Open Book Publishers: 120 books
Yeats's Mask
Yeats Annual No. 19
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Yeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written as ‘texts...
The Living Stream
Yeats Annual No. 18
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Yeats Annual No. 18 is another special issue in this renowned research-level series offering a tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares.
Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares’s work. Terence...
Open Education
International Perspectives in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world.
A must-read for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students in the field of education.
Piety in Pieces
How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals...
The Digital Public Domain
Foundations for an Open Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical...
A Fleet Street In Every Town
The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Beautifully written and skilfully argued, Andrew Hobbs’s book makes a significant contribution to the study of the Victorian newspaper and periodical press. He reminds us that readers—the ordinary working people whose mindset historians care about—looked to the journalism of their local communities....
The Idea of Europe
Enlightenment Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent...
Don Carlos Infante of Spain
A Dramatic Poem
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Schiller’s Don Carlos, written ten years before his great Wallenstein trilogy, testifies to the young playwright’s growing power. First performed in 1787, it stands at the culmination of Schiller’s formative development as a dramatist and is the first play written in his characteristic iambic...
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
Reinventing the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval.
Literary canon and national identity...
Beyond Price
Essays on Birth and Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where...
by William Turpin
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition.
Born in 43 BC, Ovid was educated in Rome...
God's Babies
Natalism and Bible Interpretation in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The human population's annual total consumption is not sustainable by one planet. This unprecedented situation calls for a reformation in religious cultures that promote a large ideal family size. Many observers assume that Christianity is inevitably part of this problem because it promotes "family...
A Musicology of Performance
Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
This book examines the nature of musical performance. In it, Dorottya Fabian explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches to performance, be they theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach’s...
Security in a Small Nation
Scotland, Democracy, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The 2014 Referendum on Scottish independence sparked debate on every dimension of modern statehood. Levels of public interest and engagement were unprecedented, as demonstrated by record-breaking voter turnout. Yet aside from Trident, the issue of security was relatively neglected in the campaigns,...