This engrossing and entertaining scientific history includes the story of Glasgow’s ‘Big Bang’ of 1863, the controversy over ‘Astronomer Royal for Scotland’ and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow.
A selection of the leading theorists of multiculturalism revisit aspects of Parekh’s work both to underline its continuing importance and the ongoing vitality of multiculturalist theory.
This book focuses on amateur fiction film-making
The first collection of critical essays on the film work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière. This book offers an exciting range of responses to and assessments of his contributions to film studies and includes a new piece by Rancière himself on the subject of film.
The book explores both why such texts arise, including consideration of writers’ motives as well as pressures from the... Læs mere
Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century.
Analyses the relations between nobility, crown and state, first in Scotland and then in the first courts of the unified kingdoms.
This book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues.
This book, written by experts from Scotland and South Africa, examines exactly how human-rights provisions influence private... Læs mere
This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film.
Ahmad presents a social history of the war’s leading agents – the neoconservatives – and shows how this ideologically coherent group of determined... Læs mere
Brings together academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. This book encourages writing on fresh developments, such as sound installations, computer-based delivery, and the psychology of the interaction of image and sound.