumstances surrounding his dea
Perfect for undergraduates, this interdisciplinary work brings together texts from traditions both sacred and secular, exploring the various uses of myth, archetype, parable, and poetry in the Bible a
Part of a decade-long series of dialogues between Benedictine monks and Shi'a Muslims from Iran, a meeting was held in September 2011 in Rome to compare spiritual practices and religious experiences i
