Ben Grant: 3 books

The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contemporary theory and takes on a new relevance when we look at today’s communication media such as text messages and twitter. This concise guide offers an...

Is there anything as beautiful as the colors that Mother Nature shares with us? No matter where we look, we see that beauty. From majestic mountains to the stillness of a pristine forest.There is one venue, however, that does remain somewhat illusive. That is the world beneath the waves of...

By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan discourses...