Haus Publishing imprint: 173 books

London Fragments

A Literary Expedition

by Rudiger Gorner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Meet Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth south of the river, find Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, discovers Blake and Trollope in Westminster, happen on the Carlyles in Chelsea, come across John Keats in beautiful Hampstead and search for Bacon and Hanif Kureishi in the London suburbs.

These Islands

A Letter to Britain

by Ali M. Ansari
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

Following Brexit and the earlier referendum on Scottish independence, the debate about British identity has been given recent new prominence. Historically conceived to integrate conflicting nationalisms in an “ever more perfect union,” Britain has lately succumbed to particular resurgent nationalisms...

Bealport

A Novel of a Town

by Jeffrey Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

Bealport, Maine, is one of the forgotten towns of America, a place that all too often seems to have its best days behind it. And perhaps nothing symbolizes that more than the old shoe factory—“NORUMBEGA Makers of Fine Footwear Since 1903”—that lately has been perpeatually on the brink of failure,...
by Harry Harmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

This new biography takes a fresh view, re-examining Luxemburg's tempestuous career and her dream of socialism

The Peace That Never Was

A History of the League of Nations

by Ruth Henig
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019

Ninety years ago, the League of Nations convened for the first time, hoping to create a safeguard against destructive, world-wide war by settling disputes through diplomacy. This book looks at how the League was conceptualized and explores the multifaceted body that emerged. This new form for diplomacy...

Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?

The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer

by Antony Lentin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep "tube lines" and "King of the Underground", he was also a connoisseur and active patron of the...

Greed

From Gordon Gekko to David Hume

by Stewart Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015

In a riveting scene from the film Wall Street, Gordon Gekko proclaims that “greed is good.” The great philosopher David Hume, on the other hand, describes greed as the most destructive of the vices. The recent banking debacle and continuing uproar about executive bonus pay has placed the controversial...

Demise of Diversity

Loss and Extinction

by Josef Reichholf
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009

Maintaining the natural diversity of the countless species on Earth is of fundamental importance for the continued existence of life on this planet. Nevertheless, ecosystems are being destroyed, as the cultivation of land for agriculture, industry and housing is intensified and oceans continue to...
by Alex Capus
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Alex Capus's novels have been runaway best-sellers in Germany, and his novel Leon and Louise received widespread critical acclaim on its English publication in 2012.A Price to Pay, the fourth of Capus's novels to be published in English, tells the interwoven stories of three disparate figures from...
by Nick Robinson, Barbara Speed, Charlie Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019

We live in a profoundly challenging era for journalists. While the profession has historically taken on the mantle of providing clear, sound information to the public, journalists now face competition from dubious sources online and smear campaigns launched by public figures. In The Power of Journalists,...

The Liquid Continent

Travels through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul

by Nicholas Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

This omnibus edition brings together Nicholas Woodsworth’s critically acclaimed Mediterranean trilogy into a single volume for the first time, allowing readers to fully appreciate the scope of Woodsworth’s search for a distinctively Mediterranean “cosmopolitanism.” Combining travel narrative,...
by Alex Capus
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly...
by Hamza Shehata
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

In 1940, Saudi Arabian intellectual and activist Hamza Shehata (1910–71) gave a lecture at the Makkah Charitable Aid Association. Over the course of four hours, Shehata shared a staggering number of social and cultural observations and critiques on many facets of contemporary life. Translated into...

Costing the Earth?

Perspectives on Sustainable Development

by Bernd Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

Our economies must react. "Sustainable behavior must pay off" - this is one of the central tenets of The Sustainability Project. Costing the Earth: Restructuring the Economy for Sustainable Development outlines the economic conditions for achieving the goal of sustainable development, in...
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