Open Book Publishers: 120 books
by Ariel Rubinstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and...
Is behavioral economics doomed?
The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All of us facing the global economic crisis wonder just how rational economic men and women can be. Behavioral economics —...
by Greg Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It’s a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed...
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia
Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change in the region. Detailed case studies in China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil...
Foundations for Moral Relativism
Second Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding....
Love and its Critics
From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism...
Tellings and Texts
Music, Literature and Performance in North India
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some...
Warlike and Peaceful Societies
The Interaction of Genes and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Are humans violent or peaceful by nature? We are both.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Agner Fog presents a ground-breaking new argument that explains the existence of differently organised societies using evolutionary theory. It combines natural sciences and social sciences in a way that...
Theatre and War
Notes from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s "six honest serving-men" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important...
Virgil, Aeneid 4.1–299
Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic’s opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his...
by David Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure...
by Jane Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible...
Resemblance and Representation
An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example,...
by Monirul Azam
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several...