In the summer of 1765 Darsie Latimer sets out to discover the secret of his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshire.
This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations.
This guide to Native American history and culture outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts.
This Reader covers a wide area of political sociology and social and political theory, and offers a selection of extracts incorporating both primary and secondary readings.
Engages with the relation between politics and number through a reading, exegesis and critique of the work of Martin Heidegger.
This Reader collects together for the first time extracts of Virilio’s work from the entire range of his career. Virilio has produced important ‘theory at the speed of light’ that... Læs mere
This book provides academics, students, practitioners, journalists and others with a broad-ranging yet detailed account, not just of how local government actually works, but also the main political issues and debates surrounding its multi-faceted roles in contemporary Scotland.
In this fascinating book, which takes the form of a series of edited interviews with noted journalist Jean-Maurice de Montremy, Jacques Le Goff offers us a synthesis of his work on the Middle Ages.
This book provides a radical reading of Edmund Spenser and argues for a re-orientation in Renaissance criticism.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the question of Scotland’s relationship with Britain. It challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era.
Explores how contemporary developments in political theory and neuropsychology can be used to explore the political implication of the relationship between conscious and nonconscious thought.
The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s.... Læs mere