Arena Books: 108 books
Mexico on Film
Natioanl Identity and International Relatrions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward and contesting representation of national identity, or in short, as a main arena in which narratives of national identity are negotiated.
Throughout,...
This Was My England
The story of a Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Few books evoke the private life of an era, as it was in England between 1935 and 1954, with such clarity, as this autobography. And it is only through such an intimate memoir that the hidden aspects of an age - so often lost to futgure generations - may be revealed as social history.
It comprises...
Land of The Olympians
papers from the enlightened Far North
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
This is a penetrating study of many aspects of life, thought, and everyday existence in Scandinavia, as experienced through the author's 9-year residence in the enlightened Far North in the 1960s. Robert Corfe is primarily known as a thought-provoking writer of books published in the 21st century,...
by P.R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The Mountain Dwellers is the third book in a trilogy, following The Gods of Our Time and Dreams and Illusions Revisited. Like the latter, it seeks to draw out some of the themes touched upon but not developed in The Gods of Our Time. The Gods of Our Time was meant to be hard-hitting, provocative...
The Compleat Surgeon
the autobiography of the surgeon, Hugo Romanis
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
This book is the autobiography of one of the old style ‘general’ surgeons - those who could still cope with every sort of surgical work without needing to refer it to a specialist - the Compleat Surgeon of its title.
Born in 1889, he started by getting first...
The Don
Story of an Actor
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Don...Story of an Actor is a fascinating, fast moving story of the rise and fall of an actor. The main protagonist, Arthur Mullan is Irish born but on a visit to London he is abandoned in England by his boxer father and is placed in a Catholic boarding school where his sexuality is exploited....
Women in Leadership
five routes to success in Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
This is a book of stories. Tales of women who have 'made it'. Ordinary women with extraordinary careers. You would not have known it from their histories; some of them even looked as though they were being groomed for failure. All of them are moving and inspiring.
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Against The Odds
a working girl's struggle for independence in the post-War world
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
This candid and vividly written autobiography of an Essex working class girl in the immediate prost-War periiod, together with its description of her family background, presents a valuable social history of the milieu and privagte life in which she was nurtured.
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by Lt. Col. Alfred E. Knights
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
This book presents one of the most vivid descriptions of day-to-day life in a Japanese POW labour camp to have appeared so far. The story follows the experiences of the Norfolk Territorial Regiment from 1942 to 1945, under the command of Lt. Col. Knights, during and aftrer the fall of Singapore....
Freedom From America
for safeguarding Democracy and the Economic and Cultural integrity of Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Anti-Americanism has now become an imperative for the sanity and stability of the world. Over the past 30 years almost every foreign adventure of the US has led to failure in compounding existing problems, and after the withdrawal of her forces, conditions have been left worse than when she...
The Girl From East Berlin
a romantic docu-drama of the East-West divide
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Described as a docu-drama rather than a novel because of the extent of its fact-based storyline and material; in re-creating the milieu of a city, James Furner has achieved for the Berlin of the post-War period what Christopher Isherwood achieved for the Berlin of 30 years before.
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The Lotus Generation
one woman's hilarious story of her life's travels and travails
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
“Living is a magical thing. Each day is a gift to be treasured, because it will never come around again. We have everything we need within us to live the life we want to live. Consider the most amazing of journeys, a life full of possibilities.”
This story is about Carole’s journey and...
Victorian Protestantism and Bloody Mary
the legacy of religious persecution in Tudor England
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
This is an important and intereseting book on aspects of our religious heritage which until now have escaped the investigation of scholars. History is all too often employed as a weapon for smiting the "infidel." By the beginning of the Victorian era after the somnolence of the 18th century,...
by David Layfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
How can Marxism help us understand the contemporary environmental situation? How can Marxism help greens respond to this situation? Marxism and Environmental Crises answers these questions by claiming that Marxism offers a uniquely useful means to understand the various environmental crises that affect...