Oneworld Publications: 450 books
Entanglement
The Secret Lives of Hair
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
When it’s not attached to your head, your very own hair takes on a disconcerting quality. Suddenly, it is strange. And yet hair finds its way into all manner of unexpected places, far from our heads, including cosmetics, clothes, ropes, personal and public collections, and even food. Whether treated...
British Muslim Converts
Choosing Alternative Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
When the Western mass-media talk of conversion to Islam, we are bombarded with accounts of vulnerable people brainwashed into a culture of extremism. However, in reality, the vast majority who convert are well-educated, liberal in outlook, and doing so as the result of a long-considered and heart-felt...
The Bible
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From the language of Shakespeare to political campaigns in the US, the Bible’s influence is all around us. And yet, upon reading it, we are met not by one text but by many: a complex mix of history, parable, law, teaching, and prophecy.In this authoritative introduction, respected Biblical scholar...
The Heritage of Sufism (Volume 2)
The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism (1150-1500)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This collection - the second of a three-volume study - examines the roots of the artistic, literary and cultural renaissance of Sufism from the 12th to the 15th centuries. It includes essays on Rumi's poetry and imagery; Sufi music and the idea of ecstacy; sainthood and Neoplatonism; comparative metaphysics and literature; and unity of religion theory in Sufi philosophy.
Simply Complexity
A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting and ultimately solving-everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush hour traffic congestion.
Complexity...
Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism
Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Two years after the Arab Spring had transformed Egypt from a dictatorship under Hosni Mubarak to a democracy under the Muslim Brotherhood, there was a military coup that saw the country return being a police state. In a paradoxical turn of events, this move away from liberalism was aided by the same...
The Way Home
Tales from a Life Without Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.
No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the...
Democracy Hacked
How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers are exploiting our digital infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our democratic system to influence our politics and elections. In just a few years, it has become a perpetual information war. Inherently unstable...
by Simon Tormey
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
It is widely regarded as one of the greatest threats of our time. Since Brexit and Trump there have been countless news items detailing the populist explosion and how it jeopardises our democracies. But the full story is more complicated than that. To understand the political divisions and crises...
How To Save the World with Salad Dressing
and Other Outrageous Science Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Who said that physics has to be dull? In this rip-roaring science puzzle adventure, Byrne and Cassidy put the reader in the driving seat. Is a truck containing a bird lighter when the bird is flying or on a perch? Why does the stream from a tap get increasingly thinner? Can you speed up light? Is...
Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs
Rashid Rida's Modernist Defence of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Muhammad Rashid Rida is among the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern period and yet, until this book, his writings on religious reform remained unpublished in English. In this paperback version of the flagship English edition, esteemed academic Simon A. Wood rights this wrong by translating...
by Laia Jufresa
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Ms. Jufresa: Where the f*#! did you learn to tell a story so well?”
- Álvaro Enrigue, award-winning author of Sudden Death
It started with a drowning.
Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old...
by Ryan Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
For fans of Philipp Meyer, Patrick DeWitt and Cormac McCarthy
A truly unique and completely original new voice in contemporary fiction
FANTASTIC PRAISE: ‘Mythical, dangerous and deeply unsettling’ Shortlist; ‘A barbaric vision of the West’ Library Journal; ‘A page-turner and...
Strange Tombs
An Essex Witch Museum Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Halloween in Essex, and things are going well for the writers on the Mystery and Suspense course at old Ratchette Hall. Things however take a turn for the downright nasty when early on All Saints Day the course administrator is discovered dead in the hall. Lips drawn back, eyes wide open, his face...